ROLE
Aymen Gharbi is artistic director of INTERFERENCE in tandem with Bettina Pelz since 2016.
BACKGROUND
Aymen Gharbi is an architect and a curator. In 2015, he founded the DOOLESHA project, a collective of urban activists to research and map the interplay of historic settings, ongoing urban developments, and the sociocultural tissue of contemporary Medina. He headed projects like DOORA-FEL-HOUMA what is a sociocultural project to engage young locals in research and mediation of the present changes in the Medina. In 2016 and 2018, jointly with Bettina Pelz, he directed the International Light Art Project INTERFERENCE in the Medina of Tunis staging a dialogue of contemporary art and cultural heritage.
EXHIBITIONS
2024 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE AUTUMN PROGRAM
2024 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS Artists’ Exchange Program
2024 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA Media Art Project
2023 Cologne (de), ON PLINY’S PATHS Artists’ Exchange Program
2023 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA Media Art Project
2023 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE Light Art Project
2022 Tunis (tn), MISE EN LUMIERE Public Art Project
2022 Amman (jr), LIGHT ART LAB
Since 2019 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE Light Art Project
2019 Ségou (ml), SEGOU YELEN Light Art Project
2017 Houmt Souk (tn), SEE DJERBA Media Art Project
2016 Tunis (tn), INTERFERENCE Light Art Project
TEACHING
Since 2025 Tunis (tn), MOMEMENTUM CURATORIAL PROGRAM: Head of Learning Environment in Tandem with Bettina Pelz
Since 2020 Sousse (tn), Academy of Fine Arts, Teaching Field: Curatorial Practice
2019 – 2022 Tunis (tn), TASAWAR CURATORIAL STUDIOS, Teaching Field: Moving Between Languages
INSTITUTIONAL WORK
2013 – 2015 Tunis (tn), National Institute Of Heritage (INP)
STUDIES
2010 – 2013 Sidi Bou Said (tn), National School Of Architecture And Urbanism (ENAU)
BIO
Since 2010 Tunis (tn)
1989 Born in Djerba (tn)
PHOTO
Malika Hagemann