Yasmina Reggad
Yasmina Reggad is a performance artist and director, writer, researcher, dramaturge, and independent curator based in Brussels, Belgium. She co-founded and was the curator at aria (artist residency in Algiers) and previously worked at the Delfina Foundation (UK) and Art Dubai Projects (UAE). Recently, Reggad was curator of Zineb Sedira’s solo presentation Dreams Have No Titles at the French National Pavilion - the 59th Venice Biennale (2020-2022), and artistic director of the first edition of the Bienal das Amazônias (Brazil) in 2020-2022.
As a performance artist, she conducts research and develops projects that investigate alternative systems of knowledge and artistic modes of production, along exploring performative methodologies informed by past and present militant actions and practices. She has created personal projects that span across different genres: From performance and lecture-performance to dance pieces, sound interventions, and (pirate) broadcasting.
Her work is often based on unconventional audio-visual and documentary archives, and operates as a companion to the practice of essay writing. Reggad’s work was recently staged at Performaat Roma Tre University (IT), The Mosaic Rooms (UK), Beursschouwburg, KANAL – Centre Pompidou and Kaaistudio’s (Belgium), La Cantine Syrienne de Montreuil, Cité internationale des arts, LesRencontres à l’échelle - Mucem, and Chimurenga’s PASS Liberation radio for Documenta 15 (Tanzania), among others.
Furthermore, she works as a dramaturge and has collaborated with choreographer Ioanna Angelopoulou, dancer-choreographer Trajal Harrell, and performance artists/directors Carlos Azeredo Mesquita and Lucile Saada Choquet. Reggad was a 2019-2020 Fellow of the Sundance Institute Theatre Program (USA).