EHSAN ARJMAND

Born 1982, Abadeh, Iran  
Lives and works in Austria

Ehsan Arjmand is an Iranian contemporary artist whose practice centres on the human body and its relationship to identity, perception and surrounding space. Trained in sculpture and painting, he holds a BA in Sculpture from the University of Fine Arts in Tehran and an MA in Painting from the University of Science and Culture in Tehran.

Since his first solo exhibition in Tehran at the age of 23, Arjmand has developed a distinctive figurative language in which bodies appear fragmented, layered and entangled with abstract forms. Working across painting and drawing, he combines acrylic, ink and charcoal to construct images that move between physical presence and psychological states.

His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Austria, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon, Albania, Greece, Sweden, Canada and the United Kingdom.

 ARTISTIC PRACTICE

The human body has remained central to Ehsan Arjmand’s practice throughout his career. Rather than treating the figure as a fixed anatomical subject, he approaches it as a shifting territory through which questions of identity, consciousness and interpersonal connection can be explored.

His recent paintings bring bodily narratives into contact with recurring abstract red forms. These elements function less as conventional symbols than as visual forces that penetrate, surround or disrupt the figure. Bodies overlap, dissolve and expand into their environment, creating compositions in which the boundary between internal and external experience becomes unstable.

Arjmand generally works without preparatory sketches. Images develop through spontaneous layers of colour, ink and texture, allowing accidental forms to influence the final composition. This process of finding structure within uncertainty is fundamental to his work.

Alongside his larger canvases, his works on paper reduce this language to a more immediate graphic form, using fluid lines, fragmented figures and areas of saturated red to explore bodily movement and psychological tension.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS

2026  
40 Years of the Hausruckviertler Art Circle, Lebzelterhaus Gallery, Vöcklabruck, Austria  
What Remains of Us, Behnood Foundation, Tehran, Iran  
Issues, Freya Gallery, Tehran, Iran  
Trace of the Present, Binesh Gallery, Tehran, Iran  
Artist at War, Dena Gallery, Tehran, Iran  

2025  
The Body as Burden, solo exhibition, Lebzelterhaus Gallery / HKK Kunstraum, Vöcklabruck, Austria  
Verflochten, Kiam Gallery, Amstetten and Lebzelterhaus Gallery, Vöcklabruck, Austria  
Apolo Art Colony, Fier, Albania  

2024  
Tangled in Red, solo exhibition, Negar Gallery, Tehran, Iran  
Contours of the Soul, online solo exhibition presented by Blue Rhino Art Consultancy, London, UK  
Art Contact Istanbul, presented by Moj Art Group, Istanbul, Turkey  

2023  
Women in Modern Iran, Sisiss Art Gallery, Athens, Greece  
Above & Beyond, Arta Gallery, Toronto, Canada  

2021  
Suspension of the Body, solo exhibition, Sareban Gallery, Tehran, Iran  

2019  
In the Body of the Flesh, solo exhibition, Sareban Gallery, Tehran, Iran  

EDUCATION

2016  
MA in Painting, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

2007  
BA in Sculpture, University of Fine Arts, Tehran, Iran

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

2025  
Apolo Art Colony, Fier, Albania

2022  
Second Edition of Don’t Bite Me Art Residency, Blue Rhino Art Consultancy, Istanbul, Turkey

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Full member of IG Bildende Kunst, Austria, since 2025

AVAILABLE WORKS

Selected paintings and works on paper by Ehsan Arjmand from 2024–2026 are available through HAZEGALLERY.

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