Behzad Khosravi Noori is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and educator based in Stockholm. His practice works between historical evidence and artistic speculation through film, installation, writing, curatorial work and collective pedagogy.
Current roles
- Visiting Professor, Department of Film and Animation, Birzeit University, 2026–present
- Editorial Committee Member, VIS – Nordic Journal for Artistic Research, 2022–present
- Member, Swedish Research Council Committee for Artistic Research
- Co-founder and Editorial Committee Member, Sarazad.art, 2021–present
- Founder, School of Imagination, Ibrahim Hyderi, Karachi, 2022–present
Education
- 2021 PhD, Art, Technology and Design, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Konstfack, Stockholm. Dissertation: Three or Four Ir/relevant Stories: Art and Hyper-Politics
- 2011 MA, Art in the Public Realm, Konstfack, Stockholm
- 2004 MA, Moving Images (Animation), Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran
- 1999 BA, Painting, Sistan and Baluchistan University, Zahedan
Selected appointments
- 2025–2026 Visiting Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Centre for Postcolonial Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
- 2022–2025 Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Academic Centres, Habib University, Karachi
- 2022–2025 Swedish Research Council international postdoctoral research project, Konstfack, with Goldsmiths and Habib University
- 2006–2014 Visiting and adjunct teaching positions, Soureh University of Art and Azad University of Art, Tehran and Shiraz
Selected exhibitions and projects
- 2026 Brieftopia, Three or More Fools, Museum of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
- 2024–2025 The Life of an Itinerant Through a Pinhole, Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai
- 2024 Karachi Biennale
- 2023 A Monument to the Invisible Citizen, Bildmuseet, Umeå
- 2022 A Monument to the Invisible Citizen, Kalmar Art Museum
- 2022 Brioni: A Necromantic Theatre, Österängens Konsthall, Sweden, with Magnus Bärtås
- 2021 On the Dermis of History, Mint, Stockholm
- 2020 Brioni: A Necromantic Theatre, Gallery Nova/WHW, Zagreb, with Magnus Bärtås
- 2019 A Monument to the Invisible Citizen, Malmö Art Museum and HDLU, Zagreb
- 2018 A Monument to the Invisible Citizen, Marabouparken Konsthall, Stockholm
- 2017 The Life of an Itinerant Through a Pinhole, Centre for Photography, Stockholm
Biennales and festivals
- Venice Biennale, Research Pavilion, 2017
- Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, 2019
- Survival Kit, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga, 2019
- Ural Industrial Biennale, 2021
- Karachi Biennale, 2024
Film screenings and award
2024 First Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, for On Hospitality.
Selected screenings include the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Love & Anarchy Helsinki International Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales, Moderna Museet/Filmform and Movies on War.
Selected publications and editorial work
- Three or Four Ir/relevant Stories: Art and Hyper-Politics, Konstfack Collection, 2021
- Editor, VIS 13: Brieftopia, 2025
- Co-editor with Magnus Bärtås, VIS 12: Contemporary Ar(t)chaeology, 2024
- “12+3 Days of Writing: Mowing the Grass, the Epistemic Violence and the Enemy of My Enemy,” Postcolonial Politics, 2025
- “Seascape of Imagination,” NO NIIN, 2023
- “A Monument to the Invisible Citizen,” PUBLIC
For publications and downloadable texts, visit Writing and Publications.
