Babi Badalov
Born in 1959 | Lerik, Azerbaijan
Contact: art_babi@yahoo.com
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Babi Badalov is an established artist who has dedicated his artistic practice to the exploration of language, communication, and the way in which these elements shape human identity and relationships. Born in Azerbaijan, well travelled in Russia and Central Asia, and now based in Paris, Badalov's work has been shaped by his travels and his experience as a nomad, as well as his engagement with poetry and the visual arts.
Badalov's artistic journey began in the 1980s when he moved to Saint Petersburg after serving in the Soviet army. There, he became a part of the underground art scene and developed relationships with other independent artists. Over the years, Badalov has experimented with a range of different artistic forms, from installations to live performances to filmmaking. However, the common thread that runs throughout all of his work is his fascination with language and the way in which it shapes our understanding of the world.
As an artist, Badalov is perhaps best known for his works that incorporate language and play with words. He often mixes the vocabulary of different languages, creating a sense of coexistence between diverse cultures and a pseudo-language of his own. The works are born from the language barriers, limitations, and inconveniences faced because of the absence of unity in languages. These works are a constant exploration of the limits of linguistics and how it can isolate individuals from each other.
One of the things that makes Badalov's work so intriguing is the way in which it reflects his own personal experience as a traveler and a nomad. Having spent time in Russia, the UK, and now France, Badalov has had the opportunity to experience firsthand the power of language to both connect and separate people. His works reflect this experience, exploring the nuances of different languages and the ways in which they shape our understanding of the world.
At the same time, Badalov's work is also deeply political, touching on issues of geo-political significance. Through his exploration of language, he seeks to challenge the borders and boundaries that often separate people and create divisions. He creates works that celebrate the diversity of human cultures and explore the ways in which we can learn to communicate across linguistic and cultural divides.
Badalov's engagement with poetry has also been a significant influence on his artistic practice. Despite Russian not being his first language, he won the Pushkinskaya poetry contest in his youth, demonstrating his skill as a writer and his deep connection to language. This connection is evident in his visual art as well, where he often incorporates text and written language into his works.
Overall, Badalov's artistic practice is one that is deeply engaged with language, communication, and the way in which these elements shape our understanding of the world. His works are both personal and political, reflecting his own experiences as a traveler and a nomad, as well as his commitment to celebrating the diversity of human cultures and breaking down the barriers that often separate us. Through his art, Badalov encourages us to explore the power of language and the ways in which it can connect us to one another.
Babi Badalov is represented by Gallery Poggi, Paris, The Gallery Apart, Rome.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
2020: Refugees Will Come, Galerie Saint-Severin, Paris
2019: Soul Mobilisation, La Verriere, Hermes Fondation
2019: Landscape Langscape, CASCO Art Institute, Utrecht
2019: ZARA Tustra, YARAT, Contemporary Art Space, Baku
2019: Les Réfugies Viendront, Le Safran, Centre Culturel, Amiens
2018: Quand la Litterature Sort du Livre, Festival Extra, Centre Pompidou
2018: Je Suis Mazimir Kalevich, New Museum, St. Petersbourg
2018: De More Cry Sea, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
2018: Orna – Mental Activism, Eternal Network, Tours
2018: Automatic Electronic Algoritmic Predictive Poetry, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto
2018: Когда я um.ru, ко мне доступа не будет, Iragui gallery, Moscow
2017: Refugee Politic Refugee Poetic, Museum History of Immigration, Paris
2017: Electronic Dadaist Poetry, HIT gallery, 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,
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
Duo exhibitions:
2020: Everything Is Too Much (with Mauro Cerqueira) Bombon projects Barcelona
2018: Xenia at the Time of War (with Chto Delat?) The Apart gallery, Roma 2014: EASTeria (with Nikolay Oleynikov),Gandy gallery, Bratislawa
Group exhibitions:
2021: Poetry of translation, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
2021: Ecrire, c’est dessiner, Centre Pompidou Metz
2021: EURASIA – A landscape of Mutabilty, M HKA, Antwerp
2021: The Antinomies of Autonomy, Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade
2021: Life, Death, Love and Justice, Tranzit, Bratislava
2021: On est heureux quand on manifeste, Frac des pays de la Loire
2021: Le Corps Fait Grève, Bétonsalon, Centre d Art et de Recherche
2021: “And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers”, Kunsthalle, Wien
2021: Bye Bye His-Story, Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière
2020: Poetry and Performance. Eastern-European Perspective, Liberec
2020: Au Pied de la Lettre, Artesio, Brussel
2020: Milk Me Sugar, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
2020: Willful blindness, Institut d’etudés supérieures des arts, IESA
2020: Sous Le Fil, Les Abattoirs, Musee-FRAC Occitanie Toulouse
2020: No No Desire Desire, Maison populaire, Montreuil
2020: In Vitro, M HKA Museum Contemporary Art, Anrwerpen
2020: L’ Internationale Artists in Quarantine, Online exposition
2020: Anti – Festival of Mutation, Saint Petersbourg
2020: Viral Self – Portraits, MG+MSUM, Lyubljana
2020: Hypothetical Show for Closed Museum, MWoods museum Beijing
2020: Orientalism, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia
2020: History Repeats History, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italia
2020: La Peur au Ventre, Jerome Poggi Gallery, Paris
2019: 9KG de Oxigenio, Galeria Munisipal do Porto
2019: Biography: a Model Kit exhibition, MMOMA, Moscow
2019: The Missing Planet, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci
2019: Mass Memory Machines, Galleria Rankka, Helsinki
2019: Today We Will Invent the Nations, Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art
2019: Diary Life, Kohta – Contempoary Art Center, Helsinki
2019: Racing the Galaxy, Palace of Indepedence, Nur-Sultan
2019: Stars are Closer and Clouds Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG fondation, Amman
2019: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, Open Space, Tbilisi
2019: Eldorama, Lille3000, Tripostal, Lille
2019: Poetry & Performance, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2019: A departure, an exile… an odyssey, Le Cyclop, Milly la Foret
2019: DramaTurkia, University of Antwerpen
2019: FOGHORN, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok
2019: Southern Constellations: The Poetic of the Non-Aligned, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana
2019: Picasso et l’exil, Les Abattoirs, Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse
2018: Punk Orientalism, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2018: The Border is a State of Mind, gallery Jerom Poggi, Paris
2018: Soft Power, Transpalette, Centre d’art Contemporain de Bourges
2018: Neighbours, festival WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 10
2018: They Won’t Bear Hiding Behind Walls And Fences, Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
2018: Poetry&Performance, Shedhalle, Zurich
2018: Metaphorai, Center For Contemporary Art, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv
2018: Middle Gate II, cultural centre de Werft, Geel
2018: Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion, mutatis mutandis, Kai Dikhas, Berlin
2018: They Shouldn’t Be Able To Pretend They Didn’t Know Anything, , Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
2018: Cappadox 2018, Contemporary Art Festival, Turkey
2018: 17th Tallin Print Triennale, Contempoary Art Museum, EKKM, Tallin
2017: Poetry&Performance, Nova Synagoga Zilina
2017: 4th Ural Industrial Biennial
2017: Attention Border, galerie Arsenal, galerie Labyrint, Poland
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 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, 6th Moscow biennial,
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 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 Biennial
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.
Sources:
https://babibadalov.com/
http://galeriepoggi.com/en/artistes/oeuvres/12269/babi-badalov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Badalov
Born in 1959 | Lerik, Azerbaijan
Contact: art_babi@yahoo.com
website
Babi Badalov is an established artist who has dedicated his artistic practice to the exploration of language, communication, and the way in which these elements shape human identity and relationships. Born in Azerbaijan, well travelled in Russia and Central Asia, and now based in Paris, Badalov's work has been shaped by his travels and his experience as a nomad, as well as his engagement with poetry and the visual arts.
Badalov's artistic journey began in the 1980s when he moved to Saint Petersburg after serving in the Soviet army. There, he became a part of the underground art scene and developed relationships with other independent artists. Over the years, Badalov has experimented with a range of different artistic forms, from installations to live performances to filmmaking. However, the common thread that runs throughout all of his work is his fascination with language and the way in which it shapes our understanding of the world.
As an artist, Badalov is perhaps best known for his works that incorporate language and play with words. He often mixes the vocabulary of different languages, creating a sense of coexistence between diverse cultures and a pseudo-language of his own. The works are born from the language barriers, limitations, and inconveniences faced because of the absence of unity in languages. These works are a constant exploration of the limits of linguistics and how it can isolate individuals from each other.
One of the things that makes Badalov's work so intriguing is the way in which it reflects his own personal experience as a traveler and a nomad. Having spent time in Russia, the UK, and now France, Badalov has had the opportunity to experience firsthand the power of language to both connect and separate people. His works reflect this experience, exploring the nuances of different languages and the ways in which they shape our understanding of the world.
At the same time, Badalov's work is also deeply political, touching on issues of geo-political significance. Through his exploration of language, he seeks to challenge the borders and boundaries that often separate people and create divisions. He creates works that celebrate the diversity of human cultures and explore the ways in which we can learn to communicate across linguistic and cultural divides.
Badalov's engagement with poetry has also been a significant influence on his artistic practice. Despite Russian not being his first language, he won the Pushkinskaya poetry contest in his youth, demonstrating his skill as a writer and his deep connection to language. This connection is evident in his visual art as well, where he often incorporates text and written language into his works.
Overall, Badalov's artistic practice is one that is deeply engaged with language, communication, and the way in which these elements shape our understanding of the world. His works are both personal and political, reflecting his own experiences as a traveler and a nomad, as well as his commitment to celebrating the diversity of human cultures and breaking down the barriers that often separate us. Through his art, Badalov encourages us to explore the power of language and the ways in which it can connect us to one another.
Babi Badalov is represented by Gallery Poggi, Paris, The Gallery Apart, Rome.
Exhibitions:
Solo exhibitions:
2020: Refugees Will Come, Galerie Saint-Severin, Paris
2019: Soul Mobilisation, La Verriere, Hermes Fondation
2019: Landscape Langscape, CASCO Art Institute, Utrecht
2019: ZARA Tustra, YARAT, Contemporary Art Space, Baku
2019: Les Réfugies Viendront, Le Safran, Centre Culturel, Amiens
2018: Quand la Litterature Sort du Livre, Festival Extra, Centre Pompidou
2018: Je Suis Mazimir Kalevich, New Museum, St. Petersbourg
2018: De More Cry Sea, Jerome Poggi gallery, Paris
2018: Orna – Mental Activism, Eternal Network, Tours
2018: Automatic Electronic Algoritmic Predictive Poetry, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto
2018: Когда я um.ru, ко мне доступа не будет, Iragui gallery, Moscow
2017: Refugee Politic Refugee Poetic, Museum History of Immigration, Paris
2017: Electronic Dadaist Poetry, HIT gallery, 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,
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
Duo exhibitions:
2020: Everything Is Too Much (with Mauro Cerqueira) Bombon projects Barcelona
2018: Xenia at the Time of War (with Chto Delat?) The Apart gallery, Roma 2014: EASTeria (with Nikolay Oleynikov),Gandy gallery, Bratislawa
Group exhibitions:
2021: Poetry of translation, Kunst Merano Arte, Merano
2021: Ecrire, c’est dessiner, Centre Pompidou Metz
2021: EURASIA – A landscape of Mutabilty, M HKA, Antwerp
2021: The Antinomies of Autonomy, Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade
2021: Life, Death, Love and Justice, Tranzit, Bratislava
2021: On est heureux quand on manifeste, Frac des pays de la Loire
2021: Le Corps Fait Grève, Bétonsalon, Centre d Art et de Recherche
2021: “And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers”, Kunsthalle, Wien
2021: Bye Bye His-Story, Centre de la Gravure, La Louvière
2020: Poetry and Performance. Eastern-European Perspective, Liberec
2020: Au Pied de la Lettre, Artesio, Brussel
2020: Milk Me Sugar, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
2020: Willful blindness, Institut d’etudés supérieures des arts, IESA
2020: Sous Le Fil, Les Abattoirs, Musee-FRAC Occitanie Toulouse
2020: No No Desire Desire, Maison populaire, Montreuil
2020: In Vitro, M HKA Museum Contemporary Art, Anrwerpen
2020: L’ Internationale Artists in Quarantine, Online exposition
2020: Anti – Festival of Mutation, Saint Petersbourg
2020: Viral Self – Portraits, MG+MSUM, Lyubljana
2020: Hypothetical Show for Closed Museum, MWoods museum Beijing
2020: Orientalism, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia
2020: History Repeats History, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italia
2020: La Peur au Ventre, Jerome Poggi Gallery, Paris
2019: 9KG de Oxigenio, Galeria Munisipal do Porto
2019: Biography: a Model Kit exhibition, MMOMA, Moscow
2019: The Missing Planet, Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci
2019: Mass Memory Machines, Galleria Rankka, Helsinki
2019: Today We Will Invent the Nations, Kmytiv Museum of Soviet Art
2019: Diary Life, Kohta – Contempoary Art Center, Helsinki
2019: Racing the Galaxy, Palace of Indepedence, Nur-Sultan
2019: Stars are Closer and Clouds Nutritious Under Golden Trees, MMAG fondation, Amman
2019: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, Open Space, Tbilisi
2019: Eldorama, Lille3000, Tripostal, Lille
2019: Poetry & Performance, Motorenhalle, Dresden
2019: A departure, an exile… an odyssey, Le Cyclop, Milly la Foret
2019: DramaTurkia, University of Antwerpen
2019: FOGHORN, Arsenal gallery, Bialystok
2019: Southern Constellations: The Poetic of the Non-Aligned, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana
2019: Picasso et l’exil, Les Abattoirs, Musée Frac Occitanie Toulouse
2018: Punk Orientalism, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2018: The Border is a State of Mind, gallery Jerom Poggi, Paris
2018: Soft Power, Transpalette, Centre d’art Contemporain de Bourges
2018: Neighbours, festival WARSAW UNDER CONSTRUCTION 10
2018: They Won’t Bear Hiding Behind Walls And Fences, Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
2018: Poetry&Performance, Shedhalle, Zurich
2018: Metaphorai, Center For Contemporary Art, The Ancient Bath, Plovdiv
2018: Middle Gate II, cultural centre de Werft, Geel
2018: Artists at Risk (AR) Pavilion, mutatis mutandis, Kai Dikhas, Berlin
2018: They Shouldn’t Be Able To Pretend They Didn’t Know Anything, , Center for Contemporary Art, Graz
2018: Cappadox 2018, Contemporary Art Festival, Turkey
2018: 17th Tallin Print Triennale, Contempoary Art Museum, EKKM, Tallin
2017: Poetry&Performance, Nova Synagoga Zilina
2017: 4th Ural Industrial Biennial
2017: Attention Border, galerie Arsenal, galerie Labyrint, Poland
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 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, 6th Moscow biennial,
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 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 Biennial
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.
Sources:
https://babibadalov.com/
http://galeriepoggi.com/en/artistes/oeuvres/12269/babi-badalov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babi_Badalov
Algoritmism, 2018
Painting on fabric
77 × 83 cm
Man Ray, 2016Peinture acrylique sur tissu
147.3 × 152.4 cm
Dream, 2018
Painting on fabric
89 × 126 cm
Art Alphabet, 2018
Painting on fabric
116 × 121 cm
Laughter collection, 1986
Tempera on paper, not framed
86 x 61 cm
Papierlandschaft II ,1988
Collage
54 x 126 cm