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How To Build a City With Two Nails and a Wire

A group show featuring Ahmed Badry and Bassem Yousri 17 February - 31 March 2022 Gypsum is pleased to present How to build a city with two nails and a wire, a dual artist exhibition investigating the form and function of structures born of a... Read more

The Cheating Hand of Randomness

A group show featuring work by Tamara El Samerraei, Basim Magdy, and Cyrus Mahboubian 16 December 2021 - 31 January 2022 Gypsum is pleased to present The Cheating Hand of Randomness, a group exhibition showcasing work created at the juncture of chance and intentionality. Featuring painting, film and photography by Tamara... Read more

Taha Belal

Dust Collectors - a solo show 28 September - 15 November 2021 Gypsum is pleased to announce Taha Belal’s second solo show at the gallery, “Dust Collectors”. The exhibition presents two bodies of work to give a sense of the artist’s trajectory... Read more

Nada Baraka

Land of Sequels - a solo show 1 June - 7 July 2021 Gypsum is pleased to present “Land of Sequels”, Nada Baraka’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Building on her first show at Gypsum, “Cosmic Truths and Tales to be Told”,... Read more

Dania Hany

Discourse by Midnight - a solo show 19 May - 5 June 2021 “Discourse by Midnight” is a suite of photographs that characterize Dania Hany’s day-to-day practice, where she relies on intuition to guide her through foreign places to find intimacy and familiarity... Read more

Huda Lutfi

Our Black Thread - a solo show 8 April - 9 May 2021 Gypsum is pleased to present Huda Lutfi’s second solo show at the gallery, “Our Black Thread”. In this exhibition, Lutfi presents a new body of work comprised of minimalist compositions... Read more

Nada Elkalaawy

Watching Grass Grow - a solo show 14 - 31 March 2021 Nada Elkalaawy’s paintings and drawings attempt to explore notions of isolation and confinement. She utilizes small scale close-ups to relay a solitariness that is conducive to intimacy. Moments of forced... Read more

Basim Magdy - South South Veza

2 - 7 March 2021 For South South, we are presenting a solo OVR that samples analog photographic work by Basim Magdy exploring narrative, time and history. The earliest work is a set of polaroids... Read more

Samy Elias

Engram - a solo show 28 February - 28 March 2021 Samy Elias’s series of mixed media on wood panels starts with found images of iconic photographs and paintings, compositions that we immediately recognize as familiar forms that have created our... Read more

Nelly El Sharkawy

Le Carnaval - A solo show 20 January - 7 February 2021 Nelly El Sharkawy’s Le Carnaval is a series of digital collage images, composed of elements taken from the artist’s large archive of photographs that document Cairo’s architecture. In an attempt... Read more