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
1964
Philip Johnson commissioned Warhol to make a large-scale work for the exterior for his pavilion for the New York World’s Fair, along with other artists. Warhol’s provocative response, a multiple portrait of ‘Most Wanted Men’ was installed a few days before the opening but was deemed too inflammatory and contrary to the upbeat image of the World’s Fair and the work was taken down.