Festivals and Films
Cairo What's on
Paintings by Souad Mardam Bey.
1-31 Dec 2009. This exhibition is dedicated to the Cairo-based artist Souad Mardam Bey. Her colourful canvases portray ethereal and ephemeral figures and silhouettes, such as Nubian faces and figures...
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Desert Sea Light by Mathias Pfeiffer.
15 Nov-10 Dec 2009. This exhibition displays porcelain artworks by the German ceramicist Mathias Pfeiffer, who gives everyday objects and home accessories a touch of design without making them lose th...
Cairo What's on
15 Nov-7 Dec 2009. This group exhibition entitled Il Corpus Humanus brings together paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs by renowned Egyptian artists including Ibrahim El-Dessouki, Essam Da...
Cairo What's on
10-26 Nov 2009. This exhibition pays homage to the prominent Egyptian artist Salah Taher (1911-2007). On display are late works by the master painter, who belonged to the so-called
Cairo What's on
George Fikry in Egyptian Rituals.
8 Nov-2 Dec 2009. This exhibition brings together the latest tableaux paintings by George Fikry, who was inspired by a journey through Egypt
Cairo What's on
1-13 Nov 2009. This exhibition features oil on wood paintings dedicated to Egypt and its famous Sphinx by the Italian-based Egyptian artist Gamal Meleka.
Born in 1964, Meleka moved to Italy at the a...
Cairo What's on
Mythical Dimension by Eleftherios Mystakas.
29 Oct-20 Dec 2009. This exhibition features paintings by the Greek artist Eleftherios Mystakas, who is specialized in contemporary Christian art and iconography. For this series Mystakas has drawn in...
Cairo What's on
27 Oct-25 Nov 2009. This exhibition is dedicated to the half Egyptian, half French artist Katherine Bakhoum, whose Oriental-style paintings are made up of tender strokes and subtle pastel tones, but t...
Cairo What's on
25 Oct-30 Dec 2009. This exhibition features a series of new paintings by the Egyptian artist Fathi Afifi.
Fathi was born in Cairo in 1950 and is a member of The Egyptian Plastic Art Association, th...
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Training Sculpture by Marisa Maza.
18 Oct-12 Nov 2009. This exhibition presents a series of videos made in 2008 by the Berlin artist Marisa Maza focusing on the relationship between space, gender and the body in the field of sports. Th...
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13 Oct-5 Nov 2009. This group exhibition brings together the work of 15 international photographers, who portray their country of origin. The artists highlight various aspects of daily life in Egypt t...
Cairo What's on
10 Oct-7 Nov 2009. This exhibition features work by 12 artists who explore their relationship with bread. Each artist focuses on a different aspect of the culture of bread and its significance for soc...
Cairo What's on
29 Sept-24 Oct 2009. For the first time since 2006 a solo show is dedicated to the young Egyptian artist Wael Shawky. The Factory and first-floor gallery spaces contain recent videos and drawings show...
Cairo What's on
15 Sept-30 Oct 2009. Original works by Atta El Sayed, a talented and promising young artist, made using recycled newspaper, cardboard and photographs.
Cairo What's on
13 Sept-13 Oct 2009. This is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the Egyptian artist Deena Fadel.
On this occasion Fadel brings together a great number of mixed-media paintings, enriched by the u...
Cairo What's on
9-30 Sept 2009. This exhibition features the work of Hana Ibrahem, a young and promising Egyptian painter who first explored different painting techniques before abandoning brush and canvas for graphi...
Cairo What's on
1-30 Sept 2009. This exhibition pays homage to El-Hussein Fawzy (1905-1990), an Egyptian painter who was also well known in the Middle East for his pioneering work in the field of graphic art.
In fa...
Cairo What's on
1-10 Sept 2009. This is the first solo exhibition held in Cairo by the artist Amr Ali, who presents two series of work which are a combination of collage and drawing, mixing and overlapping different...
