Sohrab Kashani is an artist-researcher working across video, performance, installation, and long-term, site-responsive practices.
South Explorer Invites
Performance, part of the South Explorer Weekend during Rotterdam Art Week at Plein (Fenix Museum).
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South Explorer Invites presents a showcase of the diverse artistic talent from Rotterdam South, featuring local artists at Plein, Fenix during Rotterdam Art Week. South Explorer is an organization that connects artists in Rotterdam South and creates opportunities for encounters between artists and with the public.
Between Our Fingers
Publication launch and exhibition
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On January 16th, Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters present the launch of ‘Between Our Fingers’, a publication exploring the conceptual framework of the doll’s house at SeeLab. The publication features contributions from artists Lore Pilzecker, Sohrab Kashani, Kiara Amartya, Ghazale Moqanaki, and Marieke Peeters who each approach the miniature.
Hello Alter Ego
Workshop, with Philippine Hoegen, Ina Darakchieva, and Nika van Woenzel
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A workshop on Alter Ego’s.
Harvest Festival
Workshop "Performing Casco"
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An experiential workshop that invites participants to engage with Casco Art Institute through movement and sensory exploration. Using guided prompts, participants responded to the space around them, allowing their bodies to interpret its unseen qualities and shifting atmospheres. Through a series of improvisational exercises, participants explored the boundaries between self and space, creating moments of connection, interaction, and transformation.
International Art Biennial of Antioquia and Medellín (BIAM)
As Artists Against the Bomb, with The Other Apartment
Ahimsa (Pedro Reyes)
As Artists Against the Bomb, with The Other Apartment
The Listening Biennial 2025
Workshop "Score for a (local) practice", as Rabt with Golnoosh Heshmati, Maryam Katan, and Shaahin Peymani
MAFA Graduation Show 2025: Meanwhile
The Remote Archivist #7: The Curatorial Programme
A conversation between Lara Khaldi, Sohrab Kashani, and Denisse Vega de Santiago (Biquini Wax) reflecting on embodied forms of archiving and the emotional residue left in and around institutions and a quiet intervention by Sohrab Kashani within de Appel’s library, where a slideshow of bookshelves from his now-closed art space in Tehran was projected onto the library shelves, layering one archive onto another and tracing what remains, what is lost, and what resists disappearance.
Guest lecturer
Arts and Media MFA, Class of 2025
In the Works: Manuals and Mess
Group exhibition, Artistic research practices by students of HKU Master of Fine Art.
Alter Ego: Training the Sense of Your Other Selves
Workshop, with Philippine Hoegen, Ina Darakchieva, and Nika van Woenzel
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A workshop on Alter Ego’s.
How to run an art space in Iran
Talk on alternative space-making and a video-screening curated from the Sazmanab Video Library.
Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy
Duo exhibition, with Anahita Razmi
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Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy is an Iranian pharmacy run by the artists Sohrab Kashani and Anahita Razmi. Its spatial set-up comprises of an installation filled with copies of Iranian pharmaceuticals and medication packages.
Residency at philomena+
Residency in preparation for the exhibition "Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy".
Guest lecturer
Arts and Media MFA, Class of 2024
NEU Commission
Recipient with Alcide Breaux (US), Olamiju Fajemisin (NG/UK), and Flavia Barbosa Pinheiro (BR)
The Transcultural Academy 2023: “Futurities”
As researcher part of The Assembly School
Inhabiting the Space of Public
Screening curated by Fereshte Moosavi, as Super Sohrab
Guest lecturer
Arts and Media MFA, Class of 2023
Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy
Duo exhibition, with Anahita Razmi
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Darookhaneh Apotheke Pharmacy is an Iranian pharmacy run by the artists Sohrab Kashani and Anahita Razmi. Its spatial set-up comprises of an installation filled with copies of Iranian pharmaceuticals and medication packages.
Mattress Factory International Open Call 2021
Panelist with vanessa german, Christopher Meerdo, and Sarah Oppenheimer
A Fair Share of Utopia
Group exhibition, as Ghana ThinkTank
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A Fair Share of Utopia is an initiative of Nest in collaboration with CBK Zuidoost Amsterdam. The exhibition was at both institutions accompanied by an extensive context programme.
Rabt
Rabt is a roaming art and research platform initiated in Tehran in 2020 by Golnoosh Heshmati and Sohrab Kashani, focusing on artistic research, sound, and transdisciplinary collaboration. It operates through workshops, listening sessions, and collective practices, creating temporary spaces for exchange, experimentation, and situated knowledge production.
Dance Dance Dance
Group exhibition, as Super Sohrab
The Superhero Summit
Performances and workshop, as Super Sohrab
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A two-day event that conjures a multitude of superheroes and superpowers from across different landscapes, geographies and imaginations. Artists, curators, writers, designers, and superheroes convene to explore new morphologies of power and agency in the 21st century.
Séjour Culture Visitors' program 2019
Voice-over (in three parts)
As curator with Joseph Del Pesco – Group exhibition, part of The Other Apartment
The Other Apartment
Duo exhibition, with Jon Rubin
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The Other Apartment is a collaborative project between Tehran-based artist Sohrab Kashani and Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin that occurs in two sites simultaneously.
Alter Heroes Coalition
Group exhibition, as Super Sohrab
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The exhibition presented a selection of artworks which explored the concept of an alter ego. The artists included in the show reinvent themselves as unconventional and empowering heroes reflecting on cultural displacement, belonging and unbecoming. The show exposed the constructed nature of identity and challenges gendered behaviors by embracing the polyvalence of reinvented personas.
Mondriaan Fonds Visitors’ programme 2017
Part of a visit by curators from Armenia and Iran, with presentations at the Nest (The Hague) and BOZAR (Brussels)
Visible Award Curatorial Advisory Board 2017
Sazmanab
Sazmanab is a roaming curatorial platform founded in Tehran in 2008 by Sohrab Kashani, originally operating from a small apartment that functioned as both home and art space. It emerged as a site for exhibitions, workshops, residencies, and collective experimentation, fostering dialogue, exchange, and alternative modes of artistic production beyond institutional frameworks.