Biography
Omar Ghayatt was born in Cairo in 1976. He did his Bachelor degree at the faculty of Arts and Education in Cairo in 1998. In 2003 he founded the Theater Company “Studio Moroni” and presented his first major art work, “Night Traveller”, at Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. He won the first prize for performance art at the 15th Egyptian Youth Salon in the same year – the first prize ever awarded in Egypt for performance art.
In the following years, Ghayatts work took him to various countries, including France, Bosnia, Turkey, Poland and Korea. In 2007, he came to Bern with the Pro Helvetia Artist in Residence program. He has since then returned to Switzerland to do a Masters degree in Scenography at the Zurich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). Since 2010, he is based in Stadtgalerie Bern, with a sponsored Studio from the City of Bern, besides still being an associated artist of Townhouse Gallery Cairo.