Medrar for Contemporary Art Cairo, Egypt

Medrar for Contemporary Art, 7 Gamal El Din Abou El Mahasen St. Garden City, 1st Floor, Apt. 4, 11519 Cairo, Egypt info@medrar.org | www.medrar.org

When it started as a collective in 2005, Medrar mediated gaps between Egyptian institutional structures and informal artists’ initiatives. A generation of emerging artists infused Medrar’s focus on new media experiments, establishing it as a gallery for moving images. In addition to collaborations, Medrar organises the Cairo Video Festival and the documentary channel Medrar TV.

The TV team has been actively filming the past fourteen years of contemporary arts in Cairo and other Arab capitals, covering live events and studio interviews. Apart from published videos, the original footage offers a significant library with accounts to preserve and narrate this history.

At Supermarket 2021 our founding member Dia Hamed invites you to walk through the recently developed web archive, sharing thoughts about archiving practices, notions of Open Source heritage and absence of references in an age of digital museums.

Vitrine intervention, Cairo Video Festival, photo: Zeinah

OpenLab Egypt, Cynet Art Festival, 2014, photo: Johana Szlauderbach

Roznama 8 at CiC, photo: Victoria Cornacchia