Artist

Nura Afnan-Samandari

Currents 2024 in collaboration with Marres Maastricht
Currents 2024 in collaboration with Marres Maastricht

Currents is one of the most important development platforms for visual arts in the Euregion. The group exhibition is curated by a team of young and upcoming curators, and shows work by recently graduated artists from academies in the southern Netherlands, Belgium and North Rhine-Westphalia. The event is embedded in a broader mentoring program with a central focus on training, networking and professionalisation. Four of the selected artists are invited to develop their work during a Jester residency.

Currents 11 takes place from 21 September to 3 November 2024 at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht.

Nura Afnan-Samandari (*1993) studied Fine Art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2017, she completed her Bachelor's degree in Teaching at the University of Cologne. Currently, Afnan-Samandari lives and works in Düsseldorf, where she shares a studio space with the collective Linienstraße, which provides a space for both exhibition and production of art.

The artist compares her sketchbooks to architecture. Thus, her drawing work becomes a starting point for the design of the space. While walking through a building or turning the pages of a book, viewers place themselves in the middle of a work. Afnan-Samandari chooses the material for a spatial installation like she chooses the right pen for a particular type of paper, relying on her intuition to fill in both. Taking space and giving space in one gesture.

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