Bassem Yousri (based between Cairo and Berlin) is a visual artist, filmmaker, art educator, and text translator working with mixed-media installations in art galleries and public spaces, and experimental and documentary films. His work investigates how the everyday — its objects, gestures, and seemingly inconsequential moments — is conditioned by, and speaks back to, wider socio-political realities. He works across mixed-media installation, video, performance, and documentary film, using humor to offer pointed commentary on the everyday, the personal, and the political.
Yousri’s work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally, including at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin; BOZAR in Brussels; the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) in New York; Centre Pompidou and l’Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris; Sharjah Art Foundation; Mathaf: the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha; the State Museum of Egyptian Art in Munich; and IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern) in Valencia. Yousri received his MFA in painting, drawing, and sculpture from Tyler School of Art – Temple University in Philadelphia in 2009, and his BFA in painting from the School of Fine Arts – Helwan University in Cairo in 2003.
Yousri has lectured at many universities and institutions across the world, among which Centre Pompidou in Paris; Sarah Lawrence College in New York; the University of Nebraska in Lincoln; Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon; the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; Foundation Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine; and Mathaf: the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar.
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