Native Creatives - Amal Khalaf

Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist and currently Director of Programmes at Cubitt and Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries where she has worked on the Edgware Road Project since its inception in 2009. Here and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects at the intersection of arts and social justice and recently launched Support Structures for Support Structures, a fellowship and grant programme for artists working in the field of community practice and spatial politics.

Working with artists, activists, architects, broadcasters, students, urbanists, social services, teachers and labour organisers across different backgrounds, the many long term projects she has initiated, focus on how we work together and the possibilities of collectivity.

She is a founding member of artist collective GCC and is also a trustee for not/no.w.here and Art Night, London. Recently, she curated Sensing the Planet a gathering of musicians, arists and climate justice activists in Dartington, Devon. In 2019 she curated Bahrain’s pavilion for Venice, in 2018 she co-curated an international arts and social justice conference called Rights to the City in London and in 2016 she co-directed the 10th edition of the Global Art Forum, Art Dubai.