Nora Al-Badri

Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background and was born 1984 in Marburg an der Lahn. She lives and works in Berlin. She studied visual art at Offenbach University of Art and Design and graduated in political sciences at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2009 Nora Al-Badri and Jan Nikolai Nelles are working together. Their artistic practice oscillates between different fields such as visual and media art, documentary filmmaking and cultural activism. Their pieces deal with issues arising through hegemonic and neo-colonial power structures and representations between the Global South and North as well as with the various facets of war and its aftermath. Their artistic practice reflects on the absurdity of the human condition. The works interfere in social infrastructures by misbehavior performances or challenges institutions through civil disobedience aware of their artistic freedom. The collective pursues a critical re-evaluation of actual cultural commons, the power of representation through material objects of other cultures, their digital images as well as the concepts of heritage and identity politics schemes.