Maryam Katan is a Berlin/Tehran-based artist working with animation, film, and audiovisual installations. She holds an MFA in Animation Directing from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran. Her practice involves displacing and repositioning meanings outside their original discourses, exploring alternative cognitive models, and decolonizing conventional knowledge systems.

Maryam was a former editor of the experimental animation department for Iran’s only specialized animation quarterly, Cinema Animation (DEFC), and has been a board member of the “Animation; Experiment” collective since 2018.

Recently, she has been exploring animation as an approach, using motion intervention and reanimation as acts of resistance.