Curious Flamingo Presents: Egyptian Extravaganza What happens when you disturb the tomb of a notorious pharaoh? The world goes totally Tut mad! Travel back in time to 1920s Egypt where King Tut engages archaeologists in a battle of wit and witticisms over what is the ‘real’ Egypt. Join a night of new old fashioned intrigue […]
The artists Etel Adnan and Joana Hadjithomas met at the end of the 1990s. They quickly grew close, bound by links to a city they had never been to: Smyrna (today’s Izmir). Joana’s paternal Greek family were forced into exile from Smyrna by the Turkish armies after the end of the Ottoman Empire. Etel’s Greek […]
Arnolfini presents The Stars Were Aligned For a Century of New Beginnings, the first UK solo exhibition by Egyptian artist Basim Magdy. Basim Magdy’s work is rooted in dreams, scientific theory and failed utopian ambitions. Full of humour and quiet melancholy, his works on paper and in film, photography and slide projection reflect on the […]
In this exhibition, UK based artist Judy Price presents a unique and complex body of work focused on Palestine. Two multi-screen installations and a photographic piece reflect in very different ways on Palestine’s colonial past and the current lived experience of occupation. This exhibition’s subject is timely; 2017 marks 100 years since the Balfour declaration, the British colonial […]
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is part of Moving stories: three journeys, a new multimedia exhibition at the British Museum. A selection of drawings from Alfraji’s Ali’s Boat series is featured alongside a projected animation of million-year-old footprints discovered in 2013 and a short film by the late poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant. Before travelling to the British Museum, Alfraji’s […]
A season blending contemporary visual arts, theatre, music, design, films and words from and about Sudan Private View: Thursday 23rd March 2017, 18:00 – 20:00 Exhibition dates: 24th March – 6th May 2017 Curator: Frederique Cifuentes Artists: Hussein Shariffe, Kamala Ibrahim Ishaaq, Mohamed Abdalla Otaybi, Akram Fathi, Frederique Cifuentes, Nuba Reports, African Art Workshop, Mo Abbaro, […]