Bibliography

Profiles / Interviews / Features / Academic Citations

2025 – Abbas Zahedi, Sascha Behrendt, Curator Guide _^source
2024 – The Exchange: Abbas Zahedi and Joshua Leon, Holly Black for Plaster _^source
2024 – Ryan Gander: Artists at 5, edi. Ryan Gander, Mennour _^source
2024 – Making Time, Volume 1, Artangel, London, UK
2023 – Rooms We Leave Behind: Abbas Zahedi, Alessandro Rabottini for Mousse Magazine _^source
2023 – To support each other, Titus Nouwens for Metropolis M (tr. from Dutch)
2023 – Meet the Artist: Abbas Zahedi, Tate Kids (video) _^source
2022 – Abbas Zahedi Invites Us To Play the Waiting Game, Eva Wilson for Frieze Week Magazine _^source
2022 – Healing as an artistic practice, Patricia Grzonka for Monopol Magazine _^source
2022 – Artist Abbas Zahedi: ‘I hijack galleries as spaces to grieve’, En Liang Khong for the Financial Times _^source
2022 – Abbas Zahedi on the Rituals of Grieving, interview with Jamila Prowse for Frieze _^source
2022 – Art, Migration and the Production of Radical Democratic Citizenship, Dominik Czechowski, Rowman & Littlefield
2022 – Kounsel: POST, conversation with Abbas Zahedi and Joshua Leon (podcast) _^source
2022 – Artist Profile, Charlotte Jansen for The Art Newspaper _^source
2021 – How Abbas Zahedi Turned an Exhibition into a Mutual Aid Group, Róisín Tapponi for Frieze _^source
2021 – Abbas Zahedi talks about To The Sour Sowers, interview with The Mosaic Rooms, London _^source
2021 – The Image and the Orient: Contemporary Aspects of Islamic Art (Part II), Cleo Cantone, The Muslim World Book Review, 412
2021 – Fear of heaven: Abbas Zahedi on creating places to reflect, inspect, investigate or expand at the intersection of the social & sacred, Kashif Sharma-Patel, AQNB _^source
2021 – Out of sight: towards an affectual reworking of “common sense”, Margherita Dosi Delfini
2021 – Art By Stealth, Hettie Judah for ArtReview (podcast) _^source
2021 – Fugitive Voices feat. Abbas Zahedi, Movement Radio, Athens _^source
2020 – WHEN WE GONNA BE TOGETHER? THE ART OF DISENGAGING AND THE NEO-DIASPORIC POETICS OF ABBAS ZAHEDI, Louise Gholam and Maya Gulieva for Content Free _^source
2020 – Transactional Objects Full of Contexts in Voided Sites, Cédric Fauq, Mousse Magazine _^source
2020 – Suite 212, podcast with Juliet Jacques _^source
2020 – Interview: Ouranophobia SW3, Adam Hines-Green
2020 – How To Make A How From A Why?, interview with South London Gallery (video) _^source
2020 – A Matter of Use: Abbas Zahedi’s How to Make a How from a Why? at South London Gallery, Elliot Gibbons
2019 – Curating for the Age of Blackness, Cédric Fauq for MousseMagazine _^source
2019 – Decolonising the Canon, Virginia Whiles for Art Monthly 429, September
2018 – Interview: The Age of New Babylon, Samboleap Tol, Central Saint Martins online _^source
2018 – Jum’ah at the Tate: Interview With Artist Abbas Zahedi, Lamisa Khan for Amaliah _^source
2017 – How can culture change the world in dark political times?, Kazim Rashid for DAZED _^source
2017 – Venice Biennale, Britain’s New Voices, BBC Two (documentary) _^source

Reviews And Press Mentions

2025 – Art Treatment, Tom Denman for Art Monthly, issue 491
2025 – Is Art Basel Paris Too Big to Fail?, Ela Bittencourt for HYPERALLERGIC _^source
2025 – Highlights from Art Basel Switzerland, Artefuse _^source
2025 – The AnOther Guide to Navigating Art Basel 2025, Joe Bobowicz for AnOther _^source
2025 – … Swift Sales Across Tiers, Elisa Carollo for Observer _^source
2025 – Swiss Art Week 2025: Art Basel, Basel…, Carolina Zemma for MADE IN BED _^source
2024 – Inside E-WERK Luckenwalde’s ‘Tell Them I Said No’, Will Jennings for Wallpaper* _^source
2024 – Condo London 2025: The Best Art Shows to See This January, Koye Odejinmi for AnOther _^source
2023 – HEARTBURN?, Maximiliane Leuschner for Texte zur Kunst _^source
2023 – … engaging and ‘insidiously unsettling’, By The Week Staff _^source
2023 – Horror in the Modernist Block, Josh Allen for Walk Midlands _^source
2023 – Horror in the Modernist Block, Joe Holyoak for Building Design _^source
2023 – Horror in the Modernist Block Explores Dystopian Brutalist Landscapes At Ikon Gallery, Sadie Barnett for Birmingham review _^source
2023 – … Modernist Horror Gives Way to Speculative Form, Stephanie Bailey for Ocula _^source
2023 – Horror in the Modernist Block, Anneka French for Burlington Contemporary _^source
2022 – Creation from destruction…, Nicholas Wroe for The Guardian _^source
2022 – Why villainy hangs out with modernist buildings, Pamela Buxton for RIBAJ _^source
2022 – Abbas Zahedi at anonymous gallery, Kaleem Hawa for Art Forum. vol. 61, no. 2 _^source
2022 – The London Open 2022, Eddy Frankel for TimeOut London _^source
2022 – ‘Testament’ Questions the Moments We Memorialize, Tom Morton for Frieze _^source
2022 – featured in ‘I’M A FAN’, Sheena Patel (Rough Trade Books, 2022) _^source
2022 – Bringing the Biennial Home: A Proposal to Change a Broken Model, Eliel Jones for ArtReview _^source
2022 – Which Artists Should You Be Watching?, via Artnet _^source
2021 – The present & future of the art world, Nick Waplington for i-D Magazine _^source
2021 – Art by Stealth: a Look Back at the Brent Biennial, Hettie Judah for ArtReview _^source
2021 – How the borders between art and life beyond don’t seem to matter any more, Taylor LeMelle for ArtReview _^source
2021 – How can art and design bring people together to improve our mental health?, Jamila Prowse for It’s Nice That _^source
2021 – Lingering in Gentle Sorrow: Abbas Zahedi at the Chelsea Sorting Office, Hammad Nasar for Ocula _^source
2021 – Ouranophobia SW3, Chloe Carroll for Art Monthly no. 443
2021 – Top Ten Shows from the UK and Ireland, Mimi Chu for Frieze _^source
2021 – New commissions … on Becontree Estate Dagenham, FAD Magazine _^source
2020 – Blood splatters, soul soda and a giant George Michael…, Hettie Judah for The Guardian _^source
2020 – Rosewater soda and a coronavirus memorial…, Louisa Buck for The Art Newspaper _^source
2020 – Brent’s borough-wide biennial offers welcome refreshment, Peter Scott for Apollo Magazine _^source
2020 – How to Make a How from a Why?, via The White Pube _^source
2020 – These Are the Essential Artists You Need to Know Right Now, via Elephant Magazine _^source
2020 – Artist To Watch: Abbas Zahedi, via the Contemporary Art Society _^source
2020 – Standouts, via Elephant Magazine _^source
2019 – 5 Performances Not To Miss At Block Universe 2019, via Something Curated _^source
2019 – AMRA at Spike Island, Amy Grace for Bristol24/7 _^source
2018 – Diaspora Pavilion Venice Moves To Wolverhampton For Restaging, via Artlyst _^source
2018 – ME, MYSELF & A I I I (2017), Laura O’Leary
2018 – Diaspora Pavilion, Art Quarterly
2016 – Diasporic Nomads Enchanting London, William Barylo for Huffpost _^source
2012 – Looking East: Urban Dialogues at London’s Red Gallery, Roxane Zand, Sotheby’s online
2016 – Peter Yorke’s Hipster Handbook, BBC Four (documentary) _^source

Artist’s Publications And Own Writing

2025 – Collective Resonance, Tate etc, issue 66 ^_source
2024 – Ludd Gang Issue 22, September ^_source
2023 – ” ” #7 in conversation with Eva Wilson, NERO & La Becque Editions _^source
2022 – Audible Matter / Wave #6, Infrasonica (online) _^source
2021 – semi-rational records of artchievement, Belmacz, London, UK _^source
2021 – Gestus
2021 – A Loss of Time?, Juf Project, Madrid, Spain _^source
2021 – Therapoiesis, ART WORK Magazine, issue two _^source
2021 – STUART PAPERS Issue Zero, Stuart Hall Library, London, UK _^source
2021 – To The Sour Sowers, The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK _^source
2021 – Artists Against Apartheid, London, UK _^source
2020 – The Perfect Feeling, Rabbits Road Press & Bethlem Gallery, London, UK
2020 – In This Space We Leave, Mixtape, South London Gallery, UK
2018 – Studio Jum’ah, Decolonising Arts Curriculum, University College London, UK
2018 – Sermons, Rabbits Road Press & New Art Exchange, Nottingham, UK
2018 – Jump to Mirage, Khidr Collective Zine, Issue 3
2018 – Curriculum, Rabbit’s Road Press, London, UK _^source
2013 – OOMK zine, ISSUE 2 _^source

Panel Talks And Conversations

2025 – Explorations on Sound and New Media Art Conference, Porto, Portugal _^source
2025 – In Conversation: Dan Lie and Abbas Zahedi: Honest grieving for a better life, Spike Island, Bristol, UK ^_source
2025 – ‘Curing the World?’, Brent Biennial 2025: FIRE Ritual a talk with Alfredo Jaar _^source
2025 – CRIT CLUB: Should art be competitive?, by Cem A, Berlin, Germany _^source
2025 – A Life in the Work of Others, Victoria & Albert Museum East, London, UK _^source
2025 – Trust Issues. Exhibiting as a Practice of Trust, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany _^source
2025 – ‘Art in Schools: Getting Culture Back on the Agenda?’, UP Projects, London, UK _^source
2024 – Artist Talk, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands _^source
2024 – CRIT CLUB: Trauma Bar, by Cem A Berlin, Germany _^source
2024 — New Contemporaries Roundtable: Exchange, New Contemporaries, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK _^source
2024 – Culture Club: Public Art, ArtReview, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK _^source
2023 – Metabolic Museum University, KW, Berlin, Germany _^source
2023 – Experiments in Imagination, Conway Hall, Healing Justice London, UK _^source
2022 – Frieze Artist Award Talk, No. 9 Cork Street, London (UK) _^source
2022 – Asia Forum for Contemporary Art, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy _^source
2021 – Collaboration & Connection, Artangel, London, UK _^source
2021 – Mental Health, Race & Masculinity, Healing Justice London, UK_^source
2021 – Live Tour of 60 Years: An Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain (video) _^source
2021 – Curating Nation, UAL, BAN, Yale, PMC, Tate, London, UK _^source
2021 – Guest Lecture, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2021 – The Urgency of The Arts Assembly, Royal College of Art, London, UK _^source
2020 – The Art of Disengaging, Royal College of Art, London, UK _^source
2020 – European Forum for Advanced Practices, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands (postponed)
2015 – In conversation with Brian Patten, Bradford Literature Festival, UK
2018 – Asia Art Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK _^source
2018 – Of Other Futures, Lethaby Gallery, London, UK _^source
2017 – An Ocean Archive Symposium, Venice, Italy
2013 – Streets Of… A Living Archaeology, Rich Mix, London, UK _^source