Hossein Valamanesh

Sansour & Søren Lind, Yhonnie Scarce, Ali Tahayori and Hossein Valamanesh Love is reckless, not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Love comes on strong, consuming herself, unabashed...

The City Speaks brings art into the laneways, parks and public spaces of Melbourne’s city streets. Through performance, installation and spoken word, participating artists and writers evoke encounter, curiosity and provocation – probing a wide, and at times unsuspecting, audience to rethink the definition of art and consider how it might reflect, enrich, and even […]

Five artists – Marnie Edmiston, Jordan Marani, Steven Rhall, Alex Selenitsch and Hossein Valamanesh – have been commissioned to make A0 rock posters for distribution across the Melbourne CBD, relating to the idea of the metropolis, urban conditions or community living – either in Melbourne...

Abdullah, Hoda Afshar, Megan Cope, Eugenia Flynn, D Harding, Saodat Ismailova, Khaled Sabsabi, Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, Yhonnie Scarce, Ali Tahayori and Hossein Valamanesh  Curator: Guest curated by Dr Nur Shkembi OAM...

The late Iranian-born, Australian artist Hossein Valamanesh’s work The lover circles his own heart (1993) is the centrepiece of the exhibition and explores the Sufi spiritual ritual of ‘self-pivoting’ through the practice of ‘whirling’, which is an active form of meditation...