Dima Karout
Dima Karout has over 20 years’ experience in creating and managing art projects, curating and producing exhibitions, and designing publications and learning programmes. She specialises in socially engaged art and its contribution to museums, education, research, wellbeing, sanctuary and inclusive societies.
She is a trusted advisor on strategies and public programmes supporting complex innovative projects. Throughout her career, she promoted equality, inclusion and creative learning having authored and delivered diverse programmes at internationally renowned universities, museums and humanitarian charities. She gained strong cultural awareness and a global mind-set through her international experience including in Damascus, Paris, Montréal and London.
Her collaborations in London include: the GLA (Greater London Authority), Grand Junction, the Horniman Museum and Gardens, the British Museum, the Migration Museum, Shakespeare’s Globe, Brent Museum, Counterpoints, Groundwork London, University of Westminster, Play for Progress amongst many others.
D6’s collaboration with Dima began when we invited her to be part of our first Associate Artists Group (2021-23). During that time, she contributed to our programme with reflections on cultural rights and practice as research. She also advised on and contributed to Artists Connecting in Transition - an international programme connecting artists with lived experience of exile, centring on artistic practice and exchange in the context of significant global challenges and inequalities around forced migration and displacement.
She is a trusted advisor on strategies and public programmes supporting complex innovative projects. Throughout her career, she promoted equality, inclusion and creative learning having authored and delivered diverse programmes at internationally renowned universities, museums and humanitarian charities. She gained strong cultural awareness and a global mind-set through her international experience including in Damascus, Paris, Montréal and London.
Her collaborations in London include: the GLA (Greater London Authority), Grand Junction, the Horniman Museum and Gardens, the British Museum, the Migration Museum, Shakespeare’s Globe, Brent Museum, Counterpoints, Groundwork London, University of Westminster, Play for Progress amongst many others.
D6’s collaboration with Dima began when we invited her to be part of our first Associate Artists Group (2021-23). During that time, she contributed to our programme with reflections on cultural rights and practice as research. She also advised on and contributed to Artists Connecting in Transition - an international programme connecting artists with lived experience of exile, centring on artistic practice and exchange in the context of significant global challenges and inequalities around forced migration and displacement.