Abdellah Karroum

Abdellah Karroum is Director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar. Karroum has organized and co-curated numerous international exhibitions and programs for various institutions including capcMusée dart contemporain de Bordeaux, where he worked from 19931996; the 2006 DAKART Biennial for African Contemporary Art; the Position Papers program in the Gwangju Bienniale 2008 (invited by the artistic director Okwui Enwezor), and the 2009 Marrakech Biennale, among others. He is also a member of the Prince Pierre Monaco Foundations Artistic Council for its International Contemporary Art Prize. Karroum is the founder and artistic director of several art projects: most notably, Lappartement 22, an experimental collaborative space for exhibitions and artists residencies founded in 2002 in Rabat, Morocco; and the Le Bout Du Monde art expeditions, a long term project which has taken place in different locations around the globe since 2000. In 2007 Karroum launched the web radio R22 as an extension of Lappartment 22.

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