Farshad Farzankia

Farshad Farzankia fled Iran at the age of nine with his family to Denmark in the aftermath of the Iranian Revolution. He was originally trained as a graphic designer, but has worked as a visual artist since 2016.

Farzankia works with painting, sculpture, graphic prints, and works on paper. In his artistic practice, he is engaged with personal traces of memory as well as forms of expression from both fine art and popular culture, such as music, poetry, philosophy, visual art, and film. Farzankia operates at the intersection of figuration and abstraction, composing dynamic works in which the viewer can both linger on captivating details and, for a moment, lose their footing in an encounter with a painterly reality that operates on its own terms.

In his works, he explores personal and universal questions through an intuitive and improvisational method that destabilizes fixed categories and opens up new and productive connections between the artwork, the world, and the viewer.

Farshad Farzankia is represented in a wide range of Danish and international museum and private collections, including Yusaku Maezawa, Japan; The Progressive Art Collection, USA; the New Carlsberg Foundation, Denmark; and ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.

Farzankia has held both group and solo exhibitions in Denmark and internationally, including at Heerup Museum, Denmark (2026); Trapholt, Denmark (2025); Willumsen’s Museum, Denmark (2022); FOUNDRY, Korea (2022); ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2021); Turn Gallery, USA (2020); and Richard Heller Gallery, USA (2018).

Source:
Heerup Museum