About me
Her work moves quietly through the spaces where the boundaries between self and other begin to blur—where to touch something is also to be touched back.
Mahsa Koochak
Interdisciplinary Artist | Performer | Researcher
Mahsa Koochak is an Iranian interdisciplinary artist based in Amsterdam. Her work moves quietly through the spaces where the boundaries between self and other begin to blur—where to touch something is also to be touched back.
Working between performance, installation, and visual forms, Mahsa explores how memory, desire, and discomfort live in the body. She is drawn to objects and gestures that carry unspeakable weight—those that recall childhood, suppressed sensations, or half-remembered rituals. Her practice invites viewers not to understand, but to feel; not to interpret, but to encounter.
She builds open frameworks rather than finished forms—spaces where rules can be broken, meanings shift, and each participant might recognize something personal in the unfamiliar. Her work is shaped by a belief that the act of reaching out is never neutral—that every contact is mutual, every presence already entangled.
Mahsa holds a master’s degree from DAS Theatre (Amsterdam University of the Arts), and her work has been shared at venues including Monty (Beyond the Black Box Festival, Antwerp) and DAS Theatre. Her photography and visual research (Badangah Collection) has been internationally recognized, and she was awarded a Talent Scholarship from AHK and supported by AFK in 2025.
She is currently developing long-term research into intimacy, neurodiversity, and forms of silent resistance—without seeking to define them too quickly.