Basir Mahmood

Filmmaker and visual artist Basir MAHMOOD (1985, Pakistan) studied in Lahore at Beaconhouse National University and launched his career with a year-long fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. He went on to participate in residencies in five different countries, including a residency at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. Mahmood uses video, film and photography to explore embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary. His works has been shown at galleries and exhibitions around the globe, bringing him international acclaim and at least eight grants and awards. Besides being part of various private collections, Mahmood’s works have been acquired by the 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; FRAC (Fonds régional d’art contemporain) Bretagne, France and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Finally, Mahmood remains an academic who teaches and delivers talks at notable art institutions around the globe, and has served as Curator of Stedelijk Museum Video Club x IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2018.

Filmography

Manmade (2010), My Father (2010), Lunda Bazaar (2010), A Message to the Sea (2012), Thank You for Coming (2013), Power Between Weak (2014), Monument of Arrival and Return (2016), In Authors’ Space of No Physical Actions (2018), Observing translators work (2018), All Voices Are Mine (2018), Good Ended Happily (2018), Moon-sighting (2019), Death, at Least Once (2020), Sunsets, everyday (2020), Ahmedpur East (2022), A Feast of Sacrifice (2022), Lesson 1 (2023), Brown Bodies in an Open Landscape are Often Migrating (2024)

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