Anahita - Arts of Asia

04/02/2021

Putting Indigenous Place-Names and Languages Back on Maps | ArcNews | Winter 2021

Putting Indigenous Place-Names and Languages Back on Maps | ArcNews | Winter 2021

Existing GIS ecosystems need to be designed in ways that support Indigenous data sovereignty and visibility—for the benefit of all.

21/01/2021

Ich lebe freistil: Galeristin Anahita und das freistil131

„Ich glaube an ganzheitliche Konzepte, gerade was Kunst und Kultur anbelangt. Nur in einem Dialog machen viele Dinge auch Sinn, können zu einem neuen Leben erweckt werden und ganz neue Identitäten annehmen.“ Anahita

Excited to share our campaign with freistil ROLF BENZ
Check it out! ☀️🌷🌈💛

Vorderasiatische Kunst und Berliner Flair: Das freistil131 und die Galeristin Anahita bringen vermeintliche Gegensätze spielend leicht in Einklang. Finde dei...

14/01/2021

freistil ROLF BENZ

Sneak peek of our latest collaboration with freistil ROLF BENZ ❤️

Ein Sofa mit mehr Zen im Design: Das freistil131 sorgt für Ausgleich zwischen Gegensätzen – genau wie Galeristin Anahita.

13/01/2021

The Photographer Taking Regal Portraits of Nigerian Brides

The Photographer Taking Regal Portraits of Nigerian Brides

In his series “e wá wo mi,” Lakin Ogunbanwo reflects on the nuance of cultural and personal identity in vivid color.

11/01/2021

Salam everyone 💛 Have you already visited our new online gallery? We invite you to discover unique objects and antiquities on our website: www.anahita-arts-of-asia.com
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05/01/2021

Adorable Fat Cat Invades the Most Famous Paintings in Art History

Adorable Fat Cat Invades the Most Famous Paintings in Art History

“I am just a humble assistant to His Furry Majesty, who kindly allows me to use all my painting, photography and Photoshop skills to insert his precious images into masterpieces of renowned artists of the past.”

04/01/2021

Art Girls Tell Us Their New Year's Resolutions - TheArtGorgeous

Happy New Year! 💫💫💫

Thank you for the cute feature The Art Gorgeous 💕🎆💕

We all want to start the new year with our best foot forward. We asked our art squad to tell us their New Year’s resolutions!

31/12/2020

Healthy & Happy NYE 💫✌🏽💙🤞🏽⭐️ 2021

This fabulous print was made by Japanese artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) and is part of his series ‘Meisho Edo Hyakkei’ (‘One Hundred Famous Views of Edo’) ✨

21/12/2020

Ich bin in der Kunstszene ein Sonderling

Gallerist Anahita in conversation with Generali Italia ✨

So jung, so kreativ, so erfolgreich: Die Galeristin Anahita Sadighi vereint antike und zeitgenössische Kunst, Asien und Europa. Und sie kämpft für mehr Diversität. Das Projekt „Treasures“ von ARTE Generali und dem Kunstmagazin „The Art Gorgeous“ würdigt Arbeit und Engagement der in...

17/12/2020

'Iranian women are pursuing their dreams': New book challenges western stereotypes

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Roshi Rouzbehani's '50 Inspiring Iranian Women' empowers them and exposes their triumphs

16/12/2020

V&A · Epic Iran

Amazing!! 😍👌🏼

Exploring 5,000 years of art, design and culture, Epic Iran will shine a light on one of the greatest historic civilisations, its journey into the 21st century and its monumental artistic achievements, which remain unknown to many.

Exploring 5,000 years of art, design and culture, Epic Iran shines a light on one of the greatest historic civilisations.

08/12/2020

Voluptuous Venus figurines may have helped prehistoric Europeans survive the Ice Age

..and may these strong female symbols help us to overcome the current pandemic. 💪✌🏽🌞

The objects were passed on as “ideological tools” that created advantageous body ideals for women, researchers argue

01/12/2020

International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction

International lawyers draft plan to criminalise ecosystem destruction

Plan to draw up legal definition of ‘ecocide’ attracts support from European countries and small island nations

30/11/2020

Egyptian archaeologists make the 'biggest discovery of 2020'

More than 100 painted coffins have been found at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo ✨

More than 100 painted coffins have been found at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo

25/11/2020

Uncovering the secrets of the Indus Valley civilization and its undeciphered script

A century after the great Indus Valley civilization, its unique script and the 'godless' city of Mohenjo Daro were discovered, mysteries endure, but some insights have been gained ✨

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24/11/2020

20-year-old filmmaker wins award for powerful 1-minute film about marriage

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You may not be able to understand their exact words, but the gestures and subtitles in this dubbed-over version help to convey the beautiful message of this short award-winning film made by 20-year-old Iranian filmmaker Syed Mohammad Reza Kheradmand. The film, called Thursday Appointment, recently w...

07/11/2020

PENNSYLVANIA 😍👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿

05/11/2020

Record number of Native American women elected to Congress

Record number of Native American women elected to Congress

Democrats Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids retain their House seats and are joined by Republican Yvette Herrell

26/10/2020

Sheema Kermani - a force smashing the patriarchy with dance | Cutacut

“The discipline of the mind and body and the immense joy which comes with the freeing of the physical form is so incredible. I realized this and decided that in this very rigid and patriarchal society, dance gives me the greatest freedom to not only express but to maintain my body and soul together – to keep my sanity!” 💃🏽✨💪🏽

With no support from the state to support the art form, Sheema Kermani fights to empower women to accept themselves for their passion to dance

23/10/2020

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Mit der Plakataktion #KeineExperimente deuten acht Frauen einen alten CDU-Slogan um. Anahita Sadighi erklärt, warum.

21/10/2020

Hunza Valley women challenge Pakistani patriarchy

Hunza Valley women challenge Pakistani patriarchy

In tourist-dependent Gilgit-Baltistan, female-run businesses are spreading

15/10/2020

One for all and all for one ✌🏻🇩🇪✌🏽🇩🇪✌🏾🇩🇪

Sisterhood und Solidarität sind #KeineExperimente

"No Experiments" is a classic anti-slogan: it has been used over and over again, to defend a status quo. The Adenauer CDU used it in 1957 in a Defensive election campaign. Back then, it was enough to operate with the fear of change: What is new and different, we do not know and we do not want. "No Experiments" thus also stands for stagnation, scepticism about renewal - and ultimately also for the negation of facts. Germany is in fact changing and renewing itself every day. This is especially true for Berlin. The majority of those who are involved in society today are female. They often have diverse cultural influences and a "migration background".

The posters are part of a free, non-commercial, artistic intervention that plays with stereotypes and expectations. In this way it also makes use of of the anti-slogan "No Experiments". It deconstructs a cliché, without being instructive to perform. It balances the media and political debate on roles and gender images with the perceived reality in everyday life. It introduces women, who are in solidarity with each other. And it literally puts their migration background in the foreground. These women should no longer have to prove that they are German
enough, are strong enough or can assert themselves. They are not "experiments" and have had enough of being perceived as such. They help determine what is the social norm in Germany today.

In the background you can see a Pardeh, a curtain woven from six lengths of fabric, in the late 19th century as the work of Kurdish nomadic artisans in eastern Anatolia. For the gallery owner Anahita Sadighi, one of the initiators, this is a "Pardeh of German Unity". In the valuable material are golden, upward pointing arrows woven in the Pardeh is woven into the black-red-gold of the March Revolution of 1848, the later colours of the German democratic movement and the Federal Republic of Germany.

📸 By Yotam Schwartz
Supported by zenith Magazine 🔥

12/10/2020

Purrfect match: cats and their human doubles

Happy Monday 😘

We all know someone who looks like their dog, but what about our feline friends? Photographer Gerrard Gethings set out to match moggies with their lookalikes – with uncanny results

10/10/2020

Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Iran's king of song – Maestro Shajarian – RIP 💔🎶🎵

Every Tiny Desk Concert provides its own particular thrill, but it's not every day that we get to welcome one of NPR's 50 Great Voices to our offices. With t...

06/10/2020

TheArtGorgeous and ARTE Generali Team Up for “Treasures" - TheArtGorgeous

In a new video interview series launched by GENERALI and The Art Gorgeous, gallerist Anahita Sadighi speaks about her passion for ancient textiles and nomadic art! Check it out 🤩 #Treasures✨

https://theartgorgeous.com/theartgorgeous-and-arte-generali-team-up-for-treasures/

Part 1, Berlin-based Gallerist Anahita Sadighi

18/09/2020

Thanks for having me! ZEIT ONLINE #z2xfestival

My session was about the question “What is Art?” With interesting parallels of artworks and cultural products from different continents and times we made unconventional but very rewarding excursions into the art world. 🌍🏺🖼🦸🏻‍♀️

📸 Alexander Probst for ZEIT ONLINE #z2x #jungevisionäre #arthistory2020 #whatisart #eastmeetswest

27/08/2020

Afghan Heroin & the CIA | Geopolitical Monitor

“Drug trafficking is the largest global commodity in profits after the oil and arms trade, consequently, “immediately following the October 2001 invasion opium markets were restored. Opium prices spiraled. By early 2002, the domestic price of opium in Afghanistan (in dollars/kg) was almost 10 times higher than in 2000.”[15] The Anglo-American invasion of Afghanistan successfully restored the drug trade. The Guardian recently reported that, “In 2007 Afghanistan had more land growing drugs than Colombia, Bolivia and Peru combined.”

This report is about American and British involvement in the Afghan drug trade in opium, focusing on the history of such involvement, and the nature of the drug trade since the 2001 occupation of Afghanistan. Today, Afghanist

27/08/2020

Stressed elephants at Warsaw zoo to be given medical marijuana

Stressed elephants at Warsaw zoo to be given medical marijuana

Three African elephants to get liquid doses of the cannabinoid CBD through their trunks. Early trials suggest they like it

22/08/2020

Berlin to rename Mohrenstrasse after African philosopher — THE AFRICAN COURIER. Reporting Africa and its Diaspora!

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In what could be described as a major victory for the Black community’s struggle for the renaming of streets bearing names derogatory of Africans in the federal capital, the District Assembly (Bezirksversammlung) of Berlin-Mitte has approved the name change of the Mohrenstrasse (Moor Street). On T...

15/08/2020

#2: Anahita Sadighi

Anahita in conversation with #DiasporArt 🎙✌🏽💯 The full episode is online on Spotify. Check it out ☀️👇🏽

Listen to this episode from DiasporART on Spotify. Anahita Sadighi ist Galeristin aus Berlin. Eine Zeit lang nannte man sie auch "Berlins jüngste Galeristin" genannt, weil sie mit 26 Jahren ihre erste Galerie mit antiker Kunst aus Asien eröffnet hat. Mittlerweile hat Anahita eine zweite Galerie f....

13/08/2020

Elephant baby boom in Kenya — numbers double over three decades

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08/08/2020

Refugees in Lebanon offer their homes, blood to Beirut explosion victims

Refugees in Lebanon offer their homes, blood to Beirut explosion victims

"We know how it feels to be scared and hungry with no place to go," a Palestinian refugee told Newsweek.

06/08/2020

Thank you @wdr & @panimalina ⭐️🙏🏽

The new culture podcast "DiasporART" by Marianna Deinyan is about the creative work of BiPoC in Germany. 🇩🇪✌🏼✌🏽✌🏿✌🏾 Check it out.

#diasporart #culture #podcast #wdr #interview #bipoc #germany #creativework #diversity #artworld #anahitasadighi #anahitaartsofasia

05/08/2020

DiasporART (3/5) - Galeristin Anahita Sadighi

Gallerist Anahita Sadighi in conversation with WDR ☀️

The new culture podcast "DiasporART" by Marianna Deinyan is about the creative work of BiPoC in Germany. 🇩🇪✌🏼✌🏽✌🏿✌🏾 Check it out.

Ihre erste von mittlerweile drei Galerien hat Anahita Sadighi mit gerade mal 26 Jahren eröffnet. Welche Erfahrungen sie als Woman of Color im Kunstbetrieb macht und wie sie die Szene verändern will - darüber hat sie mit Marianna Deinyan gesprochen.

05/08/2020

Our thoughts are with our friends in Beirut 😢🙏🏽💔