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Visit Museum of Sohrab
Museum of Sohrab was by appointment only. Events at Museum of Sohrab were by invitation only and RSVP required. Access to the collection, the Blue Room Library, the White Room Archives, Sazmanab Video Library, and the Sazmanab Digital Archives required advanced booking.
Admission to Museum of Sohrab 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
Museum of Sohrab is now closed.
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Museum of Sohrab had four main rooms: The Studio, the Blue Room, the White Room, and the Bedroom.
The Studio
Sohrab's art studio.
The Blue Room
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 Persian, 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.
The Apartment
The Blue Room
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 Persian, 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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The Blue Room Library featured hundreds of titles covering a variety of different topics such as Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, and Theory. While there was an assortment of texts, there were specific sections dedicated to Art History, monographs on artists, and exhibition catalogues featuring the work of artists from Iran and other parts of the world.
The Blue Room Library
To access the library-archives database click here.
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The White Room Archives held a comprehensive archive of Persian 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 a collaborative project between Sohrab Kashani and Pittsburgh-based artist Jon Rubin that occurred simultaneously at the Museum of Sohrab in Tehran, and an exact replica of its apartment and all of its contents at the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, U.S..
Using detailed photographs from Kashani (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 Museum of Sohrab's facade, interior architecture, and all of Kashani'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 at the Museum of Sohrab.
Since 2008, Kashani has used his apartments as spaces for exhibiting contemporary art and as art residencies. For the run of the project, Kashani and Rubin 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?
The Other Apartment
Using detailed photographs from Kashani (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 Museum of Sohrab's facade, interior architecture, and all of Kashani'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 at the Museum of Sohrab.
Since 2008, Kashani has used his apartments as spaces for exhibiting contemporary art and as art residencies. For the run of the project, Kashani and Rubin 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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Rls % Alc
Tehran Zine
Issue No.1 Special Edition: Rls % Alc
December 2022
140x195 mm, 24 pages
Risograph print on 127 gsm uncoated paper
Concept:
Sohrab Kashani
Publisher:
Tehran Zine
(Saghi Parkhideh and Amir Moghtada)
Paper receipts collected from groceries delivered to Museum of Sohrab from 2020 to 2021 during the pandemic and sanitized with alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Sprayed receipts were kept for different periods of time and scanned before they completely 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, characterized by despair and economic turmoil, against the backdrop of the rapid depreciation of the Iranian Rial during the pandemic and after.
Publications
Tehran Zine
Issue No.1 Special Edition: Rls % Alc
December 2022
140x195 mm, 24 pages
Risograph print on 127 gsm uncoated paper
Concept:
Sohrab Kashani
Publisher:
Tehran Zine
(Saghi Parkhideh and Amir Moghtada)
Paper receipts collected from groceries delivered to Museum of Sohrab from 2020 to 2021 during the pandemic and sanitized with alcohol-based hand sanitiser. Sprayed receipts were kept for different periods of time and scanned before they completely 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, characterized by despair and economic turmoil, against the backdrop of the rapid depreciation of the Iranian Rial during the pandemic and after.