Karina El Helou (b. 1984) is a contemporary art curator. She has an M.A. in Art History from Sorbonne University, M.A in Art Business from Sotheby's Institute of Art, London (validated by University of Manchester, UK) and attended the École du Louvre and the Met Penninghen Art school. She worked at the Cartier Foundation of Contemporary Art as a collection manager and at Sotheby’s Institute of Art (London) as a teaching assistant. In 2015, she founded the curatorial platform (STUDIOCUR/ART, Paris) through which she curated several exhibitions in private and public spaces, including The Silent Echo at the Baalbek Museum in 2016 and more recently, Cycles of Collapsing Progress, produced in collaboration with Beirut Museum of Art, at the International Fair by Oscar Niemeyer and citadel of Tripoli, in September 2018. She curated Gregory Buchakjian's solo exhibition Abandoned Dwellings- Display of Systems at Sursock Museum, Beirut in November 2018. She is the co-editor of Perambulation online research platfrom launching in September 2021. perambulation.org