Tarlan Rafiee

{{Infobox person

| name = Tarlan Rafiee

| native_name = طرلان رفیعی

| native_name_lang = fa

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}}

| birth_place = Tehran, Iran

| nationality = Iranian

| occupation = Visual artist, curator

| known_for = Painting, installation art, writer, curation of Iranian contemporary art

| spouse = Yashar Samimi Mofakham

}}

Tarlan Rafiee (born 1980; {{langx|fa|طرلان رفیعی}}) is an Iranian visual artist, and curator.{{Cite book |last=Halasa |first=Malu |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JITREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 |title=Woman Life Freedom: Voices and Art from the Women's Protests in Iran |date=2023-09-12 |publisher=Saqi Books |isbn=978-0-86356-977-7 |pages=246 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Tarlan Rafiee |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG239829 |website=British Museum}} She is known for her international contributions to Iranian modern and contemporary art.

Career

= Artwork =

Rafiee embarked on her career as an artist in 2001, when she participated in a group exhibition in Tehran. Since then, she has exhibited her work in several group exhibitions exhibitions across Iran,{{Cite web |date=2018-05-11 |title=جزییات فروش ۵۰ اثر از بزرگان نقاشی و نقاشی‌خط در آرتیبیشن |trans-title=Details of the sale of 50 works by the masters of painting and calligraphy in arbitration |url=https://www.mehrnews.com/news/4293453/%D8%AC%D8%B2%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B4-%DB%B5%DB%B0-%D8%A7%D8%AB%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%A8%D8%B2%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D9%86%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B4%DB%8C-%D8%AE%D8%B7-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A8%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%86 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=خبرگزاری مهر {{!}} اخبار ایران و جهان {{!}} Mehr News Agency |language=fa}} as well as in Dubai,{{Cite web |date=19 April 2014 |title=گل و بلبل به دبی رفت |trans-title=Gul and Bulbul went to Dubai |url=https://www.isna.ir/news/93013012208/%DA%AF%D9%84-%D9%88-%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%84-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%AA |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=ایسنا (Iranian Students' News Agency, ISNA) |language=fa}}{{Cite web |last=ایران |first=عصر |date= |title=نمایش آثار تجسمی هنرمندان ایرانی در دبی |trans-title=Exhibition of visual works of Iranian artists in Dubai |url=https://www.asriran.com/fa/news/331456/%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4-%D8%A2%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D8%AC%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%AF%D8%A8%DB%8C |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Asriran.com |language=fa}} Austria,{{cite web |date=October 15, 2020 |title=Undurchschaubarer Iran: Solace of Lovers im Ferdinandeum |trans-title=Inscrutable Iran: “Solace of Lovers” in the Ferdinandeum |url=https://www.tt.com/artikel/17443424/undurchschaubarer-iran-solace-of-lovers-im-ferdinandeum/ |website=Tiroler Tageszeitung |language=de}} France, Italy, the United States, Denmark, and Armenia.

Her notable exhibitions include Cars: Accelerating the Modern World (2013) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London;{{cite web |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1475368/untitled-from-the/ |title=Tarlan Rafiee's work at the V&A Museum |website=vam.ac.uk |date=2013}} Iranian Voices (2017), curated by Venetia Porter at the British Museum in London;{{cite web |title=Iranian Voices at the British Museum |url=https://toosfoundation.com/exhibition-at-the-british-museum-iranian-voices// |website=Toos Foundation}} and Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden (2020–2021) at the Tyrolean State Museum in Innsbruck Austria, which she also co-curated.{{cite web |url=https://www.tiroler-landesmuseen.at/solace-of-lovers_englisch/ |title=Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden |website=Tiroler Landesmuseen |publisher=Tyrolean State Museum}}

Rafiee's artworks are housed in international collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,{{cite web |title=Tarlan Rafiee |url=https://collections.lacma.org/node/2278114 |publisher=LACMA Collection}} the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum,{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Untitled from the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013 |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1475368/untitled-from-the/ |website=Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection}}

{{cite web |date=2013 |title=Untitled From the 'Once Upon a Time' Series, 2013 |url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1475367/untitled-from-the/ |website=Tarlan Rafiee at V&A Collection}} Ducal Palace, Mantua,{{cite book |last1=Zurla |first1=Michela |title=Catalogo delle nuove acquisizioni |last2=L'Occaso |first2=Stefano |date=2012–2022 |publisher=Editoriale Sometti |isbn=978-88-7495-863-4}} and the Tyrolean State Museum.

= Curator =

Rafiee initiated her curatorial career with the "Calling Project" in 2013, facilitating an exchange exhibition between British and Iranian artists. Since then, she has curated numerous exhibitions in Iran, Dubai, Austria, and Italy.

Notable among her projects is Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran held at the Ducal Palace, Mantua,{{cite web |date=2018 |title=Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran |url=https://www.mantovaducale.beniculturali.it/it/news/186-good-morning-good-night/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201013512/https://www.mantovaducale.beniculturali.it/it/news/186-good-morning-good-night/ |archive-date=1 February 2019 |website=Museum Complex of the Doge's Palace |publisher=Palazzo Ducale Complesso Mantova}}{{Cite web |title=Good morning... good night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran |url=https://trasparenza.cultura.gov.it/archiviostorico/storico.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1998351363.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240325073610/https://trasparenza.cultura.gov.it/archiviostorico/storico.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Eventi/visualizza_asset.html_1998351363.html |archive-date=25 March 2024 |website=Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo (Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism; MiBACT) |language=it}} where she served as both curator, and wrote the accompanying exhibition book. It exhibited works from Iranian female artists, including Parvaneh Etemadi, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, and Rozita Sharafjahan. The same exhibition was invited to take place at the Castello del Monferrato in Casale Monferrato in Italy.{{cite web |title=Artiste iraniane in Monferrato... da Mantova |trans-title=Iranian Artists in Monferrato... from Mantua |url=https://www.castelliaperti.it/it/news/item/artiste-iraniane-in-monferrato-da-mantova.html/ |website=Castelli Aperti |language=it}}{{Cite web |title=Il Monferrato > Dall'Iran al Castello |url=https://www.ilmonferrato.it/notizia/8wjHrKP5I0ezKtXZ3UOSgg/dall-iran-al-castello |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=www.ilmonferrato.it |language=it}}

Another exhibition in her career is Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden (2020–2021), a collaborative curation effort with her spouse, Yashar Samimi Mofakham, and the state museum director, Peter Assmann, for the Tyrolean State Museum.{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JOScEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2065 |title=Museum Gestaltet Geschichte: 200 Jahre Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum |date=2022-12-02 |publisher=Universitätsverlag Wagner in der Studienverlag Ges. m.b.H., Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriesgeschellschaft |isbn=978-3-7030-6595-8 |pages=2065 |language=de |via=Google Books}} In this exhibition, they presented the historical collection of Albert Joseph Gasteiger of Qajar art, as well as Iranian masters, including Parviz Tanavoli, Jazeh Tabatabai, Reza Bangiz, Farah Ossouli, Nargess Hashemi, Mazdak Ayari, and Khosrow Sinai. Rafiee co-curated the exhibition, and co-wrote the 2020 exhibition book under the same title.

In 2008, she co-founded Bread & Salt Projects, a curatorial project as well as an extended archive and collection of Iranian modern and contemporary art in order to preserve the documents of the Iranian modern and contemporary art.

Rafiee has been invited to give lectures or participate in panel discussions about the Iranian modern and contemporary art by the British Museum, the Iran Heritage Foundation, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

She often has worked alongside her spouse, Yashar Samimi Mofakham.{{Cite web |title=Discussing Contemporary Iranian Art |url=https://www.asianartinlondon.com/event/discussing-contemporary-iranian-art/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Asian Art in London |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |last=Seaman |first=Anna |date=2014-10-25 |title=Bowls, plates and tulips: artists remember Iran’s stolen youth |url=https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts/bowls-plates-and-tulips-artists-remember-irans-stolen-youth-1.308709 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=The National |language=en |quote=The artwork, Untitled 2014, is part of a group show from husband and wife team Yashar Samimi Mofakham and Tarlan Rafiee, Tehran-based artists who have created separate pieces for the show, but whose practice is very much interlinked.}}

Curated exhibitions

Selfdom / a personal project, 2011, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Tehran, Iran{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}
Tehran Calling: London, 2013, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, LPS, London, UK{{Cite web |last=Whalley |first=Stella |date=2013-06-12 |title=London Calling Tehran |url=https://bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/9571/ |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=bnu.repository.guildhe.ac.uk |language=en-GB}}
Parviz Tanavoli’s Exercise Writing: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Parviz Tanavoli’s Universal Icons: 50 years of Iranian Pop Art, 2016, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Shahrivar Gallery, Tehran, Iran{{Cite web |last=Barati |first=Parviz |title=گفت‌وگو با پرویز تناولی به مناسبت نمایشگاه «تناولی و ٥٠ سال هنر پاپ در ایران» |url=https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/128085/%DA%AF%D9%81%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%88%DA%AF%D9%88-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%AA-%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%C2%AB%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D9%A5%D9%A0-%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%84-%D9%87%D9%86%D8%B1-%D9%BE%D8%A7%D9%BE-%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%C2%BB |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia |language=fa}}
RTL:LTR, an exchange exhibition between Iran and Austria (right to left, left to right), with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Peter Assmann, and CO:K; traveling exhibit to the Galerie Forum in Wels, Austria, 2016; the Artmark Galerie in Wien, Austria, 2016; the Lajevardi Foundation, in Tehran, Iran, 2016; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan, in Iran, 2016–2017{{Cite web |last= |date=2017-01-11 |title=Iran, Austria Cultural Exchange in Art Exhibit |url=https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/57267/iran-austria-cultural-exchange-in-art-exhibit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113165444/https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/57267/iran-austria-cultural-exchange-in-art-exhibit |archive-date=13 January 2017 |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Financial Tribune}}
Plants: Recent works by Parvaneh Etemadi, 2017, with Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Dastan Gallery, Dastan Oustside, Tehran, Iran.
Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Castello Di Moferrato, Casale Monferrato, Italy{{Cite web |title=Il Monferrato > Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran. The sequel |url=https://www.ilmonferrato.it/notizia/ytrVSCdLeU-OgJ0JsgQDyQ/cinque-artiste-e-una-curatrice-dall-iran-the-sequel |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=www.ilmonferrato.it |language=it}}
Good Morning... Good Night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice dall'Iran (English:Good Morning... Good Night. Five artists and a curator from Iran), 2018, Palazzo Ducale di Mantova, Mantova, Italy
Iran Print -01, 2019, Meem Gallery, Dubai, UAE{{Cite web |date=15 September 2019 |title=Iran Print Presents Four Iranian Modern Masters |url=https://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/iran_print_presents_four_iranian_modern_masters/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Islamic Arts Magazine |language=en}}
Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden, 2020–2021, Tyrolean State Museum, Innsbruck, Austria

Bibliography

= By Rafiee =

Rafiee, Tarlan (2018). Good morning... Good night. Cinque artiste e una curatrice, Italy, Tre Lune Edizioni, ISBN 9788889832813.
{{Cite book |last=Mofakham |first=Yashar Samimi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmq_zQEACAAJ&dq=isbn:9783709981191 |title=Solace of Lovers: Trost Der Liebenden |last2=Rafiee |first2=Tarlan |last3=Assmann |first3=Peter |author-link3=Peter Assmann |last4=Pereña |first4=Helena |date=2020 |publisher=Haymon Verlag, Tiroler Landesmuseen Betriebsgesellschaft m.b.H |isbn=978-3-7099-8119-1 |location=Innsbruck, Austria}}

= About Rafiee =

{{Cite book |last=Golestaneh |first=Ali |title=Tehran Art: A Popular Revolution |date=2012 |publisher=Contemporary Art Publications |isbn=9789948164746}}
{{Cite book |last=Noyce |first=Richard |title=Printmaking Off the Beaten Track |date=2014 |publisher=Bloomsbury Visual Arts |isbn=978-1408156728}}
{{Cite book |last=Porter |first=Venetia |title=Iranian Voices Catalogue |date=2016 |publisher=British Museum}}
{{Cite book |last=Porter |first=Venetia |title=Reflections: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa |last2=Tripp |first2=Charles |last3=Morris |first3=Natasha |date=2020 |publisher=British Museum |isbn=978-0714111957}}