Name: Shahab Fotouhi
Nationality: IR
Place of Birth: Yazd, Iran
Year of Birth: 1980
Areas of Work: installation, video, performance  
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Shahab Fotouhi (b. 1980, Yazd, Iran) currently lives and works in Tehran.

He studied Fine Art at Städelschule, Frankfurt, 2008-2010.

His recent shows include “Establishing Shot; Interior, Night - Exterior, day; without Antagonist and Extra”, Azad Gallery, Tehran, (2013), 7th Taipei Biennial (2010), Home Works 5, Beirut (2010), 4th Auckland Triennial (2010), 11th Istanbul Biennial (2009) and “By the Horses Who Run Panting”, Azad Gallery, Tehran (2009).

His videos have been shown in “The Uncertainty Principle”, MACBA, Barcelona (2009) and “New Voices”, Barbican Center, London (2008). Fotouhi was part of the artist residency program at the Queens Museum of Art in New York in 2014.

Opening Ceremony of the Sommerakademie 2015
August 14, 2015, Auditorium Zentrum Paul Klee

Video by David Röthlisberger