Karyashala cordially invites you for online Episode-23 of “MANTHAN” with Artist Mr. Mahmoud Maktabi from Tehran on 28/12/2020 – Monday at 09:00 pm IST and 07:00 pm (Tehran local time), where he will be speaking about: “Reality and Entropy in Environmental art”.
Episode 23 of Manthan will be live through YouTube channel so pls follow below YouTube link.
Mahmoud Maktabi was born in 1985. He began his first artistic study in Persian painting in 1999 and studied BA painting in Shahed University in Tehran. Before graduating from the University, he turned to environmental art and performance in 2005. He has participated in several international exhibitions and festivals in Iran and other country. He has held four solo exhibitions and performance art in Tehran and one in Korea. His work was included in the CONTACT Photography Festival exhibition in Canada and at the Lithuanian “3 worlds in 1” exhibition curated by Edward Lucie Smith.
Mahmoud has been an active participant in the Global Nomadic Art Project since its inception, traveling to South Korea 2014, India 2015, and South Africa 2016 and Lithuania 2017.
He has cooperation as curator with different art galleries and museums. As curator his most recent engagement was “Performance art project: Asia 2020”, ‘The voice of stone’ in Didar Gallery (Isfahan May of 2019), ‘After Reality’ Didar Gallery (Isfahan April of 2019), ‘Source’ Jaleh gallery (Tehran 2018), ‘Beyond inside’ Jaleh gallery (Tehran 2018), “Dameyk” in Hepta Gallery (Tehran 2017) “Eco Avantgarde” which took place in Kunsthalle museum in Hungary (Budapest 2016). Also he had a lecture and project “Living Spaces” in Transylvania about environmental art in Iran. He is Founder & Director of “Rah art residency” in Tehran. He founded Vayu art & mind residency in 2015.
Since 2005, as a member of “open 5” he has performed many group works in environmental art. He has done some scientific studies about contemporary art. Also he was the publisher and chief-editor of “Siah Mashq” quarterly periodical from 2005 to 2008, the journalist of some newspapers and magazines in Iran.
His latest artworks represented in Unfinished, Online exhibition, “Contemporary Nature” Transylvanian art center 2020 Romania, ‘Theertha Performance Biennale 2019 Sri Lanka, “Persian Fallow Deer” Exhibition 2018, “Paper” Hepta Gallery 2017, 57th Venice Biennale 2017, Tree of life Lithuania 2017, GNAP South Africa 2016, Eco Avantgarde Exhibition in műcsarnok Budapest 2016, Group exhibition in Ziya art center California 2016, GNAP India 2015, little statue Festival of Shiraz, Living Space Exhibition in Transylvania, Nap Workshop in Romania, Spring Festival of sculpture in Tehran, Yatooi Residency 2014, GNAP Korea 2014, “Hiroshima Memorial” exhibition in Qasr museum of Tehran, “Earth and Time” selective works of environmental Persian artists, the first festival of environmental art in Tehran, Eco Art Internet Award America(with open 5 group), “Nomadic Report”, Arko art center museum between 2012-2020.