foundation history

This age of the post ¥€$ we are facing a bleak future with few markers for orientation [if any]. A century of saying yes to everything, of "progressive liberation" and disengagement - first with politics, then with the disciplines, locality, history, technology and even with style - has left us with a disorienting culturescape, mindscape, smooth and cynical opportunism.

Somehow we have to turn the wave, and or have a mental turn. There is a need for a new initiative, a new organisation, and a new organisational model, one engaged in a research programme and research products that are designed for use by the media and that are directed at citizens. This led us to initiate the Shahneshin Foundation.

The Shahneshin Foundation (SF), during its first year, has built an exceptional array of programmes and initiatives, in cultural networks, and became widely recognized as one of the founding and leading centres for future culture.

The Shahneshin Foundation is a moral and ethical institution that is initiated by two visionary and passionate friends with the common philosophy, both in life and profession and their heartfelt and personal motivation, Lui Galati artist and Siamak G. Shahneshin critic.