Loulwah Kutbi Awarded In-Practice Residency with Slavs and Tatars in collaboration with Art Jameel and Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia

Art Jameel, Goethe-Institut Saudi Arabia and Berlin-based art collective Slavs and Tatars are delighted to announce that Saudi researcher and writer Loulwah Kutbi has been awarded the third cycle of the Berlin/Jeddah In-Practice Residency. The residency includes a two-month immersion in Slavs and Tatars’ experimental Berlin studio, during which Kutbi will be embedded as part of the collective, integrating her practice with theirs, followed by a public programme at Hayy Jameel, fully conceived and run by Kutbi.

Loulwah Kutbi is a researcher and writer trained in anthropology, working with cultural memory and its tension with recorded history. She approaches the archive as a site of intervention, questioning how knowledge is stabilised and affirmed, and what remains absent. She works with literary archives and oral histories, using remediation as a method to bring disparate affiliations into relation. She developed e(xilic)ncounters through a residency with Slavs and Tatars and Hayy Jameel (2024–2025) and is Assistant Curator of Seething Sea (Mathaf, Doha, 2026). She has written for Mathqaf and curated film programmes at Hayy Cinema and SAFAR Film Festival. She holds an MA in Material and Visual Culture from UCL.