Abdar-Rahman Manouchi (b. 1993, Malmö, Sweden) is an artist and photographer based between Stockholm and Berlin. He holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Academy Valand.
His work emerges from a human experience of societal friction, a neurodivergent mind, and a cultural identity that resists categorisation. The perspective is simultaneously free and excluded — a celestial instrument articulating a desire for change in humanity’s paradigm.
Working primarily in large-scale photographic formats, Manouchi explores subjects that range from portraiture and florals to conceptual still lifes. The imagery is often modified and immersed in dense, saturated colour, approaching the visual depth and scale of oil painting. His practice centres on sensory constructions and speculative scenes, depicting moments of rebirth, afterlife, and the physical presence of nature within the exhibition space. Rather than offering a cipher to be solved, the work invites a visceral, visual experience.
Education
2023 - 2026
BFA in Fine Art Photography from Academy Valand in Gothenburg, Sweden
2019 - 2022
Commercial Photography at Stockholm school of Photography in Stockholm, Sweden
Group Exhibitions
2025
Soft Assembly - Oblong in Copenhagen, Denmark
Heatproof - The Photographic Medium in the Physical Space - Galleri Rotor2 in Gothenburg, Sweden
This Must Be the Place - Humanistiska Biblioteket in Gothenburg, Sweden
This Must Be the Place - Göteborgs Litteraturhus in Gothenburg, Sweden