Information about the exhibition Persistence Through Joy, part of the SOMETHING ELSE III, Off Biennial, Cairo 2023

Persistence Through Joy

CITADEL SALADIN, CAIRO

November 24th - December 23rd 2023

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The third Cairo Off Biennial SOMETHING ELSE will feature more than 100 artists and collaborate with 17 curators from a wide variety of countries. The exhibition Persistence Through Joy curated by Power Ekroth and Sara Rossling is part of a Nordic collaboration, and will share spaces with an exhibition from Norway curated by Leif Magne Tangen and an Icelandic exhibition curated by Birta Gudjunsdottir. A performance programme, morphing masses, will be organized by Hanna Wildow.

The Nordic collaboration will be documented in a digital catalog designed by Hanna Bergman and Engy Aly that will be available after the opening. A version with only texts is available on PDF by clicking here or on the QR link.

Head curator: Simon Njami

Arranged by: Darb 1718

Nordic Exhibitions:

Persistence Through Joy

Artists: Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, Ida Idaida, Ikram Abdulkadir, Leif Holmstrand, Maxime Hourani, Salad Hilowle, Sigrid Holmwood, Tamara de Laval, Theresa Lekberg & Kateryna Seheda, Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Valeria Montti Colque.

Curators: Power Ekroth and Sara Rossling

Untitled (Family Resemblance)

Artists: Eva Svaneblom, Lene Berg, Lutz-Rainer Müller, Marita Isobel Solberg, Matti Aikio

Curator: Leif Magne Tangen

Glyphic Reverie - Dancing With Your Own Hands

Anna Julia Fridbjörnsdóttir, Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdottir, Sigridur Dora Johannsdottir, Gudjon Ketilsson, Ásta Fanney Sigurdardóttir

Curator: Birta Gudjonsdottir

morphing masses - a performantive space

Alva Willemark Mesaros, Dick Hedlund, Fatima Moallim in collaboration with Sofia Jernberg and Elena Wolay, Hanna Wildow, Makda Embaie, Malin Arnell, Mar Fjell, Sara Kaaman, Tony Karlsson Savci

Organized by Hanna Wildow

Other Nordic Artists participating in the biennial at large are:

Adam Jeppesen, Charlotte C. Haslund-Christensen, Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Pekka Niittyvirta & Timo Aho, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen.

The Nordic participation has been possible through generous support from Darb1718, Swedish Arts Council, Konstnärsnämnden/The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Cairo Embassy of Sweden, OCA Office for Contemporary Art Norway, and Island Mynd Stef Höfunda.