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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.
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Mohammadi graduated from the BA Modern and Contemporary Art History from Utrecht University in 2018 and completed her BA Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Arts The Hague in 2020.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include: If you know, you know..., public commission, de Appel, Amsterdam (NL, current), 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). She has recently been awarded the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize, on view at Stedelijk, Schiedam, Netherlands in 2024. ​

Recent group exhibitions include: Bonniers Kunsthall, Stockholm (Swedenn, current); 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). 

Mohammadi has recently been awarded the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prize, on view at Stedelijk, Schiedam, Netherlands 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
2024

If you know, you know..., public commission, de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (current)
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2023
The Kite that never flew, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, the Netherlands
Unfair, 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
2025
That which carried me, Bonniers Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (current)
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2024

Intension (the concept 'dog' encapsulates its 'dogness'), Copperfield, London, UK
Imagine Home, Het Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands
A Delicious Death, Museum Tot Zover, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


2023
Traces, curated by Nadine van Bosch, Garage, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Occult Economics, Huidenclub Rotterdam, the Netherlands

2022
Moving Stories, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
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
Royal Academy of Art ‘Embrace & Conquer, Locatie Z, The Hague
NEST x Melkweg Expo, Den Haag & Amsterdam
 
2019
Note to Self, Billytwon, The Hague
New Year New Me, WORM, Rotterdam 
‘Today I Taste Tomorrow', The Hague
 
2018
“Panorama Messed Up dag (THERE'S EVERYWHERE) (waar is daar dan- ben ik hier?)” by Mette Sterr, 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
 
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Collections

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
 
 
 
Awards
2024
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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
 
 
 
Residencies
2023

Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, the Netherlands 

2021
Omstand x sonsbeek20→24, Arnhem

 
 
Publications
2023
Ilse van Liempt, Joris Schapendonk, Amalia Campos-Delgado, Research Handbook on Irregular Migration, published in 2023 by Edgar Elgar Publishing
Sarah van Binsbergen, Portretten van een nieuwe generatie beeldend kunstenaars, #6 2023 Mag je zien en horen, Keep an Eye Foundation
Eva Nijs, De Nieuwe Vermeer Podcast: ‘Een Heer van Stand die zijn handen wast’, 12/02/2023, Omroep Max
Mirna Vrdoljak, Het meisje-alleen: hoe kunstenaars huishoudelijk werk in het vizier kregen, feature, Metropolis M, 29/03/2023
Ilse van der Woude, ’Het is hartverscheurend als je familie kilometers bij je vandaan ligt in een onbekende stad’. Narges Mohammadi zoekt de weg naar het islamitische graf van haar vader in Hoorn, feature, 07/05/2023, Noordhollands Dagblad
Hiske Versprille, Begrafeniscake: droog en fantasieloos, of perfect afscheidshapje?, group show feature Een Lekkere Dood Museum Tot Zover, De Volkskrant, 9/05/2023
Tzorg, “Dit werk zou meer lof moeten krijgen”, interview for Tzorg Magazine, 09/05/2023
Laura van den Bergh, Cookbook, no2 2023 april/mei, Metropolis M
Emma Ruiter, Met een metershoge ui van suikerglas eert Narges Mohammadi haar overleden vader, Volkskrant, 17/05/2023
Sarah van Binsbergen, Buro Stedelijk is een vrije ruimte waar dingen mogen mislukken, Volkskrant, 24/05/2023
Charlotte Kleyn, Tentoonstelling over smakelijke herinneringen aan overleden geliefden: ‘Champagne, oesters, haring? Geen probleem’, group show feature, Het Parool, 6/06/2023
Joke de Wolf, Uit de ruïnes, feature group show Buro Stedelijk, 7/06/2023, De Groene Amsterdammer
Maarten Buser, In problematische tijden moet je de tijd problematiseren – in gesprek met Loom, education program interview with Loom as part of ArtEZ Summer Lab, Mister Motly, 22/06/2023
 
2022
Marsha Bruinen, Schommelen in een vruchtzak, feature Invisible Hands, 14/12/2022, De Groene Amsterdammer Kunststof, radio interview, NTR, 07/12/2022
Puck Kroon, Verdwalen op Unfair22 tussen de laagjes materie en humor, Mister Motly, 19/07/2022
Lucette ter Borg, Moving Stories vertelt verhalen over migratie via kunst en archeologie, NRC, 05/07/2022
Anna Beerens, In gesprek met Narges Mohammadi, Piket Kunstprijzen, 20/04/2022
Manuela Zammit, Finding and making ‘home’ – Stories of Belonging at de Appel Amsterdam, Metropolis M, 21/03/2022
 
2021
Edith Rijnja, Zoete troost: Narges Mohammadi bekleedde haar kunstinstallatie met 700 kilo lekkernij, KM Magazine 118 Over Voedsel, Zomer 2021
De Nieuwe Veluwe, sonsbeek20→24 Force Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies, zomernummer 2021
Sietske Roorda, Samenkomen op straat – A Funeral for Street Culture bij Framer Framed, Metropolis M, 26/07/2021
Ghizlan El Hachimi, Een voetnoot in de geschiedenis laat zien dat de band tussen Nederlanders en Marokkanen al eeuwenoud is, De Correspondent 16/01/2021
Anna van Leeuwen, De Zes van het Hem, De Volkskrant, 09/04/2021
Anna van Leeuwen, Rutger Pontzen en Sarah van Binsbergen, Het Hem in Zaandam gaf pas afgestudeerden aan de Nederlandse kunstacademies toch de kans om hun werk te tonen, De Volkskrant, 14/04/2021
Melisa Can, Narges Mohammadi for Kinecka, 01/02/2021
Publicatie Kunst in Tijden van Corona, Kunstzaken, Communicatie Amsterdam UMC, 2021
Jeanine van Berkel, Dit is voor de straat, dit is voor ons, 15/07/2021
Lieneke Hulshof en Mirjam Zegers, Kunst als een manier om thuis te komen, 17/03/2021
Pernilla Evans, Betovering, hertovering en onttovering, Metropolis M, 22/10/2021
Marianna Maruyama, Wishing-thinking. When Magic is indeed all around, or “Who Wants to Live in a World Without Magic?”, Nero Editions, 3/12/2021
Piket Kunstprijzen voor Verheijden, Mohammadi en Van den Wouwer, De Telegraaf, 23/12/2021
Nadeche Remst, Het lichaam als plek van herinnering – In Your Touch, I Remain bij Omstand, Metropolis M, 09/10/2021.
Anna van Leeuwen, De kubus van Narges Mohammadi verwijst naar de verhuizing van het azc naar een echt huis, De Volkskrant, 02/09/2021
 
2020
Hanne Hagenaars, Missen voelt als een uitholling – over het werk van Narges Mohamamdi, Mister Motly, 20/11/2020 KeesKeijer, Hetbestevandenieuwafgestudeerdenvandeacademie,HetParool,23/10/2020
The Graduation show must go on, Jegens & Tevens, 12/09/2020
Domeniek Ruyters, Graduation Shows 2020, Metropolis M, 14/09/2020
Puck Kroon, Please be careful, fragile work – zes kunstwerken op de KABK, Mister Motly, 14/09/2020 KABK Graduation 2020, Kunst blijft een raadsel, 13/09/2020
Niek Hendrikx, Eindexamen Expositie; KABK Den Haag 2020, Lost Painters, 13/09/2020
Lucette ter Borg, Rare tijden afstuderen aan de kunstacademie tijdens lockdown, NRC, 10/06/2020