Adelita Husni Bey
Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue invested in anarcho-collectivism, theater, and legal anthropology. She organizes workshops and produces artworks 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 and benefit materially collectively. She was part of the Italian pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, 2017. She has participated in Matter of Art - Biennale of Art Prague, 2024; To Carry, Sharjah Art Biennale, 2024; Care Ecologies, State of Concept, Athens, 2024, Quizá Mañana, XVI edition of the Cuenca Biennial, 2023, New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018; The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale, 2015; Really Useful Knowledge, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, 2014. She was a 2020-2022 Vera List Center Fellow with a project centered on the radical changes in social relations brought about by responses to past and current pandemics. For the Sharjah Biennale 2025 she produced a film installation centered on water extraction, infrastructure, techno-fetishist forecasting and ‘adaptability’ in collaboration with researcher Shehrazade Mahassini.
 
                
            
            A Theory of Combat, 2023
oil on canvas
                
53 × 65 cm
            
                
            
            Briganti, 2023
inkjet print on paper
                
75 × 50 cm
            
                
            
            Briganti, 2023
                
75 × 50 cm
            
                
            
            Briganti, 2023
                
50 × 33 cm
            
                
            
            Briganti (Capitolo I), 2023
Marker on sketching paper (8 pieces)
                
300 × 360 cm
            
                
            
            Briganti - Attacco, 2023
inkjet print on paper
                
100 × 66 cm
            
                
            
            Difesa - Dalla serie Briganti, 2023
inkjet print on paper
                
100 × 66 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