Medrar Turns 20 with a Month-Long Program of Art & Reflection
The exhibition gathers works produced or shown at Medrar between 2007 and 2025.
Cairo’s independent art space Medrar marks its 20th anniversary with ‘It’s Not Easy to Dream’, a month-long program celebrating two decades of experimentation, collaboration, and persistence.
Opening October 9th at 7 PM, the exhibition gathers works produced or shown at Medrar between 2007 and 2025 by artists including Esraa Elfeky, Ahmed Elshaer, Aya Elsayed, Reem El-Maghraby, Mohamed Abdelkarim, and Malak Yacout. The show reflects on how art in Cairo has carried on not through stability, but despite it, through fragility and collective endurance.
Alongside the exhibition, the anniversary program unfolds through screenings from the Cairo Video Festival archive curated by Habiba Sallam and Mena El Shazly, a critical writing workshop led by Ismail Fayed titled ‘But You Have to Try’, and weekly tea-time gatherings – intimate pauses in a space that’s always been about process as much as production.
‘It’s Not Easy to Dream’ runs until November 6th at Medrar in Garden City, open daily from 4 to 9 PM (except Fridays).
