Art Lounge Cairo 37 B Ahmed Heshmat St, 1st Floor, apt 2, Zamalek, Tel 2735 3453 "I Have a Garden", patch work and paintings by Halla Shafey (Closing 10 April).
Cairo Opera Complex Gezira Exhibition Grounds, Zamalek *Palace of Arts The 1st Cairo International Arab Calligraphy Forum (Closing 31 March). *Salah Taher gallery Tel 2739 0132/0144 A miscellaneous exhibition on the occasion of the Women's Day (Closing 29 March). *Ziad Bakir gallery A miscellaneous exhibition on the occasion of the Women's Day (Closing 29 March).
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.
Cordoba 3A, Degla St, Mohandessein, Giza, Tel 01111 665868 An exhibition of paintings commemorates the 2nd death anniversary of late artistZahran Salama (Closing 29 March).
Duroub 4 Amrika Al-Latiniya St, Garden City, Tel 2796 2881/ 2794 7951 "The Charm of Watercolours", paintings by Hanan Youssef (28 March-12 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.
Mashrabia 8 Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 25784494/Mob 0100 1704554 " Fifth District " , by artist Ahmed Sabri who linked between the landscapes in classical paintings and the TV images he had seen. And he began to build dramatic scenes with characters in a series of mysterious paintings (Closing 26 March).
Misr 4A Ibn Zankai St, from Hassan Sabri, Zamalek, Tel 2735 0604 "The Industrious", paintings by FathiAfifi (Closing 29 March).
Nocchio 32 Andalus St, Maryland, Heliopolis, Tel 011 48212273 "Arcitectural Insights", artworks by Amir Wahib (runs through the end of March).
Old French Consulate Part of D-CAF, "Great Tricks From Your Future", is a group exhibition asks: Can inventing your own individual language alter your reality, and by extension, your future? All the artists in this exhibition build a specific language for themselves to determine what myths and facts to use to experience the present, and what truths to rely on to proceed into the future. It features among others Basel Abbas (Palestine) &Ruanne Abou Rahme (USA/Palestine), Jochen Dehn (Germany),Basim Magdy (Egypt/Switzerland), Stine Motland (Norway),Benjamin Seror (France) and Bedwyr Williams (UK) (Closing 11 April).
The Photographic Gallery The American University in Cairo, New Cairo Campus, Abdul Latif Jameel Hall, Plaza Level, Tel 2615 3318 “Through the Eyes of Women: A Photographic Journey”, a group photography exhibition features photographers: Marwa Adel, Reem Al Faisal, Randa Ali, Sara Bayoumi, Marie Cosindas, Paola Crociani, Mary Cross, Merna Al-Hennawi, H. Meral Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, Dorothy Norman, Ann Parker, Lucie Pavlovich, Monda Rafla, Haya Salhin, Nagla Samir and Zeina Zahra (Closing 16 April).
Picasso 30 Hassan Assem off Brazil St, Zamalek. Tel 2736 7544 "Egyptian Quartet", a thrilling exhibition features works by Abdel Wahab Morsi, George Bahgoury, Omar Al Nagdi, Sayed Saadeddin (Closing 15 April).
Safarkhan 6 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 012 70169291 "Magic of the Orient" paintings by Katherine Bakhoum (14 Alril-15 May). El Sawy Culturewheel End of 26th of July St, underneath the 15th of May Bridge, Zamalek, Tel 2736 8881/6178/2737 4448 *EarthHall Photography exhibition by Hassan Dawoud (Closing 29 March). *Word Hall I Oil paintings by a Russian artist (Closing 29 March). *Word Hall I "Earth Architecture", an exhibition honours the memory of world-renowned architect Hassan Fathi (Closing 29 March).
Taha Hussein Museum *Ramatan Cultural Centre 11 Taha Hussein St, Madkour, Al-Haram, Tel 3583 4869 "Egyptian Rhythms", artworks by Sahar Hanafi (25 March-2 April).
Townhouse 10 Nabarawy St, off Champollion St, Downtown. Tel 2576 8086 *First Floor gallery "This is an exhibition about shoes",by Ahmed Nage whomakes shoes, like his father and his grandfather before him. Shoes are one of the most obviously functional of objects, but in a commercial space_like a storefront _ they are often shown in highly aesthetic ways, as if they were useless artifacts. In this show, the viewer is left with the perhaps unsatisfying experience of encountering these things without the trusty conceptual framework that helps to distinguish whether a thing is art or design (or good or bad, or interesting or boring, or successful or failed) ( 22 March-2 April).
Westown Hub Km. 38 CairoAlexandria Desert Road, Sheikh Zayed, 6 October City "The Bridge", CARAVAN Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Art will showcase the work of 47 premier visual artists of various nationalities and faiths (4-30 April).
Zamalek Art gallery 11 Brazil St, Zamalek, Tel 2735 1240 *Venue I &II "Futuristic Nostalgia Group", a quartet exhibition features YasmineAl-Hazek, Amina Al-Demirdash, Carelle Homsy and FarghaliAbdel-Hafiz(Closing 6 April).
