Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi (b. 1979) is an Iranian artist from Teheran.

He started his artistic career in his homeland, studying as a painter at the Art University in Tehran and he continued his education at Brera Fine Arts Academy in Italy, graduating in Visual Arts.

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He is currently based both in Milan and Antwerp.

Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi is an Iranian artist born in Teheran in 1979. He started his artistic career in Iran, studying as a painter at the Art University in Tehran and improving his education at the Brera Academy of Milan in Italy, where he graduated in Fine Arts in 2017. He currently lives and works in Milan and Antwerpen. His research is rooted into socio-cultural, artistic and relational integration, developed by using different contemporary art languages such as painting, site-specific installations and performances.

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Mahmoud touches upon his ethnicity, history and tradition of origin. By embellishing them with different concepts, his art offers a vision that reconciles the past with future possibilities, traditions of several cultures of his encounter with innovation, interiority with aesthetic inquiry.

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Fascinated and inspired by intrinsical beauty, Mahmoud starts from firm materials, treating them with respect, embracing the elements of raw textures and the histories they carry. Each material contains endless possibilities, he creates harmonious pieces carrying a personal and cultural-historical soul. Radiating simplicity and modesty, his paradoxically complex works reflect personality and attract curiosity. This results in contemporary and conceptual artworks, minimalistic, abstract, and iconographically strong.

Living in Milan for the past ten years, he worked towards a concrete artistic language, combining Persian and Western heritages, inspired by specific memories and concepts of different cultures he comes in contact with. His works reference universal languages such as mathematics and the combination of full and empty space, combining form and rythm.

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Believing in the strength of the arts of telling stories, impacting social realities and individual lifes, he starts from his own sociological reflections on specific societal situations he encounters, translating them into visual language.

During the first lockdown of 2020, he made the move to Antwerpen. This new context broadened his visuals, opening them up for different viewpoints as well as possibilities.

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Participating artist in ISEAS (International Socially Engaged Art Symposium), Lapua

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Solo exhibition (un)fair Art Fair Milano Superstudio Maxi Milano

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Performance "Ode aan de Primavera" Art Studio Catherine Rochtus KANAAL Wijnegem

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Group Exhibition "Artists on visit x Designers on visit x Ronald van der Hilst" House of Tulips Antwerp 

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Group Exhibition "Redirected 4x4", Godshuis Cornelis Lantschot, Antwerp

Other size gallery "Performance With Art Should Eat", Milan

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Participant artist in "Walk-in Studio Festival", Milan

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Group Exhibition "38TH", Dilmos, Milan

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Group Exhibition "Light Chain", Spazio Nour, Milan

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Group Exhibition "Independently together", Superstudio, Milan

Group Exhibition "Shackless", Den Gallery, Kuwait City 

Finalist artist at Premio Arte 2018 (Cairo Editore), Palazzo Reale, Milan

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Group Exhibition "Persian Contemporary Calligraphy" with Iranian artist and calligrapher Amir Shahrokh Faryoosefi, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Artistic direction of "Travel faraway at home" project for "Pocket History", Amsterdam and Milan

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Performance #04 "Chissà" ​Nhow Milano, Milan

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Solo Exhibition "I did it! (Hanging gardens)", Nhow Milano, Milan

Participant artist in ISEAS (International Socially Engaged Art Symposium), Raseborg

Professor Assistant and Project Manager of  "Se ci fosse?" (workshop for "Social Design course", addressed to international students), NABA, Milan

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Collaborator and Artistic Promoter at Fondazione Empatia, Milan

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Performance #05 and Solo Exhibition “Bar B”, Mudec, Milan

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Installation “Bagliore”, in collaboration with Sbodio 32 for Milan Design Week, Milan

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Performance #06 “I’m sorry”, in collaboration with Sbodio 32, Milan

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Solo Exhibition "Time and Temple", NonostanteMarras Showroom, Milan 

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Performance #04 "Chissà", NonostanteMarras Showroom, Milan 

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Murales project "Art as therapy" for Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan

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Group Exhibition “Contemporary Evening Nour”, Spazio Nour, Milan

Performance #02 “The First Supper”, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Installation “Touch With Eyes”, in collaboration with Antonio Marras for Milan Fashion Week, Milan

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Performance #03 “Trust”, in collaboration with Fastweb for Thinking HUB, Milan

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Installation and Solo Exhibition “Nuova Terra”, NonostanteMarras Showroom, Milan

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Performance #04 “Chissà”, NonostanteMarras Showroom, Milan

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Solo Exhibition "Occhi che toccano", Fabbrica Del Vapore, Milan

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Foundation of "Spazio Nour" cultural centre, Milan

Performance #01 "The Last Supper", Gallery East, Tehran

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Workshop in collaboration with Milan and Krakow Fine Arts Academies, curated by Prof. Pier Luigi Buglioni, Zakopane

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Group Exhibition “Take a walk on my culture”, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Performance #00, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Performance #01 "The Last Supper”, Chiostri di San Barnaba, Milan

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Performance “Le parole hanno forza”, Spazio Tadini, Milan

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Performance #01 “The Last Supper”, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Solo Exhibition ”Incisioni e Linoleumgrafia”, Spazio Nour, Milan

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Solo Exhibition ”Ricordi”, Palazzo Reale, Milan

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Japanese Calligraphy Workshop with Hiroyuki Nakajima, Nobili Gallery, Milan

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Workshop in collaboration with Milan and Krakow Fine Arts Academies, curated by Prof. Pier Luigi Buglioni, Krakow

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Group Exhibition “Codice Osservatorio 6″ curated by Italo Bressan, Ignazio Gadaleta e Franco Marrocco, Chiostro di Voltorre, Varese

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Workshop and Group Exhibition ”Grafica in Opera” curated by Matteo Giannini, Villa Gori, Massarossa 

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