Vali Mahlouji

Vali Mahlouji. (born in Tehran, Iran), is a curator.
, artist, writerhttp://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/publications/art-in-the-age-of-anxiety1 and educator
==Biography==
Mahlouji gained his foundational training in the disciplines of Archaeology, Philology and Psychoanalysis at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies and University College, London) and Anna Freud Centre. His work is situated in the space between curatorial, artistic practice, and research. He is the founder of Archaeology of the Final Decade (AOTFD), a non-profit curatorial platform that excavates accounts of culture, which have remained obscure, banned, or lost through material destruction.
==Curatorial Practice==
Mahlouji’s curatorial practice has focussed on excavating the contexts within which art objects and cultural artefacts emerge and re-emerge across historical periods. His interests focus on devising an advancing process and methodology that pushes beyond the fetish of the artefact or art object, in order to evince the wider social, political, and historical consequential power. Mahlouji's practice is aimed at the recalibration of history and historical reconciliations.
Mahlouji has curated shows at several international museums, galleries and institutions such as, Photo London; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; FOAM Amsterdam; MAXXIhttps://www.maxxi.art/en/events/unedited-history-iran-1960-2014/ Rome; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, Bergen Triennial; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Sursock Museum, Beirut.
==Artistic Practice==
As a research artist, Mahlouji’s works have been showcased internationally and nationally at Tate Modern, Asia Culture Centrehttps://www.acc.go.kr/en/exhibition.do?PID=0202&action=Read&bnkey=EM_0000003941, Gwangju; Arnolfini, Bristol; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow and de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.
==Art Historian, Writer, Critic, and Educator== 
Mahlouji’s literary works as an art historian, writer and critic have been published in various exhibition catalogues, anthologies, books, and journals. Mahlouji is a frequent lecturer at international art and cultural institutionshttps://www.bowerbird.org/event/shiraz-an-introduction/
==Exhibitions (as curator)==
*Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju | 13 May – 25 October 2020
*Sursock Museum, Beirut | 28 June – 22 September 2019
*SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin | 24 March – 28 April 2019
*Rohtas 2 Gallery in collaboration with Lahore Literary Festival 2019, Lahore | 21 February – 12 March 2019
*Dhaka Art Summit ‘18, Dhaka | 2 – 10 February 2018
*Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool | 15 September – 15 December 2017
*Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran | 21 April – 23 June 2017
*Bergen Assembly, Biennial Foundation, Bergen | 1 September – 2 October 2016
*Singapore International Festival of Arts | 23 June – 9 July 2016
*Prince Claus Fund, Amsterdam | 30 November 2015 – 4 April 2016
*Photo London, London | 21 – 24 May 2015
*Whitechapel Gallery, London | 21 Apr – 4 Oct 2015
*Art Dubai Modern, Dubai | 18 – 21 March 2015
*Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York | 10 January – 20 February 2015
*MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome | 11 Dec – 29 March 2015
*Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris | 16 May – 24 August 2014
*FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam | 21 March – 4 May 2014
*Sheffield Fringe Documentary Film Festival | 2014
*Barbican Centre | 2008
==Exhibitions (as artist)==
*Asia Culture Centre, Gwangju | 13 May – 25 October 2020
*Arnolfini, Bristol | 14 September – 15 December 2019
*Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow | 8 March – 26 May 2019
*de la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea | 9 February – 27 May 2019
*Hydra School Project, Hydra | 20 June – September 2018
*Art Montecarlo, Montecarlo | 27 – 29 April 2018
*Tate Modern | 2017-2018
==Publications==
*“Trauma and Traces in the Photography of Hrair Sarkissian”, Hrair Sarkissian: The Other Side of Silence, edited by Dr. Omar Kholeif and Dr. Theodor Ringborg, Bonniers Konsthall and Lenz Press, Milan | 2021
*“Archaeology of the Final Decade: The Case of the Citadel”, Institution as Praxis: New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research, edited by Carolina Rito and Bill Balaskas, Sternberg Press in collaboration with Nottingham Contemporary, Berlin | 2020
*Recreating the Citadel, London Middle East Institute Magazine, Volume 14 Number 5 | 2018
*“A Utopian Stage”, Dhaka Art Summit ’18, Dhaka | 2018
*“The Fantastical Polaroids of Kaveh Golestan”, The Fields of Empty Days, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Prestel Publishing, Los Angeles | 2018
*The Super-Modernism of the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis, di'van: A Journal of Accounts, issue 2, Sydney | 2017
*From Radical to Radial: Perspectives on the Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, Guggenheim Museum, New York | 2017
*Aspiration, Hope, Dissent, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin | 2016
*From Studio to Street: The Intimate Gaze of Kaveh Golestan, di'van: A Journal of Accounts, issue 1, Sydney | 2016
*I Know Why The Rebel Sings, Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, Amsterdam | 2016
*Prostitute: 1975-77, Photo London | 2015
*“The Contested Space: The Metapolitics of The Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis”, Unedited History: Iran 1960–2014, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris | 2014
*“Re-Creating Shahr-e No: The Intimate Politics of the Marginal”, Unedited History: Iran 1960–2014, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris | 2014
*Kaveh Golestan: The Citadel, FOAM Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam | 2014
*“A Radical Third World Rewriting”, Iran Modern, edited by Fereshteh Daftari and Layla Diba, Asia Society Museum and Yale University Press, New York | 2013
*But I Prefer Dogs with Uncropped Hair - The Rampaging Self-Portraitist, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris | 2013
*Heterotopian Spaces of Kiarostami, Rossi & Rossi Gallery, Hong Kong | 2013
*I Put It There, You Name It, Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery, Dubai | 2012
*Salto, Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery, Dubai | 2012
*Silent Protest, Leila Heller Gallery, New York | 2012
*The Act of Witnessing, Canvas Magazine, Dubai | 2012
*Little Girl Is Not Afraid of the Dark, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | 2011
*Fictionville: A Place Beyond Good and Evil - Reflections on Violence and the Society of Spectacle, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah | 2011
*Beware of this Image, Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah | 2011
*Where Do We Go from Here, Sprovieri Gallery, London | 2011
*Whip of a Foe, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | 2010
*Memories, Dreams, Obsessions: sketching a portrait of Y. Z. Kami, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens | 2009
*Rokni Haerizadeh, Oh Victory! You Forgot Your Underwear, B21 Gallery, Dubai | 2009
*Symbols of Transformation and Fantasies of the Imagination, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | 2009
*The Endurance of a Living Art, London Middle East Institute Magazine, London | 2009
*Justice for Europe's Forgotten Parent, The Guardian, London | 2001
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