Name: Temple of Peace — Dutch Design Week
Start: 2024
Location: Dutch Design Week

Arya Rambod (b. 2004, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Zürich. His work explores the relationship between infrastructure, human behaviour, and economy through moving image, installation, and digital media. Combining research with experimentation, he reconfigures infrastructural systems within affective and historical frameworks, exposing their latent tensions. He uses 3D scanning as both material and methodology, building spatial archives that function as points of origin rather than documentation. His practice engages with themes of economy, history, death, transcendence, overstimulation, and technological acceleration.

Education

2023–present: BEAR Fine Arts, ArtEZ University of Arts, Netherlands
2025–present: Fine Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), Zürich, Switzerland
February–June 2025: Visual and Sensorial Cultures Minor, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2026

Re:barred, Dynamo, Zürich, Switzerland
What Soldiers Eat Before They Kill, Sister's Room, Tbilisi, Georgia
Mehr Moneyzipation, Ada Ada, Vienna, Austria
Fiscal Orography, Zug Bureau, Zug, Switzerland
Porta Obscura, Urban Waters, Zürich, Switzerland
Fleeting Emotions, Platsmaaken, Arnhem, Netherlands
Limburg Biënnale, Maastricht, Netherlands (upcoming)

2025

Traces of Unseen, Reconnect Festival, Online
Foreign Air — Ties that Bind, 126 Gallery and Studios, Galway, Ireland
25 Hours Radio Relay, Worm, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Spasmeno, Collectief Wasem, Arnhem, Netherlands
S/ub/urban A/b/yss, VIDEOSOUNDARCHIVE, online platform
Painted Mural, PPP, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Spasmeno, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Spasmeno II, Kema Lab, Arnhem, Netherlands
11.11 Collective, Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague, Netherlands
Blue Rails Beige City, Work In Progress, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Blue Rails Beige City, Machine Entanglement, Drenthe, Netherlands
Fetishism In Sound, Omstand, Arnhem, Netherlands
Untitled — Palimpsest of Cicatrices, Church of Rozendaal, Netherlands
The Place of Justice, Platsmaaken, Arnhem, Netherlands
Frozen Gesture, Now We Are Earth, touring exhibition, Netherlands
Temple of Peace, Arnhem, Netherlands
Black Rails Yellow Tape, Peek, Utrecht, Netherlands
Dach Festival, 380 Collective, Zentralwascherei, Zürich, Switzerland
Black Rails Yellow Tape, Radical Film Network, Online
Reverse Mode, Radio Sofa, Paris, France
Unit0b, Frieda Buxe, Zürich, Switzerland
Point to Point, Toni Areal, ZHdK, Zürich, Switzerland
Scharrel Kippenbouten Nat, In Situ, Antwerp, Belgium

2024

Pedagogy of Surveilled, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Screening of Forgotten Walls, Worm, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Screening of Vauxvaux, OT301 / Amsterdam Alternative, Netherlands
Sound of Vasim, Wiebert Residency, The Vasim, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Temple of Peace, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Curatorial Experience

Co-founder of Azdour Project
Co-founder of Luggage In Vortex, an art collective platform
Voyage I and Voyage II, Paadmaan, hosted at The Hub, Arnhem, Netherlands
Curated Palimpsest of Cicatrices, Church of Rozendaal, Netherlands
Co-Curator of Public Programmes at Platform Post, Arnhem
Representative of PVE#3 and Paadmaan projects at Supermarket Art Fair 2024
Member of Paadmaan, artist-run initiative based in Rotterdam
Member of Cook Lab Collective

Residency

Unidee Residency Program, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy

Awards and Funding

NL Scholarship, 2025
SEMP Scholarship, 2025

Publications and Press

Pigmento Magazine
Dezeen Magazine — Temple of Peace

Work Experience

Metro54, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Platform Post, Arnhem, Netherlands
Second Nature Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland, 2026

Artist Statement

Arya Rambod works extensively with moving image — encompassing film, video, and video art — using 3D scanning as both material and methodology. He began building a spatial archive in 2023 in Middlesbrough, scanning sites ranging from domestic interiors to empty houses, driven by spatial longing. His practice engages with death, transcendence, economy, history, and technological acceleration. He approaches data, statistics, and numbers as aesthetic and conceptual elements — counterpoints to subjectivity. His works assemble through accumulation rather than intention, responding to conditions of meaninglessness and excess in contemporary life.

ARYA RAMBOD