Name of the organization or artist |
ArtTalks |
Address |
8 El Kamel Mohamed Street. Zamalek. Cairo. |
Country |
Egypt |
Website URL |
Missions and objectives |
ArtTalks | Egypt is a Cairo-based interdisciplinary art space dedicated to the management of Egyptian artists’ estates and geared towards individuals and institutions committed to the acquisition of twentieth-century modern Egyptian artists and the field of Egyptian art history. Founded in 2009, the gallery has also selected a roster of emerging and mid-career artists to work with. ArtTalks | Egypt was founded by Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani, a lecturer and art researcher whose research focuses on twentieth-century Egyptian modernism. She has published Modern Art in Egypt: Identity and Independence 1850-1936 (IB Tauris/Bloomsbury) and has contributed with a chapter to the first “catalogue raisonné” for a Middle Eastern artist, Egyptian modernist painter Mahmoud Saïd (Skira, 2016). She was one amongst 38 selected Egyptian living female achievers to contribute to the publication of Daughters of the Nile: Egyptian women changing their world (Cambridge Scholars, 2016) and was featured in Five Scenes in the Contemporary African Art world, a chapter dedicated to five influential metropolitan cities in Africa, in Africa Rising: fashion, design, and lifestyle from Africa (Gestalten, 2016). |
Main Activities |
Art Research. Documentation and archives of primary 19th and 20th century material on Egypt and modern Egyptian art. Artwork Valuation and authentication. Exhibition and sales. |
Contact person |
Cherine Chafik |
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