Abdellah Karroum

L'appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco

September–October 2009

Abdellah Karroum (born 1970, Morocco) works as an independent art researcher, publisher and curator. He is the founder and artistic director of several art projects: L’appartement 22, an experimental space for encounters, exhibitions and artists’ residencies founded in 2002 in Rabat, Morocco; the ”Le Bout Du Monde” art expeditions undertaken since 2000; the éditions hors’champs art publications that have been published since 1999; and Radioapartment22. He curated numerous exhibitions for CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, including Pensées bleues (1993); Jean-Paul Thibeau (1995) ; and Urgences (1996), and was one of the curators for the 2006 DAK’ART Biennial for African Contemporary Art. Karroum is co-curator for the Position Papers program in the Gwangju Bienniale 2008 (invited by the artistic director Okwui Enwezor). Karroum is also a member of the Prince Pierre Monaco Foundation’s Artistic Council for its International Prize of Contemporary Art.