Curatorial Ethos
The gallery’s mission is to promote young emerging talent alongside established artists both regionally and internationally, driven by a belief in the interconnectedness of how Egyptian history and society influences identity. Its programming focuses on showcasing work frequently through simultaneous monthly exhibitions and providing art consultancy services.
Ubuntu Art Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt, which opened in October 2014. It specializes in contemporary Egyptian artworks and the secondary market for modern Egyptian art, operating out of a two-story headquarters while also exhibiting at satellite locations such as the Swan Lake Clubhouse. The gallery maintains a regular program of monthly exhibitions and hosts educational initiatives like the 'Ubuntu Dialogues' lecture series.
Why this gallery matters
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Hassan Sabry Street, opposite the Dutch embassy, with the door round the corner on Ibn Zinky — a sculpted cow standing outside. Ubuntu's founder Ahmed Dabaa came to contemporary art through antiques: a family trade in carpets and decorative arts, a Sotheby's course in London, a master's in Islamic art. You can feel that eye in the programme. Mostly solo shows of Egyptian painters and sculptors across generations — Samir Fouad next to younger names like Islam Zaher and Asmaa Genidi — and The Collector's Eye, a collectors' show now in its thirteenth edition. A Zamalek gallery for people who look closely at how a thing is made.
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Address
20 Hassan Sabry Street (Zamalek Entrance from Ibn Zinky St), Zamalek, 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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Artists & People
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Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Hussein Bicar
Hussein Amin Bicar (1913–2002) was one of Egypt’s most prominent 20th-century artists. Born in Alexandria and a 1934 graduate of Cairo’s School of Fine Arts, he taught art for more than six decades and pioneered a style of journalistic illustration in the Egyptian press, alongside a celebrated body of portraits and Nubian scenes.
Abdel Wahab Morsi
Abdel Wahab Morsi (1931–2021) was an Egyptian painter and long-serving professor of fine arts whose work moved between figuration and a lyrical, symbolic abstraction rooted in ancient Egyptian and folk visual traditions. He was a respected figure in Egypt’s post-war modernist generation.
Mounir Canaan
Mounir Canaan (1919–1999) was a self-taught Egyptian artist widely regarded as a pioneer of abstraction in Egypt. Moving from realism through expressive figuration to collage and abstract compositions, he became a leading voice of Egyptian modernism and received the State Merit Award.
Britt Boutros Ghali
Britt Boutros Ghali (b. 1937) is a Norwegian-born painter who has lived and worked in Egypt for decades. Her luminous, colour-driven paintings, influenced by Egyptian light and landscape, hover between abstraction and nature, and are regularly shown in Cairo galleries.
Ihab Shaker
Ihab Shaker (1933–2019) was an Egyptian painter, illustrator and pioneer of Egyptian animation. Known for his witty, poetic line and his work in theatre design, children’s books and the press, he also produced a distinctive body of paintings and drawings shown widely in Egypt and abroad.
Abdel Fattah El Badri
Abdel Fattah El Badri is an Egyptian painter whose works have been presented in Cairo by Ubuntu Art Gallery, including in the gallery’s “Collector’s Eye” exhibitions of modern and contemporary Egyptian art.
Sameh El Banani
Sameh El Banani is an Egyptian artist whose work has been shown in Cairo at Picasso Art Gallery and Ubuntu Art Gallery, including the “Collector’s Eye XIII” exhibition (2026).
Samir Ahmed Ali
Samir Ahmed Ali (b. 1972) is an Egyptian contemporary artist whose work has been exhibited in Cairo, including at Ubuntu Art Gallery in “The Collector’s Eye XIII” (2026).