Shahram Entekhabi

Shahram Entekhabi' (Persian: شهرام انتخابی), born 1963, is a German-Iranian video and installation artist.

Work

He participated in a group exhibition at the Chelsea Arts Museum, where his contribution was sex worker calling cards to which he had added full veils.[1] In July 2009, The New York Times wrote in an art review, Iran Inside Out, regarding a similar piece, Shahram Entekhabi draws chadors in black Magic Marker on images of dating-service models.[2]

Entekhabi caused a stir in Lucerne in January 2011 when he stretched red and white barrier tape across the city's Town Hall Bridge without first securing a permit, impeding traffic on a Friday afternoon.[3]

Foundation and Initiated projects

  • WL PROJECT, curatorial and artistic projects, 2006 [1]
  • i RAN Home, presentation of contemporary Iranian visual culture in Berlin, 2009 [2]
  • UNITY, contemporary art projects against racism in collaboration with UNICEF in Penang, Malaysia, 2009 [3]
  • Factory TT, an interdisciplinary network of artists and researchers founded in 2015 by artist Shahram Entekhabi and curator Asieh Salimian. [4]

References

  1. ^ Looking For Iran in its Art, Benjamin Sutton, The L Magazine, 5 August 2009
  2. ^ Iran Inside Out, The New York Times, 23 July 2009
  3. ^ "Iranischer Künstler sperrt Rathaussteg (Iranian artist blocking Rathaussteg)". Neue Urner Zeitung Online. 28 January 2011. Retrieved 5 February 2012.