Main Focus
- Postcolonial studies and art history
- African, Arab and Asian modernisms
- Museum studies, knowledge/power relationships
- Oil studies and petro-modernity
Research Project
Curriculum Vitae
Morad Montazami is an art
historian, a publisher and a curator. After serving at Tate Modern (London)
between 2014–2019 as curator «Middle East and North Afric », he developed the publishing and curatorial platform Zamân Books & Curating to explore Arab, African
and Asian modernities. He published numerous essays and
books on artists such as Zineb Sedira, Walid Raad, Latif Al-Ani, Faouzi
Laatiris, Michael Rakowitz, Mehdi Moutashar, Behjat Sadr, Ramses Younan,
Mohamed Melehi, Laila Muraywid, Moffat Takadiwa, etc. and curated among other projects "Bagdad Mon Amour" (Institut des cultures d’Islam, Paris, 2018); "Monaco-Alexandrie. Le Grand détour. Villes-mondes et
surréalisme cosmopolite" (Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2021–2022), "Casablanca
Art School" (Tate St-Ives, Sharjah Art Foundation, Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt, 2023–2024). He recently curated the Beyond Emerging Artists
platform for Abu Dhabi Art, 2023.
He is also the curator of the recent exhibition "Présences Arabes. Art moderne et décolonisation.
Paris 1908-1988" (Musée d’art moderne de Paris, 5 April–25 August 2024).