Maha Maamoun

Maha Maamoun, born in 1972, lives and works in Cairo. Besides her artistic practice in photography and video, she collaborates on independent publishing and curatorial projects. Her videos and photographs address the form and function of images that are found in mainstream culture. Maamoun’s approach keeps a balance between what is studied and what is intuitive, leaving room for the incidental to play itself out. Maamoun 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.

Solo exhibitions
2015 Like Milking a Stone, Rosa Santos, Valencia (ES). 2014 The Night of Counting the Years, Fridericianum, Kassel (DE). Lingering in Vicinity, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo.

Group exhibitions / festivals
2014 Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York (US). Section Forum Expanded, 64th Berlin International Film Festival. afterglow, Transmediale, Berlin. 2013 – 2014 Meeting Points 7: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks, Galerija Nova, Zagreb; M HKA, Antwerp (BE); Beirut Art Center; CiC, Cairo; Para Site, Hong Kong (CN); Wiener Festwochen, Vienna; V-A-C Foundation, Moscow. 2012 – 2014 Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; L’Institut du monde arabe, Paris; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia (ES); Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich (DE). 2013 Cairo. Open City: New Testimonies from an Ongoing Revolution, Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE). Shifting Gazes, Guest Projects, London. 2012 Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear, Tate Modern, London. Round Table, 9th Gwangju Biennale (KR). Liquid Archive, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne (AU).

Publications
Kayfa ta, since 2013 ongoing publishing project initiated together with Ala Younis, www.kayfa-ta.com
Maha Maamoun, Haytham El-Wardany (eds.), The Middle Ear, Part of the Manuals for Treason book project commissioned by 10th Sharjah Biennial, 2011.