Spaces such as corners, doorways and backstage areas have always interested Baghramian and they have been both the location and theme of her work. Baghramian has made a series of 30 unique works based on door stoppers exclusively for the Serpentine.

Nairy Baghramian (b. Iran, 1971) is a Berlin-based artist known for her sculptural installations and photographs. Her complex work encompasses questions of context, institutional framing and the production and reception of contemporary art. It also includes elements of re-worked minimalism, design history and modernist architecture. Spaces such as corners, doorways and backstage areas have always interested Baghramian and they have been both the location and theme of her work.

Baghramian has made a series of 30 unique works based on door stoppers exclusively for the Serpentine. Nairy Baghramian's recent solo exhibitions include The Walker's Day Off, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (2008); Affairs. A Semiotic House That Was Never Built, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany (2008); Entr'acte, Skulptur Projekte Munster 07, Germany(2007); Es ist ausser Haus (It is outside the house), Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2006); and Everlasting layers of ideas, images, feelings, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Germany (2006).