Siavash Naghshbandi
(b.1987, Tehran, Iran) visual artist based in Tehran. Graduating from Animation, he began his photography career in 2006 with solo exhibitions at Nikol Gallery and Mehrva Gallery (2008) around urban culture concerns. Later on, he continued his artistic activity using other media like Animation, video, artificial intelligence, and filmmaking. Among these creative ventures are the solo exhibitions of Dastan Gallery (2019), Electric Room (2017), and Teerart projects (2019). His photographs and videos have been exhibited in exhibitions and museums, like the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2008), the Chelsea Museum, New York (2009), Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh (2019), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (2020), Aaran Art Gallery (2011), Azad Art Gallery (2010), Bhavan Art Gallery (2019), Hafriyat Karakoy Gallery, Istanbul (2008), Tomin Videothek, Frankfurt (2017), Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C (2017) Affenfaust Galerie, Humburg (2018). His films have been featured in various festivals, including SEH-TANK: Cinéma, Zurich (2013), Middle East Now Film Festival, Florence (2013), Göteborg Film Festival (2013), Schkaneder Kino, Vienna (2018), Skol Art Center, Montreal (2019), Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam (2019), Oyoun Space, Berlin (2021), shortlisted for Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize, London (2018). Jury Prize - Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan (2021)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:
2019 Exposed, Dastan Gallery, Tehran, Iran – Curated by Sohrab Kashani
2018 Lift, Teer Art Week, Tehran, Iran – Curated by Sohrab Kashani
2017 Inevitably Inescapable, Dastan Gallery - Electric Room, Tehran, Iran
2009 These Kiosks, Mehrva Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Snow, Ivan Sepid Art Gallery, Karaj, Iran
2006 Direction, Nikol Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 “Home, Home, Home, Temporary Home”, Berlin, Germany Curated by Davood Madadpoor
2021 Street View, Public Space, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2021 Noxte Vol IV, Bethanien Creative Quarter, Berlin, Germany
2021 Amber Network Festival, (Online Exhibition) a'21 LAB EXHIBITION, Oyoun Space, Berlin, Germany
2021 ‘HerMAP Art Projects’, BOZAR - Brussels, Belgium
2020 Sumac Space (Online Exhibition) Villa Romana, Florence, Italy - Curated by Katharina Ehrl and Davood Madadpoor
2020 Urban Mapping, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (US) - Curated by Gohar Dashti
2020 Contemporary Iranian Art & The Historical Imagination, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, CVPA Campus Gallery, Dartmouth (US)
2020 Even in Arcadia there am I, Bavan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran Curated by Hoofar Haghighi
2019 VOICE-OVER (IN THREE PARTS), The Other Apartment, Mattress Factory Museum (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) – Sazmanab (Tehran, Iran) – Curated by Sohrab Kashani and Joseph Del Pesco
2018 Wundern über tanawo, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany – Curated by Raphaela Roessler
2017 Urban Spaces, Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C., USA – Curated by Gohar Dashti
2017 MixedRealities, Tomin Videothek, Frankfurt, Germany – Curated by Laura Wünsche
2015 TADAEX 05, Mohsen Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2011 Aksbazi, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran – Curated by Haleh Anvari
2009 Iran Inside Out, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, USA – Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
2009 Re-assemblage, Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran – Curated by Vahid Sharifian
2009 Iran Inside Out, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA – Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
2009 Urban Jealousy, Newyorck Gallery, Berlin, Germany – Curated by Amir Ali Ghassemi and Serhat Köksal
2009 The 3rd Shouka Photo Festival, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
2009 The 11th Iranian National Photo Biennial, Saba Cultural and Artistic Center, Tehran, Iran
2008 Diptychs (in memory of Mohsen Rasoulov), Mehrva Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2008 Urban Jealousy, Hafriyat Karakoy, Istanbul, Turkey – Curated by Amir Ali Ghassemi and Serhat Köksal
2008 Inner Eye, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2007 The Mass, Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran – Curated by Mohsen Rasoulov
2007 Visual Anthropology Festival, Ebn-e Khaldoon Hall, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
2006 The 3rd Kaveh Golestan Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran
2004 Iranshahr (Iranian Photographic Society), Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED SCREENINGS:
2023 INSTANTS VIDEO, Marseille, France. Curated by Amirali Ghasemi
2022 FIVARS Virtual Reality Festival, Toronto, Canada.
2022 All watched over by machines of loving grace, KADIST Collection, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2022 “TERRITORIAL CHALLENGES” Mohit Art Projects
2021 FIVARS Virtual Reality Festival, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2021 INACCESSIBLE PRESENT 4.0, Oyoun Space, Berlin, Germany
2021 59TH Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, USA
2020 Dyscorpia 2.1, Enterprise Square Galleries, Alberta, Canada
2020 Territorial Challenges, YARAT Film Klub, Baku, Azerbaijan
2020 The Room, Pejman Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2020 Other Ways of Watching Together, Neverland Cinema, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019 Cinema Vérité (Iran International Documentary Film Festival), Charsoo Complex, Tehran, Iran
2019 I am a Stone, my name is the river, Skol Art Center, Montreal, Canada – Curated by Bahar Taheri
2019 Limited Access 8, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2019 Detour to Tehran, Gasteig, Munich, Germany
2018 Detour to Tehran, Schkaneder Kino, Vienna, Austria
2018 The Room, Fadjr International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
2018 Taiwan Annual 2018 (Sazmanab’s booth), Taipei, Taiwan
2018 An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2017 Limited Access 7, Aaran Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 SEH-TANK, Cinema Subversif, Zurich, Switzerland
2013 Middle East Now Film Festival, Florence, Italy
2013 The Invisible Present, Göteborg International Film Festival, Gothenburg, Sweden
2013 The Invisible Present, Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 Limited Access II, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS:
2021 Ann Arbor Film Festival - Jury Prize, Michigan, USA
2018 MOP CAP 2018 (Magic Of Persia Contemporary Art Prize), London, UK - Shortlisted
2008 The Third Photo Festival of Art University, Tehran, Iran - Jury Prize
2007 First Documentary Photo Festival, Isfahan, Iran - Winner of the second prize
2005 Child Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran - Winner of the third prize
2004 Child Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran - Winner of first prize
2003 Child Photo Festival, Tehran, Iran - Winner of first prize
TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
2021 5th Utphotoex, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
2019 From Studio, Kaarnamaa, New Media Society, Tehran, Iran
2018 New Media Society, Tehran, Iran
WORKSHOPS:
2022 Shortfilm Fund 2021, Berlin (Online)
2021 21' amber network festival, Oyoun, Berlin (Online)
2019 Ramak Fazel, Pejman Foundation, Tehran, Iran
2018 Micheal Pilz, Newmediasociety, Tehran, Iran
WORK EXPERIENCES:
2022 Video Designer “Ine Aya” Opera by Miranda Lakerveld & Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Desa Datah Diaan (Kayan Village), Jakarta, Pontianak, Indonesia
2022 “Antigone’s of the Pandemic” VR-opera by Miranda Lakerveld & Siavash Naghshbandi, Westekerk Church, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 Video Designer “Ine Aya” Opera by Miranda Lakerveld & Nursalim Yadi Anugerah, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 Video Designer “Turan Dukht” Opera by Miranda Lakerveld & Aftab Darvishi, Holland Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017-2018 Making Visual for Musicians & Sound Artists: Saba Alizadeh, Bamdad Afshar, Makan Ashgvari, Aftab Darvishi, Poua Ehsaei
2014-2016 Assistant Editor | 10 Feature Film
2012-2013 Making Documentary Video of Art Scenes in Tehran, Iran
2009-2011 Editor of the Full-Length Documentary Film " Zagros" & "Alborz" by Manouchehr Tayyab
2008 Photographer in the motion picture "About Elly... " by Asghar Farhadi
2006 Photographer in the motion picture "We Only Live Twice" by Behnam Behzadi
Last update: 2023-08