Navid Nuur

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The way in which Navid Nuur relates to material, the space around him and his observations therein, can almost be regarded as devout. The attention for detail and the careful fine-tuning of the various elements of a work or exhibition make the audience part of an 'inner' world. In Nuur’s work - although very conceptual at first sight - a very personal visual problem becomes the central question. What Nuur has in common with the conceptual artists from the sixties is the relation between concept and form. Form for him however, is not necessarily the result of the idea, but materializes through a subjective program of requirements or rules in which intuition has the upper hand. He applies concepts that often relate to a temporary in-between state that places his work between the audience and an often abstract phenomenon, such as light, energy, air, or 'rest space'. Nuur's form-language and meaning are therefore principally purely process-oriented.

Image: Recaptured from the collective, 2013, one thought, time, ink, post-its, traced styrofoam plates, glue, sculpture: 186 x 68 x 68 cm, framed post-its: 80 x 60 cm

Solo Exhibitions

NAVID NUUR - Galerie Max Hetzler

NAVID NUUR

Navid Nuur in conversation with Dominic van den Boogerd

Galerie Max Hetzler @ Kurfürstendamm 213, Berlin

(by appointment only)
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

Navid Nuur

Window Gallery, Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

27 January – 15 April 2017
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

A&N&D

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

27 January – 4 March 2017
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

MINING MEMORY

Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

1 – 30 May 2015
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

Navid Nuur

Window Gallery, Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

December 2014 – April 2015
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

THE MAIN REMAIN

57, rue du Temple, Paris

6 September – 11 October 2014
Navid Nuur - Galerie Max Hetzler

Navid Nuur

Window Gallery, Goethestraße 2/3, Berlin

May – June 2014

Group Exhibitions

MATIÈRE GRISE - Galerie Max Hetzler

MATIÈRE GRISE

Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Jérémy Demester, Günther Förg, Loris Gréaud, Raymond Hains, Charline von Heyl, Liz Larner, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

10 June – 20 July 2017
la mia ceramica - Galerie Max Hetzler

la mia ceramica

Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Rebecca Warren, Edmund de Waal

57, rue du Temple, Paris

4 June – 16 July 2016
Halftone: Through the Grid - Galerie Max Hetzler

Halftone: Through the Grid

Darren Almond, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Jeff Elrod, John Houck, Navid Nuur, Michael Raedecker, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Toby Ziegler
organised by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff and Jean-Marie Gallais

Bleibtreustraße 45, Berlin

14 June – 26 July 2014

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

Navid Nuur

RENDERENDER

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

29 March – 15 June 2014
Navid Nuur

Color Me Closely

Trafo House of Contemporary Art, Budapest

8 February – 23 March 2014

Biography

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Publications

la mia ceramica - Galerie Max Hetzler

la mia ceramica

Lynda Benglis, Ida Ekblad, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Liz Larner, Fausto Melotti, Navid Nuur, Pablo Picasso, Sterling Ruby, David Salle, Josh Smith, Rosemarie Trockel, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren

Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2016
With an introduction by Edmund de Waal

€ 35,-

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MINING MEMORY - Galerie Max Hetzler

MINING MEMORY

Navid Nuur

Booklet with a fictional interview between Navid Nuur and a rock

€ 3,-

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MINING MEMORY - Galerie Max Hetzler

MINING MEMORY

Navid Nuur

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris
Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Cluj
2015
Text by Navid Nuur

€ 40,-

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HALFTONE - Galerie Max Hetzler

HALFTONE

Darren Almond, Tauba Auerbach, Mark Barrow & Sarah Parke, Jeff Elrod, John Houck, Navid Nuur, Albert Oehlen, Michael Raedecker, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
Text by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff

€ 15,-

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Selected Press

artpress 2014

Artforum 2013

Artforum 2011

Frieze 2010

Artforum 2010

News

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RE/FLECT/OR (public sculpture)
Intersection Spui / Grote Markstraat, Den Haag
19 December 2018, 6pm

Since the early 1990s art center Stroom Den Haag has developed a unique Sculpture Gallery in the city center of The Hague. On Wednesday 19 December 2018, just two days before the shortest day of the year, we will add a new sculpture - entitled RE/FLECT/OR - by the internationally renowned artist ...
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RE:Collecting (group show)
Singer Museum, Laren
11 December 2018 - 7 April 2019

An exhibition that explores untold stories of corporate collections in The Netherlands

RE:Collecting
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Out of Office. Art in Business (group show)
Singer Museum, Laren
11 December 2018 - 7 April 2019

This winter, for the first time, over 150 rarely seen highlights from the art collections of several major Dutch companies will exchange their familiar home on the office wall for a spot in the museum. Out of Office . Art in Business , an exhibition organised by Singer Laren in collaboration with ...
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Darren Almond, Raymond Hains, Joan Mitchell, Navid Nuur, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille et al.

Painting the Night (group show)
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
13 October 2018 - 15 April 2019

The topic of night has infiltrated current debates concerning society (should we open shops at night or preserve that time for sleep?), the environment (how can we limit night light pollution which prevents us from seeing the stars and impacts natural life?), politics (the French “Nuit Debout” ...
Darren Almond, Raymond Hains, Joan Mitchell, Navid Nuur, Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille

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RESISTANCE (group show)
CENTRALE, Brussels
27 September 2018 - 27 January 2019

Within the scope of 2018, year of protest, the City of Brussels celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, a period marked by disruptions and multiple challenges but that remains emblematic for arts and society alike. On the occasion of the ambitious project entitled RESISTANCE, CENTRALE for ...
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True Luxury... Art acquisitions 2012-2018 (group show)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
22 September 2018 - 3 March 2019

Films, videos, installations, paintings, sculptures and works on paper are featured, by artists like Bell & Frick, General Idea, Magali Reus, Erik van Lieshout, Arthur Jafa, Tony Oursler, Ed Atkins, Meschac Gaba, Helen Marten, Han Schuil, and Fiona Tan. Almost a third of the selected pieces were ...
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CHARIVARI (group show)
Pamelekerk, Oudenaarde
15 September - 16 December 2018

In the framework of the 'baroque year' 2018, the city of Oudenaarde is organizing an ambitious exhibition in their museum around Adriaen Brouwer, one of the most important and to this day unjustly unknown artists of the 17th century. Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638) was probably born in Oudenaarde as the ...
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