Join us on Thursday, May 26th 2022

Tamara Al Samerraei, Visual Arts, Kuwait
Born in Kuwait in 1977, Tamara Al Samerraei is a painter who lives and works in Beirut. Her solo exhibitions include What Floats in Space, Marfa’ Projects, Beirut (2019); Make Room For Me, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2014).  She has participated in several group and duo exhibitions including Heavenly Beings: Neither Human Nor Animal, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM, Ljubljana (2018); Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbours, MAXXI museum, Rome (2017); Tamawuj-Sharjah Biennial13, Sharjah (2017); On Water, Rosemary and Mercury in Homeworks 7, Beirut (2015).

Maha Maamoun, Visual Arts, Egypt
Maha Maamoun is an Egyptian visual artist and curator based in Cairo. Her artistic practice has been widely presented in solo and group shows. She is a founding member of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), a non-profit space for art and culture founded in Cairo in 2004. In 2012, she co-founded Kayfa ta – an independent publishing platform that publishes book series and curates exhibitions relating to alternative publishing practices. Maamoun is a member of the curatorial team of Forum Expanded (Berlinale) and the Akademie der Kunst der Welt (Cologne).

Enrique Ramírez, Visual Arts, Chile
Enrique Ramírez was born in 1979 in Santiago de Chile. Since 2010, he has lived and worked between Paris, France and Santiago, Chile. He studied popular music and cinema in Chile before joining the postgraduate masters program in contemporary art and new media at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France. In 2014 he won the discovery prize from Les Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. He was invited to the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia curated by Christine Macel and was nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2020.

Thursday, May 26th 2022
Welcome cocktail at 6:00pm
Presentations begin at 6:15pm
Please write to news@civitella.org to reserve a spot for this presentation.
Please wear masks inside the Castle.