Nora Al-Badri + Jan Nikolai Nelles
Germany
Nora Al-Badri is a multi-disciplinary artist with a German-Iraqi background and was born in
Marburg an der Lahn. She lives and works in Berlin. She graduated in political sciences at
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main.
Jan Nikolai Nelles is a multi-disciplinary German artist born in Frankfurt/Main. He
graduated from Offenbach University of Art and Design in 2011. In the past he founded an
independent project space in Frankfurt/Main and co-founded a photography magazine.
Since 2009 the artists 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.