Nadira Husain, born in Paris in 1980, works in Berlin, Paris, and Hyderabad (IN). Her work appropriates symbols and stories from various cultural registers that relate to her own multicultural background. Through the flattening of fore- and background, perspective and scale, Husain’s depthless paintings eliminate inherent formal hierarchies. Through her work, Husain evolves a language that embraces hybridity, mimicry and ambivalence. Her paintings often unfold into spatial installations where the notion of a centre is swept away. Through her expanded form of painting, she solicits the performative character of her work. She is also involved in anti-racist art collectives.

Solo exhibitions 
2021 Tba, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (IN). 2020 Confluence Sangam संगम, WERK.Stoff Preis für Malerei, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE). 2019 Blumen und Elefant, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (DE). 2018 Pourquoi je suis tout bleu, Villa du parc Annemasse | Centre d’art contemporain, Annemasse (FR). Solo presentation at the Armory Show (with PSM Gallery), New York, NY (US). 2017 Rider, Path, and Vehicle, PSM Gallery, Berlin.

Group exhibitions
2020 *foundationClass - From within the Cracks, nGbK, Berlin. Features, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin. Studio Berghain Berlin, Berghain, Berlin. 2019 ACAW Asia Contemporary Art Week, Dubai (AE). Body in Pieces, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Düsseldorf (DE). Doing Deculturalization, Stiftung Museion, Bolzano (IT). Global National, Haus am Lutzöwplatz, Berlin. 2018 Mess with Your Values, n.b.k., Berlin. Innenleben, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig. Pissing in a River. Again!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin. Works on Paper, Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig.

Education
2006 Fine art, ENSBA (Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts), Paris, DNSAP.

Teaching
2017 ongoing, Lecturer at *foundationClass, Weissensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin.

Publications
Nadira Husain, Heidelberger Kunstverein and Andreas Felger Kulturstiftung, Bierke, Berlin, 2020.

www.nadira-husain.com
www.psm-gallery.com/

Flora Klein’s artistic practice consists primarily of abstract painting and is characterised through stylistic shifts and differences. In her recent works, Klein deepens her preoccupation with reflective metallic paints as well as the emblematically modernist, masculine structure of the grid. Affirmative in scale, Klein’s work remains consciously ambivalent in how it relates to both the allegorical and the less communicable nature of intensity and colour, or affect. Alongside her painting practice, Klein has instigated various projects for social exchange. She has coordinated multiple exhibition spaces, and co-organises the Curbit experimental interdisciplinary festival.

Solo exhibitions
2020 Das Band, together with Miriam Visaczki, Lars Friedrich Gallery, Berlin. Flora Klein and Samuel Jeffery, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen. 2018 Flora Klein and Tiphanie Mall, Treize, Paris. 2017 Flora Klein, Lars Friedrich, Berlin. 2016 Flora Klein, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (DE). 2014 VV, The Green Gallery West and The Ski Club, Milwaukee, WI (US).

Group exhibitions
2020 Salon Solaire, Suns.Works, Zurich (CH). 2019 Super Erotic Group Show, 8 Salon, Hamburg (DE). 2017 From Berlin with Love, Instituto Svizzero, Rome. 2017 Somebody’s Bedside Table, Between Bridges, Berlin. 2016 Undisturbed Solitude, Kunsthaus Hamburg. 2016 Stuttgart, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich.

Education
2013 Fine Arts, ECAL, Lausanne (CH).

Teaching experience
2021 artistic practice, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich.
2020 What makes a world? – a horizon with Nadira Husain, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.
2020 Ceramic workshop, MÄDEA, Berlin, intercultural centre for young girls.

Publications
Flora Klein, Selected Works, with a text by Chus Martínez, Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf 2017.

https://maxmayer.info/