Andrea Thal

My practice is situated between curating, art education, publishing, and caring for maintaining and transforming cultural organisations. I currently work independently from Cairo, Egypt, where I live for over 10 years. From 2014 to 2023 I was the artistic director of Contemporary Image Collective – CIC, a Cairo based organisation with a special interest in the overlap of visual culture, artistic practice and critical discourse.

Since 2024, I am a board member of CIC and, together with Samah Gafar, we’re about to release "The Light of Distant Stars", our research on the presence of African liberation movements in Cairo in the 1950s and 60s. In 2023/24 I convened "Finding Our Feet" (Sommerakademie Paul Klee), an international programme dedicated to methodologies of working together from within situations of crisis.

I regularly teach in formal and informal contexts and I am a member of the Cairo Working Group of Another Roadmap Africa Cluster (ARAC). Before relocating to Egypt, I ran Les Complices*, a self-organised space located in Zurich, Switzerland, where I was born, grew up and studied photography.