Born in 1983,
Sari, Iran 2001-2006 B.A in Cinema, Art University of Tehran,
Iran
2004-2006 Studied the middle Persian Language (Pahlavi
Language), literature department of Tehran University and Neyshabur Persian
study foundation Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2009 Solo
exhibition, “Purdahs of Silence”, (From Confidence series #5) an
installation-performance, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran 2009 Group
exhibition, “No-Name” (From Confidence
series #4), “Khat-Keshi” project (Type through our dimensions), Curator: Pantea
Lachin, TYPO Berlin (21-23 May, 2009) and UDK
Designtransfer (28 May - 7 June,
2009), Berlin, Germany 2009 Group
exhibition, “Auto Portraits”,
Group Exhibition, Curator: Ali Ettehad, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran The 1st International
Roaming Biennial of Tehran, GALERIE WALLYWOODS , Berlin, Germany. The 1st International
Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Hafriyat
Karakoy - Istanbul, Turkey 2008
Group photography and painting exhibition, Molayeeyan Gallery, Babol,
Iran. 2007
Solo show, “Degeneration” (From Confidence series #1), a Video
animation, Dramatic department of Art University of Tehran and Persian language
department of Orientalogy University of Krakow, Poland. 2004
Solo show, “Look at the
white sky”, a video
installation, Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young
Adults, Tehran, Iran. - “An Introduction
on Cyber-space Discourse”, The Art Quarterly, winter 2009. - “An interview with Moghimnejad
& kurang beheshti”, Etemad newspaper, Jan-2008 - “Institution and aesthetic of the
photographic image”, Binab Art
Quarterly, 2008 - “Spiritual Art”, the Art
Quarterly, No.73, autumn 2008 - “The contradiction”, a review on Vahid Sharifian`s
installation at Ave gallery, Etemad newspaper No.1521, 22-Oct-2007 - “An interview with Amirali
Gahsemi”, Etemad newspaper,
No.15254, 2-Dec-2007 - “Commonplace of romanticism”, a review on Mani Nilchiani`s
installation at Azad gallery, Etemad newspaper, No.1492, 16-Sep-2007 Translation of
“Dorothea Lange Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California” from the book“Photo
Icons” Behind the pictures Volume2, The story, Hans-Michael Koetzle,
Taschen, 2002, Profession: Artist Art Quarterly Magazine, Vol.4, No.21, Summer
2007 -“Palasht exotics”, a review on an installation and music
performance (Exopalasht) at Azad gallery, Etemad, newspaper, No.1536, 11-Nov-
2007 - “Black & white Never-land”,
a critical essay on Michel Kena, Tandis magazine, No.109, 2007 - “Is that a video?”, a review on Faride Shahsavarani`s
video at Nikzad gallery, Etemad newspaper, No.1455, 31-Jul- 2007 - “War Shock”, a review on Bill West`s photos, Tandis
magazine, No.107, 2007 - “Dramatic photography”, an article on Gregory Crewdson`s
works, Tandis magazine, No.101, 2007 - “Prince`s cowboys”, an article on Richard Prince’s works,
Tandis magazine, No.97, 2007 - “down to the
rabbit hole”, a critical essay
on Wonder by Anna Gaskall, Tandis magazine, 2007 - “Mixture of form and expression in
-End Times-”, a critical essay
on Jill Greenberg`s works, Tandis magazine, No.91, 2007 - “Over-time self-portraits”, an essay on Susan Derges photos,
Tandis magazine, No.93, 2007 - “From Icon to Abstraction”, a critical review on Karim Kharbavie`s
work at 4th biennial of Islamic world painting (Tehran), Saye-e Khial, 2006 - “Video games as art work”, The Art Quarterly (Honar), No.69,
autumn 2006 - “Simulation of privacy”, a
critical essay on Jan Smaga & Aneta Grzeszykowska, Tandis magazine, No.95,
2006 - “Aroon Rose”, a review on Rose`s Pine-hole pictures,
Tandis magazine, No.74, 2006 - “Images of Manipulated reality”, a critical essay on Thomes Demand`s
art works, Tandis magazine, No.82, 2006 - “Jeff Wall”, a critical assay on wall`s stage
photos, Tandis magazine, No.79, 2006 “Mario Giacomelli”, a review on
Giacomelli's photographic life, Tandis magazine, No.86, 2006 -“Aporia of Object”, a review on Carlo Benvenuto`s stage
photographs, Tandis magazine, No.81, 2006 - “James Nachtwey”, a review on ‘war photographer’ a
documentary film about Nachtwey projects, Tandis magazine, No.83, 2006 - “Vertical New York”, a review on Horst Hamann`s book
‘Vertical New York’, Tandis magazine, No.84, 2006 - “Hand as a subject”, a critical essay on Shirin Neshat`s
works, Tandis magazine, No.85, 2006 - “painter of day-dream”, an essay on Storm Thorgerson`s works,
Tandis magazine, No.92, 2006 - “Form for expression”, an essay on Phil Borges`s photos,
Tandis magazine, No.88, 2006 - “(Crowd) on Homa gallery”, a review on Khosravi`s exhibition,
Ayande-no newspaper, 2006 - “Man, sleep”, a review on Morshed-lu`s exhibition,
Ayande-no newspaper, 2006. - “History of Advertising
Photography” in 8 vol.,
Science of Advertizing magazine, 2006 -“The New wave of
Performance Art”, Khaak gallery, June 2007, Tehran, Iran - An interview with the artist by Farhang radio (about “Auto-portraits II”), 1.Jully.2010 - An interview with the artist by ZDF
about "The Islamic World's Painting biannual", Dec. 2006 - An interview with the artist by Arte
about the artist's video installation "Look at the white sky", Jan.
2004 - An interview with the artist by IRIB4
T.V, about the video installation "Look at the white sky",
Jan. 2004 -Translation (Editor) of the book “Virtual
Art”, Profession: writer, under progress. Artists: Samira Eskandarfar, Nima Esmailpour, Nikoo
Tarkhani, Jinoos Taghizadeh, Farid Jafari
Samarghandi, Melodi Hoseynzadeh, Ahmad Zolfagharian, Behrouz Rae,Behrang Samadzadegan,Hamed Sahihi, Samira
Alikhandzadeh, Amirali Ghasemi, Babak Kazemi, Sohrab M. Kashani, Behnam Kamrani, Katayoun Karami,Barbad Golshiri and music
by Kaveh Kateb “A review on The
other exhibition”, Aftab Yazd ,
Jan. 10, 2010 “About the opening of The other”, Arman daily, jan. 10, 2010 “About the opening of Mohsen gallery”, Ebtekar, jan. 10, 2010 “Self-portrait as a document of one society in flux; ‘Unselfish Auto-Portraits’ exhibits work of 20 young Iranian
artists” by Bavand Behpour, a review on“Auto
portraits” curated by Ali Ettehad, The Daily Star, May 4, 2009 “What’s in the art galleries”, About khat-keshi, Tehran Times, July 4, 2008 +98(919)
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Ali Ettehad
Selected works and
exhibitions
2011 Group exhibition “13x18-Portraits” curated by
Iman Safaei, Etemad Gallery, Tehran
2010
“Claret” audio-visual performance in cooperation with Arash
Salehi and Amirbahador Ashrafzadeh, Saroseda project, Aun
Gallery, Tehran
2010 Abu Dhabi Art Fair, represented by Silk Road Gallery, Abu Dhabi, Emirate
2010 A group exhibition “Iran & Co.” curated by Amirali Ghasemi, a Performance “Abjuration” (from confidence
series #9), Bruges, Belgium
2010 Group exhibition, “Recent Self-portraits”, curated by Samaneh
Roghani,
2010 Group exhibition, “Obligatory military service”, curated by Farid
Jafari Samarghandi, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 Group exhibition, “Khooniz Sea” (confidence series #6) a video and “improvised
for Degeneration”, a music track,
Limited Access II, curator: Amirali Ghasemi, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2010 Solo exhibition,
“In which empty space are you standing”
(confidence series #7), digital images printed on metalized paper, Silk Road
Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2009 Group exhibition, “Khooniz
Sea” (confidence series #6) a video and “improvised
for Degeneration”, a music track,
Limited Access II, curator: Amirali Ghasemi, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Group exhibition, Tree generations – 90
selected artists representing 3 generations of contemporary art, Art Center,
Tehran, Iran
2009 Group exhibition, “The
Magic Shadow-show”, music performance
and video installation, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2009 Group exhibition, “Public
Advertisement” and
“The Clock-life”, HUMAN EMOTION
PROJECT, Guildford Lane Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.
2008 Group exhibition, “Public
Advertisement”, a video animation
exhibited on Urban Jealousy,
2009 Group exhibition, “The Public Advertisement” a video and "After the End of Art" a photo, The
1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Galerija Dvorište Elektrika and Belgrade, Serbia.
2008 Group exhibition, “No-Name” (From Confidence series #4), “Khat-Keshi”
project (Type through our dimensions),
Curator: Pantea Lachin, Azad gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2008 Group exhibition, “Oblivion”
(From Confidence series #3), environment
typography, Khatir-kuh, Cave of Khorshid, Mazandaran, Iran.
2008 Group exhibition, “Public
Advertisement”, a video animation
exhibited on Urban Jealousy,
2008
“fading Mithr” (From Confidence series #2), an environment work, Dez lake,
Pamenar, Khuzestan, Iran.
Selected
publications
from
2004 collaborating with Ayandeno, Etemad, Danesh Tablighat, khial, Art
quarterly, Herfe Honarmand, Tandis, binab, Art tomorrow, The Daily star,
Contemporary Practices and … as translator, critic and writer
- “An art from the far edge of
illness”
a review on Fereydoun Ave’s show, The daily Star, May 5, 2011
- “Baharestan: Longing to return, but to
where?” a critical review on Mehdi Farhadian’s
exhibition, The daily Star, Mar. 14, 2011
- “The wounds are deadly” a critical review on Nikoo Tarkhani’s
exhibition, The daily Star, Feb. 14, 2011
- “Tehran galleries in the past season”, Art Tomorrow
(contemporary art magazine), No.3, winter 2011
- “The story of one who fled” a review on Rana Farnoud’s paintings,
Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.3, winter 2011
- “Touring Iran on bank notes” a review on Behnam Kamrani’s
works, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.3,
winter 2011
- “The last hills of east” review on Karim Nasr’s painting
exhibition, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.3, winter 2011
-“Lexical Transposition” on the photographic works of Alireza Fani, Contemporary
practices (visual arts the Middle East), Vol. VII, 2010
-“The rapeutic effect and experimental interaction:Neda Razavipour”, a
critical article about Neda Razavipour’s works, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art
magazine), No.2, summer 2010
- “Flowers in home”, a review on Behrouz
Rai’s last exhibition, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.2,
summer 2010
- “We live in a paradoxical society”
”, a review on Ramyar Manoochehrzadeh and Ali Najian’s exhibition at silk Road
gallery, ”, Art Tomorrow
(contemporary art magazine), No.2, summer 2010.
- “Recognizable”, a review on 13 contemporary artist’s works at Feravahr
gallery, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.2, summer 2010.
- “Aklil al-moluk”,a review on an exhibition by Farshid Monfared and Pooya
Abbasian at Mohsen Gallery, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.1,
spring 2010.
- “Verisimilitudes”, a review on Mehdi Moghimnejad’s solo exhibition at
No.6 Gallery, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.1, spring
2010.
- “The post-apocalyptic landscapes”, a review onGhasem Mohammadi’s
solo exhibition at Mah Art Gallery, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art
magazine), No. +1, spring 2010
-“Clawns can’t have babies”, A review on Samira Eskandarfar’s solo
exhibition at Azad gallery, Art
Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.+1, Spring 2010.
- “My favorite photos”, Profession: Artist Art Quarterly Magazine, Vol.6, No.32, spring 2010.
- Translation of “Art as an idea” from “conceptual art and the politics
of publicity” by Alexander Alberto (MIT press 2003), the art quarterly,
No.80 Summer 2009.
- “Selling modernity through advertising: Technological progress and its
reflections on the early 20th Century American advertising”, Seval
DÜLGEROĞLU Yavuz, from Mustafa Kemal University Faculty of Fine Arts, TURKEY,
December 2005, Profession: Artist Art Quarterly Magazine, Vol.4, No.26,
autumn-2008
- “To look as an audience”, a critical essay on Mehran Mohajer's photos
at Silk Road gallery, Etemad newspaper, 28-Dec-2008
- “Searching for Self”, a critical essay on Ghazaleh Hedayat's photos at
Silk Road gallery, Ettemad newspaper, 28-Oct-2008
- “Like a lunatics”, a critical essay on Vahid Chamani's paintings at Nar
gallery, Etemad newspaper, 20-Nov-2008
- “Human motifs”, a review on Sadegh Tirafkan's photos at Asar gallery,
Ettemad newspaper, 13-Nov.-2008
- “Institutions & Aesthetics of Photographic Image”, Binab Cultural
& Artistic bimonthly (Special to Photography), Islamic Culture & Art
Research Institute, No.21th, August-September, 2008
- “Silent puppets”, a review on ‘Kabuki Players’ by Hiroshi Watanabe,
Tandis magazine, No.119, 2008
- “Chimères of reality”, an article on Eva Lauterlein`s works, Tandis
magazine, 2008
- “Internet Art”, the Art Quarterly,
No.72, summer 2007
- “Resurrection of a post-modern artist”, a review on Andrzej Dragan`s
self-portrait, Tandis magazine, No.97, 2007
Speeches
- “About
Confidence series”, Silk Road gallery, Feb. 2010, Tehran, Iran
- “The other’s project”, Mohsen Art Gallery, Jan. 2010, Tehran, Iran
- “Happening Art and the communication theory”, Ghodsie University, May
2007, Sari, Iran
- “Arab's contemporary poem”, Art
University of Tehran, Dec-2002, Tehran, Iran
Selected interviews
- An interview with the artist by Etemaad
daily (about the artist’s solo exhibition
“In which empty space are standing”), 24 Feb. 2010
Books
- An interview
with Katrin Korfmann by Ali Ettehad, The book: Sideways (Reflection of
changing contexts in art), ISBN: 978-90-76936-24-6
- Co-translator of the book “DaDa's manifestos”,
Cheshme Press, under publication
- “Portraits”, a critical review, “The Abel: Maziar Pahlevan`s
portraits”, Published by Nazar, Tehran, 2007
Curatorial projects
upcoming
project: 2012 “The
experience of womanhood”, four documentary film about four women artists
and a group show, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 “There is
a charge, for the eyeing of my scars”, video and paintings by Nikoo
Tarkhani, Silk Road Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 “Auto portraits II”
(Iranian contemporary self-portraits on canvas),
Silk Road Gallery and Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
Artists: Shima Esfandiyari, Reza
Hedayat , Farid Jahangir, Ramtin Jeyhoun, Meghdad Lorpoor, Shohreh Mehran,
Bahman Mohammadi, Ghasem Mohammadi, Mehrdad Mohebali, Ahmad Morshedloo, Nazar Mousavinia, Dana Nehdaran, Afra
Nobahar, Farokh Nooroney, Shadi Noyani, Morteza Pourhoseini, Leyli Rashidi,
Milad Rostami, Babak Roshani Nejad, Iman Safaie, Peyman Shafiee Zadeh, Ali
Shayeste, Rasool Soltani, Bahar Taheri, Nikoo Tarkhani, Yaser Yaghoub Zadeh,
Adel Yonesi, Hossein-Ali Zabehi, Ojan Zargarbashi
2010 “The other”,
Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
To find more information visit: http://theotherexhibition.blogspot.com/
2009 “Auto portraits I” (Iranian
contemporary photo-based self-portraits),
Artists: Khosrow Hasanzadeh,
Afshan Ketabchi, Amirali Ghasemi, Behnoosh Sharifi, Behrang Samadzadegan,
Behrouz Rae, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Ali Ettehad, Nikoo Tarkhani, Katayoon
Dehchamani, Mehran Mohajer, Rozita Sharafjahan, Sadegh Tirafkan, Vahid
Sharifian, Reza Abedini, Katayoun Karami, Shahpour Pooyan, Samira Alikhanzadeh,
Parastoo Forouhar and Music by Kaveh Kateb
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
To find more information visit: http://www.auto-portraits.blogspot.com/
Reviews and essays on Ali Ettehad’s exhibitions and projects
“on Confidence” by Kiarash Alimi,
Contemporary practices (visual arts the Middle East), Vol. VIII, 2011
“on Auto Portraits II” by Mitra Hoviat-talab, Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.+2, summer 2010
“About Auto-portraits II”, Hamshahri daily, 27 may 2010.
“About the opening of The other”, Roozan, Jan. 10, 2010
“Art gallery
established for photography in Tehran”, About the opening of “The other”,
Tehran Times, jan. 10, 2010
“The opening of Mohsen Art Gallery”, Karokargar daily, jan.
10, 2010
“The opening of The other”, Zaman daily, jan. 10, 2010
“The opening of Mohsen Art Gallery”, Emtiaz daily, jan. 10, 2010
“About the opening of The other”, Afarinesh, jan. 10, 2010
“18 artists in a show”, Bahar daily, jan. 10, 2010
“Have to be seen” about The other project, by Maryam Rezaie, Etemaad,
jan. 11, 2010
“About the other”, Shaparak daily, jan. 11, 2010
“The faceless art and artist; a glance at Ali Ettehad’s recent
exhibition at Silk Road Gallery” by Alireza Amirhajebi, Bahar daily,
Feb. 18, 2010
“An interview with Ali Ettehad about the 7th part of Confidence
series” by Parviz Barati, Etemad, Feb. 24, 2010
“Strangers behind the looking glass; The
inaugural exhibition at Tehran’s Mohsen art gallery deals with ‘being’ and
‘otherness’ ” by Mehdi Moghimnejad, The Daily
Star, March 18, 2010
“Self-analyses at the presents of the other” a critical review onAli
Ettehad’s curatorial project “The other”, by Mohammad.B Ziaie,
Art Tomorrow (contemporary art magazine), No.+1, Spring 2010.
“Resisting failure, in the accent of Becket” by Bavand Behpour, a review
onthe 5th part of confidence series, The Daily Star, Sep. 5,
2009
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