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Vilma has dedicated her career to developing creative industries across New York, Chicago, London and Dubai. She joined Alserkal in 2012 and, in her time with the organisation, she has been instrumental in its evolution and responsible for overseeing Alserkal Avenue’s physical expansion of US$20 million in 2015. Vilma has also been the driving force behind Alserkal’s non-profit activities in the arts, which were formalised under Alserkal Arts Foundation in 2019, affirming the organisation’s commitment to artistic production, scholarship and research.

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Zeinab Alhashemi is an Emirati conceptual artist based in Dubai. Since graduating from Zayed University with a BA in arts and science specialising in multimedia design, she has become known for her large-scale contemporary site-specific installations. Alhashemi is fascinated with capturing the transformation of the UAE and examines the contrast and interdependence between the abstract, geometric shapes of urbanism and the organic forms associated with her country’s natural landscape. Since the days of Alhashemi’s childhood, the familiarity of traditional scenery and nature has largely been disturbed to facilitate the rise of the man-made. In her experimental installations, she searches for a new identity appropriate to the modern condition and deconstructs the viewers’ understanding of their surroundings, introducing an alternative point of view, and creating a new perception of that reality. Drawing inspiration from the natural topography of the UAE, Alhashemi experiments with a variety of materials to position the viewer over the intangible boundary between the natural and the artificial. While colour and texture make her work reminiscent of the traditional landscape, such familiarity is disturbed by the striking contrast of industrial materials that remind the viewer of human interference. Alhashemi’s work captures the essence of her homeland today, striking a delicate balance between modernism and tradition in an unexpectedly harmonious coexistence. She has participated in numerous art fairs and festivals such as Sikka Art Fair, Dubai Design Week, and Sharjah Biennial 11 and was recently commissioned by the Institute de France and the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) Abu Dhabi to showcase her work at the inauguration of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Currently she is one of the artists in residence for SETI-Institute in San Francisco, and her work was featured in EXPO2020 Dubai at the Sustainable Pavilion. She also participated in Desert X in AlUla, KSA in 2022.

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Ahmed Karaly graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1994 and participated in the annual Youth Salon exhibition organised by the Ministry
of Culture where he received numerous awards. His first solo exhibition took place at the Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art in 2002. He subsequently participated in the Aswan International Sculpture Symposium (AISS), the first of many international symposia for stone sculpture around the world.

In 2005, he received the State Award for creativity and travelled to Italy, where he presented his project al-Masrkhankiyeh, a reconstruction of Islamic architecture in sculptural form, creating a vision for an entire city starting with its gates. The project was presented at the Egyptian Academy of Fine Arts in Rome in 2006 and at the Gezira Centre for the Arts in Cairo in 2008. Karaly is currently working on completing this sculptural city.

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Born in Alexandria 1972, Graduated from the Faculty of specific Education, department of Art Education , Alexandria University 1993. Participated in a large number of public and group exhibitions in Egypt& abroad, He held three solo exhibitions in Egypt and one solo exhibition in Serbia. His art works collected in museums & private collections in Egypt, France, Spain, UAE، KSA, Turkey, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Serbia, Morocco & Romania.

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The artist, Vivian Al-Batanony, has been participating in the plastic movement since 1998 until now.... She is interested in expressing human feelings. such as love, calm, poise, stillness, and social concepts such as opposing relationships, power, and the relationship with the other through the use of The well-known symbols that carry content and do not refer to the meaning and plastic vocabulary of the straight line and the curves The light through the prominent and the darkness through the innermost and put them in a plastic sentence depending on the interaction of the recipient with the artwork To communicate the business idea.

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Ali is an Egyptian artist born in 1987 and graduated from Law school in 2011. Ali decided to follow his passion for art through sculpting.Ali decided to shift his career by studying art in the Faculty of Fine arts in Alexandria and has received his bachelor degree in 2019. He is currently studying for his masters in Fine Arts in the Monumental Sculpture department. Ali has participated in various exhibitions including Damietta symposium for Universities in 2017. He also participated in the Ostraka International Symposium that took place in Sharm El Sheikh 2018 and participated in Ostraka International Youth Forum in Sharm El Sheikh 2019. Ali is also an award winning artist in the Youth art exhibition for visual arts, sixth session in 2018 in Centre of Creativity. He has exhibited his work in DAI Arab Youth Festival 2018 and participated in the Matruh Symposium for iron and scrap metal that took place in Marsa Matruh. Ali Mostafa was also an organizer in the symposium for reviving humanity in the International Youth Forum that was held in Sharm El Sheikh 2019. The artist’s latest participation is in the "First Time " Exhibition which took place in Bibliotheca Alexandrina.

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Mohamed Banawy graduated with B.sc. from faculty of Fine Arts - Helwan University in Cairo in 2000 and M.A in the relation between pharonic and African American mural painting in 2009 , then a pH.d. in art philosophy 2015. He has taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts since 2000.  Banawy has devoted much time to human rights issues since 2000. He has participated in numerous exhibitions , biennales and events in Egypt and abroad (Rome- Venice- London –New york- Ravenna- Spain- Saudi arabia ) and received several awards for his work which is now represented in private , national and international collections, one of his works was published as a model of contemporary mosaic art in the Artemondo 

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Egyptian Artist Born in Alexandria 1989, who has studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts graduated in 2011& holds an MA (2018). currently a teaching assistant at the faculty of fine arts, sculpture Department, Alexandria University. He has exhibited his artworks since 2011 in different group exhibitions including the Youth salon in its rounds “23 th to 28th” at Cairo opera house, Agenda at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Participated in Badr International symposium 2017, was supervisor of the universities symposium 2017, Matrouh scrap iron sculpture symposium 2019 & also participated in Aswan international Symposium 2021

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A plastic artist and currently working as a member of the Alexandria University’s sculpture department staff. Nasr has previously participated in many exhibitions and workshops, with a particular focus on artworks constructed from iron, such as the 24th Aswan International Sculpture Symposium. From his beginnings as an amateur artist, Nasr graduated from Alexandria University’s Faculty of Fine Arts in 2008.Through his studies, he became familiar with the dimensions of art sculpture and raw materials used in the different shaping processes. He became fond of iron, due to the vitality this material gives to sculptures in the formation process, and the speed with which the desired formation can be obtained

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