Beya Othmani

Curatorial

post Presents: Assemblies in Uncertain Times, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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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, Arcanes, 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

In conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Golden Threads and The Jewelers of the Ummah Book Talk, CARA, New York, March 2025︎︎︎
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

Maghreb Photography Award, 2025

Projet Elyssa, Institut Français de Tunisie, 2024-2025

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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