Mahmoud Saleh Mohammadi

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.

Mahmoud touches upon his ethnicity, history and tradition of origin. By embellishing them with different concepts, he broadens the expected visual aesthetics associated with Iran. 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.

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 containing a personal and cultural-historical soul. Radiating simplicity and modesty, his paradoxically c...

Brera Academy of Fine Arts - Milano

2022 (un)fair Art Fair Milano
2022 Performance 'Ode aan de Primavera', KANAAL Axel Vervoordt
2021 House of Tuliips, Group Exhibition
2021 Open Laboratory Weeks Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen, Performance
2020 Godshuis Cornelis Lantchot, Antwerpen, Group Exhebition Redirected 4x4
2020 Other size gallery, Milano, Performance With Art should eat | Dinner
2019 Dilmos 38th, Design week Milano, Group Exhibition
2019 International Contemporary Art Award LYNX 4th, Torino, MIIT-Museo Internazionale Italia Arte
2018 Super-studio Milano, Group Exhibition Independently Together for Vuoge foto festival
2018 Den Gallery, Kuwait, Exhibition Shackless
2018 Royal Palace Milano, Art Award, Group Exhibition 19° Premio Cairo
2017 Nhow Milano, Milano, Performance on Calligraphy Context # 04 CHIESA’
2017 Nhow Milano, Milano Exhibition I DID IT! on the contemporary carpet
2017 Spazio Nour, Milano, Contemporary Persian Calligraphy Exhibition with Iranian Artist Amirshahrokh Faryoosefi contemporary Iran calligraphy
2016 Palma il Vecchio Prime, Art Award, Serina Bergamo
2016 Spazio Nour, Milano, Persian Calligraphy Workshop with Warsawia Academy, by Professor Maddalena
2016 ShowRoom Antonio Marras, Milano Exhibition Time & Temple ...