Ramin, Rokni, Hesam Explained

Ramin, Rokni, Hesam
Nationality:Iranian
Notable Works:Forgive me distant wars for bringing flower home, Her Majesty?, Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Hesam Rahmanian
Awards:
  • Black Mountain College Prize, 2022[1] [2]
  • OGR Torino Prize, 2017[3] [4]
  • 2nd Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award, 2016[5] [6] [7]

Ramin, Rokni, Hesam are a UAE-based artist collective from Iran, consisting of Ramin Haerizadeh (1975, Tehran), Rokni Haerizadeh (1978, Tehran), and Hesam Rahmanian (1980, Knoxville) who's working and living together described as a project, since 2009.[8] [9] [10] [11]

History

The three artists met in underground drawing and painting classes in the early 90s, while Iran was recovering from an eight-year war (Iran-Iraq: 1980–1988).[12] [13] These classes were formed as a result of the Iranian Cultural Revolution that lead many students, educators and lecturers to take their classes inside their private homes.[14] [15] [16]

Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's early collaborative practice formed as early as 1997 in Tehran, and the artists reside in the UAE since 2009.[17] [18] [19] Their home is a spectrum of a studio, a library, film set, research center, a museum and sketchbook for their upcoming project.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

Work

The artists work individually and collectively and often incorporate friends and people from different walks of life into their practice.[25] [26] The trio's work is often referred to as a landscape where the complex nature of processing is integrated in the nested system that forms the landscape of their practice.[27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33]

Generosity is in the core of their practice.[34] They have practiced a model of how to collaborate, creating a self-sustaining creative life; how to build an aesthetic and undermine it; how to be politically acute and humorous, generous and eccentric.[35] [34] In the trios art making, production is performance. And the performance is a collective action leading to dance, art, and politics.[34] [36] According to Laura Marks, "preferring the intimacy of a few to the cruel judgments of a social order, they create a flourishing private utopia that turns abjection inside out, to release a seemingly endless supply of pleasure and invention. Living well is the best revenge."[37]

The collective has done projects with OGR Torino as collateral events of the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (2022), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2020), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2019), Officine Grandi Riparazioni (OGR), Turin (2018), MACBA, Barcelona (2017), Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston (2015), Kunsthalle Zurich (2015) and Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen (2015).

The collective is also notable for receiving the Black Mountain College Prize, 2022, and Han Nefkens Foundation/MACBA Award (2016).[38] The trio has additionally been a part of group exhibitions including A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920–2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK,[39] Biennale of Sydney where they had a large installation I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else at The Powerhouse Museum (2020),[40] the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark for Homeless Souls (2019)[41] for which they won the 6th Global Fine Art Award in Global Humanity category,[41] [42] The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art 2019,[43] and a multi-room installation for The Creative Act in Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017),[44] as well as other exhibitions at three different locations for 9th Liverpool Biennial (2016). In 2015, the collective had the installation at Queensland Gallery for 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.[45]

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Biennales

Awards

Collections

Publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Black Mountain College Prize Awarded to Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian. 17 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Dubai artist collective wins inaugural $20,000 Black Mountain College Prize. 16 March 2022.
  3. Web site: OGR Torino torna a Venezia con ALLUVIUM . flash---art.it.
  4. Web site: OGR Torino Alluvium at Venice. ogrtorino.it.
  5. News: 'The Maids' at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Artnews.com . 15 December 2017.
  6. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian: The Maids - Announcements - e-flux.
  7. Web site: Future Greats: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian.
  8. Spike Art | Dance After Revolution | Interview with Daniel Baumann I Summer 2020
  9. Web site: Dubai artists document isolation experience in video by homing in on their dining table. The National. 13 May 2020.
  10. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian: IPrefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else . Dyer . Katie . April 9, 2020 . www.ivde.net. 2020-10-20.
  11. Web site: Lo'bat - Toronto Biennial of Art - Selections Arts . 2020-07-22 . 2020-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200722094621/https://selectionsarts.com/art/lobat-toronto-biennial-of-art/ . dead .
  12. Oh the Horror | Frieze. Frieze . 23 April 2017 . 187 . Baumann . Daniel .
  13. Web site: Portfolio: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian | Frieze. 4 July 2016 .
  14. Web site: Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian: Breaking the rules to better understand our times. April 24, 2020. Whitewall.
  15. Web site: COME IN, WE'RE OPEN. www.ivde.net . 2020-10-20.
  16. Web site: Chapters in Defense of Making and in Homage to The Other. alserkalavenue.ae.
  17. Web site: RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, and HESAM RAHMANIAN I won't wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views. Sara. Roffino. May 6, 2015. The Brooklyn Rail.
  18. Web site: The Maximalist World of a Collective Art Dream. Nazli. Ghassemi. May 29, 2015. Hyperallergic.
  19. Web site: Questioning the Queen - Selections Arts . 2020-07-22 . 2020-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200722094618/https://selectionsarts.com/culture/questioning-the-queen/ . dead .
  20. Web site: Dubai gallery breaks with art tradition. gulfnews.com.
  21. Web site: The trio of artists who have taken over a Dubai gallery this summer. The National. 11 July 2019 .
  22. Web site: Anna Seaman Explores Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian's Takeover of Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde. Ciara. Phillips.
  23. Web site: Mena . Alexa . Iranian Artist Trio Unveil New Works At Reem Central Skate Park in Abu Dhabi . Harper's BAZAAR Arabia . 2019-06-12 . 2020-10-20.
  24. Web site: Iranian trio courts chaos in first US museum solo show at ICA - The Boston Globe. BostonGlobe.com.
  25. Web site: Covered the Fingernails with Petals of Dahlia . 2016 . www.ivde.net . 2020-10-20.
  26. Web site: Annie Godfrey Larmon on Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian. www.artforum.com.
  27. Web site: Gallery takeover in Alserkal Avenue - Selections Arts . 2020-07-22 . 2020-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200722094615/https://selectionsarts.com/art/gallery-takeover-in-alserkal-avenue/ . dead .
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  31. Web site: Living in art: Iranian artists' home inspired by the performative . Architectural Digest Middle East . 2018-08-12 . 2020-10-20.
  32. Web site: Future Greats: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian. artreview.com.
  33. News: Review: Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian (Published 2015). Roberta. Smith. The New York Times . May 28, 2015.
  34. Web site: Parthenogenesis review: Dubai collective emphasises spirit of collaboration in Abu Dhabi . 10 April 2022 .
  35. Web site: RAMIN HAERIZADEH ROKNI HAERIZADEH HESAM RAHMANIAN — Mousse Magazine and Publishing .
  36. Web site: "Parthenogenesis: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian" . 8 March 2022 .
  37. Web site: Living Well is the Best Revenge . 18 November 2020 .
  38. Web site: Exhibition - The Maids. 2nd Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award. MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
  39. Web site: A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920 – 2020 .
  40. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. 8 December 2023 .
  41. Web site: Past Exhibitions.
  42. Web site: 2019 Award Winners and Honorable Mentions.
  43. Web site: Ramin + Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian Archives. Toronto Biennial of Art.
  44. Web site: The Creative Act: Performance, Process, Presence. The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation.
  45. Web site: Ramin HAERIZADEH, Rokni HAERIZADEH, Hesam RAHMANIAN. Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art.
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  55. Web site: "Night of Another Spring". insituparis.fr.
  56. Web site: "Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home" – RRH. www.ogrtorino.it.
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  58. Web site: "The Maids" – RRH | macba . macba.cat. 27 October 2017 .
  59. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, USA (2015). Dec 16, 2015 – Mar 27, 2016.
  60. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, and Hesam Rahmanian: The Birthday Party | icaboston.org. www.icaboston.org.
  61. Web site: Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair. Den Frie.
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  76. Web site: Floating Cinema 3rd Edition.
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  80. Web site: In Three.
  81. Web site: Not of, in, Along, or Relating To a Line.
  82. Web site: High Anxiety.
  83. Web site: AROUND THE DAYS IN EIGHTY WORLDS.
  84. Web site: I PUT A SPELL ON YOU: ON ARTIST COLLABORATIONS.
  85. Web site: Constructions of Truths Constructions of Truths Exhibition at MCAD Manila. January 9, 2020. MCAD Manila.
  86. Web site: Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: Re:Orient. grassi-voelkerkunde.skd.museum.
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  88. Web site: Un Viaje de Mil Millas / Journey of a Thousand Miles – Centro de Arte Contemporáneo . 2020-07-22 . 2020-07-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200722144032/http://www.centrodeartecontemporaneo.gob.ec/gallery-item/journey-of-a-thousand-miles/ . dead .
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  95. Web site: Social Calligraphies | zacheta National Gallery of Art. zacheta.art.pl/en.
  96. Web site: Condo | Rodeo Gallery. Rodeo-gallery.com.
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  98. Web site: The Fall | Rodeogallery . Rodeo-gallery.com.
  99. Web site: Nice Drawings | galleryivde . ivde.net.
  100. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Biennale of Sydney.
  101. Web site: Busan Biennale 2018: Divided We Stand. www.e-flux.com.
  102. Web site: Art, 2017, Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play curated by Hammad Nasar, National Pavilion UAE La Biennale de Venezia. National Pavilion United Arab Emirates.
  103. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art. www.biennial.com.
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  110. Web site: Future Greats: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian.
  111. Web site: LouvreAD receives donations.
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  113. Web site: NSW Art Gallery.
  114. Web site: FRAC CORSICA.
  115. Web site: British Museum.
  116. Web site: Homepage.
  117. Web site: From March to April 2020. Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences.
  118. Web site: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
  119. Web site: Frye Art Museum. Frye Art Museum.
  120. Web site: Han Nefkens Foundation. Fundació Han Nefkens.
  121. Web site: Centre national des arts plastiques | Cnap. www.cnap.fr.
  122. Web site: Borusan Contemporary. www.borusancontemporary.com.
  123. Web site: LACMA | Los Angeles County Museum of Art. www.lacma.org.
  124. Web site: Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection. UCCA Center for Contemporary Art.
  125. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian.
  126. Web site: Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home. www.corraini.com.
  127. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian - Her Majesty? | Edition Patrick Frey. 3 March 2016 .
  128. Web site: Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Hesam Rahmanian.