Parsa Kamehkhosh
Designer/Visual & Performance Artist studio@parsa-kamehkhosh.com +358452332200
Parsa Kamehkhosh (b.1985, Tehran) is a designer, visual, and performance artist, currently based in Helsinki. His practice explores the matter of “being in the world” in the context of the interaction between daily life and the experience of life on the existential level. His work often employs objects and materials that manifest contemporary human everyday aesthetics and various religious narratives that define the position of humans in relation to the universe and beyond. His works maneuver on the borders of the inner and external world, natural and supernatural, seen and unseen.
“Being in the world is all I’m trying to experience. Being present with all of my senses and letting myself be touched and fascinated by what life puts forward. I try to constantly internalize my perceptions and observations and reflect on them in the form of “bringing things”. For me, this natural process is a way to understand my position in the world and express my appreciation of it. I believe more in bringing than creating because I identify myself only as a door through which idea can enter the conceivable realm of existence in a certain way.” Parsa elaborated on his practice
Kamehkhosh works across the media, ranging from sculpture to installation and performance art, and has mostly been exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. His interest in materials, objects, and everyday aesthetics led him to study industrial design at Tehran University of Fine Arts, from there to Stockholm to pursue Aesthetics and Meaning-making at Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts, and Design, and then to explore Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Arts at Aalto University.
2023 Proximity, B Gallery, Turku
2023 Starptelpa Performance Festival, Riga
2023 Unwordable (Honey edition), Titanik Gallery, Turku
2023 Duo Show at 3H+K Gallery, Pori
2022 Saturdays, Myymälä 2 Gallery, Helsinki
2022 Honey as Material/ Material as Honey, Azad Gallery, Tehran
2018 Thing (-ing), Azad Art Gallery, Tehran
2017 In honor of the skinny horses, mango’s stone & some random plants, Third Space Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Gone Wild, Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
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
2022 I Am 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
2020 Koneeen Säätiö, 6 months working grants for the project “Proximity”
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
2018- Teaching assistant, YOYO art studies, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
2015- Teaching the course “Drawing and Presentation Techniques”, Mokaab Art Institution, Iran
2015 Teaching the course “Drawing and Presentation Techniques”, Media Art Institution, Tehran, Iran
2014 Teaching the course “Basics of Form and Space”, Pars University of Art and Architecture, Tehran, Iran
2014 Teaching the course “the Theory of Design Naturally”, Konstfack College of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
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, Sweden
2012 Teaching the course “Basics of Form and Space”, Fine Art College of Tehran University, Iran