Since 2004, Bidoun has served as a platform for new questions, images, and ideas about the Middle East. Bidoun’s activities fall in three primary areas: publishing, educational, and curatorial. To date, the organization’s projects have included a range of pursuits: curatorial initiatives, educational programs, artist commissions, talks, tours, performances, books, an itinerant library, and an online archive of avant-garde media. Bidoun engages audiences in a nuanced and historically-informed consideration of the Middle East’s contemporary art scene.
Bidoun Projects
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Screenshot of the Bidoun.org homepage, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Screenshot of General Behavior, Artist Project by Farah AL Qasimi, Text by Sophia AL-Maria, published on Bidoun.org, 2020. Courtesy the artist and Bidoun
Installation view of the exhibition Reza Abdoh, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2019. Courtesy Adam Soch and the Estate of Reza Abdoh. Photo: Frank Sperling
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
Spread from the Reza Abdoh monograph, published by Hatje Cantz, 2020. Courtesy Bidoun
1976
Warhol acquires the first of several compact 35 mm cameras, and over the next 11 years shot approximately 130,000 black-and-white images, claiming that “having a few rolls of film to develop gives me a good reason to get up in the morning.”