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MOHAMED ABLA MOHAMED ABLA

MOHAMED ABLA, Egypt (1953)

Bio

Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura, in Northern Egypt, in 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1973 and 1978 embarked on a seven-year journey around Europe, where he...

Mohamed Abla was born in Mansoura, in Northern Egypt, in 1953. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1973 and 1978 embarked on a seven-year journey around Europe, where he visited museums in Spain, France, Belgium, and Germany, eventually studying art, sculpture, and graphics in Vienna and Zurich. In 2007 he founded the Fayoum Art Center, where he established the first caricature museum in the Middle East two years later. A multimedia artist, Abla uses paintings, sculptures, engravings, and installations to depict folklores and landscapes from his native country but also to address contemporary social and political themes. He often combines different techniques, incorporating lithography and collages to his paintings, defying all boundaries that confine art practices.

Concerned with developing the art scene in his country, Abla founded several cultural institutions, as the Fayoum Art Center, Egypt, space for artists to meet and collaborate. Also, he established a caricature museum in Fayoum.

 Abla lives and works between Cairo and Fayoum, Egypt, and Walsrode, Germany.

This is a short biography. The full version, along with research, CV and sources will be posted soon. Stay tuned and visit us often or become a member to be notified of our updates.

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibition

2021

Affinity, Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Earthly Treasures, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2018

Out of frame, Gallery Misr, Cairo, Egypt

2017

The Silk Road, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2015

Abla: In Retrospect, TAM Gallery (The Arts – Mart Gallery), Cairo, Egypt

2012

My Family, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2007

Cairo, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

2004

Cairo…Portraits of a City, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2002

Conviviality.. The Nile & The Trees, Zamalek Art Gallery, Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt

1999

Scenes from Vermont, Gallery Arabesque, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1998

The Nile, Goethe Institute, Hart Gallery, Carmel, California, United States of America

1992

Gallery Cairo, Berlin, Germany

1991

Art Hall, Örebro, Sweden
The Egyptian Academy, Rome, Italy

1989

Gallery Ewat, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

1978

Hohmann Gallery, Walsrode, Germany

Selected Group Exhibition

2021

Spectrum: Summer Collection 2021, Safar Khan Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2019

The Collector’s Eye VI, Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2018

Nothing Vanishes, Everything Transforms, Art D’Egypte fourth annual edition, Pyramids of Giza, Giza, Egypt
Selective 2, Easel & Camera Contemporary Art Gallery, Giza, Egypt

2014

Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States of America

2007

Occidentalism: The West as Seen by Egyptian Artists, Éspace Karim Francis, Cairo, Egypt

2006

Contemporary Egyptian Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Bonn, Germany
Word into art: Artists from the Middle East and North Africa, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

2005

Nostalgia, Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Nostalgia, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

2003

The 4thEgypt International Triennale of Graphics, Cairo, Egypt
The 8thHavana Biennial of Contemporary Art, Havana, Cuba

1997

The 19thAlexandria Biennale, Alexandria, Cairo, Egypt

1996

The 6thCairo International Art Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

1993

The 1stinternational Sharjah Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Awards and Honors

2022

Goethe medal of Honor of the Federal Republic of Germany for International Cultural Exchange

1999

Awarded the Honor Prize in the 3rdEgypt International Triennale of Graphic Art

1997

Awarded the Grand Prix at the Alexandria Art Biennale in Cairo

1996

Awarded the First Prize at Kuwait Art Biennale

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Zamalek Art Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom

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Documents
Eternal Light Something Old Something New
Dr. Gemma Tully
Art d'Egypte, English, 2017

Extract from catalog p, 34 -35

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Press
"Pharaonic influences on display at Egypt art show"
dailymail.co.uk, English, 2017
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Egypte: quand l'art contemporain se mêle aux antiquités
AFP
lexpress.fr, French, 2017
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When painting and sculpture become one: Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla's new solo exhibition
Lamiaa Al-Sadaty
ahram.org, English, 2020
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Objects of the imagination of contemporary Arab Ceramics Exhibition.
ibrahimicollection.com, English, Arabic, 2019

Press Release

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عبلة يفتتح المعرض الثالث لجروب
خلود الجمل
alqraralaraby.news/, Arabic, 2019
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Exhibitions
The Silk Road
My Family
IDENTITY
“Cairo”
INAUGURAL EXHIBITION
MasterpiecesIV
TAJREED – A SELECTION OF ARAB ABSTRACT ART 1908 – 1960
ETERNAL LIGHT- SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
Eternal Light – London Edition

MOHAMED ABLA Artwork

Pyramids

MOHAMED ABLA, Egypt, 2015
160 x 149.5 cm

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