Pendar Nabipour

artistic research - sculpture - installation - video - urban

Pendar Nabipour is a visual artist, independent curator, and art educator based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His main interests are common memories, collective decision-making, playfulness, humor, and nature. He studies the rethinking of established institutions and the ways of enabling initiatives to activate alternative structures, through artistic practice.

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    • Project Open Source Governance

    Project

    • 01-12-2015
    • Location:, Rotterdam
    • Open Source Governance is a research project that aims to design a blueprint with which a group can collectively and inclusively form questions and find answers that can help organize their community. The interdisciplinary project is a social design process that uses debates, workshops, case studies, publications, podcast, and other mediums to empower groups to find possible ways of self-governing. The concept departs from the disappointment with the representative systems in inclusively and fai
    • https://www.opensourcegovernance.com

    Initiator/curator of "Ideology Meets Implementation

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 13-10-2017 t/m 09-11-2017
    • In collaboration with: W139
    • Location: W139, Amsterdam
    • The core idea of ​​the exhibition was showing examples of confrontation between systems and the way they implement themselves, and the ideologies on which they are based, through an artistic point of view. Artists of the group: Mojtaba Amini, Vasily Bogatov, Ehsan Fardjadinia, Barbad Golshiri, Yoeri Guepin, Joseph Hughes, Mehregan Kazemi, Dimitra Kondylatou, Taisiya Krugovykh, David Maroto, Pendar Nabipour, Mojtaba Tabatabaie, belit sağ, Dorit sağ
    • https://pendarnabipour.com/ideology-meets-implementation/

    Co-curator of LOCUS, Convenience

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 03-10-2014 t/m 22-11-2014
    • In collaboration with: GEMAK
    • Location:, The Hague
    • Project: LOCUS asked artists to develop work at GEMAK based on their experiences as an artist leaving Iran to study and further develop their artistic practice outside of the Iranian cultural and political context. What impact does this different place-to-be have for their art and how does it affect their artistic practice also considering the decision they have to make eventually to stay abroad or to go back home?
    • https://pendarnabipour.com/locus-gemak-the-hague/

    Initiator Art-o-Pourt

    Project

    • 01-04-2011 t/m 01-11-2013
    • In collaboration with: Parking Gallery
    • Location: , Tehran
    • For presenting projects raised up from a collective mind, directed towards today's society concerns. The project started in April 2011 and has been on hold since late 2013. This project is not aiming to necessarily have a specific art product or outcome. The main goal is to pursue the process, to document the discussions, and to hold talks for the projects to come to conclusion and for the projects to interact with each other in order to follow a certain path.
    • https://pendarnabipour.com/the-art-o-pourt-project/

    Rumor Camp

    Performance

    • 01-10-2018 t/m 15-12-2018
    • In collaboration with: Angeliki Marina Diakrousi, Alice Strete, Sign Groningen, Parhessia, TimelineGallery
    • Location: , Groningen
    • A prank campaign in Groningen spreading the rumor that there will be a large refugee camp built next to the city, and catching the reactions of the people on camera. We used interviews, stickers, radio shows, and social media in spreading this rumor.
    • https://pendarnabipour.com/rumor-camp/

    Acknowledgments

      Scholarship

    • Temporary Work Contribution Production, Presentation and Research (PPR)

    • 2020
      Scholarship

    • Stokroos Foundation grant for the project “Conserving the Representation”

    • 2019
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam Research and Development grant

    • 2017
      Scholarship

    • Schuurman Mold – van Outeren Foundation fund

    • 2012
      Scholarship

    • CBK Rotterdam, project assistance for Open Source Governance podcast

    • 2021
      Pricing

    • Mondrian Young Talent fund

    • 2015
      Pricing

    • ArtEZ Scholarship for Non-EEA Students

    • 2012
      Pricing

    • Awarded and honored by the 6th National Biennial of sculpture in the field of “under 35 years old artists”

    • 2011
      Pricing

    • Honored by Tehran University of Art with letter of commendation in “Metal Workshop”

    • 2010
      Pricing

    • Awarded and honored by Iranian Education Ministry in “Mehr National Students Photography Competition”

    • 2002
      Publication

    • do you remember?

    • 2014
    • Online article about collective memories of Iran's pot revolution generation
    • Reorient Magazine - Pendar Nabipour
      Publication

    • Che-Khowfu

    • 2010
    • sketch zine
    • New Bookz - Pendar Nabipour
      Publication

    • Making Smart Things Strange Again: Using Walking as a Method for Studying Subjective Experiences of Smart City Surveillance

    • 2023
    • Academic research paper in collaboration
    • Center for Bold Cities, Leiden-Deflt-Erasmus Universities - Vivien Butot, prof. dr. Gabriele Jacobs, Petra Saskia Bayerl, Dr. Josue Amador, and Pendar Nabipour