Omid Kheirabadi (b. 1992, tehran) is a Rotterdam-based artist and interior architect whose work explores how we live, act, and create together within the structures of late-capitalist society. At the core of his practice is the act of creating space, spaces for dialogue, or dialogue itself as space of collective resistance.
Moving between experimental performance, and spatial practice, he investigates how systems of power - from economic inequality and labor conditions to bureaucratic structures and western hegemony - shape our everyday lives. His performance-based recherche unfolds via immersive situations, workshops, and multimedia installations.
In recent years, Omid has developed a series of participatory performance sessions inspired by Augusto Boal’s theatre of the oppressed and the idea of arte útil -useful art. Expanding on these ideas, his sessions blur the line between performer and audience, offering visitors to take part as collaborators who hold the agency to transform each space through collective action.
Omid is a main tutor at the master of interior architecture (mia) in Maastricht, where he mentors students in critical spatial design and research methodologies. He is also a guest teacher at KABK, leading the final syllabus of the design bundle for first-year graphic design students, focused on the theme of presentation skills.