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 [...]

Manal AlDowayan’s latest solo exhibition considers women’s new freedoms in daily life and society in Saudi Arabia. Grappling with these unreconciled and often oppressive histories now being rapidly erased from collective memory, AlDowayan creates events that capture their brief passage [...]

The top urban artist (known to his mum as John Andrew Perello) gets an popup show in Alserkal Avenue. Born in Harlem but now based to Paris, JonOne has moved on from graffiti to painting on canvas; his work is [...]

An immersive, multisensory Golden Jubilee exhibition featuring 50 landscape paintings of the UAE with accompanying music. Ella Spira, a Grammy nominated composer as well as a painter, has created the paintings and a unique bespoke score for each of them, [...]

An exhibition featuring five contemporary women artists – Saelia Aparicio (Spain), Natalia Gonzalez Martin (Spain), Shailee Mehta (India), Wawi Navarroza (Philippines) and Sola Olulode (UK) – whose works explore mythology, identity, gender and sexuality. The exhibition takes its title from [...]

Paintings by Timur D'Vatz, one of Andalukova's stars. The Russian artist describes his work as figurative and emblematic; he fuses ancient legends and symbols with modernist forms and vibrant colours, and the elongated bodies characteristic of his work aim to show [...]

A symbolic exhibition for the Jubilee celebration – the artists worked together for several months to conceive and produce original artworks conceived that celebrate a fusion between East and West, linking both artists’ countries, UAE and France. Both artists regard [...]

Matt Kayem's first UAE exhibition features his characteristic textural reworking of denim, fabric and acrylic. Says the artist: “In my work, I usually revisit pre-colonial Africa or Buganda, where I come from, and pick out things in daily use and [...]

The top urban artist (known to his mum as John Andrew Perello) gets an popup show in Alserkal Avenue. Born in Harlem but now based to Paris, JonOne has moved on from graffiti to painting on canvas; his work is [...]

The second part of two for Sohrab Hura’s debut curation. Static In The Air emphasises a traversing of the world through listening. It gestures towards echo-locations in the field of image-making practices across geographic borders, drawing new nodes, maps and interconnections. [...]

A celebration of 10 years of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, which first opened its doors in November 2011 in Shanghai as an artists' residency – artists are invited to stay in one of its 18 workshops and apartments for [...]

The British artist brings his show-stopping collages to Dubai with an exhibition of original works and print editions dedicated to the city’s iconic skyline. The gallery says his paintings of Dubai “seek to depict the city in way not seen [...]

A solo exhibition marking the culmination of Behnoosh’s participation in Tashkeel’s first Solo Residency. This exhibition is an outcome of a journey with different shifts of perspective and continuous practice, leading the artist to re-frame and re-orient her practice; "repetition [...]

An immersive, multisensory Golden Jubilee exhibition featuring 50 landscape paintings of the UAE with accompanying music. Ella Spira, a Grammy nominated composer as well as a painter, has created the paintings and a unique bespoke score for each of them, [...]

Shah’s third solo show at XVA attempts “the zeitgeist of an era” via text as art, screenprinted on powder coated aluminium panels. They form a series of slogans that run to no more than 14 characters over four lines with no [...]

The British artist brings his show-stopping collages to Dubai with an exhibition of original works and print editions dedicated to the city’s iconic skyline. The gallery says his paintings of Dubai “seek to depict the city in way not seen [...]

Nate Silver’s book of the same name  explains the use of probability and prediction to show how we can all develop detect the true signals amid a noise of data to achieve better foresight in an uncertain world. Buhmann’s exhibition [...]

Iranian Modern and Contemporary art has long been considered a powerhouse within the Middle Eastern art world and is one of the most potent forces within the global art scene. The works exhibited have challenged cemented opinions in art and [...]

A solo exhibition marking the culmination of Behnoosh’s participation in Tashkeel’s first Solo Residency. This exhibition is an outcome of a journey with different shifts of perspective and continuous practice, leading the artist to re-frame and re-orient her practice; "repetition [...]

Samia Halaby’s most recent works reflect everything but stillness; each canvas has energy and movement, brimming with complexity and infinite layers of moving parts. Continuing her previous explorations towards abstraction, Halaby is progressively removing shape and boundaries to focus solely [...]

Ana Mazzei’s second solo exhibition at Green Art Gallery takes the fragmented, half-seen consciousness of waking sleep – of being in the world, but not quite there – and materialises this state into a mise-en-scène in which sculpture acts as [...]

Barakat's style, sometimes reminiscent of prehistoric cave art, uses acrylic on canvas to create artworks infused with the essence of life. In this exhibition he touches upon metaphorical rituals, intimate moments, memories, and magical landscapes. These works show his view of [...]

The largest body of work yet shown by the Iraq-born Sharjah-based sculptor, a selection of bronze figures portraying those that have been ruined by power – the artist magnifies and exaggerates traits creating caricatures with puffed bellies and swollen jugular [...]

An exhibition of 50 NFT-only artworks by UAE-based artists celebrating the UAE’s 50th anniversary. Organised by Dubai Culture with Anna Seaman’s MORROW collective in response to an open call, this is the first exhibition of its kind explicitly to feature [...]

The first Zawyeh exhibition of the year is a solo show for the Palestinian artist. The gallery says Said was influenced by German expressionism – he lived in Germany for 16 years – and has a “unique style that lies [...]

A group exhibition curated by Raphael Chikukwa, director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, and featuring Hloniphani Noah ‘Dialo’ Dube, Doris Kamupira, Josiah Manzi, Isaac Choloka, Tusichile Kasito, Tamary Kudita, Prudence Chimutuwah, Danisile Ncube, Nothando Chiwanga, and Admire Kamudzengerere. Each [...]