Portrait Adelita Husni-Bey Adelita Husni-Bey
Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue whose practice is grounded in anarcho-collectivism, theatre and legal anthropology. She organises workshops and produces works using non-competitive pedagogical models within the field of contemporary art. Engaging activists, architects, lawyers, children and poets, her work creates temporary spaces for collective study and rehearsal – as exercises in learning, imagination, and shared political action.
She represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) and has participated in exhibitions such as New Photography, MoMA, New York (2018); The Eighth Climate, 11th Gwangju Biennale (2015); and Really Useful Knowledge, Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014). For the 16th Sharjah Biennial (2025) she produced Like a Flood, a film installation addressing water extraction, infrastructures and their temporal persistence, as well as capacities and ideological ramifications of adaptation.
Most recently, her work is featured in Framer Framed’s exhibition Wild Waters: Dams and And Deltas After Modernity (2026) on the inextricable links between water, colonial expansion and territorial exploitation.
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