Farila Neshat (* 1994 in Kabul), is a conceptual artist, researcher and founding director of B.Ā.A.R. STUDIO/ Building with Art, Architecture for Resilience based in Vienna. Her artistic research is rooted in a trans-local biography spanning the polycentric landscapes of Central Asia, including Kabul, Islamabad, Tashkent, Bishkek, and Almaty. This trajectory engendered a nomadic epistemology, enabling the artist to deconstruct socio-spatial stratifications and translate macro-political realities into aesthetic experiences that resist cultural erasure.
In Neshat's work, the investigation of the phenomenology of space is presented as a reinterpretation of architecture, moving beyond its conventional perception as functional infrastructure to redefine it as a >performative archive<. This concept is employed to underscore the transient nature of human identity. Her large-scale installations and sculptures explore the psycho-geographical entanglements of the subject, positioning the built environment as an intrinsic agent of social memory.
She adopts a methodology of vernacular innovation, reintegrating traditional, regenerative construction techniques into contemporary discourse. The fusion of anthropological inquiry and bio-political awareness in her work enables it to transcend physical presence, thereby functioning as a catalyst for socio-ecological resilience.
Her formal foundation in Fashion and Textile Technology and Graphic Communication Design gives her a unique ability to combine haptic materiality and visual semiotics. In 2024, she completed a diploma in drawing and printmaking at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Neshat is currently pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Environmental and Bio-Resource Management at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).
UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES VIENNA (BOKU)
Bachelor's degree in Environmental and Bio-Resource Management
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED ARTS VIENNA
Diploma Studies in Drawing & Printmaking
LINC1 - LINZ DESIGN COLLEG
Diploma in Graphic & Communication Design
HLMW9 MICHELBEURN VIENNA
Fashion & Production Technology with Graduation
MENTORING PROGRAM
Cultures in Movement, Role: Mentee, Vienna State Opera
HUMAN RIGHTS TRAINER
Amnesty International, Vienna
FREMDEWERDENFREUNDE
Mentoring Program, Role: Mentor, Vienna
TALENT & TALENT BERLIN
Mentoring Program, Role: Mentor, Vienna/Berlin
FAMILY MATTERS
Group exhibition, Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Long Day of Escape, Brotfabrik Cultural Center
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Angewandte Festival, Vienna
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Exhibition & Event, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Vienna
FRUITS & SEEDS
Group exhibition Bratislava Policy Institute, Bratislava
FRUITS & SEEDS
Group exhibition at the Folklore Museum, Vienna
CAN THE AFGHAN SPEAK?
Group exhibition Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen
MUSLIM CONTEMPORARY
Group exhibition in Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna
TAMAMI ZABANHA BE DONBALE KHAANEI HASTAND
All language is a longing for home, Exhibition & Event, Garden of Encounter, Traiskirchen
INTERVIEW ABOUT MY EXHIBITION
NDR culture, art
FOR DANCING IN THE STREETS
Performance, art in Afghanistan as resistance, Graz
KINDHEIT(EN).VON ERINNERUNGEN IN DER KUNST
Group exhibition in Haus Coburg Gallery, Delmenhorst
ASYL KOORDINATION AUSTRIA
KARMA KABUL
Group exhibition in the Desiderio Gallerie 1010 Vienna
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
Group exhibition, the Angewandte, Vienna
SOULKITCHEN
Group exhibition, Vienna
THE ESSENCE 2020 DIGITAL EDITION
Group exhibition, the Angewandte, Vienna
MOIETY
Digital group exhibition
IT'S FEEDING TIME
Group exhibition, Linz
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Artist, project management, management, Long Day of Escape, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Vienna
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Artist, project leader, management, Applied Festival, Vienna
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN*
Javaneh Association project management, management, performance, installation, Tangente, St. Pölten
GEFLOCHTENE REALITÄTEN
Artist, project management, management, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Vienna
AMRO FESTIVAL 2024
Javaneh Association, Installation & Video, Linz
FRUITS & SEEDS
Javaneh Verein, Tales of the Revulution, Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
NOWRUZ
Javaneh Association, Mehmooni, Kulturhaus Brotfabrik, Vienna
MUSLIM CONTEMPORARY, MEHMOONI
Javaneh Association, MDW, Vienna
TAMAMI ZABANHA BE DONBALE KHAANEI HASTAND
All language is a longing for home, Artist, project management, management, Garden of Encounter, Traiskirchen
AFGHAN VINYL RECORDS
Curator, graphics, Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg
MEHMOONI
Javaneh Association, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
MEHMOONI
Javaneh Association, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
CULTURE TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT
Independent Cultural Initiative, Vienna