Narges Mohammadi
b.circa 1993, Afghanistan / Iran.
Lives and works in the Hague, the Netherlands.
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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).
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.
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).
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.
In the shadow of the sun, 2023, sugar glass, metal, from the solo exhibition at Hotel Maria Kapel. Photo credit: Lizzy Zaanen
A final attempt for refuge, 2022, video 20:25 min
Almost There, 2020, installation with 350 kg of loam
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
Passing Traces, Passing Traces, 700 kg of Persian halva (flour, sugar, butter and cardamom) and two wooden constructions. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.
Cleaning Cabinet (Invisible Hands), 2022, eraser, metal. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.
Perhaps it is only in the warm summer breezed stones that I feel home, 2019, installation with loam and furniture. Photo credit: Io Sivertsen.
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