Mariam Elnozahy

Mariam Elnozahy is a curator, researcher, and writer. She currently serves as the Artistic Director of Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden where her program “Sacred Spaces” invites artists to address questions of religion and society. Previously, she ran exhibitions and programs at the Townhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art in Cairo (2016-2020).

She has also curated exhibitions in Copenhagen, Oslo, Uppsala, Amsterdam, Jeddah, Basel, and London, exploring histories of globalization, development, and resource extraction. Her project titled “Whose Open Society? Understanding Neoliberalism and the Economics of Artistic Production in the Middle East and former Eastern bloc” was presented at the Kunsthalle Wien, the Warsaw Biennale, and the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague.

Her writing has been published in Frieze Magazine, The Markaz Review, Hyperallergic, and MadaMasr. From 2020 – 2023 she worked at Ma3azef Magazine, an Arabic language online platform highlighting critical writing on music and sound. She was in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, NL from 2022-2023 investigating the archive of Royal Dutch Shell to understand the relationship between arts and extractive industries in the twentieth century. She holds a masters degree from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.

Mariam has been invited in collaboration with PUBLICS and will participate in Positioning, a symposium on curatorial thinking in the Nordic-Baltic region and beyond, taking place from the 29th of September until the 2nd of October.