NAVID NUUR
Itʼs not about getting lost in translation but about translating what is lost (solo show)
soda, Kyoto
5 – 7 July 2025
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Navid Nuur’s solo exhibition Itʼs not about getting lost in translation but about translating what is lost at soda, Kyoto, reflects the artists long-standing engagement with text as both material and medium. The presentation explores the space between language and image, presence and absence, viewer and environment. Deeply influenced by his personal experience of dyslexia, Nuur turns his attention to language as a form of navigation, a poetic tool for understanding place, identity and disconnection.
Nuur has developed an idiosyncratic form of writing and typography he calls ‘Dislectika’ , an open-source font that embraces the typo as a space of creative potential. His handwriting, equally expressive and intuitive, becomes a visual system of its own: an inward form of calligraphy that resists fixed meaning. The presentation of works invites the viewer to read, but also to listen, to sense and to revisit language as not only a tool of clarity, but as a living field of gestures: vulnerable, imperfect and endlessly generative.
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NAVID NUUR
When Doubt Turns into Destiny (solo show)
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
7 September 2024 – 9 February 2025
From 7 September 2024, the Oude Kerk will present When Doubt Turns into Destiny, a large-scale, context-specific exhibition by Navid Nuur. Inviting the viewer into a sensory experience, Nuur peels back the history of the more than seven-hundred-year-old church to focus on the here and now. In a process that combines art and alchemy, Nuur seeks to create meaning and speculates about humanity’s place in the world. His work focuses on the transformation processes of materials under the influence of light, darkness, warmth, or cold, making unnoticed immaterial phenomena – such as the effect of light, the flow of energy, or the perception of space – visible. In the Sebastians Chapel, a series of vases made from Amsterdam clay will steadily grow, created by the artist over the course of the exhibition. As exemplified by the title, Nuur reflects on doubt and uncertainty as a driving force for change.
Oude Kerk
NAVID NUUR
a large-scale painting commission, now on view, in the new temporary location of the Senate of the Dutch Parliament (Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal)
A large-scale painting by Navid Nuur was commissioned by the Dutch Parliament (Eerste Kamer der Staten-Generaal) and is now on view at its temporary location in The Hague.
The Senate