Arash Nassiri

18 Jan-22 Mar 2026

Overview

Arash Nassiri is an artist living and working in Berlin. His moving image practice draws on the visual languages of music videos, television, and cinema to explore memory, heritage, and complex narratives of place. Often reworking popular formats into speculative, allegorical forms, Nassiri’s films investigate how the built environment embodies histories of migration and displacement. For his first institutional solo exhibition, Nassiri presents A Bug’s Life, a surreal moving image installation set in a Beverly Hills mansion, one of many developed in the 1980s–90s that blended Iranian and American architectural features in a style that was later banned by the city of Los Angeles. Guided by an insect puppet voiced by the artist’s mother, the film humorously weaves oral history with illusion to reflect on belonging, estrangement, and the spectral narratives embedded in urban space.

Biography
Arash Nassiri lives and works in Berlin. Selected exhibitions include: Half-Light, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2024; Rayon Jouets, Hangar Y, Paris, 2024; GRIS NARDO, Octo Productions, Marseille, 2023; Barbe a Papa, CAPC Bordeaux, 2022; Metabolic Rift (Berlin Atonal), Kraftwerk Berlin, 2021.