Voice

Public events, juries, acquisition committees, and publications: forums for reflection and exchange in support of contemporary art.

Publications

Meriem Berrada edits and contributes to publications that explore contemporary issues relating to visual culture, artistic practices, and cultural heritage in the Global South.

Edited works

  • Asǝṭṭa, Moroccan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, Kulte Editions, 2026
  • Display, éditions MACAAL, 2024
  • Our Hands, Zaman Books, 2023
  • Unmuted Narratives Amina Agueznay, The Art Library, Misk Art Institute, Rizzoli Editions, 2021
  • Material Insanity, éditions MACAAL, 2020
  • Africa is No Island, éditions MACAAL, 2018

Contributions to collective works

  • Not All Travellers Walk Roads, 36th São Paulo Biennale, 2025
  • Amazighes – cycle parures, motifs, éditions Mucem, 2025

Roundtables & conversations

2025

IKT Congress Symposium: DISRUPTURE

Northwestern University Qatar. Participants: Lina Ramadan — Writer and Guest Curator, Qatar Museums; Caroline Hancock — Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Mill Museum; Sheikha Alanood Hamad Al Thani — Director, Rubaiya Qatar. Moderator: Zeina Arida, Director, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar.

2023

Museums Roundtable, San Francisco

Organised by Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) in collaboration with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cantor Arts Center (Stanford), and the Asian Art Museum, and moderated by András Szántó, MTR 2023 welcomed fourteen international and five local directors for a week-long exchange on the impact of digital technologies upon museums.

2023

1-54 Art Fair Forum, Marrakech

"Between the Poetic of Relation and Space". With Joël Andrianomearisoa and Amina Agueznay. Moderator: Morad Montazami.

2022

The Future of Africa-based Curatorial Practice, Harvard University (Cambridge)

With Raphael Chikukwa (Chief Curator, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare) and Khanyisile Mbongwa (Chief Curator, Stellenbosch Triennale; Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2023; PhD candidate UCT / Mellon Foundation Fellow). Moderated by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi (Steven and Lisa Tananbaum Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York).

Juries and acquisition committees

2025

Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.

2024

Prix artmonte-carlo - F.P. Journe for the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco · Résidence Daret, Casablanca.

2023

Prix du Design de l'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris · Versant Sud, Marseille.

2021

British Journal of Photography OpenWalls · Jeux de la Francophonie, Kinshasa, RD Congo · Artagon-Enowe, Paris · Daba Photo 6 Marrakech · Regards du Grand Paris (CNAP & Ateliers Médicis), Paris.