Ebecho Muslimova

°1984, Makhachkala, (Dagestan, RU) – lives and works in Mexico City (MX)

Ebecho Muslimova, known for her raucous and sexually uninhibited character “Fatebe” creates paintings and works on paper that beguile the eye as much as they humor the mind. Fatebe’s physical contortions and unpredictable quandaries play themselves out like performances on the canvas: each work depicts a single event that uncannily combines self-consciousness, comedy and vulnerability. Muslimova’s technical prowess as a painter helps to underscore the sheer delight of Fatebe’s misadventures.

“As her life continues, Fatebe is faced with newly articulated objects, stretched over landscapes that are populated with new temptations and ghosts. With adoring precision, Muslimova codifies the echoes of domesticity, luxury, nature, education, psychology, fetish, and art itself—images that have the capacity to haunt her. Nothing can deter Fatebe, though. From her gleeful smile, we can assume that her convictions only gain momentum with every new opportunity to test them.”
(Quote from Natasha Stagg in Cura Magazine).

(courtesy of Magenta Plains)

Ebecho Muslimova (Photo by Matt Grubb, courtesy of The Talks)

Fatebe Pierced Aspic Rising, 2022

Fatebe Self Possession, 2017

Fatebe Thin Slab, 2022

Fatebe Wet Attic, 2019

Fatebe Octopus, 2021

FATEBE GOTHIC FART, 2020

FATEBE BIG BOOT, 2017

Fatebe 5 Angry Vortexes, 2018

Muslimova received her BFA at Cooper Union in New York, NY in 2010. Muslimova has presented solo exhibitions at Mendes Wood DM, São Paolo; Bernheim Gallery, Zürich; Magenta Plains, New York; The Drawing Center, New York; David Zwirner Gallery, London; White Flag Projects, St. Louis; and Room East, New York.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Basel; ICA Miami; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Zuzeum, Riga; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; Swiss Institute, New York; Kunsthalle St. Gallen. Her large-scale murals have been commissioned for biennials such as The Dreamers, 58th Edition of October Salon, Belgrade; and The 32nd Biennale of Graphic Arts: Birth As Criterion, Ljubljana.

In 2022 Muslimova was the recipient of the Borlem Prize, honoring artists whose oeuvre brings awareness to mental health issues & struggles. Muslimova’s work is in public collections including The Centre Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington.; ICA Miami; MAMCO Geneva; RISD Museum, Providence; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Zuzeum, Riga.

Ebecho Muslimova is represented by the following galleries;
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Magenta Plains, New York

Bernheim Gallery, Zürich / London

Wood DM, São Paolo / Brussels / Paris