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
• i RAN Home, presentation of contemporary Iranian visual culture in Berlin, 2009
• UNITY, contemporary art projects against racism in collaboration with UNICEF in Penang, Malaysia, 2009
• Factory TT, an interdisciplinary network of artists and researchers founded in 2015 by artist Shahram Entekhabi and curator Asieh Salimian.