About

Tarek Abou El Fetouh is an independent curator and architect who lives and works in Brussels. His curatorial works include It’s Happening in the Garage”, Alexandria 2000;DisOrientation, House of World Cultures, Berlin in 2003; Roaming Inner Landscapes, Alexandria in 2004 and Sharjah Biennale 9 in 2009. He initiated Meeting Points – Festival for Contemporary Arts and curated the first four editions that took place across several cities in the Middle East. Abou El Fetouh has worked as Artistic Director of Meeting Points with curators Frie Leysen for MP5, Okwui Enwezor for MP6 and the Zagreb based collective WHW for MP7. His curatorial works include the exhibition of Home Works 6, organised by Ashkal Alwan in Beirut 2013, Lest the Two Seas Meet at MoMA, Warsaw in 2015, “The time is out of joint in Sharjah and Gwangju in 2016 and “A Captive of Love” in Red Bricks Museum, Beijing 2017. Tarek Abou El Fetouh is the curator of Abu Dhabi Art performing arts program Durub Al Tawaya.