Laboring for Love Solo exhibition by Rania Atef, curated by Ahmed Shawky Hassan 02.02.2025 – 27.02.2025 “Laboring for Love” is the first solo exhibition by artist Rania Atef, part of an extended art project she has been working on for six years, focusing on the themes of motherhood and care. In this exhibition, Rania explores […]
Light Water Air Johannes Rave & Karima Klasen
Light Water Air Exhibition by Johannes Rave and Karima Klasen 11.12.2024 – 05.06.2025 Johannes Rave The word “balance,” which is the same in English and German, originates from two Latin terms: “bi,” meaning two, and “lanx,” meaning weighing pan. Balance is achieved when both scales are equally filled or weigh the same. In finance, the […]
Yet not Finished by Georgina Sleap
Yet not Finished / Lis-a-ma hel-sitch Solo Exhibition by Georgina Sleap, curated by Farida Youssef 11.12.2024 – 12.12.2024 Between Making and Being Making as Dealing. What counts as a reason for making something? Looking at Jackson Pollock’s paintings, one sees its making, the splashing of paint, the decisions taken by this corporeality. Making is a […]
Unbearable Horizons by Mohamed Abdelkarim
Unbearable Horizons Solo Exhibition by Mohamed Abdelkarim 08.10.2024 – 03.11.2024 This exhibition, Unbearable Horizons, presents three recent works by Mohamed Abdelkarim. It features two works produced between 2021 and 2024, alongside an installation version of the ongoing performance work Blue Gaze at the Future. The three works share fragmented fiction-narratives that complicate the relationship between […]
On Art Project Writing: Third Edition
Workshop by Ahmed Shawky Hassan September 29th + 30th & October 2nd + 6th + 7th, 2024Over the course of five days, artist and writer Ahmed Shawky Hassan will conduct a workshop titled “On Writing Art Projects.” In this workshop, participants will engage in processes of research, discussion, reflection, and writing practice to develop proposals […]
Rahel Zoller and Dima Tannir
Title by Author The “Title by Author” talk by British-German artist Rahel Zoller and Lebanese designer Dima Tannir will focus on “Title by Author”, a new book that was launched in December at the Cairo Art Book Fair. It features an interplay of terminologies and structures that showcases the rich cultural diversity and the unique […]
How do we be and move as a collective, around photography?
Safena 7, aka TAWLA, Collective 220 – facilitated by Huda ZikryDecember 3rd, 2024 In This Meeting “How do we be and move as a collective, around photography?”, “Gusra: Between Two Waves We Sail” was piloted between Safena 7 from Egypt, aka TAWLA from Egypt + Algeria, Collective 220 from Algeria; and facilitated by Huda Zikry. […]
The Loss of Experience – on the trend of identity and geography
Farida Youssef and Monica Hirano September 8th, 2024 The twelfth ARD Meeting will focus on continuing the discussion on the trend of identity and geography within the arts, Farida Youssef and Monica Hirano propose a debate on the concept of the Loss of Experience in the perception of art—from its conceptualization and production to its […]
