Amal Khalaf
Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist, and co-Artistic Director of the Busan Biennale, South Korea (2025–2026).
She was Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–2025) and recently curated Ghost 2568 (2025) in Bangkok and Sharjah Biennial 16 (2023–2025) in the UAE. As Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023), she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long-term, collaborative projects across London neighbourhoods, developing residencies, exhibitions and research at the intersection of arts and social justice. Projects include the Edgware Road Project and Centre for Possible Studies (2009–2013), Support Structures for Support Structures (2021), Radio Ballads (2019–2022) and Sensing the Planet (2021). She curated the Bahrain Pavilion for the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and co-directed the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai (2016). She is a founding member of art collective, GCC. Her co-edited publications include Vertical Atlas (ArtEZ, 2022), How We Hold (Serpentine/Koenig, 2023) and Radio Ballads: Songs for Change (K Verlag, 2025). Her work has been presented at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Biennial, Serralves Porto, Berlin Biennale, the Fridericianum Kassel, the New Museum, MUDAM Luxembourg, Het Nieuwe Instituut and UCCA Beijing, among others.