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To encounter with contemporary art from Egypt invite three exhibitions, which opening this weekend. The occasion is the 15th anniversary of the Egyptian-German Association Nuremberg/Fürth, and the organiser of the large exhibition is, like five years ago, again the Fürth-based gallery owner Ursula Schernig.

For its 10th anniversary the association still had restricted his accompanying art presentation at the Stadttheater and the BurgfarrnbachCastle. This time also is Schernig's reopened gallery at the Laubenweg involved, which in the 70s as "Gallery at Ronhof" had specialised in German and Dutch art.

In the future, here is to see only art from the NileValley. A long-time stay in Egypt turned the German from Fürth into a connoisseur and patron for artists from Egypt, Nubia and Sudan. In the early 90s Ursula Schernig returned back to her hometown. Since then she keeps on selling African art from her gallery at Ronhof to arts dealers from all over Europe.

Magical references

In the BurgfarrnbachCastle, where the anniversary celebration of the German-Egyptian Association takes place, the works of Sayed Amin Fayed are shown. His poetic images are full of magical references and contain ambiguous beings that are a combination of human, animal and plant life.

Similarly ambivalent are the characters in the works of Eveline Ashamalla that are presented in the foyer of the Stadttheater. Her paintings combine mystical and surreal elements with ancient Egyptian symbols, assimilating different times and worlds in her hermaphrodites. Eveline Ashamalla will be personally present at the private view.