In June 2022, Wizara Co-Founder was invited by Sozita Goudouna and Nikos Charlambidis to participate in Space Oddity series of exhibitions in Athens. On the 28th of June, Wizara Co-Founder gave a lecture in the framework of the parallel program with artist talks and live performances, while in 2024 was invited again from the Greece in USA Foundation at the Library residency project.
GREECE IN USA hosts Adham Hafez – co-founder of Wizara – in Athens at the Library Residency http://www.libraryresidency.com in partnership and support of ALFinMOTION – Mobility Programme –
Anna Lindh Foundation
WIZARA IS THE FIRST WEB3-BASED ECOSYSTEM AND CREATIVE STUDIO BUILT BY ARTISTS FOR ARTISTS.
A pioneering firm with over 200 productions, commissions, partnerships, and futurist projects.
Rooted in technology, visionary curation, and analytical research, Wizara is a new paradigm for the African, Arab and Asian arts scenes.
Wizara is the first Web3-based ecosystem, consultancy, creative studio, and gallery built by artists for artists. Founded by a team of consultants, digital experts, curators and policymakers, building technical and creative tools to advance culture across borders. We create, collaborate, curate, commission and consult. Our practice and services bridge the physical with the digital. Our projects are in the fields of public art, cinema, visual art, music and performance as they intersect with futurist tools and technologies.
We believe in empowering artists to flourish within the future of digital expression, over the blockchains and the Metaverse. Since its establishment, Wizara has commissioned and produce over 250 artworks by artists from Arab, African and Asian backgrounds.
Adham Hafez presented a series of lectures at the Sculpture Department, Nikos Charalambidis Workshop at The Athens School of Fine Arts
ADHAM HAFEZ
Adham Hafez is a theorist, curator, choreographer and director based in New York City and Berlin. Originally from Egypt, Adham Hafez’s work is an investment in anticolonial discourse, through the activation of hidden canons and minoritarian aesthetics. After having studied literature, critical theory, choreography and music between Egypt, Netherlands and the US, he continued studying Political Science under the tutelage of renowned philosopher Bruno Latour, at SciencesPo Paris. He is the founder of HaRaKa Platform, a collective of artists and academics that has created and toured work internationally since 2006; Cairography Publication, dedicated to uncovering contemporary essays on art and politics from the Middle East; and the ‘PRICKS’ conference series. Finally, in 2021, Adham Hafez founded Wizara, the first blockchain-based initiative supporting African, Arab and Asian artists to experiment with Web3.0 tools. As a scholar, he has published in Arabic and English on politics of performance, sexuality and Islam, climate change and art, and on anticolonial struggles. As an artist, his productions were presented at Sharjah Architecture Triennial (UAE), La Mama Theatre (New York), Hebbel Am Ufer Theatre (Berlin) among others