Cairo Opera Complex Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek *Salah Taher gallery Tel 2739 0132/0144 A photography exhibition on Beijing narrating the great history of the city through showing the architectural style of its historical and modern buildings (31 October-3 November).
Ceramic and Traditional Handicrafts Centre 1 Al-Imam St, behind Amr bin El-Aas Mosque, Al-Fustat, Old Cairo. Tel 2364 3103 A permanent exhibition of the centre's ceramic, brass, jewellery and khayamiya products.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 4D, El Gezira Str. 11211 Zamalek, CairoEgypt, Tel 2735 9750 “Urban Visions”, the exhibition includes the work of three talented young Egyptian artists Ahmed Sabry, Ali Abdel Mohsen and Ramy Dozy. This show aims at catching the mythological dimension of the city, as well as the voices of its real or imaginary inhabitants (running through the end of October).
Duroub 4 Amrika Al-Latiniya St, Garden City, Tel 2796 2881/ 2794 7951 “Water Colours”, paintings by Galal Al-Hosseiny (4-20 November).
Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 *Ahmed Sabri & Al-Hussein Fawzi Halls “Two in One”, an exhibition of paintings by Abdel-Moneim Moawad (Closing 7 November). *Kamal Khalifa Hall Paintings by Reem Abu Eid, Essam Al-Shiti and Marwa Mohamed (Closing 7 November). *Ragheb Ayad Hall Painting and sculpture by Hisham Abdullah (Closing 7 November).
Al-Ghouri Caravansary Imam Mohamed Abdou St, off Al-Moaiz St with Al-Azhar, Tel 2514 7475 The permanent exhibition of the handicrafts centre products including pottery, brass artworks and jewellery.
Hungarian Cultural Counsellor Office 13 Gawad Hosni St, Abdin, Downtown, second floor. Tel 2392 6692 “Egyptian landscapes in 19th century's Hungary”, an exhibition of selected works by the Hungarian artists Lajos Károly Libay and Iván Forray (4 -24 November).
Italian Cultural Institute 3 El-Sheikh El Marsafy St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 5423/2735 8791 “From Villa Verdi to Cairo: The untraveled journey”, a photography exhibition by Sandro Vannini. It includes 36 images of Casa Verdi and the relics within it, as well as 14 panels with reproductions of unpublished documents, fruit of the long correspondence between the composer and Draneht Bey, Egyptian representative for Cultural Affairs for Ismail Pasha, and between Verdi and Camille Du Locle, French entrepreneur and librettist and a collaborator of Verdi's (Opening 31 October).
Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC) 23, Talaat Harb, Downtown Cairo, Tel 2393 3396/2396 0071 “Faces and Features: Caricatures of Indian and Egyptian Personalities” an exhibition organised by the Egyptian Caricature Society. The exhibition will have depiction of prominent Indian figures from the field of politics, art and literature, and cinema, and they will be shown alongside leading Egyptians in similar fields. Indian personalities that are depicted include Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai while Egyptians include Naguib Mahfouz, Youssef Chahine, and Omar Sharief (31 October-14 November).
Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel: 2578 4494/0100 1704554 “This is a Dream Come True”, in this exhibition artist Ali Abdel-Mohsen uses line drawings and acrylic color on the surfaces of cardboard boxes to convey his impressions of decline in contemporary Egypt: on the political, social and human level. His works depict a savage and dystopian universe where man must struggle for survival. A self-taught artist, he chooses the medium of disused cardboard boxes as a way of conveying the primitive aesthetics of his message (Closing 7 November). Picasso 30 Hassan Assem St, off Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2736 7544/ Mob: 010 14587179 “Moving Forward”, an exhibition of paintings by Britt Boutros Ghali (Closing 10 November).
The Photographic Gallery The American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, Plaza Level, Tel 2615 3318 “EuropeanPressphoto Agency: Current Images”, a group exhibition presents a series of photographs from the vast archival collection of The European Pressphoto Agency, that contains over three million images. These powerful photographs taken by epa's leading photographers covers hard news, sports, entertainment, current events, and international issues from January 2012 until the present (Closing 7 November).
SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 “o.m.g”, artworks by Bassem Samir (5-27 November).
El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 *Earth Hall Paintings in different art media by Inas Saad (2-9 November). *Word Hall Oil paintings by Manal Shehata and Mahmoud Shoukri (2-9 November).
Townhouse 10 Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2576 8086 *First Floor gallery “Ugly Feelings” is an exhibition about emotional states that reflect a lack of agency. Anxiety, irritation, envy, lethargy — the kinds of feelings that are vaguely uncomfortable, sometimes difficult to justify, and usually dismissed as relatively banal, despite their pernicious power to prevent the emotional subject from acting.These feelings have a tendency to circulate during times of painful uncertainty, keeping their subjects disoriented and making it difficult to perform. The exhibition is driven by a personal curatorial essay by Ania Szremski narrating a diverse group of works, which are bound together by a shared aim of dealing with or provoking particular emotions. The text itself is a response to certain vexing questions Townhouse has been facing since 2011 about how it should continue to operate in an extended traumatic moment. Artists find it difficult to work, exhibitions are cancelled, and seemingly innocuous projects can trigger unexpectedly violent controversies; as a result, the institution finds itself having to re-negotiate its programs very quickly (and usually with very limited resources) in reaction to the changing circumstances (running through 20 November).
Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 “Masterpieces XI: Collective Summer Exhibition 2013”, for the eleventh consecutive year the gallery presents an exclusive collection of paintings and sculptures for the most prominent artists including among others Abdel Rahman Al-Nachar, Abdel Wahab Abdel Mohsen, Adel Mostafa, Armen Agop, Ayman AL-Semary, Ayman Saadawy, Rabab Nemr, Farghali Abdel- Hafiz, Zeinab Al-Sagini, Farouk Hosny, Gazbia Sirry and Gamal Al-Sagini (Closing 31 October).
