Soukaina Aboulaoula

Biography

Soukaina Aboulaoula is a Moroccan independent curator and researcher. She completed a Master of Research in Advanced Practices/Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London. Beyond her curatorial practice, she is the co-founder and creative director of Untitled, a Morocco-based agency working across design strategies and visual communications for cultural and artistic projects.

Over the past seven years, she has worked at the intersection of research and curation, collaborating with institutions such as Sheffield Doc/Fest, New Art Exchange (NAE), Archive Sites Berlin, Atelier de l’Observatoire in Casablanca, The Casablanca International Biennale, and The Museum of African Contemporary Art (MACAAL). Her work delves into topics of memory, fictionality, time, perception and representation, knowledge production, movement, and transmission.

Recent curatorial projects include exhibitions and public programs such as the collective photography exhibition If a Tree Falls in a Forest at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2022); a curatorial initiative around artistic pedagogies titled Our Teaching Takes Shape As We Go (2021); the exhibition In the Inner Bark of Trees (2023), curated with the curatorial ensemble of Archive, where she notably worked on a new commission with artist Amina Agueznay around ancestral jewelry making in Morocco; and May Our Song Be Worthy of Those Who Listen (2024), an exhibition at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, about Raw Material Company, notably its Academie program.

She is currently developing an upcoming exhibition with and from the ARAK collection, an independent Qatari initiative collecting contemporary African art. The exhibition, studying African abstraction, will take place in February 2026 at FADA Gallery in Johannesburg.

Soukaina Aboulaoula, Independent Curator in Marrakesh, Morocco, has been awarded by the Getty Foundation.