Azar Mahmoudian

Curator, Iran. CPR participant: Who Is Being Heard?

Azar Mahmoudian (Iran) is an independent curator and educator,

Among her projects are multi-chapter program of moving image practices, Sensible Grounds, (Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Lux, Nida Art Colony, Bétonsalon, SAVVY and Tensta Konsthall, among others), When Legacies Become Debts (The Mosaic Rooms, London), Shifting Panoramas (TMOCA and various off-spaces in Tehran, KW, DAZ and feldfünf, Berlin).

She directs a shape-shifting art school between Tehran, Armenian mountains, and other rural places in the region, and and co-organised kaf, a collective study space in Tehran. Both platforms refrain from having an online presence.

She is currently a PhD fellow at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.

CPR 2024: WIBH brings up to 8 international curators to Finland, Norway, and Sweden in September-October 2024 to research the regional art scene with the ambition to get a better understanding of the complex history and current political situation in the Nordics.