Bani Abidi was born in Karachi (Pakistan) and works between Berlin and Karachi. She works with video and photography, often using humorous and absurd approaches to take a stand on political and cultural topics. Her artistic works have been presented internationally at a variety of locations in solo and group exhibitions since 2005, for instance at Experimenter (Calcutta, 2016), at Dallas Contemporary (Dallas, 2015), at the Berlin Biennale (Berlin, 2014), at the Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2013) and at the dOCUMENTA 13 (Kassel, 2013). In 2011/2012 Bani Abidi had an artist residency from the DAAD in Berlin.