User:Friedaboher/Elektra KB

Elektra KB Elektra KB is a Colombian immigrant artist. . She is an activist for reproductive rights, sexual minorities, and people with disabilities. Her work addresses illness and physical disability, imagining utopian possibilities and alternative universes. KB explores themes such as gender, migration, transculturality, and the abuse of power.

Her work combines mutual aid, political action, and communication, often using a hybrid documentary-science fiction approach. She explores utopia and dystopia in juxtaposition with the world and a parallel universe through textiles, photography, video, installation, and performance.

KB uses she/they pronouns. Her work takes place in the Theocratic Republic of Gaia, a utopian/dystopian world currently experiencing a moment of "intense geological and social upheaval," where tensions that have been building for centuries will be released.

Elektra KB lives and works between Berlin and New York.

KB's work has been reviewed in publications such as:Art Forum, Art news , Hyper-allergic , BOMB Magazine , The Guardian y The New York Times , among others. Some recent exhibitions include: Think Tank: REPRODUCTIVE AGENTS, Museo MADRE, Italia, 'Who Will Write the History of Tears (Postsecular)' at Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (2021). 'Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: 50 Years After Stonewall' (2019) at Museo de Brooklyn, 'Abortion is Normal' en Eva Presenhuber, NY (2020)


 * 2023: Virosis, MAMBO, Bogotá, Colombia
 * 2023: Think Tank: REPRODUCTIVE AGENTS, Museo Madre, Naples, Italia
 * 2023: On Violence, Budapest Gallery, Budapest
 * 2021: ‘Who Will Write The History of Tears, Artists on Women’s rights’, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
 * 2022: Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
 * 2021: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Center for Creativity and the Arts, Fresno State, California
 * 2021: ‘Living in America’ Curated by Assembly Room, International Print Center, New York, NY
 * 2021: ‘When The Body Becomes Manifesto’, Boan 1942 Art space, Seoul, Korea
 * 2020: ‘Cat checkpoint.digital’, Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada
 * 2020: ‘Now WTF’, Silicon Valet, U.S. Virtual
 * 2020: ‘Currents: An Overwhelming Response’, Curated by Carmen Hermo, A.I.R Gallery, New York, NY
 * 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part I, Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
 * 2020: ‘Abortion is Normal’ part II, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY
 * 2019: ‘Nobody Promised You Tomorrow: Art 50 years after Stonewall’, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
 * 2019: ‘The Politics of Healing: Destroying Silence’, Spring/Break art show, New York, NY
 * 2019: ‘Territorio Autónomo Cathara y Ciudadan a Global’, Timebag Nutibara, Medellin, Colombia
 * 2018: ‘Power is Abuse’, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
 * 2018: ‘Radical Women Remix’, a selection of video art by Latinx women from 1960-2018, organized by Brooklyn Museum, curated by Carmen Hermo, at New LatinWave, New York, NY
 * 2018: ‘Antisistémicas: Practicas Art sticas desde Otras Fronteras’, Artecamara, Artbo, Bogotá, Colombia
 * 2017: ‘Un Regard Sur Le Monde Elektra KB, Gilbert & George, Guerilla Girls et Swoon’, Fondation Art Contemporain Salomon, Annecy, France
 * 2017: ‘Screen Present Tense’, Croatian Association of Artists Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
 * 2017: ‘Alchemy of the Image’, Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair, Istanbul, Turkey
 * 2017: ‘Faketopia’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2017: ‘Bodies of Water: Body as a Prison/Prison as a Body’, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
 * 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless II’, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul* Turkey
 * 2016: ‘The Accidental Pursuit of the Stateless’, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
 * 2016: ‘Geographically Indeterminate Fantasies: The Animated GIF as Place’, TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
 * 2016: ‘Now We Take Manhattan’, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
 * 2016: Contemporary Istanbul, Gaia Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
 * 2015: ‘Castle’, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), China
 * 2015: ‘Stories from the End’, UP Gallery, Berlin
 * 2013: ‘There are Women at the Gates Seeking a New World’, BravinLee Programs (Project room), New York, NY
 * 2013: ‘The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia’, Beings, (Project room), Sargen t’s Daughters, New York, NY