Art Community, Social Movements: A series of conversations: Hossein Mohseni

16 April 2023
Today, Hossein Mohseni is known as the director of Artibition Gallery and mostly in presenting online exhibitions; This is while he spent about 6 years of his 10-year career as a gallerist holding online exhibitions and as a result, he has touched the visual art scene in the past few years. By focusing on the economy of visual art, Mohseni has tried to develop an analytical and practical view. During the recent crisis, he organized a group show of protesting artists' works, and on the other hand, he focused on this reaction in the social medias, and in the end, he did not choose silence for a long time. This gallerist is now talking about the reason for the silence of his colleagues to the negative impact of the lack of interaction and dialogue between officials and artists. He sees the path of gallery ownership in Iran as a dry desert with few inhabitants compared to the rest of the world.

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