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![Book Launch of 'between our fingers']( "Book Launch of 'between our fingers'")
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![Garbage Mansion]( "Garbage Mansion")
infoGarbage Mansion or The Possibility of a Haunting is a dark fairy tale that combines film, live performance, and puppetry. You enter an installation that reflects the whimsical horror story of a supernatural hoarder's house and the chaos, clutter, and intimacy it holds. In a world that produces and discards so much physical, cultural, and human waste, hoarding is a relevant vehicle through which we can look closer at our relationship with waste. In this piece, artists Marieke and Ghazale make use of storytelling as they wonder; where do things go? And how do we live with the possibility of being hauntes by that which we throw away? art directors & makers Ghazale Moqanaki, Marieke Peeters set design August Auberdine, Marieke Peeters performers An Kuper, Elinos d’Estais music Ghazale Moqanaki singers Fran Van Lysebettens, Isa Bornau Photo by Luna Obsidia
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![Bad Objects]( "Bad Objects")
infoIn this dollhouse, we see curious creatures hiding behind animal faces. They play in a space where identity is fluid, where appearances shift like dreams, reminding us of ancient myths, the tales we craft about ourselves and who we might become. I chose mythical creatures because myths have always shaped how we see power—how it flows, transforms, and affects our lives. Myths are the original stories of hierarchy and rebellion, of kings and gods, of beasts that defy their creators. They mold our understanding of roles within society, showing us how authority is constructed and maintained, and how it can be questioned. They remind us that power itself is often an illusion, a story we’ve been taught to believe. Photo by Django van Ardenne
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![Bad Objects]( "Bad Objects")
infoIn this dollhouse, we see curious creatures hiding behind animal faces. They play in a space where identity is fluid, where appearances shift like dreams, reminding us of ancient myths, the tales we craft about ourselves and who we might become. I chose mythical creatures because myths have always shaped how we see power—how it flows, transforms, and affects our lives. Myths are the original stories of hierarchy and rebellion, of kings and gods, of beasts that defy their creators. They mold our understanding of roles within society, showing us how authority is constructed and maintained, and how it can be questioned. They remind us that power itself is often an illusion, a story we’ve been taught to believe. Photo by Django van Ardenne
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![Paper Whispers]( "Paper Whispers")
info"Paper Whispers" is a video installation implying different ways of shadowing with light and paper. Each shadow figure, embodies resilience, transcending the boundaries of fragility and imperfection. Picture by Gert Jan.
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![Paper Whispers]( "Paper Whispers")
infoPhoto by Charlotte Brand Graduation show at KABK 2023
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![Paper Whispers]( "Paper Whispers")
infoPhoto by Charlotte Brand Graduation show at KABK 2023
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![Fruit de Mar]( "Fruit de Mar")
info2023 group exhibition at NEST. Photo by Marieke Peeters
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Be Molazemane Soltaninfo
A short album composed by Ghazale Moqanaki. The idea comes from memory of an old Iranian song that slowly by the end of the album it alienates itself more and more from the original.
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![The Girl and the Fish]( "The Girl and the Fish")
infoceramic head of a girl coming out of the sea made by Ghazale Moqanaki in a collaborative installation at 2022 master artistic research group show at NEST. Photo taken by Maureen Mark.
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![the Girl and the Fish]( "the Girl and the Fish")
infoceramic head of a girl coming out of the sea made by Ghazale Moqanaki in a collaborative installation at 2022 master artistic research group show at NEST. Photo taken by Maureen Mark.
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![Banana]( "Banana")
infoDo not ask him to do anything...He is too lazy... Photo by Babak Haji
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![Wooden Fairy]( "Wooden Fairy")
infoShe was born in a jungle full of fairies. One day she lost her best friend- which was a red giraffe. So she cut her long long red hair and would never let it grow till she finds her friend. Photo by Babak Haji
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Ke to Daniinfo
First experience of Iranian classical music composition by Ghazale Moqanaki. https://ghazale.bandcamp.com/track/ke-to-dani
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![Samurai]( "Samurai")
infoGod of battle needed men to fight against life so he created samurais. Photo by Babak Haji
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The video was made for a collaborative festival between University of Tehran and University of Freiburg. In Bakhtak's (hag’s) conflict with the puppet, both are not in a good condition. Both are dissatisfied with the new situation. When this conflict turns into fatigue, they look for a solution to end this conflict. But the reality is that experience cannot be erased and always stays with them. Both have changed and metamorphed to new creatures at the end of the story. Video Artist: Ghazale Moqanaki, Babak Haji Music & puppet maker: Ghazale Moqanaki Photo: Babak Haji Edit: Yasamin Geidar Recording: Yarava-Electronic Music. https://ghmoqanaki.wixsite.com/website
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![the Hag]( "the Hag")
infoa paper mache puppet for the stop motion video, "the Hag". Photo by Babak Haji
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Curriculum vitae
Education
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2021 - 2023Master Artistic Research at KABK Den Haag, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten diploma
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2016 - 2020Bachelor of Iranian Music Performance University of Tehran, faculty of Fine Arts diploma
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2016 - 2020Puppet making and puppeteering theater group
exhibitions
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2026Book Launch of 'Between our Fingers' SeeLab Den Haag, Netherlands On January 16th from 18:00-20:30, Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters present the launch of ‘Between Our Fingers’, a publication exploring the conceptual framework of the doll’s house at SeeLab. The publication features contributions from artists Lore Pilzecker, Sohrab Kashani, Kiara Amartya, Ghazale Moqanaki, and Marieke Peeters who each approach the miniature from a different perspective. Bringing together essays, poetry, and visual artworks that interrogate the miniature as a site for reflection on domesticity, precarity, fantasy, and agency. Historically, the doll’s house used to represent a particular cultural and social model of domestic life and reinforced that. Today, the doll’s house can be anything and it reveals desires, anxieties, and imagined realities that are otherwise difficult to articulate. This book examines the doll’s house as a symbol of control and desire, as well as a space of imaginative freedom in response to the increasingly inaccessible reality of housing as a right. The book launch at SeeLab includes a performance program alongside video installations by contributors of the publication. The evening presents readings from the publication, a music performance by Ghazal Faghihi, and miniature food. Together, the publication and accompanying program present the doll’s house as a tool for imagination, critical reflection, and creative experimentation inviting visitors to reconsider the small worlds that reflect our own. www.seelab.nl/program/2026/between-our-fingers Group
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2025Garbage Mansion Zaal 3 the Hague, Netherlands Garbage Mansion or The Possibility of a Haunting is an immersive theater piece by interdisciplinary artists Marieke Peeters and Ghazale Monqanaki. It is a dark fairy tale that combines film, live performance, and puppetry inside an immersive installation. The installation reflects the whismical horror story of a supernatural hoarder's house and the chaos, clutter, and intimacy it holds. The hoarder's house becomes a portal in which we encounter the knitting of the universe and animate garbage. In a world that produces and doscards so much physical, cultural, and human waste, hoarding is a relevant vehicle through which we can look closer at our relationship with waste. In this piece, Marieke and Ghazale make use of storytelling as they wonder; where do things go? And how do we live with the possibility of being hauntes by that which we throw away? www.hnt.nl/voorstellingen/9136/marieke-peeters-ghazale-moqanaki/garbage-mansion Duo
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2024Fault Lines Symposium KABK The Hague, Netherlands In 'We are Sky-Breakers' Georgie Brinkman showed her current artistic research project that employs puppetry to think about extinction, disruptive imagination, afterlives, and tricks of the eye and the mind. Ghazale Moqanaki was one of the puppeteers. www.kabk.nl/en/lectorates/design/fault-lines-kabk-research-forum-2024
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2024LIVE 2024: Melly X Amarte Kunstinstitut Melly Rotterdam, Netherlands For the "LIVE 2024: Melly X Amarte" Ghazale Moqanaki performed Iranian Classical Music. youtu.be/FFy1_pE8k9w?si=d9XBrsDXcjgPV6cA
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2024Xizir Zaal 3 The Hague, Netherlands For the show "Xizir", Zaal 3 in the Hague invited Ghazale Moqanaki to perform one of her shadow puppet theater. It was a short performance based on a story about a sergeant of butterflies. www.hnt.nl/voorstellingen/8402/hizir-cengiz-zaal-3/xizir
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2024Bad Objects Quartair the Hague, Netherlands Bad Objects was a group show organised by Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters. With Bad Objects, we reflect on the enchanting yet unsettling nature of the doll's house. When buying a 'real' house is steadily becoming a disappearing reality for many, there is solace in the fantasy that the doll's house provides in imagining our ideal world. In how it invites us to dream. ghazalemoqanaki.com/buraq Group
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2023Fruits de Mar Nest the Hgaue, Netherlands A series of collapsing mini-stories of shadow puppets. The puppets came out of a drawing sheet and turned into huge shadows. They are strong as fragile they are. the installation was a mixture of drawings on walls, video work and a puppet debris installation infant of the video work that all will together question "where will the frame end?" www.kabk.nl/agenda/ma-artistic-research-students-present-fruits-de-mar-at-nest Group
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2023Graduation Show KABK the Hague, Netherlands "Paper Whispers" is a video installation implying different ways of shadowing with light and paper. Each shadow figure, embodies resilience, transcending the boundaries of fragility and imperfection. graduation.kabk.nl/2023/ghazale-moqanaki Group
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2022A Scenic Route to Self Nest the Hague, Netherlands In this show Aleksander Komsta and Ghazale Moqanaki made a story of cohabitation of bodies -a girl and a fish- forced by climate enforcements. The result was a ceramic installation and hanging mirrors. www.kabk.nl/agenda/a-scenic-route-to-self-exhibition-by-master-artistic-research Group
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2022Opening Distance Ballinascarthy private space Ballinascarthy, Ireland In Bakhtak's (hag’s) conflict with the puppet, both are not in a good condition. Both are dissatisfied with the new situation. When this conflict turns into fatigue, they look for a solution to end this conflict. But the reality is that experience cannot be erased and always stays with them. Both have changed and metamorphed to new creatures at the end of the story. Video Artist: Ghazale Moqanaki, Babak Haji Music & puppet maker: Ghazale Moqanaki Photo: Babak Haji Edith: Yasamin Geidar Recording: Yarava-Electronic Music www.instagram.com/p/ChaD578NbfN/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Group
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2022Fragments of Shallow Lake Platform POST Nijmegen, Netherlands Ghazale Moqanaki performed as one of the performers of "Shallow lake", a movie directed by Jasper Coppes. shop.ikbenaanwezig.nl/tickets/event/fragments-from-shallow-lake Group
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2021A Rehearsal of a Seance PIP the Hague, Netherlands Ghazale Moqanaki was one of the performers of a reading performance directed by Adele Dipasquale who also wrote the script for the performance. pipdenhaag.stager.nl/web/tickets Group
International exchanges/Residencies
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2022Performing Arts Forum (PAF) St. Erme, France
Publications
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2026Between Our Fingers Book Marieke Peeters, Ghazale Moqanaki, Sohrab Kashani, Kiara Amartya, Lore Pilzecker The Hague, Netherlands ghazalemoqanaki.com/between-our-fingers On January 16th from 18:00-20:30, Ghazale Moqanaki and Marieke Peeters present the launch of ‘Between Our Fingers’, a publication exploring the conceptual framework of the doll’s house at SeeLab. The publication features contributions from artists Lore Pilzecker, Sohrab Kashani, Kiara Amartya, Ghazale Moqanaki, and Marieke Peeters who each approach the miniature from a different perspective. Bringing together essays, poetry, and visual artworks that interrogate the miniature as a site for reflection on domesticity, precarity, fantasy, and agency. Historically, the doll’s house used to represent a particular cultural and social model of domestic life and reinforced that. Today, the doll’s house can be anything and it reveals desires, anxieties, and imagined realities that are otherwise difficult to articulate. This book examines the doll’s house as a symbol of control and desire, as well as a space of imaginative freedom in response to the increasingly inaccessible reality of housing as a right. The book launch at SeeLab includes a performance program alongside video installations by contributors of the publication. The evening presents readings from the publication, a music performance by Ghazal Faghihi, and miniature food. Together, the publication and accompanying program present the doll’s house as a tool for imagination, critical reflection, and creative experimentation inviting visitors to reconsider the small worlds that reflect our own.
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2023MAR second year's publication Aleksandra Komsta, Anne Arndt, Ghazale Moqanaki, Maitiu Mac Carthaigh, Marieke Peeters, Maureen Marck, Simon Labbe, Valerio Conti the Hague, Netherlands page-not-found.nl/2023/11/14/mar-book-launch-2023-with-gorkem-yalim-becket-mwn-rietlanden-womens-office/ This publication is part of a series of yearly publications by the Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Design: Paul Gangloff and the authors. Printed by Fortuna Speelkaarten. Published by Master Artist Research, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).
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2022Loving Critique Book Aleksandra Komsta, Anne Arndt, Ghazale Moqanaki, Maitiu Mac Carthaigh, Marieke Peeters, Maureen Marck, Simon Labbe, Valerio Conti the Hague, Netherlands page-not-found.nl/2022/09/02/master-artistic-research-loving-critique-book-launch-and-readings/ This publication is part of a series of yearly publications by the Master Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK). Design: Rietlanden Women's Office together with the participants, Print: Inside by Drukkerij Raddraaier, Amsterdam, Cover collectively letterpress printed on a manual press at De Grafische Werkplaats, The Hague, Bound by Agia, Amsterdam, Published by Master Artist Research, The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).
Awards and grants
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2025development grant Amarte Funds the Hague, Netherlands
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2024Voucher Development mondriaan fonds The Hague, Netherlands To support mentorship with Jay Tan.
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2024Bad Objects Pro Kunstprojecten, Stroom Den Haag the Hague Marieke Peeters and I applied together to this fund to secure funding for the ‘Bad Objects’ exhibition at Quartair, which enabled us to cover the show’s costs.
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2020Holland Scholarship the Hague, Netherlands
Secondary art-related activities
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2019 - --musician and composer On-going