In this Online Exhibition exclusive to IC, Ramin Salsali selected some recent favorites from his collection.
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, Najd, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
Thirty one years ago, at the age of twenty one, collector Ramin Salsali started to collect art and hasn’t stopped since.
Twenty six years later he opened the Salsali Private Museum in Dubai – a contemporary art space dedicated to the culture and joy of collecting which enabled Salsali to accomplish his long sought after dream to share his passion for art with a larger audience.
Next to showcasing Salsali’s extensive collection, the venue hosts the collections of guest collectors and traveling exhibitions from around the world. The museum offers local and international art collectors a platform to connect with each other and engage with artists, galleries and the creative community of the region, whilst further engaging in the development of Dubai as an evolving hub for the art and culture of the Middle East.
Today, Salsali’s collection contains more than 900 pieces including paintings, photography, video art, sculptures and installations by Middle Eastern artists such as Mona Hatoum, and Shirin Neshat, which sit alongside international stars like Arman, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jonathan Meese, André Butzer, Fischli/Weiss, Meret Oppenheim, and Daniel Richter.
In this Online Exhibition exclusive to IC, Salsali selected some recent favorites from his collection, focusing on works by Manal Al Dowayan, Hazem Harb, Pantea Rahamni, Wall Fantasma, Ramtin Zad, Sara Rahbar, Reza Derakhshani and Amir Hossein Zanjani in particular.
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, Manal Courage, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, College Days, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, I Am a Doctor, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, Love, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, I am a TV Producer, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
MANAL AL DOWAYAN, The Choice IV, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, TAG 07 (Tag Series), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #27 (Archaeology of Occupation series), 2015. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #5, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #1, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #2, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #3, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Untitled #4, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, War hysteria Triptych Untitled #1, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Come On My Airplane, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Come On My Airplane 1, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Come On My Airplane 2, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, Come On My Airplane 3, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
HAZEM HARB, The Other Half, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
PANTEA RAHAMNI, Tehran 1, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
PANTEA RAHAMNI, Tehran 2, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
PANTEA RAHMANI, Exposed 7, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
WALL FANTASMA. Triptych works concept#3, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
WALL FANTASMA. Triptych works concept#1, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
RAMTIN ZAD, Peacock, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
RAMTIN ZAD, Untitled (from the Resurrection Series), 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
RAMTIN ZAD, Luna Park (from the Resurrection Series), 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
RAMTIN ZAD, Winter in Mount Alborz (from the Resurrection Series), 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
RAMTIN ZAD, Suger cube head (from the Resurrection Series), 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Love Arrived And How Red No.11, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Flag 16, Use this Distance to Forget Who I am, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Flag 16, Use this Distance to Forget Who I am, 2008. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Flag 35, Vahed (The One), 2008. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Flag 41, Whatever We Had To Lose We Lost And In A Moonless Sky We Marched, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Irreversible Violence, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
SARA RAHBAR, Overcome me sweet oblivion, I am ashamed, humbled, and unstable, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, Day and Night, 2010. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, Rolls Royce Black and White, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, Divided Landscape of a Blue Monarchy, 2011. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, The Identity Crisis Series, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, The Identity Crisis Series, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, The Identity Crisis Series, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, The Identity Crisis Series, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, The Lion and the Sword, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
REZA DERAKHSHANI, Hunting the Pink, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, Oil Workers Series, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, Oil Workers Series, 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, Korean Girls, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, Do you have a lighter?, 2014. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, I Follow you I Follow you deap sea baby, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, I Follow you I Follow you deap sea baby, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
AMIR HOSSEIN ZANJANI, Red Carpet, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Salsali Private Museum
