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Tirdad Hashemi

Tirdad Hashemi was born in 1991 in Teheran, Iran. They live and work between Paris, Teheran and Berlin.

Whether on paper or canvas, often in small formats and depending on the means at hand, people agitate, congregate and break out. Sometimes they seem to free themselves from all constraints and conventions, and sometimes they suffocate on our rules of decorum, finally vomiting all over our well-meaning societies.

In their own words, the artist may not be “an activist that dwells in the streets, but an activist with the lifestyle [they have] chosen”. Hashemi will never feel free from their home country, Iran, but somehow, they will remain a foreigner, a stranger wherever they go. Art is their only necessity, their true home. The only place they can express fully. The only place where they can be at the same time themselves and others, because in this space, everything is still possible.

“Painting, in my working process, always starts from a story and continues like a dream. Everything is always possible in sleep.” Tirdad Hashemi

Paris+ par Art Basel 2023

Art Fair
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
October 18-22, 2023

40 ans du Frac ! Gunaikeîon

Group show including the work of Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian and Cally Spooner
Frac Île de France, Romainville
October 15 - December 16, 2023

Floating Worlds

Group show including the work of Dove Allouche, Robert Breer, Mark Geffriaud, Tirdad Hashemi, Pratchaya Phinthong, Roman Ondak and Chloé Royer.
gb agency, Paris
October 14 - November 10, 2023

The Scorpion Snuff Box: A Visual Journey Into a queer Novel

Group show including the works of Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian
Maria Theresia Bastilion (St Hector), Timișoara
June 30 - July 20, 2023

Art Basel, 2023

Art Fair
Messe Basel, Basel
June 13 - 18, 2023

Art Paris 2023

Art fair with the works of Majd Abdel Hamid, Dove Allouche, Tirdad Hashemi
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
March 29 - April 2, 2023

Woman, life, freedom. In support for Iranian women and men

Hanging of the collection including the works of Tirdad Hashemi
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
March 8 - 27, 2023

Tirdad Hashemi: The Trapped Lullabies

Solo show
gb agency, Paris
February 4 - March 11, 2023
Extended until March 18, 2023

De leur temps (7), un regard sur les collections privées

Group show with the work of Paul Heintz and Tirdad Hashemi
Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque
January 31 - March 4, 2023

Paris+ by Art Basel

Art Fair with the works of Dove Allouche, Tirdad Hashemi, Apostolos Georgiou, Roman Ondak, Cally Spooner, Majd Abdel Hamid, Paul Heintz and Ryan Gander.
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
October 20-23, 2022

La Fugitive

Group show including works by Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian
Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry - Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine 
September 18 - December 18, 2022

A fleur de peau

Group show with works by Tirdad Hashemi
Passerelle, Centre d’art contemporain, Brest
June 17 - September 17, 2022

Before Waiting Becomes Part of Your Life

Collective show with the works of Mark Geffriaud, Apostolos Georgiou, Tirdad Hashemi, Paul Heintz, David Horvitz, Július Koller, Jirí Kovanda, Roman Ondak, Pak Sheung Chuen, and Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
May 14 - July 19, 2022

Des corps, des écritures

Group show with works by Roman Ondak and Tirdad Hashemi from the collection
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
April 20 - August 28, 2022

Art Paris 2022

Art Fair
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
April 6 - 10, 2022

Ce devant quoi

A collective exhibition by Yann Sérandour
gb agency, Paris
March 26 - May 7, 2022

Dance of Life

Group show with works by Majd Abdel Hamid, Tirdad Hashemi & Soufia Erfanian, Paul Heintz, Apostolos Georgiou, Hassan Sharif, Elené Shatberashvili
gb agency, Paris
January 29 - March 19, 2022

FIAC 2021

Art Fair
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
October 20 - 24, 2021

Pierre Bal-Blanc: I GOT UP

Group exhibition
gb agency, Paris
October 19 - November 13, 2021

BREEZE 5: Tirdad Hashemi: Wet Plastic Fragile Heart

Solo exhibition
gb agency, Paris
March 17 - May 23, 2021

Press articles (selection)

2022
Numéro art, Une Jeune Scène: Tirdad Hashemi, French and English, text by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, (September)
Les Inrockuptibles, “La Fugitive”: comment expose-t-on le corps collectif lesbien, French, text by Ingrid Luquet-Gad, (September)
2021
Libération, «Dans la tiédeur de la nuit», de vous à moite, by Judicaël Lavrador, (February)

Tirdad Hashemi, exhibition view À fleur de peau, 2022 - Passerelle Centre d’art contemporain, Brest © photo : Aurélien Mole

Exhibition view, La Fugitive, Centre d’Art Contemporain D’Ivry - Le Crédac, 2022, Photo Marc Domage

Exhibition view, La Fugitive, Centre d’Art Contemporain D’Ivry - Le Crédac, 2022, Photo Marc Domage

Exhibition view with works produced in collaboration with Soufia Erfanian, Dance of Life, gb agency, Paris, 2022

Exhibition view with works produced in collaboration with Soufia Erfanian, Dance of Life, gb agency, Paris, 2022


Artworks

The whole history is being written with waves of Black blood, 2022
Dreaming of you dismantles any fear of loneliness at night, 2021
My heart isn’t used to all this light and illumination. I ask myself, do I deserve it?, 2021
Now I'm stuck again in the room of your memories, 2021
Paralysis at the absence of light, 2021
Singular force of dreaming of your magical power, 2021
Spell, duplicate luminescence, 2021
The history of our childhood traumas is even drier than Berlin weather, 2021
They've forgotten that love cannot fit on a box, 2021
Anywhere you go, sad is sad, 2020
I got scared for the first time, 2020
I have claustrophobia, 2020
If corona don’t kill us we kill each other, 2020
Stuttering language, 2020
The difficult life of an easy girl, 2020
Traumatizing family, 2020
It’s raining arrows darling, 2017
Life is hard or you are Yellow?, 2017
Snow in the throat, 2017
We have to talk, 2017
We failed the dog, 2016
Aaaah ça fait longtemps, 2015
Absence, 2015
Being apart is extremely hard, I wish our lives would end together, 2015
Cut and Run, 2015
Good Wasted, 2015
Human Lunch Box, 2015
Jump in the air cause youth is over soon, 2015
Mother of night, 2015
Mum I have cut my hair again, 2015
The letters that never arrived, 2015
Too sad, I won't tell, 2015
We are not from Here, 2015
When I try to throw away the past, 2015
Who eats soul food for lunch, 2015
The tree of jealousy, 2014
I had taken Bobby (Shadi’s dog) for a walk in a farm when the police arrested us both! Whether a farm is the place for dogs or cops I don’t know!, 2012
The smell of the fish in fish markets and the fish for new year’s eve is the same. Momma, how can one have the appetite to buy the new year’s fish in the tank and eat it?, 2012
The smell of the sacrificed sheep’s blood on my forehead when I was four years old is still in my nose, 2012
The sound of your teeth crunching while you sleep still makes the dogs howl. Nobody has killed the neighbou- ring dogs yet., 2012