Marie Akoury- Germany We are delighted to welcome multidisciplinary artist Marie Akoury, of French-Egyptian heritage and based in Berlin, Germany, participating in a month-long artist residency at the ARD Art Institution in Cairo, Egypt. During her residency, Marie engaged deeply with Cairo’s vibrant art scene, focusing on the fusion of textile, auditory, and spatial design. […]

Mari Kalabegashvili – Georgia We are delighted to welcome Georgian multimedia visual artist and cultural practitioner Mari Kalabegashvili. Mari will be spending a month-long artist residency in ARD, in collaboration with Ria Keburia Foundation.Mari Kalabegashvili is an emerging multimedia visual artist and cultural practitioner based in Georgia. She received her BA degree from the Visual […]

Léon Dubois – France We are delighted to welcome artist Léon Dubois from France who will spend a one-month artistic residency in ARD with the support of the French Institute of Egypt. Léon Dubois is an artist who works between France and Egypt, he combines film photography with archival research to take a contemporary look […]

Alexandra Baumgartner Alexandra Baumgartner uses photography as a tool within her research-led practice, converging documentary approaches with agricultural research, artistic interpretations, and on-site interventions. Her current work focuses on the entanglement of plant and human life and our responsibility towards what we call “nature” in a time marked by ecological crisis events. Examining relationships between […]

Christina de Korte In February and March 2023, Dutch artist Christina de Korte participated in an artist residency at the ARD Art Institution in Cairo, Egypt. During her residency at ARD, Christina delved deeply into the traditional Egyptian textile art of khayamiya, or tentmaking. She apprenticed under a local khayamiya master, Ahmed, learning the intricate […]