Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are directors of Hamburger Bahnhof—National Gallery of Contemporary Art in Berlin since January 2022. They have collaborated with over 70 museums worldwide through their interdisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented. They were curators of the 16th Lyon Biennale in 2022 under the title Manifesto of Fragility. At the Venice Biennale 2022 they were curators of the French pavilion, as well as the pavilions of Lebanon in 2013 and the United Arab Emirates in 2019. In Berlin they were associate curators at the Gropius Bau from 2017 to 2021.
Central to their work is inclusion in artistic and institutional practices, and a revisionist approach to art history. They are award-winning authors who have held teaching positions at various universities including the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Bardaouil, born in Lebanon, holds an MFA in Advanced Theatre Practice and a PhD in Art History. Fellrath, born in Germany, holds two Master’s degrees in Economics and Political Science. Bardaouil and Fellrath have curated exhibitions and collaborated with renowned institutions worldwide, including Centre Pompidou in Paris, Villa Empain in Brussels, Kunstsammlung NRW in Dusseldorf, Tate Liverpool, ARTER in Istanbul, Gwangju and Busan Museums of Art in South Korea, Saradar Collection in Beirut, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and Reina Sofia in Madrid.
