WOMAN – LIFE – FREEDOM

"Zan – Zendegi – Azadi. Woman – life – freedom." This is how Berit Reiss-Andersen, Head of the Nobel Committee, opened the announcement of the Nobel Peace Prize 2023, using the slogan of the demonstrators who have been fighting for women's rights in the streets of Iran since September last year. A few hours later, the same refrain could be heard behind the walls of Evin prison in Tehran, where the laureate Narges Mohammadi and the other inmates in the women's section celebrated the award.

The Peace Prize Exhibition, which is also named after this slogan, tells the story of Narges Mohammadi through her own words and images. From her prison cell in Iran, the Nobel laureate has written texts exclusively for the exhibition. Ten memories of events that have meant a lot to her and that she wanted to share with the visitors to the Nobel Peace Prize exhibition. She talks about the first time she heard the words “execution” and “torture”, and about the pain she felt the last time she was separated from her children. The memories are displayed on yellow lanterns, hanging from the roof in the exhibition. The images from Narges Mohammadi's life are borrowed from her family.

The exhibition also showcases photo projects by six female Iranian photographers who have documented women's struggle for life and freedom in Iran from 1979 to the present.