*1972, in Berlin
SOLO EXIBITIONS
2023
"All borrow their light", Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai (UAE)
"Aphel", Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2022
"I am a sky where spirits live", Taubert Contemporary, Berlin (D)
2019
"A Universal Alphabet", Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
“Constellations and Trajectories”,with Franziska Furter, CCA Andratx (ESP)
2018
"Uncertain Phases", Kunstfort bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen (NL)
2017
"All the letters in all the stars", Maraya Art Center, Sharjah (UAE)
"I saw a broken Labyrinth", Ab/Anbar Gallery, Tehran (IR)
2016
"Florenz - Bagdad", Arbeiterkammer Wien, Wien (AUT)
2015
"The more beneath my feet the skies I see", Sfeir- Semler Gallery, Hamburg (D)
"Nine Firmaments", Schleicher/Lange, Berlin (D)
2013
„Core“, Schleicher/Lange, Berlin, Germany (D)
2012
„O Time Thy Pyramids“, Galerie Sfeir-Semler Hamburg (D)
2010
„Nasseri/Englund“,Schleicher/Lange, Paris (F)
2009
"Ghazal", Galerie Sfeir-Semler Hamburg (D)
"ONE OF SIX", Kunstverein Arnsberg (D)
2008
"epistrophy", Galerie Schleicher/Lange, Paris (F)
2006
"Falling Stars", Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (F)
2005
„Timo Nasseri“, Galerie Robert Morat, Hamburg (D)
"Jet Skin", Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (F)
GROUP EXIBITIONS
2023
„“Construir, habitar, crear. 10 años de trabajo en comunidad. Fundación Casa Wabi / Build, inhabit, create. 10 years of community work. Casa Wabi Foundation ” ,Foundacion Casa Wabi, Mexico (MEX)
„Inspire Writing ”,MONTBLANC Haus, Hamburg (D)
„Scripts & Calligraphy: Paths to the Soul ”,Irqah Hospital, Riyadh (SA)
2022
„Perspektiven. Futurismen. Ref. Marcel Duchamp & Marcel Proust”,Mercedes-Benz Contemporary, Berlin (D)
"Spieglein, Spieglein", Kunstmuseum Heidenheim (D)
"Reflections", Museum Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt (D)
"Geometric Opulenz", Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich (CH)
"ONEONONE", Taubert Contemporary, Berlin (D)
2021
“Franziska Furter - Landscape with Landscape”, Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich (CH)
“BETWIXT”, O54, Berlin, (D)
“Drawing Biennale 2021”, Drawing Room, London (GB)
“Rebel,Jester, Mystic, Poet”, Asia Society Museum, New York (USA)
“Epic Iran”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (GB)
“Reclections”, The British Museum, London (GB)
“Balassanian, Fathizadeh, Nasseri, Moghaddam” Cromwell Place, London (GB)
2020
“WO DIE ZITRONEN BLÜHEN...”, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg (D)
“GARTENDERGEGENWART”, Hamburg (D)
2019
"Negativer Raum", ZKM Karlsruhe (D)
"Drawing Biennial 2019", The Drawing Room, London (GB)
"Konkrete Gegenwart", Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (CH)
“The eye and the night”, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris (F)
2018
"Through The Spectrum", Athr Gallery, Jeddah (SA)
"DOME", Zeiss Grossplanetarium, Berlin (D)
2017
"NGV Triennial", National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (AUS)
“L'horreur du Plein”, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis (TU)
“Basis Kunst und Bau”, Stadtgalerie Bern, Bern (CH)
"Drawing Biennial 2017", The Drawing Room, London (GB)
"Artists against AIDS", Museum Ludwig, Köln (D)
2016
"A World View: The Tim Fairfax Gift ", Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AUS)
"Temporal Turn: Art and Speculation in Contemporary Asia", Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas (USA)
"Unter Waffen. Fire and Forget 2," MAK, Frankfurt (D)
"Never sown on purpose", CIRCLE1, Berlin (D)
"Wendezeiten" CCA Andratx, Andratx (ES)
"MASS INDIVIDUALISM", Ab/Anbar Gallery, Teheran (IR)
2015
"Triplicity", Athr Gallery, Jeddah (SA)
"Sculpture and Performance at Gudenau" - ALEXANDER OCHS PRIVATE BERLIN | BEIJING, Berlin (D)
"Fire and Forget", KW-Kunstwerke, Berlin (D)
"Drawing Room Biennial" Drawing Room, London (GB)
"Gallery 3010", Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
2014
"WIR 2 – Der Sinn von Politik ist Freiheit", Klinger Forum, Leipzig (D)
"Nullpunkt aller Orte" Sammlung Dominic und Cordula Sohst-Brennenstuhl, Weserburg, Bremen (D)
"The Language of Human Consciousness", Athr Gallery, Jeddah (SA)
"Weights and measures" Galerie Lahumiere,Paris (F)
"...about Edith", L'oiseau présente... , Berlin (D)
2013
"Schönheit der Mathematik", Schloss Agathenburg (D)
"Modifications", ZKU Berlin (D)
"Triennale Fellbach", Fellbach (D)
“DYNAMO !” Space and Vision in art from today back to 1913,Grand Palais, Paris (FR)
“Silk”, Highlight Gallery, San Francisco (USA)
2012
“Sculpture is Everything”, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (AUS)
“SUPERCLUSTER”, CAN (Centre d'art, Neuchâtel), Neuchâtel (CH)
„CHKOUN AHNA-ON THE TRACK OF HISTORY”, Le musée national de Carthage, Tunisie (TUN)
“The Elephant in The Dark”, Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi (IN)
„Abwehr-Überlebensstrategien in Natur, Wirtschaft, Politik und Alltag“, Stiftung Charles + Agnes Vögele, Pfäffikon (CH)
„Ever Living ORNAMENT”, Micro Onde, centre d’art de l’Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay, Paris (F)
“WUNDER“, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems (AU)
“DÉCALAGE-CHRIS CORNISH, TIMO NASSERI, EVARISTE RICHER“,Galerie Schleicher+Lange, Paris (F)
„In Other Words. Black Market of Translation – Negotiating Contemporary Cultures”, NGBK, Berlin (D)
2011
“WUNDER“, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg (D)
“ABRAAJ CAPITAL ART PRIZE“, Art Dubai, Dubai (UAE)
2010
“Taaffe-Streuli-Nasseri“, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (LB)
“En Miroir“, CRAC Alsace
2009
“Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam and modernity”, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (D)
„Balla-Drama“, Paradise Row Gallery, London (UK)
“Animated”, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (F)
"Mashq: repetition, meditation, mediation”, Green Cardamom, London (UK)
2008
"Phoenix vs Babylone", Espace Paul Ricard, Paris (F)
"Democracy In the Age of Branding", The Vera List Center for Art and Politics , New York (USA)
"EURASIA, MART" - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (I)
"The New World", Artnews projects, Berlin (D) "Die Wahren Orte", Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin (D)
"Echo", Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Beirut (LB)
2007
"Dark Matter",Artnews Projects, Berlin (D)
"Photo Espana", Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo
"SCULPURE NOW", Galerie Herrmann und Wagner, Berlin (D)
"Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2006", TUFA, Trier (D)
GRANTS, AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2020
Casa Wabi, Oaxaca (Mex), AiR
2020
Stiftung Kunstfond, Bonn (D), Arbeitsstipendium
2019
Field Kitchen Academy, Wüsten Buchholz (D), AiR
CCA Andratx (ES), AiR
2015
CCA Andratx (ES), AiR
2014
YARAT (AZ), AiR
2012
Ilse-Augustin-Stiftung, Arbeitsstipendium
2011
Abraaj Capital Art Prize (UAE), Kunstpreis
2006
Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst 2006 (D), Kunstpreis
2004
Stipendium der Konrad-AdenauerStiftung (D), Arbeitsstipendium
2003
Aenne Biermann Preis (D), Kunstpreis2020
Collections
DaimlerChrysler Collection. Berlin, DE
British Museum. London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum. London, UK
National Gallery of Victoria. Melbourne, AU
Gallery of Modern Art. Brisbane, AU
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
Spenser Museum of Art. Kansas, USA
David Roberts Collection. London, UK
Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi, IN
Barjeel Foundation, Sharjah, AE
The Farjam Foundation, Dubai, AE
The Mohammed Afkhami Collection, Dubai, AE
Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Tunis, TU
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, BE
Art Jameel Collection, SA
Heigness Sheikha Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, Abu Dhabi, AE
Cohen Collection, Florida, USA
Sohst-Brennenstuhl Collection, Hamburg, DE
Museum Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, DE
talks and Lectures (selection)
2021 Royal Drawing School, London (Online), Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Klasse Piotr Nathan, Kiel (Online), The Art Circle, Abu Dhabi (Online), Sumac Art, (Online) 2020 Royal College of Arts, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2019 Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, CCA, Andratx, Field Kitchen Acadamy, Brandenburg, Art Salon, Dubai 2017 AB/Anbar Gallery, Tehran 2018 Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai Art Dubai, Dubai 2016 In correspondence with drawing, Galerie Michael Fuchs Berlin; ArtScience slam Picture, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin; 2015, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg; 2014 Yarat Foundation Baku, Azerbajcan; 2013 Hochschule Luzern, Fachbereich Architektur, Vortrag und Gastkritik im Fachbereich Architektur; 2012, Carthage Contemporary Chkoun Ahna, Tunisia; 2011 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, Dubai