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Over the past decades Shahram Entekhabi has presented his work in exhibitions, screenings, and public interventions internationally.
His projects have been shown in museums, galleries, festivals, and public spaces, often engaging with themes of migration, cultural perception, and social visibility.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2021
Instigator — e1 Art Gallery, Tehran
Instigator — Empty Space, New York
2019
New Messages to Europe — Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen
2014
Shahre Farang — Kunst Büro Berlin
Animal Era — Aaran Gallery, Tehran
2013
You Are What You See — Raf Art Gallery, Tehran
NO EXIT — Rotterdam Festival, Rotterdam
2012
Happy Meal — Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont
Tomorrowland — nachtspeicher23, Hamburg
Nothing Gold Can Stay — Other Gallery, Beijing & Shanghai
2011
Lucerne Burka — Public billboard project, Zürich
They Go Bang Bang in My Head — Aaran Gallery, Tehran
White Lies and Some Promises — AB Projects, Zürich
2010
Day-to-Day Life — NCCA Kaliningrad
Road Movies — Brown University, Rhode Island
2009
Shahre Farang — Kunst Büro Berlin
2008
From the Banks of a River Called HOME — Centre d’art Nei Liicht, Luxembourg
Dead Satellites — Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen
BIENNIALS & TRIENNIALS
2009
10th Havana Biennial — Havana
2008
The Third Guangzhou Triennial — Guangdong Museum of Art, China
2007
Metropolis Biennale — Copenhagen
2006
Busan Biennale — Busan Museum of Modern Art
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022
Sparks and Crackles in My World — Aria Art Gallery, Tehran
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining — Aria Art Gallery, Tehran
2021
Pass — Virtual exhibition and performance, Tehran
2020
My Very First Time — Factory TT Video Collection, ACE Gallery, Tehran
2019
Upgrade — Factory TT Video Collection, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Tehran
Speaking for Themselves — Galerie Katharina Maria Raab, Berlin
2018
Beyond the Exhibit — Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen
Beyond the Exhibit — Galerie Katharina Maria Raab, Berlin
2017
Copy / Paste II — CC Art Space and Aknoon Gallery, Isfahan
2013
Without Limits — Founder and Artistic Director, Berlin
2007
Abwehr — Performance Festival, Berlin
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES / SCHOLARSHIPS
2014
Berlin Senate Scholarship for Fine Arts
2012
MADATAC 04 — Contemporary Audio-Visual & New Media Arts Festival, Madrid
2012
Residency and Artistic Production — Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz
2009
Research Grant — National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2008
International Artists Workshop Residency — Hong Kong
2007
Live Art UK Touring Commission Grant
2006
VASL International Artists Residency — Lahore
2004
Fellowship — Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023: Work Spaces, Art-Lab Berlin, curators Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli, Berlin, Germany
2022
Arbeits-Räume — Art-Lab Berlin
Signs Taken for Wonders — Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius
2018
The Sea is the Limit — York Art Gallery
Videoart at Midnight — Babylon Cinema, Berlin
Baggage Claims — DePauw University & Weatherspoon Art Museum
2017
Baggage Claims — Orlando Museum of Art
The Border Pavilion — Venice
2016
Acts of Sedition — White Box, New York
Iran Today — AB43 Contemporary, Zurich
2015
History is a Warm Gun — Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
Tehran mon Amour — Galerie Royal, Munich
2014
Faceless — Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam