2008
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (graduated 2015)
Born 1980, Schiraz, Iran
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
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
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (graduated 2015)
Theory of a smell, Ermes Ermes, Rome, Italy (C)
Pocket Call, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Caprii, Düsseldorf, Germany (C)
Law of the Tent, Melas Martinos, Athens, Greece
Dinge Weltweit, Maureen Paley & Studio M, London, UK
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
coming for your job and wifes, Tramps, London, UK
SPIT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany (C)
Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany
Femdom, Pantaleonsmühlengasse/ Part1, Cologne, Germany
Arbeiten aus dem Hinterkopf, Christopher Crescent, London, UK
El grande Primitivo (große Unvernunft), Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Der Limbische Schacht, Galerie Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Solo, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen, Germany
45, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne, Germany
Alastair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi, Maureen Paley, London, UK
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
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
The Age, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin, Germany
Sweet Days of Discipline , Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, CA, USA (C)
Von der schenkenden Tugend, Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Cologne, Germany
Fifteen Painters, Andrew Kreps, New York, USA
Tell Me I Belong, MISC.Athens, Athens, Greece
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
d-ream-ing, Pantaleons Müehlengasse, Cologne, Germany
Here,Here.., Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne, Germany
Salon des Amateurs, Tramps, London
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
one Egg a Day, Pantaleonsmühlengasse, Cologne, Germany
she might be, Galerie Susanne Zander, Cologne, Germany
Removals, Zeichnungen und Objekte 8Q, Cologne, Germany
Placebo Home, Part1, Cologne, Germany
Palourde Cuites, Christopher Crescent Gallery Brüssel - London
Full Resolution, Kunstverein Leverkusen Museum Schloss Morsbroich
DeepGrey, Düsseldorf, Germany
Horst Jansen Grafik Preis, Museum Horst Jansen Museum Oldenburg
open the gates, JTT Gallery, New York
Missliche Lage, Jagla Ausstellungsraum Köln
The Noodles That We Eat, Christopher Crescent Gallery at HD Projects, New York
Homeland 1, Berthold Pott Galerie, Cologne
CIAO, Ringstube Mainz
Vor Gott ist alle Kunst Scheiße, Boutique Köln
Paintings & Films (Doig Class), Parkhaus im Malkasten Düsseldorf Fine Line Positionen zeitgenössischer Zeichnung, KIT Düsseldorf
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
Burn Out I + II, Kunstraum Blast e.V., Cologne
The Köln Concept, Rheinlandhalle, Cologne
C’est bien fait, Trübenbach Galerie, Projektraum Essen
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.
Berlin Landesregierung Grant
Kunststiftung NRW Förderstipendium
Mercuri Urval Stipendium
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
Visiting Artist, Lecturer, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK
Tutor, Class of Peter Doig, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Rotpeter: Bild eines zur Dressur gezwungenen, Slimvolume, London; Moon Grove, Manchester
SPIT, Braunsfelder, Cologne, Germany
Nude Days, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz
König and Zarinbal Khoshbakht
BK Solar, ZarinbalKhoshbakht
Horst-Janssen Grafikpreis
Pentaton, Kokerei Hansa
Fine Line, KIT Düsseldorf
Problem 001, with René Kemp
Early Mammals, Edition Klasse Doig
Guest Professor, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich, Germany
Tutor, Class of Peter Doig, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Ezra Nayssan, Jay, Jay Ezra Nayssan’s Top 5 Picks from Frieze Viewing Room Los Angeles 2024, Frieze, 27 February 2024
–––, 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
–––, 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
Hunt, Andrew, Alastair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi, Artforum, May 2019, pp. 291-292
Reimer, Jasmine, Addition and Subtraction: Conditioned Antagonism and the Neutral, 304 days, Vancouver, Canada, 2010