Neda Saeedi

Villa Romana Fellow 2022

Tehran

Neda Saeedi lives and works in Berlin. She studied classical sculpture under the direction of Raffie Davtian in Tehran and later Fine Arts at the LensBased Class of Prof. Hito Steyelr at Berlin University of Arts (UdK). She is the recipient of the Villa Romana Prize 2022 and a fellow of the International Research Fellow of Max-Planck-Institut in Florenz, the Kunstfonds Scholarship 2020 and The Elsa Neumann Emerging Artist Prize 2019. She is an alumni of the Delfina Foundation Artist Residency in London. Her publication RETURN TO NEVERLAND - A DIALOGUE BETWEEN NEDA SAEEDI & HOMAYOUN SIRIZI was published (in Farsi and English) by Pejman Foundation and released in the fall of 2021.Saeedi  has exhibited her work at galleries, museums and art spaces internationally – such as Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Taxipalais Kunsthalle Tiroll, Innsbruck; Extra City, Antwerp; Luleå Biennial 2018; Ludlow 38, New York; Bonner Bundeskunsthalle; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Dastan Gallery, Tehran (solo); Argo Factory, Tehran (solo); New Viewings at Barbara Thumm Gallery (online).