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IRAN & CO - Brugge / Blegium

Curatorial Projects :

2020
Arbitrary Lines | Group exhibition | Hinterland gallery | Vienna| Nov 2020 – Jan 2021
Dust to come | Online screening | Mosaic Rooms | London | August 8-9 2020
Motavali (Continuous) | Multimedia Performances | Feb 2020
Territorial Challenges | Video Program | Yarat Contemporary Center| Baku | Feb 2020

2019
Invisible Present Tense 3
| Yard Video Festival | Ag Gallery | Tehran | August 2019
Animation Walk (with Animation experiment collective) | Isfahan | Nov 2019
Body Politics | one day screening program (together with Mania Akbari) | Whitechapel Gallery | London | Sep 14, 2019

Video Sports | Limited Access 8 | Tirafkan Foundation | July 26 – August 2,2019 

Limited Access 8 (General director & member of Curatorial team)| Various locations in Tehran | July 26 – August 2,2019
Detour To Tehran | 6th Iranian Film Festival | Munich | 12 -14 July, 2019

Animation Walk (with Animation experiment collective) | Vienna | Feb 2019
Knockout Tournament, Conversations around a pingpong table | New Media Projects | Jan 2019

2018
Moving Dust
| Mordad Gallery | Bandar Abbas | Dec 2018
Moving Dust | Yadegaran Gallery | Kerman | Dec 2018
Detour to Tehran | Schikaneder Kino | Vienna | Nov 2018
Tehran Animation Walk (with Animation experiment collective) | Public Art Project | Tehran | Nov 2018
Moving Dust | Haan Gallery | Shiraz | Oct 2018
Dustopedia | Collective Research Project | Installation & Screening | New Media Projects | Spring – Summer 2018
Moving Dust | New Media Projects | Spring – Summer 2018
To Be Worn | Group show | New Media Projects | March 2018
Tanakora in Progress | New Media Projects | Winter 2018

2017
Remote-Homecoming 2
| New Media Projects | April 2017
Re-visit One, Early Iranian Videos from 90s | New Media Projects & Rooberoo Mansion | April 2017
Limited Access 7 | Festival for Moving Image, Sound & Performance | Various Locations – Tehran | 2017
Wall Newspaper 1: 79 Revolution (member of curatorial team) | New Media Society | Tehran | 2017
On paper Without name  | New Media Society | Tehran | 2016
Made-Up, Videos by Amirali Mohebbinejad | New Media Society | Tehran | 2016

2016
Parishani
, a video program on Mental Distress | New Media Society | Tehran | Nov 2016
All Other Passports | New Media Society | Tehran | Nov 2016
Wake-up Stories, Summer residency & … | Club Solo | Breda | August 2016
Dustopedia research project and online platform | Ongoing since 2015
All Other Passports | New Media Society Booth | Art Athina | Athens | May 2015
The Archipelago (video Program for Limited Access 6) | Tehran | Aaran Projects | Feb-March 2016
Winterreise | Exhibition by Studio 51| Gallerie Hinterland | Vienna | Jan 2016

2015
Bits and Pieces
| Aaran Gallery | Tehran | Nov 2015
Strangeness of banality and other Stories (co-curated by Zarvan Rouhbakhshan) | New Media Projects | Tehran | Oct 2015
Luminous Void: Semi Dark Room | Aaran Gallery | Sep 2015
Lightmeter | Group video exhibition | Iranian Artists’ Forum| Moamayez Gallery | Aug 2015
Strangeness of banality and other Stories (co-curated by Zarvan Rouhbakhshan) | SuperMarket 2015 | Stockholm | April 2015 |
Lightmeter | Video screening | Sammlung Lenikus | Vienna | Feb 2015
Videoteraphy; Session two : Faramoushi [to forget] | Art Gallery of Temple University Rome | Jan – Feb 2015

2014
Part of Me 3
| video Program on Performance | Aaran Gallery, Vista Gallery and Gallery No. 6 – Tehran
Wandering Islands 3 (co-curated with Tala Vahabzadeh)| video Program | Aaran Gallery, Vista Gallery and Gallery No. 6 – Tehran
Limited Access 5 | Festival for Video, Sound & Performance | Aaran Gallery & Darbast Platform – Tehran | Dec 2014
Parishani | Video Program at offOFF | Gent | Nov 2014
Gisha Bridge | Public Art Project (un-realized) | Tehran | April 2014
Breath from a Warm Locale (co-curated with Nima Bahremand) | Croxhapox | Gent | March – April 2014
Alltagskammer: Everyday Chamber of Miracles | Collaboration with artists in residence from Villa Kuriosum | Parkingallery Projects | Tehran | Feb 2014
The wandering Islands: LIMITED ACCESS FOUR | Aban Art Gallery | Mashhad | Feb 2014

2013
Haphazardly
| Group Photography Exhibition | Farmarzi Gallery | Tehran | Dec 2013
Live program | 4th Sanandaj Contemporary Festival | Sanandaj | Nov 2013
Invisible Present Tense | 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival | Beijing | Aug- Sep  2013
Excuses: Exhibition, Workshop and Residency | Villa Kuriosum | Berlin | June – July 2013
Invisible Present Tense | 36th Göteborg International Film Festival | Göteborg | Feb 2013
Invisible Present Tense | 42nd International Film Festival Rotterdam | Rotterdam | Jan 2013
The wandering Islands: LIMITED ACCESS FOUR | Aaran Gallery | Tehran | Jan 2013
Second Part of me: LIMITED ACCESS FOUR | Aaran Gallery | Tehran | Jan 2013
Children’s program:  LIMITED ACCESS FOUR (Co-curated with Arash Khakpour) | Aaran Gallery | Tehran | Jan 2013

2012
Video Therapy: Session one Recovery
(Co-curated by Shahpour Pouyan) | Pratt Institute of Art | New York | Nov 2012
The Invisible Present | Ohio State University | Columbus | Oct 2012
New Constellations (Co-curated by Sanaz Mazinani) | UCLA | Los Angeles | Oct 2012
The Invisible Present | Artists’ Television Access | San Francisco | Oct 2012
The Invisible Present: video section of IRANIAN PULSE | SESC Villa Mariana | Sao Paulo | Sep- Dec 2012
It’s Normal (Co-curated by Friederike Berat) | Villa Kuriosum | Berlin | Aug- Sep 2012
Part of Me | Cité international des Arts | Paris | June- July 2012
THE INVISIBLE PRESENT video screening | CAMERA/ Stephen Bulger Gallery | Toronto| May 2012
Control Tower | Exhibtion/workshop/publication| Fravahr Gallery | Tehran | April 2012
On (photo) paper, Without Name | Parkingallery projects | Tehran | March 2012
The Elephant in the Dark | Devi Art Foundation | Gurgaon | India | Jan- May 2012

2011
Iran via Video Current
(co-curator)|Thomas Erben Gallery | New York | Dec 2011
Remote Homecoming/Chapter one: LIMITED ACCESS 3 | Mohsen Art Gallery |Tehran| March 2011
Remote Homecoming/Chapter one: LIMITED ACCESS 3 | Studio Strike | London | March 2011
The End of time for 2nd Kurdestan contemporary art exhibition ( co-curator) | Sanadaj | Summer 2011
The Invisible Present: video section of IRANIAN PULSE | Oi Futuro, Flamengo | Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | Sep – Oct 2011
Junction Box, 13 International Artists in Tehran | Mohsen Gallery/Atbin Gallery/Parkingallery Projects | Tehran | Aug 2011
Iran TVDinner Channel 1 (co- Curator) | IM International | New York | July 2011
Sarkhoshi: Being happy for no reason, Public Art Project (on pause) | Online & Various Venues in Tehran | 2011
Five Unusual Encounters, Talks & Presentations| Mohsen art Gallery | Feb 2011

2010
IRAN&Co The Archive: representation of Iranian contemporary arts beyond borders
( co-curated with Michel Dewilde & Azar Mahmoudian) | La Brugeoise | Brugge | Oct – Nov 2010 – Present
IRAN&Co The Exhibition: Eleven Emerging Artists, co-organized by Parkingallery & Cultuur Centrum | La Brugeoise | Brugge | Oct – Nov 2010
I’ll never be the same…Iranian videos from Tehran & elsewhere | Video Cube at Contemporary Istanbul | Istanbul | Nov 2010
Iran Etc. Screening program | PiST/// | Istanbul | Feb 2010

2009
1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran
(Co-curator & Initiator) | Traveling exhibition | Belgrade
LIMITED ACCESS II: International festival for Video, Sound & performance | Azad Gallery | Tehran

2008
1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran (Co-curator & Initiator)
| Traveling exhibition | Istanbul/Berlin
SIDEWAYS in Tehran as a part of 6(0) ways | Azad Gallery | Tehran | Oct 2008

2007
LIMITED ACCESS: Video, Sound & performance
| Azad Gallery | Tehran
Tehran – Berlin work in progress 2007: exchange workshops & talks (co-organizer) | Azad Art Gallery/ Reloading Images Temporary School | summer – fall 2007
Lost in No Space | Conscious in Coma project Guest-curator | Goethe Institut | Istanbul | Nov 2007

2006
Deeper Depression
, a multimedia project | Azad Art Gallery / Atbin Art Gallery / Tehran University Art Gallery / Zangar Gallery | Tehran | June 2006

2005
Transition
| Azad Art Gallery | Tehran | 2005

2004
Deep Depression
| Azad Art Gallery | Atbin Art Gallery | Tehran | March 2004