ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI
Process, Power, and Contradiction

"I realized that I'm not good at coming up with ideas when I look at a blank canvas
and my imagination is more um activated and I'm more creative when I'm in a reactionary mode."
– Arghavan Khosravi

"I realized that I'm not good at coming up with ideas when I look at a blank canvas and my imagination is more um activated and I'm more creative when I'm in a reactionary mode." – Arghavan Khosravi

Standing among her own work at KÖNIG GALERIE, the Iranian-born, US-based artist Arghavan Khosravi explains where her creative process begins: not with an image, but with a mood, a memory or a feeling that she cannot yet articulate. She then moves through Persian miniatures, Renaissance painting, fashion photography and the endless scroll of the news feed, letting fragments collide until an idea takes shape. What starts as a sketch grows into panels, structures and suspended forms—paintings that step off the wall into architectural space.

As she walks past her own works, Khosravi speaks about the women who populate them: figures caught between opposing forces who refuse victimhood and hold on to calmness and agency, even inside images built on contradiction.

EXHIBITED WORKS

The White Feather

Arghavan Khosravi

The White Feather

The Knife

Arghavan Khosravi

The Knife

Broken Pieces

Arghavan Khosravi

Broken Pieces

Eclipse

Arghavan Khosravi

Eclipse

The Absence

Arghavan Khosravi

The Absence

Signal

Arghavan Khosravi

Signal

The Music Hall (The Wound)

Arghavan Khosravi

The Music Hall (The Wound)

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FEATURED ARTIST

ARGHAVAN KHOSRAVI

Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984, Iran) is a painter whose work merges Persian miniature traditions with surrealism, contemporary politics, and personal narrative. Now based in the United States, she creates layered, sculptural paintings that incorporate architectural fragments, symbolic motifs, and textile or carved elements. Her practice explores themes of exile, memory, gender, and the dualities of freedom and constraint.

Khosravi received her MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2018), after completing an MFA in Illustration at the University of Tehran and a post-baccalaureate in Studio Art at Brandeis University. Sh...
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