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Artists Weekly Sessions

Artists Weekly Sessions

Talks

Medrar For Contemporary Art

3 February 2009 - 3 March 2009

In a series of 15 consecutive sessions, 15 contemporary artists presented their work to an audience eager to know more on the artists and their work in Medrar’s space. region. The idea here is to promote a new and  lateral way of disseminating information between  artists, as opposed to the more traditional vertical structure where information is “passed on” from established artists to younger ones.

Artists

Magdy Mostafa

Involved in the field of multimedia since 2000, and interested in the connection between the sound and the space, he has some sound installations like (madena) & (sound cells). Participated in 100 Live electronic music festival 2008-2009. Cairo / Alexandria – 100worx at passage35 2008 – Exorcism (soundtracks) part of 100COPIES showcase Berlin – Germany 2008.

Ganzeer

Ganzeer does illustrations, graphic design, writing, and video. From time to time Ganzeer will play around within a medium or venue he knows nothing about. His work has been shows in Egypt, Dubai, Holland, Germany, and Poland, and has also been published in a variety of books and magazines as well as a few good sites on the internet. And just for the record, he’s a business graduate.

Hossam Hodhod

Born in Cairo in 1978, and Graduate of the Arts Education Faculty in 2001, he joined the art movement in 1998 as a photographer and in the year 2000 he did his first performance piece by coincidence. In the year 2001, he did his first video art experience with performance being the main component of his works from then on. He is interested in social issues and Egyptian society. Hodhod participated in several exhibitions between the year 2000-2008 and he has won the Youth Salon Prize for Media Arts in 2007.

Karim Lotfy

Lotfy was born in Cairo in 1985 and he is a multidiciplinary artists interested in Sound Art. He produced his first album ‘Ziad’ produced by 100copies, and has many other experiences with electronic music since the year 1999. Lotfy has participated in several exhibitions among which was ’3al Raseef’ project in Contemporary Image Collective. His works have been shown in London and Singapour. The artist is also interested in written works, print and graphic design.

Ahmed Elshaer

Ahmed Elshaer was born in Cairo in 1980 and graduated from the Arts Education Faculty of Helwan University in 2002. He works as a web and multimedia designer in the Ministry of Culture and works in video arts as well. He has exhibited his works in Egypt and baroad. He studied video art under the supervision of artist Shady El-Noshokaty and has won two awards in the Youth Salon. Most recently Elshaer has gotten two grants from the Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

Hany Rashed

Born in Cairo in 1975, he studied art under renowned artist Mohamed Abla from the year 1994 till 2004. In his work he is focused on drawing bodies, their differences and their transformations. His latest works involve the personalisation of political issues in general and with the European society specifically. He works have been exhibited in Dubai, Paris and London.

Mohamed Taman

Born in Tanta in 1976, he graduated from the Arts Education Faculty in 1998, and currently works in the Library of Alexandria. Since the year 1999, he has been depended on chemical fusions and their unexpected reactions in a photography production and intallation piece. In the year 2002, he started getting to know multimedia arts, during a study scholarship in France and since then he has started working with this meduim. In 2008, he started studying with an academy specialised in Multimedia Arts and Computer  Sciences within the University of Lyon in France. He is trying to find the physical relationship between chemical reactions and the ability to control them through computer sciences to produce art works that combine between the features of both.

Ahmed Basiony

Audio-visual artist born in 1978, he graduated from the Arts Education Faculty and worked as a teachers assitant there later. He is interested in his art works in researching the mental and philosophical relationships between recieving the audio-visual language as an experimental contemporary sylabus to assit him in his creative thinking on himself and his society.

Marawan Fayed

Born in Cairo and studied architecture in the Fine Arts Faculty within Helwan University. Fayed discovers the urban architecture of Cairo through a series of experimental interventions. His artistic projects delve into the habbits of the city’s residents, and how they move within their spaces. Fayed’s vision is based on his observations of the urban social and cultural values and traditions, as in using the available resources to construct an ideal picture. At the moment, Fayer runs his own design studio and teaches at the German University in Cairo.

Hala Abu Shady

Born in 1984, Hala Abu Shady is an interdisciplinary artist. She works in video, drawing, animation, photography and installation. She holds a BFA in art and education from Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt and has taught New Media at the Art and Design Academy, Cairo, since 2006.

Ahmed Badry

Born in Qena in 1979, Badry graduated from the Arts Education Academy of Helwan University in 2003. He lives in Cairo and works with photography and installations. He has exhibited a number of works in Townhouse Gallery, the Palace of the Arts, Cairo Alitlier and Artellewa. He has also exhibited abroad in Austria and Switzerland. He has won several grants and awards, among which are the 18th Youth Salon Award and the Eastern Award in the Korean Second Biennale.

Mohamed Abdel-Kerim

Born in Minya in 1983, he graduated from the Faculty of Art Education of Helwan University in 2005. He works with video and installation and his works have been exhibited in the Youth Salon from 2003 till 2008. He has won the Video Award in the Youth Euro-Med Biennale in 2007 hosted in Bari, Italy. He has participated in the Light Festival in Amsterdam in 2008, ‘Magic of Water’ multimedia project in Croatia in 2008, and the International Media Forum for Youth in 2008 in the Palace of the Arts in Egypt. He has also participated in the first and second Cairo Video Festival and obtained the Summer Academy Scholarship in 2008 in Salzburg, Austria.

Ibrahim Saad

Born in Sharqeya in 1977, Lives and works in Cairo, -He received his BA degree at Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University 2000. He worked in Townhouse Gallery’s “Sawa” workshop and “Sawa Generation”. In addition, he taught art to children at the Artellewa Gallery. He is working now at the “Jesuit Center” in Cairo as coordinator for the Visual Arts Program.
His artistic project was exhibited in a various exhibitions in Egypt, Europe, and Asia also he participated in a number of residencies and workshops in Egypt, China, Netherland, Italy ٫and Switzerland.

Ahmed Sabry

Born 1982, in Al-Minya-Egypt.
He graduated from the faculty of art education – Helwan University in 2004,
and works as a painter and Animator .