Halim Ramses is an artist & cultural worker based in Cairo, Egypt. Halim focuses on the notion of “gatherings”
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,
study groups, story-telling and spell making sessions.
Updates: I am starting my Master’s studies in Anthropology at The American University in Cairo this upcoming fall semester, 2026. I can’t express how excited I am!!!
اتشرفت بمشاركتي في (منهل: إعادة التفكير في موقع المثقف السوري داخل المشهد الثقافي) تيسير نور أبو فرج و دانه كريدي، المساق هدف للإستكشاف النقدي ومساءلة المفاهيم المتداولة في الحقل الثقافي السوري والعربي بوصفها مفاهيم متنازع عليها، محملة بتاريخ سياسي ومعرفي ومؤسساتي بدلاً من تعريفات ثابتة وحيادية
I am currently taking two courses at the Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences:
Abstract Systems, Concrete Lives, facilitated by Hisham Fahmy, examines key moments in how modern thinkers, shaped by a distinctive relation to nature, came to approach certain aspects of human lived experience (e.g., collective life and its “ordering”) through an abstract posture influenced by modern science and its ideals. It then traces how this abstract posture was progressively questioned, opening the way to new modes of thought in the humanities that are attentive to the concrete dimensions of the human condition.
Heroism and Modernity, facilitated by Karim El Dalil, explores the progression of the hero figure throughout history, especially the changes experienced by modern man at decisive moments of transition.
I am really enjoying the discussions, the groundedness and structure the classes are giving to my weeks, and the walks with Hamza and Aya from CILAS to the metro station.
I will be exhibiting selected notes from my residency at the Cité des Arts as part of the Retour de Résidence exhibition at the French Institute in Cairo, curated by Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin. A game night is scheduled for February 8, 2026.
I am currently working on a journaling game titled: Two Queens and Six Domains (working title), and I am very excited for all the upcoming game nights!
I am looking forward to participating at Let The People Know: on social justice, language, and sound. Cairo Edition. The project aims to create encounters for producing spoken words and soundtracks within site workstations in three cities: Johannesburg, Cairo, and Geneva. Facilitated by Gilles, Tshepang, and Abdelkarim.
مبسوط اني شاركت في (لكن عليك المحاولة: ورشة للكتابات النقدية) قدمها: إسماعيل فايد في مدرار للفن المعاصر
I will be in Paris for my residency at the Cité Des Arts from July to October 2025.
I was invited by Anthropology bel3arby to work on a tour that interacts with the concept of space. I offered a tour which we were thinking about the attempts of creating and interacting with public spaces. During our visits to different places, from co-working spaces to PlayStation cafés, we reflected on how we moved as a group throughout the tour and tried to build a collective perspective to understand and process spaces we might interact with in our everyday lives. Access the tour documentation from here.
متحمس لمشاركتي في ورشة برمجة الأفلام مع آلاء يونس كجزء من "ملتقى السينما: يدوم المستقبل طويلا" برمجة: محمد أمين, في الفترة بين اتنين لخمسة مايو في بهنا في الإسكندرية
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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