Engy Mohsen (*1995 in Cairo) is an artist, curator, and researcher, working across self-published printed matter and collective, activist-driven constellations.
Her research examines the emergence of independent art schools in the Arab world, with particular attention to their entanglements with foreign cultural funding and the ways these institutions negotiate cultural sovereignty through decolonial pedagogies. In her artistic practice, Engy Mohsen works through acts of convening and conversation. Her projects often begin as texts—such as grant proposals, fragments of dialogue, or scripts—which subsequently materialise in multiple forms, including book(lets), staged lecture-performances, and game-based formats.
Engy Mohsen holds an MSc in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford, an MA in Transdisciplinary Studies in the Arts from Zürich University of the Arts. She is one of the founding members of K-oh-llective, a platform for art publishing and shared resource building in the Arab World, and part of the curatorial team of Les Complices*, a self-organised community-based art space in Zürich.
During her stay with philomena+ in Vienna, she will be working with Amal Al-Nakhala, Sedra Arab and a school class of the Neue Mittelschule Herzgasse in Vienna-Favoriten. All together, they develop an interactive installation concerning the term solidarity. It will be presented as part of the multistage project Against the Playbook (20/01–26/04/2026), which opens at philomena+ with on Sunday, 15/02/2026, at 3 pm.
Against the Playbook (20/01–26/04/2026) is a multi-part project in collaboration with the Viennese art association DAS WEISSE HAUS, curated by Aline Lenzhofer.
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