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.
2026 Gallery Under the Mango Tree, Berlin, Germany
2024 Gallery Under the Mango Tree, Berlin, Germany
2023 Schulz-Stübner-Preis Solo Show, Berlin, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 FOUND IN TRANSLATION, Gallery Under the Mango Tree, Berlin, Germany
ASIA NOW - Paris Asian Art Fair , Paris, France
Close to Home: Remittance Spaces Between Arrival and Return, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2024 Art and Exchange in Diaspora, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
Poetics of Relation, Gallery Under the Mango Tree, Berlin, Germany
2023 A Space of One’s Own, CURRENT – Art and Public Space, Mohit Art, Stuttgart, Germany
2022 Background Noise, Raum für Sichtbarkeit, Berlin, Germany
Dialogue with the Other”, Gallery O, Tehran, Iran
Sinema Transtopia, Bibak, Berlin, Germany
2021 SYNC, Freiburg L6, Germany
Festival of Emerging Art, KUNSTRAUM Gallery Weekend, Berlin, Germany
Cold Film Festival, Maryland, US
2020 Moving between Place and Self, Studierendenwerk KUNSTRAUM, 3 – 5 July, Berlin, Germany
Online exhibition: The Usual Porpoises”, London, England
2019 The Outside Wall, Rundgang University of Arts Berlin (Udk), Germany
Seen By #12, Museum of Photography Berlin, Germany
2014 Javanan-e pishrow (Young Avant-gardes)”, Group Exhibition at the Mellat Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2012 The Inner Layers, Group Exhibition at the Mellat Gallery, Mellat Complex, Tehran, Iran
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 “Korean Nomad”, 22-26 November, UdK, Berlin
2020 “Moving between Place and Self” group exhibition, Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany
2019 “Fava Connection”, 2-7 December, Udk and Bi’bak, Berlin
2018 “Iran 101”, 21-25 November, UdK, Berlin
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Fellowship, Elsa-Neumann-Stipendium des Landes Berlin (NaFöG)
2023 Prize, Schulz-Stübner-Preis
2021 Scholarship, Deutschlandstipendium
Review (mention), Berlin Art Week Is A Veritable Art Feast, Artlyst
Review, A Close Home to a Distant Homeland, Art-in-berlin
2024 Review, Art of The Week, Die Tageszeitung
2023 Catalogue, Imaginary Homeland, Schulz-Stübner Prize
Article, Notes #6; A Space of One’s Own, Mohit Art
2022 Publication, Journal 22; Fragen, University of Arts Berlin Journal