Navid Nuur

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: The Tuners, 2005-2018, prepared linen canvas, mixed media, 200.3 x 316.3 x 5 cm; 203 x 319 x 6.5 cm (framed)

Solo Exhibitions

NAVID NUUR - Galerie Max Hetzler

When doubt turns into destiny

57, rue du Temple, Paris

6 April – 18 May 2019
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

THE SPARK IS YOU: Parasol unit in Venice

Parasol unit at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Venice

9 May – 23 November 2019
NAVID NUUR

Entrelacs. Victor Man invites Navid Nuur

Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva

18 May – 15 September 2018
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

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

€ 35.00

Leaf through book
Navid Nuur: MINING MEMORY - Galerie Max Hetzler

Navid Nuur: MINING MEMORY

Navid Nuur

Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Galeria Plan B, Berlin, Cluj 2015
With a text by Navid Nuur

€ 40.00

Navid Nuur: MINING MEMORY - Galerie Max Hetzler

Navid Nuur: MINING MEMORY

Navid Nuur

Booklet with a fictional interview between Navid Nuur and a rock

€ 3.00

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
With a text by Pierre-Nicolas Bounakoff

€ 15.00

Leaf through book

Selected Press

artpress 2014

Artforum 2013

Artforum 2011

Frieze 2010

Artforum 2010

News

Navid Nuur

Hocus Focus (solo show)
Marta Herford Museum, Herford
26 January – 26 April 2020

The Iranian artist, Navid Nuur (born 1976 in Teheran, lives in Den Haag) engages in his work with fundamental questions of perception. He makes the invisible visible, and hones the consciousness for the small, nondescript things and processes in the world.
 
This exhibition is the first ...

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Fragile Frontiers (group show)
YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku
22 November 2019 – 16 February 2020

YARAT announces the group exhibition "Fragile Frontiers", running from 22 November 2019 – 16 February 2020, presenting newly commissioned as well as recent works of 16 artists who view frontiers as precarious, ephemeral or frictional, arguing that no border – whether cultural, territorial or ...
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Navid Nuur

THE SPARK IS YOU: Parasol unit in Venice (group show)
To coincide with the 58th Venice Biennale
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia, Venice
9 May - 23 November 2019

In celebration of its 15th anniversary, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art is delighted to present, through a prism of classical Persian poetry, an exhibition of works by nine contemporary Iranian artists at the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia from 9 May to 23 ...
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