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.

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...

When the Art Hall team was looking for the Iranian artworks' sales records for art appraisal, felt the void of an authoritative art reference. That's why Artchart was born in 2019. The purpose of launching Artchart was to create a database of the Iranian art market that can be used as a reference for a wide range of people, from artists to art collectors. Now Artchart has collected...

Shervin Taheri can be considered as a critic and researcher with a sharp critical view of visual art. He has a questioning approach towards the activists of the visual field and specifically the gallery owners and the cycle of the art economy. Considering that the art market is separate from the art field, Taheri sees the recent crisis as a good opportunity for galleries to rethink....

Sajjad Baghban has been a researcher and artistic director in many cultural and artistic centers and therefore has done many research in visual art throughout history. After studying art doctorate, he worked in art centers such as "Sareban" gallery and also published books in this field such as "Acquaintance with the philosophy of art and aesthetics" and "Representation of urban spa...

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 prac...