Kubra Khademi

Kubra Khademi is an Afghan multidisciplinary artist and a feminist. Through her practice, Kubra explores her life as a refugee and a woman. She studied fine arts at Kabul University, Afghanistan, before attending Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan. In Lahore, she began to create public performance, a practice she continued upon her return to Kabul, where her work actively responded to a male dominated society by extreme patriarchal politics. After performing her piece known as Armor  in 2015, Khademi was forced to flee her home country and has lived in Paris thereafter. Her works have been exhibited worldwide. In 2016, Kubra was awarded the title of Knight of art and literature (Chevalierde l’Ordre des Arts et LeHer) by the French Ministry of Culture. After a 6 months’ artist-residency in New York, she was invited to realise the poster of the 76th edition of the Festival d’Avignon.