Hicham Khalidi

Hicham Khalidi (1972) has been director of the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL) since 2018. From 2015 until 2018, he was associate curator at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris. He was also the curator of the group exhibition ACT II for the Sharjah Biennale in Beirut in 2017, cultural attaché of the Sydney Biennale in 2016 and chief curator of the Marrakech Biennale in 2014. As a curator, Khalidi is interested in the context and conditions related to contemporary art and art-institutional practice. In particular, Khalidi is interested in how climate change, the accumulation of crises and processes of colonialism affect this. He considers curatorship as working in service of and in coalition with other people.