Egypt’s artist Mohamed Abla receives Goethe Medal from Germany

CAIRO – 9 May 2022: Renowned Egyptian plastic artist Mohamed Abla received the Goethe Medal from Germany, becoming the first Arab plastic artist to receive it.

Abla is a plastic artist who holds a BA in the Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography, Alexandria University in 1977, and a diploma from the Faculty of Fine Arts 1978. He also studied at the Faculty of Arts and Industries (Sculpture) in Zurich - Switzerland in 1981.

He worked as director of the Fine Arts Hall at the Opera for six months in 1990, a visiting professor of art at the Orebro School of Sweden, and he was the Chairman of the Cairo Atelier Board of Directors in 2010.

He also participated in many international exhibitions, including the Sharjah Biennial in 1993, the Graphic Biennale in Finland in 1993, the German Triennale in Switzerland in 1993, the exhibition of the International Graphic Association EXILON in 1993, among many others.