© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Alice Ahad – Pierre Adenis 2024
Alice Mestriner (Italy) and Ahad Moslemi (Iran) met in Canada in 2017, where they began to collaborate
Ahad Moslemi (Teheran, 1983).
In 1998 he began his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Tehran. In 2011 he emigrated to Canada where he continued his studies at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières at the department of plastic arts. He participated in exhibitions and conferences in Canada, Mexico, Greece, America, In 2016 he won the Prix du Doyen with the project “Les Conséquences de la guerre sur les enfants”. He won the prize ”Gilles-Verville” in 2016. In the same year he was invited to a conference at the 56th Venice Biennale together with the artist Ola-Dele Kuku “A Continuous state of Time”. In 2017 he participated in an exhibition in the North Adams (U.S.A.) for the Prints Biennial.
Alice Mestriner (Treviso, 1994). 2022 MA in Visual Arts at Iuav University of Venice. 2017 BA in Multimedia Arts at Iuav University of Venice. She studied at NODE Institute, Berlin. 2014 Course in Cultural Anthropology at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. 2015 Erasmus program at Hacettepe University in Ankara. She won an honorable mention in photography from Monochrome Awards. 2016 collaborated with Ola-Dele Kuku and she organized “A Continuous State of Time” at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Together in 2018 they attended the Erasmus+ Course, Mobility of Youth Workers, “Social Inclusion through artistic tools” in London. In 2020 they attended the Course at Harvard University “Tangible things: discovering history through artworks, artifacts, scientific specimens and the stuff around you”. In 2022 they received a mention for their MA Thesis “Plastic Memory and Aesthetics of Immortality” from Iuav University. In the same year they took part at COME2ART Project: “Introducing a collaborative scheme between artists & community members fostering life skills development and resilience through creative placemaking”, a European Project founded by Erasmus+, KA2, ΙΚΥ. In 2023-2024 they won a Fellowship at the Nationals Museums of Berlin, Ethnological and Asian Arts Museum, at Humboldt Forum. In addition to their artistic research they have created workshops and educational programs in schools, universities and companies.
PRIZE
2019 Finalists at COMBATPRIZE 10th ed. 2021 Finalists at Premio Francesco Fabbri. 2024 Finalists at the prize FREGELLAE for little sculptures, VIII Ed.