Commissioner: Ali Reza Sami Azar. Artists: Bita Fayyazi Azad, Mandana Moghaddam. Participation of Iranian artists in the Venice Biennale dates as far back as the 1960’s where works by a number of distinguished Iranian artists, taking part in the Tehran Biennale, would be selected to be dispatched to Italy. The post-revolutionary era brought an end to this participation and after years of reclusion, three Iranian artists – Behrooz Daresh, Hossein Khosrowjerdi, and Ahmad Nadalian - participated in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. Two Iranian artists have been delegated to the International Venice Biennale this year for the second time after the Islamic revolution.