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.
Solo Exhibitions:
(2024) Garden of Fake Tulips: Maq’ad Al-Sultan Qaitbey – MASQ, Cairo, Egypt
(2024) Inside the corner pink house: Bibliothek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
(2022) Middle voids: The French Institute, Khartoum, Sudan
(2021) Born in memory: Savannah innovation labs, Khartoum, Sudan
Group Exhibitions: Selection
Disturbance in The Nile
(2024) Casa Arabe, Madrid, Spain
(2023) Broteria art gallery / Downtown Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
(2024) The Wandering of Dreams: Gallery Melike Bilir, Hamburg, Germany
(2023) Home: A Daydream: Tribal gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
(2023) Can creativity change the world: Saatchi art gallery & Moleskine Foundation, London, UK
(2023) The gold of the grandmother: Mouches Volantes, Cologne, Germany
(2023) Surfacing: Xsonson Art Space & Tewasart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda
(2022) The forest and desert school revisited: Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya
(2022) Bad posture: Eclectica contemporary, Cape town, South Africa
(2020 – 2021) Art in isolation: creativity in the time of covid 19: The Middle east Institute,Washington Dc.
Art Fairs:
(2023) ARTLIFE FEST 2023, ArtLife Academy, Moscow, Russia
(2022) FNB Art Joburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
Selected talks:
(2023) Sudan Today, Revolutionary consciousness & Transnational Solidarity, Orfalea Center
(2023) Contemporary arts and war in Sudan, INSPIRE PROJECT Seminar
(2022) WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE: Conference by Tasawar collective, Tunis, Tunisia
Awards & Residencies:
(2023) NextLevel Production Fund Award, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt
(2022) Wijhat Grant, Culture Resource, Tunis, Tunisia
(2020) Sudan Moves Residency, Goethe Institute, Khartoum, Sudan
Photo by Mazin Alzain
