A solo exhibition for the Nigerian-American artist. His series of du-rag paintings focuses on culturally and historically charged material as a primary means to explore the intricacies and complexities of identity politics; Akinbola examines the intimate narrative of our individual [...]

This eponymous show provides a “dynamic retrospective” of the American artist's maquette forms as well as the brightly-coloured monumental abstracts cast in bronze, fibreglass, or wood that she’s known for – in particular, the Forms series. The sensual curves and [...]

This should be one of the most interesting shows of the season, a series of abstract paintings that represents the artist’s journey through past, present and future – with colour speaking “the language of the soul” via “a kinetic immersion [...]

Firetti Contemporary’s official opening show includes works by local artists plus others exhibiting for the first time in the region. The theme: the environment and the role of humanity on earth. As the blurb puts it: “Praxis of Change is [...]

The official opening exhibition of the new Volte Art Projects gallery and HQ in Dubai promises “a compelling visual dialogue between ancient memory and near futures ... Cutting-edge technologies are used to document and interrogate our constantly evolving relationship to [...]

In his large-scale mixed-media works, Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik transforms unconventional materials such as charcoal, plaster, starch, ash, and burlap into evocative mediums that reproduce the patina of imbued surfaces. This solo show by the Berlin-based Syrian artist registers time, [...]

Moroccan architectural designer and artist Oussama Garti traps the moments and emotions he deems crucial in his sculpted forms using fabric, needles, and many layers of plaster. During quarantine he spent time studying and sketching his family’s hand gestures: “filled [...]

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 [...]

Contemporary artworks and a large-scale installation that celebrate Moutashar’s practice at the confluence of two artistic traditions, the western heritage of geometric abstraction and the Islamic aesthetic tradition of geometrical order and lines – a meeting point between Islamic tradition [...]

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, [...]