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Photo: Fechner, Studio Visit Azar Pajuhandeh, July 2024
"Art Affects: The Artist's Body"
Join us during Berlin Art Week 2024 to explore how art is affected by the artist's body, and how artistic explorations of the self and the body affect us. The hybrid exhibition and artist talk featuring four artists based in Tehran and Berlin will take place at mohit.art Project Space and online at www.mohit.art.
- Sunday, September 8, 2024, opening 6 p.m. at mohit.art Project Space Goebenstrasse 10, 10783 Berlin and online at www.mohit.art
- Friday, September 13, 2024, hybrid artist talk 6.p.m. (CET) at mohit.art Project Space, live-streamed online at www.mohit.art; Berlin-based artists will be on site and Tehran-based artists will participate remotely
- Exhibition at mohit.art Project Space, September 9-22, 2024, opening hours during the Berlin Art Week, 10:00 - 18:00, and otherwise by appointment.
- Online exhibition at www.mohit.art, September 9-October 13, 2024
The artist’s body as medium and subject
"Art Affects: The Artist’s Body" considers the body as both a tool of creation and a subject of art. Historically, the female body has been represented through the male gaze. This exhibition reclaims the gaze and presents the female artist's body from her perspective, emphasizing self-representation, self-empowerment, and the emotional, social, political, and economic contexts that influence artistic creation.
The perspective of Iranian women artists
The four featured artists - Azar Pajuhandeh, Pooneh Oshidari, Mahsa Mohammadi and Nasim Goli - face unique challenges that impact their work and visibility in Tehran, Iran, as well as in Berlin, Germany. Social conventions, political restrictions and unrest, economic barriers, and the experience of Othering often limit their freedom of expression and access to resources. Despite these challenges, they continue to create impactful art that speaks to their experiences and aspirations.
By highlighting these perspectives "Art Affects: The Artist’s Body" provides a platform to share narratives, celebrate achievements, and inspire visitors and followers of mohit.art – in Tehran and Berlin, as well as in other local art environments in Southwest Asia and in Europe. The exhibition promotes insight, dialogue, and understanding, and encourages greater recognition of Iranian and Southwest Asian contributions to the global art scene.
mohit.art NOTES #12
Let's talk about art education. The influence of art education on artistic practice is sometimes overlooked in these considerations. Yet this is precisely where we need to look in order to understand the multiple layers and complexities that influence a local art environment in a global context. The current crisis within Iranian academia, both political and intellectual, has made independent education more urgent than ever. For a good twenty years, a parallel structure of private educational institutions has been developing in Iran, specifically in the arts. Through the voices of active and concerned practitioners in the field, mohit.art NOTES #12, guest edited by curator and educator Fereshte Moosavi, explores the centrality of independent as well as informal art education and alternative forms of knowledge production as a way to rethink our understanding around learning in art today. >>> explore, watch, and read more
Art students participating in workshops during the fifth Jokal Student Festival, Campus of University of Art, Tehran. 2022. Courtesy of Jokal Festival.
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