Dina A. Mohamed ~ Keywords: inter-subjective, political, privilege, state violence, political dispare, agency, class, labor, movement, integration, cities, memory, technology
Dina A. Mohamed is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Amsterdam whose work explores the intersections of art, social justice, and Technology. Her practice moves fluidly between Video, performance, writing, and pedagogy, often focusing on how art can witness, contest, and transform systems of power.
She is a Lecturer at Leiden University, where she teaches Social and Ecological Justice in Visual Art. Starting from 2025, she teaches Critical Practice Theory at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, where she was a guest tutor for Crafting Social Change: AI and Socially Engaged Art. She was the convener of the Post-Academic Fellowship (2023–2024) at Basis Voor Actuele Kunst (Utrecht), and previously worked as an artistic advisor for the Behna School of Visual Arts (2022–2023) in Alexandria, Egypt.
She is the author of the chapter “Al-Nitaq Festival (2000), Case Study, Egypt)” in Contemporary Art and Transnational Capitalism: Globalization, Social Change and the Other (Routledge, 2021), and the article “The Body Keeps the Score” in Untold Mag (2024). Her article “From Glorifying the Victorious to Observing Suffering: Artistic Memory Bears Witness to Transformation” was published in Alinsani, the Arabic magazine of the International Committee of the Red Cross (2022). Forthcoming publications include “The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts: A Reading and Reflection on the Use of Montage in the Opening Scene of City of God (2002)” in the anthology A Cut Through The Screen – Struggles’ Reverberations in Cinema (Archive Books), as well as a collective contribution with her group *Fuck Healing (?) * in Resistance, Activism and Health (Oxford University Press).
Her artistic work has been presented at international festivals including Dancing on the Edge (Netherlands), Camden Fringe (London), Short Theatre Festival (Rome), Beyond the Black Box Festival (Amsterdam), Amsterdam Fringe Festival, and Over het IJ Festival (Amsterdam), among others. She is also the co-founder of the Amsterdam-based collective Fuck Healing (?).
She holds a BA in Philosophy from the American University in Cairo, an MA in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (ArtEZ), and is currently pursuing her PhD at Leiden University.
Learn more about Dina Mohamed’s 20 minute presentation You Are A Libra Whether You Believe In Astrology or Not for "AEROPONIC ACTS - growing roots in air" DAI's annual 3-day performance lectures marathon, May 2019 at Silent Green in Berlin.
Learn more about Dina Mohamed’s written MA thesis (DAI, 2019): The Organic Artist: On the Integration of Art and Society
Dina Mohamed’s "Life after DAI" through her website and instagram
Dina Mohamed returned to DAI as Kitchen respondent at several occasions. She moderated the How To Undo Things With Theory symposium in Bergamo (2021) and is a member of the DAI's Admission Committee. Per October 2024 Dina stepped into the role of research curator, mediating the HTDTWT curriculum component, as well as organizing APRiCot Garden.