Bassam el Baroni is a curator and art critic from Alexandria, Egypt. He is the co-founder and director of Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum (ACAF), a collectively run, non-profit art space which has been in operation since December 2005.Baroni’s recent curatorial projects include You, Me and the Trajectories of a Post-Everything Era at PROGR Bern, Switzerland and ACAF 2005-2006; Cleotronica 08, Alexandria’s first international media art festival, 2008;Trapped in Amber: Angst for a Re-enacted Decade, co-curated with Helga-Marie Nordby at UKS, Oslo, Norway in 2009; and A.K.A. Education, which took place in Alexandria in 2009.
Baroni is the curator of ACAF’s contribution to Manifesta 8along with Associate Curator Jeremy Beaudry. Manifesta 8will be collaboratively curated by ACAF together with the Chamber of Public Secrets and Tranzit.org, and will open in Murcia, Spain in October this year.Alongside his curatorial projects, Baroni has most recently turned his attention to developing and performing a series of dramatised lectures entitled FOXP2, the latest in the series being FOXP2 New York in which he delivered his text to the sound of musical beats generated by the New York based beat-boxer Kenny Muhammad.
Today
Ongoing
Kasper König (1943–2024)
Obituary, 9 August – 9 September 2024
Vera Palme: The And
Lecture, 9 July 2024, 19:00
Zasha Colah
Lecture, 2 July 2024, 19:00
The Call
Exhibition, 28 June – 21 July 2024
Dylan Solomon KRAUS: The Seventh Point on the Six Sided Die
Lecture, 11 June 2024, 19:00
Listening Session
Event, 3 June 2024, 17:00–20:00
Tarik Kiswanson
Lecture, 28 May 2024, 19:00
Guerilla Architects: WE ARE SORRY!
Lecture, 21 May 2024, 19:00
Pio Abad: To Those Sitting in Darkness
Lecture, 14 May 2024, 19:00
Sir Peter Cook: CONSIDERING THE PICTURESQUE
Lecture, 13 May 2024, 19:00
Débora Delmar: Property
Lecture, 7 May 2024, 19:00
JUNGE KUNST MIT ZUKUNFT
Event, 4 May 2024, 18:00
Elisa R. Linn: The Berlin Wall as a Condom
Lecture, 2 May 2024, 19:00
R.H. Quaytman: Book
Lecture, 30 April 2024, 19:00
Camille Norment: Cultural Psychoacoustics
Lecture, 23 April 2024, 19:00
Phillip Zaiser (1969–2024)
Obituary, 6 April – 6 May 2024
Application: Master of Arts Program in CURATORIAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES
Information, 25 March – 31 May 2024
Water Cooler Talks 2024
Event, 10 February 2024, 10:00–18:00
Rundgang 2024
Exhibition, 9 – 11 February 2024, 10:00–20:00
Nora Turato: Lecture
Lecture, 6 February 2024, 19:00
Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé: Unmasking Series–Towards Public Co-creation
Lecture, 30 January 2024, 19:00
Unextractable? Sammy Baloji and Bénédicte Savoy in Conversation
Lecture, 25 January 2024, 19:00
Manon de Boer: Three Films
Lecture & Screening, 22 – 23 January 2024, 19:00
Ann Demeester: The Museum as Transhistorical ‘Garden of Consciousness’?
Lecture, 16 January 2024, 19:00
Moritz Fehr: Evocation, Installation, Simulation
Lecture, 9 January 2024, 19:00
Bassam el Baroni: Kicking Away the Ladders Notes on Curating Biennials in Socio-Economic Stationary State
Lecture 8 June 2010, 19:00 Aula, Städelschule, Dürerstraße 10, 60596 Frankfurt am Main