CONTACT   إتصال

A trained architect and curator, Ahmed Morsi meanders between architecture, writing, publishing, oil painting, archival research, and developing recipes. Much of his work explores themes around the spatialization of dissidence and the politics of dilapidation. He has carried out extensive research on the history and evolution of adaptive reuse and the interplay between dissident cultural spaces and neoliberal arts-led urban development. In 2021, Ahmed co-founded Dataland Publications for which he acts as Managing Editor and Art Director. In 2023, he pursued a postgraduate certificate in curation at Zurich University of the Arts which led to a curatorial fellowship at the Prada Foundation in Milan. Ahmed is currently based in New York City.  


معماري ومنسّق معارض، يتنقّل أحمد مرسي بين الهندسة المعمارية والكتابة والنشر والرسم الزيتي والبحث الأرشيفي وتطوير وصفات طبخ. يستكشف الكثير من عمله موضوعات تتعلّق بالفضاءات المدينية الغير ممتثلة وسياسات التدهور. لقد أجرى بحث موسع حول تاريخ وتطوّر إعادة الاستخدام التكيّفي والتداخل بين المساحات الفنية المتمردة والتنمية الحضرية النيوليبرالية التي تُوظّف الفنون. في عام 2021 شارك أحمد في تأسيس "مطبوعات داتالاند" والتي يعمل فيها كمحرّر إداري ومدير فني. وفي عام 2023، تابع شهادة في تنسيق المعارض في جامعة زيورخ للفنون، والتي أدّت إلى زمالة تنسيقية في مؤسسة برادا في ميلانو. أحمد يقيم حالياً في مدينة نيويورك.


        PUBLISHED WRITING   كتابات منشورة

“Dear Anwar”, Comizi d'Emigrazione (zine), December 2024

“Decay-migration-decadence”, Two Hours Ago I Fell in Love (zine), November 2023

“Adaptive Reuse. Again. Now, again: Microcosmic portraits of economic, sociocultural, and political transformations”, Dataland Publications, 1, March 2023

“The Fallacy of Revitalization: Subversive Creativity, Consumption, and the Contestation of Heritage Spaces”, European Heritage Tribune, March 2021

“Throug
h the Tide. Adaptive Reuse, Creative Industries and the Politics of Arts-Led Redevelopment in Downtown Cairo”, Master’s thesis, Politecnico di Milano, 2020, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.36111.41126/1, https://hdl.handle.net/10589/166357


 
       ARCHITECTURE   معمار

Enclosed Garden, 2022 (Architect, buro.doqi)
Penrose-Eucalyptus House, 2024 (Architect, buro.doqi)
Scalable Office, 2023 (Architect, buro.doqi)
French Institute Mediatheque, 2016 (Design Architect, CLUSTER)
Rabbat Project: Al-Fabrika, 2018 (Design Architect, CLUSTER)
Cinema Rio, 2017 (Design Architect, CLUSTER)


       MAPS   خرائط


       OIL PAINTING   رسم زيتي

       
       COOKING   طبخ


       EXHIBITIONS   معارض

“Distance of the Moon” by Shuang Li, Fondazione Prada
Assistant Curator
Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China
November 2024–January 2025

“Michaël Borremans: The Promise”, Fondazione Prada
Assistant Curator
Prada Rong Zhai, Shanghai, China
April–June 2024

“Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500-2025” by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, Fondazione Prada
Assistant Curator
Osservatorio, Milan, Italy
November 2023–January 2024

“Stories of Water. Chapter IV: Wounded and Healing Waters”
Co-curator
ONCURATING Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland
November 2022–March 2023


       RESEARCH/EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS   مساهمات بحثية وتحريرية

M. Godfrey (ed.) & M. Mainetti (assoc. ed.), Pino Pascali, Fondazione Prada, 2024

K. Crawford & V. Joler, Calculating Empires, Quaderno #36, Fondazione Prada, 2023

N. Cullinan (ed.), M. Mainetti & N. Gravina (assoc. eds.), Paraventi. Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, 2023

O. Nagati & B. Stryker, Street Vendors and the Contestation of Public Space, CLUSTER & the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, 2017


       HIGHLIGHTED WORK   أعمال عُرضت أو نُشرت

Habashtakanat, 2, 2024

F. Dessouky, “Dataland: Stepping into Cairo’s Administrative Buildings”, Scenehome, June 2023

Nafs Space, 2022

“Watch this artist”, Mathqaf, 2021

“Suq Bab el Luq” (adaptive reuse project with CLUSTER); Egyptian pavilion, Giardini, Biennale Architettura 2018; Venice, Italy; May–November 2018

“Politics of Form” (studio project with Vlatka Seremet); Egyptian pavilion, Giardini, Biennale Architettura 2016; Venice, Italy; January–November 2016

“Mapping Cairo” (with Manar Moursi); Egyptian pavilion, Giardini, Biennale Architettura 2016; Venice, Italy; January–November 2016