• Abbas Zahedi
available works
Abbas Zahedi, [excerpt] Naan Binary, 2017
single channel HD video
00:02:01
Abbas Zahedi’s interdisciplinary practice blends contemporary philosophy, poetics and social dynamics. Through installation, sound, performance and context-specific gestures, Abbas’ artworks fundamentally explore how personal and collective histories interweave; holding ajar the socio-politics that so often define modes of being today, making these more hospitable in turn.
Abbas Zahedi, #DeleteTheBeans (Livestream), 2020
single channel HD video
00:13:03
Abbas Zahedi, Studio Jum'ah Mind Map (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, nine upturned titles, 2023
nine salvaged parquet floor tiles from Abbas Zahedi Ouranophobia SW3, 2020., nine salvaged parquet floor tiles from Abbas Zahedi Ouranophobia SW3, 2020.
Abbas Zahedi, Lemon Performance (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
vinyl print on acrylic, enamel light box, power cable, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
vinyl print on acrylic, enamel light box, power cable, 40cm x 40cm (each). Four of six differently customised exit signs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (How To Make A How From A Why?), 2020
design for custom made exit sign, 40cm x 40cm. One of six different designs
Abbas Zahedi, Plato Lemon (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, MORAVEK: bottling process, 2016
single channel video
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Abbas Zahedi, Malady, Malaise, Maladaption (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, Untitled (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, Malt Mixture Methology (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, Centrifugal Pump Assemblage (2016), 2022
photo print on rag paper, A2
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (Notausgang), 2023
customised exit sign, steel chains and eye bolts., 40cm x 40cm.
Abbas Zahedi, Lemon Hanger, 2021
macramé from recycled cotton yarn, lemons, metal hook, 106 x 10 x 6 cm
Abbas Zahedi, 11:11 (1030), 2023
3 channel audio soundscape, played via surface transducers, site-specific gestures and fabric., 11:11h
Abbas Zahedi, 11:11 (1030), 2023
3 channel audio soundscape, played via surface transducers, site-specific gestures and fabric., 11:11h
Abbas Zahedi, 11:11 (1030), 2023
3 channel audio soundscape, played via surface transducers, site-specific gestures and fabric., 11:11h
Abbas Zahedi, Speaker Hanger, 2021
macramé from recycled cotton yarn, Minrig portable installation speakers with a sound piece, 298 x 37 x 4 cm
Abbas Zahedi, 11&1, 2021
soundscape
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Abbas Zahedi, Book Hanger, 2021
macramé from recycled cotton yarn, chain, publication, 298 x 37 x 4 cm
Abbas Zahedi, [excerpt] 11:11, 2020
3 channel soundscape
00:11.11.
Abbas Zahedi, Weeping Diwani, 2020
boiler panel, anti-climb paint, masking tape, user instruction , 68.5 x 45 x 3.8 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Exit Sign (Nouzový východ), 2021
installed in Governmental Fires, Futura. Customised exit sign, steel chains & eye bolts, 40cm x 40cm.
Abbas Zahedi, How To Make A How From A Why?: hand towel unit, 2020
plastic, metal, cotton and vinyl print, 39 x 26 x 73 cm
Abbas Zahedi, How To Make A How From A Why? handmade bowl, 2020
ceramic with internal brown glass crackle glaze from Venice Diaspora Pavilion 2017 drink's bottles, 20.5 x 20 x 7.5 cm
Abbas Zahedi, How To Make A How From A Why? handmade bowl, 2020
ceramic with internal brown glass crackle glaze from Venice Diaspora Pavilion 2017 drink's bottle, 20.5 x 20 x 7.5 cm
Abbas Zahedi, How To Make A How From A Why? handmade bowl, 2020
ceramic with internal brown glass crackle glaze from Venice Diaspora Pavilion 2017 drink's bottles, 20.5 x 20 x 7.5 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Studio Jum'ah poster, 2018
photo print on rag papaer, A2
Abbas Zahedi, ME, MYSELF & A I I I (excerpt), 2017
single channel HD video
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Abbas Zahedi, Sherbat'e MANNA Samovar, 2018
gold plated electric Samovar tea set, dried flower bouquet and Shandy Saffron Bottle,, 40.5 x 15.5 x 15.5 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Artist with Pipe, 2015 (2022)
inkjet print on dibond, with custom aluminum frame, 40 x 60 cm
publication and press
“ ” #07
a conversation between Eva Wilson and Abbas Zahedi, 2023
What happens when we think of the space of art as a living body? Abbas Zahedi became an artist by way of a medical education, a philosophy symposium in a chip shop, community organising, and “Dissociative Realism”, as described in an essay by Arsalan Isa. With Eva Wilson, Zahedi explores translation and transplantation as frameworks that allow us to understand ourselves in relation to others—as life-support systems to counter the erosion of identity through trauma.
ISBN : 978-88-8056-206-1
EAN : 9788880562061
Abbas Zahedi, Eva Wilson, Arsalan Isa, “ ” #07, 2023
publication
Semi Rational Records of Artchievement
artist’s publication 2021
assembled on the occasion of the artist’s solo exhibition 11 & 1,
11 June 2021 Belmacz, London (UK).
Abbas Zahedi, Semi Rational Records of Artchievement, 2021
publication, 24.5 x 32 x 1 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Semi Rational Records of Artchievement, 2021
publication, 24.5 x 32 x 1 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Semi Rational Records of Artchievement, 2021
publication, 24.5 x 32 x 1 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Semi Rational Records of Artchievement, 2021
publication, 24.5 x 32 x 1 cm
Abbas Zahedi, Semi Rational Records of Artchievement, 2021
publication, 24.5 x 32 x 1 cm
select press and interviews
Review: HEARTBURN?, Maximiliane Leuschner, TEXTE ZUR KUNST, October 2023
Essay: Rooms We Leave Behind, Alessandro Rabottini, Mousse 82, 2023
Interview: Galleries for grieving, En Liang Kong, Financial Times, 2022
Essay: Frieze Artist Award, Eva Wilson, Frieze Week Magazine, 2022
Review (solo): Metatopia 10013, Kaleem Hawa, ARTFORUM, 2022
Interview: On the Rituals of Grieving, Jamila Prowse, FRIEZE, 2022
Essay: Dissociative Realism, Arsalan Isa, 2022
Press: Metatopia 10013, Anonymous, 2022
Essay: Abbas Zahedi: 11&1, Toby Upson, Belmacz, 2021
Review: Sonic Support Group, Roisin Tapponi, FRIEZE, 2021
Interview: To The Sour Sowers, The Mosaic Rooms, 2021
Interview: Fear of heaven, Kashif Sharma-Patel, AQNB, 2021
Review (solo): Ouranophobia SW3, Hammad Nasar, Ocula, 2021
Review (solo): Ouranophobia SW3, Chloe Carroll, Art Monthly, 2021
Interview: Ouranophobia SW3 (solo), Adam Hines-Green, 2020
Interview (video): South London Gallery (solo), 2020
Interview (audio): The Suite (212) Sessions with Juliet Jacques, 2020
Essay: Transactional Objects, Cedric Fauq, Mousse Magazine 71, 2020
Review (solo): How to Make a How from a Why?, The White Pube, 2020
Review: AMRA, Spike Island, Amy Grace, Bristol24/7, November 2019
Review: ME, MYSELF & A I I I (2017), Laura O’Leary, 2018
Interview: Jum’ah at the Tate: Abbas Zahedi, Amaliah.com, January 2018
Artist biography
Abbas Zahedi (state approved headshot), Blaze Images, West London, 2024
Selected exhibitions include: 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 include: 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).
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.
Further information, including work availability, can be provided upon request.
Please contact gallery@belmacz.com for further information