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About

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.

Education

Basics of Drawing and Oil Painting
Training Diploma | Khartoum Arts training centre | 2019

Architecture
Bachelors degree | University of Khartoum | 2013 – 2018

Experiences (selection)

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

Awards & Residencies

NextLevel Production Fund Award, Goethe Institute | 2023

Wijhat, Culture Resource | 2022

Sudan Moves Residency, Goethe Institute | September – November 2020

publications

Inside The Corner Pink House, Artist Book, The Muse multi studios | 2023

Selected Talks

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

Art Fairs

ARTLIFE FEST 2023, ArtLife Academy, Moscow, Russia | November 2023

FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa | September 2022

Exhibitions

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