Under The Mango Tree Design Studio

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Pegah Keshmirshekan پگاه کشمیرشکن
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WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE
Pegah Keshmirshekan Pegah Keshmirshekan پگاه کشمیرشکن
Vernissage : 18.06.26
18:30-21:00
Artist is present.
Exhibition: 19.06.26- 02.08.26

Artist statement
“The work begins to function as unstable herbaria of an imagined homeland. A herbarium is a practice of preserving plants by pressing and classifying them, removing them from their natural environment in order to stabilise and archive them. It promises preservation, the possibility of holding what is fragile in place. Yet extinction and diaspora complicate this promise. The textile works become a record of a plant that cannot be fully held in place, whether geographically, ecologically or emotionally.” – Pegah Keshmirshekan, 2026

Foto: Sophie Vale

26.06.26 @ 20:00
SOUNDS l MOROCCAN SONGS
AMINE MESNAOUI


*Moroccan Songs* is the current solo program by Moroccan-Berlin pianist Amine Mesnaoui. Drawing on traditional Moroccan melodies, Andalusian influences, and songs from the early 20th century, Mesnaoui develops a personal sonic language for solo piano—one that is stripped-back, atmospheric, and characterized by great rhythmic subtlety.

The music moves between memory, variation, and improvisation. Through repetition, space, and harmonic density, intense musical miniatures emerge, imbued with quiet tension and poetic depth.

The program has been presented at events including Piano City Milano, as well as in Istanbul, Palermo, and at the Toca’m Piano Festival in Spain.

Tickets: 20€
Link in the Bio.

What remains in place
PEGAH KESHMIRSHEKAN
Vernissage : 18.06.26
18:30-21:00
Artist is present

If not in images, smells and feelings imprinted in one’s heart, where is home? What is the measure of distance that connects one to their home?” Pegah Keshmirshekan, .keshmir born in Tehran and now living in Berlin and London, has followed these root questions in her long-term artistic research into Iran’s native Crown Imperial flower (scientific name Fritillaria imperialis), exploring its use as a symbol
of an imaginary homeland. This bell-shaped wildflower, known as Laleh-ye Vajgun (upside-down tulip) or Laleh-ye Ashk (weeping lily), was brought to Europe in the mid-sixteenth century and was depicted in countless paintings and on ceramic tiles by 1610. In Iranian folklore and in the epic poem Shahnameh by Ferdowsi, the flower is deeply intertwined with Nowruz, the Persian New Year celebration marking the arrival of spring and the renewal of nature, as well as pre-Islamic mythology. Legend has it that it sprouted from the spilled blood of Siavush, a heroic Persian prince. Its homeland, the Zagros Mountains, is a historically unyielding range that is home to many nomadic families. It begins in northwestern Iran, roughly following the western border, and covers much of southeastern
Turkey and northeastern Iraq. The mountains also create a geographic barrier between the Mesopotamian Plain, in modern-day Iraq,
and the Iranian plateau. The Crown Imperial of Zagros is considered a threatened species due to climate change, overgrazing, agricultural changes and unmanaged tourism.

What is an identity that isn‘t a performance, an act of projection, an artifice or a fiction? Humans carry billions of bits of information within them; communities of selves are inscribed on their bodies. They have not one home, but many interconnected ones. The most fundamental question is that of belonging.

- an excerpt from the essay Home as a dense geography of Self by

SAVE THE DATES

18.06.26, Thursday - 18:30- 21:00
VERNISSAGE I SOLO EXHIBITION
WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE
Pegah Keshmirshekan .keshmir
Exhibition: 19.06.26- 02.08.26

Gallery Under The Mango Tree is proud to present WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE, the second solo exhibition of Tehran born, London and Berlin living artist Pegah Keshmirshekan (*1996). Building on the themes of her first exhibition Imaginary Homeland,
Keshmirshekan continues her engagement with displacement, memory, diasporic identity and issues related to ecology in a new body of textile-based works.

While her earlier works consisted primarily of paintings functioning as contemporary
interpretations of 17th-century Dutch still lifes, engaging with cultural remnants from
“elsewhere” and the circulation of floral imagery within Western pictorial traditions,
WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE marks a significant shift within her practice. In turning towards textile,
fragmentation and processuality, Keshmirshekan moves away for the first time from the visual language of the exoticised floral image itself.

Entrance free
.............

20.06.26, Saturday - 14:00 - 15:00
WALKTHROUGH WITH THE ARTIST
Pegah Keshmirshekan

Entrance free.............

26.06.26, Friday - 20:00
SOUNDS CONCERT I Moroccon Songs
Amine Mesnaoui

*Moroccan Songs* is the current solo program by Moroccan-Berlin-based pianist Amine Mesnaoui.
Drawing upon traditional Moroccan melodies, Andalusian influences, and songs from the early
20th century, Mesnaoui develops a personal musical language for solo piano—minimalist, atmospheric,
and characterized by great rhythmic subtlety. The music navigates the interplay between memory,
variation, and improvisation. Through repetition, use of space, and harmonic layering, intense musical
miniatures emerge—pieces imbued with a quiet tension and poetic depth.

The program has been presented at various venues and festivals, including Piano City Milano,
events in Istanbul and Palermo, and the Toca’m Piano Festival in Spain.
Tickets :20 €

Link in Bio
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SAVE THE DATES

18.06.26, Thursday - 18:30- 21:00
VERNISSAGE I SOLO EXHIBITION
WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE
Pegah Keshmirshekan .keshmir
Exhibition: 19.06.26- 02.08.26

Gallery Under The Mango Tree is proud to present WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE, the second solo exhibition of Tehran born, London and Berlin living artist Pegah Keshmirshekan (*1996). Building on the themes of her first exhibition Imaginary Homeland,
Keshmirshekan continues her engagement with displacement, memory, diasporic identity and issues related to ecology in a new body of textile-based works.

While her earlier works consisted primarily of paintings functioning as contemporary
interpretations of 17th-century Dutch still lifes, engaging with cultural remnants from
“elsewhere” and the circulation of floral imagery within Western pictorial traditions,
WHAT REMAINS IN PLACE marks a significant shift within her practice. In turning towards textile,
fragmentation and processuality, Keshmirshekan moves away for the first time from the visual language of the exoticised floral image itself.

Entrance free
.............

20.06.26, Saturday - 14:00 - 15:00
WALKTHROUGH WITH THE ARTIST
Pegah Keshmirshekan

Entrance free.............

26.06.26, Friday - 20:00
SOUNDS CONCERT I Moroccon Songs
Amine Mesnaoui

*Moroccan Songs* is the current solo program by Moroccan-Berlin-based pianist Amine Mesnaoui.
Drawing upon traditional Moroccan melodies, Andalusian influences, and songs from the early
20th century, Mesnaoui develops a personal musical language for solo piano—minimalist, atmospheric,
and characterized by great rhythmic subtlety. The music navigates the interplay between memory,
variation, and improvisation. Through repetition, use of space, and harmonic layering, intense musical
miniatures emerge—pieces imbued with a quiet tension and poetic depth.

The program has been presented at various venues and festivals, including Piano City Milano,
events in Istanbul and Palermo, and the Toca’m Piano Festival in Spain.
Tickets :20 €

Link in Bio

MAY PROGRAM- 2026

24.05.26, SUNDAY - 11:00 -16:00
CREATIVE WRITING
Introduction to Creative Writing
This two-part workshop explores the stories that
have been waiting to be told creatively.
Instructor:

Last few places left. Come and join in. 60 €

29.05.2026 - 20:00
Finnissage and Concert
SOUNDS I JAZZ
Adi Stoenescu ( Piano) &
Ramiro Olaciregui Duo ( Guitar)

Adi Stoenescu & Ramiro Olaciregui brings together two internationally active jazz
musicians based in Berlin, with complementary artistic backgrounds.
Adi Stoenescu, a Romanian pianist and composer, is known for his contemporary and electric
jazz projects (KRiSPER, Adi Stoenescu Group/Trio) and a consistent recording activity. Ramiro
Olaciregui, a Berklee-trained guitarist with experience in Boston and New York, has
collaborated with leading figures in international jazz and is an active presence on the European
scene.

The duo’s repertoire blends original compositions, reinterpretations of jazz standards, and
unexpected arrangements of rock/metal pieces, all shaped through a contemporary jazz
language.

Tickets: [email protected]
: 20 €

30.05.26, SUNDAY - 11:00 -16:00 continued
CREATIVE WRITING
Introduction to Creative Writing
This two-part workshop explores the stories that
have been waiting to be told creatively.
Instructor:
60 € ( for both sessions together)

musicians

Solo Exhibition
God in small things

till 29.05.2026

The simple, minimalist and contemporary ceramics are the perfect expression for the subtle aesthetic;
an aesthetic that offers the eye a sense of order and inner peace, clearing a space where the presence of god can be felt.

( This text was written originally by a british historian William Dalrymple- for the Iranian ceramics; it meets very well with the works of Rani).

CHANGE OF SCHEDULE & PRICE

We wish to recognise the economic reality at the moment and have decided to give you all a possibility to express through creative writing.

On 2 consecutive Sundays, 24.05 and 31.05.26, with reduced rates of just 60 € total, we invite you to join the workshop with Gurmeet Singh, a British, working-class writer of color based in Berlin. His short fiction and essays have appeared in Sand, Sinn und Form, 3am Magazine, and elsewhere. The story featured in this edition of New England Review was shortlisted for the 2022 Bridport short story prize.

Introduction to Creative Writing

At the heart of this course is a simple belief: every writer has something worth saying. Through a combination of readings, craft lessons, and discussions, we explore the essential elements of fiction and nonfiction together: and find the stories that have been waiting to be told.

We’ll share books we love, work through generative exercises to spark new writing, workshop each other’s manuscripts, and develop strategies for revision and editing. Whether you’ve just finished a novel draft or are picking up the pen for the first time, you belong here.

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Point of view
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Characterization
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Setting
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Scene & summary
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Style
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Revision & editing
2 Sundays in a row: 24 and 31 May
All levels welcome
Taught in English

VENUE: Merseburgerstrasse 14,
10823 Berlin