About Pegah Kazemi

Pegah Kazemi is an Iranian artist, painter, and actress whose practice moves fluidly between visual art and experimental performance. She received her M.F.A. in Visual Arts (Bildende Kunst) from Alanus University in Bonn, Germany, an experience that continues to inform the conceptual and interdisciplinary dimensions of her practice. Her work is grounded in a sustained investigation of the human form, where questions of cultural identity, perception, and embodiment intersect.

As a visual artist, Kazemi engages what she describes as the “objectivity of the figure,” a concept through which she reconsiders the body not merely as a subject of representation, but as a site of tension between observation and interiority. Self-portraiture plays a central role in her work, functioning as both method and inquiry. Her paintings merge elements of hyperrealism with illustrative sensibilities, creating compositions that are both technically precise and psychologically charged. Through this hybrid visual language, she explores themes of alienation, self-perception, and the complexities of the contemporary female experience.