In a secular revelation of the rich confusion of cultures Babi Badalov has travelled – including the Azerbaijani, Soviet, Russian, British, French, LGBT, asylum seeker, immigrant and many more – he may be said to paint in the manner the ecstatic mystic “speaks in tongues
He has exhibited Manifesta 8 biennale, “The Journey to the East” MOCAK (The Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow), “Passion bild” Kunstmuseum Bern, “Constitution of the Damned” Landings, Vestfossen, Norway, ”LONELY AT THE TOP” M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. Selected solo exhibitions: “I Am Orna Mental” Gandy gallery, Bratislawa (2011), “My life Report In Paris” Tranzit Display gallery, Prague (2010), “The Persian Ambassador” Freud’s Dreams Museum, Saint Petersburg (2008).
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Babi Badalov
Born 1959, Lerik, Azerbaijan, live in Paris
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 ‘I Am Orna Mental’ Gandy gallery, Bratislawa
2010 “My life Report In Paris” Tranzit Display gallery, Prague
2008 “The Persian Ambassador” Freud’s Dreams Museum, Saint Peterburg,
2006 “Poetry&drawing” Galata Perform, Istanbul
2004 “24 meters abrababibra” Karvasla Art center, Tbilisi
2000 “Trans-transavangarde” Miniature Art center, Baku,
1995 “Art is Dead I am still an Artist” Gallery 21, St.Peterburg
1994 “Before-After” Gallery 103, St.Peterburg
1992 “Bad people cant do good art” Show and Tell Gallery, San Francisco
1991 “I am ART EAST” Will White Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
main exhibitions:
2013 « Enchanted Wanderer » Centre for Culture “Garage” Contemporary Art, project in Chukotka.
2012 « From Below, as a Neighbour » Drugo More, Rijeka Croatia
2012 « Adaptaion » Steirischer Herbst 2012 Graz, Austria
2012 “It isn’t important, it’s only art…” , Arsenal Gallery power station, Białystok, Poland,
2012 “Migrasophia” Maraya Art centre, Sharjah, UAE
2011 ‘the Journey to the East’ MOCAK (The Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow)
2011 “Passion bild” Kunstmuseum Bern,
2011 ‘Constitution of the Damned’ Landings, Vestfossen, Norway
2011 54 th Venice Biennale
2011 ‘the Journey to the East’ Arsenal gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2011 ‘East from 4°24′ M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
2010 MANIFESTA 8 Murcia/Cartagena, Spain
2010 “The Watchmen, the Liars, the Dreamers” Le Plateau, Center For Contemporary Art, Paris
2010 ”LONELY AT THE TOP” M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
2010 “Actual Azerbaijani Art” Aydan gallery, Moscow
2010 “When One Has to Say “We” ” European University, St.Peterburg Russia
2010 “Monument to Transformation” Centrum Cultural Montehermoso Kulturunea, Vittorio – Gasteiz, Spain
2009 “Transfered Works” Babi Badalov&Yesim Agaiglu, Artik Gallery, Istanbul
2009 ARTISTERIUM “ Tbilisi, Georgia
2009 “Monument to Transformation” Center for Visual Art Introspection, Bucharest
2009 ” %100 Mobile Exhibition” Artik Gallery Istanbul
2009 ” MONUMENT TO TRANSFORMATION, City Gallery Prague
2009 “Very Simple Actions Without Any Particular Purpose” Gallery ARTRA, Milan
2009 4th International Baku Biennale
2009 ”Okno Ausstellingsraum” Zurich,
2008 ”Track and Field” Tactile Bosch Art Gallery and Art Space, Cardiff
2008 1st Chanakkale Biennale, Turkey
2008 18 International Istanbul Art Forum, Istanbul
2008 “Step of Time” National Gallery Drezden
2007 “The Raw, The Cooked And The Packaged” Kiasma Museum, Helsinki, Finland
“ Contemporary Art museum KIASMA, Helsinki
2007 “Back to Memory” Time Kumu Contemporary Art Museum, Tallin
2007 3 rd Baku Biennale Baku
2007 ”On Greekom” Benaki museum of Art, Athens
2007 ”Great Nostalge” Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art museum, Prato
2007 “Heterotopias”1st International Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki
2007 1st Adana International Contemporary Art Biennale, Adana
2007 ”Karavansarai-Silk Road” Karshi Senet art gallery, Istanbul
2007 “Crossroads” National Photography Tashkent
2006 “Karavansarai” Heart gallery, Paris
2006 “Art Caucasus” National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2005 “Beyond Stereotypes” International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tbilisi
2005 2nd International Baku Contemporay Art Biennale, Azerbaijan
2004 “AZART” International Artists exhibition, Baku
2003 “7&7″ Azeri and Georgian artists exhibition, Baku
2002 ”Orientalizm:Inside&outside” Central Exhibition hall Baku
1996 “Kabinet” Stedelik museum, Amsterdam
1994 “Alter” Martigny Museum of Art, Martigny
1993 ”Freedom of expression” Craine Art gallery, New York
1992-94 “What its Forbidden its Allowed” 2 years travelling exhibition through musems, galleries USA
1990-96 1st-2nd-4th Saint Peterburg Contemporary Art Biennale, St Peterburg
1990 “New Artists from Saint Peterburg” National Gallery Mucharnok, Budapest
1990 “Geopolitica” State Ethnography museum St Peterburg
1990 “5 Artists from Saint Peterburg” Artconsult_Schnauke und Steinrotter gallery,Muenster
1989 “Glasnost” Emden museum of Art, Emden
1988 ” 40 years of Saint Peterburg Avangard” Art Pavillion St Peterburg
collections:
Russian Museum St. Petersburg Russia, MuHKA Museum Contemporary Art Antwerpen, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art Baku, Kunstmuseum Emden Germany, Martigny Art Museum Switzerland, Dr. Oetcker Collections Bielefeld Germany,
Arina Kowner collection Zurich Switzerland
books :
Reuter, Kerstin Jule. “GegenKunst in Leningrad” Munchen, 1990
“Saint-Petersbourg Alter” Editions d’En Haut SA, 1993
Bart De Bare, Victor Misiano. “Europe at Large. Art from the Former USSR” M HKA 2010
Babi Badalov-NUAGE Published by Steirischer Herbst Festival GMBH Graz 2012 in collaboration with tranzit.cz
