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​Narges Mohammadi 
 
b.circa 1993, Afghanistan / Iran.
Lives and works in the Hague, the Netherlands.


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The work of Narges Mohammadi is rooted in her personal history, caught between two very different cultures, their histories, and her direct experience of forced transference from one to another as a child. Half buried memories translate into immersive installations and sculptures that are characterised by a play of fragrances, colours, symbols, and traditions of differing cultural heritages. Through the use of simple and widely accessible materials like halva and loam, in shapes and forms that have seemingly outgrown their origins, she creates sensorial experiences that enact a feeling of domesticity and home, telling stories of belonging, togetherness, loss and mourning. In their monumentality, they offer space to contemplate and pause. Putting halt to the rapidness of the everyday, she attempts to honour the untold stories, lost histories and forgotten memories of diasporic identities like her own.

Recent and upcoming solo presentations include: Museum Valkhof, Njmegen (NL, upcoming Sprin 2026), Brutus, Rotterdam (NL, upcoming Sep 2025), Invisible Hands at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (NL), The kite that never flew at Museum Beelden aan Zee (NL), and In the Shadow of the Sun at Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn (NL). 

Recent and upcoming group exhibitions include: Sammlung Philara at Glass Lennarz, Düsseldorf (GE, upcoming), Museum Ostwall, Dortmund (GE, current); Bonniers Kunsthall, Stockholm; Buro Stedelijk, Amsterdam (NL), TENT, Rotterdam (NL), Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague (NL), Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart (DE), Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen (NL), CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL) and Het Noord-Brabants Museum, Den Bosch (NL). 
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Public commissions include: Vrouwen van West, Amsterdam (NL, upcoming autumn 2025),a permanent public sculpture in Rotterdam to call to an end to femicide (NL, upcoming), If you know, you know, Amsterdam (NL, permanent).
 
Mohammadi has been awarded the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize in 2024. Her work is held in the collections of Stedelijk Schiedam, Museum Voorlinden, Fenix Museum of Migration, UMC/AMC Amsterdam Art Collection, The Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, and The Netherlands Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment.


For her most recent solo/duo exhibition with the gallery please click here.

For her most recent group show with the gallery please click here.

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In the shadow of the sun, 2023, sugar glass, metal, from the solo exhibition at Hotel Maria Kapel. Photo credit: Lizzy Zaanen
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A final attempt for refuge, 2022, video 20:25 min
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Almost There, 2020, installation with 350 kg of loam
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Carrier of The Making of Passing Traces, 2022, Woodturned pot with ladle, maple wood and ring of tropical hardwood, containing the usb-stick with the film The Making of Passing Traces
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Passing Traces, Passing Traces, 700 kg of Persian halva (flour, sugar, butter and cardamom) and two wooden constructions. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.
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Cleaning Cabinet (Invisible Hands), 2022, eraser, metal. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.
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Perhaps it is only in the warm summer breezed stones that I feel home, 2019, installation with loam and furniture. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.

Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2026
Solo presentation, Museum Valkhof, Njmegen, The Netherlands (upcoming Spring/Summer 2026)

2025
Solo exhibition, Brutus, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (upcoming September 2025)

2023
The Kite that never flew, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, the Netherlands
UNFAIR23, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Hastan (هستن), Narges Mohammadi and Laila Tara H, Copperfield, London, UK
In the Shadow of the Sun, Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, the Netherlands 

2022
Invisible Hands, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Netherlands
Orbit, Narges Mohammadi and Sabine Kuehnle, The Real Office, Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
 
 

Group Exhibitions
2026
De Warmoesstraat Biënnale, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (upcoming April 2026)
 
2025
Glass Lennarz Anniversary, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany (upcoming)
Fenix Museum of Migration, Permanent Collection display, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (current)
At the Table: Eating and Drinking in Contemporary Art, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany (current)
That which carried me, Bonniers Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
 
2024
Intension (the concept 'dog' encapsulates its 'dogness'), Copperfield, London, UK
Imagine Home, Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
CRAFT! NOW: Using old techniques to make new art, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
A Delicious Death, Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2023
CRAFT! NOW: Using old techniques to make new art, CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
Occult Economics, Huidenclub Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Traces, curated by Nadine van Bosch, Garage, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
UNFAIR23, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2022
Moving Stories, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
UNFAIR22, Unfair Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2021
Jong & Veelbelovend, Museum Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk, the Netherlands
The Corporate Stoner curated by Christian Roncea, Quartair, The Hague
Who Wants To Live In A World Without Magic?, TENT, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
In Your Touch, I Remain, self-intiated and hosted by Omstand x sonsbeek20→24
Moonriders (tv-show), VPRO
Strike Gently Away – Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
A Funeral for Streetculture, curated by Metro54 x Rita Ouédraogo – Framer Framed, Amsterdam ALL INN – Het Hem, Amsterdam
Kunst in tijden van Corona – Amsterdam UMC/AMC, Amsterdam (commissioned)
 
2020
Best of Graduates – Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Amuse Bouche – Academiegalerie, Utrecht
Graduation festival Royal Academy of Art ‘Embrace & Conquer’ – The Hague Selected for 1-year studio program – Locatie Z, The Hague
NEST x Melkweg Expo, Den Haag en Amsterdam
 
2019
Note to Self – Billytwon, Helena van Douverenplantsoen
New Year New Me – WORM, Rotterdam Group-exhibition ‘Today I Taste Tomorrow’ – The Hague
 
2018
“Panorama Messed Up dag (THERE'S EVERYWHERE) (waar is daar dan- ben ik hier?)” by Mette Sterre – Route Du Nord, Rotterdam

2017
Me, Myself and I, Tent Rotterdam
T Hoogt X De Nederlandse Filmnacht, Utrecht
 
2016
End of Normal with Mette Sterre, TENT, Rotterdam
 
2015
POEN Affordable Art Auction, MONO, Rotterdam
 


Collections
Stedelijk Schiedam, The Netherlands
Museum Voorlinden, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Art Collection, Amsterdam UMC/AMC
Fenix Museum of Migration, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
The Netherlands Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment
 


Awards
2024
Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize

2022
Charlotte van Pallandtprijs and Stokroos Stipend
 
2021
Piket Kunstprijzen (winner category Painting)
 
2020
Ron Mandos Young Blood Award
Stroom Invest Award
KABK Bachelor Fine Arts Department Award
 
 

Public commissions
2025
Public sculpture, Vrouwen van West, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (upcoming autumn 2025)
A permanent public sculpture in Rotterdam to call to an end to femicide, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (upcoming)
 
2024
If you know, you know, public commission, De Appel Young Curators x LEVS Architecten, Amsterdam, Netherlands


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Residencies
2021
Omstand x sonsbeek20→24, Arnhem
 

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Curation
2020
Program maker at (A)WAKE, Rotterdam
Full Spectrum Curatorship Program, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht
 
2019
The Black Hole: A Circus of Emotion, art event, The Hague Contemporary x PIP-club x KABK event Graduation Festival – The Hague ‘Queering the Church’, Zuiderstrandtheater and Lourdeskerk, The Hague
‘Queer Bodies’ in Korzo
‘New Radicalism: The radical new voices of the Middle-East, North-Africa and Diaspora’, a four-day New Media arts festival (artistic direction/curation), Rotterdam, the Netherlands
 
2018
Queering the Church, The Hague
Eurabia, Amsterdam Dance Event, Amsterdam
‘Digital art and Blockchain’ for Azelo, The Hague