Nazanin Raji

In her artistic work, Nazanin Raji is dedicated to the search for inner peace. Inspired by the beauty of nature, she translates human emotions and needs into atmospheric landscapes and depictions of the sky. This creates a symbolic connection between humanity and the earth. Her focus is on acrylic and oil painting.

Grants and

• awards 2025: Top 30 “Young Storyteller Award”
• 2024/2025: 2nd Germany Scholarship
• 2024: Winner of the “Thalia Storyteller Award” in the “Best Story”
• category2024/2023: 1st Germany
• Scholarship2023: Top 100 “Young Storyteller

Award”Exhibitions and Publications of Artistic

• Works2026: Publication of artistic contributions in the 16th issue of the literary magazine Johnny from Frankfurt am Main
• 2025: Publication of her third novel, “The World of Lost Ideas”, with a cover she designed herself, as well as illustrations of her own paintings for each chapter.
• 2024: Publication of her second novel, “In the Silence of Our Being”, with a cover she designed herself as well as illustrations of her own paintings for each chapter.
• 2019–2024: Participation in regular tours organised by the Art Institute at Goethe
• University. 2023: Publication of her first novel, *Der Angler*, featuring a cover she designed herself as well as illustrations of her own paintings for each chapter.
• 2022: Publication of artistic contributions in the 12th issue of the literary magazine *Johnny* from Frankfurt am Main
• . 2022: Group exhibition at the international Rosa Luxemburg Conference.
• Artwork2020: Publication of artistic contributions in the 11th issue of the literary magazine *Johnny* from Frankfurt am Main
• 2019: Publication of artistic contributions in the 9th issue of the literary magazine *Johnny* from Frankfurt am Main
• 2017: Publication of a body painting in the 2nd issue of the online literary magazine *Body without Organs
• *2016: Group exhibition in the context of shark conservation at the

• Driedorf Community

• Centre

Press

• 2024: Print edition of the *Frankfurter Rundschau*: Ferrara, Shanay: “Inner peace, viral. Why 36,000 people follow Nazanin Raji’s colourful art on Instagram” (13 April 2024)
• 2024: Mittelhessen.de: Manges, Tobias: “Author’s Prize for Nazanin Raji from Manderbach” (7 April 2024)
• 2024: Print editions of the Dill-Zeitung, Herborn Tageblatt and Hinterländer Anzeiger (4 April 2024); Manges, Tobias: “The ‘Angler’ is followed by a book about dreams”
• 2024: Print editions of the Dill-Zeitung and Herborner Tageblatt (both 3 January 2024) and the Hinterländer Anzeiger (4 January 2024); Manges, Tobias: “A canvas that breathes”
• 2023: Mittelhessen.de; Manges, Tobias: “Manderbach artist Nazanin Raji. The canvas has a pulse” (26 December 2023)
• 2023: HR Television, Maintower report on 30 November: “Snowmen are a thing of the past: now comes the Snow Maiden” (on the artist’s snow sculptures)