Samira Hodaei is a visual artist based between Berlin and Tehran. In her practice, personal experiences and emotions are transformed into visual forms, with each work becoming a vessel that preserves what the body has forgotten.

Her paintings and installations reflect the contemporary landscape—shaped by globalisation, communication technologies, and other transformations of our time—that often distances us from our human essence. Within this context, Hodaei seeks to translate feelings that are shared across our natural condition.

A defining feature of her work is the use of glass paint applied dot by dot, creating pixelated surfaces that reveal their complete image only from a distance. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions across Europe, the United States, the UAE, Asia, and Australia, as well as in public spaces in Iran and Azerbaijan.

FELLOWSHIP/RESIDENCIES

2010   Oryx Foundation, Lucerne, Switzerland                

2018  Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2023   Bridderhaus, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025   Headless Palms, Valerius Gallery, Luxembourg

2023   An Empty Sofreh, Sonneundsolche, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021   Under Your Spine (…) You’ll Have My Back, Grüner Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany

2020   Let them eat oil! Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran

2020   Funded Art Projects From Home, Framed, Berlin, Germany

2019   Presence of an absence, Public Installation, Darvazeh Dowlat Petroleum Museum, Tehran, Iran

2019   Cinema Europe Installation, Framed, Berlin, Germany

2019   Presence of an absence, Public Installation, Petroleum museum and documents, Abadan, Iran

2018   Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2017   Signal is Weak! AB Gallery, Thalwil/Zurich, Switzerland

2015   Philosophy of the Bedroom, AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland

2014   And the dance goes on, Cube Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2013   Harem of the Heart, Gallery Aquabit Art, Berlin, Germany

2012   Dancing the sharp edge, AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland

2011   Endless, Video Project, AB Projects, Zurich, Switzerland

2010   Stones and Mute Birds, AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025   Another Language from the Middle East, Verduyn Gallery, Belgium

2024   Dis-placed, Konschthal, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

2021  Von offenen Narben + verhüllten Geweben, Galerie Im Saalbau, Berlin, Germany

2021   Framed Process- Framed Berlin, Germany

2020   But They Were Still Hungry, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2019   Public Installation, Yarat Contemporary, Baku, Azerbaijan

2016    Allusive Moment, MiM Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, Made in Iran, Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

2015    There Are Too Many Walls But Not Enough Bridges – Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland

2014    And the dance goes on, Cube Arts Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2013    Heavenly Paradise, Schloss Stetteldorf/Vienna, Austria
Endless & Eternity and a Day. roses, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Still Summer II, Makii Masaru Fine Arts Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Born in Iran, AquabitArt, Berlin, Germany

2012    Nishinomiya Funasaka Biennale, Japan, Contemporary Iranian Art, New Albion Gallery, Sydney, AustraliaArimas, AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland, Group exhibition, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan, Italy, Between two cultures, Katara Art Centre, Doha, Qatar

2010    Across Borders – Iran meets Wiesbaden, NERO Gallery, Wiesbaden, Germany

2007    Group exhibition, Iranian Artists Forum, Tehran, Iran

2006    Group exhibition, Nicole Gallery, Tehran, Iran

BIBLIOGRAPHY (SELECTION)

­2023 Bare Coverings, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. Künstlerhaus Bethanien

https://www.bethanien.de/en/publications/samira-hodaei/

2018 BE #25, Künstlerhaus Bethanien
2016 Made in Iran, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. Kunstverein Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

2015 There Are Too ­­Many Walls but Not Enough Bridges, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat.Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, and Oryx Foundation, Lucerne, SwitzerlandPhilosophy of the Bedroom, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland

2014 And the Dance Goes On, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. Cube Arts Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2013 Heavenly Paradise, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. Schloss Stetteldorf, Vienna,

2012 Dancing the Sharp Edge, exh. cat. Ausst.-Kat. AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland