Babi Badalov

Born in 1959 in Lerik (Azerbaïdjan). Lives and Works in Paris.

Babi Badalov's pratice is a constant exploration of the limits of the language. He is particularly interesting in the way that language is able to isolate individuals from the people who don't share the same language. Thereby, the artist covers current geo-political topics that echoes his own personnal experiences.

After having lived in Russian, he tried to settle in Cardiff (UK), but his asylium application was refused. Sent back in Azerbaijan, he finally got the right to stay and live in France in 2011.

Great traveler and poet himself, Babi Badalov often introduces his own texts in his work : by combinating it with manipulated political pictures, he creates installations, objects, paintings and happenings that he used to qualified as « visual poetry »

Several Babi Badalov's artworks are part of international public collections such as Russian Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia), MuHKA Museum Contemporary Art Antwerp, Azerbaijan State Museum of Art in Baku (Azerbaïjan), Kunstmuseum of Emden (Germany), Martigny Art Museum (Switzerland), Oetcker Collection in Bielefeld (Germany), Arina Kowner Collection in Zurich (Switzerland) and Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, USA).

Installation's view of the 2nd edition of the EXTRA ! festival at Centre Pompidou, Sep. 2018, Paris © Hervé Veronese - Centre Pompidou - Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Babi Badalov & Nikita Kadan, view of the exhibition, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Romain Darnaud

Babi Badalov, De More Cry Sea, 2018, painting on fabric, 154 x 97 cm. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Babi Badalov & Nikita Kadan, view of the exhibition, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Romain Darnaud

Babi Badalov, Lenin Stalin Putin, 2017, painting on fabric, 124,5 x 153 cm. Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Babi Badalov & Nikita Kadan, view of the exhibition, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Romain Darnaud

Babi Badalov & Nikita Kadan, ensemble de dessins, vue de l'exposition, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Babi Badalov, view of the installation, painting and drawings 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Romain Darnaud

Babi Badalov, view of the installation, detail, painting and drawings 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Romain Darnaud

Babi Badalov, vue de l'exposition De More Cry Sea, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Please, 2018, painting on fabric, 118 x 111 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Babi Badalov, vue de l'exposition De More Cry Sea, 2018, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Seaweleesation, 2018, painting on fabric, 93 x 76 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Contemporary art, 2018, painting on fabric, 91,5 x 124,5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Cosmopoetism, 2018, painting on fabric, 89 x 183 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Nationalism, 2018, painting on fabric, 113,5 x 185,5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Immigrant, 2018, painting on fabric, 97 x 109 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

EU citizen, 2017, painting on fabric, 142 x 170,5 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

View of the exhibition "For the wall, for the world" - 19 Feb - 11 Sep. 2016, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)

Arteast artwest, 2015, collage, 30 x 42 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

View of the Exhibition at M_KHA, Antwerp (BE)

Prefektur Paris, 2015, collage, 30 x 42 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

View of the installation, 6th edition, Moscow Biennial, 2015

Surreal east, 2015, ink on paper, collages, 21 x 29,7cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Oriental east, 2015, ink on paper, collages, 21 x 29,7cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

View of the exhibition "Art is myth I am real", 2015, Galerie Jérôme Poggi - © Nicolas Brasseur

Art is myth I am real, 2015, painting on fabric, 73 x 56 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Nicolas Brasseur

View of the exhibition "Some say you can find happiness here", 2015, Visual Culture research center, Kyiv

What is your nationaliti, 2015, painting on fabric, 186 x 107 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris - © Nicolas Brasseur

View of the exhibition "Fuck golf", 2015, Kunstraum Munich

Mazimir Kalevitch, 2014, painting on fabric, 130 x 168 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

View of the exhibition "The East Journey", 2012, Museum of contemporary art of Krakow

Oriental east, 2017, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Destroy, 2017, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

He story of art, 2017, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Biennal, 2016, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Poetri, 2015, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Oculist occultist (Orna-mental Poetry), 2014, ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm, Courtesy Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Halluci Nation (Orna-mental poetry), 2014
ink on paper
26,5 x 19 cm

Courtesy, Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris

Fuck Golf (Orna-mental poetry), 2014
Ink on paper
21 x 29,7 cm

Galerie Jérôme Poggi, Paris