Reem Aljeally

Artist, Curator, Founder at The Muse multi studios, Zeitz MOCAA & UWC Fellow ‘26

City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

About

Reem Aljeally is a visual artist and curator with a background in Architecture. Her artistic practice spans painting, installation, and printmaking, centering space, memory, movement, and self-image. She has held solo exhibitions in Khartoum and Cairo, and participated in international exhibitions and fairs across Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and North America. Her research and curatorial practice engages questions of identity formation, social context, spatial experience, and the politics of representation within the Sudanese contemporary art scene. She is the Founder of The Muse multi studios (2019) and The Sudan Art Archive (2022), aiming to support, promote, and preserve visual arts in Sudan.

Experience

  • Founder, Director at The Muse multi studios
    Aug 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

  • Fellow at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa
    Feb 2026 - Present · 6 mos

  • Founder, Director at Sudan Art Archive
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Visual Artist at Self-employed
    2016 - Present · 10 yrs 7 mos

  • Artist Development Program Coordinator at Ubuntu Art Gallery
    Sep 2023 - Dec 2025 · 2 yrs 4 mos