• Salah Elmur: Just as the Heart of a Mango is a Stone

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world, "one where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time" as the Jameel puts it. Through paintings that [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    A monumental one-room installation that restages the Bangladeshi artist's The River Remembers. Originally commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation and created in 2023, this large-scale textile work has handcrafted threads mapping the colour of the water of the Teesta and [... more]

    Free
  • Salah Elmur

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition promises an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world – "where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time", exploring the artist’s shifting sense of belonging and [... more]

    Free
  • Waterlands, Elemental Dreams

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Guided by Jumana Emil Abboud’s practice and drawing on practices of performance, storytelling, and material research, and drawing on his ongoing exhibition The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide, this symposium brings together artists and practitioners to discuss the mythological and [... more]

    Free
  • Afrah Shafiq: Nobody Knows For Certain

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Afrah Shafiq’s Nobody Knows for Certain is a multimedia game that draws on the illustrated children’s books that were distributed widely in India by the USSR, highlighting a little-known chapter of Cold War-era cultural exchange. These richly illustrated Soviet fairytales [... more]

    Free
  • Artist’s Room: Bani Abidi

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bani Abidi’s Artist’s Room displays a single body of work, Trembling hands (2024) – a series of portraits of artists, journalists, politicians, lawyers, doctors and civil society leaders who publicly spoke out against the genocide of Palestinians, often using public platforms [... more]

    Free
  • Down to Earth 2026

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel’s annual festival for eco-consciousness and sustainability is back for its seventh edition in the Arts Centre and across the Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park. Expect a weekend of botanical inspirations, workshops, performances, tours and family-friendly activities alongside artists, gardeners, [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Library Circles: Rend Beiruti

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Rend Beiruti’s research display, sharing insights into her investigation of the baqala neighbourhood grocery store as a vital urban entity in Dubai, exploring its history, its influence on urban development, and its role as a cultural signal. Through photographs, mapping, [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Lulua Alyahya

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Marking her first solo exhibition in the UAE, Lulua Alyahya's Artist's Room brings together new commissions, loans and works from the Art Jameel Collection. Through her paintings, Alyahya explores culturally embedded archetypes with tenderness, humour and a critical inflection, often [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Shezad Dawood

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Dawood's New Dream Machine Project centres on a 3m-high rotating and flickering light sculpture, an homage to artist and writer Brion Gysin's Dreamachine; driving the mechanism is a perforated cylinder emitting pulses of light at the frequency of the brain's [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Walid Siti

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    This Artist's Room traces forty years of Walid Siti's practice, including new sculptural commissions and material from the artist's studio. Across his body of work, structural forms mirror geological formations, rising summits, Mesopotamian ziggurats, and the Tower of Babel, all [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Salah Elmur

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition promises an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world – "where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time", exploring the artist’s shifting sense of belonging and [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Salah Elmur: Just as the Heart of a Mango is a Stone

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together paintings, archival photographs, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world, "one where memory, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time" as the Jameel puts it.

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Bani Abidi

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bani Abidi’s Artist’s Room displays a single body of work, Trembling hands (2024) – a series of portraits of artists, journalists, politicians, lawyers, doctors and civil society leaders who publicly spoke out against the genocide of Palestinians, often using public platforms [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Afrah Shafiq: Nobody Knows For Certain

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Afrah Shafiq’s Nobody Knows for Certain is a multimedia game that draws on the illustrated children’s books that were distributed widely in India by the USSR, highlighting a little-known chapter of Cold War-era cultural exchange. These richly illustrated Soviet fairytales [... more]

    Free