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Parsa Kamehkhosh is a performance artist and designer currently residing in Helsinki, Finland. His practice explores the matter of “being in the world” in the context of the interaction between daily life and the notion of life on the existential level. He often employs objects and materials as manifestations of contemporary human everyday aesthetics and in relation to various narratives that define the position of humans in the universe and beyond. His works maneuver on the borders of the inner and external worlds, natural and supernatural, seen and unseen.
“Being-in-the-world is my ultimate pursuit—standing beyond all constructed identities and allowing myself to experience life as it is. My art practice is the process through which these experiences manifest, guiding me toward a deeper understanding of myself and my place in the world. Therefore, rather than seeing myself as a creator, I perceive myself as a doorway through which ideas emerge into existence.” Parsa explained his artistic approach.
His art spans various media, with a primary focus on performance art, and has been showcased predominantly in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. His fascination with materials, objects, and everyday aesthetics led him to pursue studies in industrial design at Tehran University of Fine Arts, followed by further exploration in Aesthetics and Meaning-making at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design in Stockholm, and Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Arts at Aalto University.
Parsa Kamehkhosh is also the co-founder and co-curator of The Other Side Performance Art Platform, established in 2024.
2025 Solo Show, Azad Gallery- Five Evenings / Five Performances, Tehran, IR
2025 Performance at KONSTITORI’s program, Gallery Fuxia, Malmö, SE
2025 Performance at New Performance Turku Bienalle, Turku, FI
2023 Present-At-Hand, B Galleria, Turku, FI
2023 Unwordable (Honey edition), Titank Gallery, Turku, FI
2023 Presence Time Body, 3h+K Gallery, In collaboration with Johan F. Karlsson, Pori, FI
2022 Saturdays, Mymälä 2 Gallery, Helsinki
2022 Honey as Material/Material as Honey, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, IR
2018 Thing (-ing), Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, IR
2017 In honor of the skinny horses, mango’s stone & some random plants, Third Space Gallery, Helsinki, FI
2014 Gone Wild, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, IR
2024 Performance at PEPA, Mallorca, SP
2024 Performance at The Other Side Performance art Festival, Vantaa, FI
2024 Performance at Laundry Clash event, Essen, GE
2024 Live performance at the opening of Gone Girl exhibition by Anna Broms, Venetsia, Helsinki, FI
2023 Live performance, What Does Performance Mean To You, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, FI
2023 Live performance at Kunsthalle Seinäjoki, Performance Club, FI
2023 Live performance, The Air We Share, YÖ Gallery, FI
2023 Live performance, ARS Pori, I Am Expecting A Bird, 3h+k Gallery, FI
2023 Starptelpa Performance Festival, Riga
2022 I’m Expecting a Bird, hiap residency, Open studios
2021 RAW Festival, Live performance, Gallery Myymälä 2, Helsinki
2021 Suomi Art Fair, Live Performance, Gallery Myymälä 2, Helsinki
2019 Listen Like How Krishnamurti says, ViCCa Production Seminar, Helsinki
2018 Congratulations #7, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki
2018 Congratulations #6, The Experimental Event VI: Tower of Babel, Pori, Finland
2018 Congratulations #5, Väre, Espoo, Finland
2018 Congratulations #4, Matn Gallery, Esfahan, Iran
2018 Congratulations #3, TOOLBOX Gallery, Berlin
2016 Eleven Snow Partridges, video screening evening II, Pori, Finland
2016 Remember Me Lying on Your Sides, video screening evening, Pori, Finland
2024 Motavali Unplugged [3], Room for Doubt & Parking Video Library, Berlin, GE
2023 Three Performative Works, MUU Hesldinki Contemporary Art Center, FI
2022 Over Game, Hilbert Raum Gallery, Berlin
2021 Mirrored- photographic performance group exhibition, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Center, Cable Factory, Helsinki
2020 The 8th Tehran National Sculpture Biennial, Tehran
2020 The 11th National Ceramic Biennial of Iran, Tehran
2020 Pori Biennale, Three Days in Pori, video, Pori, Finland
2019 Persons, Today Might Be The Last Day, Video Installation and Performance, Tehran, Iran
2018 Va Event 4 (Identity Crises), Untitled, Performance (thing (-ing) collection), Tehran, Iran
2018 Objekti 4, Inside Out, Performative Sculpture, Espoo, Finland
2018 Space Invaders VI, “Congratulations”, Performance, Helsinki, Finland
2018 ArtHouse Disclosure, “Only & Only If You Stare At My Hands*”, Video Installation, Espoo, Finland
2017 Postcardese, “Hammer”, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2017 The Truth about Finland, “Seventy Two Percent More Accessibility”, Performance, Pori, Finland
2017 The Truth about Finland, “Seventy Two Percent More Accessibility”, Performance, Kallio Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Hey, We Are in Space, “Pretending Nothing Is Happening”, Performance, Otaniemi Free Space, Espoo, Finland
2017 IHME Contemporary Art Festival, “Unknown Archive”, Interactive Installation, Group work, Gloria, Helsinki, Finland
2016 30 Years of Sculpture 30 Sculptors, “The Shepherd after A Daily Flight”, Sculpture, Saless Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Milan Triennial, “The Shepherd’s Stuff” (3 pieces), Sculpture, Milan, Italy
2016 Space Invaders VI, “They Ask You, About The Hour: When Is its Arrival?”, Video Installation, Espoo, Finland
2016 Soak, “Remember Me, Lying on Your Sides”, Video Installation, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Immersion, “Immersion”, Group exhibition, Installation, Otaniemi Free Space, Espoo, Finland
2013 Milan Design Week, “Mitochondria’s Cesarean” (9 pieces), Sculpture, Milan, Italy
2020 Koneen Säätiö, six-month working grants for the project “Proximity”
2024 Art residency- Sibelius Museum, Turku, FI
2022 Tokyo Arts and Space Residency
2022 Helsinki International Artist Program
2020 Master of Art, Visual Culture and Contemporary Art, Aalto University of Art, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Post-Master of Art, Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Master of Art, Industrial Design, Fine Art College of Tehran University
2007 Bachelor of Art, Industrial Design, Art University of Tabriz
2021 Honorable mention piece of the 11th National Ceramic Biennial of Iran (This piece was done in collaboration with my fellow artist Furuq Noei)
2018 The “Firooze Award” for the Best Article, Batin Based Design, Journal of Fine Arts, November, Vol 3. No 42
2010 Finalist, Interior Motive Design Award, Best Conceptual Exterior Design Category (teamwork)
2010 Finalist, Kia Motors Competition, Supersport car for 2020, Judged by “Peter Schreyer” Kia’s head designer and his team (teamwork)
2010 1st Prize, Fifth “One Day Design” National Design Competition, Sponsored by Unilever Company, for designing a green bathing system, Tehran
2006 1st Prize, First “One Day Design” National Design Competition, Tehran, Iran
2005 1st prize, third national “Creative Thought” competition, Youth furniture, Tehran, Iran
2015 Sculpture, “Buffoon”, private collection, Iran
2015 Print, “Chanel Six, Thirty-Six”, private collection, Iran
2015 Sculpture, “Long Mirror”, private collection, Iran
2021- Member of Artist Assosiation, MUU, Finland
2017- Member of Catalysti the Transcultural artist association, Finland
2016- Member of VIMMA student association, Finland
2012 Kamehkhosh, P., Ajdari, A. & Khodadadeh, Y., A Glimpse to the Theory of Design Naturally: A New Approach to the Theory of Form in Industrial Design, Global Journal of Science and Technology, Issue 4, December, Vol 1. No 29, pp.26-43.
2010 Kamehkhosh, P., Ajdari, A. & Khodadadeh, Y. (2010), Design Naturally: Dealing With Complexity of Forms in Nature & Applying It in Product Design, Design & Complexity Conference, August, Montreal, pp.62-79.
2010 Ajdari, A., Faridizad, A. & Kamehkhosh, P. (2010). Batin Based Design, Journal of Fine Arts, November, Vol 3. No 42, pp.57-65.
2020 Assisting Ivana Franke, Tommi Grönlund, and Petteri Nisunen’s setting up their exhibition at Galerieanhava, Helsinki, Finland#
2017-19 Painting & Drawing Workshop Assistant, Aalto University
2017 Workshop Assistant in Ivana Franke, Tommi Grönlund, and Petteri Nisunen’s exhibition: Perceptual Drift (Galaxies in Mind) / GREY AREA, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia
2024- Workshop “Seen/Unseen”, PEPA, Mallorca, SP
2018- Teaching assistant, YOYO art studies, Aalto University, Helsinki, FI
2015- Teaching the course “Drawing and Presentation Techniques”, Mokaab Art Institution, IR
2015 Teaching the course “Drawing and Presentation Techniques”, Media Art Institution, Tehran, IR
2014 Teaching the course “Basics of Form and Space”, Pars University of Art and Architecture, Tehran, IR
2014 Teaching the course “the Theory of Design Naturally”, Konstfack College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, SE
2012 Lecture on “the theory of Design Naturally”, Pezi Group, Netherland
2012 One week lecture/workshop on “the Theory of Design Naturally”, Konstfack College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, SE
2012 Teaching the course “Basics of Form and Space”, Fine Art College of Tehran University, IR