Hadeel Eltayeb is a curator who explores identity and cultural production in her work. She is currently Assistant Curator at the Design Museum. Past roles include as Associate Curator at The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar (2017-2021), where she was lead curator on exhibitions From Visionaries to Vloggers: media revolutions in the Middle East (spring 2020) and The World is Watching Musalalat (spring 2023). She was Curator and Arts Manager at Al Riwaq Art Space in Bahrain (2015-2017), supervising exhibitions, artist residencies and two editions of the The Nest design festival in 2015 and 2016. Other notable projects include as co-curator of This Will Have Been: Archives of Past, Present and Future with Locale Sudan (2019), and as co-curator of [Media]tions with Mawane (2017).  She was a 2019 Research fellow of the British Council at Venice Biennale, and her research project ‘Cultural Imagination and Cultural Memory in Venice’ was developed into a wider collaboration with the School for Curatorial Studies in Venice. Past curatorial roles have given her the opportunity to specialize in oral history projects, sound art, modern and contemporary art from South West Asia and North Africa, particularly public art and street art, working on international projects. Following her graduation from King’s College, University of London, with a BA( Hons) in English Literature and Language, she worked on an exhibition project with the Victoria and Albert Museum (Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s–1990s) as well on projects with the Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, and an oral history museum in East London. She also holds an MA in Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries and a diploma in cultural heritage (NVQ, UK).

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