The latest in Sharjah Art Museum's Lasting Impressions series, which features Arab artists who left a lasting impression on the development of contemporary art in the Arab world, is a retrospective for one of Algeria’s most prolific modernist artists. The [...]

A first for the region, we think: a group exhibition where NFT artworks and their physical counterparts will be exhibited side by side – digital NFTs displayed on screens next to the physical works. There will also be VR and [...]

Curated by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Age of You is "a dynamic, immersive exhibition about how our perceptions of ourselves have changed, and what it means to be an individual today". You couldn't wish for a [...]

Solo show by the young emerging Palestinian artist Yazan Abu Salameh exploring a melancholy urban geography, a byproduct of military occupation; ambivalence, self reflection and irony are combined with the overwhelming presence of concrete, not only as a form but [...]

New works with an urban vibe by the self-taught abstract painter, muralist and photographer. Living in the polished and highly manicured environment of Dubai, Fink 22 finds himself drawn towards the contrast of what he describes as ‘urban landscapes’ – [...]

Works by the multidisciplinary artist, DJ and co-founder of Barbu TV and Satwa 3000, Maxime Cramatte – “taking inspiration from his previous experience within semiotics and recognising the strength of symbols”. In the Foundry’s Gallery 8.

Amir Khojasteh’s solo exhibition has paintings and sculpture that particularly revolve around two symbols: the moon and the horse. He is mostly inspired by the political condition of the Middle East, specifically Iran, and happenings around the world which have [...]

The second part of this impressive group exhibition – featuring Driss Ouadahi, Larissa Sansour, Yazan Khalili, Farhad Ahrarnia, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Mounir Fatmi – expands on the notion of the uncompleted project, the work in progress that [...]

Ayyam Gallery's summer show features works by Asaad Arabi, Abdul-Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Farzad Kohan, Mouteea Murad, Tammam Azzam, and Thaier Helal. What the exhibition's artworks have in common is the focus on strata  vlayers which might be abstract (like the [...]

A first for the region, we think: a group exhibition where NFT artworks and their physical counterparts will be exhibited side by side – digital NFTs displayed on screens next to the physical works. There will also be VR and [...]

The first iteration of a two-part group exhibition presenting a series of incomplete, evolving, overlapping, paradoxical concepts – building structures, formulating symbols, manufacturing appearance, fabricating histories and reconstituting anatomies.

The first posthumous retrospective exhibition for Mohammed Chabâa (1935–2013) outside Morocco, bringing together paintings, sculptures, graphic art, interior design models and archival material from 1957 to 2012. A revolutionary talent and a true pioneer of Moroccan contemporary art, Chabâa adopted [...]

For this solo show the Emirati mixed-media artist has produced a body of work across varied mediums which interrogates the gravity and uncertainty of the in-between years of adolescence. Tradition, transformation and paradox are at the core of this work [...]

Curated by SAF President and Director Hoor Al Qasimi and taking its title from a work by Simone Fattal, this exhibition brings together works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection that focus on the wars that tore through the respective [...]

Taking its title from a work by Farideh Lashai that was itself inspired by Goya’s Disasters of War, this exhibition offers an insight into the radical ideas, visions and perspectives on humanity that inform the work of eight artists represented [...]

Suleimenova is an artist from Kazakhstan who works with edgy techniques and media, including recycled plastic, cellophane and polycarbonate. Her recent work has plastic shopping or rubbish bags glued on to polycarbonate sheets. There's a nice quote from Madina Tlostanova, [...]

For this mid-career survey of the Syrian-Armenian artist, Sarkissian has created two major new pieces – Last Seen (2018-2021) commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation; and Little Apple (working title) commissioned by the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. The exhibition also features [...]

For this mid-career survey of the Syrian-Armenian artist, Sarkissian has created two major new pieces – Last Seen (2018-2021) commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation; and Little Apple (working title) commissioned by the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. The exhibition also features [...]