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Hagar Ezzeldin

Visual Artist /Researcher


Biography
      

Hagar Ezzeldin is an Egyptian artist based in Cairo. Her work encompasses painting, installation, printmaking, artist books, performance, and video.

Her work critically approaches representations of the everyday, delving into the aesthetics of the middle class. She employs art as a tool to critically examine and challenge conventional representations of everyday life. Notably, her M.A. project, on Women's Visual Representations in Modern and contemporary Egyptian Art, focused on the ways in which women's experiences are narrated and imagined through various visual mediums, including video art, painting, magazine covers, and illustrations this analysis extends over a timeline from nineteenth-century Orientalist canvases to contemporary art practices by Egyptian women artists in public sphere.

Ezzeldin's work has been exhibited at the 44th General Exhibition in Cairo, Egypt; Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany; Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo, Egypt; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt. It has also been included in "Emergency Index Vol.9" (Ugly Duckling presse/ New York).

Additionally, she has participated in the BS projects residency program at HBK Braunschweig, Germany (2022-2023), and the 5th International Visual Methods conference: Visualizing the City at Singapore Institute of Technology (2017).

Education and training
  • [2014-2017]: Master’s degree in Visual Representations Of Women In Modern and Contemporary Egyptian Art, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2016]: Anthropology and art / Winter semester, The American University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2004-2009]: Decoration Dep./Bachelor, Faculty of Applied Arts, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.


Presentations and conferences
  • [2018]: Presenting a research/ Researcher, Tawsheesh Festival, Goethe institute, Cairo, Egypt.

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[2017]: Presenting a research/ Researcher, The 5th visual methods: visualizing the city conference, SIT, Singapore.
  

Residencies, Grants and Fellowships

  • [2024] Studio El-Takhshina, Goethe Institute, Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2022-2023] BS-Projects, HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

  • [2020] The Institutional Collapse, Artists For Artists Masterclass ‘AFA’, Online, International.

  • [2019] Roznama 7 Studio program, Medrar For Contemporary Arts, Cairo, Egypt.


 Selected exhibitions
  • [2024] The 44th General Exhibition, Mahmoud Moukhtar Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

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[2023-2024] Annual Editions, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

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[2023] Cleaving The Wind Into Fragments, HBK Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.

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[2022] Retrieving Absence, The Contemporary Image Collective ‘CIC’, Cairo, Egypt.

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[2021] Rosnama 8 Exhibition, The Contemporary Image Collective ‘CIC’ and Medrar For Contemporary Arts,Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2019] Domestic Fantasies 1 ‘performance’, Museum of Fine Arts, Alexandria, Egypt.

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[2019] Studio Rosnama 7 , Medrar For Contemporary Arts, Cairo, Egypt.

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[2017] Thesis Exhibition, Faculty of applied arts-Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2016] Mohamed Abla Painting Award Exhibition, Greek Campus AUC, Cairo, Egypt.

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[2014] Youth Salon, Mahmoud Mokhtar Museum, Cairo, Egypt.

  • [2012] L’recontres de l'image Festival, The French Institute, Cairo, Egypt.


  • [2012] Film screening, Rawabet theatre/Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt.


Selected Publication and press:
[English]




[Arabic]
  • Nahla Hegaji, TV interview at ‘Maspero’ The Egyptian National TV and Radio Station, consulted on September, 2023.







Professional contributions :

  • [2019-2021]:  Broadcasting, Research and Evaluation group work/ Qaaf Laam collective member, Cairo, Egypt.

       - Researched and conducted a radio program for Radio Alhara, an online radio station.

       - Assisted in institutional evaluation services.

       -Wrote, researched, and moderated the text and roundtable discussion "Why do we form               collectives?" as part of ‘Notes on Collaboration’ publication and exhibition, which was                   edited by Mai El-Wakil and curated by Engy Mohsen.

       -Contributed to a published a group discussion on the topic of "Working From Home"
         on the Mada Masr website.


  • [2015- present]: A commercial artist, have worked with many leading interior design companies and showrooms in Egypt, integrating fine art with design concepts and styles. with a particular focus is on the design history of ornaments associated with traditional folkloric, Coptic, and Islamic cultures."