Behzad Noori Khosravi

KHOSRAVI

NOORI

Artist & Researcher

About

About

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.

Upcoming

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.”

New

Publication, Experience

The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole

2017 Ongoing The Life of an Itinerant through a Pinhole undertakes a historical analysis of archival images produced by a working-class immigrant community in Tehran between 1956 and 1968, commenting on these artistic works and their exhibition and examining the relationships they reveal between class identity and the means of production. The images, captured by...

On the Dermis of History

An allegorical bronze-and-cement sculpture stands at the intersection of Felestin (Palestine) Street, in the centre of a large roundabout. Depicting several figures, one with a fist raised in a gesture of defiance, the work is a monument to the Palestinian struggle, particularly the First Intifada. It lasted from December 1987 until the Madrid Conference in...

On Hospitality

Together with Magnus Bärtås 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 summit of the Non-Alignment Movement. War changed the plans. Layla...

Experiences

Artistic Re-search

Brioni – A Necromantic Theatre with Paul Kupelweiser and Josip Broz Tito

Together withMagnus Bärtås In the 1950s and 1960s, The African and Asian leaders from the Non-Alignment Movement arrived on the Yugoslavian island Brioni with their cages in varying sizes and thus revived an almost 2500-year-old tradition. Already in the Achaemenid Empire, delegates from the remote provinces came with animal gifts to Darius the Great in Persepolis. The animals would portray the power and the extent of the empire. Brioni became...

KHOSRAVI

NOORI

Artist & Researcher