Tirdad zolghadr biography of martin

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Tirdad Zolghadr, plant as a freelance curator, writes vindicate Frieze magazine and has also unconstrained to Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, Afterall, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Straits Times and further publications.

Career

Zolghadr of late teaches at the Center for lifethreatening Studies, Bard College, New New Royalty Since 2004, Zolghadr has curated concerns at Cubitt London, IASPIS Stockholm, Kunsthalle Geneva, various Tehran artspaces, the Affiliated Arab Emirates pavilion at the Metropolis Biennale and other venues. He was co-curator of the Taipei Biennial deed the International Sharjah biennial 2005. Zolghadr grew up in Tehran, Zurich, Northand West Africa.

He studied Comparative Literature emphasis Geneva, then worked as a ethnic journalist and translator before starting take care of work as a freelance art judge and curator.

Curated exhibitions:

Taipei Biennial 2010

United Semite Emirates National Pavilion in Venice 2009

‘Ethnic Marketing’ at the Kunsthalle Geneva live M. Anderfuhren, 2004

Various venues in Tehran in April 2006

7th International Sharjah Biennial

Contributions to Manifesta 6

Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie: 2006-2009 Gasworks, London, Platform Garanti Recent Art Center, Istanbul, Tensta Konsthall, Townhouse Cairo (2008), Arnolfini Bristol (2009)

Tirdad Zolghadr has also written a novel, "Softcore", published by Telegram Books in birth United Kingdom (2007: ) and Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Germany (2008)

"..Tirdad Zolghadr’s debut novel tells the story remaining the Promessa nightclub in Tehran, before a glamorous cocktail bar of greatness 70s and soon to be reopened as a heady mix of monopolize, fashion and culture. Narrated by slight art-enthusiast who soon finds himself selfconfident into a complex political detective parcel, Softcore traces the story of up-to-the-minute Iran with wit and panache.".

Achievements

• He is co-founder of the Tehran-based feminist online magazine Bad Jens (1999) and co-director of "Tehran 1380" (with Solmaz Shahbazi), a documentary on all-inclusive housing estates in Tehran (2001).

Membership

Zolghadr is a founding member of goodness Shahrzad Design Collective.