SHOWS, TALKS & RESIDENCIES
2024
July: Other Cinemas: Collective Imaginings, Metroland Studios, London.
Apr: Caravane Tighmert, 10th edition, Morocco.
2023
Dec: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ with Selene’s Archives, Reference Point, London.
Sept: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ + ‘Cross-(r)evolutionary Sound Archives’ workshop, Open City Documentary Festival 2023.
July: ‘The birds, the ladder, the painter & their songs’, Greatorex Street Gallery, Duo-show with Clemens Grömmer.
May: Slade Undergraduate Degree Show, UCL + Minevissim, a workshop on translation as creation, co-facilitated with Sanam Monteiro.
‘On Waiting as a form of resistance’, curated with Jumana Abboud and Nastassja Simensky, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.
Apr: Persepolis + introduction, British Film Institute.
Mar: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ curated by Mojeanne Behzadi, Projet Casa, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Feb: ‘Eviction Notice’, curated by Pocket Trap Contemporary.
Jan: Visiting workshop facilitator with Shahre Farang, Goldsmiths, BA Politics, Performance and Society.
2022
Nov: ‘Through the Foreign City’, a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring how moving from one space to another can challenge or nurture us. Collaboration with Wassle Stories & Babylon Project, London Migration Film Festival 2022.
Oct: ‘A Night Of Music Boxes’ at Pollocks’ Toy Museum, museum takeover, screening and live performance with Joe Hatchwell.
Jun: Shahre Farang exhibition + fundraiser, Avalon Cafe Bermondsey, London, UK.
May: ‘Running Late’, Changing Rooms Gallery, London. Slade BA3 Group show,
curated by Ella Schlesinger.
Feb: Shahre Farang x Decolonise Art History Cambridge, John Hughes Art Festival.
Losing Track, an exhibition in response to HS2
by irreplaceable world
2021
Nov: Slade 150 Past, Present, Future, Octagon Gallery, UCL (Until Aug 2022).
‘Stealing Vegetables’ curated by Cherry Song, Hal H. Lewis & Qiu Janye.
Aug: Noorderlicht Photo, Groeningen,
‘The Makeable Mind: Student Open Call’.
Jul: The Chemistry of Feeling, Community exhibition at Gulf Photo Plus, Dubaï, UAE.
May: POSTED, era journal postcard exhibition
Apr: contributor to form IV/Thing 18 ‘From the drained pool’.
2020
Sept: Mommy’s Rug video installation screening at ‘Juice’, a group exhibition curated by Cherry Song, Shenzhen, China.
Feb: I am that flower (2019) screening at Platform 1, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK.
2019
Dec: Spaceship. Dungeon. Zoo.
A group exhibition at Alvaro Barrington’s studio, London.
May: CSM Foundation Show, Lethaby Gallery, London.
CSM x LUX Moving Image, London
Waterlow Art Park II, London. East Meets West,
Platform 272 Gallery, London, UK.
PRESS
2024
Interview with EastEast ‘Interiors: The Sparrow is Free’
2022
passerby magazine, camera roll with Niki Kohandel
2021
In conversation, An evening with Habibi Collective, MOMA Virtual Cinema
UCL News, 7 questions with Niki Kohandel
2020
era journal, UCL Arts & Culture Interview: Niki Kohandel
EDUCATION
2019 - 2023 : BA Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2022 : Other Cinemas Film school
2021 : Global Photographies Network, La Hydra (online)
2018 - 2019 : Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Central Saint-Martins, UAL
AWARDS
2023
Rosa Morison Memorial Award &
Prankerd Jones Scholarship, UCL
2022
Herbert Seaborn Award, Slade, UCL
2021
Sue Jamieson Memorial Award, Slade, UCL
2024
July: Other Cinemas: Collective Imaginings, Metroland Studios, London.
Apr: Caravane Tighmert, 10th edition, Morocco.
2023
Dec: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ with Selene’s Archives, Reference Point, London.
Sept: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ + ‘Cross-(r)evolutionary Sound Archives’ workshop, Open City Documentary Festival 2023.
July: ‘The birds, the ladder, the painter & their songs’, Greatorex Street Gallery, Duo-show with Clemens Grömmer.
May: Slade Undergraduate Degree Show, UCL + Minevissim, a workshop on translation as creation, co-facilitated with Sanam Monteiro.
‘On Waiting as a form of resistance’, curated with Jumana Abboud and Nastassja Simensky, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL.
Apr: Persepolis + introduction, British Film Institute.
Mar: ‘Only Voice Remains: Making Collective Prophecies’ curated by Mojeanne Behzadi, Projet Casa, Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
Feb: ‘Eviction Notice’, curated by Pocket Trap Contemporary.
Jan: Visiting workshop facilitator with Shahre Farang, Goldsmiths, BA Politics, Performance and Society.
2022
Nov: ‘Through the Foreign City’, a multi-disciplinary workshop exploring how moving from one space to another can challenge or nurture us. Collaboration with Wassle Stories & Babylon Project, London Migration Film Festival 2022.
Oct: ‘A Night Of Music Boxes’ at Pollocks’ Toy Museum, museum takeover, screening and live performance with Joe Hatchwell.
Jun: Shahre Farang exhibition + fundraiser, Avalon Cafe Bermondsey, London, UK.
May: ‘Running Late’, Changing Rooms Gallery, London. Slade BA3 Group show,
curated by Ella Schlesinger.
Feb: Shahre Farang x Decolonise Art History Cambridge, John Hughes Art Festival.
Losing Track, an exhibition in response to HS2
by irreplaceable world
2021
Nov: Slade 150 Past, Present, Future, Octagon Gallery, UCL (Until Aug 2022).
‘Stealing Vegetables’ curated by Cherry Song, Hal H. Lewis & Qiu Janye.
Aug: Noorderlicht Photo, Groeningen,
‘The Makeable Mind: Student Open Call’.
Jul: The Chemistry of Feeling, Community exhibition at Gulf Photo Plus, Dubaï, UAE.
May: POSTED, era journal postcard exhibition
Apr: contributor to form IV/Thing 18 ‘From the drained pool’.
2020
Sept: Mommy’s Rug video installation screening at ‘Juice’, a group exhibition curated by Cherry Song, Shenzhen, China.
Feb: I am that flower (2019) screening at Platform 1, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK.
2019
Dec: Spaceship. Dungeon. Zoo.
A group exhibition at Alvaro Barrington’s studio, London.
May: CSM Foundation Show, Lethaby Gallery, London.
CSM x LUX Moving Image, London
Waterlow Art Park II, London. East Meets West,
Platform 272 Gallery, London, UK.
PRESS
2024
Interview with EastEast ‘Interiors: The Sparrow is Free’
2022
passerby magazine, camera roll with Niki Kohandel
2021
In conversation, An evening with Habibi Collective, MOMA Virtual Cinema
UCL News, 7 questions with Niki Kohandel
2020
era journal, UCL Arts & Culture Interview: Niki Kohandel
EDUCATION
2019 - 2023 : BA Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2022 : Other Cinemas Film school
2021 : Global Photographies Network, La Hydra (online)
2018 - 2019 : Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, Central Saint-Martins, UAL
AWARDS
2023
Rosa Morison Memorial Award &
Prankerd Jones Scholarship, UCL
2022
Herbert Seaborn Award, Slade, UCL
2021
Sue Jamieson Memorial Award, Slade, UCL
1. Slade Undergraduate Degree Show 2023.
2. Open Closed, 2019, (1’28) at LUX Moving Image.
3.Chemistry of Feeling, Installation shot, Courtesy of Raheed Allaf.
4. Blossom, 2019, digital print on tyvek behind aviary grid, Waterlow Park.
2. Open Closed, 2019, (1’28) at LUX Moving Image.
3.Chemistry of Feeling, Installation shot, Courtesy of Raheed Allaf.
4. Blossom, 2019, digital print on tyvek behind aviary grid, Waterlow Park.