Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art A contemporary art gallery established in Cairo in the mid 70โ€™s. Since the 1990's & under the new

Since the 1990's and under the new management of the director Stefania Angarano, the gallery has played a pioneering role in the diffusion of Plastic Arts through the presentation of non-Egyptian artists in Egypt and the promotion of young Egyptian talents on both the local and the foreign scene. Breaking with the dominant artistic tradition, the preference for innovative languages free from any d

ecorative components as well as originality and power of the art pieces have always been the criteria for the rigorous selection of the artists and their works. The continuous promotion of established artists and the search for new talents has enabled the creation of a rich and diversified permanent collection. This includes a service of art advising both for private clients and companies. Mashrabia Gallery organizes temporary exhibitions on a monthly basis, both at the gallery and in other venues in Egypt and abroad. Acting as a vibrant cultural incubator, the gallery also regularly hosts various artistic performances, lectures and discussions. Amongst the founding members of El Nitaq Downtown Art Festival, the gallery collaborates in an intensive activity of exchanges with private galleries and centers in Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia and other countries. The gallery's exhibitions and artists have been featured in Mada Masr, Al Ahram Online, Al Ahram Hebdo, Contemporary Practices Magazine and Cairo Art Blog, among others.

After 9 years on the ground floor, weโ€™re taking it UP! ๐ŸŒŸ Our new space is bigger, brighter, and more luminous than ever ...
21/02/2026

After 9 years on the ground floor, weโ€™re taking it UP! ๐ŸŒŸ Our new space is bigger, brighter, and more luminous than ever still at the same address, just climb to the 3rd floor (by an elevator!!). We canโ€™t wait to welcome you, share new experiences, and celebrate this new chapter together. Stay tuned for our special Ramadan announcement ๐Ÿ’ก

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art wishes you a luminous and blessed Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œูƒู„ ุณู†ุฉ ูˆ ุงู†ุชูˆุง ุทูŠุจูŠู†, ู†ุชู…ู†ู‰ ู„ูƒู… ุดู‡ุฑ ู…ุจ...
18/02/2026

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art wishes you a luminous and blessed Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œ

ูƒู„ ุณู†ุฉ ูˆ ุงู†ุชูˆุง ุทูŠุจูŠู†, ู†ุชู…ู†ู‰ ู„ูƒู… ุดู‡ุฑ ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œ

Artwork By Essam Alaa & Luigerman from Freestyle Cairo Exhibition

Untitled
Acrylic on Photography
112 x 70 cm
2024

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art wishes you a luminous and blessed Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œูƒู„ ุณู†ุฉ ูˆ ุงู†ุชูˆุง ุทูŠุจูŠู†, ู†ุชู…ู†ู‰ ู„ูƒู… ุดู‡ุฑ ู…ุจ...
18/02/2026

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art wishes you a luminous and blessed Ramadan ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œ

ูƒู„ ุณู†ุฉ ูˆ ุงู†ุชูˆุง ุทูŠุจูŠู†, ู†ุชู…ู†ู‰ ู„ูƒู… ุดู‡ุฑ ู…ุจุงุฑูƒ๐ŸŒ™๐Ÿ•Œ

Essam Alaa & Luigerman
Untitled
Acrylic on Photography
112 x 70 cm
2024

From Marwan Elgamalโ€™s current exhibition Magnificent Creatures.Conflicted Closeness Oil on canvas100 x 70 cm2025 ...
09/02/2026

From Marwan Elgamalโ€™s current exhibition Magnificent Creatures.

Conflicted Closeness
Oil on canvas
100 x 70 cm
2025

Some pics from the current exhibition Magnificent Creatures by Marwan Elgamal running until 12 February. Magnificent Cre...
03/02/2026

Some pics from the current exhibition Magnificent Creatures by Marwan Elgamal running until 12 February.

Magnificent Creatures imagines radiant invincible beings whose beauty dazzles and their indifference chills. They stand on our shoulders and hover behind the unseen wall, arriving with force, slicing through our world. Nothing resists them; nothing concerns them. Dancing and howling, they are seductive and mesmerizing. Beneath the ornament and dance lies a calm that is vast and unmoved. Their bodies bloom with iridescent color and swirl into impossible architectures, shifting ecosystems that unfold and collapse. Their presence alone reshapes everything around them. They are beautiful and bewitching, you want to praise them and sing their songs but they do not notice. They cut through our fears and desires like light passing through water. They represent what we long for and everything we dread. Their conflicts and celebrations and rituals are not for us. Everlasting, enormous, ecstatic, alive and indifferent.

Working in oil on canvas, the work is created through slow revisions, and forms that appear and dissolve and eventually reform into their final state.

This series invites viewers to meet these cosmic giants as Marwan meets them: with fascination, fear and a willingness to see behind the veil and into this dark sky, of what does not need our approval to exist.

A sneak of our booth display at the 7th edition of Art Cairo, showcasing a curated selections by:Adel El Siwi, Ahmed Yas...
25/01/2026

A sneak of our booth display at the 7th edition of Art Cairo, showcasing a curated selections by:

Adel El Siwi, Ahmed Yasser, Essam Alaa, Sabah Naim, Sarah Zaki, Xavier Pugimarti

๐Ÿ“The Grand Egyptian Museum | Booth B015
๐Ÿ“… 22 - 26 January 2026 from 3 to 10 pm

โœจ We are looking forward to welcome you!

From the current exhibition Magnificent Creatures by Marwan El Gamal running until 12 February.Since 2008, Marwan El Gam...
21/01/2026

From the current exhibition Magnificent Creatures by Marwan El Gamal running until 12 February.

Since 2008, Marwan El Gamal has been exploring the emergence of digital art as a visual and conceptual resource, and its close relationship with drawing and painting . The widespread use of images and digital media in general has become a kind of instant myth. Using this static medium as an effective source of deletion and addition, like drawing and painting, is what creates a human spirit. The industry relies on a static image manufactured to the standards of a packaged product with a specific quality. Massive quantities of images resemble successive blows of a number of contradictory feelings and knowledge, calculated in the moment. Drawing and painting , on the other hand, are human products, subject to error, human fallibility, and psychological states. In his latest experiment, he produced a collection of drawings and painting based on a sensory visual narrative that does not rely on a logical sequence or ordered modernity, but rather on conveying momentary feelings. A hazy world, its details distilled, its colors pale, and bodies in means physically uncomfortable for the process, attempting to move forward but affected by something. Empty eyes and affected feelings, creating a body that is not a smile.

Beastly Dance
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 cm
2025

Forbidden Fruit
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 cm
2025

Seeing
Oil on Canvas
30 x 30 cm
2025

We are proud to announce that My Favourite Things returns this year to celebrate a major milestone: its 10th edition. Af...
17/01/2026

We are proud to announce that My Favourite Things returns this year to celebrate a major milestone: its 10th edition. After nine successful editions dedicated to supporting and amplifying female voices within the Egyptian contemporary art scene, the platform marks a decade of artistic commitment and growth.

We invite Egyptian and Egypt-based female artists to apply to be part of the upcoming group exhibition, taking place in March 2026.

๐Ÿ“ŒFor more details, Link in Bio
โœจ We look forward to your submissions!

Join us at Art Cairo 2026 โ€” Booth B15Weโ€™re delighted to announce our third participation at Art Cairo 2026.Our booth wil...
14/01/2026

Join us at Art Cairo 2026 โ€” Booth B15

Weโ€™re delighted to announce our third participation at Art Cairo 2026.
Our booth will present a curated selection of works by:

Xavier Puigmartรญ | Adel El Siwi | Essam Alaa | Ahmed Yasser | Sarah Zaki | Sabah Naim

๐Ÿ“ Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), Cairo
๐Ÿ“… 22โ€“26 January 2026

VIP Preview (Invitation only)
22 January | 2โ€“10 PM

Public Days
23โ€“26 January | 3โ€“10 PM

We look forward to welcoming you โœจ

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art is delighted to invite you to Marwan Elgamalโ€™s solo exhibition, Magnificent Creatu...
09/01/2026

Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art is delighted to invite you to Marwan Elgamalโ€™s solo exhibition, Magnificent Creatures.

Magnificent Creatures explores awe-inspiring, indifferent beings that evoke both fascination and fear, inviting viewers to consider a reality beyond human significance.Through meticulously refined oil paintings, the exhibition invites viewers into an encounter marked by awe and unease.

๐Ÿ“… Opening: 11 January, 7:00 PM
๐Ÿ—“ Exhibition continues until: 12 February

Join us for an encounter with these mystic entities and allow yourself to be immersed in their quiet, unsettling grandeur.โœจ

Marwan Elgamal
The Shape it Took
Oil on canvas
79 x 100 com
2025

Last 2 days to visit The Knife and the Apple by Essam Alaa. Donโ€™t miss the most visionary exhibition of 2025!
04/01/2026

Last 2 days to visit The Knife and the Apple by Essam Alaa. Donโ€™t miss the most visionary exhibition of 2025!

Mashrabia Gallery wishes you a joyful year ahead. Weโ€™re excited to share next yearโ€™s program with you and to continue ce...
31/12/2025

Mashrabia Gallery wishes you a joyful year ahead. Weโ€™re excited to share next yearโ€™s program with you and to continue celebrating the best of Cairoโ€™s contemporary and emerging art scene from our beloved Downtown Cairo. May 2026 bring creativity, connection, and exchange to us all.

Essam Alaa
A Day with the Birds
Acrylic on canvas
74 x 54,5 cm
2023

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Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art

Mashrabia Gallery is a contemporary art gallery established in Cairo in the mid 70โ€™s. Since the 1990โ€™s and under the new management of the director Stefania Angarano, the gallery has played a pioneering role in the diffusion of Plastic Arts through the presentation of non-Egyptian artists in Egypt and the promotion of young Egyptian talents on both the local and the foreign scene.

Breaking with the dominant artistic tradition, the preference for innovative languages free from any decorative components as well as originality and power of the art pieces have always been the criteria for the rigorous selection of the artists and their works. The continuous promotion of established artists and the search for new talents has enabled the creation of a rich and diversified permanent collection. This includes a service of art advising both for private clients and companies.

Mashrabia Gallery organizes temporary exhibitions on a monthly basis, both at the gallery and in other venues in Egypt and abroad. Acting as a vibrant cultural incubator, the gallery also regularly hosts various artistic performances, lectures and discussions.

Amongst the founding members of El Nitaq Downtown Art Festival, the gallery collaborates in an intensive activity of exchanges with private galleries and centers in Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia and other countries.