Kubra Khademi is a multidisciplinary artist born in Afghanistan in 1989. She lives and works in Paris, France.
Through her practice, Kubra Khademi explores her life as a refugee and a woman. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Kabul, before joining
the University of Beaconhouse in Lahore, Pakistan. In Lahore she began to create public performances, a practice which she continued upon her return to Kabul, where her work was a response to a male-dominated society with an extreme patriarchal policy. After performing her piece known as “Armor” in 2015, she was forced to flee her homeland and has been a refugee in France until 2020 when she obtained French nationality. She is a member
of the “Atelier des Artistes en Exil”. In 2019, she was selected for Emerige Revelation Prize and in 2020, she was a resident at the Fiminco Foundation. In 2022, she is invited by the Salomon Foundation to work in New York. She realize the poster for the Festival d’Avignon et prepare two personal exhibitions at collection Lambert and at Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (Germany).
Since 2016, Latitudes Prod. has been in charge of the development of her performative projects and Galerie Eric Mouchet represents her visual work.
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