Kubra Khademi

Kubra Khademi is a Hazara artist and performer from Afghanistan born in 1989. Through her practice, Kubra Khademi explores her life as a refugee and as a woman. She studied Fine Arts at Kabul University, before joining Beaconhouse University in Lahore, Pakistan. There, she began creating public performances, a practice she continued on her return to Kabul, in response to a male-dominated society with extreme patriarchal politics. After the execution of her performance known as Armor in 2015, she was forced to flee the country. Taking refuge in France, she obtained French citizenship in 2020. Today, she lives and works in Paris. In 2016, she received the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Nominated for the Emerige Revelations in 2019, she is the 2020 winner of the 1% art market of the city of Paris.
 
Her work has been shown in numerous public and private institutions, including the Ludwig Museum (Cologne, 2023), the Sydney Biennial (2024), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2021), the Fondation Kadist (Paris, 2022), the Collection Lambert (Avignon, 2022), the Mill6 Foundation (Hong Kong, 2023), Musée de l’Immigration (2022), Bangkok Biennale (2020), Institut du Monde Arabe (2022), Mediterranean Museum Stockholm (2023), Les Abattoirs, Musées – Frac Occitanie (2023), MuCEM (2019), Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles (2019), Fondation Fiminco (2021), Kunsthalle Dessau (2023), Kunsthalle Thun (2022). In 2022, the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern presented her first solo exhibition in Europe, and for the occasion published a trilingual monograph in French, English and German.
 
Since 2016, Latitudes Contemporaines in Lille has been supporting the development of her performance projects. Her latest artistic creations have been presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Bauhaus Dessau, Documenta in Kassel, the Centre Pompidou-Metz, the Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, the Palais de Tokyo, the TNG in Lyon, the Condition Publique (Roubaix), the Musée de la Danse (Rennes), the Bergen International Festival, the Collection Lambert and in the public space of international cities (Paris, Brussels, Lille, Bordeaux, Geneva, etc.).
 
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EXHIBITIONS :
 
// From the Two Page Book (01/30-04/04/2021)
// Ta’me Sib’ (طعم سیب) (April 20 to July 15, 2023 | Brussels)
// La fille et le dragon (09/14-10/19/2024 | Paris)