Lara Khaldi

Lara Khaldi is an independent curator, based in Jerusalem, Palestine. She is a recent alumna of de Appel curatorial programme, Amsterdam, and the European Graduate School, Switzerland. Khaldi teaches at the International Academy of Art, Palestine, Ramallah and at Dar Al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture, Bethlehem. Khaldi has curated numerous exhibitions and symposiums in Palestine and other places. For her most recent project, Shifting Ground, Sharjah Biennial 13 Offsite project for Ramallah, Palestine in August 2017, she commissioned nine artist publications and curated a symposium.

Lara Khaldi and Yazan Khalili have been collaborating in the development of lecture performances and other works since 2009. Collaborative work includes Love Letter to Mars, iterations of which were presented previously at Medrar, Cairo, 2013 and OCA, Oslo, 2014; Love Letters to a Union: The Falling Comrades, at Forum Expanded, 2015; Love Letters to a Union, at HomeWorks 6, Beirut, 2013; All the Other Lovers, at the NEME symposium Through the Roadblocks, Limassol 2012.