The Château de Montsoreau – Museum of Contemporary Art presents My Name is Art, a solo exhibition by Babi Badalov, curated by Azad Asifovich in collaboration with Galerie Poggi in Paris.
The exhibition brings together a body of work exploring the relationships between language, identity, migration, and creation.
From July 10 to November 4, 2026, the artist takes over Level 2 of the museum with a selection of drawings, paintings, textiles, installations, and writings that reflect more than three decades of research into linguistic shifts and visual poetry.
Born in Lerik (Azerbaijan SSR) in 1959, Babi Badalov—a naturalized French citizen since 2018—lives and works in Paris. For over thirty years, he has developed a unique artistic practice at the intersection of visual poetry, drawing, and installation. His work transforms languages into plastic matter. In his work, words shift, distort, and converge, inventing new ways of reading. Through linguistic shifts, deliberate errors, hybridizations of alphabets, and typographic play, Badalov turns language into a space of resistance, freedom, and creation.
Presented at the Château de Montsoreau—Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition resonates with the history of the venue and with the Philippe Méaille Collection, the world’s largest collection of works by Art & Language. It fosters a dialogue between two major approaches to the relationship between