July 9, 2025
Reflecting current contemporary creation, the “Talents Contemporains” competition, initiated more than 10 years ago by the François Schneider Foundation, enables the European and international artistic scenes to be explored on the particular theme of water. An original collection has thus been built up, presenting artists who have graduated from art schools as well as atypical self-taught artists. Nearly 90 works now form a singular ensemble that runs counter to certain institutional trends, exhibited both in the art center and increasingly...
May 7, 2025
O Gallery has always sought to maintain strong ties with cities beyond the capital, a commitment evident in its ongoing efforts to feature artists from across the country. This year, we are working even more intentionally to expand our presence in other cities. By organizing exhibitions and events outside Tehran, we aim to foster deeper connections between artists and audiences, while also gaining valuable insights and feedback from diverse local contexts. In line with this ongoing effort, O Gallery is...
March 1, 2025
Aknoon Group Exhibition Makaan’s first Pop-up Show and Open Studio: Makaan Arts offers a communal hub for Bay Area and visiting CWANA artists. It is a place for creative exchange, for artists to reflect, experiment and collaborate. Makaan’s first pop-up show and open studio with current and upcoming artists in residence opens at MSP studios on March 1st and runs through March 3rd 2025....
February 4, 2025
… In Arash Sadaghatkish’s recent show at O Gallery, grotesque figures are combined together in a realistic texture, based on lived memory. This range of expression extends to realistic landscapes which have been stained with abstraction through the expressionist strokes of the artist. A kind of disorder has been arranged in a favorable way through the artist's arrangements....
November 27, 2024
“Between Ornament and Structure”, a recent text by Farniyaz Zaker was recently published in “The Textile Museum Journal, which disscus carpets in Modern Art and Architecture....
September 17, 2024
Mohsen Azmoodeh reviewed Ali Vaziri's show "Territory - To Live" in No. 5858 of Etemad newspaper, in which he discusses two of Vaziri's main concerns. He considers Vaziri's sculptures to be beyond organic forms and beautiful artifacts, viewing them as works that represent a broader concern....
April 2, 2024
Works from Ali Nassir are currently exhibited in the group show "Unreal Realities"at Sevil Dolmaci Dubai. The exhibition will continue until June 1st. Ali Nassir (b. 1951 Tehran) is presented with his most recent paintings where he creates a harmonious blend of restless memories, chaotic environment and complex issues merged with the intrinsic beauty and joy of life, turning his work into a continuous attempt at expanding this sense of aesthetics. The interplay of form, color, movement and composition in...
February 7, 2024
This book, a product of Amir Soghrati’s dialogues with Ali Nasir over the past few years, is an effort to record the emotions, feelings, thoughts and worldview of Ali Nassir as one of the influential artists in the contemporary art history of Iran. Writing and publishing oral history books of contemporary art in Iran, away from memoirs and reminiscences, is a new and essential aspect in the field of visual arts and this book has taken a part to that...
November 24, 2023
"Tajrobe" magazine in its 22nd edition, overviews Ali Nassir's body of work in an interview with the artist and an overview on his recent exhibition showcased concurrently by O Gallery and Lajevardi Foundation in June 2023....
October 6, 2023
O Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at Paper Positions Munich 2023 with a presentation of works on paper by Ashkan Sanei....
August 30, 2023
We live in an era where balance has come to represent a kind of utopia; an expression of the desire to find better circumstances for the broadest spectrum of the population. Political resistance has been driven towards opposite poles, reducing our nuanced idiosyncrasies, geographical conditions, diverse doctrines, and interests. Multipolar brings together artworks highlighting income inequality and social, political, and ecological emergencies....
June 17, 2023
O Gallery is thrilled to announce the screening of "Untitled", a portrait documentary that portrays the life of Ali Nassir between 2019 and 2022 in Tehran and Berlin. The film includes interviews with artists and active experts in the art world about Ali Nassir's work and his role in the formation of parallel and progressive worlds in each of these geographical locations. Tehran as his birthplace and the place where he spent his early years and is still in close...
June 17, 2023
The upcoming exhibition will be on display in two parts in O Gallery and Lajevardi Foundation from June 23 to July 21, 2023. O Gallery will focus on showcasing recent works by the artist while Lajevardi Foundation will showcase the artist’s works created between 1980 and 2020 as well as never before exhibited pieces in Iran. A more comprehensive retrospective, co-curated by Hoda Arbabi and Orkideh Daroodi, was originally set to open in TMOCA in the Fall of 2022 but...
June 17, 2023
We are pleased to announce that two works from Ashkan Sanei’s “Archives” series is now in the collection of Haus Des Papiers (Berlin’s Paper Museum)....
March 7, 2023
Farniyaz Zaker’s project "Enclaves" revolves around the themes of exclusion and belonging. It explores how our language, clothes and built environment engender controlled and delimited spaces and communities that can both foster and suppress our physical and mental selves....
October 18, 2022
Maryam Mohry is the winner of this year’s Espronceda – Artistic Residency Award, in collaboration with Swab Art Fair. Espronceda offers artistic residencies for international artists and the opportunity to exhibit in Barcelona. The Center also programs concerts, workshops, curated exhibitions and professional meetings with established international artists to diffuse culture and promote education....
September 1, 2022
A work by Ashkan Sanei is featured in “Drawing Wow 3”, an exhibition entirely dedicated to drawing. After two editions in Berlin – Drawing Wow 1 (2019) at BCMA and Drawing Wow 2 (2020) at Kunstsaelen – Drawing Wow 3 will now take place in Vienna. The exhibition is curated by artists Anna Gille, Philip Loersch, Tim Plamper, and art historian Sarah Petersen and runs from September 7, 2022 to October 1, 2022. Drawing Wow is a non-commercial artistic platform...
August 10, 2022
The second edition of NADA Curated—a new series of online exhibitions highlighting artists and art spaces from NADA’s international community through curated thematic presentations—features 21 artists present by 17 galleries. The exhibition titled Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura), will be curated by Fatoş Üstek, independent curator and writer and will launch in August 2022. Reduction to Satire (Reductio ad Satura) is a newly coined term for the NADA Curated series. It is a hybrid term, borne out of the...
July 15, 2022
In “Greenhouse No. 2; A False Memory,” a continuation of her Greenhouse series, Maryam Mohry considers greenhouses as a place for experimenting and playing. The space provides an opportunity to experience nurturing and fabricating as well as recounting and partaking in a conversation. Playful ironies and continuous storylines are the main features of Maryam’s works that have always been created in a fluid and unpretentious fashion due to her cheerful approach and simple materials....
May 13, 2022
We are delighted to announce that Afshan Daneshvar (b. 1972 Tehran) has been awarded the first prize of “Paper Art Award” for her exceptional works presented by O Gallery at Paper Positions Berlin....
April 25, 2022
In recent years, the historical trajectories and global entanglements of Iranian art before the Islamic Revolution have become subject to increasing debate and conversation, resulting, among other things, in a series of high-profile exhibitions. With this in mind, Mohammadreza Mirzaei and Sven Spieker have organized a one-day symposium at the University of California, Santa Barbara that aims to involve emerging scholarships of pre-1979 Iranian art in a discussion about their research. The organizers aim to provide a platform for these...
March 4, 2022
And they are pieces of a long poem that, when put together, embrace you and me and invite us to a heartfelt dialogue by redefining space and matter. Slowly, majestically and steadily....
October 20, 2021
"Oil: Height of Depth", a collection of works by Mohammad Hassanzadeh published by Pejman Foundation. The main idea behind "Oil: Height of Depth" project is rooted in the confrontations and transformations in Iran’s southwest after the discovery of oil: historic/geographic configurations that have reminded within human and natural environments that forcefully resisted change, and where traces of this residence appear in different areas like unhealed wounds....
August 3, 2021
Shideh Tami published in the book “Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa” by the British Museum Press....
June 2, 2021
"Sanei’s works have been selected by Tehran’s O Gallery for the online exhibition, which will run until May 30....
May 20, 2021
"Bahman Mohassess (1931–2010) is from the generation of Iranian artists who travelled to Italy in the 1950s to study at Italian academies. Mohassess spent time in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome, and after returning to Iran in the 1960s, he played a prominent role in the new Iranian art scene. Although he was not Marino Marini’s pupil, Mohassess’s practice demonstrates a special relationship with Marini’s art....
March 11, 2021
"Painting outdoors, especially in the city, confronts the artist with many different challenges; the most important of which is the increase in the number of variables; such as the change in light and shadow, and the movement of vehicles and people. Transforming the great and crowded atmosphere of the city into a two-dimensional surface is yet another matter that the artist must solve in a short amount of time....
May 24, 2016
5 of Ali Nassir's works available now in silkscreen prints, edition of 13, sponsored by Lajevardi Foundation...
January 1, 2014
“Between Ornament and Structure”, a recent text by Farniyaz Zaker published in “The Textile Museum Journal, which disscus carpets in Modern Art and Architecture....