Adel Abidin (*1973) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad before moving to Helsinki in 2000. Having started his career as a painter, he began to work with video and consequently completed an MFA in New Media at Helsinki’s Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. Adding sculpture and installation to his repertoire, Abidin uses humor and irony to investigate themes of cultural identity, marginalization, nationalism, war, terror and heroism, surveying different experiences of living in a conflicting and precarious world.