Lida Abdul

Lida Abdul, born as Lida Abdullah ( b. 1973 in Kabul ) is an Afghan artist in performance art and video art.

Lida Abdul was born in Kabul. She lived five years in Germany and India as a refugee after they had to leave the country by the Soviet intervention. In the U.S. they made ​​in 1997 its B. A. in Political Science, and in 1998 her B. A. in philosophy at California State University, Fullerton. In 2000 she received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine.

By his own testimony she connects with her art " tropical " Western " formalism with the numerous aesthetic traditions - Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan, norma disch - collectively influenced Afghan art and culture" (English: " ... fuses the tropes of ' Western " formalism with the Numerous aesthetic traditions - Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, pagan and nomadic - that collectively Influenced Afghan art and culture. "). Abdul has exhibited at events in Mexico, Spain, Germany, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. These solo exhibitions come in the Kunsthalle Wien (2005) and the Indianapolis Museum of Art ( 2008). In 2012, she participated in the Documenta (13).

In 2006 she received the Prince Claus Award, 2007 she received together with Lara Almarcegui the UNESCO Visual Arts and Digital Arts Award.