Curatorial Ethos
The gallery’s mission is to discover and promote new artistic talent while supporting established figures, playing a pioneering role in diffusing contemporary art in Egypt and abroad. It curates projects across various institutions, historical sites, and public spaces to make visual art more accessible to a wider audience.
Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art is a private commercial gallery located in Downtown Cairo, Egypt, established since the early 1990s as one of the pillars of contemporary art in the country. The gallery operates at 15 Mahmoud Bassiouny St., Qasr El-Nil, hosting monthly exhibitions and acting as a cultural incubator that regularly hosts performances, lectures, and discussions. It maintains an active programme featuring both well-known and emerging Egyptian artists alongside international collaborations.
Why this gallery matters
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Mahmoud Bassiouny Street, downtown, a few minutes' walk from Tahrir and the Egyptian Museum — a low-ceilinged first floor in an apartment block. Mashrabia opened here in 1990, founded by the Italian curator Stefania Angarano, and is usually described as Cairo's oldest private contemporary gallery: older than Townhouse, older than the downtown scene that grew up around it. For three decades its job has been the first serious show. Monthly exhibitions of young Egyptian artists. Projects taken out of the room — NoUBAr, contemporary art in Al-Azhar Park in 2005 and 2006, Invisible Presence on the body in Egyptian art, and in 2025–2026 All About Her at the Hilton Cairo Grand Nile. Not a blue-chip room. A starting point — and in Cairo, that is the rarer thing.
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Address
8 Champollion Street, Downtown, Cairo
Opening hours
- Monday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- Closed
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Closed on Fridays. Free entry.
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