Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based curator, researcher and co-initiator/facilitator of several initiatives, including Metro54, a platform for experimental sonic, dialogic and visual culture and the Side Room: a room for eccentric practices and people together with dear friend and artist Maria Guggenbichler (2013-2016). Amal develops ongoing experimental and collaborative research practice, public programs and projects on global spatial politics, archives, colonialism, counter-culture, oral histories and popular culture.
Her projects and collaborations with people, collectives initiatives and institutions invite, stage, question and play with ‘uncomfortable’ issues that riddle, rewrite, remix, share and compose narratives in impermanent settings. Amal is currently part of the curatorial team of the quadrennial sonsbeek2020-2024 in Arnhem, Netherlands; senior research & public programmer at the Research Center for Material Culture, Netherlands and curatorial and research fellow at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar.
Since 2015, Amal has developed an ongoing collaboration with Framed Framed and (befriended) artists, organisers, curators/cultural producers, academics, activists and organisers on programs that range from gatherings to group shows, film screenings and parties.
In collaboration with artist and curator Barby Asante, Amal Alhaag co-initiated the ongoing collaborative project Diasporic Self: Black Togetherness as Lingua Franca (2019/2019) at Framer Framed in Amsterdam and at 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning in London. As part of the Metro54 team, she worked together with curator Rita Ouédraogo on A Funeral for Street Culture (2021), a multidisciplinary take-over at Framer Framed in Amsterdam.
