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BLUE WIND PROJECT

Blue Wind Project is a contemporary art gallery that conceives exhibitions as a context for research, storytelling, and encounter. Situated at the intersection of curatorial practice and the art market, the gallery develops projects that support artists in building and sustaining the visibility of their careers over the long term.

Through a program of exhibitions, residencies, and international collaborations, Blue Wind Project focuses on works that carry narratives within them; personal, collective, historical, or geographical. The gallery favors a curatorial approach that is attentive to the contexts of creation and to the dialogues that works can open between different temporalities and territories.

 

Beyond supporting contemporary creation, Blue Wind Project pursues a research strand dedicated to rediscoveries and artist estates. By reactivating works, trajectories, and histories that have been left on the margins of dominant narratives, the gallery contributes to the writing of new perspectives on art history.

 

With the Mediterranean as its anchor and the world as its horizon, Blue Wind Project builds bridges between artists, collectors, institutions, and audiences. The gallery champions a vision in which artist support, curatorial rigor, and commitment to the art market work together to bring lasting narratives around works.

 

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    The history of the Blue Wind Project is deeply rooted in the legacy of an iconic place: the former Le...

    The history of the Blue Wind Project is deeply rooted in the legacy of an iconic place: the former Le Violon Bleu Gallery, founded by Essia Hamdi in 2003. For many years, the gallery stood as a landmark of the Tunisian art scene, welcoming some of the most significant figures of modern art and contributing to the writing of an essential chapter in the country's cultural history.


    It was also within these walls that Khadija Hamdi took her first steps as a curator, initiating, from 2010 onwards, a series of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art from the Arab world.


    As an art historian, I believe that every story matters and that no branch can flourish without deep roots. As Carl Gustav Jung wrote: "The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell." In other words, every aspiration towards the future draws its strength from the depth of its origins.

     

    Today, the Blue Wind Project inhabits this historic and symbolic space, continuing a story first begun by Essia Hamdi. More than a return, it is a tribute to a living legacy—one that continues to grow, branching into new artistic horizons while remaining firmly rooted in its history.

  • About the Founder

    Khadija Hamdi

    Khadija Hamdi

    Khadija Hamdi is an art historian, curator, and the founder of Blue Wind Project. Her path has been built at the intersection of research, curatorial practice, and the art market, with a particular focus on artistic trajectories and cultural circulations across the Mediterranean.

     

    After completing a doctorate in Islamic art history at the Sorbonne, she trained in the art market at EAC Paris and gained professional experience at the Institut du Monde Arabe and Sotheby's. She then taught for six years at the Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Sfax, while developing curatorial projects between Tunisia, France, and Spain. These different chapters allowed her to build an understanding of the art world that is at once intellectual, institutional, and economic.

     

    Now based in Barcelona, she situates her work within a trans-Mediterranean perspective, exploring questions of memory, transmission, identity, and exchange across the region's different shores. Through the Blue Wind Project, she develops a curatorial practice grounded in long-term support for artists and the rediscovery of underrepresented histories. Hamdi's practice is led by a conviction that works reach their full force when embedded in narratives capable of connecting artists, audiences, collectors, and institutions.