1. Mirak Jamal
    Turns

    October 9–December 18 2022

    Opening Reception
    Sunday October 9
    3–7pm

    1 Carol Place, Plainview NY 11803

    Saturday and Sunday 12–6PM or by appointment

    inge.nyc

  2. Zum schönen Knie II


    September 22–October 02, 2022

    Opening September 22, 2022 = Autumnal Equinox
    from 6pm


    Ellinor Aurora Aasgaard & Zayne Armstrong
    Daphne Ahlers
    biarritzzz 
    Mirak Jamal
    Leonie Nagel
    Roseline Rannoch
    Elif Saydam
    Alex Turgeon



    Ernst-Reuter-Platz
    Traffic Island
    Berlin

    doomspa.org

  3. OMNIBUS - 10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas

    April 1 - May 28, 2022

    An exhibition looking back at 10 years of projects by Kinderhook & Caracas, featuring all of the 80+ artists we've collaborated with and a new publication.

    www.kinderhook-caracas.com

  4. Souvenirs

    In a new souvenir shop at Ishøj By Center, artist Deniz Eroglu invites you to delve into stories about belonging, global business structures and relationships between art and consumption. 

    featuring a work by Mirak Jamal

    4 December 2021 to 1 November 2022

    uk.arken.dk/udstilling/souvenirs/



  5. De Ateliers presents a new series of Artist Talks. Every talk starts at 5pm sharp, tickets are available at the event links. Entrance only with a corona entry pass and identification.



    Tuesday, November 2nd: Oscar Santillán

    Tuesday, November 16th: Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff

    Tuesday, November 23rd: Lydia Ourahmane

    Tuesday November 30th: Mirak Jamal



    https://www.de-ateliers.nl/en/new-series-artist-talks-de-ateliers-autumn-2021/

  6. No Day but Today
    Fredag 18e September 16-22.
    Bjurholmsgatan 3C, Stockholm

  7. MERZBAU-GARTEN • Module II

    September 9 - October 10, 2020

    Ad Minoliti, Böhler & Orendt, Mirak Jamal, Cecilia Valenti, Sophie Erlund & Stephen Kent

    Kreuzbergstraße 42E, Kreuzberg, 10965 Berlin, Germany

    www.kinderhook-caracas.com

  8. OUTSIDE WITHIN

    MARIECHEN DANZ, MARGARET HAINES,
    MIRAK JAMAL, MARINA PINSKY,
    NICLAS RIEPSHOFF, ANNA SOLAL, STEPHEN SUCKALE

    CURATED BY GERGANA TODOROVA

    SEPTEMBER 4, noon – 10pm
    SEPTEMBER 5 – 6, 11am – 6pm

    SEPTEMBER 8 – OCTOBER 17, 2020
    PHILIPP PFLUG CONTEMPORARY
    BERLINER STRASSE 32
    60311 FRANKFURT AM MAIN

    +49 160 918 811 63
    MAIL@PPCONTEMPORARY.COM
    WWW.PPCONTEMPORARY.COM
  9. Best View in Town
    Mirak Jamal 
    featuring works by Mohsen Jamal 
      
    Friday June 12th 11-7pm
    June 12th - August 1st 2020


    Galerie Sultana is pleased to present Mirak Jamal's third solo exhibition with the gallery titled “Best View In Town”. This is the second part of an exhibition, which was recently hosted by the project space 1857 at the Kunsthall in Oslo.

    Here, Mirak Jamal presents a different and completed body of work, all representing landscapes or urban elements that interact with works by his father Mohsen Jamal (born in Tehran in 1941). Mirak's works respond to those of Mohsen and in particular to the small landscape study carried out in 1986. This drawing, exhibited on a mauve-colored wall, depicts a small suburban town whose various elements are specific to the German landscape. The village depicted is where the family had originally settled as newcomers to the country in the 1980s after fleeing Iran.

    It was here that, as a young man, the artist would venture out on his bicycle with his parents on the edge of the village for outdoor painting sessions. By way of his father's study of a landscape at that time, the artist weaves a link between pictorial anecdotes, photographic references and narratives; he draws parallels between his father's subjectivities and his own, between the observer and the observed.



    Sultana
    12 Rue Ramponeau
    75020 Paris
  10. I'm currently in Istanbul for a residency generously hosted by IKSV from December 1 to February 29, 2020.

    Infos:

    www.bemobilecreatetogether.eu

  11. Best View In Town



    1857 presents Best View In Town, the first institutional solo exhibition by Mirak Jamal, at Kunsthall Oslo.
     
    Best View In Town revolves around a painted landscape by Mirak's father, Mohsen Jamal (b. 1941, Tehran). Executed in 1986, the landscape depicts the village Römerberg, where the family had first settled in Germany. Here Mirak would join his father on bike excursions into the countryside for en plein air painting sessions. 
     
    In the exhibition Mirak Jamal re-activates Mohsen’s paintings as a means to scan the contemporary experience of life in Germany that is reflected in his works by way of snippets of photographs, fractured images and painterly anecdotes. The 30-year time span between Mirak and Mohsen opens their shared vocation to contemplation on arrival, reflection, acceptance and moving on.

     

    Kunsthall Oslo
    15/11 – 01/12/2019
     
    Rostockgata 2 – 4
    0191 Oslo
  12. THE GARDEN BRIDGE 
    An outdoor project curated by Kinderhook & Caracas at Brücke Museum



    August 11 - October 13, 2019  •  Opening August 11

    Brücke Museum • Bussardsteig 9, 14195 Berlin

    Afternoon opening and performances August 11. 12-18h
    Exhibition runs August 11 - October 13, 2019


    STONEROSES (Mirak Jamal and Santiago Taccetti)

    A walk in the woods with works by Jazmin Berakha, Susann Brännström &
    Tore Wallert, Diego Castro, Enrique Giner de los Rios, Joseph H, Joe Hoyt
    Jay Isaac, Melanie Kitti, Kareem Lotfy, Sam Marshall-Lockyer, Marlie Mul
    Beatriz Olabarrieta, Adriana Ramic, Ben Schumacher, Stephen Suckale
    Anne & Auke de Vries and Angharad Williams


  13. SELFLESSNESS

    05/04 – 19/05/2019
    Friday 05/04 19:00

    Group show: Tora Dalseng, Ane Graff, Anthea Hamilton, Mikael Øye Hegnar, Mirak Jamal, Nancy Lupo
     
     
    Kunstnernes Hus
    Wergelandsveien 17
    Oslo
     
     
     
     
     
     

    1857 is proud to be presented by Kunstnernes Hus, and to offer, with an equal or exceeding measure of pride, a presentation of six artists who are, on their part, bursting with pride to present the works standing, hanging, laying and basking in the presence of visitors for the duration of the show.

    electronicmail@1857.no 
    www.1857.no

  14. Same time, same place
    February 24 - March 24 
    Opening February 23, 6pm

    An exhibition including all artists currently working at Kiefholzstraße 401/402

    Andrew J Burford, Richard Frater, Friedemann Heckel, Joe Hoyt, Cameron Irving, Mirak Jamal,
    Nuri Koerfer, Zac Langdon-Pole, Raphael Linsi, Sam LM, Pakui Hardware, Tamen Perez, Max Ruf, Richard Sides, Anne de Vries, Angharad Williams 

     
    twenty years
    Kiefholzstraße 402
    12435 Berlin

    Wed. 6 – 9 pm
    or by appointment

    info@twentyyears.org
    twentyyears.org

     

  15. Fantazia

    Jorge Newbery 3636

    Buenos Aires



    Organized by Santiago Taccetti and Sofia Berakha




    November 3-19 


  16. Salon

    27 – 30
    September
    2018

     

    art berlin presents “Verlörung”, a 100sqm collective booth curated by Tenzing Barshee, which inaugurates the fair’s new Salon format. Bringing together more than 50 works (from more than 40 galleries), Salon continues art berlin’s commitment to experimenting with the dimensions of exhibition, commercial fair and modes of display.



    Flughafen Tempelhof

    Hangar 5 and 6

    Tempelhofer Damm 45

    12101 Berlin

    U6 Paradestrasse

  17. Florian Baudrexel, Jonathan Binet, Ben Burgis & Ksenia Pedan, Rhys Coren, Indrikis Gelzis, Mary Hurrell, Mirak Jamal, Seb Jefford, Phillip Metten, Jumana Manna, Benoit Maire, Anne Neukamp, Tobias Nussbaumer, Cezary Poniatowski, Lukas Schmenger & Esme Toler

    Doors of Paradise

    27 Sep. — 03 Nov. 2018

    Union Pacific
    17 Goulston Street London E1 7TP
    44 (0) 207 247 61 61
    mail@unionpacific.co.uk

  18. My Body Doesn't Like Summer

    30 Jun – 25 Aug 2018


    Preview: Friday June 29, 2018 //  6 -   9 PM

     

    Philipp Haverkampf Galerie GmbH

    Mommsenstrasse 67

    10629 Berlin

    haverkampf.gallery

  19. La Réalité Viscérale

    curated by Ana Mendoza Aldana

    May 5 at 18:30



    Les Bains-Douches

    151 Avenue Courteille

    61000 Alençon 

    bainsdouches.net

  20. Friday April 27th at 6pm

    PS120
    Potsdamer Strasse 120 
    Berlin, Germany

    FB

  21. "Full Circle"
    Mirak Jamal

     
    Opening on Thursday April 5 5-8.30 pm 
    Exhibition until June 2, 2018 

    SULTANA
    10 rue Ramponeau
    75020 Paris
  22. A GOOD NEIGHBOUR 

    Pinakothek der Moderne 
    Sammlung Moderne Kunst 
      ‐  

    Barer Straße 40
    80333 Münche

  23. GAC Projects at GrandArmyCollective
    184 Sterling Place Brooklyn, NY 11217
    Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6pm
    www.grandarmycollective.com

  24. curated by Elmgreen & Dragset

    Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
    Meclis-i Mebusan Cad. Liman İşletmeleri
    Sahası Antrepo No: 4, 34433 Karaköy - İSTANBUL

  25. Stoneroses #7

    Mirak Jamal & Santiago Taccetti

     

    Sa, 01.07., 15 Uhr

    Kunstverein Freiburg

    www.kunstvereinfreiburg.de

    www.stoneroses.tk

  26. PIZZICATO



    Mirak Jamal
    Mohsen Jamal



    @ The Loon



    227 Sterling Road, Unit 109a,
    Toronto



  27. Wednesday, May 24th from 6 to 9 pm

    The Stillness of a Departure
    Mirak Jamal, Anna Ročňová, Sung Tieu
    curated by Christina Gigliotti 

    www.polanskygallery.com

    Veletrzni 45 

    (in the yard)

    CZ-17000 Prague 

  28. Galerie Sultana @ Independent Brussels


    Vanderborght Building
    Schildknaapstraat
    50, rue de l'Ecuyer, 1000 Bruxelles



    Private viewing (by invitation) Wednesday April 19, 2017
    April 20- 23
    12 - 7 pm admission is free and open to the public
     
    with 
     
    Justin Fitzpatrick
    Mirak Jamal
    Olivier Millagou
    Sally Ross
  29. - cornered -
    Mirak Jamal



    “A large acute triangle divided into unequal segments, the narrowest one pointing upwards, is a schematically correct representation of spiritual life. The lower the segment the larger, wider, higher, and more embracing will be the other parts of the triangle.

    The entire triangle moves slowly, almost invisible, forward and upward and where the apex was "today," the second segment is going to be "tomorrow," that is to say, that which today can be understood only by the apex, and which to the rest of the triangle seems an incomprehensible gibberish, tomorrow forms the true and sensitive life of the second segment.”

    Kandinsky, Wassily. On The Spiritual In Art (1910)



    30.03. - 3.05.2017.

    FOUR TO SEVEN

    Stabu iela 70, LV-1009, Rīga
    +371 29 56 76 06
    fourtosevengallery * gmail * com
    fb 

    Working hours: Wed-Thu, 4-7 pm or by appointment


  30. as part of the installation by Christopher Kulendran Thomas:

    moving is in every direction.
    Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces

    17.03.2017 to 17.09.2017
    Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin

    The exhibition “moving is in every direction. Environments – Installations – Narrative Spaces” traces the history of installation art from the 1960s until today with a focus on narrative structures. As the visitors move through the exhibition, they explore expansive walk-in environments, video and sound installations, as well as cross-media works especially developed for the exhibition. The non-linear narrative structure, put forth by Gertrude Stein, to which the exhibition title relates, serves as a starting point for exploring sculptural arrangements, image sequences, or spatially staged narratives. Within the approximately 3,500 square metres of exhibition space, there are installations by Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Isa Genzken/Wolfgang Tillmans, Bruce Nauman, Susan Philipsz, Pipilotti Rist, Bunny Rogers, Gregor Schneider, Thomas Schütte, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, and Wolf Vostell.

  31. Nada Miami, Dec 1st-4th, 2016

    with Galerie Sultana

    galeriesultana.com

  32. Stoneroses #6 - WAY OUT
    as part of Manifesta11


    Thursday, August 25, 2016 - 21:30



    Cabaret der Künstler – Zunfthaus Voltaire
    Spiegelgasse 1
    Zürich 8001
  33. Riverside presents 
    Stoneroses #5

    with contributions by
    Selina Lutz
    Louisa Gagliardi & Adam Cruces
    Adrian Manuel Huber
    Carl Mannov
    David Keating
    Eric Sidner
    Daria Melnikova

    Stoneroses is a project by Mirak Jamal and Santiago Taccetti

    —------------------------------------------------------------------—

    the show takes place in the surrounding of Riverside
    join us for one of the tours

    Saturday 20.08
    4 PM - Back around 6

    Sunday 21.08
    4 PM - Back around 6


    —------------------------------------------------------------------—

    http://stoneroses.tk/
    http://www.riverside-space.ch/

  34. STONEROSES # 4
    hosted by Minibar 
    in Vårberg, Skärholmen, Stockholm 

    With: 

    Gianluca Concialdi 
    Chelsea Culprit 
    Candice Jacobs 
    Laurie Kang 
    Ivan Krassoievitch 
    Erika Landström 
    Adrien Missika
    George Rippon
    Gabriel Säll 

    ⋰⋱⋰⋱

    Minibar is delighted to host Stoneroses for a temporal consideration of an area scouted for its features of equal parts composited and of un-composited concrete. Seen as a sequential production set amidst a landscape with few walls to lean against—rather, slanted pedestals, soil-seeped and water-leaked grounds—Stoneroses contaminates the scenography with the noted absence of the romanticism of naturalism. Instead, a setting with scenarios to be attended and attested, of wormholes of leaking materials to be inhabited, is painted against the backdrop of the highest natural point of Stockholm. An artificial high built from the excavation spoils of the Stockholm Metro, a vestige of the Million Program implemented under the Social Democratic regime between 1965–74. Neolithic finds are found lurking beneath: a lake and an island, dirt bikes paving the ways for crowds to embark on. Stoneroses invites us to the scene, arresting both each others’ and other's presences. 

    As much as the gallery encapsulates a set of norms, the outside implies gestures. And so the balance between foreground and background becomes an inversion of sentences, vocabularies, vernaculars. The gallery becomes a placeholder for a map indicating gestures being activated at a different location. 

    A visual host for a process being leveled elsewhere, reducing and adding an impossible equation. A series of posters line the walls of Minibar as placeholders eventually to be filled with remnants. We encourage you to meet us at Vårberg Station (at one or both of the dates listed below) for a guided tour of the exhibition. 

    ✿✿✿

    Vårberg, Skärholmen 
    ✿ Saturday, July 23 
    Meet at 15:00, tour starts at 15:30
    ✿ Sunday, July 24
    Meet at 17:00, tour starts at 17:30
    @ Vårberg T-bana, Stockholm 

    ✿ The walk will be approximately two hours long. ✿ 

    Suggestion: bring water and snacks
    Feel free to bring swimming clothes and goggles

    contact (073-5160284)
    email: info@minibarsthlm.com

    Stoneroses is Mirak Jamal and Santiago Taccetti 

    Minibar is Malin Henningsson, Aron Kullander-Östling, Sofia M. Westin, Anna Sagström, and Matilda Tjäder. 

    ⋰⋱⋰⋱

    The project is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. Minibar is run with support from Stockholm stad and Kulturrådet.

    http://minibarsthlm.com/
    http://stoneroses.tk/ 

    Welcome!

  35. MIRAK JAMAL

    "Mirak Djamal IRONIMUS '91"



    Opening: April 30th, 2016 | 19 h

    GALERIE | ROLANDO ANSELMI

    Winsstrasse 72, 10405 Berlin

    www.rolandoanselmi.com


    Galerie Rolando Anselmi is pleased to present “Mirak Djamal IRONIMUS '91”, a solo exhibition by Mirak Jamal. The exhibition takes its title from a drawing made in Cologne, Germany – the artist's childhood residence of the time. At the gallery space Jamal will present a site-specific accumulation of works allowing us to enter a new imaginary terrain revolving around a revisitation of an old drawing. 

    In 1991, the parents of the artist would encourage the pre-teen artist to enter a drawing into a caricature contest in Würzburg, Germany titled “IRONIMUS '91”. Having made it into the selection, the work became published in a German caricature journal in company of adult satirists and political caricaturists. The stylized drawing, titled “Cool”, depicts a seemingly romanticized alleyway – undoubtedly inspired by cartoons and his familiar surroundings in Cologne, Germany. 

    Using this drawing as an entry point, Jamal navigates between the factual and fictitious - at once excavating and proposing anew. Utilitarian materials such as drywall panels, wood, mattress foam, and steel sheets, are transformed into objects of undeterred idealism bearing amplified figures, automotive gradients, sensitive machine carvings, and photographic anecdotes. Interior and exterior worlds are then reconciled through fractures of a strong personal past, and a surreal and yet familiar contemporary experience. 

    --

    If you only had to pic just one image from an entire two-hour movie. Moving pictures are a peculiar one. WHERE TO STOP/WHERE TO STEP IMAGES MOVING in from here we begin. THIS NEUKOELLN SATIRICAL the parade that has shaped this old man masquerade. AT LAST OF AGE on skin he bears this at the least, smoothly. THE STREET CODE CLOSE TO THE PULSE GUTTER ON HIS ARM SUNG HEROES folk ones too he came to look up upon, the whole colorful lot. THE STORY: 1991 COLOGNE GERMANY. Someone once said that idealism is for the young, romanticism for the old. BELT AND STRAP BEHOLD dust deceits THIS IS MOVING FRESH IN INK IN flesh in decomposed postures, noses longer than average. HARSH LIGHT DIMMED LIGHT LIGHT A STAGE what cast, what CHARACTERS SHADOWY FIGURES BY THE ALLEYWAY AT THE POST BY THE BENCH YOUR VERY GROCERY STORE. The street lamp points bent backwards towards that which is then, and a house plant is attracted to the moon. Standing in form this FAMILIAR PLACE ITS SMASHED WINDOWS WITHIN SIGHT LAPTOP GREYS UP ABOVE AND SHIT LIL INSECTS TO GRACE THIS SOLE of the dragging, my pants sagging though I should have grown out of that by now. REPETITION AND RHYME repeats and resilience. The train trembles these insects I speak of, they are ancient and learned men WE HAVE DRAGGED MANY MANY WE HAVE SHARED PATHS WITH shared interests even. SECRET TALES BEHIND THIN VEILS. Do you see these city emblems on my back? SO MANY HOW MANY STEPS FORWARD TO CONNECT THE DOTS THE STUDS on this belt, the medallion on this beer. Insanity is the cure I STUTTER THIS THREAD threatening between what’s what and what’s not. MOVING IMAGES ARE DIFFICULT WHAT IS THAT danger at close range illuminating the colony. CONCRETE REALISM he ass grabs gently, though persistent THROUGH THE NEBULOUS DESERT TREADING. So innocent then. So dumb now. THE RETURN you may call it PART II, though some claim never to have been there. We have been here, I am not crazy. THE SOFT SPOKEN WALL THE PAVEMENT LITTLE PEBBLES PRESSED TO IMPRESS CRAPPY PEBBLES THE LAYERED BRICKS THE MANY WALKS we have been cursed many times, spat upon by regulars we are blessed to stand here. The weather has been grey mostly, the forecast is just as good, yeah. I prefer dimmed light anyway. The stage: FACES FISTS FACES FISTS SOME COLOR the audience demands, and all that JAZZ TO THE BEAT THE STORIED FISTS in the gravel in the air, the stink here, still, ah this Berlin air, hovering forever. 2016 FAMILIARITY HMM THIS WE DREAM WE CAN ONLY DREAM and are awakened by a cousin: THE GRADIENT. Of speed and bullied cars, laughed at, the gloss paint job on this flesh, I carry it. It flashes. Even when I lay. YOU CAN'T SEE ME but I carry it within. HUMBLED MACHINE OWNERS SPEED clumsily SPEED proceed MOMENTS THEY MELT CARS CRASH BUT here we go engraved at a standstill STOP. They do mark speed limits after all. The shimmer I can only wear it with insecurity, I have to, I transverse with it in camouflage. But to resist is another case. I haven't adapted fully. I have not grown that much, yet. You won't find beans in my house, I walk out to get my coffee. THEY STAY WE MOVE THEY SAY the first cave carvings were meant to be animations anyway. And this breeze lies beneath the skin. YES A PATINA OF CRUMBS THESE DAILY STREET RITUALS AS WALKED BY the boy THE NOWMAN, still ape though: NOW the paradoxical twist...a phone rings from an old acquaintance KÖLLE ALAAF THESE PEOPLE I LOOK AROUND I SEE I HEAR THESE STORIES BURIED BENEATH these boots, the cobblestones are the whispers of predecessors, and they've been trampled to a flat museum. Below that, who knows really. CONFETTI REMAINS ON FLOOR MOSTLY candy is abundant in the air though nobody is looking, unless it hits. I have stayed low key all along, bowed I look at you below HEY I’m crawling too I plead, eye level at low, I've been here too though chose to look ahead some few stories ago...beyond, I see these images flashing.

    -MJ

  36. COOPER COLE is pleased to host Dream Song 386, a group exhibition organized by Keith J. Varadi

    Alan Belcher
    Cara Benedetto
    Holly Coulis
    Ben Fain
    Wesley Friedrich
    Aleksander Hardashnakov
    Becky Howland
    Miles Huston
    Mirak Jamal 

    April 1 - April 30, 2016

    Opening Reception: Friday April 1, 2016 / 6 – 8pm.

    1134 Dupont St., Toronto, Ontario M6H 2A2

    www.coopercolegallery.com



  37. MIRAK JAMAL

    IN PRAISE OF LIMESTONE



    March 12, 2016

    L'Ascensore

    Via P.pe di San Giuseppe 14

    Palermo, Italy



  38. MIRAK JAMAL

    Mother! Minsk! Where are you!



    Friday, Feb. 19th 18-20h — 16 Apr 2016

    Galerie Sultana

    10 rue Ramponeau

    75020, Paris

    France

    galeriesultana.com



    “What does the lady in the room point towards?”

    “What does she want us to know?”

    “What is in her shelf, and who is she?”

    The preface to this exhibition lies in a drawing titled “Lady at the Dinner Table”, explains our gallery host Guillaume Sultana to us. Made by the artist as a boy in his formative years, it is one of the many works as collected by his mother. Having to flee the chaos of a post-revolutionary Iran, the family had settled in the Soviet Union in the early 1980's, housed at an apartment complex stacked one floor on another in the fellowship of leftist Iranian émigrés. During these years Mirak Jamal first started to draw – his imagination fueled by folkloric tales, funny and horrific things, war stuff on Soviet television, as well as inspiration from his immediate surroundings; namely the living room and kitchen. The collection of these drawings would later accompany the family's migrations further West.

    “Follow me!”

    In Paris, we have in front of us one of these drawn impressions attributed to that period, allowing us to zoom in on the exhibition “Mother! Minsk! Where are you!” We enter the space and immediately find “Lady at the Dinner Table” – a yellowed drawing, weightless but framed to protect against overexposure, and time. It is a piece executed by the artist as a five-year old in Minsk, we are told. We can confirm a miniature world wherein an undisputed figure reigns. She faces us reassured, aristocratic, wearing a committed hat and an elaborate dress which drapes downward. The clock looms as if she had been waiting for our arrival all along (since 1985 to be precise). Her right arm points towards some dinner-time inevitables: a table, one chair, a samovar, a bowl of fruits, and a couple other indistinguishable doodles...we summon a wholesome composition in an admirable setting.

    From there we are pulled towards a corresponding wall with multiple drywall plates making up a mural. Here, the aristocrat hovers at about four meters tall. We note a fragmented constellation of colors, bearing across the brunt of a prevailing mastermind. The lady of the house has been transcribed in a version that the artist, now surely matured and mindful, has redeemed himself with a large format. The deliberate cuts are crude, and arbitrary machine carvings into the plaster make up a motored re-iteration. She stands unforgiving, and behind the depicted sternness (perhaps not a portrayal of a mother but the artist himself under the cloak?) we sense a smirk of self-gratulation.

    “Who is she!”

    “Where is the artist anyhow?”

    A more acute consideration of the individual plates betrays interwoven realities and timelines. Readily googled images and personal snapshots from the artist's Instagram account invite us into chambers (the exhibition blurb reveals a print transfer technique); we are pulled underwater, through ephemeral cloud clusters, towards a blinding sun, and graze with the fingertips of a crosshatched Dürer over a certain nothing. We have seemingly arrived at the mercy of a desert, and are left with only our lady for guidance. But who is behind her? The wagger of the finger has helped us navigate within this (his, the little boy's)world just as it has coincidentally shown us out of it – piercing through the dining room, and beyond the hermetics of the picture plane towards something more imminent. One can only bargain for an imagined door at this juncture (a giant window stands here instead). I suggest to take the offer. We leave the city limits of Minsk to congregate towards that which is the visceral pull of this semi-cold February awaiting us on the outside...

    -MJ


  39. "Black Hole Sun"



    Mirak Jamal

    Ben Schumacher

    Aleksander Hardashnakov



    The Loon

    Friday Feb. 5th, 2016 @ 7pm 

    227 Sterling Road Lofts, unit 109a

    Toronto, ON

  40. MIRAK JAMAL
    "my dear friends in Berlin"



    Opening January 30, 6–10PM
    Oranienstrasse 37
    10999 Berlin



    A part of the exhibitions series Intercalating the drift
    (with George Rippon and Michele Di Menna)
    January – March 2016


  41. Saturday, the 14th of November

    7pm - 10pm 

    227 Sterling Road, Unit 109a

    Toronto, ON



  42. Mirak Jamal
    BRUSSELS, OCT. 29TH, 2015


    29.10.2015 - 05.12.2015

    67 Rue De La Regence, Brussels 1000, Belgium

    www.moncheri.co


    On a peculiar family voyage in 1987 between Römerberg, Germany and Lille, France the artist, then a young man, would come across a book at a rest stop. He would keep this book, and read through its collection of stories for some years. However, in 1994 he would lose this book amidst a rushed move to the U.S. Below is one of the stories as remembered by the artist, which its title and author now slips his memory. In his own words he recalls:


    Our story's main subject I do not recall by name, therefore for the sake of the story allow me to name him “Frank”. “Frank” resented the fact he had to wake up in the bright morning hours. As for him the breakfast was served a little too early. Having to be transported to “the lobby” each day a good punctual hour-and-a-half before the rest of the town would devastate his schedule from thereon, and so paint him as distinct. From the pre-meal unease, to the long hours thereafter perusing at the cafe to his pronounced late cappuccinos...skimming from one daily paper to the next in four different languages, his individualism would let him to pace around arrogantly alone. But as the food taster he bowed to the routine, having faced a one-fold predicament: the chance of death vs. the certainty of it. Essentially, he was left with no choice but to submit to the seductive cuisine of the court, and his tastings for breakfast volunteered into full midday lunches. Soon a chair became well reserved for him, and an embroidered pillow with his initials would earn him a comfortable nestling of the buttocks. He would learn to sit stiff-straight to take on a proper dining etiquette, and inhale in all matters; spoon by careful spoon, and from a silky soup to the main course consisting of boar meat, and on to the much honeyed dessert accompanied by bittersweet gossip. The array of meals were fantastic. This reflected in his calmed skin, and the town would resent him for that.


    Over time and as the skepticism towards our subject grew evermore present, and as the whispers traveled louder through the corridors, alleys and hills, so would his creeping distaste with the meal itself. A culture of fear foamed in his cheek...death herself rested gently in waiting on the tongue. This informed his palette, and the cinnamon would turn bitter, the caviar would taste like coal, and all raisins were chewed into sugar-free gums. Back home “Frank” would befall to the outer edges of his own community to find himself with the ilk of the town eunuchs, musicians, clowns and whores, squeegee kids, entertainers. A peasant at court, a truer peasant at home. He was shamefully cast second to king. And the risk of crumbling over the table to a coughing pool of red was imminent...but I GUESS THE COURT’S FOOD TASTER MUST HAVE AT LEAST ENJOYED HIS WINE (ha!). It was renowned in those lands, and none of his fellows would come close to tasting the flow of this sweet grape they picked the hills so hard for. I cannot recall now if the food taster survived the meals in the end, but I find this to be secondary.


    Also worthy to note, back in 1385 the much feared Timurid army which had penetrated from the steppes of Central Asia would pillage through the fair town of Esfezar, and cement the last surviving citizens into the city walls alive. This forewarning would haunt the Iranian imagination for centuries.


    Some of the titles I considered for this show:


    I GUESS THE COURT’S FOOD TASTER MUST HAVE AT LEAST ENJOYED HIS WINE..


    A DOMESTIC EXERCISE


    A GOOD EXERCISE


    THE FOOD TASTER AND THE KING’S GOOD WINE


    SECOND TO KING


    THE MANY VIEWS OF THE GUEST


    THE VIEWS OF THE GUEST ARE TOO SAD!!


    HA!


    BAMBI 



  43. 1857 is at Paris Internationale with a presentation of Jennie Hagevik Bringaker & Erlend Hogstad and Mirak Jamal from October 20–24.

     

    Paris Internationale

    45, Avenue d'Iéna
    75116, Paris



  44. A SOFT TRAGEDY


    August 16, 2015

    A spatial storytelling project by Lorenzo Sandoval



    with contributions from:

    Olga Balema, Patrick Burkhardt, Pieterjan Gandry,

    Ethan Hayes-Chute, John Holten, Mirak Jamal,

    Valentina Karga, Hanne Lippard, Dafna Maimon,

    Michele Di Menna, Antoine Renard,

    Santiago Taccetti, Clémence de La Tour du Pin,

    Alex Turgeon and Elvia Wilk.



    This is an off-site project developed with TIER (The Institute for Endotic Research) as part of the Project Space Festival Berlin. A map and schedule will be made public in the weeks preceding the event.



    KINDERHOOK & CARACAS

    Kreuzbergstraße 42e

    10965 Berlin

    Open Saturday 2-6pm

    and by appointment.



    info@kinderhook-caracas.com



  45. ALL FLESH IS GRASS, AND ALL IT'S

    BEAUTY IS LIKE THE FLOWER OF THE FIELD



    Thursday at 19h

    Zossenerstrasse 41, Hinterhof



    www.0dx.org



  46. STONEROSES 3



    Daniel Lergon
    Elise Lammer
    Grayson Revoir
    Karin Lehmann
    Max Ruf
    Nadia Belerique
    Sarah Schönfeld
    Sol Calero
    Stian Kluge
    Ulises Conti
    Vanessa Safavi
    Berlin Community Radio


    Grunewald
    Sunday, June 28th
    meet at 13:30, first tour at 14:00, second tour at 17:00
    @ Sandgrube im Jagen 86, 14193 Berlin 
    S7 Berlin-Grunewald 

    contact@stoneroses.tk
    stoneroses.tk

    a project by Santiago Taccetti & Mirak Jamal



  47. CONFLICTING EVIDENCE

    Ragna Bley, Magni Borgehed, Hi-5, Tom Humphreys, Mirak Jamal, Carl Mannov



    For "Omelette" 1857 moves into the territoire of painting at full throttle, and for once with the bulk of the artists sprung from the local scene. But what is left of the nnn when the nn is in exchange with the nnnnn?



    05/06 – 16/08/2015

    Preview: Friday 05/06 19:00



    1857

    Tøyenbekken 12

    0188 Oslo, Norway



  48. organized by Emma Hazen



    Gallery hours are Saturday-Sun from 12-5pm or by appointment.



    kimberly-klark.com

    info@kimberly-klark.com

    788 Woodward Ave

    Queens, NY 11385



  49. WINDOWLICKER
     
     
    Opening April 29 
    7-11PM
    Exhibition April 30-June 14, 2015
     
    PAUL BARSCH ⩙ IVANA BASIC ⩙ GREGOIRE BLUNT ⩙ CLEMENCE DE LA TOUR DU PIN ⩙ ANNE FELLNER ⩙ NAOMI FISHER ⩙ DOROTA GAWEDA ⩙ HANNAH HEILMANN ⩙ MIRAK JAMAL ⩙ ILJA KARILAMPI ⩙ SANDRA VAKA OLSEN ⩙ SANTIAGO TACCETTI ⩙ SHAUN MOTSI ⩙ ANTOINE RENARD ⩙ MAX RUF ⩙ ANTHONY SALVADOR ⩙ YVES SCHERER ⩙ EDWARD SHENK ⩙ EMMY SKENSVED ⩙ TORE WALLERT


    ORGANIZED BY CLEMENCE DE LA TOUR DU PIN ⩙ ANTOINE RENARD ⩙ ANNA FROST
    EXHIBITION ASSISTANCE JULIAN-JACOB KNEER
     
     
     
    Center 
    Kurfürstenstraße 174 
    10785 Berlin


  50. STONEROSES 2

    Grunewald
    Sunday, February 22
    meet at 13:00, tour starts at 13:30
    @ Sandgrube im Jagen 86, 14193 Berlin 
    S7 Berlin-Grunewald 

    http://stoneroses.tk/ 
    contact@stoneroses.tk

    with:

    Alexander Kellogg 
    Bitsy Knox 
    Bradford Kessler 
    Camilla Steinum 
    Christian Tonner 
    Georgia Dickie 
    Katharina Fengler 
    Martin Kohout 
    Tore Wallert 

    a project by Santiago Taccetti & Mirak Jamal



  51. AN ACCOUNT OF DISCOVERY AND WONDER



    Francis Alÿs, Alan Bean, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Mirak Jamal, Sean Landers and

    J. Parker Valentine. With a collection of objects curated by Markus Li Stensrud.



    13/02 – 22/03/2015

    Preview: Friday 13/02 19:00



    1857

    Tøyenbekken 12

    0188 Oslo, Norway


  52. STONEROSES

    Aleksander Hardashnakov
    Anthony Salvador
    Ivana Basic
    Mirak Jamal
    Ruben Grilo
    Sandra Vaka Olsen
    Santiago Taccetti
    Steffen Bunte
    Zuzanna Czebatul
    Coeval.gen.in

    a project by Santiago Taccetti and Mirak Jamal
    http://stoneroses.tk



    Hey, and then there is the human experience: the making of, the instalment, the break-and-enter…the seizure by police and park control. Cat 'n mouse.

    How about there, it is potentially green it is potentially grey, potentially nada. And we can potentially vandalize anywhere….this is great!

    Yes.


    http://www.facebook.com/stoneroses.tk

    -
    Info
    26 August 2-8pm
    Off site event hosted by Center @ Sandgrube im Jagen 86, 14193 Berlin - S7 Berlin-Grunewald.
    Guided tours will be held throughout the day
    In the frame of www.projectspacefestival-berlin.com
    -
    Center
    www.coeval.gen.in



  53. LEFT UNSAID

    Mirak Jamal
    Serra Tansel
    Vidal & Groth

    curated by Didem Yazici 

    Sa. 19.04.2014, 20-01.00 Uhr/ 8pm-1am


    Kreuzberg Pavillon
    Naunynstraße 53
    10999 Berlin

    www.kreuzbergpavillon.de



  54. ARCHAEOLOGY FABRICATED

    Karlos Gil, Martin Llavaneras, Javier Fresneda, Xavier Ristol, Moneiba Lemes, Raúl Artiles, Mirak  Jamal.

    OPENING: March 22, 2014 - 19h

    March 22, 2014 - April 23, 2014

     
    Junefirst Gallery
    Scharnweberstr. 35
    10247 Berlin
     
  55. Inline image 1



    07.03.14

    Mirak Jamal / Scott Rogers
    Text: Inger Wold Lund

    Center
    Kurfürstenstrasse 174,
    10785 Berlin

    Organized by http://coeval.gen.in/
  56. Opening: September 18, 6-11pm
    @ ‘ZweiDrei’ Gitschiner Straße 20
    18 – 21 September 2013
    1PM – Nautical Dusk + daily bar until 11PM
    https://www.facebook.com/events/419669124804350/

    Aleksandra Domanović
    Anthony Salvador
    Aude Pariset
    Brent Wadden
    David Horvitz
    Donna Huanca
    Harm van den Dorpel
    Ilja Karilampi
    Karl Holmqvist
    Kate Steciw
    Lisa Holzer
    Maiken Bent
    Michiel Ceulers
    Mirak Jamal
    Petra Cortright
    Santiago Taccetti
    Sanya Kantarovsky
    Ull Hohn

    Organized by:
    Adriana Blidaru, Anna Frost,
    Ché Zara Blomfield, Elena Gilbert
    + James Michael Shaeffer, Jr.

    http://deeeee.de/



  57. Kinderhook & Caracas presents 'early works', an exhibition comprised of a selection of childhood drawings made between 1983-86 in Minsk, USSR. Collected by Jamal's mother throughout his upbringing, the complete set of drawings numbers into the hundreds and was compiled across several countries to which the family had relocated after leaving post-revolutionary Iran.


    Opening September 13, 2013 6-9pm
    Exhibition runs from September 13 - October 10.

    Open Fr & Sa 2-6pm
    and by appointment.

    www.kinderhook-caracas.com
    map: http://goo.gl/maps/E0zTk

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