Yasmina Reggad
Yasmina Reggad is a performance artist and director, writer, researcher,dramaturge and independent curator based in Brussels, Belgium. Sheholds an MA in Medieval History from the Sorbonne University. She co-founded and was the curator at aria (artist residency in algiers) andpreviously worked at the Delfina Foundation (UK), Art Dubai Projects (UAE)and the Bienal das Amazônias (BR). Recently, Yasmina Reggad wascurator of Zineb Sedira’s solo presentation at the French Pavilion — the59th Venice Biennale in 2022 (IT).
As a performance artist, Yasmina Reggad conducts research and developsprojects that investigate alternative systems of knowledge and artisticmodes of production as well as explore performative methodologiesinformed by past and present militant actions and practices.Yasmina Reggad has created personal projects that span different genresfrom performance and lecture-performance to dance pieces, and soundinterventions and (pirate) broadcasting. Her works is often based onunconventional audio-visual and documentary archives, and operates as acompanion to the practice of essay writing. Her work was recently stagedatKunsthal Extra City (BE); New Radicalisms biennal (NL);PerformaatRoma Tre University (IT);The Mosaic Rooms (UK);Beursschouwburg,KANAL – Centre Pompidou and Kaaistudios (BE); La Cantine Syrienne deMontreuil, Cité internationale des arts, Les Rencontres à l’échelle — Mucem(FR); andChimurenga’s PASS Liberation radio for Documenta 15 (TZ),among others.
Yasmina Reggad also works as a dramaturge and has collaborated withchoreographer Ioanna Angelopoulou, dancer-choreographer Trajal Harrell,and performance artists/directors Carlos Azeredo Mesquita and LucileSaada Choquet.Yasmina Reggad was a 2019 – 2020 Fellow of the Sundance InstituteTheatre Program (USA).She is a founding board member of theperformance structure newpoliphonies vzw (BE) and Talitha, a structurededicated archiving cinema (FR).