Tirdad Zolghadr (born 1973) works as a freelance curator, writes for Frieze magazine and has also contributed to Parkett, Bidoun, Cabinet, Afterall, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Straits Times (Singapore) and other publications.
He is co-founder of the Tehran-based feminist online magazine Bad Jens (1999) and co-director of "Tehran 1380" (with Solmaz Shahbazi), a documentary on mass housing estates in Tehran (2001).
Since 2004, Zolghadr has curated events at Cubitt London, IASPIS Stockholm, Kunsthalle Geneva, various Tehran artspaces, the UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale and other venues.
[2] Zolghadr grew up in Tehran, Zurich, North- and West Africa.
[3] Curated exhibitions: Tirdad Zolghadr has also written a novel, "Softcore", published by Telegram Books in the UK (2007: ISBN 1-846590-20-5) and Kiepenheuer & Witsch in Germany (2008) ...Tirdad Zolghadr's debut novel tells the story of the Promessa nightclub in Tehran, once a glamorous cocktail bar of the 70s and soon to be reopened as a heady mix of art, fashion, and culture.