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
2015Poetical 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 4th Ural Industrial Biennial
2017 In Edenia, a City of the Future, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv
2017 Go canny, Poétique du sabotage, Centre Cont. Art, Villa Arson, Nice
2016The End of the World, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato
2016 INCORPORATED, 5th Rennes biennial
2016 Atlas of the ruins Of Europe, CentroCentro, Madrid
2016 11th Gwangju biennial
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 biennial,
2015 La frontera nos cruzo, Museo de la Immigracion, Buenos Aires
2015PAREIDOLIE, Salon International du Dessin Contemporain 2015, Marseille
2015The 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
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
