Adelita Husni Bey
Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue invested in anarcho-collectivism, theater, and critical legal studies. She organizes workshops and produces publications, broadcasts, and exhibition work using non-competitive pedagogical models through the framework of contemporary art. Involving activists, architects, jurists, schoolchildren, spoken-word poets, actors, urbanists, physical therapists, students, and teachers, her work consists of making sites in which to practice collectively. Her work was part of the Italian pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017, and her most recent solo exhibition was These Conditions, 2022, Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York for Vera List Center fellowship program with a project centred on the radical changes in social relations brought about by responses to past and current pandemics and Maktspill, Kunsthall Bergen, 2020. She has participated in Trainings for the Not Yet, BAK, Utrecht, 2020, Being: New Photography 2018, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018; Dreamlands, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2016; The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 2015; Really Useful Knowledge, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, 2014.
A Theory of Combat, 2023
oil on canvas
53 × 65 cm
Briganti, 2023
75 × 50 cm
Briganti, 2023
75 × 50 cm
Briganti, 2023
50 × 33 cm
Briganti, 2023
inkjet print on paper
100 × 66 cm
Briganti, 2023
inkjet print on paper
100 × 66 cm
Briganti (Capitolo I), 2023
Marker on sketching paper (8 pieces)
300 × 360 cm
Parable #1, 2023
c-print
101 × 131 cm
Parable #3, 2023
c-print
101 × 131 cm
Parable #5, 2023
c-print
101 × 131 cm
Sungir (blue), 2023
Oil on canvas
37,5 × 66,5 cm
Sungir (orange), 2023
Oil on canvas
35,5 × 61 cm
untitled, 2023
Ink on fabric
130 × 215 cm
Cronaca del tempo ripetuto (A Chronicle of Histories Repeating), 2021
immersive five-channel audio installation, Dolby Digital, 5.1 surround sound, 38 min., and libretto
On necessary work, 2021
film installation, metal mesh, LED light, HD video, Zoom and mobile phone footage 3
Mr_Nothing, 2019
oil on canvas
120,5 × 91,5 cm
Woods, 2019
oil on canvas
30 × 40 cm
From the series The Council: Founder’s Room: Third planery session on the future of The Institution, 2018
c-print
183 × 274 cm
From the series The Council: The institution will be run by a morally superior AI, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm
The institution will become a place for healing through technology, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm
The institution will become a radical education center and garden, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm
The institution will become a secret project to benefit the rich, 2018
c-print
142 × 177 cm
crying king - archetype III (study), 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
55,5 × 71 cm
Matrice, 2017
indian ink on paper
38 × 28 cm
matrice - (coloured), 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
38 × 28 cm
Petrolio, 2017
charcoal and acrylic on paper
61 × 45,5 cm
Prosthesis - Agricolture, 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
71 × 55,5 cm
Prosthesis - Meat, 2017
indian ink and acrylic on paper
71 × 55,5 cm
prosthetic (small), 2017
indian ink and crayon on paper
28 × 38 cm
The reading / La Seduta, 2017
single channel 4K video installation, 7.1 Dolby surround, with silicone props, 15:33” on loop
Encounters on pain, 2016-2022
Installation, ink on medical papers
La Luna in Folle , 2016
3 channel video installation resulting from collective theater-writing workshop, handpainted rotating stage: wood, oil and acrylic paint, LED lights, electronic parts and circular dolly track
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
111,76 × 177,8 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
Wave in the well, 2016
inkjet prints on wallpaper
100 × 150 cm
2265, 2015
2 channel installation, HD video, color, sound
12‘
After the Finish Line, 2015
4K video, color, sound
12‘39‘‘
The convention on the use of space, 2015
6 screen-printed posters with hand-written notes and corrections
100 × 140 cm
Ard, 2014
Video, colour, audio
23’20’’
Banchieri - dalla serie agency giochi di potere, 2014
c-print
85 × 55 cm
Politici - dalla serie Agency - giochi di potere, 2014
c-print
110 × 147 cm
White Paper: the land, 2014
architectural model and video
175 × 265 × 125 cm
Working for a world free of poverty, 2014
c-print mounted on leger; series of 6 photos
70 × 100 cm
(On) Difficult Terms, 2013
blueback (photograph)
180 × 107,8 cm
(On) Difficult terms , 2013
MP3 audio, 40‘, Series of 15 photographs, B&W digital print and acrylic ink on archive paper; 30x40 cm
21 × 30 cm
The Jealous State, 2013
Black and white photograph, 140 x 166 cm and dislocated audio piece, duration 40”20’
Living House, 2012-2023
manipulated archive photograph from the Rutgers Special Collections, Modern School Archives, print on cotton rag
70 × 46,6 cm
Living House, 2012-2023
manipulated archive photograph from the Rutgers Special Collections, Modern School Archives, print on cotton rag
70 × 46,6 cm
Living House, 2012-2023
manipulated archive photograph from the Rutgers Special Collections, Modern School Archives, print on cotton rag
70 × 46,6 cm
Action for a sandbag brigade - writing the borders of crisis, 2011
performance
Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm
Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm
Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm
Esercizi d'interpretazione, 2011
mixed media on paper
70 × 100 cm
I Want the Sun I Want, 2011
16mm lm transferred to DVD, Original language: French (English/ Italian subtitles) - series of 3 posters
09‘25’‘
La montagna verde(Anadiomene), 2011
VHS transfered to DVD
10‘
Postcards from the desert island, 2011
SD video transfered to DVD, 22‘23‘‘ oil on canvas, cm 150X250
22‘23‘‘
Room for a Void, 2011
silver based print, book
40 × 30 cm
The Sleepers, 2011
oil on canvas
350 × 165 cm
Gestures of labour, 2010
silent video, S8 transferred to DVD
5‘39‘‘
Lethe, 2010
S8 transfered to DVD (5 monitors)
4‘20‘‘ loop
Clays Lane Live Archive, 2009-2012
archive held at Bishopsgate Institute, London
Lessons from the twilight kingdom I, 2009
mixed media on paper
146 × 100 cm
Libia 2009-2023, 2009
c-print on cotton paper
170 × 110 cm
Libia 2009-2023, 2009
c-print on cotton paper
170 × 110 cm
Mouth, 2009
c-print
100 × 70 cm
Principless of geometry, 2009
crayon on paper
15 × 12 cm
Story of the heavens and our planet, 2008
S8 Trasferred to DVD
7‘07‘‘
Treesitting Archive, 2007
series of 5 c-print,
70 × 70 cm
Libia 2009-2023
c-print on cotton paper
170 × 110 cm