Engy Mohsen
Engy Mohsen
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Preferred pronouns:she/her
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Birth year:1995
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my master's studies (MA Transdisciplinary Studies) at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). My research focuses on tracing self-organised art schools and study programs that exist or have temporarily existed over the recent years in the Arab world.
Quick Facts:
Engy Mohsen is an artist and curator who lives and works between Cairo and Zürich. Her work examines notions of ‘participation’ and ‘collectivity’ by creating frameworks that invite non-artists and artists to think about how spaces can be organized to include the ‘other.’ She is currently co-leading a READ lab by School of Commons. She was previously part of Artists for Artists (AfA) Masterclass: Radical Care, MASS Alexandria, Roznama Studio Program. She was most recently in residence at Art Omi, New York (2022); Rote Fabrik, Zürich (2021), Warehouse421’s ‘Homebound Residency’ (2020). She has received multiple awards and grants including Südkulturfonds’ 100 Artists; AFAC’s Visual Arts Grant (2021); Mophradat’s Grants for Artists (2021/2019) and Self-Organizations(2020); EU’s All-Around Culture; A.M. Qattan Foundations’s Visual Arts: A Flourishing Field (2021/2020); Pro Helvetia’s Parallel Sphere (2021); Warehouse421’s Project Revival Fund (2020); Art Jameel’s Research and Practice Platform (2020) among others. Engy Mohsen is one of the five founding members of K-oh-llective, an online platform for resource-sharing amongst artists, writers, and curators in Egypt and the Arab world.Three relevant works from the last 5 years of artistic practice:
- Machi Mashy (2022), a book by Engy Mohsen and Soukaina Joual on that reflect on the use of language as a medium and the subject matter simultaneously, with a focus on three specific dialects.
- Notes on Collaboration (2021), a project curated by Engy Mohsen and a book edited Mai Elwakil, to reflects on the notion of togetherness and collaboration in creative artistic practices.
- Chatrooms: On Curating Spaces (2020), a project by Engy Mohsen and Sarah Maher on convening, conversing and collective knowledge-making that took place in a series of curated happenings we call rooms.
