Baktash Sarang
Digital work, black and grey architectural fragments
Pencil drawing of wearable capsules

Exhibitions

2026
In The Other FaceGroup exhibition. A project by Mohammad Kalantari. 31 July – 14 August 2026
Catalogue
2025
RemembranceGroup exhibition. 009821 Projects, a project by Mohammad Kalantari, Tehran
2024
Eternal Inner ConstructionSolo exhibition. L’Atlas, Paris, invited by Ab-Anbar (London). 22 February – 16 March 2024
Press pack
2024
The Earth Has ShiftedGroup exhibition curated by Sarina Basta, Radicants. Ab-Anbar at L’Atlas, Paris. 18 January – 17 February 2024
2019
Les Jardins du DesignExhibition trail. 7 – 21 May 2019
2018–19
Parallèle / Régionale 19CEAAC, Strasbourg. 1 December 2018 – 24 February 2019
2018
SolitarySolo exhibition. AB-Anbar, Tehran. 12 October – 22 November 2018
2018
Only the Morning Bird Treasures the Flower GardenGallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles. 21 July – 30 September 2018
2018
The Port and the Fall of IcarusA project for the Dutch Pavilion, 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2018
Itinerancia — Artists of the Casa de VelázquezMusée Dobrée – Manoir de la Touche, Nantes. 16 March – 29 April 2018
2013
The FoldAbsence, disappearance and loss of memory in the work of 12 Iranian artists. Curated by Michel Dewilde and Azar Mahmoudian. CAB Art Center, Brussels. 19 April – 15 June 2013
2011
SCOPE BaselBasel. 15 – 19 June 2011

Texts & Catalogues

Anaël Pigeat
Eternal inner constructionEnglish
2024
Press pack — Eternal Inner ConstructionL’Atlas × Ab-Anbar, Paris · PDF, 7 pages
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2024
Press release — The Earth has Shifted / Eternal Inner ConstructionL’Atlas × Ab-Anbar, Paris · PDF, 2 pages
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2018
Text — La Biennale di VeneziaPDF, 12 pages
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Catalogues

Catalogue 2025PDF, 62 pages
Study of
Anti-Control Capsules
Study of Anti-Control Capsules2025 · PDF, 17 pages
Catalogue (English)PDF, 16 pages
Solitary — List of WorksAB-Anbar, 2018 · PDF, 35 pages
Catalogue 032018 · PDF, 64 pages
In The Other FaceA project by Mohammad Kalantari, 2026 · PDF, 36 pages

CV

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Baktash Sarang
Born in Tehran, Iran, 1981. Lives and works in Paris.

Education

2015
M.A., Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France
2012
D.N.S.E.P., Metal sculpture, Haute école des arts du Rhin (HEAR), École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg (ESADS), Strasbourg, France
2005
B.A. in Painting, Azad University, Tehran Center, Tehran, Iran

Residencies

2016–17
Member of the Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid, Institut de France, Spain
2012–15
Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France, Fondation Dufraine, Paris, France

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024
Ab-Anbar Gallery, presented by L’Atlas, galerie des mondes, Paris, France
2018
Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016
Galerie Jean-François Kaiser, Strasbourg, France
2014
Araan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2013
Araan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012
AB Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2009
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2007
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
009821 Projects, Remembrance, a project by Mohammad Kalantari, Tehran, Iran
2024
Ab-Anbar Gallery presented by L’Atlas galerie and Groupe Emerige, ‘The Earth Has Shifted’, curated by Sarina Basta for Radicants, Paris, France
O Gallery, ‘Hidden Curtains, Apparent Curtains’, curated by Boyeh Sadatnia, Tehran, Iran
2022
Ab-Anbar Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK
Pejman Foundation, Argo Factory, a selection of works from the Pejman collection, Tehran, Iran
2019
CEAAC, Centre européen d’actions artistiques contemporaines, Parallèle / Regionale 19, Strasbourg, France
MADE iN Sainte-Marie Lyon, Les Jardins du Design, Lyon, France
2018
16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, ‘The Port and the Fall of Icarus’, Dutch Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Musée Dobrée, Casa de Velázquez Itinerancia, Manoir de la Touche, Nantes, France
Gallery at REDCAT, ‘Only the Morning Bird Treasures the Flower Garden’, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Viva Villa, 1st edition, curated by Cécile Debray and Federico Nicolao, Cité internationale des arts, Montmartre, Paris, France
Sala Amadís, ‘La amenaza invisible’, curated by Nerea Ubieto, Madrid, Spain
Itinerancia, Salle Comtesse de Caen, Académie de France, Paris, France
Monastery of Santa María de Veruela, Zaragoza, Spain
Emkan Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016
ESTAMPA, Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Por Venir, Casa de Velázquez, Académie de France à Madrid, Institut de France, Madrid, Spain
2015
O Gallery, The List, Recent Drawing of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Aran Gallery, Suspended, Tehran, Iran
Fearless: The Next Wave of Artists from Iran, curated by Fereydoun Ave, Aaran Projects, O Gallery and Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, and Total Arts at the Courtyard, Dubai
Le Salon de l’imprésenter, 3rd edition, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Saint-Charles, Paris, France
2014
Manchester Art Gallery, The Sensory War 1914–2014, Manchester, UK
Niavaran Cultural Center, Salvation, curated by Amir Hossein Bayani, Gohar Dashti and Koroush Golnari, Tehran, Iran
2013
CAB Contemporary Art Center, Absence, Disappearance and Loss of Memory in the Work of 12 Iranian Artists, Brussels, Belgium
Drawing Now, Contemporary Drawing Fair, J.P. Ritsch-Fisch Galerie, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2012
De Bond, ‘Schriftuur / Scripture’ (installation The Bookcase), Bruges, Belgium
HilgerBROTKunsthalle, Nadour Collection, 20 artists from the MENA region, Vienna, Austria
2011
T66 Gallery, Regionale 12, Freiburg, Germany
Aran Gallery, ‘Requiem for Innocence’, a tribute to Iraqi and Iranian lives lost in war (War Collection), Tehran, Iran
Morono Kiang Gallery, ‘My Super Hero’, from the series Anonymous Hero, Los Angeles, USA
Schaufenster, Sélestat, France
5th International Book Festival, Barcelona, Spain
FRAC Alsace, Sélestat, France
SCOPE Basel, AB Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Haftsamar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2010
Azad Art Gallery, Tehran, Iran
AB Gallery, Lucerne, Switzerland
Bob Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
AB Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Musée Historique de Strasbourg and L’Aubette, Strasbourg, France
2009
L6 Gallery, Freiburg, Germany
La Chaufferie, gallery of the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, France
2008
La Comble, Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg, France
Tehran Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2004
Aban Gallery and Sabk Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2001
Biennale of Drawing, Barg Gallery, Tehran, Iran

Contact

baktashsarang@gmail.com

Lives and works in Paris