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– Dossier – Meeting 5 with Ganzeer

– Dossier – Meeting 5 with Ganzeer

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Medrar for Contemporary Art

18 May 2025 -

Ganzeer takes us on a journey through his experiences in art and design, during which he showcases examples of his work that intersect across illustration, poster and print design, graffiti, and multidisciplinary art projects. He also shares his collaborative experiences with various artists and groups, spanning the street, galleries, and platforms. The journey moves through forms of production that vary in their conditions and circles. Ganzeer discusses the diversity of his paths, the evolution of his ideas, and the transformations of recent years, along with the changes in modes of production that accompanied them.

Join us in meeting 5 with Ganzeer on Sunday, 18th of May 2025, at 7 PM in Medrar.

Medrar, 10 Gamal Eldin Abo ElMahsen, 8th floor, Garden City, Cairo.


About the artist:

Ganzeer

Ganzeer operates seamlessly between art, design, and storytelling, combining a rich assortment of artmaking modes into an approach he calls Allschool.

With over 40 exhibitions to his name, Ganzeer’s visual art has been seen in a wide variety of galleries, impromptu spaces, alleyways, and major museums around the world such as The Brooklyn Museum in New York, The Palace of the Arts in Cairo, and the V&A in London. His fiction has been published by Temple University Press, Vintage, and MIT Press, and his design work has been utilized by clients from a wide range of fields, such as music, enertainment, and publishing. He is also a regular speaker at universities and college campuses.

Ganzeer’s current major project is a serialized graphic novel titled THE SOLAR GRID, an epic work-in-progress that won the Society of Illustrators’ MoCCA Award of Excellence in 2023 and awarded Ganzeer the Global Thinker Award from Foreign Policy in 2016. He has had the good fortune of being prominently featured in a number of esteemed publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, The Nation, and more.

Ganzeer has been an artist-in-residence in Germany, Poland, Jordan, Holland, Hawaii, and Finland, and has traveled extensively across Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and Asia and lived extensively in multiple cities across the United States. Presently, he mostly splits his time between Houston and Cairo.

https://ganzeer.com/