momen nabil
Opening photograph
Everywhere
(Site-Specific Performance)
Everywhere
Two bodies and a cello taking dance outside the stage.
Site-Specific Performance
Tech Stage
(Temporary Architecture)
Tech Stage
Lit bamboo pillars circling a cracked pit for RiseUp Summit.
2021 — Giza
Can Guineu
(Temporary Architecture)
Can Guineu
A lightweight fabric installation in a protected 19th-century courtyard.
2021 — Sant Sadurní
Creative Stage
(Architecture / Experience)
Creative Stage
A field of projected discs turning visitors into co-creators of the space.
2021 — Giza
The Fall
(Place of Co-existence)
The Fall
A collapsing mass at Berlin's Mauerpark, built on the site of the Wall's death strip.
2017 — Berlin
Pause
(Light Installation)
Pause
Fog and five projectors materializing light as a physical form.
2019 — Cairo
The House That Opens to the Sea
(Architecture Competition)
The House That Opens to the Sea
A vertical settlement for a Mumbai fishing village disappearing under the tide.
2018 — Cairo / Mumbai
Project V.
(Installation)
Project V.
Light refracted through water, rebuilt as an architectural environment.
2019
Casket Islami
(Product Design)
Casket Islami
A reconsidered Muslim casket, its handle choreographing those who carry it.
2023 — Cairo
Falaki Tech Stage
(Experience Design)
Falaki Tech Stage
3D-mapped projections turning a theater into an ambient environment.
2018 — Cairo
Everything Around
(Creative Direction)
Everything Around
Festival side-events staged across sea, land, and sky.
2025 — El Gouna
The Delta Strikes Back
(Urban Design)
The Delta Strikes Back
Vertical farming grafted onto Haranya's informal housing and pigeon towers.
2016 — Haranya
Absurd Reality
(Photography / Installation)
Absurd Reality
Taped interventions framing Cairo's overlooked, disappearing structures.
2018 — Venice Biennale
About Now
(Performance / Installation)
About Now
Shadow-play across a projected gradient, on time and stillness.
Prague Quadrennial / CCDC
Youtube Warehouse
(Immersive Experience)
Youtube Warehouse
YouTube's first experience-design event in Cairo, inhabited for two weeks.
2018 — Cairo
Blalooms of the Bamboon
(Interactive Installation)
Blalooms of the Bamboon
A glowing sphere that lights up in response to voice and sound.
2019
Capital Stage
(Event Design)
Capital Stage
A continuous yellow carpet extending the stage into the audience.
2018 — Cairo
Butter Cake
(Creative Direction)
Butter Cake
A playful installation of oversized objects built for movement and play.
2025 — Cairo
Awake
(Performance Creation)
Awake
A 30-minute solo set entirely on a bed, between sleep and wakefulness.
2025 — DCAF, Egypt
Sham3dan
(Performance / Touring)
Sham3dan
The traditional shamadan dance reworked around feminism and power.
2023–2025 — Touring
What Her Hands Remembered
(Work in Progress)
What Her Hands Remembered
A piece on memory and the pulse that insists on staying.
Goethe-Institut / HAU
The Invisible Water
(Short Film)
The Invisible Water
An award-winning short film.
2021
The Fall Out
(Art Direction / Videography)
The Fall Out
A short film.
Short Film
The Covidumbs
(Frame-by-Frame Animation)
The Covidumbs
A frame-by-frame animated short made during the pandemic.
Pandemic-era short
Project Opera
(Concept Illustrations)
Project Opera
A digital series exploring the raw sense of just being.
Illustration Series
bio

Momen Nabil is an architect, dancer, and creative director.

He holds a master's degree in ephemeral architecture and temporary space design from Elisava, Barcelona, and trained in contemporary dance at the Cairo Contemporary Dance Center. His work moves between architecture, spatial design, and performance.

Bachelor of Architecture
German University in Cairo & BTU Cottbus
Master, Ephemeral Architecture
Elisava, Barcelona
Momen Nabil, movement studies

Let's Work.

Email
momenbakry@gmail.com
Phone
+20 127 170 1805
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portfolio 2026