Beya Othmani

Curatorial

Cantando Bajito: Chorus, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, USA
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Cantando Bajito: Incantations, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, USA
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Fella Tamzali: Arcanes, rizhome Gallery, Algiers, Algeria
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Cantando Bajito: Testimonies, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, USA
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From the void came gifts of the cosmos, 35 Ljubljana Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Publishing Practices #2, The Inner Bark of Trees, Exhibition and Public Program, at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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Jerba, Prototype 366, Islamic Arts Biennale, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in collaboration with L.E.FT Architects and Iheb Guermazi
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Publishing Practices #2, Forum of co-learning, Residency and Public Program, in Tunis, Tunisia
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Publishing Practices, This Bridge Can Get Us There, Exhibition and Public Program, at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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Unpacking Our Library #4, Conversation and Film Screening, with Wassyla Tamzali, Touda Bouanani, Léa Morin and Maya Ouabadi at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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Publishing Practices: Forum of Co-learning, Residency Program, at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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Alger Insolite, Public Program, in If a Tree Falls in a Forest, with UNTITLED DUO, Online
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Sonsbeek Council #1: Force Times Distance - On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies, Public Program, Tunis, Tunisia
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Shadow Circus, Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam, Exhibition, at Forum Expanded of the Berlinale, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear, Listening Session, with PUNGWE , at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear Days, Notes on the Sonic Body. Fleshing the Voice, 3-days Public Program, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #8, Sonic Gestures, Listening Session and Exhibition, with Pamela Z , at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #7, The Air was Filled with Sound as Far as your Ear Could See , Listening Session, with Jessica Ekomane Etoua, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #6, Eliane Radigue, Listening Sessions, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #5, Listening Session and Workshop, with Carlos Gutiérrez and Tatiana López, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #4, Udlot Udlot by José Maceda, Listening Session, with SAVVY Contemporary, at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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What has this all to do with Coconut and Rice? Maceda 101, Listening Exhibition, with SAVVY Contemporary, at Archive Sites, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #3, But Reality Has No Synonyms, Listening Session, with Lucrecia Dalt and Regina De Miguel, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Canine Wisdom for the Barking Dog: Exploring the Sonic Cosmologies of Halim El Dabh, Exhibition, for Dak’Art 13 Biennale, at IFAN Museum and Goethe Institut, Dakar, Senegal
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Untraining the Ear #2, Listening Session, with Audrey Chen, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Untraining the Ear #1, Listening Session, with Tara Transitory aka One Man Nation, at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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Writing

Cantando Bajito: Chorus, Ford Foundation Gallery, Conceptual note and artist texts, 2024︎︎︎
Sara Ouhaddou, ElaineAlain, 2024︎︎︎
Cantando Bajito: Incantations, Ford Foundation Gallery, Conceptual note and artist texts, 2024︎︎︎
Cantando Bajito: Testimonies, Ford Foundation Gallery, Conceptual note and artist texts, 2024︎︎︎

Fella Tamzali, Aracanes, Gallery rizhome, Exhibition text, April 2024︎︎︎
L’État Tunisien à la Biennale de Paris 1959-1971, la modernité globale contestée, Catalogue raisonnée Présences Arabes, Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, April 2024︎︎︎

35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, Conceptual note and artist texts, 2023︎︎︎
There is no void. There are only gifts calling our attention and action, Reader 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, 2023︎︎︎

Noir Hanibal, Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future, Sternberg Press, October 2023︎︎︎

Portrait of an artisan, a young hand gently caresses another, AGHSSAN Journal, The Neglected Margins : Inner and Outer Regions︎︎︎

Fela Kefi Leroux, Embracing Blackness at the First World Festival of Black Arts (Hyperalleric)︎︎︎

How North Africans Negotiated Blackness at the Dakar 1966 First Black Arts Festival (Hyperallergic)︎︎︎

Art Forum Critics’ Picks, Sonia Kacem, “Jelliz et Gestes” at Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis︎︎︎

Art Forum Critics’ Picks, Lucia Pizzani, “Meruntö: in the house of spirits” at Boss & Baum, London︎︎︎

Art Forum Critics’ Picks, Yesmine Ben Khelil, “New Flesh, the Feeling of the Evening is Deep” at La Boite, Tunis︎︎︎

Assia Djebar, Entre littérature et historiographie, FASSL numéro spécial Assia Djebar︎︎︎

L’artiste et l’artisan au début du 20ème siècle en Tunisie, Entretien avec Nadia Jelassi, CEMAT Tunis︎︎︎

Alger Insolite, Conceptual note︎︎︎

Publishing Practices, This Bridge Can Get us There, Conceptual note, Archive Berlin, co-authored with Chiara Figone, Emanuela Maltese and Paz Guevara︎︎︎

Publishing Practices #2, In the Inner Bark of Trees, Archive Berlin, Conceptual note, co-authored with Chiara Figone, Emanuela Maltese and Paz Guevara︎︎︎
UPCOMING: Becoming an Artisan, Of names and regimes of naming in Arts in Tunisia under the French Protectorate, 13th Rencontres of Bamako Reader, Archive Books
UPCOMING: Jellal Ben Abdallah (1921-2017), Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and Arab World, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art

Conversations and Lectures

Curatorial talk, ‘Cantando Bajito: Chorus’, featuring Susana Vargas Cervantes, Roxana Fabius, Beya Othmani, Mindy Seu, and Charlotte Kent, Brooklyn Rail, November 2024︎︎︎
In conversation with Nassim Azarzar, for ‘Maghrib Past and Present Podcast’, American Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT), Tunisia, September 2024︎︎︎
In conversation with Aisha Ariella Azoulay, 30.07.2023, Archive Sites Berlin, Germany

What is a curator?, Sprint'Art #2, July 2023, Tunisia

In conversation with Hrag Vartanian, 07.03.2023, Hyperallergic, Online︎︎︎

In conversation with Jessica Gerschultz, 13.01.2023, 32Bis,Tunis, Tunisia︎︎︎

In conversation with Ibrahim Mahama, 07.07.2022, 32Bis, Tunis, Tunisia ︎︎︎

Panel, Past and Present Portrayals of Habib Bourguiba, 10.10.2022, The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Tunis, Tunisia ︎︎︎

In conversation with Nadia Jelassi, 11.04.2022, CEMAT, Tunis, Tunisia︎︎︎

In conversation with Katia Kameli, 05.2021, Online︎︎︎With Katia Kameli, 05.2021, Online︎︎︎

In conversation with Rehab Hazgui, 16.06.2019, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany︎︎︎

Grants and Residencies

Delfina Foundation Residency for Curators, London, UK︎︎︎

Hyperallergic 2022/23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators, Online︎︎︎

CAORC / Andrew Mellon Art History Fellowship, Tunis, Tunisia︎︎︎

Mophradat Orbitals Program for Curatorial Research, Delhi, India︎︎︎

Juries

Projet Elyssa, Institut Français de Tunisie, 2024

AFAC Arab Fund for Arts and Culture North Africa Cultural Program (NACP), 2024

Mouhit, The Artist in Residence Program, 2023

Dox Box, Mouatheqat / Women in Dox, 2021

Dutch Art Institute, Kitchen respondent, 2020

Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Fond Culture Solidaire, 2020

BEYA OTHMANI

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