ROLE / FUNCTION
Aymen Gharbi is artistic director of INTERFERENCE Tunis in tandem with Bettina Pelz since 2016.
BACKGROUND
He is an architect and a curator. In 2015, he founded the DOOLESHA project, a collective of urban activists to research and map the interplay of historic settings, ongoing urban developments, and the sociocultural tissue of contemporary Medina. He headed projects like DOORA-FEL-HOUMA what is a sociocultural project to engage young locals in research and mediation of the present changes in the Medina. In 2017 and 2019, jointly with Bettina Pelz, he directed the International Media Art Biennial SEE DJERBA in Houmt Souk (tn).
EXHIBITIONS
2023 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS
2023 Gabes (tn), DCS ARTISTIC BOOTCAMP (2)
2023 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA
2023 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2023 Gabes (tn), DCS ARTISTIC BOOTCAMP (1)
2022 Tunis (tn), MISE EN LUMIERE
2022 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2022 Amman (jr), LIGHT ART LAB
2021 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2019 Ségou (ml), SEGOU YELEN
2019 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA
2018 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE
2017 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA
TEACHING
Since 2020 Sousse (tn), Academy of Fine Arts, Teaching Field: Curatorial Practice
2019 – 2022 Tunis (tn), TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS, Teaching Field: Moving Between Languages
INSTITUTIONAL WORK
2013 – 2015 Tunis (tn), National Institute Of Heritage (INP)
STUDIES
2010 – 2013 Sidi Bou Said (tn)| National School Of Architecture And Urbanism (ENAU)
BIO
Since 2010 Tunis (tn), Home in the Medina
1989 Born in Djerba (tn)
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