Timo Nasseri German-Iranian, b. 1972

Overview

Timo Nasseri (b. 1972, Berlin, Germany) explores themes such as geometry, mathematics, architecture and calligraphy, combining Islamic and Western cultural heritages through sculpture and drawing. His work is inspired both by personal memory and religious reference, as well as by universal archetypes described through mathematics, language and rhythm, often reflecting on ideas of infinity, repetition and order. He studied photography at the Lette-Verein, Berlin, and began his artistic career as a photographer before moving into sculpture after travelling to Iran, where he developed an interest in the relationship between geometry and Islamic architecture. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Islamic Arts Biennale, the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Haus Konstruktiv, ZKM Karlsruhe and Maraya Art Centre, and is held in collections including the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Sammlung DaimlerChrysler.

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Works

Parsec #6, 2010
Dual Space, 2012
It's Always Night, Or We Wouldn't Need Light 31°12‘486“ N, 29°55’39.58“ O (Hypatia von Alexandria), 2014
Florenz-Bagdad, 2016
The Order Of Everything, 2018
Keeper Iii, 2019
Keeper I, 2019
Keeper II, 2019

Biography

Timo Nasseri photographed for WLF by Frederike Schäfer

Timo Nasseri was born in Berlin in 1972 to a German mother and an Iranian father. He received his diploma in photography from the Lette-Verein, Berlin in 1997. Nasseri began his artistic career as a photographer before making the transition to sculptor in 2004.

After travelling to Iran with his father he started to explore the relationship of geometry and Islamic architecture. Combining Islamic and Western cultural heritages, his work is inspired as much by specific memories and religious references as by universal archetypes described by mathematics and language, and the inner truths of form and rhythm.

He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions, including The Garden of Forking Paths, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid (2025); By The Movement of All Things, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai (2025); Form and Rhythm, Sotheby's Dubai, (2024); Network Paris: Abstraction-Création 1931–1937, Arp Museum, Germany (2025); And all that is in between, Islamic Arts Biennale, Saudi Arabia (2025); All Borrow Their Light, Lawrie Shabibi (2023); Mercedes-Benz Contemporary (2022); Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (2022); The British Museum, London (2021); The Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2021); Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich (2022, 2019); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2019); Sfeir-Semler Gallery (2009,12,15,19); CCA Andratx (2019); Stichting Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen (2018); The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (2017); The Melbourne Triennale (2017); Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah (2017); Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt (2016); AK Vienna (2016); KW-Kunstwerke, Berlin (2015); and The Drawing Room Biennial, London (2021, 2019, 2015).

Nasseri is a winner of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011 and was awarded the Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst in 2006.

His work is in the public collections of: Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Berlin, Germany; British Museum, London, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; Spenser Museum of Art, Kansas, USA; David Roberts Collection, London, UK; The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, UAE; Art Jameel Collection, Dubai, UAE; Barjeel Collection, Sharjah, UAE; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, India, among others.

Timo Nasseri lives and works in Berlin.

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