Forever Is Now presents contemporary art against the backdrop of the Pyramids of Giza

For the fifth time, the desert of Giza is to serve as a platform for a forum that is as boldly contemporary as it is reverently historical: from 11 November to 6 December 2025, Art D’Égypte by CulturVator will stage Forever Is Now V, a dialogue between the great ideas of the present and the monumental grandeur of ancient Egypt.

In this edition, we encounter international artists who not only occupy spaces but also create visions: Michelangelo Pistoletto (Italy), Vhils (Portugal), Recycle Group (France/​Russia), Ana Ferrari (Brazil), Mert Ege Köse (Turkey), Salha El Masry (Egypt), Nadim Karam (Lebanon), King Houndekpinkou (Benin/​France), J. Park (South Korea) and Alex Proba & SolidNature (USA/​Netherlands).

Pistoletto: between the present and transcendence

With over seventy years of artistic practice, Michelangelo Pistoletto embodies a way of thinking that transcends boundaries. Born in Biella (Italy) in 1933, he became a pioneering voice in the early 1960s with his Mirror Paintings – works of art that immediately envelop the viewer and redefine spatial perspective. With his Minus Objects, he was an early symbol of Arte Povera. Later, with projects such as Le Stanze and Third Paradise, he established conceptual forms that view art as a mediating force between society, politics, and nature. In Giza, we can expect a work that not only combines materiality and reflection, but also understands the pyramids themselves as a metaphorical and historical mirror axis – a statement combining reflection and the reincarnation of space and time.

Parallel to the open-air show on the pyramid plateau, two accompanying platforms open up a view of Cairo’s urban and creative landscape: The CIAD (Cairo International Art District), also in its fifth edition (12 October – 16 November 2025), will be staging over seventy individual exhibitions in downtown Cairo – in the Shorbagy Building and the Kodak Passage. For the first time, South Korea will be the guest of honour, represented by KOFICE, as a sign of cultural bridges being built between Egypt and Asia.

And at the Egyptian Museum on Tahrir Square (14 – 24 November), the Art Décoratifs exhibition is to present over fifteen designers and artists, showing how design-inspired everyday thinking is asserting itself as an essential component of Egyptian identity.

Forever Is Now V is more than an exhibition: it is an expedition through time and thought. An invitation to relate the present to eternity – and to understand art in these interstices as an axis where reflection, history, and courage meet.

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