About
Mir Ali Hassanzadeh Khedmatkar
Born in Tehran in 1960, Mir Ali Hassanzadeh Khedmatkar arrived in Hamburg in 1986, intending to continue to the United States — and never left. He studied at HfbK Hamburg and the FH Hamburg and has maintained a studio in the city for four decades.
His practice centres on the intersection of rational systems and spiritual intuition: numbers as universal alphabet, spirals as encoded time, pictograms as the oldest form of cross-cultural communication. Reviewers have called him a Wanderer zwischen Orient und Okzident — a wanderer between Orient and Occident.
In 2026, he co-founded Galerie M|R with Regan King (RAKMAN), opening a physical gallery space in Hamburg's Maria-Louisen Strasse in Fall 2026.
Selected history
- 1997 — Kahnweiler Award, Hamburg
- 2000 — Adam's Cube, EXPO 2000 Hannover
- 2000 — Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran
- 1995– — Studio-Mir, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
- 1993 — Honigfabrik, Hamburg
- 1992 — BBK Hamburg exhibition
Galerie M|R
Galerie M|R is a contemporary art gallery opening in Hamburg in Fall 2026, co-founded by Mir Ali Hassanzadeh Khedmatkar and Regan King (RAKMAN). Located at Maria-Louisen Strasse 25 in the Winterhude district, the gallery represents artists working across painting, mixed media and installation.
The inaugural exhibition, Democracy Proof, brings together artists in a multi-disciplinary dialogue on art, identity and democratic resilience.