Yasaman Pishvaei
Yasaman (Yassi) Pishvaei is an Iranian multidisciplinary artist, Expressive Arts facilitator, and arts-based researcher who currently lives in the countryside near Berlin.
With a background that includes a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from OCAD University in Toronto (Canada) and a Master's degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a minor in Psychology from the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee (Switzerland), she is currently pursuing a PhD in the same field.
Her research highlights the embodied, visceral, and sensorial aspects of existence, using arts-based methodologies to uncover layers of experience that often remain unseen or unspoken. Her artistic work serves as a process of deconstruction and reconstruction, unraveling the complexities of the worlds she has inhabited and that have, in turn, inhabited her. This exploration bridges the personal and the collective, investigating how individual stories shape and are shaped by the broader zeitgeist.