Navid Nuur
fine arts

Cooperation scholarship：
Funded by the Mondriaan Fund

Navid Nuur (born 1976 in Teheran, Iran) lives and works as a visual artist in the Hague, The Netherlands.

Navid Nuur researches the way in which specific spaces and materials can engender new experiences, shifts in attention and perceptual thresholds. Having thoroughly digested the advancements of conceptual and post- conceptual art, Nuur's return to materials, crafts, to the innovations and affects they can occasion, is a critical and much as sensuous investigation of their role in a new kind of aesthetic experience. His work is an expansive sensorium, where the distances between magic and science, between speaking through objects or materials and speaking in critical jargon, between tactility and touch screens, the sleight of hand and the movement of electricity are enlighteningly compressed.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international institutions including the Oude Kerk Amsterdam (2023), Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2021); Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford (2020); Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (2020); Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2015); Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2014); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013).

Previous group exhibitions include: Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The 54. Biennale di Venezia (2011).

Selected public and private collections: Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Kunsthaus Zürich; Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris.

During his stay in Kyoto, he plans to spend time writing on his envisioned book (Paint Pusher). The book will include a chapter on marbling paper and where marbling originated in Japan in the 12th century. He wants to learn more about this early period of marbling, called „Suminagashi” (floating ink).