Ali Bakhtiari is curator. He collaborated with many international museums and centers such as Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, British Museum, Museo MAXXI and Centre Georges Pompidou.
He founded the ABBookness project in 2011, which is the first Middle Eastern project collaborating with artists on the publication of Artist Books. ABBookness published works of artists such as Farideh Lashai, Parviz Tanavoli, Parvaneh Etemadi and Ali Akbar Sadeghi.