Khaled Bouzidi is the founder and director of rhizome, a contemporary art gallery based in Algiers, which functions at the same time as a gallery dedicated to institutional exhibitions and as an artists’ residency housed in the former house and studio of Algerian modern painter and thinker Mohammed Khadda. Prior to rhizome, Khaled oversaw the cultural program at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Algeria and has collaborated on several national and regional cultural and artistic projects. From 2012 to 2016, he coordinated the Trans-Cultural Dialogues platform for which he organized cultural and artistic events in Algeria and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, including large-scale public arts projects such as DJART and El-Medreb.

A graduate of Gazi University in Ankara, Turkey and holding a masters degree in arts and politics from Sciences Po.