Minia Biabiany

Minia Biabiany’s work explores Caribbean narratives, decolonization processes, and the connections between language, body, and territory, drawing on a practice that combines installations, videos, and pedagogy.

Her upcoming solo exhibitions include the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, 2025), the São Paulo Biennial (2025), and a duo exhibition with Étienne de France (Musarth, Guadeloupe, 2025; KunstMeran, Italy, 2025). In November 2025, she will complete the video produced as part of the Han Nefkens Award.

Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including Dlo a rasin (James Madison University, Virginia, 2024), difé at the Palais de Tokyo (2022), the 10th Berlin Biennale, TEOR/éTica (San José, Costa Rica), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Cráter Invertido (Mexico), SIGNAL (Malmö), the Memorial ACTe (Guadeloupe), the Centro León (Santiago, Dominican Republic), the Corcoran (Washington), and La Verrière (Brussels). She was also awarded the Sciences Po Contemporary Art Prize in 2019.

Her first multilingual monograph, Ritmo Volcán, was published by Temblores Editions.

In 2016, she initiated the collective project Semillero Caribe in Mexico and continues her pedagogical research with Doukou, a platform for experimentation exploring the concepts of Caribbean authors through the body and sensory experience.