Aljoscha Farassat

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Aljoscha Farassat

mixed media, visual arts

04/22/2026

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No solid truths No.3
80cm x 120cm | 2026
ALJOSCHA FARASSAT.......IS GOING NOWHERE.

04/21/2026

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No solid truths No.6
80cm x 120cm | 2026

ALJOSCHA FARASSAT.......IS GOING NOWHERE.

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04/11/2026

a brush with violence | performance | 2017
This piece explores anger as a state to be entered, observed, and gradually understood rather than simply expressed. Through sustained attention and repetition, the artist engages with the emotion from within, allowing it to unfold and reveal its textures and limits. In doing so, the work suggests that by fully confronting and exploring anger, it can be disarmed—transformed from an overwhelming force into something visible, contained, and less dominant.
The moment of destruction does not function purely as catharsis, but as part of this ongoing inquiry. While it appears as a release, it remains embedded within a controlled process, questioning whether such expressions truly resolve anger or merely externalize it.
The reversed sequence further complicates this idea. By undoing the destruction, the work introduces the illusion of reversal—of being able to take back action and emotion. This gesture destabilizes the notion of catharsis, suggesting that while anger can be enacted and even aesthetically “resolved,” its presence cannot simply be erased. Instead, the piece leaves anger suspended between expression and containment, emphasizing exploration over conclusion.

10/19/2025

No solid truths
80cm x 120cm | 2025

ALJOSCHA FARASSAT.......IS GOING NOWHERE.

09/28/2025

ARTIST STATEMENT: A big brutalist structure rises in a remote Arctic landscape. Red spheres hover mysteriously amidst the forest. A single tiny red cubicle stands surrounded by thousands of dark cubicles in a vast structural expanse. Walls, corners, dark stairways, and acid-burned self-portraits emerge—a visual language that reflects an endless search for identity and self. This is the journey that drives Aljoscha Farassat’s art.

Aljoscha Farassat is an Austrian-born painter who has lived and worked in New York City since 2008.

Born stateless, Farassat’s earliest experience of life was defined by not belonging. His mother is Austrian, his father Iranian, who himself struggled with the loss of national identity after leaving the country following the Islamic Revolution in 1978.

For the first seventeen years of his life, Farassat had no citizenship, no passport, no official way to travel or leave the country he was not officially a part of. In that sense, he was neither native nor immigrant. His difference was also visible—physically, culturally, existentially—reinforcing a daily sense of not belonging.

At seventeen, after legal battles, Austria was compelled to adopt him, but by then, the experience of not belonging had become his defining identity—his own form of exile.

This sense of displacement became a fertile ground for creativity. Unbound by national pride, heritage, or societal intolerance, Farassat discovered the freedom to explore without limitations.

At twenty-eight, he moved to New York City—a place where not belonging paradoxically means belonging. Here, the outsider finds a home, and the search for self becomes universal. Here not belonging means to belong.

“The responsibility in my creative endeavors is to pose a question not to answer one”

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text by: Kat Mandeville

07/23/2025

a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan 1/3
80cm x 100cm | 2025…

ALJOSCHA FARASSAT...
…..IS GOING NOWHERE.

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