Setareh Alipour is an interdisciplinary artist and curator working at the intersection of installation, spatial practices, and curatorial methodologies. Her work explores material culture, identity, and narrative space, combining theoretical research with a precise, process-oriented approach. For nearly a decade, she has developed and curated exhibitions, performances, and participatory formats, collaborating closely with institutions, artists, and municipal partners. As a freelance cultural producer and first-generation academic, she brings an independent, context-sensitive perspective to cultural narratives and their aesthetic forms.

Setareh Alipour's artworks delve into the complexities of human experiences, memories, and cultural narratives with a mix of wry wit and insight. Her pieces transcend mere aesthetics, inviting viewers into a dialogue that merges the personal with the universal (...)

Lucas Vanhevel, M.A. History of Arts

*1995 Frankfurt Main

Dipl. Designer

2019-2025 HfG Offenbach, experimental spatial concepts, conceptual drawing & film

2024 Semester Abroad at KASK & Conservatory, Ghent, Belgium

2023/24 Art as Social Practice Programme at Hessian Theater Academy, Frankfurt Main, Germany

GRANTS

2025 Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

2024 Erasmus+ for Semester Abroad at KASK & Conservatorium, Gent

2023/24 Deutschland-Grant by Puhl Foundation
2022 1822 Forum-Grant for Art and Bees Club
2020/21 Deutschland-Grant

PRIZES

2024 HfG Mensa Prize for DIARY

2023 HfG in urban context for VOGUE Offenbach Magazine 
2022 Ab in die Mitte! Award for UND Offenbach Inner City Revitalization

RESIDENCIES

2025 Rietzerberg, Brandenburg, Germany

2025 Carbone17, Aubervilliers, Île-de-France

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

SOLO

2024 Window Washers / T-Space, Antwerp
2018 Buntes Schwarz / Ost-Stern, Frankfurt

DUO

2024 Gros Bisous w Lara Finkenstädt / Croxhapox, Gent 
2019 Fractures w Pramila Chenchanna / Qitoya, Frankfurt
2017 Still w Johannes Wewetzer / Noize Fabrik, Berlin

GROUP

2025 ISO IT / Artifact e.V., Potsdam

2025 guck mal drüber nach / curated by Antje Schiffers and Sonja Yakovleva, Hafenspace, Offenbach

2024 Apple. An Introduction. (Over and over and once again) / curated by Antje Majewski and Paweł Freisler, M HKA, Antwerp
2024 Nature Morte / curated by Heiner Blum and Max Brück, Schloss Fasanerie, Eichenzell Fulda
2023 DIARY / Achtung: enthält Leben. Notizbücher, Bullet Journals, curated by Dr. Dorothee Ader, Klingspor Museum, Offenbach