Gypsum Gallery

Gypsum Gallery Gypsum is an international contemporary art gallery established in Cairo in 2013. Gypsum is founded by Aleya Hamza, an independent curator based in Cairo.

Gypsum Gallery is committed to presenting an international, cross-disciplinary program of solo and group exhibitions, publications, limited artist editions and occasional off-site interventions. Eight artists living and working between Alexandria, Amman, Basel, Beirut, Berlin, Cairo and Tehran are represented by the gallery including Doa Aly, Mahmoud Khaled, Maha Maamoun, Basim Magdy, Mona Marzouk

, Tamara Al-Samarraei , Setareh Shahbazi and Ala Younis. We are dedicated to forging longstanding relationships with artists, whose rigorous and singular art practice varies in medium, form and approach. Since completing her MA in History of Art at Goldsmiths College in 2001, she has lectured in contemporary art at the American University in Cairo, and worked as a curator at Townhouse Gallery and the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo. Her projects and exhibitions have been featured internationally in Alexandria, Amsterdam Beirut, Berlin, Bonn, Budapest, Cairo, London, Odense and Rabat. She co-curated the third and fourth editions of PhotoCairo, and her most recent exhibition was on show at the Tate Modern in London in 2012/2013. Gypsum is based in a 1940’s converted residential apartment in the neighbourhood of Zamalek, Cairo. Official opening is on the 29th of October in 2013 with a solo show of recent work by Setarah Shahbazi.

🌟 Swipe-through a walkthrough of THE BESTIARY, our current group show in NYC at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space. F...
17/05/2026

🌟 Swipe-through a walkthrough of THE BESTIARY, our current group show in NYC at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space.

Featuring tapestries by Dina Danish, hand embroidered works by Mohamed Monaiseer, and collage works by Huda Lutfi, their works reach into medieval craft histories to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives.

📍 Sargent’s Daughters (lower-level space)
4.5 Cortlandt Alley, New York
On view until May 30, 2026



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OPENING TODAY IN NYC :: THE BESTIARY 🌟Join us at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space today (Friday, May 15) from 6-8pm...
15/05/2026

OPENING TODAY IN NYC :: THE BESTIARY 🌟

Join us at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space today (Friday, May 15) from 6-8pm, for the opening of our group show “The Bestiary”.

Featuring work by three Egyptian artists from the gallery’s roster–Dina Danish, Huda Lutfi, and Mohamed Monaiseer–the show mobilizes medieval Egyptian material histories, techniques, and motifs to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives.

Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 6–8 pm

📍 Sargent’s Daughters (lower-level space)
4 Cortlandt Alley, New York
🗓️ May 15–30, 2026



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OPENING TOMORROW IN NYC :: The Bestiary 🌟Join us at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space on Friday, May 15, from 6-8pm,...
14/05/2026

OPENING TOMORROW IN NYC :: The Bestiary 🌟

Join us at Sargent’s Daughters lower-level space on Friday, May 15, from 6-8pm, for the opening of our upcoming group show.

“The Bestiary” will showcase three Egyptian artists from the gallery’s roster–Dina Danish, Huda Lutfi, and Mohamed Monaiseer–whose work mobilizes medieval Egyptian material histories, techniques, and motifs to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives.

Opening: Friday, May 15, 6–8 pm (Tribeca Gallery Night)

📍 Sargent’s Daughters (lower-level space)
4 Cortlandt Alley, New York
🗓️ May 15–30, 2026



Image. Huda Lutfi, Healing Devices, 2025, mixed media on paper, 41 x 31 cm

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⏲️ Final day to catch Nada Baraka’s solo show SOFT BOILBaraka approaches painting as a process of searching rather than ...
13/05/2026

⏲️ Final day to catch Nada Baraka’s solo show SOFT BOIL

Baraka approaches painting as a process of searching rather than recording. Subjects materialise gradually, coaxed out through accumulated layers rather than declared from the outset.

The images begin with her late grandparents kitchen’s abandoned objects, but unfold alongside her memories of the space, skewed and distorted with time; ladders tilt into improbable positions, ceiling fans seem to recede into the architecture, tablecloths fall into uncertain depths.

The gallery will be open today, May 13, from 12 - 8 pm.



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Images. Nada Baraka, Pear Garden, 2026, oil and acrylic on canvas, 200 x 285 cm

SAVE THE DATE :: 🦒 Z for Zarafa 🦒Lara Baladi’s first solo show with Gypsum opens June 2, 2026.Emerging from “Anatomy of ...
12/05/2026

SAVE THE DATE :: 🦒 Z for Zarafa 🦒

Lara Baladi’s first solo show with Gypsum opens June 2, 2026.

Emerging from “Anatomy of Revolution,” her monumental web-based ABC of global revolts, the exhibition unfolds through a new body of multimedia works spanning tapestry, photography, web-art and sculptural installations.

For Baladi, the letter Z for Zarafa (“Zain” in Arabic) serves as an entry into the ABC of “Anatomy of Revolution,” tracing intertwined histories of migration, diplomatic exchange, and revolutions.


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3 days left to catch SOFT BOIL, our current solo show by Nada Baraka ⏲️Baraka’s paintings extend beyond the canvas, emer...
11/05/2026

3 days left to catch SOFT BOIL, our current solo show by Nada Baraka ⏲️

Baraka’s paintings extend beyond the canvas, emerging from sunken frames and resting on wooden shelves, as if they themselves were contents of the kitchen’s cabinets.

Alongside them, a series of works on paper draw from traced found photographs in the artist’s family collection. Initially conceived to be installed within the kitchen’s structures, these works trace the afterlives of objects and their associated memories.

The gallery is open daily from 12 - 8 pm, closed Thursday and Friday. The show will be on-view until 13 May, 2026.



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Photographs by Marc Onsi (.photography)

❕SAVE THE DATE: Gypsum is excited to announce a collaboration with Sargent’s Daughters, presenting an exhibition in thei...
30/04/2026

❕SAVE THE DATE: Gypsum is excited to announce a collaboration with Sargent’s Daughters, presenting an exhibition in their lower-level space in New York. The limited-run show, “The Bestiary,” marks Gypsum’s first exhibition in New York and opens on May 15 in conjunction with Tribeca Gallery Night.

“The Bestiary” brings together three Egyptian artists from Gypsum’s roster–Dina Danish, Huda Lutfi, and Mohamed Monaiseer–whose works reach into medieval craft histories to reflect on contemporary personal, historical, and political narratives.

This invitation was sparked by conversations between the gallerists at Art Basel Qatar, where they discussed a shared desire to find new modes of working together across regions.

“The Bestiary” a group show at Sargent’s Daughters (lower-level space)
4.5 Cortlandt Alley, NY
May 15 - 30 2026
Opening reception: Friday, May 15, 6-8pm



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Image 1. Dina Danish, Trilateral Meeting, 2026, Cloth, thread appliqué, machine, 140 x 200 cm
Image 2. Mohamed Monaiseer, I, Pet Lion (Coat of Arms), 2022, Khayamiya and acrylic on found fabric, 40 x 35 cm
Image 3. Huda Lutfi, Healing Devices, 2025, Mixed media on paper, 25 x 18 cm

📣 SAVE THE DATE: Join us on May 15th, from 6–8 PM, for  ! Over 80 galleries will be joining forces during New York’s art...
22/04/2026

📣 SAVE THE DATE: Join us on May 15th, from 6–8 PM, for ! Over 80 galleries will be joining forces during New York’s art fair week to host extended hours for a night full of gallery hopping.

Sargent’s Daughters () and Gypsum are excited to announce a new collaboration: Gypsum will present a limited-run exhibition in the SD’s lower-level space, 4.5 Cortlandt Alley. The exhibition, entitled “The Bestiary”, will open on May 15 in conjunction with Tribeca Gallery Night.

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TOMORROW :: Join us for the opening of “Soft Boil”, a solo show by Nada Baraka. ⏲️🥚Baraka approaches painting as a proce...
19/04/2026

TOMORROW :: Join us for the opening of “Soft Boil”, a solo show by Nada Baraka. ⏲️🥚

Baraka approaches painting as a process of searching rather than recording. Subjects materialise gradually, coaxed out through accumulated layers rather than declared from the outset.

The works draw from her late grandparents’ long-abandoned Garden City apartment, once a site of weekly family rituals. Now facing relinquishment, its kitchen and objects are reimagined as a space suspended between memory, presence, and disappearance.

In this body of work, the paintings begin with the kitchen’s abandoned objects, but unfold alongside her memories of the space, skewed and distorted with time; ladders tilt into improbable positions, ceiling fans seem to recede into the architecture, tablecloths fall into uncertain depths.

See you at the opening, Monday, 20 April from 6-9 cm.

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⏲️ Gypsum is pleased to announce SOFT BOIL, Nada Baraka’s third solo show at the gallery, featuring a newly commissioned...
15/04/2026

⏲️ Gypsum is pleased to announce SOFT BOIL, Nada Baraka’s third solo show at the gallery, featuring a newly commissioned series of paintings and works on paper.

The works emerge from an abandoned apartment in Garden City, once belonging to the artist’s late grandparents. Until the age of ten, Baraka gathered there every Friday, where family meals unfolded as ritual.

Decades later, as the apartment faces imminent relinquishment under new rent laws, its untouched contents—furniture, handwritten letters, photographs, receipts, calendars—take on a different weight, shaped by uncertainty.
For this body of work, the artist centers on the apartment’s kitchen and its objects—not as a fixed interior, but as a shifting environment suspended between presence and disappearance.

20 April - 13 May 2026
Opening reception: 20 April, 6-8 pm.

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🔂 Last chance to watch “2026” by Maha Maamoun on our website!Don’t miss the final two days of REPLAY—a series dedicated ...
14/04/2026

🔂 Last chance to watch “2026” by Maha Maamoun on our website!

Don’t miss the final two days of REPLAY—a series dedicated to online presentations of moving image works by artists.

This first edition features “2026”, a film produced in 2010 by Maha Maamoun that imagines the year 2026. Streaming until 16 April.

🌟 Watch the film and explore more of Maha Maamoun’s work: https://www.gypsumgallery.com

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Image: 2026 (still), Maha Maamoun, 2010
Single-channel digital video, black-and-white, sound, 8 min 21 sec

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