Adelita Husni-Bey (b. 1985, Milan) is an Italian-Libyan artist and pedagogue whose practice draws on anarcho-collectivism and critical pedagogy, producing works that bridge theater, activism and education. Inspired by Paulo Freire, Augusto Boal's participatory theater and workers' education initiatives, she often uses the workshop format to engage groups, resulting in publications, radio broadcasts, archives, exhibitions and films. Her projects address questions of race, class and gender through collective processes such as role-playing. For the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale (2017) she presented "The Reading / La Seduta," developed with young people in New York through a tarot deck she designed. Her ongoing work "Encounters on Pain" (2018–) examines how capitalist imperatives condition bodies. Her video "Like a Flood" (2025) examines the disruption of Libya's water systems through extraction and environmental crisis.
