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ss: Dahlia Alexandra El Broul
Dahlia is represented by the illustration agency Astound US Inc
Photographer: Helka Miettunen
Dahlia El Broul is an artist, educator, and curator originally from New York City, where she received her BFA in Illustration and a minor in Art History. After moving to Finland, she earned her MA in Curating, Managing, and Mediating Art from Aalto University. For over 15 years, she has collaborated with various cultural organisations and worked on independent projects as an educator, resident artist, and producer.
For many years she has cemented her creative practice on dialogical methods and a strong focus on multi-positional/trans-local cultural identities and epistemic plurality through the lens of intersectional feminism. In New York, she worked with such institutions as BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, the 92nd Street Y Art Center, MoMA PS1, the Hudson River Museum, and Flux Factory. In 2017, she was part of the educational team for documenta 14, in Kassel Germany.
In Finland, she has worked for Frame Contemporary Art Finland as a Programme Officer, developed the educational programme for the exhibition Ote/Points of View at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, worked for the Helsinki International Artist Programme, and is a contributing editor for the English exhibition text of the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte.
Dahlia is the co-editor of two recent publications, Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research, published by Mousse and New Narratives Reader, published by the Museum of Impossible Forms. Since May 2020, she has been on the board of Catalysti ry; an arts association focused on anti-racist work, inclusivity, and equity in the Finnish art scene.
Dahlia is currently a teacher at Art School Maa and a PhD student at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). Her doctoral research is at the intersection of children’s picture books and critical pedagogy—crisscrossing the terrain of illustration, collaborative practices, theory, education, critique, and imaginings of the possible to support the social conditions for collective production.
For many years she has cemented her creative practice on dialogical methods and a strong focus on multi-positional/trans-local cultural identities and epistemic plurality through the lens of intersectional feminism. In New York, she worked with such institutions as BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, the 92nd Street Y Art Center, MoMA PS1, the Hudson River Museum, and Flux Factory. In 2017, she was part of the educational team for documenta 14, in Kassel Germany.
In Finland, she has worked for Frame Contemporary Art Finland as a Programme Officer, developed the educational programme for the exhibition Ote/Points of View at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, worked for the Helsinki International Artist Programme, and is a contributing editor for the English exhibition text of the Photographic Gallery Hippolyte.
Dahlia is the co-editor of two recent publications, Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research, published by Mousse and New Narratives Reader, published by the Museum of Impossible Forms. Since May 2020, she has been on the board of Catalysti ry; an arts association focused on anti-racist work, inclusivity, and equity in the Finnish art scene.
Dahlia is currently a teacher at Art School Maa and a PhD student at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK). Her doctoral research is at the intersection of children’s picture books and critical pedagogy—crisscrossing the terrain of illustration, collaborative practices, theory, education, critique, and imaginings of the possible to support the social conditions for collective production.
“What I love is that children’s literature is at the intersection of literacy and art appreciation. I’m keen to find the distinct ways in which picture books can tackle critical and socially engaged debates and empower and celebrate situated knowledge.”