Bassam El Baroni
Bassam El Baroni is Assistant Professor in Curating and Mediating art at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. From 2013-2018 he was a theory tutor and COOP lead tutor at the Dutch Art Institute. He was founding director of the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF) a now closed non-profit art center in Alexandria, Egypt from 2005 – 2012 and co-curator of the 8th edition of Manifesta – the European Biennial of Contemporary Art – in Murcia, Spain, 2010. Other notable projects include curating the 36th edition of Eva International - Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick, 2014 and ‘What Hope Looks like after Hope (On Constructive Alienation)’ at HOME WORKS 7, Beirut, 2015.
Other exhibitions and projects include: 2014: Walid Sadek’s solo project Inside Mourning in the Presence of the Corpse at the Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen. 2012: When it Stops Dripping from the Ceiling (An Exhibition That Thinks About Edification), Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; 2009: Trapped in Amber – Angst for a Re-enacted Decade (with Helga-Marie Nordby), UKS, Oslo; 2008: Cleotronica 08, Festival for Media, Art, and Socio-Culture, Alexandria (EG); 2005–2006: You, Me, and The Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era, ACAF, Alexandria, and PROGR, Bern (CH); 2011: the publication Fifteen Ways to Leave Badiou. He has led a number of intensive workshops, contributed texts to a variety of publications and delivered papers at a wide range of conferences and symposia including 2015: Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland 2014: A Culture Beyond Crisis? Curating in a Time of Violence at CalArts – Geothe Institute, Los Angeles, USA 2013: The ‘After Year Zero’ Conference programme at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 2012: Museums Beyond The Crises – CIMAM Annual Conference, SALT, Istanbul; Beyond What Was Contemporary Art, Part Two, The 3rd FORMER WEST Research Congress, Utrecht (NL); dOCUMENTA (13), Cairo Seminar; Timing: On the Temporal Dimension of Exhibiting, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (DE); 2011: Global art, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts; The Human Snapshot, Luma Foundation, Arles (FR). El Baroni is a PhD candidate in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Bassam@DAI:
2017-2018 Proximity Aesthetics: Constructing New Ecologies of Practice
2016-2017 In Dialogue with Robotics
2016 ROAMING ASSEMBLY#5
2015-2016 Constructive Alienation and the Anti-Sublime
2014-2015 Before Art: the Problem of Abstraction and it's Contradiction