Rena Effendi

*1977 / Azerbaijan

Works

News

Prix Pictet - 8th cycle - HOPE

Shortlist announced for world's top photography prize

Prix Pictet, London (GB)

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster

Solo exhibitions

A Jug, A Glove and Things That Are Still

Cynthia Bassan, Patricia Glee Smith

ILEX, Roma (IT)
5 Nov 2019 – 27 Nov 2019
The Crossing Point

Gary Nader fine art NY, New York (US)
14 Sep 2016 – 1 Nov 2016
Waiting for Winter

ILEX, Roma (IT)
15 Sep 2015 – 30 Oct 2015
Der letzte Tanz von Tarlabasi

BERLIN FOTOFESTIVAL 2013 - THE BROWSE

Browse Foto Festival, Berlin (DE)
13 Jun 2013 – 13 Jul 2013
Real Color

Gallery.Photographer.ru, Moscow (RU)
22 Mar 2011 – 22 May 2011
Pipe Dreams

Neue Sächsische Galerie, Chemnitz (DE)
1 Mar 2011 – 22 May 2011
Pipe Dreams

Gallery.Photographer.ru, Moscow (RU)
12 Mar 2010 – 11 Apr 2010
House of Happiness

FOTOLOFT GALLERY, Moscow (RU)
23 Jan 2009 – 3 Mar 2009
House of Happiness

Gallery.Photographer.ru, Moscow (RU)
23 Jan 2009 – 3 Mar 2009

Group

HUMAN.KIND.

A New Look at Humanitarian Photography Through 10 Editions of the Prix Pictet

Red Cross Museum, Genève (CH)
19 Oct 2023 – 25 Aug 2024

with Emin Özmen, Ezra Acayan, Linsey Addario, Emmanuelle Andrianjafy, Elena Anosova, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Subrata Biswas, Myriam Boulos, Luisa Doerr, Omar Victor Diop, Philippe Dudouit, Alinka Echeverria …
Life After Conflict

Stories as told to ICC Outreach by survivors of the world’s worst crimes

United Nations Headquarters, New York (US)
23 Jun 2022 – 29 Jul 2022

with Pete Muller, Finbarr O’Reilly
Oil

Schönheit und Schrecken des Erdölzeitalters Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
4 Sep 2021 – 9 Jan 2022

with Monira Al Qadiri, Yuri Ancarani, Qiu Anxiong, Kader Attia, Lothar Baumgarten, Ursula Biermann, Vanessa Billy, Mark Boulos, Margaret Bourke-White, Edward Burtynsky, Mark Dion, William Eggleston …
Hope. Prix Pictet

Fondazione Sozzani, Milano (IT)
7 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster
Hope - Prix Pictet

Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin (IE)
17 Sep 2021 – 6 Nov 2021

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster
Prix Pictet - Hope

Shanghai Centre Photo, Shanghai (CN)
11 Sep 2021 – 24 Oct 2021

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster
Prix Pictet - Hope

Daikanyama Hillside Forum, Tokyo (JP)
12 Dec 2019 – 28 Dec 2019

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster
Prix Pictet 2019: Hope

V&A Victoria & Albert Museum, London (GB)
14 Nov 2019 – 8 Dec 2019

with Shahidul Alam, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Lucas Foglia, Janelle Lynch, Ross McDonnell, Gideon Mendel, Ivor Prickett, Robin Rhode, Awoiska van der Molen, Alexia Webster
Hall of Mirrors

ILEX, Roma (IT)
26 Nov 2017 – 2 Mar 2018

with Rene Burri, David Alan Harvey, Vivian Maier, Davide Monteleone, Francesco Zizola
Hong Kong International Photo Festival 2014

Hong Kong Photo Festival, Hong Kong (CN)
8 Aug 2014 – 11 Nov 2014

with anothermountainman, Wong Wo Bik, Almond Chu, Gohar Dashti, AN Ge, Shadi Ghadirian, YONG He, HEI Ming, NASA , Raghu Rai, RONG Rong, WANG Wenlan …
VOICE OF TACITNESS

ASIAN WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHY

Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong (CN)
19 Oct 2014 – 2 Nov 2014

with Taslima Akhter, Nazik Armenakyan, Poulomi Basu, Farida Batool, Laura Boushnak, Gohar Dashti, Shadi Ghadirian, Farzana Hossen, Phyu MON
Prix Pictet: Power

Museum Photographic Arts, San Diego (US)
1 Feb 2014 – 18 May 2014

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
Prix Pictet: Power

Aperture, New York (US)
5 Dec 2013 – 30 Jan 2014

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

BOLSHE SVETA / MORE LIGHT

Moscow Biennale, Moscow (RU)
20 Sep 2013 – 20 Oct 2013

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Victor Alimpiev, Said Atabekov, Richard Bell, Geta Bratescu, David Claerbout, Edith Dekyndt, SONG Dong, SONG Dong, Parastou Forouhar, Simryn Gill …
Prix Pictet: Power

Prix Pictet, Zürich (CH)
30 Aug 2013 – 30 Sep 2013

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
25 MASTERS of PHOTOGRAPHY

Pictures of Turkey

art place berlin, Berlin (DE)
13 Jun 2013 – 10 Aug 2013

with Jane Evelyn Atwood, Bruno Barbey, Samuel Bollendorff, Kathryn Cook, Claudine Doury, Carolyn Drake, Nikos Economopoulos, George Georgiou, Harry Gruyaert, Guillaume Herbaut, Ed Kashi, Massimo Mastrorillo …
Power / Prix Pictet

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL)
22 Mar 2013 – 16 Jun 2013

with Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
Power | Prix Pictet

Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin (IE)
22 Mar 2013 – 28 Apr 2013

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
Power - Prix Pictet

Galerie Vanessa Quang, Paris (FR)
16 Nov 2012 – 24 Nov 2012

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
Power - Prix Pictet

Bernheimer, München (DE)
25 Oct 2012 – 9 Nov 2012

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
PRIX PICTET 'POWER'

Saatchi Gallery, London (GB)
10 Oct 2012 – 28 Oct 2012

with Robert Adams, Daniel Beltra, Mohamed Bourouissa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Philippe Chancel, Edmund Clark, Carl de Keyzer, Luc Delahaye, Jacqueline Hassink, An-My Le, Joel Sternfeld, Guy Tillim
Time in Turkey

Museum of Photography, Thessaloníki (GR)
7 Sep 2012 – 22 Oct 2012

with Jane Evelyn Atwood, Bruno Barbey, Samuel Bollendorff, Kathryn Cook, Claudine Doury, Carolyn Drake, Nikos Economopoulos, George Georgiou, Harry Gruyaert, Guillaume Herbaut, Ed Kashi, Massimo Mastrorillo …
19th Noordlicht Photofestival 2012 - Terra Cognita

Noorderlicht, Groningen (NL)
2 Sep 2012 – 7 Oct 2012

with Yasser Aggour, Korrie Besems, Sasha Bezzubov, Justine Blau, Kim Boske, Alison Carey, Margherita Cesaretti, Christopher Colville, Misha de Ridder, Paul den Hollander, Dornith Doherty, David Farrell …
Dialectics of Stranger's vision : Iran

Gallery.Photographer.ru, Moscow (RU)
22 Feb 2012 – 21 Mar 2012

with Sergey Kaptilkin, Yuri Kozyrev, Sergey Maximishin, Caro Mirzoyan
11th International Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
12 Sep 2009 – 8 Nov 2009

with Erkan Oezgen, Jumana Emil Abboud, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Nevin Aladag, Doa Aly, Karen Andreassian, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Nilbar Gueres, Igor Grubic, Sharon Hayes, Vlatka Horvat …
les imagiques

rencontres photographiques en sud-gironde

Association Imagiques, Langon (FR)
16 Sep 2006 – 15 Oct 2006

with Jan Adriaans, Wout Berger, Anne-Lise Broyer, David Burnett, Jean-Luc Chapin, Nicolas Comment, Noor Damen, Bernard Plossu, Bas Princen, Hans van der Meer, Maarten Wetsema
Visa pour L'image 2006

Festival International du Photojournalisme

Visa pour l'Image - Festival Internation, Perpignan (FR)
2 Sep 2006 – 17 Sep 2006

with Eric Baudelaire, Philip Blenkinsop, Elliott Erwitt, Jan Grarup, Stanley Greene, Gerd Ludwig, Jean-Luc Manaud, Hiromi Nagakura, Bruno Stevens, Alvaro Ybarra Zavala
Spot on ... Utopia

Zum Dokumentarischen in der kaukasischen Fotografie

ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
9 Sep 2005 – 23 Oct 2005

with Irina Abjandadze, Rashad Alekberov, Albert Babelyan, Natela Grigalashvili, Larissa Katasanova, Gela Kuprashvili, Raoef Mamedov, Ruben Mangasaryan, Serj Navasardyan, Sevinj Pirizadeh, Nino Sekhniashvili
Spot on... Utopia

Zum Dokumentarischen in der kaukasischen Fotografie

ifa-Galerie, Berlin (DE)
10 Jun 2005 – 31 Jul 2005

with Irina Abjandadze, Rashad Alekberov, Albert Babelyan, Natela Grigalashvili, Larissa Katasanova, Gela Kuprashvili, Mekhti Mamedov, Ruben Mangasaryan, Serj Navasardyan, Sevinj Pirizadeh, Nino Sekhniashvili

Events

Chobi Mela Festival XI - RE

Chobi Mela Festival, Dhaka (BD)
16 Jan 2026 – 31 Jan 2026

with Indre Serpytyte, Mustafah Abdulaziz, Bani Abidi, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Hoda Afshar, Sumi Anjuman, Lisa Barnard, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Taysir Batniji, Myriam Boulos, Daniel Chatard, Ernest Cole …
11th Bursa Photofest

guest country: Azerbaijan

Bursa Photofest, Bursa (TR)
19 Nov 2021 – 28 Nov 2021

with Kemal Cengizkan, Jetmir Idrizi, Emil Khalilov, Sinan Kılıç, Gala Phenia, Ahmet Sel, Vanessa Winship, İbrahim Zaman
Photolux 2019

Mondi| Lucca

Photolux Festival, Lucca (IT)
16 Nov 2019 – 8 Dec 2019

with Abbas, Shahidul Alam, Antonio Biasiucci, Joana Choumali, Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Vincent Delbrouck, Stephane Duroy, Lucas Foglia, Joan Fontcuberta, Vincent Fournier, Alberto Giuliani, Udo Hesse …
Cortona On The Move

Cortona On The Move, Cortona (IT)
11 Jul 2019 – 29 Sep 2019

with Andrea Botto, Linda Dorigo, Hahn + Hartung, Nanna Heitmann, Yaakov Israel, Diana Markosian, Gideon Mendel, Simon Norfolk, Yan Wang Preston, Marco Rigamonti, Claudius Schulze, Lara Shipley …
7ème rencontres Photographiques en Sud Gironde

Centre Culturel des Carmes, Langon (FR)
16 Sep 2006 – 15 Oct 2006

with David Burnett, Maarten Wetsema