Nadira Husain
Nadira Husain, born in Paris in 1980, works in Berlin, Paris, and Hyderabad (IN). Her work appropriates symbols and stories from various cultural registers that relate to her own multicultural background. Through the flattening of fore- and background, perspective and scale, Husain’s depthless paintings eliminate inherent formal hierarchies. Through her work, Husain evolves a language that embraces hybridity, mimicry and ambivalence. Her paintings often unfold into spatial installations where the notion of a centre is swept away. Through her expanded form of painting, she solicits the performative character of her work. She is also involved in anti-racist art collectives.
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Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2021 Tba, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (IN). 2020 Confluence Sangam संगम, WERK.Stoff Preis für Malerei, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE). 2019 Blumen und Elefant, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (DE). 2018 Pourquoi je suis tout bleu, Villa du parc Annemasse | Centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse (FR). Solo presentation at the Armory Show (with PSM Gallery), New York, NY (US). 2017 Rider, Path, and Vehicle, PSM Gallery, Berlin.
Group exhibitions
2020 *foundationClass - From within the Cracks, nGbK, Berlin. Features, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin. Studio Berghain Berlin, Berghain, Berlin. 2019 ACAW Asia Contemporary Art Week, Dubai (AE). Body in Pieces, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf (DE). Doing Deculturalization, Stiftung Museion, Bolzano (IT). Global National, Haus am Lutzöwplatz, Berlin. 2018 Mess with Your Values, n.b.k., Berlin. Innenleben, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig. Pissing in a River. Again!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. Works on Paper, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig.
Publications
Nadira Husain, Heidelberger Kunstverein and Andreas Felger Kulturstiftung, Bierke, Berlin, 2020.
