Amal Alhaag is an Amsterdam-based curator, cultural organizer, and educator. Her curatorial practice, research, and collaborative community work center on decolonial practice, counterculture, (oral) histories, and popular culture. She is committed to fostering critical (un)learning, creating space for discussion, and building cultural infrastructures. Alhaag is the initiator, facilitator, and collaborator of various interdisciplinary platforms, including Metro54, the Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC), and The Anarchist Citizenship.
Her work unfolds through short- and long-term collaborations with artists, (non)institutions, initiatives, communities, and audiences, emphasizing polyphony, cooperation, and transformative justice. Since 2010, she has been the Artistic Director of Metro54, a space for global sonic, cultural, and artistic practices, gatherings, (un)learning, histories, grassroots community work, spatial politics, and transformative justice in the Netherlands. From 2015 to 2022, she was Senior Curator of Public Programming and Research at the RCMC, where she led large-scale public programs and research projects on slavery’s past, gender, colonial collections, and popular culture as heritage. In 2018, she initiated the curatorial research project Technologies of Certain Bodies, which was exhibited as part of the Dutch Pavilion Work, Body & Leisure at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
In recent years, Alhaag was co-curator of the quadrennial sonsbeek20→24 in Arnhem, a curatorial and research fellow at Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, and a scholar-in-residence at the Eye Museum. Currently, she is leading the multi-locational research and artistic project Sustaining the Otherwise with Amal Alhaag, which will take place in various locations throughout Africa and Europe over the next few years.
