June 13, 2011 - June 26, 2011

Azadeh Akhlaghi, Navid Azimi, Majid Koorang Beheshti, Taha Heydari, Khosro Khosravi, Azadeh Madani, Saba Masoumian, Kourosh Salehi, Atefe Samaei and Rozita Sharafjahan

Breakfast in Tehran will be a chance to see a selection of drawings, collage, photography, video and printmaking from a group of new and established Iranian artists living in Iran and exhibiting in London together for the first time. The exhibition considers the representation of women in contemporary Iranian art, and demonstrates how accepted images and interpretations of femininity are being subverted.

Since the Islamic Revolution, images of turbaned mullahs, ayatollahs and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad present Iran as an extreme patriarchy whose narratives are shaped and written solely by religious men. We occasionally hear stories in the media of a few prominent Iranian women like lawyer Shirin Ebadi, writer Marjane Satrapi, or the artist Shirin Neshat, but of the millions of women who live in Iran we hear very little. What does this silence hide about the lives of this quietened mass of humanity?

Everywhere in Iran women are active and visible, apparent and hidden. Perhaps they are walking or driving along the teeming city streets or quiet country lanes, looking out of the window of a high-rise apartment at the street below, or bargaining in a shop, or petitioning in the courts, or just sitting down to smoke a cigarette after breakfast in their homes. Breakfast in Tehran presents work by male and female Iranian artists, each depicting the predicament of women in contemporary Iran.

These depictions aim neither to play to the standard ‘western’ idea of them as totally oppressed, nor claim that they are more liberated than we realise. Instead the exhibition acknowledges their unique situation where centuries of strictly defined roles, combined with decades of the Islamic Republic operating on a globalised stage have resulted in a strangely paradoxical environment. Women are active in all levels of society and the traditional roles of ‘wife’ and ‘mother’ are only a part of the lives of many women. The Iranian feminist movement has been politically and socially engaged for some years, and visual artists are now bringing this activism into the cultural arena and changing and subverting the traditional representation of women in Iran

1. Last painting exhibition : Azad Art Gallery

2.  22 DEC 2010- 5 JAN 2011

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4. www.azadartgallery.com

1. IRANÖsterr. Post AG Info.Mail Entgelt bezahlt contemporary iranian videoartists and photographers

2. Mehraneh Atachi · Aisan Fekri-Afschar · Shadi Ghadirian

3. Ramin Haerizadeh · Savis Homayouni · Peyman

4. Hooshmandzadeh · Neda Hoseinyar · Behnam Kamrani

5. Simin Keramati · Afshan Ketabchi · Khosro Khosravi

6. Meysam Mahfoz · Saleh Rozati · Mehdi Sadr · Behrang

7. Samadzadegan · Hessam Samavatian · Roszita Sharafjahan

8. Jinoos Taghizadeh · Shahriar Tavakoli · Nasser Teymourpour

9. Te x t : Elfriede Jelinek

10. Ausstellungszentrum der Universität für angewandte Kunst

11. Heiligenkreuzerhof, 1010 Wien

12. Dienstag, 9. Nov. 2010, 19.00 Uhr

13. Eröffnung: Dr. Gerald Bast, Rektor der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien

14. Unter dem Motto preview of the past unternimmt die Ausstellung den Versuch, bestimmte Aspekte und Facetten

15. des künstlerischen Schaffens einer aufbruchswilligen jungen Avantgarde – wie sie in Teheran und auch in Wien existiert –

16. aufzuzeigen. Präsentiert werden ausgewählte Exponate von acht iranischen VideokünstlerInnen und zehn FotografInnen,

17. die sowohl im Iran als auch in Österreich leben und arbeiten. Diese Werke gestatten einen sehr persönlichen Einblick in

18. kursierende Emotionen und Stimmungen, die von den Künstlern und Künstlerinnen in subtiler, vielschichtiger und auch

19. sarkastisch-ironisierender Manier verarbeitet wurden.

20. Konzept und Umsetzung: Sini Coreth, Julia Allertsdorfer, Barbara Putz-Plecko in Zusammenarbeit mit den KünstlerInnen.

21. Ausstellung: 10. Nov. bis 10. Dez. 2010, Mo. bis Fr. 14 – 18.00, Sa. 10 – 14 Uhr

22. Tel.: 01 / 711 33-2161, www.dieangewandte.at

Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 15-17th October 2009
Admission Free
Opening times 10am – 8pm

http://www.payvand.com/news/09/aug/1241.html

Rudi Benetik/ Gabriela Medverova/ Autriche/

Reka Nemera/ Nike Nagy/ Hongrie/

Nasser Azizi/ Shahpari Behzadi/ Pooneh Jafari/ Khosro Khosravi/Ahmad Vakili/ Iran...

     Exhibition -  Mah Art Gallery -  April  2008             http://www.mahartgallery.com/

  Art Gallery of The College of New Jersey presents “Parable of the Garden” focusing on
 cultural legacy of former Persia  Opening Reception Wednesday, February 20

The show features the works of ten artists or collaborative teams hailing from Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.

Featured Artists:

 Vyacheslav Akhunov
Muratbek Djoumaliev & Gulnara Kasmalieva
Shahram Entekhabi
Simin Keramati
Khosro Khosravi
Erbossyn Meldibekov
Almagul Menlibayeva
Rahraw Omarzad/Center for Contemporary Art Afghanistan
Karan Reshad/Kolah Studio
Alexander Ugay

http://www.tcnj.edu/~pa/news/2008/parableofthegarden.htm

At the Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern ,13 may 2007

In this work, I look into the educational structure of 10-11 years old girls in Iran. The work carefully explores the effect of the governing patterns of education on the children at that vulnerable age, when their childish characteristics mingle with adolescence. While the video directly addresses religious and pedagogical issues, deep inside it deals with broader cultural contradictions; the contradiction between literature and politics, the contradiction between life and death. The paradoxical dialogues read by schoolgirls are chosen from the fifth grade reading book (Farsi). We observe a blurred image, gradually transforming to sharpen in on a close up frame of a girl's school uniform and hijab (headscarf), the clothing that must be worn by all women in Iran. In this video, I am trying to show the contradictions existing in a simple cultural process.

For further information about it please visit:   http:www.infocusdialogue.com

     Analyzing While Waiting (For Time To Pass)

Susann Wintsch – Swedish surveyor on art – has directed and produced an electronic magazine concerned with contemporary and emerging art in Tehran which concentrates predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting.

TREIBSAND [VOLUME 01] «Analyzing while Waiting (For Time To Pass)» sheds light on contemporary and emerging art in Tehran, concentrating predominantly on an analytical stance in times of waiting. Waiting for the future may be expressed as yearning or depression, or it may appear as a long, protracted period in which past and present are analyzed in depth from a personal and post-colonialist viewpoint. The concept has been drawn up in close collaboration with Parastou Forouhar (Frankfurt am Main/Tehran).
Artists
Iman Afsarian, Nazgol Ansarinia, Mehraneh Atashi, Mahmoud Bakhshi-Moakhar, Shahrzad Darafsheh, Samira Eskandarfar, Farhad Fozouni, Nina Ghaffari, Amirali Ghasemi, Barbad Golshiri, Arash Hanaei, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Elahe Heidari, Behnam Kamrani, Simin Keramati, Khosro Khosravi/Farid Jafari, Mehran Mohajer, Ahmad Morshedlou, Neda Razavipour /Shahab Fotouhi, Hamed Sahihi, Rozita Sharaf Jahan, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Sadegh Tirafkan
Statements
Iman Afsarian, artist and editor; Haleh Anvari, artist and journalist; Khosrow Hassanzadeh, artist; Sohrab Mahdavi, editor of TehranAvenue.com; Ruyin Pakbaz, art and art history professor; Alireza Sami Azar, curator; Soghra Zare Anaghezi, artist
Order
ISSN 1662-0577, 143 Min, PAL, 4:3, SFr. 60.–/Euro 40.–/USD 40

More on  http://www.treibsand.ch/index.php?id=56

Exhibition,   Homa Art Gallery   8 -18December 2006   

www.homaartgallery.com

 A Group Exhibition in Canada

Wondering Masters

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

 

"White Mountain Academy of the Arts invites you to the first exhibition of the Wondering Masters series. Sam Shahsahabi curates this series of exhibitions in collaboration with international and national artists. The first exhibition is dedicated to Khosro Khosravi, Rosita Sharaf-Jahan, Fereydoon Omidi, Shahab Fotouhi, Neda Razavi, and Amirali Ghasemi six Iranian artists from Iran exhibiting in the multimedia area. The out comes are true masterpieces in the form of video arts and story telling projections which are committed to establishing a strong bond between the storyteller and the viewer."

Feb 3rd - Feb. 17th    

White Mountain Academy of the Arts

99 Spine Road, Elliot Lake, Ontario

For more information on Wondering Masters please contact:
Sam Shahsahabi
Faculty of Visual Arts, Painting
Curator/Director The James K. Bartleman Art Gallery WMAA
99 Spine Rd, Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada P5A 3S9
Phone: 705 848-4347 Ext. 213 Fax: 705 848-0588

sshahsahabi@whitemountainacademy.edu

My Exhibition in Paris - Cité Internationationale des Arts - July 2005                

Paintings and video art were presented simultaneously in this exhibition.
Paintings were expressed in a new style. The Human Shapes were suspending in abstraction background. Works presented the concept of the ancients.
Frames of the presented film, Dizzy, were also shown in the exhibition.

http://www.citedesartsparis.net/

Video ZOOM - Iranian Video Artist - Rome - December 2004

Creator : Hamid Reza Severi & Babak Tavassoli, Tehran Museum of              Contemporary Art,& Mary Angela Schroth, Sala 1, Rome.
In the catalogue of exhibition has been mentioned that "the vacant port in the shore of life, in KHOSRO KHOSRAVI 's The Port (2004), describes    the border between the sea horizon and us, a port to observe things; a small hatch for us to glance through the life beyond. It is a metaphor on our history and time where borders Persia from the Northerners; and modern  Iranians are their successors. As in a painting, the port depicts our knowledge from time and positions, race and tribes, us and a vague future, presented with the kid, his dog, his return, the sea waves, his running into people in different social classes, and the epic poetry of Ferdowsi: all  are motifs of our spontaneous perceptions"    http://www.exibart.com/         

Beams of Blue - Iranian Video Art - Apeejay Media Gallery - Delhi India - October 2004

I participated in the exhibition with a video of mine, Port ,describes the border between  the sea horizon and us, a port to observe things ; a small hatch for us to glance through the life beyond. It is a metaphor on our history and time where borders Persia from the Northerners; and modern Iranians are their successors. As in a painting, the port depicts our knowledge from time and position, race and tribes, us and the epic poetry of Ferdowsi : all are motifs of our spontaneous perceptions.   www.apeejaymediagallery.com

 Home Country Exhibitions

My Last Exhibition in Tehran - Iranian Artists Forum - Momayes Gallery - May 2005

In this exhibition I presented some paintings and the video "YOU & ME". Tthe composition of works of this exhibition were simple and limited but at the same time there were signs of history and tradition on them. The background of the paintings had a single solid color with a soft texture and small suspending shapes in a low relief.

 A group exhibition of an old master painter of Iran" SIYAH GHALAM"

23 December - 3 January 2005 in Azad Art Gallery and another four gallery in Tehran. Group 30+ worked inspired by middle ages master of Iran "SIYAH GHALAM". People who has worked together in the Azad Art Gallery are: Khosro Khosravi, Rozita Sharafjahan, Ellahe Moghadammi and Rasoul Soltani. The work was drawing on a big paper all together.