Biography
Born in 1959 in Lerik, Azerbaijan, Babi Badalov has lived and worked in Paris since 2008. He moved to Leningrad in the 1980s, where he discovered the alternative Russian art scene. In 1990, he took part in the “The New Artists from Saint Petersburg” exhibition in Mucsarnok (Budapest) and held his first solo exhibition in Oregon the following year. His travels and situation as an immigrant in the USA and the UK enrich his approach. He exhibited his “visual poetry” at Manifesta 8 (2010), “Disparity and Demand” at la Galerie (Noisy le Sec, 2014) and also at the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in 2015. He counts “MIGRANT POETRY” at La Station (Nice, 2015) and “Poetical Activism” at tranzit.hu (Budapest, 2015-2016) among his solo exhibitions. His works feature among the collections of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia), the MuHKA Museum of Modern Art in Antwerp (Belgium) and the Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, USA). He is represented by the Gandy gallery (Bratislava) and Galerie Jérôme Poggi (Paris).