# Tarlan Rafiee

Tarlan Rafiee (born 1980; Persian: طرلان رفیعی) is an Iranian visual artist, and curator. She is known for her international contributions to Iranian modern and contemporary art.

## Career
### Artwork

Rafiee embarked on her career as an artist in 2001, when she participated in a group exhibition in Tehran. Since then, she has exhibited her work in several group exhibitions exhibitions across Iran, as well as in Dubai, Austria, France, Italy, the United States, Denmark, and Armenia.
Her notable exhibitions include Cars: Accelerating the Modern World (2013) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; Iranian Voices (2017), curated by Venetia Porter at the British Museum in London; and Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden (2020–2021) at the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck Austria, which she also co-curated.
Rafiee's artworks are housed in international collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Ducal Palace, Mantua, and the Tyrolean State Museum.

### Curator

Rafiee initiated her curatorial career with the "Calling Project" in 2013, facilitating an exchange exhibition between British and Iranian artists. Since then, she has curated numerous exhibitions in Iran, Dubai, Austria, and Italy.
Notable among her projects is Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran held at the Ducal Palace, Mantua, where she served as both curator, and wrote the accompanying exhibition book. It exhibited works from Iranian female artists, including Parvaneh Etemadi, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, and Rozita Sharafjahan. The same exhibition was invited to take place at the Castello del Monferrato in Casale Monferrato in Italy.
Another exhibition in her career is Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden (2020–2021), a collaborative curation effort with her spouse, Yashar Samimi Mofakham, and the state museum director, Peter Assmann, for the Tyrolean State Museum. In this exhibition, they presented the historical collection of Albert Joseph Gasteiger of Qajar art, as well as Iranian masters, including Parviz Tanavoli, Jazeh Tabatabai, Reza Bangiz, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, Mazdak Ayari, and Khosrow Sinai. Rafiee co-curated the exhibition, and co-wrote the 2020 exhibition book under the same title.
In 2008, she co-founded Bread & Salt Projects, a curatorial project as well as an extended archive and collection of Iranian modern and contemporary art in order to preserve the documents of the Iranian modern and contemporary art.
Rafiee has been invited to give lectures or participate in panel discussions about the Iranian modern and contemporary art by the British Museum, the Iran Heritage Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
She often has worked alongside her spouse, Yashar Samimi Mofakham.

## Curated exhibitions

* Selfdom / a personal project, 2011, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Tehran, Iran
* Tehran Calling: London, 2013, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, LPS, London, UK
* Parviz Tanavoli’s Exercise Writing: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
* Parviz Tanavoli’s Universal Icons: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
* RTL:LTR, an exchange exhibition between Iran and Austria (right to left, left to right), with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Peter Assmann, and CO:K; traveling exhibit to the Galerie Forum in Wels, Austria, 2016; the Artmark Galerie in Wien, Austria, 2016; the Lajevardi Foundation, in Tehran, Iran, 2016; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, in Iran, 2016–2017
* Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Castello Di Moferrato, Casale Monferrato, Italy
* Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Mantova, Italy
* Iran Print -01, 2019, Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE
* Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden, 2020–2021, Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck, Austria