mohit.art
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mohit.art is a digital platform and a transcultural network with a public program that connects artists, curators, collectives, publishers, translators, funders, educators, art galleries, and institutions across Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA), its diasporas, and Europe. We talk about art as a practice of relation, resistance, and repair, especially in these times of escalating violence, war, and displacement.
mohit.art was founded out of the conviction that artists from the SWANA region and its diasporas are reshaping global discourse around art and culture, society, and politics. We build platforms for voices and practices that confront and rewrite dominant visual and intellectual narratives. Our mission is to guarantee visibility for diverse artistic practices and to cultivate networks grounded in solidarity, critical engagement, and self-determined cultural agency.
We believe that the global art world continues to marginalize and misrepresent non-Western artistic narratives. The enduring prevalence of colonial perspectives leads to SWANA artists, particularly those working through legacies of war, displacement, and repression, too often being cast as cultural outliers. Their work is framed as exotic and reactive rather than generative. It is instrumentalized to confirm and reinforce Western, or Global North, projections of Otherness and is misused as symbolic capital in a global cultural economy. Such treatment flattens the complexity of knowledge production and artistic practice rooted in deep connections with the past and shaped by contemporary troubles. mohit.art insists on the validity and urgency of transcultural perspectives — not as additions to the dominant canon but as a force capable of redefining what art can be, mean, and do.
PUBLICATIONS
We publish essays, interviews, and critical reflections that contextualize contemporary artistic practices across SWANA and its diasporas. Our editorial series mohit.art NOTES brings together artistic, theoretical, and political voices through various formats, including text, image, sound, and video. Curated in collaboration with members from the mohit.art NETWORK, our publications are multimedia, multilingual, and free to access at www.mohit.art.
EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVES
We curate digital and physical exhibitions framed by critical editorial content. We maintain a growing archive of artist profiles and thematic collections to present and preserve cultural production, including in vulnerable or disappearing contexts.
PUBLIC EVENTS
We foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and long-term collaboration between artists, scholars, and institutions through online and in-person talks, panels, screenings, and workshops.
CALENDAR
The region-spanning mohit.art CALENDAR lists exhibitions, events, and calls for residencies and grants. It provides a shared reference point for the mohit.art community and increases visibility.
NETWORK
Launched in 2025, the mohit.art NETWORK is the first curated, user-generated platform for contemporary art and culture of the SWANA countries, their diasporas, and their Europe an counterparts. With 700 profiles and growing, the NETWORK includes artists and collectives, art galleries, museums and art spaces, publishers and platforms, associations and networks, residencies and funds, and educational institutions. It is built around autonomy: users create and update profiles, connect across borders, and share tools. Within the NETWORK, we support accessible, alternative, informal learning through free tutorials offered to community members. The mohit.art NETWORK is more than a directory: it is a living infrastructure of transcultural presence. By providing a space for collaboration, it sustains connections and supports collective agency in contexts where war, sanctions, censorship, and neglect block access and erase visibility.
Across all its formats, mohit.art weaves a field of relation — not to resolve crisis, but to navigate it together, with attention, urgency, and care.
mohit.art is operated by fechner+jacobi Kulturenprojekt UG (Berlin) and was founded by Dr. Bernd Fechner and Hannah Jacobi. Our platform is supported by a brilliant team with Aariya Talcherkar, Ali Allababidi, Elissar Samaan, Golnaz Mohammadi, Kaidi Ojasoo, Mahsa Zamanpour, Oscar Gonzales Arias, and an expanding network of contributors: editors, curators, programmers, designers, and local ambassadors, artists, writers, and cultural workers in and from Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and the rest of SWANA as well as Europe.
We collaborate across disciplines and geographies, uniting experience in publishing, curating, and research. Our shared commitment is developing cultural solidarity and building infrastructure for transcultural visibility and care.
The word “mohit” — used in Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, and Urdu — often appears in poetic and philosophical contexts to describe something that “completely surrounds.” It can be translated as “environment,” “atmosphere,” or “circuit.” This meaning reflects our mission: to foster circuits and networks of care, cultivate transcultural atmospheres, and create environments where contemporary art and culture can speak — across boundaries and all divisions.