STUDIO
Künstler_innenhaus Dortmund
donja.nasseri@icloud.com
Donja Nasseri is an artist whose work explores the shifting relationship between tradition and change across artistic and social contexts. Her practice engages with intertwined histories and narratives that shape identity, trauma, and collective memory. Working with materials from museums, archives, and communities, she reactivates them through processes of translation, fragmentation, and recontextualisation.
Her work functions as a form of visual and material archaeology, bringing historical, personal, and collective memories into dialogue with the present. Rather than resolving meaning, she opens spaces where the past can be felt and questioned, particularly in relation to colonial histories and restitution.
Working across photography, collage, sound, text, sculpture, and installation, her multidisciplinary approach centers on the intersections of image, voice, and language. Through assemblage and montage, she creates layered compositions that resist singular narratives and invite multiple readings, while engaging with marginalized voices and exploring the relations between past and present, material and memory, voice and silence.
since 2025 teaching activity for fine arts at the University of Dortmund/ Department Sculpture
Master student and academy diploma with Prof. Gregor Schneider/ Peter Piller
at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Master student with Prof. Mariana Castillo Deball
at the Kunstakademie Münster
2012- 2013 Mimar Sinan Sanatlar Academy Istanbul, Photography Department
2015 Bachelor of Arts and Education, Tu- Dortmund
2026 Manifesta, Essen
2026 Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
2026 Fabrics of Translocality, Frise, Hamburg
2025/26 Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Bienne, Switzerland
2025 Paris Photo, Düsseldorf Photography
2025 „Mineral-Ghost-Story-Bones“, Art Center Bomulsum, South-Korea
2025 CICLO, Bienal for Photography, Porto, Portugal 2025 Miettinen Collection, Berlin
2024 Ties that bind, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 Landskrona photo exhibition, Sofia Albertina Kyrka, Sweden
2024 die Verhältnisse zum Tanzen bringen, Kunstmuseum Bochum
2024 into the good night, Aura Düsseldorf
2023/24 Van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
2023/24 Sunbathing, Kunstverein Recklinghausen (s)
2023 Contemporary Biennal, The Arc Daegu, South-Korea
2023 Reformulierung, NRW- Forum, Düsseldorf
2023 Foam, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Frankfurt
2022/23 LOVE?, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln
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