Shahram Entekhabi

Shahram Entekhabi
Born in Beroujerd, Iran, lives and works in Berlin
Studied graphic-design at the University of Teheran, Iran
Studied architecture, urbanism, and Italian language in Perugia and Reggio Calabria, Italy
- Awards, stipends, scholarships
2004 fellowship at the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland/OH, USA (catalogue)
2006 Vasl Lahore 2006 (residency), Lahore, Pakistan (catalogue)
2007 Live Art UK Touring Commission R&D grant
2008 AIR, International Artists’ Workshop: 4X4, and residency, Hong Kong
2008 Research/creation grant in Chihuahua on behalf of Aves en la luna - CASA DEL LAGO Juan José
Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Research/creation grant of Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation & National Centre for
Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Selected Exhibitions 2011
Black Box: Adventures in Video Art, curated by Raul Zamudio, Other Gallery, Beijing, China
A Taste of Gold, soloshow at the Pristine Galerie, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
The Third Eye, Other Gallery Shanghai, China
My Super Hero, Morano Kiang Gallery Los Angeles
My Super Hero. Aaran Gallery Tehran, Iran
White Lies and Some Promisessolo show at the AB GALLERY, Zürich, Switzerland
"Rhizome" solo show at the AB GALLERY, Emmenbrücke-Luzern, Switzerland
In the mood for today - Public screen of 30 ft x 16.4 ft, 6th Avenue, between 29th and 30th Street,
Manhattan, New York
In the mood for today- FUNDACIÓN ALIANZA HISPANICAc/ San Pedro 22, Madrid
Selected Exhibitions 2010
• Ojardim como espelho (The Garden as a mirror) — Curator Rui Mourão, Goethe Institute, Lisbon,
Portugal
• Forming Identity — FOTOGALERIE WIEN (Association for the Promotion of Art Photography and
New Media), Wienna, Austria•
• Verschleierte Öffentlichkeit — Lecture: Prof. Dr Gabriele Genge, Gender Studies Universität Zürich
& UFSP, Universität Duisburg, Germany
• "day-to-day life" — Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts NCCA,
Kaliningrad, Russia
• 'I love my God' — steirischer herbst festival, Graz, Austria
• Goethe Institute Senegal — watching me, Curator Karen Dermineur, Dakar, Senegal
• DUPLEX/10m2 — Video-Salon 4 (Curatorial Rebound Project), Stakleni Grad, Sarajevo, Bosna i
Hercegovina
Selected Exhibitions 2009
• I Am..., — The first presentation of UNITY project in Penang, Malaysia
• IRAN INSIDE OUT — curator Sam Bardaouil, Chelsea Art Museum,New York, NY, USA
• Boulevard publique – promenades et marches — curators Madeleine Amsle and Véronique Yersin,
Forde - Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva Switzerland
• Topography of Happiness: Russian Wedding — The State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno, Moscow,
Russia
• Kunst und Öffentlichkeit. 40 Jahre Neuer Berliner Kunstverein — .n.b.k. Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,
Berlin, Germany
• 10th Havana Biennial, 2009, — curator Blanca De la Torre García, Havana, Cuba
• Shahram Entekhabi: Share Farang — soloshow, KunstBüroBerlin, KBB Berlin, Germany
• Globalscreen — Schloss-Ringenberg.de in Germany
• "Das Böse ist ein Eichhörnchen" — Museum in der „Runden Ecke“ (Stasimuseum), LOFFT Leipzig
and Werkstattmacher e.V.
• 'Das Bild des Fremden in Deutschland und Frankreich' — curator Dr. Ulrike Kremeier, Deutsches
Historisches Museum (DHM), Berlin, Germany
• Middle East Video Channel — curator Khaled D. Ramadan, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
(UCCA), Beijing, China
• Excuse me, are you famous? — Invaliden1, a site-specific project, curated by Kathrin Becker for WL
project Berlin / Hong Kong, Berlin Germany
• Video Work in Migratory Aesthetics — Tampere Art Museum, Tampere Finland
Selected video presentation and festivals 2009
• Video seminar Indonesia – Berlin & Beyond, organised by Videolab, Soemardja Gallery, ITB,
Bandung/Indonesia
• Video screening, curated by Kathrin Becker, Annemarie-Schimmel-House, Lahore/Pakistan
• Berlin Hot Shots. organised by VASL, Karachi, Koel Gallery, Karachi/Pakistan
• Video screening, Goethe-Institute Pakistan, Karachi/Pakistan
• V.M. Art Gallery, Berlin Hot Shots. Karachi/Pakistan
• MY FAVOURITE PASTIME /LONDON — Artprojx Space | Artists Film Club
• Asian hot shots Berlin (video art section) — gallery and project space JET, Berlin Germany
Selected Exhibitions 2008
• 'Going the Distance' — The Fibonacci Centre, Fremantle, Australia
• 'Étranger-Fremder en France et en Allemagne du 19e siècle à nos jours' — curator Dr. Ulrike
Kremeier, Cité nationale de l´histoire de l´immigration (CNHI), Paris, France
• bedün´ ? onvän´ 3 — Short video pieces reflecting on social & gender issues in Iran — Foyer &
Cinema 1, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London, UK
• Video art selection — Video Art program, curated by Sabine Schütze, Preview Berlin The Emerging
Art Fair , Berlin, Germany
• Cast Some Light — Screening, Aref Al-Aref Building, THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ART PALESTINE, Ramallah, Palestine
• MONOLOGS's videos — Galería Animal in the city of Santiago of Chile
• Absenz, An- und Abwesenheit in auf unterschiedliche Weise — Lecture and symposium in the
academy of the Kuenste, Berlin, Germany
• The Third Guangzhou Triennial — Curated by Gao Shiming, Sarat Maharaj, Chang Tsong-zung,
Khaled D. Ramadan, Guangdong Museum of Art, China
• The World is Flat — The Center of Contemporary Art, Lagos, Nigeria
• en la luna - Poéticas de la diferencia y otros lugares imaginados — curator Itzel Vargas, CASA DEL
LAGO Juan José Arreola, Mexico City
• My favorite pastime — curator Kathrin Becker, ursula blickle videolounge inside the kunsthalle
vienna, Austria
• Aves en la luna - Poéticas de la diferencia y otros lugares imaginados — curator Itzel Vargas, CASA
DEL LAGO Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico
• Emerging Discourse – II: Performance and Mimicry — curated by Shaheen Merali space for Bodhi
Art, New YorK, USA
• THE PROMISED LAND — CAM, Chelsea Art Museum ,Curated by Blanca de la Torre Garcia. New
York, NY, USA
• Obscurum per Obscurius — curator Reet Varblane, cocurator Ilya Sundelevitsh, Tallinn Art Hall,
Tallinn, Estonia
• PROYECTO MONOLOGS — Laboratorio Global de Monologos y Video — curator Elisa Eliash, Rome,
Italy
• The World is Flat — Overgaden. Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (printed
maps(
• Cast Some Light — Glasgow international (Gi) 2008, curating by Helen de Main and Maj Hasager,
Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow U.K.
• Ten Workers — Embassy Projects, , Fo Tan, New Territories, HKSAR, Hong Kong
• LOOP'08 Festival "SELECTED #3, A source for videoart lovers" — The sixth videoart festival LOOP’08,
Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
• "Mahrem – A nmerkungen zum Schleier" — kunsthalle Wien, Project Space, Vienna, Austria
(catalogue)
• "Shahram Entekhabi: From the Banks of a River called HOME" — Centre d'art Nei Liicht, Dudelange,
Luxembourg (solo exhibition)
• Visual Foreign Correspondent issue 2 — developed in cooperation with De Balie Centre for Culture
and Politics , Amsterdam., The Netherlands (solo exhibition)
• Exhibition of video triology “Dead Sattelittes" — curate by Malin Barth, Hordaland Art Center
Bergen, Norway
• Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran & Central Asia — curator Sarah Cunningham,
College of New Jersey , Ewing, NJ, USA (catalogue)
• Performing Rights Glasgow, as part of National Review of Live Art — curator Lois Weaver, New
Moves International, Glasgow UK.
Selected Exhibitions 2007
• Modern, Islamic Veiling and Secular Imaginaries — santralistanbul, Istanbul - Turkey (catalogue)
• Bare Life — Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue)
• Comm' é amaro stu ppane — Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium (catalogue)
• 100 Tage = 100 Videos, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)
• Intervention — Fieldgate Gallery - contemporary art and project space, London, UK.
• Krieg der Knöpfe (War of the Buttons. Children and the World of War) — Landesmuseums, Linz,
Austria (catalogue/ Book)
• Abwehr Performance Festival — Performances at the last watchtowers of the former GDR in Berlin,
Germany
• LED-Wall, Zeithaus, VW Autostadt, Wolfsburg, Germany
• HAZARD: Performance Festival— Manchester City Centre, UK
• Commè amaro stu ppane — Centre d'art Nei Liicht, Dudelange, Luxembourg (catalogue)
• Sin cobertura. Independent Video from the Middle East— Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid, Spain
• War of the Buttons. Children and the World of War — Århus Kunstbygning Center for
Contemporary Art, Århus, Denmark
• IDEAL.LOOP — Espace Croisé, Roubaix Cedex 1, France
Selected Exhibitions 2006
• It's been a long way, baby (solo exhibition) — Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland (catalogue)
• Krieg der Knöpfe (War of the Buttons) — Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
(catalogue)
• This Land Is My Land (II/ Berlin) — Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (catalogue)
• Busan Biennale — Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan Yachting Center, Korea (catalogue)
• GLUB Installation and Film screening — Galerie Eigenheim, Weimar, Germany
• Appendix3: Visual sound - a cooperative video & multimedia project by Automata &
globalscreen.org — Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• 100 TAG = 100 VIDEOS — Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
• Auflösung III (Realismusstudio) — Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin (catalogue)
• Voiler - Dévoiler / Hüllen - Enthüllen, curator Karine Vonna — Villa du Parc- Centre d’art
Contemporain, Annemasse, France
• Labyrinth X - zu Rassismus und Ausgrenzung — Nikolaikirche, Rostock, Germany
• This Land Is My Land — Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany (catalogue)
• Berlintendenzen — La Capella, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
• International Artists Residency Exhibition — Vasl Art, Haveli Baroodkhana, Lahore, Pakistan
• Lost In Space. 19th Annual Images Festival — Vtape, Toronto, Canada
• dLux Media Arts international, the Middle Eastern Video Project — Sydney Opera House, Sydney,
Australia
• Something in Common (solo exhibition) — Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Almost Art, curator Osvaldo Romberg, — Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
• Urban Creatures — Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland (catalogue)
• Nouvelles Collections (Collection Jürg + Ruth Nyffeler) — CentrePasquArt Kunsthaus/ Centre d’art,
Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
• Portraits - The View Behind the Make-up — Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Selected Exhibitions 2005
• Exhibition of the 10 winning videos of the festival FIAV.05 — Metrònom, Barcelona
• Modell “Verpaßte Gelegenheit”-Symptome der Überforderung, curator Sabine Winkler —
Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Germany (catalogue)
• In the Shadow of “Heroes” — ArtEast Social organization, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (catalogue)
• Real representation/representing the “real”, curator Ulrike Kremeier — Arena/Glashaus, Berlin
• Beograd nekad i sad, curator Marko Stamenkovic — Prodajna Galerija, Beograd, Serbia &
Montenegro (catalogue)
• Come Fly With Me, online-video-exhibition on www.tank.tv, London (Sept 1st-Oct 15th, 2005)
• KILID (solo exhibition) — former GDR-watchtower at Schlesischer Busch, Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben
e.V., Berlin
• Glub (solo exhibition) — Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU College of the Arts, The Ohio State University,
Columbus/OH, USA.
• Bologna Flash Art Show — Sofitel hotel, Bologna (catalogue)
• Glub Installation (solo exhibition) — Mershon Center and Art Gallery, The Ohio State University,
Columbus/OH, USA
• Migratory Aesthetics (solo exhibition) — University Theatre of the University of Amsterdam
• Racial Europeanization, lecture by David Theo Goldberg — Knowledge Media Institute, Open
University campus, Milton Keynes (UK)