Shahram Entekhabi
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Shahram Entekhabi An Iranian born artist and architect whose work has been the subject of many exhibitiions all over the world, currently living and working across London, Berlin and Tehran. Shahram’s practice is framed within an urban setting and diffuses the idea of the urban space being a reserve for the practice and performance of the white, middle class, hetro-sexual male. He explores these ideas via a variety of performative practices using architecture, installation and digital media. He chooses to highlight individuals who are ordinarily marginalized and made invisible or forced into self-ghettoization from the urban domain, such as migrant communities and their cultures, particularly the communities from the Middle East and its diaspora. The question of visibility and invisibility therefore is a theme he recurrently explores within his practice.
[edit] Biography
Shahram Entekhabi (1963) is an Iranian Artist living and working in London, Berlin and Tehran. He is active in the fields of video art, photography, painting, drawings, installation, performance and community art.
He studied graphic-design at the University of Teheran, Iran in and studied architecture, urbanism, and Italian language in Perugia and Reggio Calabria, Italy. Works as independent architect on residential projects and competitions. Currently active in the fields of video art, photography, painting, drawings, installation, performance and community art. He received a 2004 fellowship at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland/OH, USA. 2007 Live Art UK Touring Commission R&D (Research and Development grants).
[edit] Exhibitions
- 2006 Busan Biennale - Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan Yachting Center, Korea. (catalogue)
- 2006 "Something in common" (solo exhibition), Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
- 2006 "It's been a long way, baby..." (solo exhibition) — Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland (catalogue)
- 2006 Krieg der Knöpfe "War of the Buttons" — Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany (catalogue)
- 2004 exhibition architecture and exhibition designer of "Entfernte Nähe. Neue Positionen Iranischer Kunst", Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (catalogue)
- 2006 Curator’s Choice architectural exhibition solutions.
- 2007 Live Art UK Touring Commission R&D (Research and Development grants).
