Stuart Comer is Curator: Film at Tate Modern. He oversees film and video work for the Tate Collection and Displays and organises an extensive film... More...
Kamran Diba, a native Iranian architect & planner, left Iran and his large practice called DAZ Architects, Planners and Engineers in 1978, a year... More...
Abbas Kiarostami is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami... More...
Axel Langer is Curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art at the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland. He worked on Persian miniature painting, textiles... More...
b. 1957, Qazvin, Iran Shirin Neshat was born in Qazvin, Iran, a small city two hours from Tehran, on March 26, 1957. In 1974, at the age of... More...
Julia Peyton-Jones, OBE, is Director of the Serpentine Gallery, and Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes. Julia studied painting at the Royal... More...
Dr. Venetia Porter is a Curator of the Islamic Collections in the Department of Asia at the British Museum and was previously an Assistant Keeper... More...
Art historian and architect Alireza Sami Azar was director of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts from 1999 to 2005, and teaches at the recently... More...
Foremost Iranian artist, Parviz Tanavoli, was a founder member of Saqqakhaneh a term coined for an artistic movement which began in 1960s Iran and... More...
Chief Curator at Tate Modern since 2001, Wagstaff is responsible for an extensive international programme of major exhibitions, turbine hall... More...
JUDGING PROCESS
MOP CAP was judged by an internationally recognised panel of experts chaired by Sheena Wagstaff.
The shortlist of 35 artists was announced at Magic of Persia's second fundraising auction of Iranian contemporary art in Dubai on the 11th April 2009. The final winner, Mahmoud Bakhshi Moakhar, was announced at the MOP CAP exhibition and auction at the Royal College of Art in London, on the 17th October 2009.