Fifteen hundred square metres of space this exhibition area in berlin is committed to gallery has been prepared for sixty works from the Tehran Museum of contemporary art works that have never before been shown in the west its the start of a planned Cultural Exchange intended to strengthen relations between iran and the west. But it never came to that just weeks before it was due to open authorities in iran prevented the artworks from leaving the country. Come run veba has lived in spain and france since the late one nine hundred seventy s. The architect artist and collector left his homeland a year before the iranian revolution. Dba knows the tehran collection more intimately than most for he was once closely associated with it and he still spends a lot of time thinking about whats become of it he is the architect who designed the Tehran Museum of contemporary art in the one nine hundred seventy s. Debo was also its first director of the Tehran Museum of contemporary art held the larg
yet no no i have a whole. yes hussien keith. i very much wanted the museum to reflect a sense of iranian identity. in. the us that either they eat by design the buildings or that the museum with its light inlets he would be reminiscent of desert town that s. because they tend to have very interesting routes and they have bugbear wind towers and domes like you see on mosques that. the building was built on a site surrounded by an unfinished park. in the center of the museum and visible from all parts of the main building spiral