artist-curator
stand in Rotterdam
foadalijanistudio@gmail.com
@foadalijani
Foad Alijani is a research-oriented artist whose practice navigates through maps, images, and installations. His exploration, drawn by memory and imagination, inhabits lived experience and moves across the terrain of embodied perception and environmental reflections. He meditates on how inner and outer worlds intersect and transform one another, forming an architecture of experience. Since 2018, he has led his curatorial initiative, Paadmaan projects, which explores the alternative paths of research, dialogue and dissemination within the ever-changing conditions of life.
mini CV [for full version please send an email]
Educations
Master of DAI Art Praxis — ArtEZ University of Arts, Netherlands, 2025.
Master of Art in Research — Soore University of Art, Tehran, Iran, 2015.
Bachelor of Applied Art — Isfahan University of Art, Isfahan, Iran, 2008.
Stations
Founder and Curator, Paadmaan projects, 2018-Present.
Designer, Royanegaran Design Studio, 2010-2024.
Gallery Coordinator, Iranian Academy of Arts, 2008-10.
Founder and Editor, Barg-e-Sefid magazine, Isfahan university of art, 2006-8.
Exhibitions / Projects
N — Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania, 2024.
Cloud and Moon — Centrale Fies, Dro, Italy, 2024.
When I Was Five — PAF (Performing Arts Forum), St Erme, France, 2024.
Coextensive Points — Yatoo (Korean Nature Artists’ Association), Gongju, South Korea, 2017.
Lines — Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany, 2016.
Inventory — La Cabine Art Space, Clrmont-Ferand, France, 2016.
Equation — Saye Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2015.
Reminiscence — Jorjani Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2013.
Fluid Dream — Gallery of Isfahan University of Art, Isfahan, Iran, 2008.
Selected Group Shows
To see the Forest for the Pines — State Gallery of Contemporary Art (SPEL), Nicosia, Cyprus, 2025.
Between Lines — Private Space, Tehran, Iran, 2021.
CARBON 18 — Contemporary art event in Saint-Étienne, France, 2018.
France-Iran Exchange Program — Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran, 2016.
Sadra Eco Park Land Art Festival — Shiraz, Iran, 2015.
Residencies
Yatoo (Korean Nature Artists’ Association) — Gongju, South Korea, 2017.
Institut für Alles Mögliche — Berlin, Germany, 2016.
Artistes en Résidence — Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2016.
Artistic Affiliation
Performing Arts Forum (PAF) — (Member) 2023-2025.
Nomadic School of Arts (KASK & Conservatorium) — (Partner with Paadmaan projects) 2022-Present.
LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) — (Chair) 2021-2023.
Artistes en Résidence — Clermont-Ferrand, France, (Member) 2018.
Iranian Museum of Graphic Design — (Member) 2017-2023.
Iran Council of Graphic Design Association (Partner of ICOGRADA) — (Member) 2013-Present.
Iran Visual Arts Institute — (Member) 2011-2018.
Screenings
– Lines:
Galleri CC, supported by the Swedish Film Institute, Malmö, Sweden, 2021.
Ahang exhibition, Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan, Supported by Alliance Française, 2019.
Dadasaheb Phalkeh Film Festival, Mumbai, India, 2019
The Inshort Film Festival, The International Film and Broadcast Academy in Partnership with Goethe Institut, Lagos, Nigeria, 2018.
– TeTo:
Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, 2020.
TeTo, 60 Seconds Intl. Film Festival, Islamabad, Pakistan, 2020.
TeTo, Make Art Not War Teaser Future Film Festival, California, US, 2020.
– The Herbal Tea
4th Gunung Sunda Festival, Sukabumi, Indonesia, 2018.
Selected Publications
¬ Article: “N”
Amsterdam Alternative Newspaper, no.57 (Nov-Dec 2024).
¬ Article: “Cloud and Moon”
Amsterdam Alternative Newspaper, no.55 (Jul-Aug 2024).
¬ Book: BARG Volume 1,2,3
Volume 1: Fluid Dream / Volume 2: Between / Volume 3: Lines, 2019-2022.
¬ Book: Return
[Research Project on Documenting Contemporary Art Projects] (Paadmaan projects, 2022).
¬ Essay and Photos: “Tehran: A Shapeshifter”
SuperMarket Artist-Run Art Magazine, no. 11 (October 2021).
¬ Book: Inner Telescope, A Space Work By Eduardo Kac
Introduction of the Kac’s Project in Iran (Paadmaan projects, 2019).
¬ Book: “The Old Shop Signs of Tehran Trades”
(Tehran Beautification Organization, 2018).
¬ Article: “Contemporary Art and the Issue of Art in The City”
Iran Newspaper, Visual Arts Section, no. 6758 (April 18, 2018).
¬ Essay: “Knife Wood Carving in Persian Woodworking”
The Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Iranian Forgotten Treasures (Iran Academy of Art, 2011).
¬ Concept: “Relation Between Two Nature’s Elements”
Wadden Art Festival, “Footprints Along A Coastline”, August 2008).
index
¬ Interview and Project Review: Coextensive Points
Yatoo Artist in Residence Book (November 2017).
¬ Inventory Features
La Belle Revue, no. 6 (July 22, 2016) and Kooshk Residency Annual Book (2016).
¬ Exhibition Review: Criticism of Reminiscence and Equation Exhibitions
By Mahmoud Maktabi, Asia Newspaper, no. 708 (February 16, 2016).
¬ Interview: Channel 4, Iran Broadcasting
About Reminiscence Exhibition (September 2013).
¬ Exhibition Review: “Electric, Reminiscence, Motor”
Short Criticism of Reminiscence Exhibition, by Javad Hasanjani, Tandis Visual Art Magazine, no. 258 (September 2013).
¬ Review: “About Artist”
Iran Azin Magazine, no. 91 (December 2008).