Noha Mokthar

‘No Nile View’

Curated by Gema Darbo

Presented by Apsara Studio

May 16th – June 15th, 2025. Apsara Studio, 200 Battersea Park Rd, SW11 4ND London

Noha Mokhtar. From the series No Nile View. ‘Kitchen window square’, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist

No Nile View marks the first major solo show of Swiss-Egyptian artist Noha Mokhtar in London. Curated by Gema Darbo and presented by Apsara Studio, the exhibition brings together a series of photographs alongside a site-specific work on the gallery window.

The exhibition is generously supported by The Swiss Cultural Fund in UK.

Noha Mokhtar lives and works between Zurich, Cambridge, and Cairo. She studied photography at ECAL in Lausanne and Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Bern. Currently she is pursuing a Ph.D in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University in Cambridge, where she conducts research on the relationship between architecture, kinship and materiality in contemporary Egypt. Her artistic practice includes photography, video, installation, as well as writing, and borrows from methods of ethnographic research. With projects oscillating between fiction and non-fiction, she seeks a critical engagement with notions of culture, family, gender, and the built environment. Mokhtar’s work has been exhibited at Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Centre d‘Art Contemporain, Geneva; Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona; Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau; Le lieu secret, Biel/Bienne; among other. Since 2018, she runs, together with Gregor Huber and Ivan Sterzinger, the publishing initiative Edition Hors-Sujet.