Beya Othmani
Tunisia

National Cultural Opportunities Fund (NCOF) - 2024
Beya Othmani is an art curator and researcher from Algeria and Tunisia. Currently, she is the C-MAP Africa Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and the CAORC/Andrew Mellon Art History fellow with the American Center for Maghrebi Studies in Tunis. Her recent curatorial projects include Cantando Bajito at the Ford Foundation Gallery (2024), the Ljubljana 35th Graphic Arts Biennial and Publishing Practices #2 at Archive Berlin (2023). Previously, she took part in the curatorial teams of various projects with sonsbeek20→24 (2020), the Forum Expanded of the Berlinale (2019), and the Dak’Art 13 Biennial (2018) and was a curatorial assistant at the Berlin-based art space SAVVY Contemporary. Some of her most recent projects have explored feminist publishing practices, post-colonial histories of print-making, and the construction of racial identities in art in colonial and post-colonial Africa.