27 Al-Syoufiya St, off Al-Saliba St, Al-Khalifa District, Tel 2514 2581 “My Country Costumes”, the 2nd Arab Festival of Arts showcases water-colour paintings and ceramics by artists with special needs from Egypt, Kuwait, Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The exhibition is accompanied by workshops in clay, collage, printing and paper artworks (Closing 11 April). “Cairo: The Crossroads of Faith”, photography exhibition by Sherif Sonbol (14-22 April).
The American University in Cairo New Cairo Campus “Lost Referents of Some Attraction”, a solo art exhibition by AUC alumna Malak Helmy featuring works that loosely respond to AUC's campus in New Cairo (Closing 26 April). Art Lounge Cairo 37 B Ahmed Heshmat St, Zamalek, Tel 27353453/ 01223439537 Collage paintings by Reda Abdel-Salam (Closing 15 April). Artellewa Art Space 19 Mohamed Ali Al Eseary , Ard Al Lewa, Giza, Tel 012 88108880 Interactive installation by Lamis Adel Haggag, you are invited to get closer and interact with this piece (10-20 April). Hungarian Cultural Counsellor Office 13 Gawad Hosni St, Abdin, Downtown, second floor. Tel 2392 6692 *Balassi Institute “Velvet Tapstry”, exhibition of selected works by the Hungarian textile artist Noémi szeredi Ambrus (12-20 April). 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 (Closing 16 April). Darb 1718 Kasr El Sham3 Street, Al Fakhareen, Old Cairo, near Mar Girgis Metro Station, Tel 2361 0511 “Women For Democratic (R)evolution” exhibition organised by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (Poland), Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture Center (Egypt) and Arteria Association (Poland) (13 April- 7 May). 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). 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 (Closing 24 April). Extra 3 Al-Nessim St, corner of Montazah St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 6293 Paintings by Ahmed Ragab Sakr (10 April-10 May).
Gezira Art Centre 1 Al-Sheikh Al-Marsafi St, Zamalek. Tel 2737 3298 *Ahmed Sabri Hall Paintings by Mustafa Kamal (10-23 April). *Al-Hussein Fawzi Hall Paintings by Asmaa Magdi (10-23 April). *Kamal Khalifa Hall Jewellery by Rania Hilal (10-23 April). *Ragheb Ayad Hall Sculpture by Ali Al-Nouri (10-23 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 A collection of mixed media works represent the entire oeuvre of artist Hassan Khan after a decade of absence and presented as part of the 3rd Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (D-CAF) (30 March-26 April). Al Kahila 15 Al Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz St, Mohandeseen, Tel 3304 0791/ 0122 8647511 “Erosion”, exhibition of paintings by Gamal Meleka (Closing 17 April). Mahmoud Mokhtar Culture Centre 5 Tahrir St, beside Cairo Sporting Club, Tel 2735 1123 *Isis Hall “The Magic of Indian Weaves”, an exhibition of saris organised as part of the 2nd edition of India by the Nile Festival and curated by Rta Kapur Chishti (10-12 April, Free Entry). Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2578 4494/0100 1704554 “Majesty and decline: once upon a time there was cotton”; 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 (Closing 10 April). “Toys”, is Hany Rashed latest body of work. The artist's philosophy starts from a simple assumption: the contemporary human being lives a freedom limited by constraints. As an artist, Rashed pushes this consideration to a paradoxical result, and creates a world where everything around him – from cars to persons, from buildings to pictures of daily life - is transformed into plastic objects, reminiscent of the children's toys (13 April- 15 May). Museum of Modern Egyptian Art Cairo Opera House Grounds, Gezira, Zamalek, Tel 2736 6667/65 *Abaad Hall “India Ink”, exhibition of cartoons by Sudhir Tailang (Free Entry) (Thur 17- Sat 19). 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 (Closing 10April). SAFARKHAN 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 “Crossroads”, a duo exhibition of sculptures features Sarkis Tossoonian and Alfons Louis (Closing 16 April). Salama 36 Ahmed Oraby St, Mohandeseen, Tel 3346 3242 “My Life”, paintings by Mervat Refaat (Closing 10 April). El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 *Earth Hall Oil paintings by Farah Omar (11-19 April). *Word Hall Drawings and oil paintings by Hani Hussein (11-19 April). Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 “HOPE….ALWAYS 2014” , exhibition of paintings for artist Gazbia Sirry (Closing 28 April).
