Farzad Golghasemi (b. 1988 Urmia) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher who focuses on architecture and spatial production through the agency of software and technology. By incorporating speculation, programming, and 3D modeling, they explore the new modes of world-making through synthetic and temporal aspects of construction.
Farzad studied architecture at Middle East Technical University (2014) and acquired a Digital Media master’s degree from the University of the Arts Bremen (2023). As a member of the nota association, they offered workshops and talks on coding at 36. Stuttgarter Filmwinter festival, Kampnage in Hamburg, Tatwerk in Berlin. Together with Gabriela Valdespino, their performance Endless Twist premiered at Schwankhalle Bremen in March 2023. In 2022 as a part of hacer sitio collective, they initiated the project RESTORE_ a series of performances through temporary occupations of empty stores in Bremen. Farzad is actively involved in the independent art and cultural scene, supporting self-organized spaces and co-initiating projects like SUDORAع, a Bremen-based collective that investigates collaborative practices around sonic expression.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2025
From partial fractures, may they heal anew — Frappant Galerie Hamburg link
- 2023
Jahresausstellung — University of the Arts Bremen link
- 2023
MINE a condition — UMZU Pavilion Bremen link
- 2022
Lacuna: Inside a Dumpling — University of the Arts Bremen
- 2022
Die Biest Festival — Space Between, Nürnberg link
- 2021
Conditions of a Necessity — Kunsthalle Baden-Baden link
- 2021
Temporal Redirections — Open Space Domshof, Bremen link
- 2020
Conditions of a Necessity "Assembly" — Kunsthalle Baden-Baden link
- 2020
How to Situate Spaces of Uncertainty — with Lucas Kalmus — Circa 106 Bremen link
- 2020
Hochschultage — Gallery Nebenflut, University of the Arts Bremen
- 2019
Raw Data Material Narration — Tor 40, Güterbahnhof Bremen
Selected Performances
- 2026
(upcoming)Pre-late Corrupted Abstraction — with Abd Tammaa — part of Sonic Tactics — GB Open Spedition Bremen link
- 2025
Turvis: Fragmented Readings on Collaborative Tactics — with SUDORAع — Schwankhalle Bremen link
- 2025
JALSA — with Abd Tammaa & Gabriela Valdespino — Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst Bremen link
- 2023
Endless Twist — with Gabriela Valdespino and ap0teke, as part of Felgentaube — RAUM PRO Bremen link
- 2023
as everything repeats and doubles itself, the ground moves under the feet — with Gabriela Valdespino — Schwankhalle Bremen link
- 2020
Muhatap: A Domestic Revolution — with Temporary Spaces — Kunsthalle Baden-Baden link
Curation / Facilitation
- 2026
(ongoing)To Hear What Lingers, Still — co-curating with Gabriela Valdespino — Galerie Herold Bremen link
- 2025
Sonic Tactics II — presented by SUDORAع — GB Open Spedition Bremen link
- 2024
Sonic Tactics — presented by SUDORAع — GB Open Spedition Bremen link
- 2022
RESTORE_ Interdisciplinary Performances in Context — co-curated with Neus Ledesma Vidal and Gabriela Valdespino (hacer sitio corp) — Bremen link
Residencies
- 2023
A Glocal Class for Digital Performance — with Gabriela Valdespino, as part of Tender Absence 2023 link
- 2022
Die Biest — with Abd Tammaa, Lucas Kalmus, and Idil Bozkurt — Nürnberg link
- 2021
Listen to my postcard — in dialogue with sound artist Yara Mekawei — Thealit F.K.L Bremen showcase
Grants / Awards
- 2026
Project Grant — Senator für Kultur Bremen (Sonic Tactics)
- 2025
Project Grant — Senator für Kultur Bremen & Stadt Hamburg (From partial fractures, may they heal anew)
- 2023
Honourable Mention — Frese Design Awards 2023 (Endless Twist) link
- 2022
Project Grant — Nationale Performance Netz, Neustart Kultur, and Senator für Kultur Bremen (RESTORE_)
Selected Publications / Writings
- 2023
Endless Twist: A critical autoethnographic approach to the current state of urban development — print and open access (web) publication link
- 2022
Listen to my postcard in COAPPARATION I, II, III — ed. Claudia Reiche and Andrea Sick link
- 2021
Normative constructions in Muhatap (Queer Ecologies) #2
- 2020
Convenience in Muhatap (مخاطب) #1
Academic Positions
- 2022
WSTeaching Assistant — Destroy Bremen class by Prof. Samuel Nyholm — University of the Arts Bremen
- 2020
SS– 21WSTeaching Assistant — Temporary Spaces class by Prof. Asli Serbest — University of the Arts Bremen
- 2019 – 2021
Research Assistant — The Dynamic Archive — University of the Arts Bremen link
- 2017
SSInstructor — 3D Modeling with Rhino & Grasshopper — Baskent University Ankara
- 2016
WSInstructor — Architectural 3D modeling with SketchUp — Baskent University Ankara
- 2016 – 2018
Research Assistant — Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture — Baskent University Ankara
Workshops / Talks
- 2023
Fundamentals of SketchUp — UMZU Pavilion Bremen
- 2022
Introduction to Programming with p5.js — as part of do you nota? in the frame of 36th Stuttgarter Filmwinter — Kunstraum 34 Stuttgart link link
- 2020
3D modeling with Rhino7 — invited by Invisible Cities and Temporary Spaces — HafenCity University Hamburg and University of the Arts Bremen
- 2020
3D Modeling with SketchUp — Temporary Spaces class — University of the Arts Bremen
- 2017
NURBS Modeling with Rhino3D — TED University Ankara
Selected Commissions
- 2025
3D Modeling — How to Abolish a Name by Aria Farajnezhad link
- 2024
Stage Design — There is Always Negotiation in Murmuration by Gabriela Valdespino trailer
- 2024
Web Programming — Netzwerk Zwischennutzung (in collab. with Guida Ribeiro) link
- 2023
Web Design & Programming — moyo by perspActives e.V. link
- 2023
Script Coach & Digital Space Design — there is no place like before: a digital time-travel by DERIVAT and nota e.V. link link
- 2022
Graphic Design — Crystal Room by Binational Artistic PhD Program link
- 2022
3D Web Programming — Archive23 by Idil Bozkurt link
- 2022
3D Artist — Toppled from the Horizontal Axis by Aria Farajnezhad
- 2022
Web Design & Programming — RESTORE_ by hacer sitio corp link
- 2021
3D Modeling — Digital Twin by Mona Mahall and Asli Serbest
- 2021
3D Modeling — Listening to the Rainbirds by Aria Farajnezhad link
- 2021
Stage Design — IRGENDWO by Kulturbeutel e.V. (in collab. with Lauren Müller)
Education
- 2018 – 2023
MA Digital Media — University of the Arts Bremen (HfK) — Bremen
- 2016 – 2018
M. Architecture
(dropped out)— Middle East Technical University — Ankara - 2009 – 2014
B. Architecture — Middle East Technical University (METU) — Ankara
Languages
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Azerbaijani (native) — Farsi (native) — Turkish (native) — English (fluent) — German (B2)