Biography

Behrang Karimi (b. 1980, Shiraz, Iran) lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Karimi’s paintings, drawings, objects, and multiples, are extremely varied in style and differ formally from abstraction to figuration, combining multiple influences, including Eastern and Western myth, history, symbolism and spirituality. Tending to the metaphor and parable, his work “is less concerned with recognizability and predictability than with the fragile and difficult moment in which a mood, a sentiment, or a memory is materialized and intensified.” Recent group exhibitions include Stories from the Ground, 9th Biennial of Painting, curated by Martin German at Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Sint-Martens-Latem, BE (2024); Vagabondi, TRAMPS, La Pulce, Rome, IT (2024); Ghosts Shimmer in Sunlight, Thirsk Hall Sculpture Garden, Thirsk, UK (2024); solo exhibitions Theory of a smell, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT (2024); Pocket Call, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE (2024); Law of the Tent, Melas Martinos, Athens, GR (2023); Dinge Weltweit, Maureen Paley & Studio M, London, UK (2023), amongst others.