Alexandra Stock is the Curatorial Director of Hafez Gallery both in Jeddah and Riyadh, a pioneering institution that champions contemporary and modern art from Saudi Arabia and the region. With over 15 years of experience in curatorial practice and arts production and management in the Middle East, she has worked on various large-scale art/culture/heritage projects aimed at activating up-and-coming destinations in the Gulf, including AlUla.
Stock is the former Creative Director of Archinos, Egypt’s leading architecture, design and conservation firm that operates at the intersections of tangible and intangible cultural heritage and contemporary art and design. She also held curatorial and/or managerial positions at the Townhouse Gallery and Wizara, both in Cairo, and at Al Riwaq Art Space in Bahrain, and collaborated among others with the Cairo International Film Festival, the Cairotronica New Media Arts Biennale, Shelter Art Space, the British Council, Greek Cultural Center, Institut Français, Photography Museum Braunschweig, Apexart and the New Museum. She has also written for FOAM Amsterdam, Tintera, Tribe, and Ibraaz. For three seasons, Stock represented the MENA region on the International Council advisory board of PBS’s Peabody and Emmy award-winning broadcast program 'Art in the Twenty-First Century' and later consulted for the Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities.
Stock is a participant of the yearlong Townhouse Curatorial Program and the Townhouse ISP in Cairo, the first initiatives of their kind both offered in and focused on the history and historiography of art in the greater Middle East. She graduated from the Zurich University of the Arts with a degree in Art & Media Theory, completed De Appel’s Curatorial Program in Amsterdam and studied Arabic at the DEAC in Cairo. She holds additional degrees in Global Diplomacy from SOAS and Cultural Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
