Abbas Zahedi

 

 

Abbas Zahedi (b. 1984, London, UK) blends contemporary philosophy, poetics, and social dynamics with performative and new-media modes. With an emphasis on how personal and collective histories interweave, Abbas makes connections whenever possible with people involved in the particular situations upon which he focuses.

 

 

 

 

 

Education. Abbas studied medicine at University College London, before completing his MA in Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophies at Central Saint Martins in 2019.

 

Selected exhibitions. Holding a Heart in Artifice, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2023); Divided Selves, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, UK (2023); Horror in the Modernist Block, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2022-23); Waiting With {Sonic Support}, Frieze Art Fair London, London, UK (2022); LOADING LOADING (the inertia of practice), CAPC, contemporary art museum of Bordeaux, France (2022-23); Metatopia 10013, Anonymous Gallery, New York (2022); The London Open 2022, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2022); Beuys Open Source, Belmacz, London, UK (2021-2022); Testament, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2022); Temporary Compositions, Gallery 31 Somerset House, London, UK (2021); Yarmonics 2021, Great Yarmoth, UK (2021); D.E.VALUATION, Mécènes du Sud, Montpellier, France (2021); 11 & 1, Belmacz, London, UK (2021); Governmental Fires, FUTURA, Prague (2021); In Hindsight…, Bladr, Copenhagen, Denmark (2020); Ouranophobia SW3, Chelsea Sorting Office, London, UK (2020);  How To Make A How From A Why?, Fire Station, South London Gallery, London, UK (2020); B, Belmacz, London, UK (2019); Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London, UK (2019); The Age of New Babylon, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK (2018); Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK (2018); appetite, Apiary Studios, London, UK (2018); Diaspora Pavilion, (ICF), Palazzo Pisani a Santa Marina, Venice, Italy (2017);rb&hArts, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK (2008).

 

Selected interventions, projects and performances. CRISIS, Bold Tendencies, London, UK (2023); Sonic Signals, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK (2022-2023); Age of Many Posts, Barbican, London (2022); Frieze Artist Award commission, London, (2022); Sonic Support Group, with Neurofringe (2020 – ongoing); Radio Amnion, Technical University of Munich (2021); Becontree Forever, Create London (2021); Brick Lane Foundation, Whitechapel Gallery (2021); A Case of Med(dling)tation, Performance Exchange at Belmacz (2021); To The Sour Sowers, The Mosaic Rooms, London (2021); The Urgency of The Arts Assembly, Royal College of Art (2021); Soul Refresher, Brent Biennial, London Borough of Culture (2020); Long Table: Lament, South London Gallery (2020); AMRA, Spike Island, Bristol (2019); Rose & STEMM, Guest Projects, London (2019); Outset Grant Ceremony, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); The Boulevard, Tate Britain, London (2018); Studio Jum’ah, Tate Exchange, London (2018); #FakeBooze, Diaspora Pavilion, Venice (2017).

 

Awards. Abbas has been the recipient of numerous awards including: the Frieze Artist Award (2022); the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists (2021); the Serpentine Galleries’ Support Structures for Support Structures (2021); Artangel, Thinking Time (2020); Jerwood Arts Bursary (2019); Aziz Foundation Academic Scholarship (2018); and Khadijah Saye Memorial Fund Scholarship (2017).

 

Abbas is an associate lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), as well as teaching at universities across the UK and abroad.

Artworks

  • Waiting With {Sonic Support}

    Abbas Zahedi

    Waiting With {Sonic Support}, 2022

    (roofed structure) two part installation composed from recycled MDF and tetrapak
    Images by Forma. Courtesy of Abbas Zahedi, Forma, Frieze and Belmacz.

  • Waiting With {Sonic Support}

    Abbas Zahedi

    Waiting With {Sonic Support}, 2022

    (seating structure) two part installation composed from recycled MDF
    Images by Forma. Courtesy of Abbas Zahedi, Forma, Frieze and Belmacz.

  • Abbas Zahedi, Ouranophobia SW3 (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + General Release, London.

    Abbas Zahedi

    Abbas Zahedi, Ouranophobia SW3 (2020). Exhibition view. Image courtesy the artist + General Release, London.

  • LOADING LOADING (the inertia of practice)

    Abbas Zahedi

    LOADING LOADING (the inertia of practice), 2022

    documentation of performance at CAPC museum of contemporary art of Bordeaux

  • The Boulevard

    Abbas Zahedi

    The Boulevard, 2018

    participatory performance at Tate Britain
    variable

  • The Boulevard

    The Boulevard, 2018

    installation view, Tate Britain

  • How To Make A How From A Why?

    How To Make A How From A Why?, 2020

    installation view, South London Gallery

  • How To Make A How From A Why?

    How To Make A How From A Why?, 2020

    installation view, South London Gallery

  • Exit Sign (Nouzový východ)

    Abbas Zahedi

    Exit Sign (Nouzový východ), 2021

    customised exit sign, steel chains & eye bolts
    40cm x 40cm. unique edition

  • Weeping Diwani

    Abbas Zahedi

    Weeping Diwani, 2020

    boiler panel, anti-climb paint, masking tape, user instruction
    68.5 x 45 x 3.8 cm

  • Dwelling: In This Space We Grieve

    Dwelling: In This Space We Grieve, 2019

    installation view, MA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins.

  • Dwelling: In This Space We Grieve

    Dwelling: In This Space We Grieve, 2019

    installation view, MA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins.

  • Brick Lane Foundation

    Abbas Zahedi

    Brick Lane Foundation, 2021

    site-sensitive installation

  • Brick Lane Foundation

    Abbas Zahedi

    Brick Lane Foundation, 2021

    site-sensitive installation

  • Lemon Hanger I

    Abbas Zahedi

    Lemon Hanger I, 2021

    Macramé from recycled cotton yarn, lemons, metal hook
    106 x 10 x 6 cm

  • Lemon Performance (2016)

    Abbas Zahedi

    Lemon Performance (2016), 2022

    photo print on rag paper
    A2

  • Studio Jum'ah Mind Map (2016)

    Abbas Zahedi

    Studio Jum'ah Mind Map (2016), 2022

    photo print on rag paper
    A2

  • MANNA from below

    MANNA from below, 2019

    installation view, Belmacz, London

  • MANNA

    MANNA, 2017

    installation view, Diaspora Pavilion, Venice

  • MANNA

    MANNA, 2017

    installation view, Diaspora Pavilion, Venice

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