Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and is also co-curating Sharjah Biennial 16 (February–June 2025), in the UAE and the Ghost 2568 (October - November 2025) in Bangkok, Thailand. Amal Khalaf served as the Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–2023) and is now Curator at Large and Advisor for Public Practice, where she shaped the Civic programme and commissioned over 50 long term, collaborative projects. There and in other contexts she has developed residencies, exhibitions and collaborative research projects 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 trustee of Mophradat, Athens, and not/nowhere, London, and a founding member of the GCC art collective. She has authored several published essays and recently has co-edited publications including Vertical Atlas (ArtEZ, 2022) and How We Hold (Serpentine/Koenig, 2023).
