Contact
tinafarifteh@gmail.com
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Awards & Nominations
2024
- Winner 1st prize for Storytelling, De Zilveren Camera
2023
- Selected artist for The Netherlands Film Festival Fellowship Digital Culture
- Selected artist for Refresh Amsterdam, theme: War & Conflict, Amsterdam Museum
2022
- 2nd prize for Storytelling, De Zilveren Camera
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Nominated by Der Greif for FUTURES 2022
2021
- Winner of Fotofestival Naarden Talent Award
- Nominated for Heden Start Award
- Winner of Royal Academy Bachelor Award
- Winner of BA Photography Department Award
2018
- Selected for the Talent Program at BredaPhoto
Exhibitions & Commissions
2023
- Kitten or Refugee, ROZENSTRAAT, Amsterdam
- The Flood, The Fire In Their Eyes, Kunstlinie, Almere
- ik en jij, Refresh Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
- ik en jij, No Limits Art Castle, Sexyland, Amsterdam
- ik en jij, UNFAIR, Amsterdam
- Iran Protests, Resilient Rebels, Museum Helmond
- Kitten or Refugee, The Netherlands Film Festival
- The Flood, Refresh Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
- Vrije Vogels, BredaPhoto, Breda
- The Flood, Video Art Miden, Kalamata, Greece
- The Flood, RAW Photo Triennale Worpswede, Germany
- Iran Protests, Gevel Expo Paradiso, Amsterdam
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Qoqnoos ققنوس - You can’t burn women made of fire (curator and participating artist)
2022
- The Flood, No Access group exhibition in the Former NATO Headquarters in Maastricht
- The Flood, No Access group exhibition in the Former NATO Headquarters in Maastricht‘The Flood’, Melkweg Expo in collaboration with Holland Festival, Amsterdam
- The Flood, The New Current exhibition as part of Art Rotterdam
- The Flood, De Zilveren Camera exhibition, Museum Hilversum
2021
- Commissioned work for The Royal Academy of Arts and Royal Conservatoire, The Hague
- Selected for MIAP (Message In A Photo) fund and collective with theme ‘Future of Nature’
- Talent Award exhibition at Fotofestival Naarden
- Graduation show at Royal Academy of Arts The Hague
2020
- Commissioned work for Bartiméus Foundation, Amsterdam
- Mother Tongue, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
2018-2020
- Mother Tongue, The Grey Space in the Middle, The Hague
- Killer Skies, To Infinity and Beyond, BredaPhoto, Breda
- Ontology of Power, Forgetful Number, Kulturni Centar Lab, Novi Sad, Serbia
Publications & Talks
2023: Selected Press
- Trigger Fomu - ‘Are We Angry Enough?’ The cover image and an article on female rage - read
- Mister Motley, review ‘ik en jij - read
- Podcast van Pakhuis de Zwijger - listen
- ‘Witte Kamer’, review ‘Kitten or Refugee’, De Groene Amsterdammer - read
- ‘Hoe kan het dat het leed van vluchtelingen ons niet raakt?’’, interview in De Volkskrant - read
- ‘Deze filmmaker stelt de vraag: waarom redden we de een wel, en de ander niet?’ Interview Vice - read
- ‘Een Uur Cultuur’ regarding ‘Kitten or Refugee’, Radio 1 - listen
- ‘Waarom halen we sommige vluchtelingen zelf met de auto op en laten we anderen verdrinken?, Metro News - read
- ‘Empathie heeft ook een donkere kant’, interview DocTalks, 2Doc - watch
- De Societeit (NTR), interview - watch
- ‘Is het dan zo erg dat we hier zijn?’ interview in Het Parool - read
- Nooit Meer Slapen (vpro), interview - listen
- Een jaar na de moord op Mahsa Amini toont ‘Vrije Vogels’ de gezichten achter het Iraanse protest interview reagarding ‘Vrije Vogels’ - read
- Mister Motley, Kunst is Lang, interview - listen
- ‘Vrijheid ter grootte van een nagel: de Melkweg in Amsterdam toont werk over Iraanse vrouwen in verzet’ Volkskrant review ‘Qoqnoos’ - read
- PF on Qoqnoos - read
- Greif x FUTURES interview with talent Tina Farifteh - read
- Diaspora Radio, interview - listen
- Een Uur Cultuur regarding ‘Qoqnoos’, Radio 1 - listen
- NRC magazine interview ‘Rising Stars: Photography’ - read
2023: Selected panels, screenings and talks
- Kunsthal Rotterdam, Framing Humanity during the exhibition on Ai Wei Wei, artist talk on empathy and images, in collaboration with Roffa Mon Amour
- KABK Studiom Generale, screening Kitten or Refugee and artist talk
- Oxfam Novib, viewing and talk on how to create empathy without dehumanisation
- Amsterdam Museum Refresh, Meet the Makers Roundtable
- NFF Fellowship Digital Culture, fellowship presentation
- Melkweg Cinema, screening for Fundraising for children in Gaza
- Kriterion, viewing Kitten or Refugee + The Flood and artist talk
- TivoliVredenburg, viewing and expert panel talk
- Fotodok, De Ander, Het beeld en Wij, screening and artist talk on migration and perception
- The Netherlands Film Festival, viewing and artist talk
- Pakhuis de Zwijger, viewing and interactive session with cultural makers on empathy
- World Press Photo, The Stories That Matter, panel talk on the role of photography on solidarity across borders
2022
- ‘Midden in de meedogenloze installatie van Tina Farifteh, terwijl een computerstem de doden telt’, Volkskrant review ‘The Flood’ read
- Artist talk on empathy and images, Amsterdam Museum X Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam
- Artist talk about the process and context of The Flood and research on empathy and images, Melkweg, Amsterdam
- Impact strategy talk at Filmpact, Ghent
- Impact strategy talk Vers Film Festival, Amsterdam
- ‘Social Impact of Creativity’ speaker, organised by What Design Can Do in Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam
- ‘Impact in practice’ panel discussion, organised by NAPA (Netherlands Audiovisual Producers’ Alliance) during Movies That Matter festival, The Hague
- Impact Strategy guest lectures, The Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
- ‘Tina in Sexbierum’ trailer presented at MIAP closing event in Sexyland, Amsterdam
2018 - 2021
- ‘Golven van Empathie’ publication of ‘The Flood’ in PF photography magazine
- Artist Talk at ‘Picture This’ in Fotomuseum, The Hague
- ‘How Turkey became a drone power (and what that tells us about the future of warfare)’
- Publication of ‘Killer Skies’ in The Correspondent (Dutch and international editions)
- Artist talk at MotMot Gallery during BredaPhoto, Breda
Projects
2022 - 2023
- Tina in Sexbierum, a multimedia project about displacement and the desire to have a home (in development, on show at BredaPhoto 2024
- ik en jij, an audio installation through which I examine whether there is a way to continue to hear one another amidst suffering, dehumanisation, grief and heated emotions in Israel and Palestine
- Kitten or Refugee?, a short film, an experimental documentary which explores the two sides of human nature, the empathic side and the hateful side
- Vrije Vogels, an AV installation as a tribute to Jina Amini and all the courageous freedom fighters in Iran
- Iran Protests, found and edited social media footage
2020 - 2021
- The Flood, an audiovisual installation about dehumanisation of refugees using water metaphors
- Names Unknown, a printed translation of the installation, focused on the act of looking and questioning the depiction of refugees in the media
- Empathy, the image and me, thesis about how empathy works, how images work, what my role is as an artist, and whether empathy is going to save the world
2018 - 2019
- Hunt For Yield, a photographic project and publication about speculation by investment firms on our primary needs, such as the need for housing
- Killer Skies, a photographic project and installation about the dronisation of armies and the future of warfare
Education
2021
Bachelor in Arts (Photography), Royal Academy of Art The Hague
2013
Executive MBA, Rotterdam School of Management
2008
MScBA Marketing Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2008
MScBA Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing, Erasmus University
2007
International Exchange Program, Università Luigi Bocconi, Milan
2003
Bachelor of Business Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Tina Farifteh is an Iranian-Dutch photographer and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She obtained Master’s Degrees from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Thanks to this academic and cultural background, she is used to seeing the world from different angles. In her work, she reflects on how man-made power structures such as nation states and corporations impact the lives of ordinary people. Often focusing on people not only excluded from the privileges granted by the dominant political and economic systems, but also damaged by these to make the system ‘work’. Central to her work is the role of images and how these influence our thoughts, emotions and behaviour.
Her photographic approach is research-based and conceptual and often combines images, audio, text and data. She seduces us into looking at topics we prefer to look away from, because of their complexity or discomfort. In her photographic project Killer Skies (2018), she explored the impact of the ‘dronization’ of armies. For her audiovisual installation The Flood (2021) she carried out extensive research into the situation of refugees on the move or stuck at European borders, as well as the political language used to dehumanise and frame refugees as a ‘natural disaster’, normalising the absurdity of how we currently treat them.
In the short documentary Kitten or Refugee?, she researches how empathy works and why we behave empathically towards some and indifferently or with cruelty towards others. Kitten or Refugee? was selected for the Debut Competition and premiered at The Netherlands Film Festival (NFF) 2023. Tina in Sexbierum is a multimedia project on displacement, detachment, assimilation, loss and the longing to have a home which will be presented at BredaPhoto2024.
Farifteh graduated with honours from The Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague and is a member of Futures, a European photography platform that brings together talents and expertise. She has won the Royal Academy Bachelor Award, Fotofestival Naarden Talent Award and second prize in the De Zilveren Camera photography awards, in the Storytelling category. In 2023 she was one of the selected artists for NFF Fellowship 2023.
Contact
tinafarifteh@gmail.com
Talks
A selection of presentations and exhibitions.
Tina Farifteh is an Iranian-Dutch photographer and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. She obtained Master’s Degrees from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and a Bachelor’s Degree from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Thanks to this academic and cultural background, she is used to seeing the world from different angles. In her work, she reflects on how man-made power structures such as nation states and corporations impact the lives of ordinary people. Often focusing on people not only excluded from the privileges granted by the dominant political and economic systems, but also damaged by these to make the system ‘work’. Central to her work is the role of images and how these influence our thoughts, emotions and behaviour.
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Talks
A selection of presentations and exhibitions.