The globally acclaimed artist Nairy Baghramian has been appointed as the new honorary doctor for 2024 at Lund University's Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts. The honorary title will be conferred upon her during the ceremony scheduled for Friday, May 31st, in Lund.
Baghramian is a world-renowned artist who has showcased her talent through sculpture, installation, photography, and more. Her extensive and diverse artistic journey promises to inspire many, making her an invaluable mentor to both students and faculty members. Nairy Baghramian will be an especially significant in her future collaboration with Malmö Art Academy.
On Friday, the 31st, Nairy Baghramian will participate in the honorary ceremony in Lund to accept her honorary doctoral title from the University. The doctoral ceremony is the faculties' biggest academic event.
About Nairy Baghramian
Nairy Baghramian’s work traverses the realms of sculpture, installation, photography and drawing with fearless experimentation, historical acuity and conceptual rigor. Particularly in her prime medium of sculpture, the artist employs an extensive repertoire of techniques, materials and forms to address the spatial, architectural, social, political and contextual conditions of contemporary art. Using an abstract vocabulary that often combines geometric shapes and organic matter, industrial process and gestural procedure, Baghramian’s abstract yet eminently allusive works subtly explore the ligatures between art and other fields of object production (most notably interior, design, dance and theatre) in order to evoke and address bodies of all variants in both their vulnerability and obstinacy. Through her innovative use of materials and manipulation of familiar forms, Baghramian’s work invites viewer to reconsider their sense of self, space, object, and site.
Born in Isfahan, she had to flee post-revolutionary Iran as a teenager and has been living and working in Berlin since 1984.
Baghramian has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Aspen Art Award (2023); the Nivola Award (2022); Nasher Prize Laureate (2022); the Malcolm-McLaren-Award with Maria Hassabi (2019); the Zürich Art Prize (2016); the Arnold-Bode Prize, Kassel (2014); the Hector Prize, Kunsthalle Mannheim (2012); and the Ernst Schering Foundation Award (2007). She has participated in the Yorkshire Sculpture International at The Hepworth Wakefield, UK (2019); Venice Biennale, IT (2019 and 2011); Skulptur Projekte Munster, DE (2017 and 2007); the 8th and 5th Berlin Biennale, DE (2014 and 2008); and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Scotland, UK (2012).