SAEED FOROGHI

Curriculum Vitae

since 2025 Membership | Art Commission | District Office Neukölln Berlin
since 2024 Membership | German Artists Association (Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.)
2023 Jury Member | Galerie im Saalbau | Berlin
2022 Mentoring | HfBK Dresden
since 2022 Member of the Project Space Axel Obiger | Berlin
2022 Jury Member | Diploma Prize HfBK Dresden | Galerie im Saalbau Berlin
2021 Teaching Assignment | HfBK Dresden
2020 Artistic Project Leader | Art Association and St. Johannis Church Buchholz
2017–19 Mentor and Art Teacher | Peter-Lenné School Berlin
2014–15 Teaching Assignment | Department of Sculpture | HfBK Dresden
2013–14 Tutor | Prof. Martin Honert | HfBK Dresden
2011–14 Master Student | Prof. Martin Honert | HfBK Dresden
2010 Guest Semester | Prof. Thomas Grünfeld | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2010 Diploma | Department of Fine Arts | HfBK Dresden
2005–11 Diploma | Department of Architecture | IUST Tehran | Iran
1977 Born | Kerman | Iran

Awards | Grants

2025 Scholarship pik – Mentoring | German Federal Cultural Foundation
2023 Artist Contacts Funding | ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations)
2021–22 Scholarship “Modul D” | German Artists Association
2021 Acquisition | Art Collection of the German Bundestag
2021 Cultural Funding | Department of Culture Neukölln | Berlin
2020 NEUSTART KULTUR Scholarships | Kunstfonds Foundation Bonn
since 2018 Studio Funding | bbk Berlin
2019 Public Art Funding | Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019 Public Art Funding | Office for Culture and Monument Protection | Dresden
2019 Acquisition | Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2019 Exhibition Funding | Department of Culture Neukölln | Berlin
2018 Shortlist | Acquisition Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
2017 Project Funding | Department of Culture Neukölln | Berlin
2016 Art Prize | City of Limburg
2015 Shortlist | Amadeu Antonio Prize
2012 Finalist | Blooom Award
2011 Diploma Prize | Friends of HfBK Dresden
2010 DAAD Prize | For International Students
2009–13 Scholarship | Heinrich Böll Foundation

Exhibitions

2026 um-raum | Gutshof Britz | Berlin [G]
2025–26 Inceptive Spaces | Axel Obiger | Berlin [G]
2025 BLAM | Festival Mexico City [G]
2025 OBSERVING SYSTEMS | Project Space Geh8 | Dresden [G]
2025 EMOP | atelierjaquet | Berlin [G]
2025 From the Hidden Gardens | Axel Obiger | Berlin [G]
2024 We are Democracy | German Artists Association | Berlin [G]
2024 Happy Face – Ugly Circumstances | West Germany | Berlin [G]
2024 TALES FROM A THIRD SPACE | El Palmar | Mexico City [G]
2023 geometric bodies, kitsch and aspects of power | Axel Obiger | Berlin [S]
2023 F R A G M E N T E M E N T E | Meinblau Project Space | Berlin [G]
2023 Month of Photography-Off | atelierjaquet | Berlin [G]
2023 Zimmer-Frei | Axel Obiger | Berlin [G]
2022 ARTIST STATEMENTS | Centro Cultural Brasil Alemanha | Recife | Brazil [G]
2022 The Obiger Galaxy | Axel Obiger | Berlin [G]
2021 ARTIST STATEMENTS | Schloss Britz | Berlin [G]
2021 Greenscreen | ZÖNOTÉKA Art Gallery | Berlin [S]
2020 ARTIST STATEMENTS | Galerie WOLFSTÆDTER | Frankfurt am Main [G]
2020 Borderline | Art Association and St. Johannis Church | Buchholz [S]
2019 Flagships G? | Project Space Geh8 | Dresden [S]
2019 Think positive! | Galerie im Saalbau | Berlin [S]
2019 WIN/WIN | Halle14 | Leipzig [G]
2019 Working Title: Europe | Hellerau | Dresden [G]
2019 walking around the houses | Project Space Axel Obiger | Berlin [G]
2018 Z.E.I.C.H.N.U.N.G. | Galerie Drei | Dresden [G]
2018 SILK on SCREEN | Alte Feuerwache Loschwitz | Dresden [G]
2018 Flagship / Inversion | Torrance Art Museum | California [G]
2018 REFERENDUM | European Parliament | Brussels [S]
2017 The All-Too-Ordinary Man | Motorenhalle | Dresden [G]
2017 Z.E.I.C.H.N.U.N.G. | COPYRIGHTberlin | Berlin [G]
2017 MAKE MORE | 48 Hours Neukölln | Berlin [S]
2016 Before Exile, Cursed Exile | Kunstsammlung | Limburg [S]
2016 We See Heaven Upside Down | Novilla | Berlin [G]
2015 Bottle Spinning | Institute for Everything Possible | Leipzig [G]
2015 Art at the Spree Bend | Rathenau Halls | Berlin [G]
2015 NEMSKA RABOTA | Galerie Vaska Emanouilova | Sofia [G]
2015 REBOUND | West Germany | Berlin [G]
2014 NEW MASTERS, SO FA | Kunsthaus | Dresden [G]
2014 Art Lottery 2014 | Galerie m2a | Dresden [G]
2014 LACTOSE TOLERANCE | Old Dairy | Radebeul [G]
2014 SUPERSALON | Salon Pendant | Dresden [G]
2014 The one I know is my idea | Drewag site | Dresden [S]
2013 A City Seeks a Murderer | C. Rockefeller Center | Dresden [S]
2013 S.X.Y | Galerie 3 | Dresden [S]
2013 HYPE | Project Space Geh8 | Dresden [G]
2012 BLOOOM AWARD | art.fair International | Cologne [G]
2012 The Passion of the Real | KIT | Düsseldorf [G]
2011 Holy things, holy places | Power Station | Dresden [G]
2011 we scream for ice cream | Diploma Exhibition HfBK | Dresden [G]
2011 You Just Make the Black Box Bright | Senate Hall HfBK | Dresden [G]
2010 You Are Germany – Who Am I? | Galerie arts and lyrics | Cologne [G]
2009 Its Hidden Life | Galerie Horschik | Dresden [G]
2008 It Gets Cooler | Galerie Anna Maria Lange | Radebeul [G]
2007 Production Process | Power Station | Dresden [G]
2001 Hand | Elmo Sanat University | Tehran [G]
2000 O.T. | Private Gallery Ahmad Vakili | Tehran [S]

Publications

2023 Month of Photography-Off | Berlin
2021 Art Association – Anniversary Catalogue | Buchholz
2020 Borderline | Buchholz
2018 Rastern | Dresden
2017 Der Freche Mario | Aschaffenburg
2016 We See Heaven Upside Down | Berlin
2014 Bulgarska Rabota | Dresden
2012 The Passion of the Real | Düsseldorf
2011 Holy things, holy places | Dresden
2011 HfBK Diploma Exhibition Catalogue | Dresden
2010 You Are Germany – Who Am I? | Cologne