Bilal Akkouche is a writer and Assistant Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, where he works on the Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committee and the African Acquisitions Committee. He has co-curated displays of artists including Anna Boghiguian, Pascale Marthine Tayou, and Farah Al Qasimi. Bilal also worked on the 2024 Hyundai Commission Mire Lee: Open Wound and is co-curating the upcoming Nigerian Modernism exhibition opening in October 2025. He has contributed to the likes of frieze magazine and Trigger.
Previously, he was Assistant Curator of Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain, contributing to major exhibitions such as Hew Locke: The Procession. Before joining Tate, Bilal worked on the Barbican’s Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945–1965, focusing on immigrant artists.
Bilal holds an MA in Curating and Collections from the University of the Arts London, an MSc in Comparative Politics from LSE, and a BA in History from King’s College London.
