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Art's Palace
The palace occupies the Nile Grand Hall at the former Gezira Fair Grounds. The palace, which was part of the Royal Agricultural Society, was designed by architect Mostafa Pasha Fahmy to act as a venue for agro-industrial exhibitions. In 1980 the hall was transformed into an art gallery and was officially opened in 1984 to entertain the first edition of Cairo International Biennale. Moreover, the hall acted as the venue for four editions of the Cairo Biennale, four editions of Youth Salon, the premiere of Cairo International Biennale for Ceramics. However, the hall was closed after it sustained much damage during the powerful quake, which hit Cairo in 1992. Ambitious restoration and development plans successfully turned the building into a well-equipped Palace of Art, which was opened by President Hosni Mubarak in 1998. The four-storey palace has art galleries, cinema hall and lecture room. Two galleries on the ground floor are sunlit. The Palace of Art also has a library, which is widely regarded as one of the major artistic libraries in Egypt. Its titles and facilities attract a large number of students, scholars, art critics and journalists. Since its opening the palace has been acting as the venue for major art exhibitions and biennales such as the National Art Exhibition, the Youth Salon, Cairo International Art Biennale, Cairo International Ceramics Biennale, the Egyptian International Print Triennale, etc.
Gezira Ground next to the Museum of Egyptian Modern Art
Opera House
Tel: 00202 363 676 28
El-Gezira Arts Center
El-Gezira Art Center occupies the palace of Prince Amru Ibrahim. Its art galleries are named after four Egyptian pioneering artists Ahmed Sabry (1889-1995), Ragheb Ayyad (1892-1983), al-Hussein Fawzy (1905-1999) and Kamal Khalifa (1926-1968). According to the palace’s historical account, it was prepared in 1971 to serve cultural purposes, acting as a venue for the private collection of art withdrawn from the palace of Mr. and Mrs. Mahmoud Khalil in the wake of a decision by late President Anwar Sadat to turn the couple’s residence in Giza into presidential office. Sadat opened the new cultural facility (Palace of Amru Ibrahim) in October 1979. Its basement was also equipped to act as an art gallery named Al-Salam. The facility was upgraded remarkably under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture in 1988. After a 10 year-long renovation, the Museum of Islamic Ceramics and the exhibition of European Art Wonders were opened at the Cenre’s four galleries. Moreover, an art gallery on the ground floor was dedicated as a permanent exhibition of the works of art pioneering ceramicist Said al-Sadr (1909-1986). It must be said that since its opening in 1998, which was led by Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, the Gezira Art Centre has been intensely contributing to cultural and artistic activities in the country. It also became the venue for major international and national art and cultural events. In the meantime, the Centre’s outdoor theatre at the rear garden celebrates concerts, catwalk shows, cultural soirées and theatrical performances.
1 El-marsafy st., Zamalek
E-mail : gezira.art.center@gmail.com
Tel : 00202 273 732 96 - Fax: 00202 273 732 98
Horizon One
Horizon One Gallery opened in March 1998 by exhibition" Faces of Fayum" that consider distinguished mark in the history of Artistic shows in Egypt, Horizon one gallery acquired a popular and wide renown, and that is for its location next to Mr. & Mrs. Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum and for the strict selection of the exhibitions that held in the gallery, the philosophy of the gallery adopted since its establishment on hosting the International shows and the Global artists, which colored the gallery by a High Professional reputation among intellectuals, and since 2005 the Philosophical perspective of shows developed to include the Huge retrospective shows to features of the Contemporary and Modern Egyptian art with the accompanied Museum and Historical documentation , which for the first time lies empty in history of literature and the necessary database of the Educational value.
Now, shows in Horizon One gallery characterized by the objective and scientific presentation that decent by the artist and his position in the history of the Global or Egyptian art according to the show with working on mixing the different generations from creators with documentation, which contributes effectively in the media marketing of the art project inside Egypt and abroad, and Horizon gallery interested to work with the talented youth artists of Egypt in many Collective exhibitions with producing rich publications and that for the documentation, monitoring and the continuous analysis of the various artistic stages that may experienced by the Youth artist.
From this standpoint, administration of Horizon One gallery always seeks to attract the value, the talent and serious of the artistic experiment in Egypt and abroad.
1Kafour St. Orman Post. Giza
Tel : 00202 333 629 21
