MOJÉ ASSEFJAH

Assefjah’s choice to employ the egg tempera technique aligns harmoniously with herdeep exploration of art history. The expressive colours evoke a tactile quality, invitingthe viewer to engage with the material.

The artist constructs three-dimensional paintings through layering, alternatingbetween transparency and opacity, proximity and distance, movement and stillness,light and dark, and texture. Assefjah creates imaginative pictorial worlds betweenfigure, landscape, and stage. One can associate them with floral or geometric formsreminiscent of patterns found in historical carpets or the draperies of the Baroque era.Her technical and theoretical interest in European and Italian Renaissance painting isenriched by the mysticism of ancient Persian pictorial and written traditions.

“Each painting is to me a vision, a scene, a view, they are an invitation for the eye to lookthrough a window opened to a nostalgic space.”

Since 1999, Assefjah’s work has been regularly featured in solo and group exhibitions inEurope, Asia,USA and the Middle and Near East.Her works can be found in numerous private collections in Germany, Switzerland, theUSA, Dubai, Lebanon, Spain and Korea, and in various public collections, including in:the Pinakothek der Moderne; the städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; theGabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation, Munich; the Guangdong ArtMuseum, China; the Colección olorVISUAL, Spain; the Graphische Sammlung, Munich;the BIZ, Switzerland.

In spring 2022, the Lenbachhaus/Städtische Galerie Lenbachhaus municipal galleryexhibited Assefjah’s works - from the Museum and the KiCo Foundation collection - inthe group exhibition Dip In The Past. Following the exhibition, the KiCo Foundationacquired six additional works for the museum collection.