Bani Abidi
Bani Abidi is an artist working with video, photography and drawing. She is known for her use of humour as a way of negotiating realities that are often hard. She likes to mock power and side with ordinary people, empowering herself and others by means of tools with which authority can be dethroned and ridiculed. Her observations and works draw inspiration from everyday life in the cities where she has lived, from snippets of news, and from the grand narratives presented daily to its people by the State. She works most frequently with video, but is also interested in other possibilities of creating meaning through time, so also makes sequential drawings, photographs and sound installations.
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Solo exhibitions (recent)
2019 Bani Abidi: Funland, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah (AE). They Died Laughing, Gropius Bau, Berlin. 2017 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin. 2016 Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg (DE). AAN Gandhara Art Space, Karachi (PK). 2015 An Unforeseen Situation, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX (US). 2014 Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg (DE).
Group exhibitions (recent)
2019 Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi. 2018 Memorial to Lost Words, Lahore Biennale, Lahore (PK). 2017 DEJIMA. Concepts Of In- And Exclusion, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen (DE). 2016 Enactments and each passing day, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi. Art From Elsewhere, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol (UK). 2015 Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US). Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga.
