February 28th
Mona Tahani 
5.6.–30.8.2026

Mona Tahani is an Iranian artist and a master’s student at KMD – Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design. With an artistic practice rooted in her own experiences and Iranian background, she explores how politics, conflict, and history shape people’s lives and identities. Her work exists at the intersection of the personal and the collective, focusing on themes such as femininity, war, memory, belonging, and displacement. As an artist in diaspora, she reflects on experiences of loss, resilience, and the creation of a sense of home across different cultures and geographies.

 

February 28th is a printmaking project initiated on February 28th, the day USA and Israel started the war in Iran. In response to the acute situation and the emotional strain connected to events in the Middle East, Tahani worked intensively over the course of one month, producing around 400 prints as well as 15 handmade artist books. The repetitive and physical process of printmaking became a means of processing anxiety, grief, and powerlessness, but also of expressing resistance and endurance.

 

The works bear traces of the human consequences of war and make visible the suffering that affects both individuals and societies. Each print functions as a testimony and an archive of experiences marked by pain, uncertainty, and survival. Through this project, Mona Tahani invites the audience to reflect on violence, loss, and the strength that emerges in people who continue to live and create amid conflict.