Museum of Sohrab


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The Other ApartmentEventsPublications

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About Museum of Sohrab
Museum of Sohrab is one of Sohrab Kashani's alter-egos. It is a living, breathing, and constantly moving museum with a collection comprising Sohrab's possessions, including hundreds of objects and documents, as well as his memories and feelings. Between 2019 and 2023, Museum of Sohrab was based in Sohrab's former home and apartment in downtown Tehran, housing iems from the collection together with a library known as the Blue Room, which featured hundreds of titles covering various topics, and a room with a comprehensive archive of Iranian books, magazines, and newspapers dating back to the early 1950s, known as the White Room.


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Credits
Photography: Sohrab Kashani, Shirin Rezaee, Sina Najaflou, Siavash Naghshbandi
Identity & Art Direction, Web Development, XR/VR/AR: Sohrab Kashani

Thanks: Sara Khoshab, Kamran Vasigh



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Visit
Visit was by appointment only. Events at the apartment were 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 required advanced booking.
Admission was Free.
To book an appointment you had to visit the online appointment system. The address and directions were provided upon confirmation of booking.
Online appointment system
The apartment is permanently closed.




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Contact Museum of Sohrab
To get in touch with Museum of Sohrab write to the following email address:
sohrabmk(at)gmail.com


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The Apartment

The apartment in 3D

Virtual Tour of the apartment


The apartment had four main rooms: The Studio, the Blue Room, the White Room, and the Bedroom.
The Studio
Sohrab's former art studio.

The Blue Room
The Blue Room was the heart and soul of the apartment. The Blue Room held the Blue Room Library.

The White Room
The White Room held 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 were 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.

White Room (2020-2023)


Event Room (2019-2020)

The Bedroom
Sohrab's bedroom. The bedroom held electronics and other objects mainly from the 1980s.



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Collection
The collection of Museum of Sohrab comprises Sohrab's belongings including hundreds of objects and documents, as well as his memories and feelings.

To access the collection database click here.




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The Blue Room Library
The Blue Room Library featured hundreds of titles covering a variety of different topics.

To access the library-archives database click here.




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The White Room Archives
The White Room Archives held a comprehensive archive of Iranian books, magazines, and newspapers dating back to the early 1950s.

To access the library-archives database click here.





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The Other Apartment
The Other Apartment is a collaborative project between Sohrab and Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin that initially occurred simultaneously at Museum of Sohrab's apartment in Tehran, and an exact replica of that apartment and all of its contents at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, U.S..
Using detailed photographs from Sohrab (who was not able to travel to the U.S. due to the travel ban on Iranian citizens), the artists worked with a team of fabricators to meticulously recreate the apartment's facade, interior architecture, and all of Sohrab's personal possessions. From his soap dish to his furniture, everything in The Other Apartment was purchased, altered, or entirely fabricated to replicate what existed in Sohrab's apartment.
Since 2008, Sohrab has used his apartments as spaces for exhibiting contemporary art and as art residencies. For the run of the project, Sohrab and Jon operated the space together in The Other Apartment and produced 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 functioned as a series of theoretical and practical questions within the sad absurdity of our current 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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Events
Museum of Sohrab at Bon-gah Art Book Fair 2021











Photos by Sina Najaflou



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Publications
Rls % Alc



Tehran Zine
Issue No.1 Special Edition: Rls % Alc
December 2022 (launch 2024)
140x195 mm, 24 pages
Risograph print on 127 gsm uncoated paper
Concept:
Sohrab Kashani
Publisher:
Tehran Zine
(Saghi Parkhideh and Amir Moghtada)


Sohrab collected paper receipts from groceries delivered to Museum of Sohrab from 2020 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic and sanitised them with alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Sprayed receipts were kept for different periods and scanned before they faded away.
A selection of these scanned receipts was printed and produced as a limited-edition zine.
Rls % Alc offers a glimpse into a chaotic and uncertain historical moment, characterised by despair and economic turmoil, against the backdrop of the rapid depreciation of the Iranian Rial during the COVID-19 pandemic and after.