Information — Hengam

Hengame Hosseini is an artist and curator based in Tehran, with ongoing engagements between Iran and Germany. Her practice moves across image-making, archival research, and experimental curatorial formats to explore themes of memory, urban erasure, and the politics of visibility. Through photography, video, publications, and collective research, she reflects on how histories—particularly those of marginalized spaces and communities—are constructed, suppressed, or remembered.

Her expanded curatorial work is rooted in collaboration and often takes the form of independent exhibitions, performative presentations, and publishing initiatives. She is the co-initiator of Pocket, a curatorial publication platform, and Parallel Wor[l]ds, a traveling photobook project engaging with local visual cultures. Her projects have been shown in various art spaces in Iran and internationally, and she continues to contribute to wider conversations through lectures, workshops, and academic seminars.

Education
Universität der Künste Berlin, Master of art (with distinction), Institute Art in Context, 2018-2021
Lichtblick School, Seminar with Wolfgang Zurborn, 2017-2018
Neue Schule Für Fotografie Berlin, Seminars with Marc Volk and Eva Bertram, 2015-2016
Magnum Mastercalss with Abbas Attar / Reggio Emilia, 2014

FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, 2009 -2013
FH-Aachen. University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Environmental Studies, 2008 - 2009

Exhibitions
The Cycle of Life , Pocket Collective, Villa Kuriosum, European Month of Photography Berlin, 2025
No, I didn’t See Anything, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, 2024
Berlin < > Mexico, IPS, Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, SIS Art Space, Bojnourd, 2024
Words on Water, TAK Berlin, 2024
Words on Water, Hinterland Gallery, Vienna, 2023
The Multiple Room For Doubters, Villa Kuriosum, Berlin, 2023
The Retrurning Hero, 009821 Projects, Tehran, 2023 (Solo)
The Returning Hero, Screening as part of Utopische Intervention in Tempelhofer Landschaften, Cooperationwerkraum, Berlin, 2022
Hidden Bodies, 009821 projects, Tehran, 2022 (Solo)
Listen to the photographs, Pop-up-Raum Hamburg, 2021
Berlin University of the Arts, Graduation Exhibition of the Institute Art in Context, 2021
Portraits, drei Generationen der Iranischstämmiger Künstler-Innen, Rotes Rathaus Galerie, Berlin, 2019
Heimatgefühle, ag Friedhof Museum, Berlin, 2019
Happiness , Kabinett 25, Berlin, 2019
Smart as Photography, Raum für Fotografie, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, 2019
Staged, Constructed, Real, Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin, 2019
Athen Photobook Festival, Selected for “ So Close, Yet So Far”, 2018
Perspektiv III, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2018
Other, Others, Me, Neue Schule Für Fotografie, Berlin, 2017
Hetrotopy, Privacy Inside Public, Aachen, 2014 (Solo)

Grants/Fellowships/Awards
Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, 2024
Sonderstipendium Initial in Junge Akademie, Akademie der Künste Berlin, 2021
Fotopreis des HAUS am KLEISTPARK, Berlin, 2018
PIC Förderpreis 2018, PIC Verband, Germany

Photo-Books:
The Wandering Song, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2025
Good Old-Fashioned Rythym, Artist Book, Edition of 50, 2020
Mies-en-Abime, Artist Book, Unlimited Edition, 2016 - Ongoing
Lemniscate, Artist Book, Edition of 20, 2018
So Close, Yet So Far, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2017
Serendipity, Artist Book, Edition of 10, 2016

Professional Experience
Co-Founder and Collective Member, Pocket Collective, since 2024
Research and Editorial Assistant at Bildwelten des Wissens; Art History Yearbook for Image Criticism, 05.2020 - 09.2021

Public Talks
Alles ist interessant – Lecture Performance, Performance Marathon at Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, May 2025
“No, I Didn’t See Anything” – Artist Talk and Seminar at Institute for Art in Context, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2024
Artist Talk, Sis Art Space, Bojnourd, Iran, April 2024