Mostafa Choobtarash
With a colourful and playful visual, Mostafa Choobtarash’s artistic marks both hide and draw attention to traumas and issues that stem from war.
Born in Dezful, a historic city in the southwest of Iran, impacted by the Iran-Iraq war, Choobtarash’s work echo’s back to traumatic experiences, the effects war has on everyday issues and the aftermath of war.
Mostafa Choobtarash looks to highlight reactions, observations and sentiments, such as “an interesting conversation I had with a taxi driver, seeing someone angry on the street slamming a door and wondering what made them angry, the flood of news on the TV…”
History and his experiences of war mould themselves into the artist’s current impressions, fuelling his art and marks.
Colour blocks fill out the artworks by Mostafa Choobtarash, layered over lines that have impacted the artist, sheltering feelings, conflicts, masking through in joy and colour, bursting with expression, chaos, determination, clusters of art, hope and reflection. Moving, transporting artworks that push through wounds and silence.
Mostafa Choobtarash recently exhibited with Katharina Maria Raab at MENART Fair in Paris at the Palais d'IENA.
Mostafa Choobtarash, born 1983 in Dezful, Iran and lives and works in Tehran.
2010 MA in painting, Soureh University, Tehran, Iran; 2007 BA in painting, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2020 “Sides Of Humor” Maria Behnam Bakhtiar Gallery, Monaco , France
2016 “The Buzz Of The Bee who Slips from Democracy”, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 "Windows to History", Artclvb, Toronto, Canada
2014 "When chairs act like hedgehog", Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 "And so, I ordered the crickets stings to be pulled… ", Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 "The lazy bomb" series, siin gallery, Tehran, Iran
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Etemad Gallery , Tehran , Iran
2022 Maria Behnam Bakhtiar Gallery, Monaco , France
2021 “ Fragility” , Katharina Maria Raab Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019 Art Fair Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2019 “power struggle”, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran , Iran
2019 Katharina Maria Raab Gallery, Berlin , Germany
2018 “beyond the Exhibit “ , Kunsthall 3.14 Bergen ,Norway
2018 “ City of Tales” , Factory TT, Tehran , Iran
2018 Art fair saatchi Gallery , London , UK
2018 Katharina Maria Raab Gallery “beyond the Exhibit “ , Berlin , Germany
2018 Shirin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 Farmnfarmayan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Icabiennale, Niavaran Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
2016 “Art of Humanity” Imago Mundi- Luciano Benetton Collection , The Pratt institute, New York, USA
2016 The mine Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2015 “MAP OF THE NEW ART” Imago Mundi- Luciano Benetton Collection , Venice, Italy
2015 Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 "Approches to tradition neo- traditionalism in contemporary Iranian art", Tehran museum contemporary art, Tehran, Iran
2014 Etemad Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2014 "The second painting & sculpture annul Exibition of Iranian Artists Forum ", Iranian Artists forum Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 Siin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2014 "Forest", Dastan Basement Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013 "The Inner layers", Pardis e Melat Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Homa Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 "Wonderland", Shokoh Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 Etemad Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2012 Siin Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 "The kitchen", Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010 "Tehran Virtual & Real", AAran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Art center Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2009 Artists House (Momayez) Gallery, Tehran,Iran
2009 4th Visual Arts Exhibition, Pardis Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Selection form the New Generation, Homa Gallery, Tehran
2009 “Selection form the New Generation “, Homa Gal