Nuri Koerfer

Visual artist Nuri Koerfer (b. 1981, Zurich) lives and works in Berlin. She studied at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts and at the Bram Shaw School of Art in London. Her practice interweaves sculpture, design, and an incisive reading of social space. Using forms that recall furniture yet resist strict function, she hybridises chairs, shelves, and benches into objects with ambiguous purpose and character. A distinctive zoomorphism runs through the work, fusing animal bodies into disconcerting sculptural presences and testing how empathy, utility, and control are projected onto things. Koerfer has had solo exhibitions at Neue Essener Kunstverein (Essen, 2025), Melas Martinos (Athens, 2024), and Galerie Lars Friedrich (Berlin, 2021), among others. Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions and biennales at Kölnischer Kunstverein (Cologne, 2025), Lodovico Corsini (Brussels, 2024), Galerie Conradi (Hamburg, 2023), the 7th Athens Biennale (2021), Geneva Biennale – Sculpture Garden (2020), Brücke-Museum (Berlin, 2019), and Kunsthaus Zürich (2015). From 2015 to 2019 she co-organised the exhibition space MAVRA in Berlin with artists Mark Soo and Julian Stalbohm.