Wael Shawky (Alexandria, 1972) will represent Egypt at the Venice Biennale 2024.

For the Egyptian Pavilion, Shawky has created Drama 1882, a filmed rendition of an original musical play directed, choreographed, and composed by the artist, around Egypt’s nationalist Urabi revolution against imperial influence (1879-82). The year 1882 was the year this revolt was crushed by the British, who then went on to occupy Egypt until 1956. In part inspired by the Biennale Arte 2024 theme “Foreigners E… more

The artist for this year’s Egyptian pavilion at the Venice Biennale is Moataz Nasr. In his work, The Mountain, he explores the facts and the fears of a small village in Egypt. The Pavilion, for the occasion has been transformed, and the viewers are completely absorbed in this complex light play, and embraced by a multisensory installation and the large scale film projection telling the story of the village.
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