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 khayamiyaproducts.
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). *”Layer of Green”, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) and Goethe-Institut Kairo announce the opening of the exhibition Layer of Green on Sunday, March 16th, 7 pm at CIC. For four weeks the exhibition will showcase the works of eleven young photographers from Cairo and Alexandria focusing on various aspects of environment, change and the eponymous Layer of Green. Participating artists: Ahmed Hamed, Ahmed Safyeldin, Amr Al-Maghraby, Ebrahim Al Moly, Manar Moursi, Maryam Ahmed, Mai Al -Shazli, Mireille Al-Magrissy, Nadia Mounir, Sara Sallam, Wafaa Samir(16 March - 16 April).
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH 4D, El Gezira Str. 11211 Zamalek, CairoEgypt, Tel 2735 9750 “SHEER STRENGTH”, this is the third of seasonally changing exhibitions on chosen themes at the premises of the GIZ office. 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 Rasouland 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 30 April).
Darb 1718 Kasr El Sham3 Street, Al Fakhareen, Old Cairo, near Mar Girgis Metro Station, Tel 2361 0511 “Maspero II: The Sequel” exhibition; from 2011 to 2014, how have things changed at Maspero? The Darb 1718 exhibition entitled “Maspero” held back in 2011 inspired a sequel in which Egyptian contemporary artists show us their thoughts on Egyptian State Television today.Participating Artists: Ahmed Al-Shaer, Aisha Al-Shabrawi, Ali Abdel-Mohsen, Amr Al-Kafrawi,Azza Eissa, Moataz Nasr, Moawya Hilal, Maye Al-Hossami, Yasmine Al-Meliguiand Youssef Limoud(1 March -1 April).
Duroub Amrika Al-Latiniya St, Garden City, Tel 2796 2881/ 2794 7951 «Noon», paintings by Mustafa Rahma(Closing 16 March).
Extra 3 Al-Nessim St, corner of Montazah St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 6293 Selection of the Student International Small Print show 2012-2013 (Closing 16 March).
Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 “THE HIDDEN”, an exhibition features experimental photography by Ayman Lotfiorganised as part of the 2nd Gezira International Contemporary Photography Month (Closing 12 March).
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.
Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2578 4494/0100 1704554 “Cinderella's Tales”, paintings by Shaymaa Kamelwhose exceptional work hence represents an attempt to capture these blurred lines between fantasy and reality (Closing 20 March).
The Photographic Gallery The American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, Plaza Level, Tel 2615 3318 “See You At The Movies: Egyptian Cinema Stills 1930s –1970s”, a photographic exhibition. This exhibition, on loan from The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at The American University in Cairo, is a collection of Egyptian cinema stills from the 1930s to the colored movies of the seventies. The photographs on exhibit include famous stars from more than fifty well-known Egyptian films (2 March - 10April).
Picasso 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek. Tel 2736 7544 “Egyptour Homeland”, watercolour and oil paintings by renowned artist Farid Fadel (Closing 14 March).
SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 “Sounds”, paintings by Sabah Naim(Closing 15 March).
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 (Closing 12 March).
Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 “Laugh, Play, Work and Love”, paintings by artist George Fekri Ibrahim(Closing 11 March).
ALEXANDRIA
Bibliotheca Alexandrina East Exhibition Hall* Al-Shatby, Alexandria 21526, Tel (03) 4839999 A photography exhibition on the salvage of the Abu Simbel Temples in the Southern Egypt by the UNESCO and the Egyptian government (Closing 6 March).
