Born 1980, Schiraz, Iran
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

Selected Press

Jay Ezra Nayssan’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles 2024, Frieze, 27 February 2024
Studio International, Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit, Tom Denman, 30 January 2023

Education

2008

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (graduated 2015)

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Theory of a smell, Ermes Ermes, Rome, Italy (C)
Pocket Call, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2023

Caprii, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
Law of the Tent, Melas Martinos, Athens, Greece
Dinge Weltweit, Maureen Paley & Studio M, London, UK

2022

Bilder sprechen, Provinz Showroom, Bochum, Germany
bacchus madness walking experiences, Ermes, Ermes, Rome, Italy
Rotpeter: Bild eines zur Dressur gezwungenen, Moon Grove, Rusholme, Manchester, UK

2021

coming for your job and wifes, Tramps, London, UK
SPIT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (C)

2020

Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany

2016

Femdom, Pantaleonsmühlengasse/ Part1, Cologne, Germany

2014

Arbeiten aus dem Hinterkopf, Christopher Crescent, London, UK

2012

El grande Primitivo (große Unvernunft), Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2011

Der Limbische Schacht, Galerie Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2010

Solo, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany

2005

45, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, Germany

Two Person Exhibitions

2019

Alastair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi, Maureen Paley, London, UK

Group Exhibitions

2024

Ceremonial Weight, April in Paris, Aerdenhout, The Netherlands
Ghosts Shimmer in Sunlight, Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, Thirsk, UK
9th Biennial of Painting: Stories from the Ground, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

2023

Palai 2023, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, Italy
Stay Hungry, Ermes, Ermes, Rome, Italy
Landschaft, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany
outer view, inner world, Maureen Paley: Morena di Luna, Hove, UK

Room by Room: Concepts, Themes, and Artists in The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA

2022

The Age, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, Germany
Sweet Days of Discipline , Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA (C)

2021

Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany
Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps, New York, USA
Tell Me I Belong, MISC.Athens, Athens, Greece

2020

Any Day Now, Sprüth Magers, London, UK (online)
Akademie Galerie, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Space is the Place, Paul Wiersbinski, Hybrid Installation, Berlin, Germany
Everything is Personal, Tramps, New York, USA

2019

d-ream-ing, Pantaleons Müehlengasse, Cologne, Germany

2018

Here,Here.., Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, Germany
Salon des Amateurs, Tramps, London

2017

If This Not be I, Galerie Sandra Bürgel, Berlin, Germany
Eggy and Seedy, Reading International Festival, Reading, UK
I went into the woods, Galerie Susanne Neuerburg, Hennef, Germany

2016

one Egg a Day, Pantaleonsmühlengasse, Cologne, Germany
she might be, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany
Removals, Zeichnungen und Objekte 8Q, Cologne, Germany

2015

Placebo Home, Part1, Cologne, Germany
Palourde Cuites, Christopher Crescent Gallery Brüssel - London
Full Resolution, Kunstverein Leverkusen Museum Schloss Morsbroich
DeepGrey, Düsseldorf, Germany

2014

Horst Jansen Grafik Preis, Museum Horst Jansen Museum Oldenburg
open the gates, JTT Gallery, New York

2013

Missliche Lage, Jagla Ausstellungsraum Köln
The Noodles That We Eat, Christopher Crescent Gallery at HD Projects, New York

2012

Homeland 1, Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne
CIAO, Ringstube Mainz

2011

Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheiße, Boutique Köln
Paintings & Films (Doig Class), Parkhaus im Malkasten Düsseldorf Fine Line Positionen zeitgenössischer Zeichnung, KIT Düsseldorf

2010

CELLE, Projektraum Köln
Self-Consciousness, curated by Hilton  Als and Peter Doig, Veneklasen/Werner Gallery, Berlin
Addition and Subtraction, 304 Days Gallery, Vancouver, (C)
You can leave your hat on, Gallery  Hasen Projekt, Schmela Haus, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
Work in still, Avslkarl Gallery, Copenhagen
All you can Eat, Galerie Anna Klinkhammer, Düsseldorf

2009

Burn Out I + II, Kunstraum Blast e.V., Cologne
The Köln Concept, Rheinlandhalle, Cologne
C’est bien fait, Trübenbach Galerie, Projektraum Essen

2008

Szenenbild/Bühnenbild für Experimentelles Tanzstück ERICA, im Rahmen des Tanzplans Dresden, Semper Oper Dresden
Blackhole / Cube, Förderverein für aktuelle Kunst e.V. Münster
I am not dead but I am divided, Galerie Anita Becker, Frankfurt a.M.

Grants and Scholarships

2020

Berlin Landesregierung Grant

2016

Kunststiftung NRW Förderstipendium

2012

Mercuri Urval Stipendium

Selected Talks and Teaching

2024

Behrang Karimi and Clara Maria Blasius, SPARTA lecture series, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Behrang Karimi and Kathrin Bentele, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Guest Professor, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany

2016

Visiting Artist, Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK

2013

Tutor, Class of Peter Doig, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Publications

2024

Rotpeter: Bild eines zur Dressur gezwungenen, Slimvolume, London; Moon Grove, Manchester

2021

SPIT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany
Nude Days, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz
König and Zarinbal Khoshbakht

2020

BK Solar, ZarinbalKhoshbakht

2014

Horst-Janssen Grafikpreis

2012

Pentaton, Kokerei Hansa

2011

Fine Line, KIT Düsseldorf
Problem 001, with René Kemp
Early Mammals, Edition Klasse Doig

Teaching

2024

Guest Professor, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany

2013

Tutor, Class of Peter Doig, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Bibliography

2024

Ezra Nayssan, Jay, Jay Ezra Nayssan’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles 2024, Frieze, 27 February 2024

2023

–––, Behrang Karimi “Law of the Tent”, contemporaryartdaily.com, December 2023
–––, Palai at Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, artviewer.org, 28 August 2023
–––, Behrang Karimi “Dinge Weltweit” at Maureen Paley, London, moussemagazine.com, 14 February 2023
Tom Denman, Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit, studiointernational.com, 30 January 2023
–––, Must See: Behrang Karimi: Dinge Weltweit, artforum.com, 16 January 2023
–––, Five Exhibitions in London to see in January 2023, artplugged.co.uk, 4 January 2023

2021

–––, Editors Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Jacob Lawrence Lecture to a Roadside Push to Pay Women Artists, news.artnet.com, 29 March 2021
–––, Fifteen Painters at Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, artefuse.com, 8 May 2021

2019

Hunt, Andrew, Alastair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi, Artforum, May 2019, pp. 291-292

2010

Reimer, Jasmine, Addition and Subtraction: Conditioned Antagonism and the Neutral, 304 days, Vancouver, Canada, 2010