4Where is Waldo?, 2020, acrylic and coll

Ramin HAERIZADEH, Rokni HAERIZADEH & Hesam RAHMANIAN

The Iranian artist collective consisting of Ramin Haerizadeh (*1975 in Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (*1978 in Tehran), and Hesam Rahmanian (*1980 in Knoxville) describes itself as a "creature with six eyes". They understand their opulent, expansive installations as an ongoing work in progress, as immersive landscapes in which Oriental tradition and Western modernity, high culture and camp, history and contemporary history flow seamlessly into one another. They transport us into a world of their own, characterised by intense and powerful visual effects, furious dynamics and exuberant materiality, as well as uninhibited staging and aestheticisation. In a humorous, eccentric, and multi-layered ways, their paintings, sculptures, collages, and video works provoke surprising encounters that focus attention on today's urgent political and social conflict and question power mechanisms as well as normative gender roles or the art world per se.

Exhibitions at HELDENREIZER

2021 - "Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh und Hesam Rahmanian," 16.09. - 22.10.2021 in München

Further Exhibitions (Selection)

2021 – "Screen Series," New Museum, New York, USA
2020 – "Either he’s dead, or my watch has stopped, Groucho Marx (while getting the patient’s pulse), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2020 –"Around The Day In Eighty Worlds," CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
2020 –"I Put a Spell On You: On Artist Collaborations," SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2020 – "NIRIN," The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Powerhouse Museum and Campbelltown Arts Centre, Australia
2019 – "The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends from Foes: Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Hesam Rahmanian," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2019 – "Homeless Souls," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2019 – "The Warmth of Other Suns," The Phillips Collection in partnership with the New Museum, Washington DC, USA
2019 – "Lo’bat," Toronto Biennale of Art, Toronto
2019 – "On the Fringes of Identity," Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (MAC), Italy
2019 – "Journey of a Thousand Miles," Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito, Ecuador
2019 – "On the Fringes of Identity," Museo Storico dell Città di Lecce (MUST), Italy
2019 – "The Warmth of Other Suns," The Phillips Collection in partnership with the New Museum, Washington DC, USA
2018 – “Like clouds, the forms of the world turn into one another," Centre d’art Contemporian Chanot, France
2018 – "Busan Biennial," South Korea
2017 – “The Maids," Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
2017 – "Propositions #1: What we Mean," basis voor actuele kunst (BAK), Utrecht, Netherlands
2017 – "The Restless Earth," Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2017 – "Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play," National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates, 57th Venice Biennale, Italy
2017 – "Speak Lokal," Zurich Kunsthalle , Zurich, Switzerland
2017 – "The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence," Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi
2016 – "Social Calligraphies," Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2016 – "9th Liverpool Biennial: Festival of Contemporary Art," Liverpool, United Kingdom
2015 – “The Birthday Party," Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, USA
2015 – "Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair," Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Kopenhagen, Denmark
2015 – "Slice A Slanted Arc Into Dry Paper Sky," Zurich Kunsthalle , Zurich, Switzerland

Collections

Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen

Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Fundació Han Nefkens, Barcelona

Collection Le Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris

Private collection of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Orsières