Select exhibition texts:
Exhibition essay for ‘I Feel the Earth Move’ by René Clement
TINTERA, Cairo, December 2020
Exhibition essay for ‘FOMO: The Fear of Missing Out’ by Aya Tarek
SHELTER Art Space, Alexandria, December 2020
Exhibition essay for the group show ‘Occupational Hazards’
apexart, NYC, June 2019
Exhibition text for the solo exhibition ‘Bart Julius Peters’ by Bart Julius Peters
Sunday Inventory Gallery, Zurich, August 2014
Revisiting Crop, a film I hadn’t seen
On the occasion of the experimental documentary film Crop, January 2012
Exhibition essay for ‘Bart Julius Peters: Selected Works’ by Bart Julius Peters
FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam, 2008
Select published articles:
(also featured in e-flux Conversations, 3 June 2019)
Review of the exhibition “When Art Becomes Liberty: The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965)” in Cairo
Ibraaz, 16 January 2017
Cactus Flower: A glimpse behind a Swiss-Egyptian dance collaboration
Mada Masr, 21 October 2016
Five critical days in the life of 10 Nabrawy Street
Mada Masr, 27 April 2016
(also featured in the annual recap 2016 in Critical Culture Writing)
The Egyptian Surrealists in Global Perspective – A Report from the AUC
Ibraaz, 23 December 2015
Retrospection as an act of regaining a present: Mahmoud Khaled’s tour of Alexandria and its beginnings in a Cyprus Pavilion at Venice
Mada Masr, 22 November 2015
The Egyptian pavilion in 2015: What happens in Venice doesn’t always stay in Venice
Mada Masr, 15 May 2015
Select published photography, drawings, and other texts:
A Biography as Obituary (text)
In: Dark and Stormy #7, edited and published by Bart de Baets and Rustan Söderling, Amsterdam, 2017
King People Calling (drawings)
In: Risha Zine CHAOS, published by the Cultural Innovators Network, Brussels, Belgium, 2016
In: Cairo: Images of Transition, Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013, edited by Mikala Hyldig Dal, published by the Columbia University Press, USA, 2014
So, do you want to talk to me about one of the works? (text)
In: A reader on occasion of the exhibition “Bourgeois Leftovers,” edited by Kari Cwynar & Srajana Kaikini. De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 2013
Wish I Was Here (photography series, in collaboration with Babak Radboy)
In: Bidoun magazine, issue 25: #25, NYC, 2011
Meeting Cairo (text and photography)
In: Mediamatic Travel Guide 2010, published by Mediamatic Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2010
In: Mediamatic Travel website, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Biennale, 2009
Meeting Before Infinity: Parallel Writings (text, photography and borrowed images)
In: The Maghreb Connection – Movements of Life Across North Africa, edited by Ursula Biemann and Brian Holmes, published by actar, Barcelona, Spain, 2006
Es ist alles ein Spiel, schau (photography and text)
Self-published photography book, edition of two copies, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2004
Select articles where I’ve been quoted:
Townhouse Gallery in Kairo muss nach Einsturz den Standort räumen (interview)
By Susanne Altmann for art – Das Kunstmagazin, July 2016 issue
Armed police enforce partial demolition of Cairo art gallery (PDF)
By David Batty for The Guardian, April 12, 2016
Hieroglyphics That Won’t Be Silenced – The New York Times (PDF)
By Barbara Pollack for The New York Times, July 10, 2014
Alexandra Stock 