Mohammed Sami and Salman Toor | House of Nisaba

Mohammed Sami and Salman Toor are included in House of Nisaba: New Stories of Painting, a grpup exhibition opening at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden on May 14, 2026. 

The exhibition presents a return to allegory in contemporary figurative painting, presenting over twenty artists' new works in a site-specific environment created by the architects Formafantasma. Allegory – long tied to shared iconographies from myth, religion and history – is today resurfacing in areas such as autofiction, mysticism, astrology, esotericism and science fiction. Invoking the Mesopotamian goddess of writing, “House of Nisaba” transforms the gallery into an immersive space where newly produced paintings make allegory a vital form for our divided contemporary world.

To learn more about the exhibition, please visit the Moderna Museet website.