Hagar Ezzeldin
Visual Artist, Cairo

هاجر عزالدين
فنانة بصرية، القاهرة

^{‘’Hagar Ezzeldin's practice is based on a critical examination of history, narrative and domesticity. The Cairo-based artist works with diverse materials and media, such as performance, painting, drawings, installations and film, and deals with the representation, images and experiences of women, which are woven within social structures. Her work deals with the politics of representation and the duality of public and private space in a very honest, poetic and at the same time critical way’’

(Haris Giannouras - Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach) [2022/2023]}

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On The Im/Possibility Of Practice, Panel Discussion Modrated by Ismail Fayed, CIC Cairo Feb 2026.
‘Latent, yet, Operative’, Ard Institution For Arts, Cairo. [Jan 20th-Feb 17th, 2026]
Annual Editions, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany. [2023-2024]
‘A file that has nowhere to go’ Text, published online and archived by HBK Braunschweig Library. [ April 2023]

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Hagar Ezzeldin

Biograpghy

Hagar Ezzeldin is an Egyptian artist based in Cairo. Her work encompasses painting, installation, printmaking, artist books, performance, and video. She was a member of the Qaaf Laam collective from 2019 to 2021.

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).

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[English]

The Egyptian Gazette: ‘Middle-Class homes reimagined in new fair’, Alaa Kouddos Allah, June 2022, Egypt.
Mada Masr: ‘Roznama 8: Art At The End Of The World’, Ismail Fayed, 2021.
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[Arabic]

الفن عملاً: التاريخ النقدي لمفهوم الاستقلالية، علي العدوي، مجلة فُمْ العدد ١١:العمل اغتراباً والركود تخريباً، ١٧ إبريل ٢٠٢٤

Independent Arabia: ٣فنانات يستحضرن وجوها مصرية نسوية بفن الكولاج، ياسر سلطان، يوليو ٢٠٢٢
Al Araby: استحضار الغياب..خيالات في آلبوم اللاوعي واستعادة لدرية شفيق
Mada Masr: أنماط مختلفة من التذكر في «استحضار الغياب», حسين الحاج، يوليو ٢٠٢٢
Ashraq Al-awsat : استحضار الغياب، في القاهرة يستعيد مقتطفات من جماليات الماضي، نادية عبدالحليم، يونيو ٢٠٢٢
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