Donja Nasseri
Donja Nasseri (1990, Düsseldorf, Germany) studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Gregor Schneider and Peter Piller until 2022. She previously studied at the Kunstakademie Münster under Mariana Castillo Deball. The changes in tradition, culture and (gender) identity make up the conceptual core of Donja‘s oeuvre, which is primarily based on photography as a ‘carrier of memories’, as a medium of documentation and fictional manipulation with all digital and analogue collage techniques. As the German-born daughter of an Afghan father and an Egyptian-German mother, she has a sharp view on the diversity of possible narrations and the truths associated with them.
She has been invited to renowned group exhibitions such as “Surprize” at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, “New Photography from Düsseldorf” at KIT, Düsseldorf or “5. Kestner Marktkirchenschau”, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, Contemporary Biennal, The Arc Daegu, South-Korea and so on. Her work has already been awarded with numerous prizes such as Plat(t)form Fotomuseum Winterthur, Chargesheimer Stipend in Cologne for media art, Foam new Talent, Amsterdam or recently for the Van Bommel Award in Venlo and 2024 for a project funding from the Circle of Friends of the House of Photography in Hamburg. She lives and works in Düsseldorf.