Ab-Anbar

Established: 2014

Ab-Anbar is a contemporary art gallery that engages with the non-linear intersections of histories of Art and History. Often diasporic, Ab-Anbar represents artists from multiple latitudes and identities, who traverse the aesthetic and political, as well as social and psychological borders.

Ab-Anbar initially opened in 2014 in Tehran, Iran. The gallery is a conceptual representation of its name which means a water reservoir in Farsi. The word is made of two parts: ‘ab’ meaning water and ‘anbar’ meaning a reservoir. Thus, Ab-Anbar as a gallery is the architectural expression of a physical space that shapes malleable content, nurturing life and growth. The space, through its solidity and form, brings to sight the fluidity of art.

Since its inception, the gallery has presented exhibitions as well as hosted and collaborated with a variety of cultural tenants, not-for-profits, independent publishers, musicians, and performers, fashioning a year-long programme of wide-reaching cultural engagement.

2020 marked the beginning of Ab-Anbar’s program in London, UK. With its new permanent and sole space, open in September 2023 in London’s historical Fitzrovia, the gallery intends to expand the dialogue between artists, collectors, museums and curators towards an inclusion and understanding of marginalised realities.

https://ab-anbar.com

Member since 2023

Events

  • TUE 07
    JAN

    special event: Screening of Sambizanga by Sarah Maldoror

    6.30-8.30pm

    Ab-Anbar, 34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS

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  • THU 23
    JAN

    special event: Screening of Soleil Ô by Med Hondo

    6.30-8.30pm

    Ab-Anbar, 34 Mortimer St, W1W 7JS

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Ab-Anbar

34 Mortimer St
London
W1W 7JS
United Kingdom
+44 744 489 9173

Open: Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 12-6pm


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