Foad Alijani

Foad Alijani is a research-oriented artist-curator whose practice explores memory, imagination, lived experience, embodied perception, and environmental reflection. His work navigates imaginal maps, lights, images, installations, and films, often drawing on the intersections between inner and outer worlds. He founded Paadmaan in Tehran in 2018, later relocating it to Amsterdam in 2023 and establishing its current base in Rotterdam in 2024.

He studied at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Soore University, and the Art University of Isfahan, and his work has appeared through exhibition, film, curatorial, and research contexts in the Netherlands and beyond.