About

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Hemaseh Manawi Rad is a Dutch artist based in Eindhoven, working primarily with textiles and also exploring ceramics. She graduated in 2018 AKV St. Joost, BA of Fine Arts.

In her practice, Hemaseh becomes a storyteller, weaving colorful materials into a personal symbolic imagery. Her work draws on family stories, childhood memories and rituals, combining them into a distinctive visual language that is both personal and universally resonant.

Her pieces often merge references from Western and Middle Eastern cultures, creating compositions that invite viewers to reflect on the intersections between personal experience and collective memory. By presenting specific situations in a playful, narrative way, her works can be read as fragments of a diary, a poetic puzzle that bridges cultures and invites recognition from the viewer.

Since 2015, her work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Bad Feminist at Melkweg Expo (Amsterdam), Homecoming at Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Heard It Through the Grapevine at Galerie Bart (Amsterdam), Stitched Narratives at Het Noordbrabants Museum (‘s-Hertogenbosch), and Mixed Nuts; Tales of Our Own Perception (as curator & artist) at MaMA (Rotterdam).