Mariam Elnozahy

Mariam Elnozahy is a curator and writer based in Cairo currently working with Ma3azef.com. Previously, she curated exhibitions at the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo as well as exhibitions in Jeddah, London and Amsterdam. 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 Warsaw Biennale and the Matter of Art Biennale in Prague. She has published in Hyperallergic and MadaMasr.

Mariam Elnozahy is one of the participating artists of the exhibition Taking Stock (2021) at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. The exhibition Taking Stock shows the result of an artistic research that took place in Cairo, Egypt in 2020. The project is a response to the closure of the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art. The closure is an opportunity to investigate a series of events in the center of Cairo and the cultural scene in Egypt. Participating artists include: Mariam Elnozahy, Wouter Osterholt and Elke Uitentuis.