
I’m Behzad Khosravi Noori, an artist, history teller, writer and educator. My work begins in the places where memory resists erasure: where traces of colonial history, national myths, and personal migrations intersect. I approach these spaces not as fixed archives, but as living sites to be re-opened, re-narrated, and re-imagined. I believe that art can act both as a form of critical investigation and as a vehicle for social transformation. My practice moves across the intersections of artistic research, decolonial pedagogy, and political history, exploring how lived experiences, collective memory, and epistemic violence intertwine. For me, art is a bridge, connecting research, social engagement, and speculative critical imagination.
Together with Magnus Bärtås
Småland Triennale 2026, a travelling exhibition
Markaryd | Motiv, Kungsgatan 30 | November 15, 2025
Stockholm | Folkrörelsernas Konstfrämjande, Swedenborgsgatan 1 | January 23, 2026
Malmö | Galleri Gertrud, Konstfrämjandet Skåne, Östergatan 9 | March 27, 2026
In On Hospitality – Layla Al Attar and Hotel Al-Raheed, the Iraqi artist Layla Al-Attar returns from the dead to tell the story of how a Swedish company built a luxurious hotel in Baghdad, ordered by Saddam Hussein for the 1983 Non-Aligned Movement summit. War changed the plans. Layla made a mosaic at the hotel’s entrance, depicting George Bush’s face and the large inscription “Bush is a criminal.”