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 “Layer of Green”, Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) and Goethe-Institut Kairo announce the opening of the exhibition Layer of Green on Sunday, March 16th, 7pm 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 (27 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 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 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-Meligui and Youssef Limoud (27 March -1 April). Duroub 4 Amrika Al-Latiniya St, Garden City, Tel 2796 2881/ 2794 7951 “Serenading with Colours (2)”, oil, aquarelle and acrylic paintings by artist Wagih Yassa (2-24 April).
Ebdaa 23 B Ismail Mohamed St, Zamalek, Tel 2736 6239/0100 2155702 “Readings in Visual Art III”, a groub exhibition features Hamdi Khamis, Gamal Mahmoud, Mahmoud Abul-Magd and Mustafa Ahmed (Closing 30 March). Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 *Ahmed Sabri Hall Paintings by Mustafa Abdel-Fattah (27 March- 2 April). *Al-Hussein Fawzi Hall Paintings by Ibrahim Khatab (27 March- 2 April). *Kamal Khalifa Hall Paintings by Iman Al-Bana (27 March- 2 April). *Ragheb Ayad Hall Sculpture by Tarek Zabadi (27 March- 2 April). 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. Kodak Passageway Downtown Hassan Khan exhibition as part of the 3rd Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) (30 March-3 April). Al Kahila 15 Al Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz St, Mohandiseen, Tel 3304 0791/ 0122 8647511 “Erosion”, exhibition of paintings by Gamal Meleka (5-17 April). Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2578 4494/0100 1704554 “Majesty and decline: once upon a time there was cotton”; All around a former Izba. Inventing an archive, recording memory and daily life in a village. This exhibition by Mona Abaza turns around a former cotton estate, an Izba, the house and the offices of this estate and the former workers camp turned today into a village. Two life-worlds, remnants of the previous landowner's life styles and today's village (27 March - 10 April). 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 (27 March - 10April). Picasso 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek. Tel 2736 7544 “The Colour Angles Vision”, a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Attiyat Sayed (27 March-2 April). SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 “Crossroads”, a duo exhibition of sculptures features Sarkis Tossoonian and Alfons Louis (25 March-16 April). El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 *Earth & Word Halls The Culturewheel 6th Salon of Miniatures (Closing 30 March). Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 “Athens Farghali ”, exhibition of paintings by artist Farghali Abdel-Hafiz (27 March- 2 April).
