Tarek Abou El Fetouh is an independent curator based in Brussels. He established visual and performance art initiatives across the Arab world, including the Meeting Points Contemporary Art Festival, which took place in different Arab cities. He curated numerous exhibitions in the Arab world and internationally, including the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale (2024); the Public Art Program for Expo 2020 in Dubai; Rituals of Signs and Metamorphoses (2018) and Captive of Love (2017) at Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing; The Time Is Out of Joint at the Sharjah Art Foundation and the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2016); Lest the Two Seas Meet at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2015); and the exhibition of Home Works 6 in Beirut (2013).  Abou El Fetouh was Senior Curator and Director of the Performance Department at the Sharjah Art Foundation between 2021 and 2024.