Abdellah Karroum is a curator, writer, and educator (b. 1970 in Rif, Morocco). He is the founder and artistic director of several art initiatives, including L’appartement 22 in Rabat, and has curated numerous exhibitions, such as Mounir Fatmi: 100 mètres à vol d’oiseau, at L’appartement 22, Moroccan Trilogy 1950 – 2020, (2021) at Reina Sofia in Madrid; Our World Is Burning (2020) at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Kader Attia: On Silence (2021), Revolution Generations (2018), Shakir Hassan Al Said: The Wall (2017), Wael Shawky: Crusades and Other Stories (2015), Farid Belkahia: Aube(s) (2015), and Shirin Neshat: Afterwards (2014), at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha.
He was artistic director of Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen for the Biennale Benin (2012), curator of Sous nos yeux (Before Our Eyes) at La Kunsthalle de Mulhouse (2013) and at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2014), and associate curator of Intense Proximity for La Triennale, Paris (2012). Other curatorial and research projects include the Sentences on the Banks and other activities at Darat Al-Funun, Amman (2010); A Proposal for Articulating Works and Places for the 3rd Biennale of Marrakech (2009)
