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Artist Bio
Arya Rambod (b. 2004, Iran) is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Zurich. 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.
Education
2023-present, BEAR Fine Arts, ArtEZ University of Arts
2025-present, Fine Arts, ZHDK
February-June 2025, Visual and Sensorial Cultures Minor, Utrecht University
Exhibitions & Screenings
2026
• Re:barred, Dynamo, Zürich, CH
• What soldiers eat before they kill, Sister’s room, Tbilisi, GA
• Mehr Moneyzipation, Ada Ada, Vienna, AT
• Fiscal Orography, Zug Bureau, Zug, CH
• Porta Obscura, Urban Waters, Zürich, CH
• Fleeting Emotions, Platsmaaken, Arnhem, NL
• Limburg Biënnale, Mastricht, NL (upcoming)
2025
• Traces of Unseen, Reconnect Festival, Online
• Foreign Air, Ties that Bind, 126 Gallery & Studios, Galway, Ireland
• 25 Hours Radio Relay, Worm, Rotterdam, NL
• Spasmeno, Collectief Wasem, Willemen, Arnhem, NL
• S/ub/urban A/b/yss ,VIDEOSOUNDARCHIVE, online platform
• Painted Mural, PPP, W139
• Spasmeno, Sandberg, Amsterdam, NL
• Spansmeno II, Kema Lab, Arnhem, NL
• 11.11 Collective, Grey space in the middle, The Hauge, NL
• Blue rails Beige city, Work In Progress, Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, NL
• Blue rails, Beige city, Machine Entanglement, Dernthe, NL
• Fetishism In sound, Omstand, Arnhem, NL
• Untitled, Palimpsest of Cicatrices, Church of Rozendaal, NL
• The place of Justice, Platsmaaken, Arnhem, NL
• Frozen Gesture, Now We Are Earth, (touring exhibition) NL
• Temple of Peace, Arnhem, NL
• Black rails, Yellow tape, Peek, Utrecht, NL
• Dach Festival, 380 Collective, Zentralwascherei, Zürich, CH
• Black rails, Yellow tape, Radical Film Network, Online
• Reverse Mode, Radio Sofa, Paris, FR
• Unit0b, Friedea Buxe, Zurich, CH
• Point to Point, Toni Areal (zhdk), Zürich, CH
• Scharrel Kippenbouten Nat, In Situ, Antwerp, BL
2024
• Pedagogy of Surveilled, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, NL
• Screening of “Forgotten Walls” at Worm, Rotterdam, NL
• Screening of “Vauxvaux” at OT301/Amsterdam alternative, NL
• Sound of Vasim, Wiebert Residency, The Vasim, Nijmegen, NL
• Temple of Peace, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
Curatorial Experiences
• Co-founder of Azdour Project
• Co-founder of Luggage In Vortex, an art collective platform
• Voyage I, Paadmaan hosted at The Hub, Arnhem, NL
• Voyage II, Paadmaan hosted at The Hub, Arnhem, NL
• Curated Palimpsest of Cicatrices, Church of Rozendaal
• Co-Curator of Public Programmes at Platform Post
• Representative of PVE#3 and Paadmaan projects at Supermarket art fair 2024
• Member of Paadmaan, an artist-run initiative based in Rotterdam
• Member of Cook lab Collective
Residency
• Resident At Unidee residency program, Biella, Italy
Awards and Funds
• NL scholarship (2025)
• SEMP (2025)
Publication
• Pigmento Magazine
Press
• Dezeen magazine, Temple of Peace
Work Experience
• Metro54, Amsterdam, NL
• Platform Post, Arnhem, NL
• Second nature gallery, Zürich, CH