Yasaman Nozari Iran, b. 1991

Yasaman Nozari was born in 1991 in Tehran, Iran, and lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. She studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran from 2011 to 2016, graduating with a Bachelor's degree. In 2023 she enrolled at KASK & Conservatorium School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium, one of the leading art academies in Europe, completing a Master of Fine Arts in 2025. This formation across two continents, and within two distinct artistic cultures, has been central to the development of her practice.

Nozari's paintings explore the potential of abstraction as a means of pursuing meaning, establishing relationships between ideas and forms through colour, rhythm, and gesture. Inspired by Belgium's cultural diversity and shaped by her Iranian roots, her work merges these two worlds into a visual language that is at once emotionally direct and formally rigorous. Her canvases are characterised by a powerful palette of magenta, orange, vibrant green, and blue, and by a compositional sensibility that blends shapes, colours, and lines into an almost meditative aesthetic. Her practice has an expressionist quality, with works described as possessing an audible rhythm, and has evolved from earlier engagements with architecture and geometric form toward an increasingly open and colour-driven abstraction.

Nozari has exhibited widely across Iran, Belgium, and internationally since 2013. Her solo exhibition history includes The Hum in Tehran in 2017; In Motion at Dastan's Basement, Tehran, in 2020; The Sun Kept Setting at Dastan's Basement in 2023; and The Different Kinds of Incomplete in Brussels in 2024. Her work has been included in group presentations at the University of Tehran Gallery, and in exhibitions across Tehran and internationally, including a group show in Arkansas, USA, in 2016. Her work has been reviewed and discussed in Tandis magazine, Honar Online, Nevesht Art, and L'Eventail, reflecting a growing critical presence across Iranian and European art media.

KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presented Yasaman Nozari in the solo exhibition A Small Ocean Swallowed at 68projects by KORNFELD in 2025, a presentation that foregrounded her fusion of Iranian and European influences and her command of colour as an emotional and spiritual force. KORNFELD Galerie Berlin also presented her work at Abu Dhabi Art in 2025, in the Emerge Sector, bringing her practice to an international audience in the Gulf region. Her work continues to evolve with increasing international recognition, sustained by a commitment to abstraction as a form of cross-cultural dialogue and sensory inquiry.