Installation view "Sirous Namazi – Wellfare Fare Well", The Nordic Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2007

Sirous Namazi

Sirous Namazi was born in 1970 in Kerman, Iran. He lives and works in Stockholm.

Namazi represented Sweden (with Jakob Dahlgren) at the 52nd Venice Biennial in the Nordic Pavilion in 2007. He was also included in the Athens Biennale in 2018, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in 2016. Solo exhibition venues include Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm (2024), Örebro konsthall, Örebro (2018), Fundació Joan Miró (Espai 13), Barcelona (2010), Lunds Konsthall, Lund (2009) and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2003).

In 2014 he was awarded the Gannevik Art Prize and previously the Edstrandska Award in 2012, the Ljunggrenska Konstnärspriset in 2003 and the Carnegie Art Award (Best Emerging Young Artist) in 2006. The Carnegie Art Award exhibition toured internationally. Group exhibitions include the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2017), Magasin III, Stockholm (2015), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2014), Göteborgs Konstmuseum (2011), Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Metropole (2009), MART Trento e Rovereto (2008) and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2007) among others.

Arrival , 2023, installation, 240 x 240 cm. Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

In-betweens, 2023, embroidery, 29 x 19 cm

In-betweens, 2023, embroidery, 29 x 19 cm

Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Patterns of Failure, 2023, porcelain, epoxy glue, approx. 60 x 60 x 70 cm. Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Patterns of Failure, 2023, porcelain, epoxy glue, approx. 60 x 60 x 70 cm. Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Installation view, Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Béranger

Leaning Horizontal, 2012, supermarket shelving, supermarket products, 180 x 249 x 94 cm

Metropolis, 2019, birch plywood, 172 x 172 x 200 cm, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

Untitled (Modules), 2012, Water-cut steel, lacquer, 175 x 172.8 cm

Pavilion, 2019, 3D print PLA plastic, film projection, sound, 105 x 177 x 126 cm

Container, 2020, Carbon fiber rods, 3D print PLA plastic, 51 x 110 x 100 cm

Sketch for a Tent, 2019, carbon fiber rods, 3D print PLA plastic, 155 x 160 x 158 cm

Metropolis III, 2018, steel and lacquer, ø 120 cm

Installation view "Sirous Namazi – Twelve Thirty", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2015

Carpet, 2014, printed saxony carpet, 21 x 220 x 320 cm

Refigerator, 2015, polyurethane, valchromat, PLA-plastic, lacquer, 143 x 80 x 80 cm

Patterns of Failure, 2013, epoxy glue, porcelain, 197 x 37 x 37 cm

Untitled (Collage Sculpture), 2012, aluminium, digital printed adhesive foil, 154 x 72 x 58 cm

Untitled (Modules), 2012, iron, enamel paint, 175 x 173 x 42 cm

Untitled, 2012, mechanical wall structure (dry-rock sheets, metal wall studs, wall paint, 2x motors and related mechanics, motion detector), 240 x 281 x 28 cm and 240 x 261 x 28 cm

Installation view "Sirous Namazi – Wellfare Fare Well", The Nordic Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2007

Sign, 2003, aluminium, anodized sheet aluminium,16 spotlights, 402 x 359 x 78 cm

Periphery, 2002, aluminium, wood, corrugated sheet metal, parabolic antenna, 150 x 220 x 190 cm