NAVID NUUR

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.

Navid Nuur, born 1976 in Teheran, Iran, lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands.

Selected solo exhibitions include: When Doubt turns into Destiny, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (2024), MONO NO AWARE NESS, soda, Kyoto (2023), _The _Tentext Theory, Parliament Gallery, Paris (2023), _When meanings get marbled, _Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2021); _Hocus Focus, _Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford (2020); I am because of You, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (2020); _PAINTPUSHER, _Plan B, Berlin (2018); _FUNNELFLUX, _Be-Part Platform voor actuele kunst, Waregem (2017); Mining Memory, Galeria Plan B and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (2015); Lube Love, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht (2014); _TA-DA, _Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013); _PhantomFuel, _Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London (2013); HOCUSFOCUS, Matadero Madrid (2012); _Post Parallelism, _Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (2011); THE VALUE OF VOID, Kunsthalle Fridericianum (2009).

Previous group exhibitions include: _The Humming of Colors, _Art Chosun Space, Seoul (2024), _Kiss my Soul, _Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht (2023), Am Seegarten, Kirchmöser, Brandeburg (2023), 50 seconds, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (2023); _Mondrian Moves, _Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague (2022); _Les Flammes. L’Âge de la céramique / The Flames. The Age of __Ceramics, _Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (2021);_From the Collection - _Poetic Faith, S.M.A.K Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (2020); _CoBrA. _The colour of freedom, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam (2020); _The Spark is _You: Parasol unit in Venice, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice and Parasol Unit, London (2019); Painting the Night, Centre Pompidou-Metz (2018); _Eruption from the Surface. The Origami Principle in _Art, Marta Herford Museum, Herford (2018); _Eppur si muove, _MUDAM Museum, Luxembourg (2016); _Cher(e)s Ami(e)s. New presentation of works __from the collection, Centre Pompidou, _Paris (2016); _When I Give, I Give _Myself, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (2015); _Image into Sculpture, _Centre Pompidou, Paris (2013); Time, Trade and Travel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2012); _ILLUMInations, _54. Biennale di Venezia (2011).

Selected public and private collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; The S.M.A.K Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; Kunsthaus Zürich; FNAC Paris; Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt am Main; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; Vehbi Koç Foundation, Istanbul; Aishti Foundation, Beirut; Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London; Aaron and Barbara Levine Art Collection, Washington; The Sander Collection, Darmstadt.

Text courtesy Galeria Plan B.