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Visit is by appointment only. Events at the apartment are by invitation only and RSVP required. Access to the items from the collection, the Blue Room Library, the White Room Archives, Sazmanab Video Library, and the Sazmanab Digital Archives require advanced booking.
Admission is Free.
To book an appointment you have to visit the online appointment system. The address and directions are provided upon confirmation of booking.
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The apartment has four main rooms: The Studio, the Blue Room, the White Room, and the Bedroom.
The Studio
My art studio.
The Blue Room
The Blue Room is the heart and soul of the apartment. The Blue Room holds the Blue Room Library.
The White Room
The White Room holds a comprehensive archive of Iranian books, magazines, and newspapers dating back to the early 1950s. The White Room's furniture, electronics, and other objects in the room are all from the same period. The White Room was called the Event Room before COVID-19 outbreak and exhibitions and talks were held part of Sazmanab programming.
The Bedroom
My bedroom. The bedroom holds electronics and other objects mainly from the 1980s.
The Kitchen
My kitchen.
The Apartment
The apartment in 3D
Virtual Tour of the apartment
The apartment has four main rooms: The Studio, the Blue Room, the White Room, and the Bedroom.
The Studio
My art studio.
The Blue Room
The Blue Room is the heart and soul of the apartment. The Blue Room holds the Blue Room Library.
The White Room
The White Room holds a comprehensive archive of Iranian books, magazines, and newspapers dating back to the early 1950s. The White Room's furniture, electronics, and other objects in the room are all from the same period. The White Room was called the Event Room before COVID-19 outbreak and exhibitions and talks were held part of Sazmanab programming.
The Bedroom
My bedroom. The bedroom holds electronics and other objects mainly from the 1980s.
The Kitchen
My kitchen.
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The Blue Room Library holds hundreds of titles covering a variety of different topics.
The Blue Room Library
To access the library-archives database click here.
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The White Room Archives holds a comprehensive archive of Iranian books, magazines, and newspapers dating back to the early 1950s.
The White Room Archives
To access the library-archives database click here.
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The Other Apartment is my collaborative project with Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin. Jon and I, long-time collaborators, were originally developing a project called The Sitcom. After the 2016 presidential elections in the U.S. and the subsequent travel ban that included Iranian citizens, it became impossible for us to continue traveling and working together on that project. In response, we conceived The Other Apartment as a way to continue hanging out, working together, and creating a space where others could also meet and collaborate as if it were one shared site—an alternative reality born from political restriction. It initially occurred simultaneously at my apartment in Tehran, and an exact replica of the apartment and all of its contents at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, U.S.. It was presented as a year-long exhibition and project from 2019 to 2020, occupying one floor of the museum.
Using months of archiving, every single item in my Tehran apartment was documented in a variety of ways, including photography, scanning, 3D scanning, video, and detailed lists with measurements. Working with a professional fabrication team in Pittsburgh, I spent hours on video calls overseeing the process as they meticulously recreated the apartment’s façade, interior architecture, and all of my personal possessions. Not a single original item traveled there. The fabrication involved extensive installation work to build the apartment itself and all of its fixtures, along with craft work in wood, sculpture, printing, textiles, and other media. Some objects were sourced online, either as exact matches or close equivalents that were then altered to replicate what existed in my apartment.
Since 2008, I have used my apartments as spaces for exhibiting contemporary art and as art residencies (Sazmanab). For the run of the project, Jon and I operated Sazmanab together in The Other Apartment (as Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept.), producing exhibitions, programs, and events where every object, video, and performance that happened in one space was reproduced for the other, keeping both apartments identical across the 6,300 miles that separated them.
The Other Apartment functions as a series of theoretical and practical questions within the sad absurdity of our political condition: What if there was more than one absolute reality; can you build a space that functions as a loophole around national borders and economic sanctions; and what gets lost and gained in the act of duplication?
The Other Apartment
Using months of archiving, every single item in my Tehran apartment was documented in a variety of ways, including photography, scanning, 3D scanning, video, and detailed lists with measurements. Working with a professional fabrication team in Pittsburgh, I spent hours on video calls overseeing the process as they meticulously recreated the apartment’s façade, interior architecture, and all of my personal possessions. Not a single original item traveled there. The fabrication involved extensive installation work to build the apartment itself and all of its fixtures, along with craft work in wood, sculpture, printing, textiles, and other media. Some objects were sourced online, either as exact matches or close equivalents that were then altered to replicate what existed in my apartment.
Since 2008, I have used my apartments as spaces for exhibiting contemporary art and as art residencies (Sazmanab). For the run of the project, Jon and I operated Sazmanab together in The Other Apartment (as Sazmanab ⧚ Water Dept.), producing exhibitions, programs, and events where every object, video, and performance that happened in one space was reproduced for the other, keeping both apartments identical across the 6,300 miles that separated them.
The Other Apartment functions as a series of theoretical and practical questions within the sad absurdity of our political condition: What if there was more than one absolute reality; can you build a space that functions as a loophole around national borders and economic sanctions; and what gets lost and gained in the act of duplication?
For more information visit The Other Apartment's website.
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Rls % Alc
Publications
Tehran Zine Issue No.1 Special Edition: Rls % Alc December 2022 (launch 2024)
140x200 mm, 28 pages, 100 copies Risograph print on 127 gsm uncoated paper
Concept: Sohrab Kashani
Publisher: Tehran Zine (Saghi Parkhideh and Amir Moghtada)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, I collected paper receipts from groceries delivered to the apartment between 2020 and 2021. I sprayed each receipt with alcohol-based hand sanitiser, kept them for varying periods of time, and scanned them before the ink and paper began to fade. Rls % Alc reflects on a chaotic and uncertain historical moment marked by economic turmoil and the rapid depreciation of the Iranian Rial, while also bearing the material traces of everyday survival during the pandemic. A selection of these scans was later printed and produced as a limited-edition zine by Tehran Zine for their first issue. The launch event took place at Tehran Zine’s space in Tehran, where a selection of pictures from my apartment, which by the time of my move to the Netherlands no longer existed, and sounds from the apartment were presented as a slideshow in one of the rooms. To date, the zine has been showcased part of SPRINT Art Book Fair (Milan, 2025), Focal Point (Sharjah Art Foundation - Sharjah, 2025/2024), Cairo Art Book Fair (Cairo, 2025/2024), Athens Art Book Fair (Stoa Tristrato, 2025), Made Anywhere (Fondation Fiminco - Paris, 2025), MISS READ (HKW - Berlin, 2025), Fanzineist Vienna (Vienna, 2025), and BAZAR Art Books (Rino School - Tehran, 2024).