Based in Tehran, Erfan Ghiasi is a cultural saboteur and curator out of necessity who shatters realities to speculate new possibilities. Drawing on the concept of كُفْر (kufr), a term associated with heresy, the path of deviation, and the refusal of imposed truths, he develops multidisciplinary projects that investigate the intersections of geohistory, (counter-)narratives of control, worldmaking, and spatial politics through speculation and hyperstiton. He further expanded his curatorial practice through participation in the #5 Autumn School of Curating in Cluj, Romania (2023); the #6 Curatorial Intensive South Asia (CISA), organized by Khoj International Artists’ Association and Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan in New Delhi, India (2024); and the Gwangju Biennale International Curator Academy in Gwangju, South Korea (2025). Ghiasi is also the co-founder of The Tehran Summit and the founder of the Tehran Biennale, two parallel heretical initiatives dedicated to contemporary aesthetics, philosophy, and experimental forms of public gathering. Through these projects, Ghiasi explores new modalities of collective experience, para-institutional world-building, and cultural exchange within Iran and beyond.
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