Female-identifying artists everywhere face countless challenges in and out of the art world. MIA Art Collection’s mission, as defined by its founder Alejandra Castro Rioseco, has been to increase the visibility of female artists everywhere. The defining characteristic of MIA is to exclusively collect and promote female artists on a global scale. For our team and for people everywhere, COVID-19 has drastically changed the professional and personal landscape. To adapt to this situation, we have launched a new initiative which has brought our collection online. In MIA Anywhere, we showcase works from both our permanent collection as well as by visiting artists. After only some weeks running, we have featured the work of female artists from Iran to Peru, Brazil to Spain.
For our up and coming project, we are excited to announce our partnership with Art D’Egypte. This collaboration is born in the common visions of Art D’Egypte and MIA Art Collection: we aim to educate, to raise awareness, and to bring opportunity to these places by activating spaces and involving the entirety of the surrounding community. In our joint project, premiering June 1st, we are excited to showcase an online museum retrospect of Art D’Égypte’s past three exhibitions, curated by Nadine Abdelghaffar, founder of Art D’Égypte, highlighting the works of 10 contemporary Egyptian female artists. Alyaa Kamel, Farida El Gazzar, Ghada Amer, Heba Y. Amin, Huda Lutfi, Malak Yacout, Marianne Fahmy, Nihal Wahby, Sherin Guirguis and Yasmine El Meleegy.
Art D’Égypte is a platform that aims to promote Egyptian art on an international level. Annual exhibitions show contemporary Egyptian art at Heritage sites linking Egypt’s rich past to its creative present. Art D’Egypte has completed 42 Site-specific art pieces, 80 Art Guides, 3 Factory Residencies and 21 Free public talks. In 2020, however, Art D’Egypte has moved online, like MIA Art Collection, and has released a series of exclusive never-before-seen online content aimed to educate, inspire, and inform the youth of today through LIVE chats, a podcast, an IGTV series and more.
The fact of the matter is that the art landscape is changing drastically, specifically in these torrid times and in light of the coronavirus pandemic – locally, regionally and globally – art mobility as well as sustainable development through art has become key. Globally, the position of art institutions is being challenged, and we have worked tirelessly to deconstruct this stigma around the “art exhibition” being an elite and distant thing. With this spirit, we bring the public a collaborative project of MIA Art Collection and Art D’Egypte to MIA Anywhere’s online museum.
In our online museum: http://www.miaanywhere.com/
From 01/06/2020 – 07/06/2020
