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Sazmanab Center For Contemporary Art
Sazmanab ( fa, سازمان آب) is a curatorial project which originally started as an artist-run space and residency program in Tehran, Iran, in 2008. Sazmanab supported artistic work in a wide range of media through exhibitions and events, residencies for artists and curators, workshops, talks, and other events. History Sazmanab Platform for Contemporary Arts Sazmanab was founded in 2008 by artist-curator Sohrab Kashani. From 2008 to 2014, Sazmanab was located in an apartment in north-west of Tehran, inside Sazman-e Ab street and directly across the Tehran’s Department of Water for the Sadeghiyeh district. In 2009, Sazmanab expanded into a fully functioning art space where a variety of events and activities were held in collaboration with local and international artists and curators inside the apartment and also virtually using Skype and other communication tools. Sazmanab Center for Contemporary Art In early 2014, Sazmanab began the relocation process to an old building on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
