Vali Mahlouji is a curator, advisor to the British Museum, Art Dubai Modern, Bahman Mohassess Estate, and director of Kaveh Golestan Estate. He is founder of Archaeology of the Final Decade (AOTFD), a non-profit curatorial platform that excavates accounts of culture, which have remained obscure, banned, or lost through material destruction. His work has been shown at Tate Modern, London; Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow; SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka; Arnolfini, Bristol; FOAM, Amsterdam; MAXXI, Rome; Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris; Bergen Triennial; Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; Sursock Museum, Beirut; and Asia Cultural Centre, Gwangju. His projects include A Utopian Stage at the Whitechapel Gallery, which was nominated for Best Exhibition by the Global Fine Arts Awards (2015), and Kaveh Golestan: Prostitute (1975-77),
Photo London, which was acquired and exhibited by Tate Modern in 2017-18. Mahlouji’s upcoming title A Utopian Stage will be published by University of the Arts in 2023. Born in Tehran, Iran, Vali Mahlouji gained his foundational training in the disciplines of Archaeology, Philology and Psychoanalysis at the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies and University College, London) and Anna Freud Centre. He lives and works in London.