Born 1964 in Shiraz, Iran. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Nader Ahriman (*1964 in Shiraz, Iran. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany) is a visual artist whose practice brings painting and philosophy into a distinctive and reflective dialogue. His drawings, collages and paintings revolve around fundamental questions of human existence within the tension between humanity, machines, nature and the search for intelectual belonging. Ahriman effectively „paints“ philosophy, translating ideas drawn from Hegel, Nietzsche and Lukács into complex, dreamlike visual constellations enriched by arthistorical refrences to Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Oskar Schlemmer and Rube Goldberg.
Ahriman´s works are characterized by undefined, stage- like spaces in which figures appear to float, fall or fragment. Recurring motifs and serial structures play a central role in his practice. Since 2002, he has developed several interconnected bodies of work, including Études of Transcendental Homelessness (2002-2005), Stromboli – The Form of Self-Consciousness (2006), and The Hegel Machine or the Art oft the End (2012-2013). These series are collectively described by the artist as „Meta-Cubism“ – a term that does not refer to Cubism in the tradition of Braque and Picasso, but rather to the late Cézanne and his ambition to depict the underlying idea of things.
