Working primarily in photography and video, Maha Maamoun’s work has been presented by many institutions worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York; ICP, New York; New Museum, New York; MuHKA, Antwerp; MATHAF – Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Makan, Amman; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen and Haus der Kunst, Munich.
Her work was also shown in biennials and festivals including the 6th Dak’art Biennial, Dakar; Bamaco 03, Mali; 9th Gwangju Biennale; Sharjah Biennial 10; Transmediale 2014, Berlin and 64th Berlinale, Berlin. Maamoun’s solo shows include Lingering in Vicinity, Gypsum Gallery and The Night of Counting the Years, Fridericianum, Kassel in 2014 and The Law of Existence at Sursock Museum, Beirut in 2017. In addition to her art practice, she has curated and partook in the curating of arts projects in the Middle East and Europe. She is a founding board member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) –an independent non-profit space for art and culture founded in Cairo in 2004. Maamoun also co-founded Kayfa Ta, a publishing initiative that uses the popular form of how-to manuals as books that situate themselves in the space between the technical and the reflective. Under the umbrella of Kayfa Ta, Maamoun co-curated the exhibition How to Reappear, an exhibition on independent publishing shown at MMAG Foundation, Amman and Beirut Art Center, Beirut in 2019. Maha Maamoun lives and works in Cairo, and her works are in private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Deutsche Bank, Bonnefantenmuseum, MuHKA, Sharjah Art Foundation, Barjeel Art Foundation, FRAC – Poitou Charentes and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Biography and portrait courtesy of Gypsum Gallery (Cairo)