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Amira Gad is an independent art curator, writer, and editor in modern and contemporary art and architecture. She's currently Curator at Large (Arts Technologies) at KANAL - Centre Pompidou in Brussels as well as working on forthcoming exhibitions in a number of institutions including at Het HEM. Previously, she was Head of Programs at LAS Art Foundation in Berlin (2020-2023), curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London (2014-2020), and Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam (2009-2014). She's Egyptian, born in France and grew up in Saudi Arabia.

Career

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At LAS, she curated exhibitions by Ian Cheng, Libby Heaney, an appbyJudy Chicago and her program also included a series of dance performances by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar (curated by Claude Adjil), an exhibition by Jakob Kudsk Steensen (curated by Emma Enderby), kickstarted Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg's Pollinator Pathmaker garden at Berlin's Natural History Museum as well as LAS Online, a series of digital commissions.

From 2009 to 2014, Gad was Managing Curator and Publications at Witte de With Center for Contemporary ArtinRotterdam.[1] In her time at the institution, she curated exhibitions and public programs including the show ‘Short Big Drama’ with artist Angela Bulloch (co-curated with Nicolaus Schafhausen in 2012), ‘The Temptation of AA Bronson’ (2014) and the 2-day conference I AM FOR AN ART CRITICISM THAT… held at Witte de With Center for Center for Contemporary Art[1] and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam curated with the-then artistic director Defne Ayas.

Gad worked as a curator at the Serpentine Galleries in London from 2014 to 2019. She curated exhibitions of work (and edited the accompanying publications) by artists Arthur Jafa (2017), Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (2016), Jimmie Durham (2015),[2] and Hito Steyerl (2019) amongst others.

Her exhibition of Arthur Jafa's work ‘A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions’ (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist) toured to the Julia Stoschek Collection (Berlin, 2018), Galerie Rudolfinum in Prague [3][4] and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm (2019).[5]

Sondra Perry's 2018 Serpentine Galleries exhibition ‘Typhoon Coming On’[6] traveled to the Institute of Contemporary Art[7] in Miami while the Torbjørn Rødland exhibition ‘The Touch That Made You’ she curated in 2017 toured to the Fondazione Prada Osservatorio in Milan.[8]

Alongside working on exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, Gad was the curator working on the public commission by Lee Ufan installed in Kensington Gardens in 2018, as well as part of the selection committee that appointed Japanese architect Junya Ishigami for the 2019 Serpentine Pavilion[9] and the curator on Serpentine 2016 architecture programme that presented Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Asif Khan, Kunlé Adeyemi (NLE), Yona Friedman, and Barkow Leibinger.[10]

Selected exhibitions

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Other activities

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Gad is a regular guest lecturer at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London and other art schools in addition to giving talks,[28] leading masterclasses and workshops such as Frieze Academy's day-long event ‘How to Curate an Exhibition’.[29]

Bibliography

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Awards and honours

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Amira Gad – Participants – Witte de With". wdw.nl. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "May You Live in Interesting Times by Arthur Jafa. 2019 Golden Lion | The Strength of Architecture | From 1998". metalocus.es. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ Šálek, Petr (January 22, 2019). "Arthur Jafa a mimořádná setkání s jeho tvorbou v Galerii Rudolfinum". ARTmagazin.eu (in Czech). Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Arthur Jafa". Galerie Rudolfinum. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Arthur Jafa". Moderna Museet i Stockholm. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "sondra perry". sondraperry.com. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Sondra Perry". Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "TORBJØRN RØDLAND: THE TOUCH THAT MADE YOU – Fondazione Prada". fondazioneprada. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Japanese Architect Junya Ishigami Will Design 2019 Serpentine Pavilion". Artforum. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "What We're Seeing: Amira Gad on the Serpentine Pavilion 2016 | Journal | The Modern House". themodernhouse. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Adrift in the chroma key blues: A chat with Sondra Perry on black radicality + things that are yet to happen in Typhoon coming on". atractivoquenobello. May 1, 2018. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ Taher, Gamal El-Din (September 28, 2018). "Salem Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Ruler's Office, officially inaugurates conceptual art exhibition at Sharjah Art Museum". بوابة شموس نيوز (in Arabic). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Interview – Torbjørn Rødland". Paper Journal. October 4, 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ AnOther (October 3, 2017). "The Photographer Creating Scenes That'll Get Under Your Skin". AnOther. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Arthur Jafa: A SERIES OF UTTERLY IMPROBABLE, YET EXTRAORDINARY RENDITIONS – Announcements – e-flux". e-flux. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ Carolin, Clare (October 31, 2017). "Amira Gad Plots New Directions at the Serpentine". Garage. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ a b "Zaha Hadid: artist or architect?, Monocle on Design 276 – Radio". Monocle. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres: Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos – Announcements – e-flux". e-flux.com. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "ArtAsiaPacific: Hack Space". artasiapacific. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ Fuca, Yuan (May 12, 2017). "'The Limit of the Perfect Question': Raqs Media Collective's Shanghai Biennial". ARTnews. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Three exhibitions Serpentine Gallery London". 1995-2015.undo.net (in Italian). Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ Tiernan, Kate. "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: 'Maybe I'm not as interested in people as I thought I was'". Studio International – Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ a b Nathan, Emily (November 16, 2016). "Julio Le Parc and Art That Won't Stand Still". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Aesthetica Magazine – Reshaping Minimalism". Aesthetica. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Home". kunsthallewien.at. Archived from the original on February 26, 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "The Temptation of AA Bronson at Witte de With Rotterdam". artmap.com. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "SHORT BIG DRAMA – Angela Bulloch – Announcements – e-flux". e-flux. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "LEVIATHAN: Art, Ethics, Schizophrenia & the Marine Environment | Symposium at HE.RO Gallery". A Tale of a Tub. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Masterclass: How to... Curate an Exhibition". Eventbrite. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
  • ^ "Lee Ufan: The Art of Encounter". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ Sondra Perry Typhoon Coming On ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2018 Catalog Koenig Books Books Exhibition Catalogues 9783960982777.
  • ^ Gad, Amira; Constable, Joseph (2017). Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch that Made You. ISBN 978-3960982371.
  • ^ "Arthur Jafa". Cornerhouse Publications. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ Gad, Amira; Constable, Joseph (2017). A World View: John Latham. ISBN 978-3960980902.
  • ^ Gad, Amira; Gryczkowska, Agnes (2016). Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings. Serpentine Galleries. ISBN 978-3-96098-057-5.
  • ^ Marten, Helen; Obrist, Hans Ulrich; Peel, Yana; Gad, Amira; Constable, Joseph; Serpentine Sackler Gallery (2016). Drunk brown house. ISBN 978-1-908617-40-8. OCLC 962423438.
  • ^ "Considering Dynamics and the Forms of Chaos". Sternberg Press. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "Serpentine Pavilion & Summer Houses 2016". Serpentine Galleries. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ Digicult, Redazione. "Simon Denny: Products for Organising". Digicult | Digital Art, Design and Culture. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Jimmie Durham: Various Items and Complaints : Julia Peyton-Jones : 9781908617309". www.bookdepository.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Verses After Dusk | Serpentine Galleries | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Character Is Fate". Cornerhouse Publications. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "The Crime Was Almost Perfect". Sternberg Press. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "New releases from Witte de With publishers". e-flux. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "Morality in Fragments - Publications - Program - FKA Witte de With". fkawdw.nl. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ Lidwien van de Ven Rotterdam ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2013 Catalog Witte de With Publishers Books Exhibition Catalogues 9789073362994.
  • ^ Angela Bulloch Source Book 10 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2012 Catalog Witte de With Publishers Books Exhibition Catalogues 9789491435003.
  • ^ "ON SUPER-DIVERSITY - Publications - Program - FKA Witte de With". fkawdw.nl. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ "Miki Kratsman at Ursula Blickle Stiftung Kraichtal - Artmap.com". artmap.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  • ^ Wise, Louis (October 21, 2018). "Meet the women leading the art world, including the directors of Tate and Frieze". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Richard Schlagman Art Book Awards". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Symposium: Art, Ethics, Schizophrenia & the Marine Environment". A Tale of a Tub. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ "Archief Books". De Best Verzorgde Boeken. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  • ^ Wolf, Joke de (July 7, 2014). "Nominaties AICA Oorkonde 2014 bekend". AICA Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 19 September 2019.

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