Amal Alhaag

Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based curator, cultural organizer, and educator. Her work unfolds through short- and long-term collaborations with people, collective initiatives and institutions, emphasizing, unlearning, dialogic practice, building infrastructures and transformative justice. Alhaag is the initiator, facilitator, and collaborator of various interdisciplinary platforms, including Metro54, Sustaining the Otherwise, and The Anarchist Citizenship.

In 2010, she co-founded Metro54, a platform and space for global sonic, cultural, and artistic practices, gatherings, (un)learning, histories, grassroots community work, spatial politics, and transformative justice in the Netherlands.

From 2015 to 2022, she was Senior Curator of Public Programming and Research at the Research Center for Material Culture, where she led public programs and research projects on slavery’s past, gender, colonial collections, and popular culture as heritage.

In 2018, she initiated the curatorial research project Technologies of Certain Bodies, which was exhibited as part of the Dutch Pavilion Work, Body & Leisure at the Venice Architecture Biennale. 

In recent years, Alhaag was co-curator of the quadrennial sonsbeek20→24 in Arnhem, a curatorial and research fellow at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, and a scholar-in-residence at the Eye Museum. Currently, she is leading the multi-locational research and artistic project Sustaining the Otherwise with Amal Alhaag, which will take place in various locations throughout Africa and Europe over the next few years.

Amal will give a presentation at Frame’s office on Thursday 20.03 between 17.00-19.00