Fereshte Moosavi

Born in Tehran, 1981. Bachelor in Fine Art (Sculpture | Public Art) from University of Art in Tehran, 2006 and MA in Fine Art from Plymouth University, 2008. Fereshte Moosavi is currently a PhD candidate in Curatorial/Knowledge program at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her research is titled as: A Study on Curatorial-Abilities; Environmenting, Improvising, & Inhabiting State of Affairs. She lives between Tehran and London, and is the art director and curator at the MOP Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in London that provides different educational and curatorial programmes for Iranian artists. She is the course designer and teacher of Curatorial; An Educational-Research Programme at Charsoo-Honar institute in Tehran. Moosavi is also a teaching assistant in Visual Cultures Department at Goldsmiths College University of London since September 2014 and has taught as assistant-teacher and external supervisor/reviewer, respectively at Essex University 2011, and Aalto University, Helsinki since May 2014. She has been a guest lecturer at Charsoo Honar in Tehran, March 2013. Her articles entitled Theatre as Crime | Theatre as Justice, published in Art & Media Magazine in Tehran, 2013, and Salaam Cinema, ‘Entering the Space of the Unknown, in DISDISDIS, Oct 2013. Fereshte Moosavi worked at the Bon-Gah Publication as Editor and Translator in Tehran, 2004-2010.