2nd Han Nefkens Foundation-MACBA Award, 2016[6][7][8]
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.[9][10][11][12]
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).[13][14] 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.[15][16][17]
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.[18][19][20] Their home is a spectrum of a studio, a library, film set, research center, a museum and sketchbook for their upcoming project.[21][22][23][24][25]
Work
The artists work individually and collectively and often incorporate friends and people from different walks of life into their practice.[26][27] 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.[28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
Generosity is in the core of their practice.[35] 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.[36][35] In the trios art making, production is performance. And the performance is a collective action leading to dance, art, and politics.[35][37] 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."[38]
The collective is also notable for receiving the Black Mountain College Prize, 2022, and Han Nefkens Foundation/MACBA Award (2016).[39] The trio has additionally been a part of group exhibitions including A Century of the Artist's Studio: 1920–2020, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK,[40]Biennale of Sydney where they had a large installation I Prefer Talking to Doctors About Something Else at The Powerhouse Museum (2020),[41] the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark for Homeless Souls (2019)[42] for which they won the 6th Global Fine Art Award in Global Humanity category,[42][43] The inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art 2019,[44] and a multi-room installation for The Creative Act in Guggenheim Abu Dhabi (2017),[45] 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.[46]
Solo exhibitions
Le Diwan de Démon, CCC OD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France, 2 June 2023- 18 February 2024.[47]
The Beautiful Decay of Flowers in The Vase, Galerie Insitu Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France, 14 May 2023- 28 July 2023.[48]
Atlas of the World, Laurel Parker Book, Paris, France, 14 May 2023- 28 July 2023.[49]
Alluvium, OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni at Venice, Venice, Italy, 22 April- 27 November 2022.[50]
Parthenogenesis, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, 2022. 1 March - June 12, 2022.[51]
From March to April... & From Sea to Dawn, ajh, Bielefeld, Germany (2021). 15 April until 14 July 2021.[52]
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.[53]
We Are Open For Installation, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai, UAE (2019). May 15 – November 9, 2019.[54]
The Rain Doesn’t Know Friends From Foes, Frye Museum, Seattle, USA (2019). JANUARY 26 – APRIL 28, 2019.[55]
Night of Another Spring (Part 1 & 2), Galerie Insitu Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France (2018). 10. September - 17 November 2018.[56]
From Sea to Dawn, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (2018). 30.Jan.2018-10.March.2018.[58]
The Maids, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2017). October 28, 2017 to January 7, 2018.[59]
The Birthday Party, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, USA (2015). Dec 16, 2015 – Mar 27, 2016.[60][61]
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.[62]
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.[63]
Slice a Slanted Arc Into Dry Paper Sky, Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland (2015). Feb 21 2015 - May 17, 2015.[64]
The Exquisite Corpse Shall Drink the New Wine, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, UAE (2014). 18.March.2014-18.May.2014.[65]
I Put it There You Name It, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, UAE (2012). 05.March.2012-17.May.2012.[66]
Group exhibitions
Exils – Regards D’artistes, Louvre, Lens, France 2024[67]
Forms of The Shadow, Secession, Vienna, Austria 2024[68]
2020 EITHER HE’S DEAD OR MY WATCH HAS STOPPED, GROUCHO MARX (WHILE GETTING THE PATIENT’S PULSE), 2020, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Distanz Verlag, ISBN9783954763337[122]
2018 Forgive me distant wars for bringing flower home, 2018, Corraini Edizioni, ISBN9788875707415[123]