Alexandra Stock is a curator and cultural producer working between Europe and the Middle East, with long-standing professional bases in Switzerland, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. She is currently Curator of Helvetika 1575 in Zug, Switzerland, where she develops exhibitions and international programming with a focus on contemporary art across regions. Her practice has been shaped by nearly two decades of work with artists, commercial galleries, nonprofit institutions, heritage sites, and cultural organizations. Before joining Helvetika 1575, she was Curatorial Director of Hafez Gallery in Jeddah and Riyadh, where she led the gallery’s exhibition program across both Saudi cities and developed presentations connected to Diriyah Biennale, Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, MENART Fair Paris, Art Basel, and Sotheby’s.
Stock previously served as Creative Director of ARCHiNOS in Cairo, working at the intersection of cultural heritage and contemporary art. She also held curatorial and managerial positions at the Townhouse Gallery and MASQ/Maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey in Cairo, and at Al Riwaq Art Space in Bahrain. Her projects and collaborations include work with apexart, the New Museum, PBS’s Art in the Twenty-First Century, the Cairo International Film Festival, Cairotronica Biennale of Electronic and New Media Arts, and the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, among many others.
She has written for Foam Photography Museum Amsterdam, Tintera photographic art consultancy, Tribe Photo Magazine, Cairography, and Ibraaz. Stock studied Art Theory at Zurich University of the Arts, completed the de Appel Curatorial Programme in Amsterdam, and holds advanced degrees in Global Diplomacy from SOAS University of London and Cultural Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
