Trained as an architect, Reem Aljeally is a Sudanese visual artist and curator whose work explores the personality and life of a young woman. She draws her inspiration from personal reflection, observations, and curiosity. Her curatorial practice has been intrigued by questions of forming one’s identity in its social context, spaces we inhabit, and what forms the Sudanese contemporary scene. She founded The Muse multi studios in 2019, an integrative regional artistic organization with a contemporary art gallery in Khartoum.
She has held solo exhibitions in both Sudan and Egypt as well as several international exhibitions including “The wandering of dreams” at Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany, 2024, “ARTLIFE FEST” in Moscow, Russia, 2023, “Disturbance in The Nile”, Broteria art gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, 2023, “The Forest and Desert school revisited” at Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, 2022 and FNB Art Joburg with Eclectica contemporary in South Africa in 2022.
Basics of Drawing and Oil Painting
Training Diploma | Khartoum Arts training centre | 2019
Architecture
Bachelors degree | University of Khartoum | 2013 – 2018
Founder, Director
Sudan Art Archive | 2022 – Present
The Muse multi studios | 2019 – Present
Muse Gallery | 2022 – 2023
Artists Development Program Coordinator, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt | 2023 – Present
Exhibition Designer & Curator, The French Institute, Khartoum, Sudan | 2023
Guest Curator, BetterShared | 2022 – 2023
Art Mediator & Author, INTERFERENCE International Light Art Project, Tunis, Tunisia | 2022
Arts & Culture Projects Manager, Savannah Innovation Labs, Khartoum, Sudan | 2021 – 2022
NextLevel Production Fund Award, Goethe Institute | 2023
Wijhat, Culture Resource | 2022
Sudan Moves Residency, Goethe Institute | September – November 2020
Inside The Corner Pink House, Artist Book, The Muse multi studios | 2023
Sudan Today, Revolutionary Consciousness & Transnational Solidarity, Orfalea Center | October 2023
Contemporary arts and war in Sudan, INSPIRE PROJECT Seminar | June 2023
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: Conference by Tasawar Collective, Tunis, Tunisia | July 2022
ARTLIFE FEST 2023, ArtLife Academy, Moscow, Russia | November 2023
FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa | September 2022
Solo
Garden of Fake Tulips
MASQ, Old Cairo, Egypt, May 2024
Inside the corner pink house
Bibliothek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt, January – February 2024
Middle Voids
The French Cultural Center, Khartoum, Sudan, August 2022
Born in Memory
Savannah Innovation Labs, Khartoum, Sudan, February 2021
Group (Selection)
Disturbance in The Nile
Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain, March – May 2024
Broteria Art Gallery/Downtown Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal, June – July 2023
The Wandering of Dreams
Gallery Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany, February – March 2024
Home: A Daydream
Tribal Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya, October 2023
The Gold of the Grandmother
Mouches Volantes, Cologne, Germany, July 2023
Surfacing
Tewasart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda, May 2023
The Forest and Desert School Revisited
Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya | November – December 2022
Bad Posture
Ecelectica contemporary, Cape town, South Africa | May 2022
Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of COVID-19
Group exhibit at The Middle East Institute, Washington DC. | November 2020 – January 2021