WHEN MY MOTHER ENTERED MY WORK, 2019
MOSHTARI HILAL
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Moshtari Hilal
Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, currently living in Berlin and Hamburg, Germany, Moshtari Hilal is a visual artist and researcher. Her practice is interdisciplinary and process-oriented. While her process begins with the personal as a resource, it involves academic research and engagement with the public, in forms of lectures, essays, artist talks, interviews and social media work. She describes her artistic practice as reconciliation with shame and negated beauty, as well as the critical subversion of power and colonial continuities.
Hilal studied Islamic Studies and Political Theory in Hamburg, Amman, Berlin and London, focusing on Gender and Decolonial theory. She is the co-founder of the global independent art collective AVAH (Afghan Visual Arts and History), co-founder of Berlin-based research collective CCC (Curating Through Conflict with Care) (2022) and co-creator of Studio Hilal.
Her solo exhibitions include Hamburg at Âme Nue and London at the Goldsmith University of Fine Arts. Hilal has also shown her work in group exhibitions at the Sopot National Gallery of Art in Poland, the Tehran-Niavaran complex in Iran, the Museum del Disseny in Barcelona, the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin and the Institute Francais in Kabul and in Hamburg. Most recently Hilal was a part of the Curatorial Workshop 2020 at the Berlin Biennale 11.