Ashkan Sepahvand

Ashkan Sepahvand (*1984, Tehran) is a writer and artistic researcher based between Oxford and Berlin. Previously, he has worked as Adjunct Lecturer at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen (2018-19), as Research Fellow at the Schwules Museum* Berlin (2016-17), where he curated the exhibition Odarodle - an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535-2017, and at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2012-14), where he co-edited the publication Textures of the Anthropocene: Grain, Vapor, Ray (The MIT Press, 2015). In 2010, he co-founded the institute for incongruous translation with Natascha Sadr Haghighian as a framework for their collective study, including the projects seeing studies (2010-12) and Carbon Theater (2016-ongoing). His work and writings have been presented at the 58th Venice Biennale, dOCUMENTA (13), Sharjah Biennials X & 13, Gwangju Biennale 11, Ashkal Alwan, Sursock Museum, and ICA London, amongst others.