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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251017
DTSTAMP:20250918T113657Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Ranim AlHalaky: Of Liminal Threads
DESCRIPTION:Tashkeel reopens its Nad Al Sheba Gallery with this solo exhibition by Syrian-Lebanese artist and designer Ranim AlHalaky\, the culmination of a year-long journey of research\, mentorship\, and production as part of Tashkeel’s Critical Practice Programme.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-ranim-alhalaky-of-liminal-threads/
LOCATION:Tashkeel Studio and Gallery\, Nad Al Sheba\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1435458;55.3475331
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTSTAMP:20250923T164335Z
CREATED:20250923T164335Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Sebastian Hosu: Transmission
DESCRIPTION:The debut solo exhibition in Dubai by the German Romanian artist introduces a new body of work that captures human presence in flux figures that dissolve into their surroundings. Known for his monumental canvases and emotionally charged brushwork\, Hosu invites viewers into immersive environments where the human figure merges with landscapes of colour\, memory\, and motion; the monumental scale of these paintings is central to their power\, requiring viewers to encounter them not so much as images as environments. The intensity of the brushwork\, the spatial tension\, and the psychological presence of the figures reveal themselves in ways no reproduction can fully capture.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-sebastian-hosu-transmission/
LOCATION:Volery Gallery\, Maze Tower - 5201\, Dubai International Financial Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.20884;55.2770323
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTSTAMP:20251008T083212Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas Dillon: The Raw and the Cooked
DESCRIPTION:This is Dillon’s first solo exhibition in Dubai; and it is claimed to be a milestone in the artist’s career\, featuring a body of work conceived and created specifically for this show. \nIn Claude Lévi-Strauss’s influential text of the same name\, the author identified binary oppositions – nature and culture\, raw and cooked – as fundamental tools by which societies organise meaning. For Dillon\, it is more than a reference; it offers a conceptual lens through which his paintings may be read – Dillon feels he is testing the limits of painting as a medium that can bridge instinct and intellect\, gesture and structure\, matter and form. As the gallery puts it\, “Dillon’s works remind us that art continues to operate like myth: as a space where chaos is given form\, where the elemental becomes symbolic\, and where human thought – raw and cooked alike – finds its most resonant expression”. \nTo 17 November. \nRight: Thomas Dillon\, Hawkeye (2025\, detail)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/thomas-dillon-the-raw-and-the-cooked/
LOCATION:Opera Gallery\, DIFC\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.20884;55.2770323
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTSTAMP:20250918T112621Z
CREATED:20250918T112621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T112621Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Talal Al Najjar: Mesh & Mayhem
DESCRIPTION:Talal Al Najjar’s works feel very contemporary\, not just in his use of materials and technologuy but also in his concerns and ambitions. He produces sculpture\, video\, sound\, CGI animation\, painting\, and installation\, in addition to writing and curation; his is a research-driven interdisciplinary practice that seeks to recontextualise material culture\, artefacts\, and imagery. This ‘defamiliarisation’\, overlaid with irony and seen through an absurdist lens\, prompts anthropological and material questions. Primary concerns include ideas around simulation\, postproduction\, poor images\, counter-futurisms\, and the contention of postmodern conditions. \nSays the gallery: “The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates geography and biology – where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture\, at once a connective tissue and a site of collapse …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-talal-al-najjar-mesh-mayhem/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.2135121;55.2823895
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTSTAMP:20251012T133702Z
CREATED:20251012T133702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251012T133702Z
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SUMMARY:Nja Mahdaoui: the Choreographer of Letters
DESCRIPTION:This focused retrospective surveys over six decades of practice by the Tunisian multimedia artist Nja Mahdaoui\, an influential figures in Arab modern art who repurposed Arabic calligraphy into a visual and abstract contemporary art form. This show\, o-curated by Michaela Watrelot\, head curator and director of exhibitions at Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, and the artist’s daughter Molka Mahdaoui\, bridges tradition and modernity to signify notions of identity and heritage. \nTo 25 January. \nRight: Nja Mahdaoui\, Untitled (from the Azimuth series\, 2012)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nja-mahdaoui-the-choreographer-of-letters/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251024
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251025
DTSTAMP:20251012T134935Z
CREATED:20251012T134935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251012T134935Z
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SUMMARY:Constructing the Orient: Fragments of a Western Dream
DESCRIPTION:Drawn from the private collection of Bassam Said Freiha plus key loans from the Ary Jan Gallery\, this exhibition of Orientalist works  unfolds across five thematic sections\, each focusing on a central motif within Orientalist visual language and examining how artists shaped their subjects into recurring archetypes. From imagined interiors and bustling marketplaces to archetypes of men and women\, the works on view invite audiences to reflect on how the ‘Orient’ was constructed through Western eyes and how these images continue to shape perceptions today. \nTo 31 May. \nRight: Jean-Léon Gérôme\, The Harem Promenade (undated)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/constructing-the-orient-fragments-of-a-western-dream/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251027
DTSTAMP:20250930T125117Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Nat Bowen: Chromology
DESCRIPTION:Known for works of glossy\, abstract resin poured on to acrylic\, Bowen creates luminous\, aqueous fields that transform colour into a language of emotion and presence. With this show\, says the gallery\, “viewers are invited into an intimate space of reflection\, where colour is not simply observed but experienced as a catalyst for calm and psychological resonance”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-nat-bowen-chromology/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTSTAMP:20251028T165400Z
CREATED:20251012T113715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T165400Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Arsham: What Remains
DESCRIPTION:A solo show by the American artist Daniel Arsham\, known for his works of ‘fictional archaeology’ expressed through sculpture\, architecture\, drawing\, and film – what he calls “future relics of the present.” \nArsham will transform the gallery into a sonic installation with a new sculptural series of copper-wrapped bonsai tree sculptures that double as functional stereo speakers. These works pay homage to Japanese Zen Buddhist culture and Arsham’s own past presentations of sand Zen gardens. \nThere’s also a new suite of works relating to his recent Labyrinth series in cast sand; Arsham’s Stairs in a Labyrinth is a sculptural double portrait – from head-on it appears to be a portrait bust of a sitter\, transforming in the profile view into a maze of architectural levels and stairwells. And there is more of his ‘Fictional Archaeology’\, twentieth century objects that are cast in geologic crystals and pigmented hydrostone\, patinated bronze\, and fibreglass to become containers for collective cultural memory. \nThis exhibition marks the 24th collaboration between the artist and Perrotin\, a partnership that has spanned more than two decades. \nTo 11 January. \nRight: Daniel Arsham\, Audio Bonsai 003 (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/daniel-arsham-what-remains/
LOCATION:Perrotin\, Gate Village Building 5\, DIFC\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.2118411;55.2807637
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20250919T090320Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Monif Ajaj: Shams
DESCRIPTION:New ink drawings on paper and acrylic paintings on canvas from the French-based Syrian artist that offer viewers a journey through colour\, symbolism\, and contemplation. These are works that “reflect on the mystical power of nature\, its geometry and order\, and the existential questions it raises about human nature”\, drawing inspiration from the fields of sunflowers that grow around Ajaj’s Dordogne home. The sunflower is in dialogue with a snake motif. – “while the sunflower follows light\, embodying warmth and optimism\, the snake [is] a signifier of temptation and betrayal; in other traditions\, a symbol of renewal and healing. The works invite viewers to consider that within darkness lies the potential for renewal”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chnace-monif-ajaj-shams/
LOCATION:Fann à Porter\, The Workshop\, Villa 45\, St. 23b\, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park)\, Jumeirah 2\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1966736;55.2461631
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20251029T102524Z
CREATED:20250917T185541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251029T102524Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Heritage\, Memory & The Body
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition for four distinguished Palestinian women artists – Rania Amoudi\, Dina Matar\, Fatima Abu Rumi\, and Marwa Alnajjar – that offers a powerful counterpoint to static portrayals of femininity and nationhood. Grounded in place yet transcending borders\, the works collectively reclaim the female figure as a vessel of memory\, heritage\, and quiet resistance. The curator is Rula Dughman. 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-heritage-memory-the-body/
LOCATION:Artbooth Gallery\, Centro Capital Center\, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.4176064;54.4408235
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
DTSTAMP:20250918T110645Z
CREATED:20250918T110645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250918T110645Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Banafsheh Hemmati: Body Geometry
DESCRIPTION:The first solo exhibition in the UAE for the Tehran-based artist-designer presents a collection of the artist’s jewellery and wearable sculptures. Body Geometry is a research-based project\, where the design process is presented as well as the finished pieces. As the title indicates\, the show explores the relationship between body; Hemmati says all the works in this new collection are derived from three foundational forms of Islamic geometry.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-banafsheh-hemmati-body-geometry/
LOCATION:Satellite Gallery\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:3D,Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.20884;55.2770323
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