Contact
Pegah.keshmir@gmail.com
@pegah.keshmir
Through fragmented histories, personal narratives and fictional imagery, Keshmirshekan examines how ideas of home are constructed, remembered and reimagined through diasporic experience. Her work often moves between documentary and fiction, using images, objects, interviews and staged scenarios to question authorship, identity and the unstable relationship between lived experience and imagined belonging. Her research based approach considers how images, objects and narratives can preserve memory, resist erasure and open up new ways of thinking about home, return and belonging.
Alongside her artistic practice, Keshmirshekan has curated and organised events, seminars and exhibition projects concerned with intercultural practice, diaspora, identity and contemporary art. Her curatorial and event based work reflects her wider interest in creating spaces for collective research, dialogue and shared cultural memory.
Keshmirshekan received the Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin, NaFöG, in 2025, the Schulz-Stübner Prize in 2023, and the Deutschlandstipendium in 2021. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and projects including Imaginary Homeland, her first solo gallery exhibition at Under The Mango Tree, Berlin; Close to Home. Remittance Spaces Between Arrival and Return at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin; SEEN BY #12 at the Museum für Fotografie, Berlin; Art and Exchange in Diaspora at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; and exhibitions in Berlin, London, Tehran and Stuttgart.