Timo Nasseri
- Timo Nasseri
- Work
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2019
Timo Nasseri (b. 1972, Berlin, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He received his diploma in photography from the Lette-Verein, Berlin in 1997. His work uses the means of natural science to open up a perspective for the poetic and fantastic. Inspired by Ibn Muqla, Nasseri started an in-depth research on Arabic writing and alphabet, giving particular attention to forms and aesthetics. His practice discusses the infinity and boundlessness, transcendence and metaphysics in a wider context and writing as the beginning and the end.
Nasseri has had solo exhibitions at Stichting Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (2018); Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah (2017); and AK Vienna (2016). His work has also been shown at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2019); the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); the Melbourne Triennale (2017); Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (2016); KW-Kunstwerke, Berlin (2015); and the Drawing Room Biennial, London (2015). He was also the winner of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011.
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2019 | A Universal Alphabet, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2018 | Uncertain Phases, Stichting Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, Netherlands |
| 2017 | All the letters in all the stars, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah, UAE |
| 2016 | Florence - Baghdad, AK Vienna, Austria |
| 2015 | The More Beneath My Feet The Skies I See, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2012 | O Time Thy Pyramids, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2009 | Ghazal, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany One of Six, Half a Dozen of Another, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg, Germany |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2023 | THE FOLLOWER – The Sentinels, Public commission at Alserkal Avenue, Alserkal Arts Foundation, UAE Inspiring Writing, Salon der Gegenwart, Montblanc Haus, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2022 | Reflections / Spiegelwelten, Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Germany Spieglein, Spieglein, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Germany Geometrische Opulenz, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Switzerland |
| 2021 | Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom |
| 2020 | GARTENDERGEGENWART, Garten der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany „WO DIE ZITRONEN BLÜHEN...“, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2019 | Constellations and Trajectories, in collaboration with Franziska Furter, Mallorca, Spain Lesage, Simon, Crépin, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France Negative Space, Trajectories of Sculpture, The ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany Konkrete Gegenwart, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2017 | Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2016 | Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia, Spencer Art Museum of Art, Kansas, USA Under Weapons. Fire & Forget 2, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Wendezeiten, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain |
| 2015 | Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Fire and Forget. On Violence, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany Drawing Room Biennial, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom |
| 2014 | WIR - The Purpose of Politics is Freedom, Klinger Forum, Leipzig, Germany Young Collections, Collection Dominic and Cordula Sohst-Brennenstuhl, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany |
| 2013 | Fellbach Triennal of small-scale sculpture, Fellbach, Germany Schönheit der Mathematik, Schloss Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany Modifications, ZK/U Berlin - Center for Art and Urbanistics, Germany DYNAMO! A century of light and motion in art, 1913-2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France |
| 2012 | Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Morel Brain, Superamas Phase 2, Center d’art, Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Chkoun Ahna. On the Track of History, National Museum of Carthage, Tunisia The Elephant in The Dark, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India Defense-Survival Strategies in Nature, Economy, Politics and Everyday Life, Charles + Agnes Vögele Foundation, Pfäffikon, Switzerland Ever Living Ornament, Micro Onde, Center d’art de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Paris, France In Other Words. Black Market of Translation - Negotiating Contemporary Cultures, NGBK, Berlin, Germany WUNDER, Art Religion and Science from the 4th century to the present, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria |
| 2011 | WUNDER, Art Religion and Science from the 4th century to the present, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE |
| 2010 | Philip Taaffe, Christine Streuli, Timo Nasseri, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon In mirror, projections on folklore, Fri Art, Fribourg Art Center, Fribourg, Switzerland; CRAC - Centre d’art, Altrich, France |
| 2009 | Animated, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble, France Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam And Modernity, Berliner Festspiele, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany Mashq: repetition, meditation, mediation, Green Cardamom, London, United Kingdom |
| 2008 | Phoenix vs Babylone, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France Democracy In the Age of Branding, Parsons The New School, New York, USA Eurasia. Geographic cross-overs in art, Museum of Modern Art and Contemporary Art of Trento and Roverto, Italy The New World, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany Echo, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2007 | Dark Matter, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany Photo Espana, Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2006, TUFA Trier, Germany |
| 2006 | Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2006, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany |
| 2005 | 7+, Gate 205, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Else-Heiliger-Fond, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin, Germany |
| 2003 | The Rest of the World, Palais Neuffer, Pirmasens, Germany Aenne Biermann Prize, Museum of Applied Arts, Gera, Germany |
| 2002 | Corporate Identity, Art Zurich 02, Switzerland |
Awards and Residencies | |
| 2020 | Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico |
| 2012 | Scholarship, Ilse-Augustin Foundation |
| 2011 | Abraaj Capital Art Prize |
| 2006 | Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst |
| 2012 | Scholarship, Fondation Konrad-Adenauer |
| 2003 | Shortlisted for the Aenne Biermann Prize |
Public Collections | |
| Art Jameel Collection, Jeddah; Barjeel Foundation, Sharjah; Boghossian Foundation, Brussels; British Museum, London; Cohen Collection, Tallahassee; DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin; David Roberts Collection, London; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, Ingolstadt; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Spenser Museum of Art, Kansas; The Farjam Foundation, Dubai; The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, Dubai; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; | |
Publications | |
| 2018 | All the Letters in All the Stars, published with Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE |
| 2017 | I saw a brokem Labyrinth, published with Ab-Anbar Gallery, Iran |
| 2015 | O time thy pyramids, Artist Book, 100 limited edition copies with a special edition of 10 original etchings |
| 2011 | Nasseri, published by Distanz Verlag, Berlin, Germany |
Education | |
| 1997 | Photography Diploma, Lette-Verein, Berlin, Germany |