Art dealing has always been associated with a negative charge, especially in the art world! Perhaps the reason is related to the material aspect of art, the profiteering of dealers and the loss of some artists. There are many historical and famous examples of a fight between a dealer and an artist, one of which is the controversy surrounding Scull's auction at Parque Bennet between...

On July 8, 2023, the second meeting of gallery owners with the title of Gallery Owners, Art Market Structure and Challenges was held at Kaarmaan House. In this meeting, Maryam Majd and Shahed Safari, Sanam Haghigi, Sajjad Baghban Maher and Mohammad Reza Moridi gave speeches. In the following, you will read Sajjad Baghban's speach on the Gallery models in Iran.

On July 8, 2023, the second meeting of gallery owners with the title of Gallery Owners, Art Market Structure and Challenges was held at Kaarmaan Art House. In this meeting, Maryam Majd and Shahed Safari, Sanam Haghigi, Sajjad Baghban Maher and Mohammad Reza Moridi gave speeches. In the following, you will read Mohammadreza Moridi's words on the meaning of the price in Arts.

In the system of art economic, galleries are part of the primary market, although they also sell works privately through their networks in the secondary market. Gallery owners in Iran have gone beyond these and included online auctions to art calls in their work plans. This multilateralism is evident in the activities of many Iranian gallery owners, because the burden of promoting v...

Kourosh Nouri, the founding director of Carbon 12 Gallery, was talking with Hossein Mohseni at the same time as Art Fair Dubai 2023. In this conversation, Nouri talks about the beginning of his career in the field of gallery ownership and the establishment of Carbon 12 Gallery together with Nadine Knotzer. He also answers questions about how to choose and collaborate with artists an...

Carbon 12 Gallery was established in 2008 and since 2009, it has been located in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, where many of the most important galleries in the MENA region are located. Kourosh Nouri and Nadine Knotzer, the founders and managers of Carbon 12 Gallery were one of the first gallerists in the Middle East that adopted a trans-regional approach and avoided fleeting and market-f...

Shahrouz Nazari is an art critic and gallerist, whose opinions are often met with many reactions in social medias. Nazari is one of the few people who pays attention to the role of criticism and writing in addition to artworks' exhibitions, and he has shown that he works in this direction at Homa Gallery. He knows that Iranian art cannot be analyzed outside of its context, and for t...

When the Azad Art Gallery was established in the beginning of the 2000s in Tehran, the number of galleries in the whole country was very small compared to today. However, in the passage of these two decades and the remarkable growth of the art economy in Iran, the role of galleries such as "Azad Art Gallery" has been serious and worthy of reflection. Many of today's famous artists o...