Saghar Daeiri
Saghar Daeiri (born in 1985 - Tehran, Iran). Visual artist and researcher. She lives and works in Istanbul.
She graduated in painting in Tehran, she presented her first solo show at the Azad Art Gallery in 2006, an exhibition in which her works were all sold. Since then she has held 5 other solo shows in Tehran (Azad Art Gallery) and has participated in several group exhibitions around the world (New York, London, Berlin and so on). In 2009 she is called to participate, with 3 paintings from the “Shopping Malls of Tehran” series, in the exhibition entitled: "Iran Inside-Out" at the Chelsea Modern Art Museum in New York. The exhibition saw the participation of 35 artists who live and work in Iran along with 20 others from the Diaspora. The result is a varied portrait of 55 contemporary Iranian artists who challenge conventional perceptions of Iran and Iranian art. The “Iran Coffee shop” series was also enormously successful and was exhibited in Europe, for example at the Brick Lane Art Gallery in London. In 2012 she emigrated to Turkey due to some sociological limitations in Iran and she attended the Master of Arts at the Marmara University in Istanbul. She graduated in 2017. Her first solo show of hers in Turkey in 2019 presented at the Merkur Art Gallery in Istanbul was entitled “Swallow-Kiss-Burn”.
She interprets her artistic ideology of hers as below:
“My paintings are the representation of my society, of the place where I live and of the critical way in which I perceive it; I grew up in Iran, a country that in the course of its history has gone through very dramatic periods that have influenced the socio-cultural development of people. Above all, as a woman, I criticize, in a grotesque and ironic way, my society because of its strict rules that require us to forget what is happening around it. The main purpose of my works of art is to confront and confront people with a contagious disease made of habit and silence! The modern Middle Eastern endemic lifestyle ... shut up, live, consume and stay alive, this is noticeable in women, children, schools and even animals!
So my works of art ironically represent people seeking salvation. The prodigal pursuit of happiness which has shown in some as black humor and comedy."
Ha partecipato a diverse mostre in Turchia, in Iran e in altri paesi.
Solo exhibitions:
2019 “Swallow-Kiss-Burn”- Merkur Art Gallery-Istanbul-Turchia
2014 “Offering You A Shangri –La –Like Enigma At Night Fall” -Azad Art Gallery –Tehran –Iran.
2011 “The man didn’t come with the Horse”-Azad Art Gallery–Tehran –Iran.
2010 “Beautiful, Spacious, Assured”-Azad Art Gallery–Tehran –Iran.
2009 “Tehran Shopping malls”- Azad Art Gallery –Tehran –Iran. “Tehran Coffee Shops”-Tehran-İran.
Group Shows:
2019 “Artweeks @Akaretler” organizzato da Sabiha Kurtulmus and Bilgi Holding, Istanbul, Turchia
2018 “Ortak Sınırlar” (Common Borders) Iranian and Turkish Artists, Curatori: Denizhan Özer & Majid Abbas Farahani, Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Iran.
2018 “Immortality” Representing the 11 Iranian and 11 Turkish Artists associated with Cama Art Gallery and Blue Rhino, Adahan Gallery, Istanbul, Turchia
2018 “Rospigliossi Art Prize”, Roma, Italia
2017 “LANDSCAPE UP CLOSE”, a review on landscape painting in İran in thelast70 years! – Curatore: Rozita Sharafjahan- Niavaran Cultural Center-Tehran, Iran
2017 “Postcards”, Curator: Farhad Fozuni, Azad Gallery, Tehran, İRAN.
2016 “Sew+Zan”, Curator: Saghar Daeiri, Azad Gallery, Tehran, IRAN.
2016 “Flower”, Curator: Mehdi Dandi, Negar Art Gallery, Tehran, IRAN.
2015 “Heroin” Curatore: Ayşe Gülay Hakyemez, Saint Joseph Cultural Center-Istanbul, Turchia.
2014 “Locality and Global Discourse” –Opere da San Francisco e Istanbul -In collaborazione con Marmara University e California College of the Arts –Cumhuriyet Museum– Istanbul
2014 “CONTEMPORARY PALIMPSEST” - California College of the Arts con la direzione con Prof. Mariella Poli, and in Collaboration with Marmara University; Faculty of Fine Arts in February 2014. An International Exhibition by Emerging Artists & Designers –CALIFORNIA
2013 “Art has wings” supported by SOTHEBEY’S Auction–Group Exhibition and Charity Auction–Arter İstanbul and Swedish Palace–Istanbul
2013 Artist Talk -Selected by Marcus Graf –Bilgi University-İstanbul.
2013 “Sweet Tricks” -Video Show-Villa Kurisum– Curator: Amirali Ghasemi-Berlin
2011 “Damoonfar selected artist’s show-AUN ART GALLERY”–TEHRAN
2011 “Charity Group Exhibition”-Ashiane Mehr Art Gallery -Tehran
2010 “Damoonfar” 3th Festival (FABER CASTEL)
2010 “S H E M A G E”- Homa Art Gallery-Tehran
2010 “Drawing Exhibition” Mohsen Art Gallery -Tehran
2009 “IRAN INSIDE OUTSIDE” - Chelsea Museum, NEW YORK, USA
2008 “HEAVEN ON EARTH NOW” - Londra
2008 “URBAN JEALOUSY (seconda biennale di Tehran)–Istanbul, Berlin, Belgrade & …
2007 “SOUREH” collettiva di pittura
Premi:
2010 Getting the 3th prize of the best painter in:
"Damoon far (FABER CASTEL) 3th Festival
2013 Artist speech selected by Marcus Graf (Curator and Moderator) – Speech at: “Bilgi University” – Istanbul
Last update: December 12, 2021