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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.




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). 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.
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. Their home is a spectrum of a studio, a library, film set, research center, a museum and sketchbook for their upcoming project.




Work


The artists work individually and collectively and often incorporate friends and people from different walks of life into their practice. 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.
Generosity is in the core of their practice. 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. In the trios art making, production is performance. And the performance is a collective action leading to dance, art, and politics. 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."
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). The trio has additionally been a part of group exhibitions including A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920–2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Biennale of Sydney where they had a large installation I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else at The Powerhouse Museum (2020), the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark for Homeless Souls (2019) for which they won the 6th Global Fine Art Award in Global Humanity category, The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art 2019, and a multi-room installation for The Creative Act in Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017), 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.




Solo exhibitions


Le Diwan de Démon, CCC OD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France, 2 June 2023- 18 February 2024.
The Beautiful Decay of Flowers in The Vase, Galerie Insitu Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France, 14 May 2023- 28 July 2023.
Atlas of the World, Laurel Parker Book, Paris, France, 14 May 2023- 28 July 2023.
Alluvium, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni at Venice, Venice, Italy, 22 April- 27 November 2022.
Parthenogenesis, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, 2022. 1 March - June 12, 2022.
From March to April... & From Sea to Dawn, ajh, Bielefeld, Germany (2021). 15 April until 14 July 2021.
Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped: Groucho Marx (while getting the patient’s pulse), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2020). 3 September until 13 December 2020.
We Are Open For Installation, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE (2019). May 15 – November 9, 2019.
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes, Frye Museum, Seattle, USA (2019). JANUARY 26 – APRIL 28, 2019.
Night of Another Spring (Part 1 & 2), Galerie Insitu Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France (2018). 10. September - 17 November 2018.
Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy (2018). 12 Jul 18 - 30 Sep 18.
From Sea to Dawn, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (2018). 30.Jan.2018-10.March.2018.
The Maids, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2017). October 28, 2017 to January 7, 2018.
The Birthday Party, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, USA (2015). Dec 16, 2015 – Mar 27, 2016.
Those Who Love Spiders, and Let Them Sleep in Their Hair, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (2015). November 7, 2015 – February 28, 2016.
I won't wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, USA (2015). April 12 – June 7, 2015.
Slice a Slanted Arc Into Dry Paper Sky, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland (2015). Feb 21 2015 - May 17, 2015.
The Exquisite Corpse Shall Drink the New Wine, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, UAE (2014). 18.March.2014-18.May.2014.
I Put it There You Name It, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, UAE (2012). 05.March.2012-17.May.2012.




Group exhibitions


Exils – Regards D’artistes, Louvre, Lens, France 2024
Forms of The Shadow, Secession, Vienna, Austria 2024
RRH & (La)HORDE, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland 2024
From Kalila wa Dimna to La Fontaine, Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024
In Real Time, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2024
Meaning, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2023
Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness And Enthusiasm, HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz, Austria, 2023
A Line, A Web, A World, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia, 2023
Step By Step Boogie Woogie, Une proposition d’Olivier Mosset, Space Collection, Liègel, Belgium, 2023
Photography As a Tool, Krinzinger Schottenfeld, Vienna, Austria, 2023
Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics, British Museum, London, UK, 2022
Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness And Enthusiasm, BundesKunsthalle, Bonn, Germany, 2022
Floating Cinema | Unknown Waters, by Microclima, 3rd Edition, Venice, 2022
A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920–2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K., 2022
Floating Cinema | Unknown Waters, by Microclima, 2nd Edition, Venice, 2021
Screen Series, New Museum, New York, 2021
In Three, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, 2021
Not of, in, Along, or Relating To a Line, The NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, 2021
High Anxiety, 22 London, Ashville, North Carolina, USA, 2020
Around the Days 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, Georgia, USA, 2020
Constructions of Truth, Museum of Contemporary art and Design, Manila, Philippines, 2020
Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Germany, 2019
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Lissone (MAC), Italy, 2019
Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito, Ecuador, 2019
Museo Storico dell Città di Lecce (MUST), Italy, 2019
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, humlebaek, Denmark, 2019
The Phillips Collection in Partnership with the New Museum, Washington DC, 2018
Mouvements Partagés, CACC, Clamart, France, 2018
BACKLIT Gallery, Nottingham, 2018
(BAK), Utrecht, Netherlands, 2017
The Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2017
Speak, Lokal, Zurich Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland, 2017
Social Calligraphies, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2016
Condo, Rodeo Gallery, London, U.K., 2016
Domestic Affairs: Reshaped, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE, 2016
The Fall, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015
Nice Drawings, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE, 2015




= Biennales

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The 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Australia (2020)
The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art (2019)
Busan Biennale, South Korea (2018)
Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play, National Pavilion of United Arab Emirates, 57th Venice Biennale
The 9th Liverpool Biennial, UK (2016)
The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane, Australia (2015)




Awards


Prix Pébéo, 2024
Black Mountain College Prize, 2022
OGR Torino Prize, 2017
2nd Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award, 2016




Collections


The Louvre Abu Dhabi, UAE
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Genève, Switzerland
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
FRAC, Corsica, France
British Museum, London, UK
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Powerhouse museum, Sydney, Australia
Louisiana museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Fundació Han Nefkens, Barcelona, Spain
Collection Le Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Borusan Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection




Publications


2020 EITHER HE’S DEAD OR MY WATCH HAS STOPPED, GROUCHO MARX (WHILE GETTING THE PATIENT’S PULSE), 2020, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Distanz Verlag, ISBN 9783954763337
2018 Forgive me distant wars for bringing flower home, 2018, Corraini Edizioni, ISBN 9788875707415
2016 Her Majesty?, 2016, Edition Patrick Frey, ISBN 9783836535182
2015 Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Hesam Rahmanian, 2015, Mousse Publishing, ISBN 9788867491353




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Ramin, Rokni, Hesam
• Rokni
• Rokni Haerizadeh
• List of Iranian artists
• List of contemporary artists
• Liverpool Biennial
• List of Iranian Americans
• List of Iranian films of the 2020s