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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
not in, of, along, or relating to a line January 20, 2021NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
20 January - 10 July 2021
In this exhibition, nine artists and art collectives employ technology for self-expression and self-fashioning. In making visible both the restrictions and the freedoms of digital culture, they explore how identities and histories are created, transformed, or invented. The artists appropriate technologies to narrate, alter, augment, or invent their identities and histories.The visitor is invited to travel a branching, non-linear, virtual path through works by artists who explore the transformation of individual identity that digital tools and internet connectivity have co-produced in our lives.
The show will include the trio’s film From March to April...2020 made during lockdown as a response to the coronavirus crisis.
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Artissima Unplugged: Frenetic Standstill
Digital catalogue November 11, 2020ARTISSIMA UNPLUGGED
Frenetic Standstill
Digital catalogue
5 November - 9 December, 2020
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce participation in the digital initiatives of Artissima Unplugged with a selection of works by Hassan Sharif, the collective of Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Hoda Tawakol, and Raed Yassin.
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, the overarching theme, Frenetic Standstill, prompts reflection on the concept of acceleration as opposed to inertia, and speaks to the increasing urgency to change our paradigms in response to present crises. -
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I Put A Spell On You October 8, 2020SCAD Museum, Savannah
8 October 2020 – 31 January 2021
The exhibition on artists collaborations ‘I Put a Spell on You’ at the SCAD Art Museum in Georgia, Savannah. Organized by guest curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath who are themselves a collaborative curatorial duo. The show presents 11 distinct models of collective practice, highlighting the complex, co-authored process of artistic production. Featuring works by the Dubai based collective Ramin, Rokni Haerrizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian..
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Art Basel: Online Viewing Rooms September 21, 2020Art Basel: Online Viewing Rooms
VIP Viewing Access: 23-24 September
Public Access: 25-26 September
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Dubai-based collective Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian featuring an on-going series of works on paper entitled Where To? Wherever it Chances. Probing a world rocked by upheaval and instability, the artists appropriate images from current media streams, destabilising them to uncanny ends.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT August 25, 20203 September - 13 December
Online opening: 2 September, 7PM CEST
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is thrilled to announce the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Dubai-based collective of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt entitled Either he's dead or my watch has stopped. Groucho Marx (while getting the patient's pulse), borrowing from the film classic A Day at the Races (1937) by the Marx Brothers.
Curated by Dr. Martina Weinhart, the expansive installation debuts a monumental floor painting created especially for the SCHIRN – a dense web of detailed narratives and references supplemented by sculptures and video works, such as We Are the Eighth of a Kind (2014), in collaboration with the artist and musician Lonnie Holley, From Sea to Dawn (2016), and the new production If I Had Two Paths I Would Choose the Third(2020). The base and center of the trio’s artistic work is their house in Dubai. In the process of living and working together, they create artworks and exhibitions frequently in an exchange with friends and other artists. In line with this principle, the exhibition also includes two textile sculptures by Franco-Egyptian artist Hoda Tawakol.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
From March to April... 2020 May 4, 2020We're happy to share Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian’s new video From March to April... 2020 (available on Youtube) along with some of artists' notes below:
"The video is a record of a period of time, working and living in quarantine (which we have always been privileged to do) that is made casually with our phones on our daily activities/routines. It borrows verses from Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and references Iranian poet and film director Forough Farrokhzad’s documentary entitled The House Is Black.
The video is trying to show the transient moments of life while the world is on pause and in solidarity over covid-19.
The video is an invitation to be vigilant. Our aim is to show time different from duration - duration is finite but time is like a third path, a product of the imagination.”For the full video, click here
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Art Dubai
March 25, 2020Unit 17, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai
24 - 28 March 2020
As we comply with the orders of social distancing in public spaces, we call upon the vastness of social media and the virtual sphere. In light of this, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to bring to you a selection of works displayed in our virtual booth on the Art Dubai 2020 Online Catalogue.
Here, you will be able to see a rich roster of works from our artists, including Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Manal AlDowayan, Hoda Tawakol, :mentalKLINIK, Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem, Haleh Redjaian and Latif Al Ani. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
22nd Biennale of Sydney March 14, 2020Campbelltown Arts Centre
Under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew
Until 8 June 2020
The Dubai-based artists are participating in the 22nd Biennale of Sydney (2020). The collective takes part in the Biennale’s exhibition NIRIN featured at Campbelltown Arts Centre under the artistic direction of Brook Andrew. The Biennale is artist- and First Nations-led, presenting an expansive exhibition of contemporary art that connects local communities to global networks.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else March 14, 202022nd Biennale of Sydney, Powerhouse Museum
Until 8 June 2020
As part of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney Entitled NIRIN, the collective collaborate on a new exhibition using a selection of artefact's from the Powerhouse Museum’s collection. Incorporating and disorganizing objects, the artists make a sweeping arc across themes of grief, the body and healing. The installation also includes video work by Javad Azimi and Hamid Hosseini.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Constructions of Truths February 3, 2020Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manilla
6 February – 12 April 2020
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian participate inConstructions of Truths. The exhibition asks us to reflect on the truths of images that populate our everyday lives and how these affect how we view the world. Artists included in the show present work using the projected image as a metaphor for how images are projected on us as viewers and how artists, through formal, aesthetic and narrative spaces, question these constructions.
Constructions of Truths is presented by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), Manila in partnership with the Han Nefkens Foundation and in collaboration with Edouard Malingue Gallery, Kurimanzutto, The Ruya Foundation and Silverlens.
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ARTISSIMA
October 7, 2019Booth: Light Blue, 12
Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin
1 - 3 November 2019
Preview: 30 October 2019
For Artissima 2019, we will present a selection of artists from the gallery programme including Hassan Sharif, Hoda Tawakol, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
RE: Orient - The Invention of the Muslim Other October 7, 2019GRASSI Museum Leipzig, Germany
16 October 2019 - 19 January 2020
Re:Orient - The Invention of the Muslim Other aims to reorient visitors towards what is all too often left unseen when they look at "the others. This exhibition traces the historical models and current effects of anti-Muslim racism, whilst also aiming to answer questions in a variety of ways and provide visitors with answers as well as pose further questions on this subject. To this end, the museum creates a space for renewed and open dialogue.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Journey of a Thousand Miles September 9, 2019Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito, Ecuador
Curated by Hilde Teerlinck and Eduardo Carrera R.
Until 2 February 2020
The artists in this exhibition build a line of thinking that addresses issues related to concepts of migration, violence, memory, environment and technology. Journey of a Thousand Miles further probes complex ways in which notions about identity, subjectivity, and territory function as instruments for cross-cultural histories and narratives. Included within the exhibition at Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito are a curated selection of 13 video installations that are part of the Commissions and Awards Program of the Han Nefkens Foundation.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
ON THE FRINGES OF IDENTITY July 9, 2019Museo Storico dell Città di Lecce (MUST)
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (MAC)
Curated by Giacomo Zaza
MUST | Until 8 September 2019
MAC | 28 September - 24 November 2019
On the Fringes of Identity is an exhibition exploring and illustrating the degree to which contemporary artistic research is involved in the cultural and social debate regarding the human condition in a globalised world. What emerges from this selection of video narratives is the urgent need for a human focus in the exploration of processes affecting identity, belonging, the awareness of differences and the acknowledgement of otherness. The videos have been selected from the collection of the Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona and from the Premio de Producción de Video Arte Fundación Han Nefkens – CAC Quito 2018.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART 2019 July 9, 2019Curated by Candice Hopkins and Tairone Bastien
21 September - 1 December 2019
We are delighted to announce that Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are participating in the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art. The Biennial will bring together more than 90 local and international participants, hailing from over 40 places of origin, including Brazil, France, Germany, Guatemala, Iran, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States as well as Nunavut and Indigenous communities in Canada, Colombia, Mexico, and Aotearoa | New Zealand.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Homeless Souls May 5, 2019Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
27 June - 22 September 2019
Central to this exhibition is art's unique ability to portray our times, as it bears witness to historical events and focusses on urgent agendas. Homeless Souls depicts a world marked by migration, conflict, upheaval and general instability. The exhibition examines our unstable times through a multiplicity of artistic positions and voices that bring new perspectives to bear on themes such as forced migration, personal and collective accounts of the drawing of frontiers and territories, citizenship, movements, clandestine journeys and identity.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement May 5, 2019The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Natalie Bell
in partnership with the New Museum, New York
22 June - 22 September 2019
Ramin Haeirzadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are participating in an upcoming exhibition presenting historical and contemporary works by 75 artists who’s work poses urgent questions around the experiences and perceptions of migration and the current global refugee crisis. Through installations, videos, paintings, and documentary images, the exhibition will explore both real and imaginary geographies, reconstructing personal and collective tales of migration, overlaying historical experiences of migration to and within the United States with the current plight of refugees around the world.
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ROKNI HAERIZADEH, RAMIN HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Public Commission at Reem Skatepark April 7, 2019Al Reem Park, Abu Dhabi
For ALDAR's public commission at Reem Skatepark in Abu Dhabi, and in collaboration with Abu Dhabi Art, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian together with their frequent collaborators, artists Nargess Hashemi and Sara Rahmanian, have created kaleidoscopic paintings across structural columns that pay homage to the site, its users and the country in the inimitable style that emerges from the hands of the trio. The work invites the visitor to consider liminal spaces. The lines between the private and the public, the formal and the informal, utility and artistry, and other blurred existences. It also makes one question where art belongs, while also firmly insisting that its place is everywhere. (excerpt from Alexa Mena's text)
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GALLERIES AT MAS
April 7, 2019Booth: 7
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
8 April - 8 June 2019
Opening Reception: Monday 8 April from 6.00 to 8.00 pm
We are pleased to participate at Galleries at MAS, an external collective exhibition platform, featuring works by Mohammed Kazem, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, and Nargess Hashemi. The opening night will coincide with the first day of the Culture Summit – Abu Dhabi which is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Publication: The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes March 4, 2019Text by Amanda Donnan
Distributed by the Frye Art Museum in conjunction with the exhibition The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian. Includes an interview between curator Amanda Donnan and artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian.
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Art Genève
January 7, 2019Palexpo, Geneva
31 January - 3 February 2019 | Preview: 30 January
We are pleased to participate at this year’s edition of art genève 2019, with a dedicated feature to the pioneering conceptual artist Hassan Sharif (1951 – 2016) and Dubai-based artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Our presentation will include an array of paintings, works on paper, objects, sculpture and installation manifesting as a dialogue between the artists whilst providing further scope of their practices, both individually and collectively.
Additionally, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian have been invited to include their collaborative 'moving painting' animation, Macht Schön, 2016, at a special video section of the fair curated by Samuel Gross entitled Turbulent Horizon.
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Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes January 7, 2019Frye Art Museum, Seattle
Curated by Amanda Donnan
26 January - 28 April 2019
We are thrilled to announce that Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian will have a collective exhibition entitled The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes at Frye Art Museum in Seattle, USA. Together, they collaboratively work to create installations, paintings on paper, and stop-motion animations that transform found materials in order to recast and critically examine contemporary history-in-the-making. The Dubai-based Iranian artists’ animations are composed from thousands of individual works on paper, in which they collage and paint over printed stills from internet videos and television newscasts. Detaching this imagery from its original context to estrange its meaning, their works interrogate the entertainment value of the news and the voyeuristic role of the spectator as a passive consumer of mass media spectacle.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian
Special Project & Book Launch October 9, 2018Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin
The major exhibition of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian forgive me distant wars for bringing flowers home has come to an end on September 30, 2018 coinciding with the launch of a beautiful catalogue published by OGR and edited by Abaseh Mirvali. Copies of the book will be available at our gallery in Dubai from November. -
Artissima
October 9, 2018Booth: Dialogue, Orange 11
Oval Lingotto Fiere, Turin
2 - 4 November
Preview: 1 November
Dedicated to the collective and individual practices of Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, the booth will manifest as an unfolding continuation of their major exhibition forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home at Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin, which recently took place from 12 July till 30 September 2018.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Like clouds, the forms of the world turn into one another September 22, 2018Centre d’art Contemporain Chanot, Clamart
Curated by Madeleine Mathé
22 September - 9 December 2018
Screening: 17 November at 5pm
As part of the current exhibition, Like clouds, the forms of the world turn into one another, at CACC in Clamart, France, Madeleine Mathé is curating a special one night event manifesting as a film project related to the medium of drawing. The project will thematically focus on drawing borders, both geographical and geopolitical, with the screening taking place on 17 November at 5pm. Amongst other participant artists for this one night occasion, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will present their 'moving paintings', entitled From Sea to Dawn (2016) and Big Rock Candy Mountain (2015-16).
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Busan Biennial 2018 September 9, 2018Busan, South Korea
Curated by Artistic Directors: Cristina Ricupero and Jörg Heiser
8 September - 11 November
We'd like to congratulate Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian on their inclusion at The Busan Biennale 2018. As an independently created international contemporary art exhibition, the Busan Biennale has distinguished itself from other biennials with its expression of Busan’s city identity and its experimental and dynamic exhibitions.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Night of Another Spring September 9, 2018In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
Part I: PREVIEW: 15.09.2018, 18 – 21H, 15.09 – 13.10.2018
Part II: OPENING: 20.10.2018, 18 – 21H, 20.10 – 17.11.2018
In Situ Fabienne Leclerc is pleased to announce Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian’s first solo show at the gallery entitled, Night of Another Spring, that is happening in two parts. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home June 10, 2018Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin
Curated by Abaseh Mirvali
12 July - 30 September
We are pleased to announce Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's solo exhibition Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home at Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR) - a former late 19th-century train repair facility, which has recently reopened as a multipurpose cultural centre. The exhibition aims to unveil the artistic practice of the trio by focusing on their methodology, communication, and construction of their works. Over the past few decades, Ramin, Rokni, and Hesam have shared a life philosophy that has allowed for mutual creation, during which their individual practices interact with their collaborative ones and which is informed by the understanding and technical skills of other people. From the dialogues they build among themselves and with other artists, friends, and collaborators-including stage director Joan Baixas, robotic engineer John Cole, community artist Niyaz Azadikhah, and writer and film producer Mandana Mohit, these artists have established a personal language that has enabled them to present different layers of content and texture in their work.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Mountain of Tongues May 3, 2018BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham
26 May - 17 July
Featuring Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's video animation Big Rock Candy Mountain, alongside works by Slavs and Tatars, Samson Young, Taus Makhacheva, Leila Al-Yousuf and Ryan Heath, the exhibition refers to the Caucasus region between Europe and Asia, known for its large number of distinct languages and cultures.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Community Activation: (Re)Making National Memories - Playing with Narratives May 3, 2018Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi
5 May
Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will host a participatory community activity at Warehouse421, experimenting with archival images from the UAE's history. Originally created for the UAE's National Pavilion at Venice Biennale, Rock Paper Scissors: Positions in Play, this exercise re-interprets archival photographs, including images of Sheikh Zayed and pivotal moments in the history of the UAE by magnifying some of their less obvious peripheral elements. Visitors are invited to take part using their mobile phones or cameras, re-photographing the archival images and finding their own story in them.
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ART BRUSSELS 2018
April 3, 2018Booth C35
Tour & Taxis, Brussels
19 - 22 April
We are pleased to participate in the 50th edition of Art Brussels with works by Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem as well as collaborative and individual works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Selections Magazine March 4, 2018Curriculum Vitae # 44
Spring 2018
Ramin Haerizadeh's work graces the cover of Selections Magazine's recent issue, which invited 22 artists to share their Curriculum Vitae in the most artistic way possible and in the manner in which they'd like to present themselves. The trio is featured in the magazine, each artist's submitted Curriculum Vitae below:
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages March 4, 2018Screening and Discussion
Concrete, Alserkal Avenue
Wednesday 7 March, 7:00 pm
As part of the public programme for Ishara, guest artists Ramin, Rokni and Hesam will be in conversation with exhibition curator Karim Sultan to discuss ideas of communication, language and storytelling. This dialogue will explore the references accumulated by the artists, tracing their influences that relate to the theme of language and sign-making.
The screening will focus on Aakkaandi (2014-15) a 35 minute 17 second long video that depicts a pig-faced tourist-curator clutching a tote bag visit a tailoring shop to get a new dress copied. A doctor and his violently shushing nurse administer everything from injections to dental reconstruction. Improvised with Idrani Sirisena and Edward St, who live and work at the villa that the artists share, these short, simple vignettes are interspersed with the couple's recollection of the Sri Lankan Civil War and the political machinations that stoked the conflict. The work culminates in a collaboratively painted canvas that they steadily layer with Tamil lettering. Several sections of Aakkaandi were filmed by Edward St and many of the images in the film are inspired by the works of exiled Tamil poets, particularly 'The Aakkaandi Bird' by Shanmugam Sivalingan and '21 May 1986' by R Cheran.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages March 4, 2018Concrete, Alserkal Avenue
Curated by Karim Sultan
5 March - 1 April
UAE Unlimited, in collaboration with Alserkal Programming presents Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages featuring works by 10 UAE-based artists Amna Al Dabbagh, Cheb Moha, Chndy, Dina Khorchid, Farah Al Qasimi, Flounder Lee, Nasir Nasrallah, Saba Qizilbash, Salem Al Mansoori, and Shaikha Al Ketbi, in addition to visual poetry by guest artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. The concept of the exhibition is derived from a broad understanding of the meaning and use of language. The curatorial process for the exhibition has been thematically informed by the idea of "lingua franca," which hints at constructed, second or third languages that were used to aid communication between various groups or in situations where communication was difficult.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Art Dubai - Global Art Forum March 4, 2018Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah
Commissioned by Shumon Basar
Wednesday 21 March, 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, alongside Yuri Pattison, Ania Soliman and Melissa Gronlund will discuss how artists are engaging with technologies of automation, as well as the ever-increasing automation of the world. What new kinds of aesthetics, experiences and knowledge emerge. From interactive puppetry to robot choreography via the unconscious intent of algorithms, the artists discuss their ideas and work, and the complex concerns facing the current moment.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Maids October 28, 2017MACBA: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
28 October 2017 - 8 January 2018
Recipients of the second edition of Han Nefkens/MACBA prize, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian present a collaborative exhibition at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. The Maids is a multi-part exhibition created in response to the city of Barcelona, and the result of a two-year process the artists call "an assembling of a collective body." As artists, collaboration is central to their practice. Their goal is to create more equitable forms of artistic exchange by inviting different makers to contribute freely and independently to ongoing works in progress.
For their MACBA project, the artists sought out Joan Baixas, the famed Catalan puppet artist and stage director whose work they have long admired. They also extended invitations to artist Niyaz Azadikhah, who has been leading community-based women's sewing workshops in Tehran; John Cole, a robotics engineer who specialises in sensors; and an international group of writers, including Mandana Mohit and Sohrab Mahdavi.
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ART DUBAI 2017
March 15, 2017Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
Booth E6
15 - 18 March
We are pleased to participate in the 11th edition of Art Dubai with works by Hassan Sharif, Mohammed Kazem, Abdelkader Benchamma, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Speak, Lokal February 12, 2017Kunsthalle Zurich
Curated by Daniel Baumann
4 March - 7 May
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian participate in Speak, Lokal, a group exhibition that focuses on how artists worldwide investigate and broach local conditions. All sorts of artistic practices come into play, from activism to "archivism", from photography to graphic novels, from documentaries to performances and research based communal efforts. Paradoxically, the restricted and highly connoted territory of the Local is perceived as a place of autonomy and liberation, a space where precision is possible and needed to uncover discrepancies and make a difference. If Speak, Lokal is foremost an optimistic proposition, it does not gloss over the ambiguity of the Local as it neighbours on the dangerous territories of nationalism, provincialism, and commercialism - a trend typified in the well-known slogan "Buy Local!" Perhaps, after all, the Local is just a fiction (or a phantasy) - albeit a powerful one. The trio will premiere their new rotoscope animation From Sea to Dawn, which sees them print almost 3000 stills from news footage, paint on each of the printed images, photograph the results and stitch them together to form the 6 minute 21 second video.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence February 12, 2017Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Curated by Valerie Hillings, Sasha Kalter-Wasserman, Sarah Dwider and Maisa Al Qassimi
Beginning 8 March
Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority has commissioned Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian to create an immersive and interactive installation for the second exhibition of works from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi collection. Entitled Another Happy Day (2016-17), the installation emphasises the resonance of the past in the present and the power of representation across time by charting a historical continuum from the 1930s to today. The multi-room installation will feature site-specific paintings, videos, and artworks by artists including Nargess Hashemi and Laleh Khorramian and from the artists' art collection. It will take visitors on a journey through distinctive yet interconnected episodes or acts that offer reflections on the nature of art and how we represent ourselves and the world in which we live through words, images, gestures, and movement.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play January 18, 2017National Pavilion United Arab Emirates
57th Venice Biennale
Curated by Hammad Nasar
13 May - 26 November
While the exhibition explores notions of 'playfulness' in artistic practice, the role of 'play' and how it is nurtured, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will respond to this theme in the accompanying publication by overhauling a significant section of its pages. The book becomes an additional site of the exhibition and speculatively, its expansion. Through the hand of the three artists, a book is no more a book, relinquishing its original purpose to the conquering folds of a new work, which in turn spins a complex web of alternative images. The intervention will be at the fulcrum of their unique collaborative practice: characters fusing into one another, one artist may execute the ideas articulated by the others, the three often blurring together becoming composite.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Social Calligraphies December 1, 2016Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Curated by Magda Kardasz, in cooperation with Magdalena Komornicka
Until 31 January 2017
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's participate in Social Calligraphies, a group exhibition featuring works by artists from the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. The exhibition looks at history, culture, or the political, social, and economic problems of the artists' home countries from a distance, and presenting them in a broader framework. The theme of the show touches upon issues of identity, aesthetics of disappearance, war and culture, the archeology of future (set between the realm of local legends and science fiction), geometry and architecture, the position of women (in between tradition and global dreams), and the role of the artist. The Haerizadeh brothers and Rahmanian present a video animation Big Rock Candy Mountain (2015) and a film Chai-e Iran (2013).
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Liverpool Biennial 2016 May 8, 20169 July - 16 October 2016
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian have been commissioned to create a series of installations, performances and sculptures for Liverpool Biennial 2016. This will be realised through a wide range of media permeating throughout the city, with artwork revolving around the question "What if?", creating new narratives as audiences explore Liverpool Biennial. At Cains Brewery, they will create work on-site, using 'smuggled' objects shipped from Dubai to Liverpool by container.
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian
Frieze New York | Covered the Fingernails in Petals of Dahlia May 5, 2016Focus, Booth A16
Randall's Island Park, New York
5 - 8 May
We are pleased to announce our participation in Frieze New York with Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, where the conquering folds of a new work imagined by the Iranian artist trio have transformed the New York Times-published Obama: The Historic Journey (2009) into a tale of our times. An onslaught of tropes sprung from globalized corporate visual culture, collaged onto the individually traced pages of the original book, cast a silhouetted Obama as the ultimate business manager. Strategies of concealing and revealing unfold across these pages, as the original images peer out from behind the masking of collaged imagery. The 27 drawings are excerpted moments from the wider sequence, freeze-framed and contemplated-a glimpse of the curtain being lifted on a largely unfathomable collaborative creation that ultimately seems to be the product of a sole hand.
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
March 24, 2016Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Booth 3C2724 - 26 March
We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Basel Hong Kong with a collaborative booth by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, where the trio will continue a theatrical approach to exhibition making by presenting an accumulation of collages, watercolours, paintings and assemblages produced collectively and individually. The booth conveys as much insight into their practice - the ritual of living and working together - as it is a playful affront to the romantic notion of the solitary, singular artist, and his work.
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ART DUBAI 2016
March 16, 2016Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
Booth E816 - 19 March
We are pleased to participate in the 10th edition of Art Dubai with works by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian, Hassan Sharif, Haleh Redjaian, Mohammed Kazem and Xu Qu. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Her Majesty? March 15, 2016Published by Edition Patrick Frey
Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's Her Majesty? is a limited edition facsimile where the trio have completely overhauled the XL coffee table publication, which was published by Taschen Verlag in 2012 about the life of Queen Elizabeth II. Her Majesty? is now available at the gallery and each book comes with a unique, handmade cover of only 600 copies.For more information and to order a copy online, please click here.
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ARCOMadrid
February 24, 2016IFEMA - Feria de Madrid, Spain
Booth 7D12
24 - 28 February
We are pleased to participate in the 35th edition of ARCOmadrid where Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian will present works from the Big Rock Candy Mountain series.
Much of the artists' work involves the appropriation of images and objects from magazines, markets, the Internet and mass media. In preparation for Big Rock Candy Mountain, they printed 1000 stills from news footage, painted on each of the printed images, photographed the results, and stitched them together to form the video. The source imagery depicts the destruction of cultural artefacts in war-torn countries like Syria and Iraq by individuals affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS). By slowing down the imagery, the artists discover obscure details, relationships, and editing techniques that they intensify through their own manipulations, including doubling, collage, and figurative drawing. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
Flow Series February 8, 2016Auditori Fundació Antoni Tàpies
Aragó 255, 08007, Barcelona, Spain
8 February at 7.30 pm
We are pleased to announce Ramin & Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's participation in Flow Series #2, where they will be in conversation with Rosa Lleo, founder of The Green Parrot.
Flow Series a programme promoted by the Fundació Han Nefkens and the Fundació Antoni Tàpies with the aim of bringing together members of the art world from different continents and contexts. Encounters focussing on an artist and their ongoing work are the object of a conversation followed by a meal. An invitation to discuss the implications of a global dimension in the work of contemporary artists while sampling the edible creations of local artists.
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RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The Birthday Party December 16, 2015ICA | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Organised by assistant curator Ruth Erickson with curatorial assistant Jeffrey De Blois
Until 27 March
The Birthday Party is the trio's first museum exhibition in the USA and borrows its title from a 1953 play by Nobel prize winning English writer Harold Pinter, a surreal comedy about a party organised as a ploy to get the character to sit down. The Haerizadeh brothers and Rahmanian began their version as a kind of a party-cum-performance in August at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde. During the performance, they shuffled around the space in costumes made of long prayer robes that obscured their vision, spilling paint across a floor they constructed, while unwrapping presents and making accumulative sculptures out of their contents.
In the current installation at the ICA, they bring together some of the remnants from the performance - the painted floor, the sculptures, and the video documentation - with a number of new works and a selection of works by other artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Bahman Mohassess, Ree Morton and Hassan Sharif. -
RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art November 21, 2015Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Until 10 April
All The Rivers Run Into The Sea. Over. / Copy. Yet, The Sea Is Not Full. Over. (2015) challenges the conventional modes of display and standards of value. Every inch of the room is covered, including walls and floors, with no concern for hierarchy and preciousness. Their medley of influences ranges from satirical folk theatre, illuminated manuscripts, miniature painting and Persian poetry, to Modernist art and Pop culture.
The trio discuss their collaborative practice in this youtube video: APT8 Artist Interview | Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian at QAGOMA.