Artist-in-Residence

December 2025
Ali Hussein AlAdawy is a curator, critic, and researcher specializing in film, moving images, and urban contemporary art practices. His work engages with global critical theory and modern cultural history. He has curated numerous film programs and exhibitions, including Labor Images (since 2019), Serge Daney: A Homage and Retrospective (2017), and Harun Farocki: Dialectics of Images (2018). He co-curated The Art of Getting Lost in Cities: Barcelona & Alexandria (2017) and Benjamin and the City (2015). A founding member of Tripod, an online magazine for film criticism (2015–2017), he was a member of the editorial team of TarAlbahr, a platform for urban and art practices in Alexandria (2015–2018). He holds an MA from Bard College, New York, focusing on the intersections of human rights and contemporary art.