Bani Abidi

Bani Abidi (b. 1971) uses video and photography to comment upon politics andculture, often through humorous and absurd vignettes.

 

Bani Abidi studied visual art at the National College of Arts in Lahore and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives and works between Berlin, Germany and Karachi, Pakistan.

 

Select solo and group exhibitions include Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg; Museuof Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; Gropius Bau, Berlin; Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas; Kunstverein Arnsberg, Arnsberg; The Baltic, Gateshead; Green Cardamom, London; 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10), Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Cold as Ice. Coldness in Art and Society, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (2025-2026); The Distance from Here, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2021); Searching for Stars Amongst the Crescents, Experimenter – Ballygunge Place, Kolkata (2019); I wish to let you fall out of my hands, Experimenter – Hindustan Road, Kolkata (2018); Digging Deep, Crossing Far, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (2018); Edinburgh Arts Festival (2016); 8th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2014); In Plain Sight, Smack Mellon, New York (2014); Lines of Control, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham (2013); No Country, Guggenheim Museum, New York (2013); dOCUMENTA13, Kassel, Germany (2012); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India (2012); Blockbuster: Cinema for Exhibitions, Mexico (2011); Where Three Dreams Cross, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2005); Xth Lyon Biennale, Lyon (2009); 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2008); Thermocline of Art: New Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2007); Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2006); Sub-Contingent – The South Asian Subcontinent in Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2006); Contemporary Commonwealth, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (2006); 3rd Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan (2005), among others.