Extended Cities: Khartoum – PortSudan – Cairo
Extended Cities is an interdisciplinary artistic residency project that explores the relationship between countries and cities, focusing on themes related to their history, literature, and memory, centering on the theme of construction and destruction. “Extended Cities: Khartoum – PortSudan – Cairo” focuses on the intersections of these three cities exploring, from a visual and artistic […]
Decaying Bank: Reproducing Khartoum Visually
Decaying Bank: Reproducing Khartoum Visually is a residency project that attempted to engage with Khartoum from an artistic approach. During this residency, there were many creative and research interventions on the history of Khartoum and its social space, with a cross-disciplinary methodology in which the points from which we saw the city intertwined. The residency […]
Ihab Shaker for Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2024
Produced for Ubuntu Art Gallery for Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2024 A master of caricature art, illustration, painting, and animation, Ihab Shaker is a prominent figure in Egyptian Art. Born in 1933, Shaker refined his talent and career between Cairo and Paris. His artistic practice has constantly highlighted aspects of Egyptian Heritage through portrayals of […]
The Wandering of Dreams, Co-curated with Larissa Furhman
The Wandering of Dreams, Co-curated with Larissa Furhman A group exhibition on the (im)possibility of dreaming at Melike Bilir Gallery, Hamburg, Germany, Co-curated by Larissa Furhman and Reem Aljeally, With works by Yasmeen Abdullah, Reem Aljeally, Dar Al Naim, Amna Elhassan, Zainab Gaafar, Aya Sinada, Enas Suliman & Studio Urban. February 2024 Exhibition text: […]
Ashod Zorian: Spotlight from The Collector’s Eye X
Annual Exhibition highlighting modern Egyptian Art at Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt. Text by Reem Aljeally Fusing European mastery with Egyptian culture, Armenian Egyptian modernist Ashod Zorian, is renowned for his captivating sceneries inspired by cosmopolitan cities, his statically positioned nudes, and bright to almost fauvist colors. Ashod Zorian was born in 1905 into an […]
The Sudanese Woman in History: Presence and Absence
The French Institute, Khartoum, Sudan, 2023 The project aims to collect the archives of the Sudanese women’s movement during the period 1940-2010 that are subject to loss. It is a presentation of the initial survey of part of the archives that were reached and which was carried out by the researchers Safaa Mohamed Khair, Iman […]
Of Faces, Tales, and Lands
Guest curated by Reem Aljeally for BetterShared, “Of Faces, Tales, and Lands” is a selection of contemporary artworks by 10 established Sudanese artists. The collection combines portraiture, figuration and landscapes of the artists explorations of Sudanese social structures, traditions, cultural constructions, history and present constraints. From the questions of identity opposed by Elhassan Elmuontasir and […]
Hidden faces – Exhibition review
The gloomy black and white dots and lines contrast the vivid, rich blue that is the walls of the French Institute’s new exhibition walls. The art of Mohamed Abdalrasoul is intense in terms of its emotions, compositions, and most certainly his unique technique. The artist works in a style of different hatchings to formulate the […]
Archiving and Curation of Pinacotheque of IFRS – 2022
Archiving, Research, Curation, and Collection Guided Tour, for The French Institute, Khartoum, Sudan The Muse multi studios was commissioned to create an inventory of The French Institute of Khartoum’s collection of Sudanese arts, collecting data on them and arranging a first set up for the event of the Open day on Saturday, 12th of November, […]
Identity of Soul – Exhibition review
For decades, Sudanese artists have been questioning the notion of identity. Whether in personal scopes or in larger contexts relating to society and the country as a whole. Whether through the explorations of the artists behind the Khartoum School, or the generations following them who took upon dismantling what we mean when we say the […]
Bold, Colourful, and Childlike? The Unconsciousness by Hani Khalil
September 2022 With a dive into the personal explorations of the mind, artist Hani Khalil unveils his “Unconsciousness” and what he deems a definition of himself, ideas, and reality. In the gallery hall of The French Institute in Khartoum, Sudan, Khalil surprised the audience with bold artworks soaking in unmissable strokes of red and black, […]
Vision board / Mindset, by Elhassan Elmuontasir
Personal perspective is what sets the difference between humans and how they see things. Elhassan, through his perspective, is approaching the political scene through the lens of the streets and combines that with his observations of how people consume and digest information and news; whether passed through or portrayed in traditional and digital media, and […]