Artist · Tehran · Hamburg

Mir Ali
Hassanzadeh
Khedmatkar

b. 1960, Tehran  ·  based Hamburg since 1986

Large-scale murals, mixed media and interactive installations navigating the tension between East and West. Spirals, pictograms and numbers as a universal visual alphabet — timeless, archaic, alive.

Award
Kahnweiler Award, Hamburg 1997
Exhibition
EXPO 2000 Hannover · Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

Selected works

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    Mixed media, 180×150 cm

  • White Cube

    White Cube, Museum of Contemporary Art, Teheran, Iran, 2003

    Metal and glass, 4×4 m

  • Untitled

    Untitled

    Mixed media, 180×150 cm

About

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.

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Opening · Fall 2026

Democracy Proof

The inaugural exhibition at Galerie M|R, Hamburg — a multi-disciplinary dialogue between artists on art, identity and democratic resilience in a world where freedom of expression, press and identity are under sustained pressure.

Galerie M|R

Maria-Louisen Strasse 25

D-22301 Hamburg

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