The American University in Cairo

The Rare Books and Special Collections Library

“Princess Fawzia: The Duality of Egyptian Womanhood Through Western and Egyptian Eyes”, exhibition showcases how Egyptian women are portrayed in the national and international media through the life of Princess Fawzia, the sister of King Farouk — the last monarch to rule Egypt — and the first wife of the Shah of Iran (closing31 October).

 

Arcade

25 Orabi St, off Port Said, Maadi, Tel 010 19222220

“In Memoriam of Raouf Abdel-Meguid”, a rare collection of paintings by the truly iconic, award winning, late artist Raouf Abdel-Meguid (11-30 September).  

 

Cairo Opera Complex

Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek

Salah Taher gallery

Tel 02 2739 0132/0144

Oil paintings by Berry Habashi (closing 21 September).

Oil paintings by Shafaq Ak-Wakeel (24-30 September).

Music Library (Ziad Bakir) gallery

Oil paintings by Safaa Ghareeb (closing 21 September).  

Oil paintings by Mona Sallam (24-30 September).

 

The Capital

11 Youssef Kamel (Al-Gezira Al Wosta) St, Zamalek, Tel 010 25161678/01155262146/01207191333

Exhibition of paintings by Mustafa Yehia (closing29 September).   

 

Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre

1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin Al-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo, Tel 02 2364 3103

A permanent exhibition of the centre’s ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayameya products.

 

Easel and Camera Contemporary art gallery 

Dreamland Golf Club, Hilton Pyramids Golf, Al Wahat Road, 6 of October

01091267165/01001834449

The gallery’s changeable summer collection presents mixed media on canvas paintings by renowned artist Mohamed Abul-Naga.  

 

French Cultural Institute

Madrasset Al-Huquq Al Frinseya St, Mounira, Tel 02 2791 5800

Heliopolis, Masr Al-Gedida, Tel 02 2417 4824

“Hakawi, Tales of a Contemporary Egypt”,as part of the 2019 France-Egypt Cultural Year, the French Institute of Egypt exhibits images by16 Egyptian photographers at the Cité des Arts in Paris, during the Biennale of Photographers in the Arab World. These artists each tell their own story about today's Egypt, its youth, its challenges, but also its humor (closing 28 September).

 

Grant

6 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Tel 02 2391 6769

A group exhibition of masterpieces by lateartists such as Hassan Rashed, Mohamed Al-Zahed, Said Al-Adawi, Farouk Shehata,and contemporary artistssuch as Adel Thabet, Taha Abdel-Aal, Hanaa Hashem, and Omar Abdel-Zaher (continues through the end of the season).

 

Al-Ghouri Caravansary

Imam Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Muaaz St with Al-Azhar, Tel 02 2514 7475

Permanent exhibition of the handicraft centre’s products, including pottery, brass artworks and jewellery.

 

Al-Hanager Arts Centre

Cairo Opera Complex, Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek, Tel

Tel 02 2735 6861

Adam Henein Hall

“25 Years Photojournalist”, a photography exhibition by Al-Ahram Organisation photographer Bassam Alzoghby (22-27 September).

 

Italian Cultural Institute

3 El-Sheikh El Marsafy St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 5423/2735 8791
“FarneCairo”, permanent exhibition of contemporary art at the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo. Works of art by Stefania Fabrizi, Giovanni Casellato, Giulio Turcato, Paolo Peroni, Clodoveo Masciarelli, Ragheb Agad, Abdel-Hafiz Farghali and others (open during office hours).

 

Japan FoundationOffice

106 Al-Qasr Al-Aini St, Cairo Centre Building, 5^thfloor, Garden City, Tel 02 2794 9431 / 9719

“Hiroshima Between the Past and the Present”, a caricature exhibition marks 74 years since the fall of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August and features 30 paintings by cartoonist Mohamed Effat, Fawzi Moursi among other Egyptian cartoonists. It is held in cooperation with the Egyptian Caricature Society (closing19 September).

 

Khan Almaghraby

18 Al-Mansour Mohamed St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 3349/01000 694940

“20+”,the gallery’s annual exhibition showcases a wide selection of artworks by young artists such as Hana Karim, Mena Nassef,Meran Samir, Noha Tarek, Omnia Mohamed, Passsant Nashat, Sarah Mohamed, Hossam Mustafa, Lina El-Magdoub and Shaimaa Darwish (closing19 September).

 

Magdoub Design Studio

21 Ismail Mohamed St, Zamalek, Tel 02 27370778

A drawing exhibition honours the name of late theatre director Mohamed Abou-Alseoud showcasing drawings of two of his theatre performances Mother Africa and Sheba (18 September- 1 October). 

 

Al Mashrabia

80 Mohieddin Abul Ezz St, infront of the Shooting Club Gate 3, Dokki, Tel 02 3335 7507  

A group exhibition of paintings by the likes of Ayman El-Semary, Adel Tharwat, Emad Abou Zeid, Magdy Anwar, Nevine Farghaly

(14-28 September).

 

MashrabiaGallery of Contemporary Art

15 Mahmoud Bassiouny St, Downtown, Tel 02 25750353

“My Favorite Things 4”, meant as a platform to promote and encourage promising young women artists, this year it expands its reach, featuring a new and larger group of Egyptian artists, as well as two special foreign guests experimenting with contemporary artistic practices and media. Participating artists: Aya Badawy, Mona Essam, Nourhan Mayouf, Alaa Ayman Hassan, Heba Abul Ella, Marwa Talaat, Nesreen Mamdouh, Gabriela Kobus, Courtney Crawfordand more (15 September-24 October). 

 

Medrar for Contemporary Art

7 Gamal Abu-El Mahassen Street, First Floor, Apartment 4, Garden City, Cairo, Egypt, Tel 02 27957714

The 9th edition of Cairo Video Festival 

The festival has started with 5 Swiss works. The Swiss participation varies between experimental videos, projections and Installations. Swiss visual artist Yannick Jacquet is participating with his installation “Mécaniques Discursives”, created in 2013, in collaboration with Swiss artist Fred Penelle. This edition also features video works by Swiss artists Alexander Hahn, Aurèle Ferrier - who had participated in the 8th edition of the festival -, Victoria Maréchal, Anuk Jovović and Pavle Jovović.

“Thought Forms”, isAlexander Hahn (CH/US)’s 6:04 minutes analogue apparatuses scan and process text and drawings – clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements – from the pages of Occult Chemistry, a book by Annie Besant (1847 – 1933) (10- 30 September).

“Borders II”, 18:20 minutes video exhibition byVictoria Maréchal (Ar/CH)

(10- 30 September).

Cairo Festival City Mall

New Cairo

“Mécaniques Discursives”, installation byYannick Jacquet & Fred Penelle (CH).While the passage of time seems to accelerate every day, Fred Penelle and Yannick Jacquet offer a pause, a suspension, a breath. A strange mechanism stretches across the wall, populated with shadowy chimeras

(10- 30 September).

 

NWT House

Villa 19 Road 12 Maadi El Sarayat, Tel 01152482349

“Visual Verses”,a group exhibition by a galaxy of artists such as Nazly Madkour, Rifky Al-Razzaz, Maye Heshamt and Brit Botrous Ghali

(18 September- 31 October).

 

Picasso

30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2736 7544

Hall I

“Fountains of Light”,paintings byMohamed Kamal (15-30 September).

Hall II

“Desert Visage”,photography by Wael Abed (15-30 September).

 

Picasso East

Villa No 39 Al Narges 35^thsettlement, 90's St, in front of Lake View Compound, Tel 0122 0000035 

The gallery’s group summer exhibition presents a galaxy of pioneer artists showing the wide range of art styles such as Fathy Afifi, Georges Bahgory, Sayed Saadeddin, Ayman Al-Semary, Kassem,Abdel-Fattah Al-Badry, Mahmoud Marey,Sally Al-Zainy,Eman Osama, Neven Al-Refaai.

 

SOMA art

14 Maraashli St, Zamalek,2nd floor, apartment 4, Zamalek, Tel 0122 2429292

“Tea Time with my Lungs”, a trio exhibitionby Marwan ElGamal, Nada Barakaand Soha Elsirgany. In this show, the artists explore relationships between the human body, narratives, and spaces. Their collective works consider how the physical body – with its organs and systems - create internal narratives in response to exterior happenings (18 September - 16 October).

 

Salama

36 Ahmed Oraby St, Mohandeseen, Tel 02 3346 3242

“Art for All”, the gallery annual group exhibition features art pieces by the likes of Seif Wanly, Omar El-Nagdi, Samir Fouad, Adham Wanly, Essmat Dawestashi, Georges Bahgory, Gihan Raouf, Sameh Al-Banany, Nagwa El-Ashriand Effat Hosni (continues until the end of the season).

 

TAM.Gallery

Km 28,Cairo-Alexandria Desert Road, Abu Rawash, Giza-Egypt, Tel 0100 0773860

“Solos in Parallel”,is the third edition of the exhibitionfeaturing new collections by Egyptian contemporary artists. It aims to take you on a journey between two contrasting worlds-KlayKassem’s melodic interpretations of Mozart’s Magic Flute and Ayyad Alnimer’s vibrant and personal perceptions of theworld- both lined with the familiarity of life, loss, family ties, and enlightened love

(13 September - 3 October).

 

Zamalek Art gallery

11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 02 2735 1240

“Strata”, a group show by the likes of Abdallah Shaarawi, Eslam Abdel-Salam, Fatema Abou-Doma, Nada El-Shorbagy, Nour Kamel and Fares Zaitoon

(22 September- 12 October). 

 

ZAGPick

F8, Strip Mall-Sodic, Waslet Dahshour Road, Beverly Hills, Sheikh Zayed, 6^th of october, Tel 02 38863961/0111 2304440

A collective exhibition of artworks by contemporary and pioneer artists

(14September- 3 October). 

 

 

 

ALEXANDRIA

 

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Chatby, Alexandria 21526, Tel (03) 4839999

Eastern Exhibitions Hall

“Arabic Topography”,the BA and the French Cultural Institute in Egypt present this exhibition dedicated to the art of printed Arabic letters as part of the 2019 France-Egypt Cultural Year. It covers several centuries of calligraphy creation: posters from the Arab world from the capital of Algeria to Beirut in the 1870s and 1980s, the history of printed Arabic letters from the 16th to the 21st century, and finally a selected collection of creations of printed letters by contemporary artists

(11September- 6 October).

 

 *A version of this article appears in print in the 19 September, 2019 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly.