Born 1959, Lerik, Azerbaijan, live in Paris

 As a visual artist, poet he expresses his ideas through visual poetry, art objects, installations and live performances. He also experiments with words and writes obscure poetry, mixing languages and images of different cultures. Babi Badalov’s work often is dedicated to linguistic explorations researching the limits of language and the borders it imposes upon its users and based on his personal experience of linguistic inconveniences while travelling. In foreign countries, we often come across words written in the same alphabet as ours, but with different meaning, sound or pronunciation. His visual poetry often takes the form of a diary, created every day through a combination of his own linguistic research of manipulated pictorial material, mainly with political content.  The nomad life of an artist (or traveler, migrant, refugee) does not only cause him or her a struggling adaptation period of cultural integration, but can primarily turn him or her into a prisoner of language.
Badalov’s projects play with this kind of linguistic notions in order to emphasize larger geo-political questions.
Babi Badalov is represented by Jerome Poggi gallery, Laura Bulian gallery

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2017  Electronic Dadaist Poetry, HIT gallery (APART collective) Bratislawa

2017  To Make Art To Take Clothes Off, MUSAC – museum cont. art Leon, Spain

2016  MEgration, YOUgration, HEgration, SIZ gallery, Rijeka

2016  Partisanism, Tensta Konsthall, Stokholm

2016  For the Wall For the World, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2015  Poetical Activism, Tranzit Display, Budapest

2015  EASTanbul WESTanbul, Carico Massimo, Livorno

2015  Art is myth I am real, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris

2015  FUCK GOLF, Kunstraum Munich,

2015  MIGRANT POETRY, La Station, Center for Contemporary Art, Nice,

2014  EASTERIA, (with Nikolay Oleynikov), Gandy gallery, Bratislawa

2013  PORTO – ПOPTO,  A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto

2011  I Am Orna Mental, Gandy gallery, Bratislawa

2010  My life Report In Paris,  Tranzit Display, 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

 

group exhibitions:

2017  In Edenia, a City of the Future, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv

2017  Go canny, Poétique du sabotage, Centre Cont. Art, Villa Arson, Nice

2016  The End of the World, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato

2016  INCORPORATED, 5th Rennes biennale

2016  Atlas of the ruins Of Europe, CentroCentro, Madrid

2016  11th Gwangju biennale

2016  COLD WALL – A collective Visual Answer On Fences and Men, Museum Contemporary of Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad

2016  If All Relations Were to Reach to Equilibrium, Then This Building Would Dissolve, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art

2016  Labor Day Assembly, SIZ gallery, Rijeka, Croatia

2016  Resume, Carico Massimo, Livorno

2015  The forth prose, Laura Bulian gallery, Milan

2015  INTERTEXT, Erarta museum contemporary art, St. Petersburg

2015  Konfetnie gori neftyannie berega, museum contemporary art Perm, Russia

2015  6th Moscow biennale,

2015  La frontera nos cruzo, Museo de la Immigracion, Buenos Aires

2015  PAREIDOLIE, Salon International du Dessin Contemporain 2015, Marseille

2015  The world is not enough, Les Mouilins de Paillard, centre contemporary art,

2015  Vernacularity, WYSPA Institue of  Art, Gdansk

2015  Some say you can find happiness there, VCRC, Kiev, Ukraine

2015  Feel Discourse!, Guest Projects, London

2014  Europe, Europe, SCONOSCIUTO (Alternative spaces project) Astrup Fearnley museum,

2014  Histerical Materialism,  Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris

2014  Deprivation,  Arsenal Gallery, Białystok, Poland

2014  ARTONAUTICS, Gdansk City Gallery

2014  Untitled… (Local Foreginers), Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

2014  Disparity and Demand, La Galerie, Noisy le Sec, Paris

2014  Report on the Construction of a Spaceship Module, New Museum, New York

2013  Tourist City, Pleridas museum, Larnaca, Cyprus

2013  SIASAT,  15 th Jakarta Biennale

2013  RE-ALIGNED ART,  Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway

2013  The Collection as a Character,  M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp

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, Białystok, Poland,

2012  Migrasophia,  Maraya Art centre, Sharjah, UAE

2011  The Journey to the East MOCAK, (The Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow) 

2011  Art-O-Rama 2011, Marseille, Gandy gallery, Bratislawa

2011  Passion bild,  Kunstmuseum Bern,

2011  Constitution of the Damned, Landings, Vestfossen, Norway

2011  54 th Venice Biennale, (Collateral events)

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  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

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, The Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA

 

 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

“The Collecktion as character” , Museum of contemporaray art M HKA

“Global Cultures – Local Views, published Koningshausen&Newman GmbH, Wurzburg 2014