I am a visual artist, working with photography and video. My practice center on representations of the self by investigating the different aspects of privacy, censorship, digital stagings, and body performance within the public and private sphere. My work was shown at Museum Rietberg, Zurich (2019) and the Museum of Photography, Braunschweig (2012), and shared in PhotoCairo 6th edition (2017) Cairo, The Marrakech Biennale 6th (2016), and “Autonomy of Self” (2015), at P21 Gallery, London. I had my BA In Applied Arts in 2010 (EG) and was a participant in MASS Alexandria study program in 2016 (EG). My project “Was That Really You?” was granted Goethe Institute fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2018 (DE) and Braunschweig Projects at HBK Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig in 2019 (DE). I am a member of few collectives, amongst them Cairo Bats, The Pensive Image, and Everyday Egypt, they draw attention to the city through image production.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017| Cairo | Contemporary Image Collective (CIC)| I will defend myself
2016| PortSaid | Mahatat for Contemporary Art | City Shadows
2016| Cairo | Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) | Cairo Bats Act 1: The Roof
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019| Zurich | Museum Reitberg | The Mirror
2019 | Braunschweig.de | Montagehalle | University of Art Braunschweig (HBK) | Every hundred feet the world changes
2017 | Mali | The National Museum of Mali | Biennale Africaine de la Photographie | Cairo Bats: The Roof
2016 | Marrakesh | Marrakesh Biennial 6th edition | parallel program
SELECTED GRANTS
2020 | Brussels | Mofradat Self Organizations
2019 | Brussels | Mofradat Artist grant
2015 | Cairo | Roznama edition 4 | Jury Prize
2014 | Netherlands | Prince Claus Fund | Travel grant
2014 | European Cultural Foundation | Travel grant
BIO
Lives in Cairo
1988 | Born in Cairo
FORMATION
2016 | Alexandria | Mass Alexandria | Independent Contemporary Art Studio
2005-2010 | Cairo | Hulwan University | BA Applied Arts
FELLOWSHIPS/CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAM
2018-2019 | Braunschweig.de | University of Art Braunschweig (HBK) | The Braunschweig Projects
2018 | Stuttgart, Dresden.de | Akademie Schloss Solitude | HELLERAU European Center for the Arts | Goethe Institute fellowship
2017 | Alexandria/Berlin | Harun Farocki Institute | Farocki Now Temporary Academy
2016 | Zurich | Zurich University of Arts | Negotiating Space, Art and Dissent Summer School
2015 | AlQusīr | Arab Digital Expression Foundation ( ADEF) Camp
2015 | Marrakech | Maroc Artist Meeting (MAM)
2012 | Cairo, Braunschweig | Museum Fur Photographie | Kairo open city project, New Testimonies from an Ongoing Revolution
2012 | Marseille | Studio Vortex | Photography workshop with Magnum Photographer Antoine D’Agata
TEACHING
2020-present | Cairo | American University in Cairo | Photography Adjunct Faculty
2020 | Alexandria | Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences | Media Lab Thematic Courses | How Do You Want To Be Seen?
LINKS
Artist’s website
www.nadiamounier.com
CairoSnaps
www.nadiamounier.tumblr.com
Cairo Bats Collective
https://cairobats.wixsite.com/cairobats