YARAT to welcome TIMO NASSERI (GERMANY) as their Artist-in-Residence

Residency: Timo Nasseri (Germany)

YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku

18 MAY - 6 JUNE 2014

YARAT Contemporary Art Space will host a Berlin-based artist Timo Nasseri who is to visit Baku from 18th May until 6th June 2014 as a part of the artist-in residence programme. A number of short workshops and lectures will be organised as a part of this residency (information will soon be available on our web site).

In his works Timo is looking for parallels between cultures, combines the heritage of the Islamic and the western world. Memories, religious references, the universe, infinity, mathematics, space and volume, ornament, language, eclecticism and exoticism, constructivism, universal principles of science, the inner truth of form and rhythm inspire him.

Timo Nasseri was born in Berlin in 1972 to a German mother and an Iranian father.  He began his artistic career as a photographer until 2004 when he made the  transition to creating sculpture. 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 several solo exhibitions which include: CORE, Schleicher+Lange, Berlin(2013); O Time Thy Pyramids, Galerie Sfeir-Semler Hamburg (2012); Nasseri/Englund, Schleicher+Lange, Paris (2010); Ghazal, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg (2009); One of Six, Kunstverein Arnsberg (2009); Epistrophy (2008) and Falling Stars (2006) both at Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris;  and Op-Felder, Galerie ABEL Raum für Neue Kunst, Berlin (2002). 

He has also participated in the following group exhibitions: Dynamo: Space and Vision in Art from Today back to 1913, Grand Palais, Paris (2013); Fellbach Kleinplastik Triennale, Fellbach (2013); Sculpture is Everything, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2012); Chkoun Ahna: On The Track of History, Le musée national de Carthage, Tunisie (2012). Ever Living Ornament, Micro Onde, centre d’art de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Paris (2012), Decarage: Chris Cornish, Timo Nasseri, Evariste Richer,Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (2012), In Other Words. Black Market of Translation – Negotiating Contemporary Cultures, NGBK, Berlin (2012),Wunder, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2011), Taaffe-Streuli-Nasseri, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (2010); Folklore?, CRAC Alsace (2010); Taswir – Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2009); Mashq: repetition, meditation, Green Cardamom, London (2009) and Eurasia, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (2008); Phoenix vs Babylone, Espace Paul Richard, Paris (2008); Echo, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (2008). He was one of the winners of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2011 and awarded the Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst in 2006.