Ronak Moshtaghi is an Iran born visual artist living in Berlin and Oslo. Ronak studied painting at the Tehran University of Art, and in 2013 she studied in Oslo, where she in  2017 graduated from the fine arts at KHIO.

While applying various formats and contexts, Ronaks practice lies at the intersection of drawing, sculpture, installation art and artistic research.

One of Ronak’s earliest works is Untitled_Book(2013). A handmade book using  sharp, minimal- ist geometry to narrate the geometric shape of the book itself. 

The absence of language where it is expected to be present is recurring in Ronak’s later works as in the Gaps in My Reading(2017) and Never Translate This Text (2017), she addresses the relations between language, revelation, violence and power. Pointing to the idea of reading or viewing as a creative act that depends on one’s situation in space and time.

Mom likes politics too (2018) and Late Poem surrounded by friends(2018) inscribes itself into the history of self publishing during the 1978 revolution in Iran with a focus on the “state” and the “family” structure and how the private spaces have been both a site for resistance and political struggles. 

n the interactive installation We/Me(2020), Ronak makes an interactive sculpture with  hand made letters with wooden handles around them to invite the spectator to put the letters in play. As one pulls the handle, the upside-down, flat-looking letters start to bend in the middle or slide upward,  become readable or transform to a new meaning.

Among all, Ronak’s work has been shown at the MUNCH Museum-Oslo, Spreeufer-Berlin,  Kunsthall Oslo,; Louise Dany, Oslo;  Destiny’s Atelier, Oslo;  The Mosaic rooms, London;  Black Box Theater, Oslo, October dance festival, Bergen. 

The performative aspects of Ronak’s work led to her continuous collaboration in the development of the concept, set & costume for several performances, such as; Only forever(2018), Limbo(2021), Bud(2022), and Supermedium(2022).

Besides making art and research, her practice also includes self-organized collective projects such as the platform Bazar Art Book(2018-..)and Tahqiqotaxayyol(2022-23), for which she has been co- Curating, cleaning, driving, and cooking.

Photo: Tale Hendnes