About

Elham Rahmati

Elham Rahmati (b. 1989, Tehran) is a visual artist, curator and producer based in Helsinki. She holds an MA of Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. She also has pursued an MA of Visual Culture, Curating & Contemporary Art from Aalto University. Her work is based on the fields of painting, installation and video art and has been exhibited in Germany, Slovenia, Denmark, Finland, etc. Currently, she works as the curator and producer of the Academy of Moving People & Images.

ٍEDUCATION

2016-               MA in Visual Culture and Contemporary Art at Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

2014                 Academic Exchange in Visual Culture & Contemporary Art at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland.

2013-2016      MFA in Visual Arts & New Expressive Languages/Painting in Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze in Florence, Italy.

2012                BFA in Painting from the Sepehr University of Art in Esfahan, Iran.

2008               Graduation from Sooreh Art School in Film Studies.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018.     Holding a Monument, Myymälä2 Gallery, Helsinki, Finland, 2018.

2017      It Seemed the Better Way, K18 Gallery, Maribor, Slovenia.

2015      In the Dark Times Will There Also Be Singing? Third Space, Helsinki, Finland.

2015      Stories From the Sea, Stories From the City, Gallery Klein, Helsinki, Finland.

2009     In the Dark Times Will There Also Be Singing? Ghalam Gallery, Esfahan, Iran.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019     The Crew: taco stuffs and life “after” the institution, Huuto Galleria, Helsinki, Finland.

2018     Videokanava: Resolution / Kumous, screening 2, ContemporaryArt Center Pispala, Tampere, Finland.

Videokanava: Resolution / Kumous, screening 2, Yard of Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.

2018     Here to Disappear, Third Space, Helsinki, Finland.

2018     ArtHouse Disclosure, ArtHouse, Espoo, Finland.

2018     System & Error, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM), Tallin, Estonia.

2018     Always First Demolition, Dispersed Holdings, New York, United States.

2017     Opdagelser 2017, Galleri Heike Arndt DK, Kettinge, Denmark.

2017     Reviewing Richter, Zbirka Richter, Zagreb, Croatia.

2017     Fresh Legs 2017, Gallery Heike Arndt DE, Berlin, Germany.

2017     Is/Not: Sculpture For the Post-Truth Era, Aalto Learning Center, Espoo, Finland.

2015     Women Communicating Across and Through Arts, Caisa, Helsinki, Finland.

2015     Mediums & Dimensions, Art House, Espoo, Finland.

2015     In-between, Aalto University Observatory, Espoo, Finland.

CURATORIAL & COLLABORATIVE

2020.     Curator of the exhibition ‘Stories from the sea, stories from the city’, Stoa Gallery, Helsinki, Finland.

202o.     Lecture/screening/discussion at MMC KIBLA as part of the Risk Change project and X-OP Discourse Series, Maribor, Slovenia.

2020     Curator and producer of AMPI Public Screening at Bio Rex, Helsinki, 2020.

2018-     Curator and producer of  ‘Academy of Moving People & Images‘, Helsinki, Finland.

2018       Curator of Academy of Moving People & Images test-workshop directed by Erol Mintas at Goethe-Institut Finnland.

2018       Assistant editor of HIAP Yearbook 2017.

2017       Co-curating the course Authorship & Agency: Learning From the Middle East. Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

2017       Workshop & technical Assistant in Ivana Franke, Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen’s exhibition: Perceptual Drift (Galaxies in Mind) / GREY AREA, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia.

2016       On Revolutionary Stories, Curating a Lecture/discussion event with Ramy Essam, Aalto University. Espoo, Finland.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCY PROGRAM

2018.     ~In Waves~ Intensive residency of feminist curating at Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Culture Centre organised by Nynnyt, 2018.

2o17       Artist in residence at GuestRoomMaribor, Maribor, Slovenia.

PUBLICATIONS

2019.     Double spread in the book “Speed of Resin”, Cooperative Editions, New York.

2018.     Article published by CuMMA-Studies in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art, Notes on the Archeology of the Final Decade/ Retracing a Utopian Stage: Festival of Arts, Shiraz—Persepolis (1967-1977)

2018.      Double spread in the zine “Common Ostrich”,  Paranoia Publishing, Tallin, 2018.

2016       Master’s Thesis in the Academy of Florence – The Agonistic Curatorial and Artistic Practices in Iran.

2015       CUMMA PAPERS #13, Interview with Sabine Dahl Nielsen.

GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2020                   Taike, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, project grant for  ‘Academy of Moving People & Images‘.

2019                    AVEK, Training & Course Support grant for the project ‘Academy of Moving People & Images‘.

2018                    Kone Foundation, 18 months working grant for the project ‘Academy of Moving People & Images‘.

2018.                   Taike, Arts Promotion Centre Finland, 6 months Artist grant.

2018                     Aalto Art’s Department Grant for the upcoming exhibition in Myymälä2, Finland.

2017                     MIUR: Ministry of Education, Universities & Research, Italy.

2016 – 2013        Dsu Toscana, Full Tuition scholarship, Florence, Italy.

2014 – 2015        Erasmus Scholarship for a full academic year in Finland.

MEMBERSHIPS 

2020                  Member of the steering group of the Feminist Culture House.
2017-2019        Member of Third Space Collective, Helsinki.
2017-        Catalysti: Transcultural Artists in Finland.