Beya Othmani

Curatorial

M’barek Bouhchichi: Les Graines Noires, Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
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post Presents: Assemblies in Uncertain Times, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
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Cantando Bajito: Convening in Chorus, Ford Foundation Gallery, 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

On Iconoclasms and Figuration Jinns, A conversation with Monia Ben Hamouda, “Path of Totality” monograph, Mousse Publishing, 2025 ︎︎︎
Fela Kefi Leroux, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, 2025, French version︎︎︎
Fela Kefi Leroux, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions, 2025, English version︎︎︎
Ahmed Morsi, moma.org, 2025︎︎︎
Jellal Ben Abdallah (1921-2017), Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and Arab World, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art︎︎︎

M’barek Bouhchichi: Les Graines Noires, Curatorial text, 2025︎︎︎
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︎︎︎
The Tunisian State at the Biennale de Paris, 1959-1971, Contesting Global Modernity, Présences Arabes Exhibition Reader (english), Musée d'Art moderne de Paris, October 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︎︎︎

Conversations and Lectures

Lecture, “The Battles of Algiers: The City as Postcolonial Allegory”, The Lives of Images in Post-Colonial Algeria, 11.2025, NYU Remarque Institute, New York︎︎︎
In conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Golden Threads and The Jewelers of the Ummah Book Talk, 03.2025, CARA, New York︎︎︎
Curatorial talk, ‘Cantando Bajito: Chorus’, featuring Susana Vargas Cervantes, Roxana Fabius, Beya Othmani, Mindy Seu, and Charlotte Kent, 11.2024, Brooklyn Rail, online︎︎︎
In conversation with Nassim Azarzar, for ‘Maghrib Past and Present Podcast’, 09.2024 American Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT), Tunisia︎︎︎
In conversation with Aisha Ariella Azoulay, 07.2023, Archive Sites Berlin, Germany

Lecture, What is a curator?, Sprint'Art #2, 07.2023, Tunisia

In conversation with Hrag Vartanian, 03.2023, Hyperallergic, Online︎︎︎

In conversation with Jessica Gerschultz, 01.2023, 32Bis,Tunis, Tunisia︎︎︎

In conversation with Ibrahim Mahama, 07.2022, 32Bis, Tunis, Tunisia ︎︎︎

Lecture, “Was Bourguiba Black?”, Past and Present Portrayals of Habib Bourguiba, 10.2022, The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, Tunis, Tunisia ︎︎︎

In conversation with Nadia Jelassi, 04.2022, CEMAT, Tunis, Tunisia︎︎︎

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

In conversation with Rehab Hazgui, 06.2019, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany︎︎︎

Editing

Seyni Awa Camara, The Power of Modeling, Maureen Murphy , 2024

Cultural Diplomacy and the Transnational Networks of the Gallery of Art of the Non-Aligned Countries “Josip Broz Tito”, Vuk Vuković, 2024

Jean-Michel Atlan: An Algerian Imprint on Postwar Modernity, Anissa Bouayed and Amandine Piel, 2024

Le peintre Jean-Michel Atlan, une empreinte algérienne dans la modernité d’après-guerre, Anissa Bouayed and Amandine Piel, 2024

A Woman in the World: Everlyn Nicodemus, Erica DiBenedetto, 2024

Missing and Lost People: Salah Elmur and Sudan, Melissa Gronlund, 2025

Houria Niati’s Visual and Sonic Evocations of Algerian Women, Katarzyna Falęcka, 2025
Pots, Mastery, and the Enduring Legacy of Ladi Dosei Kwali, Jareh Das, 2025
From Mask to Mask-Cans: Reflections on Heritage and Modernity in Romuald Hazoumè’s Work, Magali Ohouens, 2025
The Asilah Cultural Moussem: Tricontinental Meeting Points, Toni Maraini in conversation with Morad Montazami, 2025
The Harvest of Evelyn Ashamallah, Mariam Elnozahy, 2025
Mourning Against the Archive in Gabrielle Goliath’s Art, Stefanie Jason, 2026
A Painting in Pieces: The Defacing of Younousse Seye’s Mame Coumba Bang, Marion Johnson, Kristyna Le and Mackenzie Tor, 2026
From Ornament to Theory: Reimagining the “School of the Sign” as a Grammar of Liberation, Lydia Haddag, 2026

Fellowships and Residencies

C-MAP Africa Fellowship 2024-2026, The Museum of Modern Art, New York︎︎︎

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

Trobades & Premis Mediterrranis Albert Camus, IV Mediterranean Incipens Award , 2026

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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