About
Born in 1988,
Lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.
Rania Atef is a visual artist and cultural practitioners who explores the notion of play across a wide range of mediums; text, drawing, installation, performance and video.
She focuses on different forms of labor, care, domesticity, authority, and their intersectional trajectories within social and Art contexts. She has specific interest in the notions of togetherness, collectivity and sharing resources. And she is part of several collectives, one of which is “K-oh-llective” and the other is for the working mothers in Art.
While focusing on the study of verbal and visual language, she investigates the (in)visible standards during her attempts to find answers through building the structure of observations that belong to present experiences or social and historic narratives
on both individual and collective levels. During the process, she digs deep the fine layers between the consciousness and sub-cosciousness, while seeking to dissect, dismantle and rebuild elements and contexts in a way that is reflected in her practice.
She was enrolled in the second edition of TASAWAR curatorial studies 2020(TN), attended MASS Alexandria program 2018/19 (EG), and holds a BA Degree in Product design in 2011 (EG). Also she is part of two collectives; the “K-OH-llective” and another group of collective space for working mothers in the arts (Mophradat 2021).
Her work was shown in “Les complices” in Zurich (2024) , the “Educational web” in Kunstverein in Hamburg (2023), “Hijra” program in Musée De La Fondation Slaoui in Casablanca (2023), Archive of Forgetfulness, SA (2021), Hotel Beethoven, BOZAR/ Centre of Fine Arts, BL (2020), and Artist At Work, KSCC, PL (2020).
She is a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Award (2021), The British Council Award in Roznama (2021), Gypsum Bursaries (2022), the Prince Claus Building Beyond Mentorship Award (22/23), and Orbitals program by Mophradat (2024).
Further, she took part in public programs like”Rehearsing Hospitalities 4”, “Tashweesh” festival, , “QAYYEM” and “Biennale WARSAW”.