Mai Abu ElDahab

Mai Abu ElDahab is a contemporary art curator from Cairo, living in Brussels since 2007. Her curatorial projects have been concerned with “how we work” as much as with the “what we do”. Before joining as director of Mophradat in fall 2014, she was most recently co-curator of the 8th Liverpool Biennial, and from 2007 to 2012, she was director of Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp. She has edited and co-edited many publications including 'Why Call It Labor? On Motherhood and Art work' (Mophradat and Archive Books), 'These are the tools of the present' (Mophradat and Sternberg Press, 2017), 'Final Vocabulary' (Mophradat and Sternberg Press, 2016), 'Circular Facts' (Sternberg Press, 2011) and 'The Agreement' by Hassan Khan (Sternberg Press, 2011), amongst others. She also commissioned three records, 'Afrata' by Maurice Louca (Mophradat 2021), 'Both Sides of the Curtain' by The Dwarfs of Eat Agouza (with Unrock, 2017) and 'Behave Like an Audience' by Concert (with Sternberg Press, 2013).