2022
Swiss Institute Residency Rome
Alien Armpit, book launch with MOUSSE Publishing, Svizzero Istituto Milano (forthcoming)
Fabienne Levy Gallery, Lausanne (solo exhibition), (forthcoming)
2021
Dolls and Goddesses, (solo exhibition), Cascina I.D.E.A, Conturbia, Italy
Rupture, (group exhibition), MAHF, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Fribourg
2020
Irène Raymond Prize
2019
Notes sur l’empathie, group show curated by Charlotte Laubard, Fondation Ricard, Paris
MILCH (solo exhibition), organized by Windhager von Kaenel, Stalletta Madulain, Switzerland
The Approach, (Condo London with The Breeder Athens), London
VELVET, (film premiere), curated by Balthazar Lovay, FRI-ART Kunsthalle
MOUSSE Magazine, “Rubber Ghosts” Vanessa Safavi by Yann Chateigné, http://moussemagazine.it/vanessa-safavi-yann-chateigne-2019/
After Eight, with Juan Antonio Olivares and Zin Taylor, Fürstenberg Contemporary, Sammlungen Museum Donaueschingen
Garage Rotterdam (group show)
2018
Fuerstenberg Zeitgenoessisch Fellowship, Heiligenberg
Turns and Returned, The Breeder (solo exhibition), Athens
Objects Like Us, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
And as things fall apart, nobody paid much attention, MONITOR, Lisbon
2017
The Cook and the smoke Detector (solo exhibition), ChertLuedde, Berlin
How much is too much ? with Amelia Crouch, Oliver Czarnetta, Sam Ekwurtzel, Daniel Faust, Benjamin Hirte, Paloma Muñoz & Walter Martin, Giles Round, Vanessa Safavi, Aki Sasamoto, School for Curatorial Studies, Venice
2016
FAIR PLAY (solo exhibition), Barbara Seiler Zürich
The Transparent Tortoiseshell and The Un-ripe Umbrella, with Eva Berendes, Stephanie Mann, Rallou Panagiotou and Samara Scott, Glasgow Sculpture Studios
Inflected Objects #2: Circulation – mise en séance, group exhibition with Martijn Hendriks, Katja Novitskova and Dan Walwin, curated by Melanie Buehler, De Hallen Museum Haarlem
Stick to me Fantasy, curated by Tobi Maier, SOLO SHOWS, Sao Paulo
Macaroni, (group show) curated by Sylvain Menétrey, Wallriss Fribourg
Unexpected Others, with Violet Dennison, Adam Fearon, Richard Frater, Renata Har, Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Adrien Missika, Antoine Renard, Vanessa Safavi, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, KSR-Berlin
The World No Longer Exists, with Mathis Altmann, Hannah Black, Oliver Laric, Jan Vorisek, curated by Christina Lenhert, KURATOR Rapperswill
A Month of Sundays, with Juliette Blightman, Morgan Fisher, Joke Schmidt, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Michael Smith, urated by Clément Delépine, Taylor Macklin Zürich
LONESOME WIFE, with Victoria Adam, Adriano Amaral, Noah Barker, Luis Miguel Bendaña, Patrizio di Massimo, Justin Fitzpatrick, Lisa Holzer, Isaac Lythgoe, organized by Attilia Fattori Franchini, Seventeen Gallery London
MEDULLA PLAZA, (solo exhibition), Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim
THAT TIME, with Adam Gibbons & boyleANDshaw, Alvaro Urbano, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir, Beatrice Gibson, Caitlin Berrigan, Constant Dullaart, David Blandy & Larry Achiampong, David Levine, Dorothy Iannone, Heather Phillipson, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Johannes Paul Raether, Kapwani Kiwanga, Kolbeinn Hugi, Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir, Margrét H. Blöndal, Marguerite Humeau, Nicolas Perret & Silvia Ploner, Rachel de Joode, SUPERFLEX, curated by Eva Wilson, Gerðarsafn Kópavogur Art Museum
2015
AMYGDALA (solo exhibition), The Breeder Playroom Athens
Airbags (solo exhibition), MOTInternational Brussels
Stoneroses, (group exhibition) curated by Santiago Taccetti and Mirak Jamal, Grünewald, Berlin
IN EXTENSO, with Hannah Arendt / Kader Attia / Rosa Barba / Nina Beier & Marie Lund / Laetitia Bénat / Peggy Buth / Natalie Czech / Jason Dodge / Jimmie Durham / Alicia Frankovich / Jean-Pascal Flavien / Alicia Francovich / Rainer Ganahl / Christian Jankowski / Thomas Locher / Markus Miessen / Joanne Pouzenc / Michael Riedel / Lyllie Rouvière / Dennis Rudolph / Eric Stephany / Rosemarie Trockel / Clémence de la Tour du Pin / Tris Vonna-Michell. Curated by Karima Boudou, Céline Poulin, Agnès Violeau, Deutsche Arkitektur Zentrum DAZ, Berlin
Milk Revolution (group show), curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, American Academy Rome
Interior/Exterior/Sculpture, with Amir Fattal and Przemek Pyszczek, curated by Saskia Neuman, Galerie Belnius Nordenhake, Stockholm
Ceramics and Graphite (group show), with Laura Aldridge, Felicia Atkinson, Peppi Bottrop, Lucy Coggle, Tommaso Corvi-Mora, Emilie Ding, Jérémie Gindre, Emma Hart, Hannah James, Klara Kayser, Marthe Krüger, Bevis Martin and Charlie Youle, Lucie Mičíková, Diogo Pimentão, Erik Steinbrecher, Ignacio Uriarte, J. Parker Valentine, Renata Ward, CHERT Berlin
92CAPITAL, Residency with Géraldine Beck, Miriam Leonardi, Sonia Leimer, Paul Feiglefeld and Vittorio Brodmann, organized by Vanessa Safavi and Pilar Zevallos, Lima, Peru
2014
Cloud Metal Cities (solo exhibition), Kunsthalle Sao Paulo
My Head is a Box (solo presentation), FIAC! Lafayette sector
Fieldworks, group exhibition, Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork Ireland
What do you write when men are puking into plastic bags, curated by Vanessa Safavi, CHERT Berlin
MY HEAD IS A BOX, LP edition published by Kunsthalle Basel
La Nuit Liquide (solo exhibition), The Breeder Athens
2013
Losing the Center, with Santo Tolone and Naufus Ramirez Figueroa, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Gregor Muir and Andrew Berardini, CASTILLO DI RIVOLI
I’ll Be your Mirror, group Show with Lucas Arruda, Antoine Catala, Robert and Trix Haussmann, Bernard Piffaretti, Michael Wilkinson, Herald Street London
LUCI D’ARTISTA, TURIN
Three Pounds of Jelly (solo exhibition), CHERT Berlin
Der Tanz (solo exhibition), curated by Roman Kurzmeyer, Amden
Emmy Moore’s Journal: An Exhibition Based on a Letter in a Short Story by Jane Bowles, with Annette Amberg, Ruth Buchanan, Moyra Davey, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Chris Kraus, Julia Rometti and Victor Costales, Shana Lutker, Charlotte Moth, Sam Porritt, Danh Vo, Jennifer West, and Jessica Jackson Hutchins, curated by Quinn Latimer, SALTS, Basel
The Droste Affect, group show with Ana Cardoso, Dustin Hodges, Marina Pinsky, Christopher Robinson, curated by Paul Branca, Scaramouche Gallery New York
Brand New, Flash Art Magazine, Interview by Andreas Schlaegel, click here for article
Fokus, Frieze d/e magazine, Vanessa Safavi by Quinn Latimer, click here for Article
After the Monument comes the People, solo Installation, Backwall, Kunsthalle Basel
Partoftheprocess, group show, Zero Gallery Milan
2012
I Wish Blue Could Be Water (solo exhibition), CRAC Alsace
Les Figures Autonomes, solo Exhibition, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2011
RESORTS (solo exhibition), Kunsthaus Glarus
No More Ice Cream (solo exhibition), Blank Projects Cape Town
2010
Between A Tree And A Plastic Chair (solo exhibition), CHERT, Berlin
Wandering Works (solo exhibition), Claudia Groeflin Gallery, Zürich