Beyond Ruptures includes works of Aref el Rayess, Jean Khalife, Samir Khaddaje, Samia Osseiran, Shafic Abboud, Said Akl, Akram Zaatari and Nesrine Khodr as a testimony and tribute to the cultural resistance led by artists, cultural workers, and art patrons, in the challenging environments Lebanon has presented over the years. Selected works in the timeline, mark important events in the lives of each artist, and act as time capsules showing different artistic practices shaped by violence.
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Artist Bahram Dabiri's Carpets are exhibited at Fiuz Gallery in Kashan, to be seen until June 1, 2023.
The exhibition “Broken” with works by artist and architect Kamran Diba opens on Friday, June 9, 16:00 IRST at Bavan Gallery in Tehran. Curated by mohit.art NETWORK member Helia Darabi who is also a guest editor to several issues of mohit.art NOTES.
Raha Faridi's documentary “Chicheka Lullaby” is screened at Iranian Film Festival Cologne 2023 – Visions of Iran on Sunday, June 11, at 17:00 CET. When Ebrahim Monsefi, the “Bob Dylan of the Iranian South,” died 20 years ago in poverty and drug addiction, he left behind hundreds of lyrics and more than 200 songs, recorded only with a small tape recorder. His independence and creativity have created a new cultural self-confidence among the people around Bandar Abbas: many musicians cover his songs, which speak of love and freedom. The filmmaker Raha Faridi brings us closer to the South, which is shaped by African and Indian influences, its culture and way of life and is invited to the film discussion. Farsi with English sutitles.
The exhibition of works by Soorena Petgar entitled “Rails Story: Killing Time Season” takes place at Delgosha Gallery through June 12, 2023.
The group show – on view ar Maryam Art Gallery in Tehran uthrough June 12, 2023 – focuses on the human figure in Iranian painting.
A solo exhibition of Shirin Mirjamali's artworks entitled The Pleasantness of the Unaware is held in Vali Art Gallery in Tehran, on view until June 15, 2023.
The group show features works by Yousha Bashir, Homa Delvaray, Hoda Kashiha, Ali Meer Azimi, Jacopo Pagin, and Ali Akbar Sadeghi, and will continue until June 16, 2023.
Through June 18. 2023: The exhibition “Fire in the Garden of Eden” presents works by Hiva Alizadeh at The Flat – Massimo Carasi in Milan.
On view until June 19, 2023: So much of architecture is the celebration of the finished product. With this exhibition, Pejman Foundation, Tehran, pulls back the curtain and makes transparent the process, false starts, dead ends, and happy accidents that are not typically seen by the public.
Until June 20, 2023: “Visual Notes” present a glimpse into the work and world of Bahman Jalali. These photographs, based on a handwritten note by Bahman Jalali himself on the back of one of them, are “visual notes,” like a non-verbal travel diary.
Opening on Saturday, June 24: The exhibition showcases the works by Parastou Forouhar, Kaveh Kavoosi, Neda Razavipour, and
Golnar Tabibzadeh, who have created the works while living in exile. “Diaspora Iran: (Be)longing” invites the spectator to contemplate distance and connection between the artworks and the notion of belonging. The ongoing “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, closely followed by immigrants in Germany, accentuates both the sense of separation and emerging bonds.
On view through June 30, 2023: The group exhibition “Landschaft” (landscape) showcases works by Santi Alleruzzo, Lutz Driessen, Fatma Güdü, Merlin James, Behrang Karimi, Cosima zu Knyphausen, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Lotte Maiwald, Kaoli Mashio, David Ostrowski, Sale Sharifi, and Trevor Shimizu. It circles the concept of landscape in painting as a “repeated exercises of attention.”
On view until June 30, 2023: Farzad Shekari’s exhibition of his new series is inspired by he struggles of Anna Coleman Ladd who, by creating masks, tried to help wounded soldiers suffering from facial wounds during the WWI.
On view until June 30, 2023: Best known for his depictions of the human head or ‘face landscapes’, Marwan’s work explores the human condition through a deep investigation of emotions, intense psychological states, and inner passions. Featured in this exhibition are Marwan’s masterpieces from the 1960s and the 1970s, of which very few remain in existence. The exhibition is organized by the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah in collaboration with Lempertz, Berlin.