The Art Lounge An annex to Al MASAR gallery, Behler's Mansion, 157b, 26 July St, ground floor, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8537/010 067 0705 "Vitality Sculptures", a solo exhibition by Essam Darwich(Closing 27 February).
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.
Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) 22 Abdel Khalek Tharwat St, 4th Floor, Downtown, Cairo, Tel 2396 4272 "MEETING POINTS 7: Ten Thousand Wiles and a Hundred Thousand Tricks", a group exhibition features Iman Issa, Sanja Iveković, Maryam Jafri, Rajkamal Kahlon, Haytham Al-Wardany, Jumana Manna, Cecilia Vicuña, Basma Al Sharif among others(Closing 8 March).
Duroub Amrika Al-Latiniya St, Garden City, Tel 2796 2881/ 2794 7951 "Egyptian Visions", paintings by Mohamed Youssef(Closing 20 February).
Ebdaa 23 B Ismail Mohamed St, Zamalek, Tel 2736 6239 "A New Beginning", paintings by late artist Ahmed Fouad Selim (13-28 February).
Extra 3 Al-Nessim St, corner of Montazah St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 6293 Selection of the Student International Small Print show 2012-2013 (20 February-16 March).
Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 "THE HIDDEN", an exhibition features experimental photography by Ayman Lotfi organised as part of the 2nd Gezira International Contemporary Photography Month (20 February-12 March).
Grant 6 Al-Gumhouriya St, Abdin, Tel 2391 6769 "A Flower on the Face of the South", paintings by Farahat Zaki (Closing 23 February).
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 Gawad Hosni St, Abdin, Downtown, second floor. Tel 2392 6692 "Egyptian horizons", artworks by Egyptian artist Halim Makram (16-28 February).
Al-Kahila 15 Al Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz St, Mohandeseen, Tel 012 28647511 "Colourful Memoirs", paintings by artist Assem Abdel Fattah (Closing 28 February).
AL MASAR Behler's Mansion, 157b, 26 July St, ground floor, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8537/010 067 0705 "Nostalgic Dreams", Georges Bahgory's annual exhibition showcases the artist's latest collection that is inspired by the current times Egypt is living through and past memories (Closing 23 February). Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2578 4494/0100 1704554 *"Sheer Strength", this exhibition stresses the possibility of putting together 4 female artistic personalities as different as those of Hala Abu Shadi, Dina Al Gharib, Souad Abdel Rasoul and Fadwa Ramadan. From the more rigourous abstraction to a surprising overlapping of images, their trajectories of research result into works of strong visual impact, empowered by the sophisticated use of various techniques: painting, drawing, collage, digital photography (Closing 28 February). *"Cinderella's Tales", paintings by Shaymaa Kamel whose exceptional work hence represents an attempt to capture these blurred lines between fantasy and reality (16 February-20 March).
Misr 4A Ibn Zankai St, from Hassan Sabri, Zamalek, Tel 2735 0604 "EPIGRAPHY", paintings by Mahmoud Hamed (13-27 February).
Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Tel 2735 1123 *Isis Hall "Mohamed Al-Alawi's Journey", paintings by Mohamed Al-Alawi (18-26 February). *Nahdat Misr Hall "Fifty Years of Art", paintings by Sayed Saadeddin (18-26 February).
Picasso 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek. Tel 2736 7544 "Egyptour Homeland", watercolour and oil paintings by renowned ophthalmologist-artist Farid Fadel (23 February-14 March).
SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 "Sounds", paintings by Sabah Naim (25 February-15 March).
Salama 36 Ahmed Oraby St, Mohandeseen, Tel 3346 3242 "50 Years of Art", an exhibition of paintings by Georges Selim (Closing 20 February).
Taha Hussein Museum *Ramatan Cultural Centre 11 Taha Hussein St, Madkour, Al-Haram, Tel 3583 4869 A group exhibition features among other artists Amira Hussein, RehabHussein, Mahmoud Abdel-Karim (19-26 February).
Townhouse Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2576 8086 *First Floor gallery "The House of Rare Historic Photographs", by photographer Barry Iverson, Iverson delves into ambivalent truths and fantasies that the process of image-making can render real. Playing with early photographic vernacular stemming from studio portraiture, glamorous cinematic gestures, Orientalist postcards and architectural records, this body of work is a highly personal documentation of a history both recent and deep, remembered and imagined; a projection of subjective memories on actual places (16 February-12 March).
Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 *Artworks by artist Gamal Abdel-Nasser (Closing 27 February). *"Laugh, Play, Work and Love", paintings by artist George Fekri Ibrahim (23 February-11 March).
ALEXANDRIA
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Chatby, Alexandria 21526, Tel (03) 4839999 East Exhibition Hall* "Agenda", a group exhibition features works by 87 artists from Iraq, Germany, Sudan among other countries (13 February- 1 March).
