Bassem Yousri is an Egyptian artist and filmmaker based between Cairo and Berlin. His often humorous installations and films interrogate the mundane — its objects, surfaces, and gestures — and the forms of power they quietly carry. His practice also extends to translation, bringing writing on art from English into Arabic.
Yousri has held several solo exhibitions in the US and Egypt, and his work has been shown at Centre Pompidou and l’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Sharjah Art Foundation; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; BOZAR, Brussels; Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin; and IVAM, Valencia. His work is held in the collection of the State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich.
He holds an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University (2009) and was a 2006 Fulbright Scholarship recipient. He has held several academic and non-academic teaching positions, including Associate Professor of Practice in Visual Arts at the American University in Cairo (2023–2025).
His films move between documentary and fiction, among them The Wardrobe Man (2018), and he is currently completing Film Romancy, a feature that reassembles footage from a romantic-comedy workshop he was filming in Cairo when the 2011 revolution interrupted it.
