Born in Baku (AZ)
Lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (DE)
ag.abdullayev@gmail.com
EDUCATION
| 2026 | Städelschule (Meisterschüler with professors Judith Hopf and Diego Marcon), Frankfurt am Main (DE) |
| 2018 | BA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (UK) |
GRANTS AND AWARDS
| 2026 | Photography Prize, Albig Foundation (DE) |
| 2025 | Experimental Film Award, Fluxus Museum, Paros (GR) |
| 2024 | Golden Cube, Kassel Documentary Festival, Kassel (DE) |
| 2022 | Field Research and Mobility Grant, EU4Culture |
| Seed Award, Prince Claus Fund | |
| Artlink 100 Artists Award (CH) | |
| 2019 | Art Prospect Fellowship, CEC ArtsLink (/US) |
| 2018 | Three-month Studio Bursary, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (UK) |
| Artist of the Month, TOMBOY LTD, London (UK) |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | Changing Room, The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi (GE) |
| 2018 | Shy Boy of the Pink Future, Artim Project Space, Baku (AZ), curated by Anna Fech |
SELECTED DUO EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | Unsettled Territories (with Killa Schütze), fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main (DE), curated by Alina Homann and Franka Marlene Schlupp |
| 2022 | Rewriting Childhood (with Farhad Farzali), Gazelli Art House, Baku (AZ) |
| 2018 | Watch in a Bright Room (with Wendy Asumadu), The Trophy Room, Liverpool (UK), curated by Harry Meadley |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
| 2026 | Artist Films on Sub- and Counterculture, Kantine am Berghain, Berlin (DE), curated by Sebastian Weiss |
| Bonds, Trianon, Frankfurt am Main (DE), curated by Deiara Kouto Rundgang Screening, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (DE) | |
| 2025 | In the Mountains, Pankow Cultural Centre, Berlin (DE) |
| Act of Conflations, AC Galerie, Berlin (DE) | |
| FMPEV, Fluxus Museum, Paros (GR) | |
| Post-Ost RE:VISION, Kunstraum hase29, Osnabrück (DE), curated by Julia Boxler, Jasmina Janoschka, Jaqui Maschke and Ani Menua | |
| Witnessing Witnessing, Kunsthalle Osnabrück / EMAF, Osnabrück (DE), curated by Inge Seidler | |
| Rundgang Screening, DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main (DE) | |
| 2024 | Bond Constraint Parameters, Kulturbahnhof, Kassel Documentary Festival, Kassel (DE) |
| Land Secrets & Sympoiesis, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY (US) | |
| Video Pavilion, Limburg Biennale, Maastricht (NL) | |
| The Secret Life of Plants and Trees, Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck (AT) | |
| Paadmaan Video Series #3, START Art Fair, Stockholm (SE) | |
| 2023 | Pink Black, Painting Museum, Baku (AZ) |
| Preserved Nature, National Art Museum, Baku (AZ) | |
| After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA (US) | |
| 2022 | Play and Loop IV, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (HK), curated by Nick Yu |
| 2021 | New Horizons, The Writers' House, Tbilisi (GE), curated by Elene Kapanadze |
| Haft Paykar, Kapellhaus, Goethe-Institut, Baku (AZ), curated by Alfons Hug | |
| Do Not Run!, Artim Project Space, Baku (AZ), curated by Zahra Mammadova | |
| After Hope, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA (US), curated by Abby Chen | |
| 2020 | Two Snaps of the Post-Modern Society, Salaam Cinema, Baku (AZ) |
| Off the Velvet Chest, Smena, Kazan, Tatarstan (RU), curated by Asli Samadova | |
| 4th Edition of DokuBaku Film Festival, Baku (AZ) | |
| 2019 | F®ictions, DIY Space for London, London (UK) |
| Across the Mountains: South Caucasus Photography, MoMA Tbilisi, Tbilisi (GE) | |
| Ta(r)dino 6, Art Spaces section, Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul (TR) | |
| Forget What You Know, Artim Project Space, Baku (AZ), curated by Anna Fech | |
| Video Wortex: There Will Be Different Tomorrow, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta (MT) | |
| To Be Woman, HIVE Alternative Pavilion, Tbilisi Art Fair, Tbilisi (GE) | |
| 2019 | For the Time Being, The Photographers' Gallery, London (UK) |
| On the Tip of Other Tongues, Artim Project Space, Baku (AZ), curated by Anna Fech | |
| Becoming, Freehold Projects, Leeds (UK) | |
| Hometown Weather, Salaam Cinema, Baku (AZ) | |
| 2018 | New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London (UK) |
| Where Are You at These Interesting Times?, Scaffold Gallery, Manchester (UK) | |
| Watch in a Bright Room, The Trophy Room, Liverpool (UK), curated by Harry Meadley | |
| Fluid Sense of Presence, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (UK) | |
| LGBT+F: Planet 2028, LUX, London (UK), curated by Seema Mattu | |
| New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK) | |
| 2017 | The 15 Cmdments, The Wrong - New Digital Art Biennale, online, curated by Sid & Jim |
| Is This Real Lyf??, B&D Studios, Newcastle (UK), curated by Stacey Davidson | |
| Boys Don't Cry, Artim Project Space, Baku (AZ), curated by Anna Fech | |
| Howz Sho, alternative location, Nottingham (UK) | |
| Film Free and Easy: Spring Roll, Primary, Nottingham (UK) | |
ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND VISITING PROGRAMMES
| 2023-24 | Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (AT) |
| 2023 | Creative Solutions, Almaty (KZ) |
| Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (US) | |
| 2022 | MeetFactory, Prague (CZ) |
| 2021 | After Hope Project visiting artist, California Polytechnic State University (US) |
| 2019 | Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella (IT) |
| International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg (AT) | |
| Art Prospect Exchange Fellowship, CEC ArtsLink, New York, NY (US) | |
| 2018 | Group Residency, One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (UK) |
| Dostum January, online residency, The White Pube |
PUBLICATIONS AND SELECTED CATALOGUES
| 2026 | Pink Characters I Carry, in Art, Hope, Action: Creative Praxis in Pandemic Times, edited by Padma Dorje Maitland, Archive Books, Berlin |
| 2025 | Festival Media Art European No. 38, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück |
| 2024 | Limburg Biennale 2024, Marres, Maastricht |
| Paadmaan Video Event 2024, Paadmaan Projects | |
| 2020 | Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade, edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam |
| Print Art 'n Tech, Purplehaze Magazine, issue 4 (artist interview) | |
| 2019 | Tbilisi Art Fair 2019, Tbilisi |
| 2018 | Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018, New Contemporaries, London |
| Beautiful World, Where Are You?, 10th Liverpool Biennial, Biennial Foundation | |
| BA Fine Art Degree Show 2018, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham | |
| 2017 | Boys Don't Cry, ARTIM Project Space / YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku |
| 2013 | Azerbaijan: The Colors of Wind and Fire: Contemporary Artists from Azerbaijan, Imago Mundi / Fabrica, Treviso |
PUBLIC TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
| 2024 | Artist talk, Künstler*innenhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck (AT) |
| 2023 | Artist talk, BuLT, Almaty (KZ) |
| 2022 | Workshop: Art School with Femutopia and Q Collective, B Community Space, Baku (AZ) |
| 2021 | Panel discussion, The Writers' House, Tbilisi (GE), organised by the Goethe-Institut |
| 2020 | Panel discussion, California Polytechnic State University (US), organised by the Asian Art Museum |
| 2019 | Panel discussion, The 8th Floor, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, NY (US) |
| 2018 | Artist talk, YARAT Contemporary Art Space, Baku (AZ) |
| Artist talk, The Trophy Room, Liverpool (UK) |
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2021 | Presence, Nur Art House, Baku (AZ) |
| Artists: Mehrin Ali, Sujayat Ismayilova, Elchin Mikailov, Bashga Rassam and Nermin Zey | |
| 2019 | Women with Moustaches and Men without Beards, Salaam Cinema, Baku (AZ) |
| Artists: Ilkin Huseynov, Rene Matić, Taus Makhacheva, Equals Collective and AZAD LGBT | |
| 2018 | My Chain Hits My Chest (with Heidi Chan), One Thoresby Street, Nottingham (UK) |
| Artists: Annie-Marie Akussah, Wendy Asumadu, Sitara Ibrahimova, Rene Matić, Seema Mattu, Zarina Muhammad, Zandile Nyamande and Grace Payne | |
| Capitalism Stole My Virginity (with Katie Bishop), Surface Gallery, Nottingham (UK) | |
| Artists: Pádraig Condron, Charlie Dean, Christos Gkenoudis, Demi Hill, Tiffany Hunt, Phoebe Neil, Jake Moore, Takudzwa Mukomberanwa, Aiden Slee and Tiffany Slowick |