Bread & Salt Projects
Bread & Salt projects (Persian: پروژه های نان و نمک) is an independent artistic and culural organization, Archive, collection and library in Tehran, Iran.
Background[edit]
Founded in 2008 by Iranian artist-curators, Tarlan Rafiee.[1] and Yashar Samimi Mofakham[2], Bread & Salt formed in response to the need of independent and private art organizations and institutions for internationally promoting Iranian art and art scene in a inter-cultural context and in collaboration with international institutions. Bread & Salt Projects organises art, archival, and curatorial exhibits, and collaborates with other organisations, such as institutions, museums, and freelance curators, to present and support art events around the world, participating in lectures, contributing works, and lending its collection and archives.
Bread & Salt has a collection of Iranian and international modern and contemporary art, and also a rich historical archive of modern and contemporary Iran.
The collection and the archives also contain original photographs and glass plate negatives from the beginning of century, documents on the Iranian contemporary history including the days of the revolution 1979, documents, photographs, posters and recorded sounds from 8 years of Iran-Iraq war, the history of graphic design in Iran, original celloloids from the golden age of animation in Iran, Qajar manuscripts and lithographs.
It works with curatorial projects intended to present lesser seen, or previously unseen, aspects of modern and contemporary Iranian art and culture.
Bread & Salt has been collaborated with national and international Institutions, by lending and donating works and artifacts as well as curating and organizing exhibitions, such as the British Museum, Matua Palace Museum, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA), Isfahan Museum of Contemporary Art[3], Contemporary Istanbul, British Council, Adam Mickiewicz Institute and numerous national and international art galleries.
Bread & Salt Projects also works with its sister company, KA:V Editions[4], one of the first contemporary art limited-edition publications in the Middle East[5]
References[edit]
External Link[edit]
Official Website (www.bandsprojects.com)
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