Halim Ramses is an artist & cultural practitioner based in Cairo, Egypt. Halim focuses on the notion of “gathering”
as an act in itself.
Thinking of gathering as a form, an ephemeral moment yet an embodied affect.
Through his practice he incorporates different mediums including participatory performances, tours,
workshops, story-telling and spell making sessions.
Updates:The open studio marking the end of my residency in Kampala will take place on the 25th and 26th of April 2025 at 32° East.
During my current residency program, I am exploring various collective practices of aspiring toward the political,
how time is felt and produced within a group, and how shared meaning-making can be practiced.
I wrote an invitation as an aspiration to connect with people interested in these ideas and to form a group.
I have gathered materials, exercises, and conversation prompts, and I have designed some games.
During the first month, I hope we take time to reflect on these themes; throughout the second month,
I hope we develop decision-making techniques together and,
as a group, determine how we want to continue being together—and whether we later want to invite others as well.
I am getting ready to participate in the 32° East residency program in Kampala, Uganda.
I am participating in Cairo Art Book Fair in December 2024.
I am very happy to share the news that I received the SEED Award among 100 artists.
I will be part of Finding Our Feet- public programme of exhibitions, listening sessions,
performances and small workshops by the Sommerakademie Paul Klee residents 2023/24 cycle.
Opening Cabane B: Thursday 8 August 2024 7:00 pm
Opening Grand Palais: Friday 9 August 2024 7:00 pm
I am currently working on a participatory performance titled: a gathering as in artists performing themselves,
a photo as in accelerated archival fever.
April 2024, I co-facilitated a workshop to students of the Bern Academy of the Arts HKB:
The Dream of A Tree, Methodologies of Resilience.
along artist-teachers: Shima Asa, Andrea Palasti, and Cheshmak Shahsiah.
We questioned the formal and metaphorical ways of resilience through artistic means.
We forged our own paths by engaging in more-than-human fitness exercises, embodying sounds, casting love amulets and playing dead.
We also listened to soul-stirring singing, rib-tickling stand up comedy, reenacted childhood memories and ate a mood-booster lithium-based lunch.
But most importantly, we actively listened to each other, fostering an environment of care, consideration, and reflection.
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