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BASIR MAHMOOD 

(b. 1985, Lahore) based in Amsterdam. 




 

Education 

 

Beaconhouse National University (BFA, Distinction) Lahore, Pakistan, 2010. 

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Research-Fellowship), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016-17. 



 

Solo Exhibitions 

 

Future is Empty curated by Quddus Mirza at the Canvas Gallery Karachi, 2022, Pakistan. 

Good Ended Happily curated by Kathrin Becker at the KINDL –Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2021-22, Germany.

I Watch you Do curated by Lauren Wetmore at the Cinéma Galeries Brussels 2019, Belgium.

Good Ended Happily at the Wilfried Lentz Rotterdam 2018, The Netherlands.

Eyes Recently Seen curated by Lauren Wetmore at the Letitia Gallery Beirut, 2018, Lebanon.

All Divided Equally curated by Salima Hashmi at the Canvas Gallery Karachi, 2018, Pakistan.

We are what we eat at Grey Noise, 2013, Dubai.

I won’t leave you till I die at Akademie Schloss Solitude, 2012, Germany and Grey Noise Lahore, 2011, Pakistan.

In the time of telling at Grey Noise Lahore, 2010, Pakistan.



 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

 

2025

  • VISIO – Artists' Moving Image in Europe, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  • Brown Bodies in an Open Landscape Are Often Migrating, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Art

       Directions Programme, Katoenhuis, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

  • Far Away Is Close at Hand in Images of Elsewhere, transmediale 2025, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 

       Berlin, Germany.

2024

  • Nebula, organized by Fondazione In Between Art Film at Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, Italy.

  • Silent Times, Group Exhibition, Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium.

  • Manzar: Art and Architecture from Pakistan 1940s to Today, Group Exhibition, National Museum of Qatar, 

       Doha, Qatar.

  • Nebula Expanded, Group Exhibition, MAXXI Videogallery, Rome, Italy.

2023

  • Tomorrow is a Different Day, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2023-2024), The Netherlands. 

2022     

  • Water Being Washed Away, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria. 

  • II Video Rende Felici, Videoarte in Italia, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Rome.

2021     

  • EURASIA- A landscape of mutability, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium. 

  • International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands. 

  • Sheffield DocFest at Site: Here in This Room, UK. 

  • Fully Leaded, Industrieweg 23A, Duivendrecht, The Netherlands. 

  • DOKUFEST (International Documentary and Short Film Festival) Prizren, Kosovo. 

2020  

  • Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan. 

  • Innsbruck international biennale, Austria. 

  • True/False Film Festival, Columbia, Missouri, United States. 

  • Identity XVI - My Home? - at Nichido Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan. 

  • THINGS MIGHT THINK online project funded by AFK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

  • The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize Exhibition at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal.

  • Mascarilla 19 – Codes of Domestic Violence at MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy.   

  • Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK. 

2019    

  • Paradocs (IDFA), EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

  • Above The Noise, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK. 

  • Karachi Biennale 02, Pakistan. 

  • Art Dubai, (presented by Zilberman Gallery), UAE. 

  • First Look Screening, Museum of the Moving Image, NY, USA. 

  • Short Shadows: Second Time Around, EMPAC — Troy, NY, USA. 

  • Look, Stranger!, Serendipity Arts Festival Goa, India. 

  • I've seen your face before, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. 

2018    

  • MUNICIPAL ART ACQUISITIONS, FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The 

       Netherlands.

  • Monitor, Repeat After Me at Pakistan Pavilion, Izmir, Turkey. 

  • CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, Denmark. 

  • SIGN ‘Screenings & Settings’, Groningen, The Netherlands. 

  • 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany. 

  • SCENE & UNSEEN at Castle Old Rekem, Belgium. 

  • Curtas Vila do Conde, Vila do Conde, Portugal. 

  • Sharhaj Production Programme Exihibition, UAE.                   

  • IDFA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

2017    

  • Set in Motion (IDFA), EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

  • Directing the Real, VISIO, Sala delle Carrozze, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy. 

  • Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.             

  • la pensée du tremblement at Les Grands Voisins, Paris, France 

  • Tableaux Vivants, Foundation Etrillard, Paris, France 

  • Planet 9, Kunsthalle Daramstdt, Germany 

  • Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium – Contour Biennale 8, Mechelen, Belgium. 

  • Transformations, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

  • The Open Hand at Gujral Foundation, Jor Bagh, New Delhi, India. 

2016    

  • RijksakademieOPEN 2016, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

  • For an Image, Faster Than Light – Yinchuan Biennial, Yinchuan, China. 

  • Syntax and Society at The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai. 

  • Time of Others at Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. 

2015    

  • Time of others at Singapore Art Museum (SAM). Singapore 

  • FIVA 05 at the National Library, Buenos Aires, Argentina 

  • Time of others at National Museum of Art Osaka (NMAO), Japan. 

  • Art Prize CBM at Premio Carlo Bonatto Minella, Turin, Italy. 

  • Ich und Du at The Hospitalhof, Stuttgart, Germany. 

  • Time of others at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Japan. 

2014    

  • Alchemy at Southbank Center, London, UK. 

  • Les Rencontres Internationales, at Gaîté Lyrique and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 

  • Des hommes, des mondes, college des bernardins, Paris, France. 

  • At Intervals at the Cooper Gallery Project Space, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, UK. 

2013    

  • Survival Kit Festival, Umeå, Sweden. 

  • PARALLEL VIENNA 2013 Video program by Galerie Utopia, Vienna, Austria. 

  • 18o Festival Internacional de Arte Contemporânea Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brazil. 

  • Sharjah Biennial 11, Sharjah. 

  • Art Dubai, (presented by Grey Noise, Dubai), UAE 

  • LISTE 18, Basel (presented by Grey Noise, Dubai), Switzerland.     

  • V-Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. 

2012    

  • Rencontres Internationales at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 

  • APT 7, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. 

  • Melancholy in Progress, Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition organized by the Hong-Gah Museum,  

  Taiwan. 

  • Inaugural Show, Broad Museum, MSU, Michigan, USA. 

  • The Garden of Eden, Video Program at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. 

  • III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia. 

  • The first AIVA Angelholm International Video Art Festival, Sweden. 

  • Hidden & Forbidden Identities, Venice, Italy. 

  • The Divided Self , Slought Foundation, USA. 

  • RÖMER #11 – A CLOSER VIEW, Römerstraße 2, Stuttgart, Germany. 

2011  

  • Rencontres Internationales @ GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE, Paris, France.              

  • India Art Summit, New Delhi, India. 

2010    

  • The Rising Tide, The Mohatta Palace Museum Karachi, Pakistan.              

  • Cairo Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt. 



 

Residences 

 

Sacatar Instituto, Bahia, Brazil, 2014. 

Gasworks, London, UK, 2013. 

ARCUS Project, Ibaraki, Japan, 2012. 

Casa Dell'Arte Residency, Turkey, 2012. 

Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Germany, 2011-12. 



 

Curatorial Projects 

 

Curator of Stedelijk Museum Video Club x IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2018. 



 

Awards 

 

Winner Ammodo Tiger Short Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), The Netherlands, 2021. 

Een stipendium, Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, The Netherlands, 2022. 

Kunstenaar Basis Grant, Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands, 2022-26. 

Winner International Short Film Award, Open City Documentary Festival, London, UK, 2020. 

Winner of the second edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize, Porto, Portugal, 2020. 

Stipendium for Established Artists ( Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent), Mondriaan Fonds, The Netherlands, 2018-22. 

VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize (3rd edition), Florence Italy, 2017. 

The Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) Production Programme Grant, Sharjah, 2016. 

Shortlist Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, 2016. 

South Asia Institute 2015 Emerging Artist Award, Harvard University, USA, 2015. 

Art Prize CBM at Premio Carlo Bonatto Minella, Turin, Italy, 2015-16. 

Award winner of 18th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil Prize, São Paulo, Brazil, 2013. 

Awarded Filminute Jury Commendation for a Short Film 'Dot In the Line’, 2011. 

Graduated in Fine Arts with a Distinction from the School of Visual Arts, BNU, Pakistan, 2010. 



 

Selected Talks 

 

Network  Week Programme at Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands (2023)

KINDL –Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2021. 

Harabel Contemporary Art Platform, Tiranë, Albania, 2019. 

Conversation with Philippe-Alain Michaud at the French Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, 2018. 

Action at a Distance VI, Corridor Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2018. 

Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019. 

Futur 3, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf, Germany, 2016. 

The Harvard University South Asia Institute (SAI), A memory, a monument, a material, Cambridge, USA, 2015. Goldsmiths, University of London The Contemporary Art Talks, Department of Art, London, UK, 2013. 





 

Work in Collections: 

 

Queensland Art Gallery collection in Brisbane, Australia.

The Centre national des arts plastiques (National Centre for Visual Arts, Cnap), France.

M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerpen, Belgium.

The Egbert and Loes Dommering Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

FRAC (Fonds régional d'art contemporain) Bretagne, France.

Qatar Museums Collection, Doha, Qatar. 

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

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© BASIR MAHMOOD 2024

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