A solo show including paintings, sculptures and photographs that celebrates the 21 years the artist has spent in Dubai before he moves to his new home in the USA. Says Nasr: “I am grateful to be getting the opportunity to [...]

A solo exhibition for the American artist known for exceptionally detailed and densely layered artworks (large murals, paintings, installations and sculptures) exploring social, political, and economical crises – especially those related to war, natural disasters, and globalisation. This show, his [...]

Meem Gallery would appear to have something of a coup in signing up the celebrated Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi for this solo show of new paintings produced in his recently established studio in Lebanon. As the gallery puts it, these [...]

A broad range of styles from the noted contemporary Crimean painter, all distinguished by his use of a rich palette of tints and shades. The gallery describes him as “an extraordinarily talented artist”. Above: Andrey Orlov, Evening on the Bay [...]

The first solo exhibition by the Dubai artist, writer, film curator, blogger and podcaster. The prolonged lockdown gave her the time and space to get a fresh sense of her city; and "from the blank highway billboards and the hidden pedestrian [...]

A group show with a high powered curatorial team – NYUAD Art Gallery director Maya Allison and Heather Dewey-Hagborg, artist, biohacker and Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at NYUAD – where nine artists and art collectives utilise technology for self-expression and self-fashioning. [...]

Vivid paintings echoing Camacho’s youth among the waterways of his native Argentina. In the Foundry’s Gallery 5 to 25 July.

New works reflecting the year of the pandemic, showing a journey from the hustle and bustle of city life to escape into the countryside with “love, pain and fear, reimagined in natural and human-made forms”. In the Foundry’s Gallery 3.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]