Omar Kholeif 27/08/2025 Omar Kholeif 27/08/2025

Omar Kholeif’s Next Big Adventure

Next week, Dr. Omar Kholeif, director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) and a mainstay of the UAE’s cultural scene will be packing up their bags as a co-director of SAF to become one of the few persons from Egypt or Sudan to become a professor at a major British art school—a country, which although Kholeif’s home, has also been historically ambivalent regarding its complicity in colonial art history. Here Robert Ross, aP21 correspondent sits down for a quick fire interview.

Omar Kholeif 24/08/2025 Omar Kholeif 24/08/2025

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Drafts (2025)

Drafts is an experimental artist film directed by curator and artist, Jade Foster and commissioned by DASH that poetically reimagines how we can communicate in a neuro-affirming and just way. It’s one of the first contemporary examples in the UK of how creative captioning, intersectional translation, and intuitive collaborative processes are applied to informational-esque moving image—opening up what is possible.

Omar Kholeif 19/11/2024 Omar Kholeif 19/11/2024

Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades

Omar Kholeif 10/11/2024 Omar Kholeif 10/11/2024

The Redfern Gallery in association with artPost21 presents Peter Sedgley: 5 Decades

Peter Sedgley, ‘the only British artist to have been associated with all of the movements dealing with illusion in the 1960s…Op art, kinetic art and light art’, is presenting a monumental survey exhibition in London at The Redfern Gallery that links back to some of the greatest moments in art’s history.

Omar Kholeif 18/10/2023 Omar Kholeif 18/10/2023

Excerpt: Internet_Art – Cyborgs

Read an excerpt from the best-selling book, Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif. Here, in our final instalment, artPost21 readers have been invited to select their favorite 1000-word excerpts from the book. Read on for an insight into cyborgs and the path-breaking work of artist, Lynn Hershman-Leeson.

Omar Kholeif 16/10/2023 Omar Kholeif 16/10/2023

Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s

Dr Omar Kholeif, co-editor and co-author of Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s takes us on a journey behind-the-scenes of this landmark publication.

Omar Kholeif 26/09/2023 Omar Kholeif 26/09/2023

Excerpt No. 2 from Internet_Art (Randomly Selected)

Over the next month, we are inviting our readers, friends and fans to make suggestions of short (1,000 word) excerpts from aP21 founder, Dr. O's book, InternetArt to profile on our Age of Anxiety splurge-space. Have a favourite section, you'd like us to profile?