Timo Nasseri

Timo Nasseri was born in 1972 from a German mother and an Iranian father in Berlin. He has a degree in photography from the Lette Verien Institute in Berlin. He traveled to Iran in 1997 and during this trip he was fascinated by Iranian architecture and geometric patterns in Islamic architecture, especially the form of muqarans.

Timo Nasseri has held many group and solo exhibitions. Among these shows, we can mention his show in 2016 at Ab-Anbar Gallery, which attracted the attention of many Iranian collectors. His works have been exhibited in different countries such as France, Lebanon, England, Italy and Spain. He also collaborated with various galleries such as Lori Shabibi Gallery, Sabrina Amrani, Lumier and Sfeir Semler Gallery in Beirut.

Timo Nasseri has won many awards, including the German Aenne Biermann Award, the Saar Ferngas Förderpreis Junge Kunst Award and the prestigious Abraaj Capital Art Prize. His works have been presented and sold in prestigious auction houses such as Christie's, Sotheby's, Van Ham and Tehran Auction. Also, Timo Nasseri's works are in famous collections and museums such as the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum in London.

Timo Nasseri's works are presented in various mediums such as paintings, sculptures, drawings and neon volumes. The variety of mediums that Nasseri has in his works is rooted in his diverse experiences; For example, Timo Nasseri has been photographing medical and hospital environments or has been documenting for some time. His fascination with Islamic and Iranian architecture and patterns also began with his knowledge and interest in Iranian calligraphy and calligraphy.

The dominant theme of Timo Nasseri's works is related to mathematics, geometry, architecture and calligraphy. By using elements of Iranian architecture and repeating them, he presents his unique visual language both in paintings and sculptures. In performing his sculptures, he uses the method of mirroring, which has an inseparable relationship with measurement and geometry. This relationship with measurement is also very evident in Nasseri's drawings. His drawings provide a regular space by using lines and stripes.