2003 - 2007
HEA Diplôme d’arts visuels
ECAL – école cantonale d’art de Lausanne
Professors: Francis Baudevin, Philippe Decrauzat, John Armleder, Julien Fronsacq and Stéphane Dafflon.
Studio Residency, Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council, Cape Town, South Africa, January-March 2011.

2011
"Resort", Kunsthaus Glarus.
"No More Ice Cream", Pro Helvetia Cape Town.

2010
“Between a Tree and a Plastic Chair”, Chert, Berlin.
“Wandering Works”, Claudia Groeflin Galerie, Zürich.
“Successes and Traumas”, Le Palais Bleu, Trogen (CH).

2009
NEO, Naphtaline, Lausanne.

2008
DOM-TOM, zwanzigquadrameter, Berlin

2011
"Vanessa Safavi - Blind Traveller", published by Kunsthaus Glarus and Chert on the occasion of the exhibitions: Vanessa Safavi "Resorts", Kunsthaus Glarus, August-October 2011 and "Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair", Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition at Chert, Berlin, September-October 2010.

2010
“Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair”, Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin, September 2010, article in November Magazine, Issue n. 2, November 2010.
“Between the Tree and a Plastic Chair”, Vanessa Safavi solo exhibition, Chert, Berlin, September 2010, review in Spike Magazine by Andreas Schlaegel, Oct. 2010.
“Drinnen & Draussen”, exhibition catalogue, published by Chert & Motto, Berlin July 2010.
“Vanessa Safavi – Collection Cahiers d’Artistes 2010”, published by Pro Helvetia, Fondation suisse pour la culture/Swiss Arts Council.

2007
Kunstbulletin – The West-Coast of the Lake
Kunstbulletin – DECORUM, invitation de Zorro & Bernardo

2006
Kunstbulletin – L’Atelier du coq a l’âne

Projects and publications

OBzine, Fanzine of contemporary art, limited edition, direction du fanzine OB#1 « ahahaha », 2009.
DK, self published fanzine, 2009.
Lauris Paulus pour Naphtaline, Lausanne, 2008.
This Year i’m 27, self published fanzine, 2007.
Stay Home it’s Better, self published fanzine, 2006.