16 July 2025

LAST CHANCE Tran Luong: Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

The first major survey of Vietnamese contemporary artist Tran Luong covers 30 years of painting, installation, performance and work with communities showcasing how his practice has been shaped by political and social transitions and his multifaceted roles as activist, curator, [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Trần Lương: Tầm Tã – Soaked in the Long Rain

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Trần Lương is a major figure in performance and visual art in Vietnam. This exhibition is the first international survey for the artist; it includes painting, installation, performance, community engagement and institution-making as it traces Trần’s life and work from [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Nadine Ghandour: Rooms for Error

Bayt AlMamzar House 2, 26 Street, Al Mamzar, Dubai

Nadine Ghandour’s first solo exhibition in the UAE, curated by Dawn Ross, features recent works informed by her experiences in various cities, including Dubai, Sharjah, Cairo and Rotterdam. Working with drawing, writing, performance and sculpture, Ghandour creates works that depict imagined [ ... ]

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Ana Escobar Saavedra: It Starts Where It Ends

421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Ana Escobar Saavedra has a cross-disciplinary creative practice working on the frontiers of craft, art and design. Born and bred in Colombia, she is now established in the UAE; for the last few years, she has combined a personal studio [ ... ]

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Unstable Grounds: 2025 MFA Graduate Exhibition

421 Arts Campus Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

For the fourth time, this exhibition shows work by students completing the two-year Master of Fine Arts in Art and Media at NYUAD – Dima Abou Zannad, Bao, Adele Bea Cipste, Hala El Abora, Mowen Li (Amira), Jude Maharmeh, Safeya [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Women in Contemporary Arab Art

Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai

"A rare journey through modern and contemporary Arab art” in the form of more than 35 original works by artists including Ismail Fattah, Najat Makki, Khaled Al Jader, Louay Kayali, and Salah Taher that represent women in a variety of [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Halim Al Karim: Mythological Love

XVA Gallery Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Experimental photography works by the Iraqui artist, who says: “Inspired by the Sumerian myth and my archaeological excavations in our invisible life, the mythological love series invites us to contemplate the magical love relationship between human women and the Anunnaki [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Al Braithwaite: MATAB

XVA Gallery Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Al Braithwaite is a contemporary artist from London who works across a variety of disciplines including sculpture, assemblage, found material and installation. For this show, Braithwaite’s Material Abstraction (MATAB) comprises textured panels arrayed as physical sculptures. Says the gallery: “Their [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Michael Sailstorfer: Air Electric

Carbon 12 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Sailstorfer’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery brings together three series of works that explore one of the artist’s signature themes: energy. He reflects on energy in its various forms – as a source, as storage, as a transmitter, as [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCEa radical intimacy of hanging out

Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A group exhibition featuring Emirati artists Asma Khoory, Taqwa Alnaqbi, and Sultan Al Remeithi, curated by Salem AlSuwaidi. "In a world rushing forward, the exhibition invites you to linger—where 'killing time' becomes a quiet, radical act of care, presence, and [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Elias Sime: Through the Window

Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The first solo exhibition in the Middle East for the Addis Ababa artist showcases Sime’s distinctive practice of transforming colourful wires, circuit boards, and electronic components into intricate, layered compositions that blur the boundaries between technology, nature, and abstraction. The [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: I Am Soil. My Tears Are Water

Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

Efie Gallery is opening its new space in Alserkal Avenue with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ debut solo exhibition in the Middle East. The exhibiiton, curated by Faridah Folawiyo, explores diaspora and interconnectedness through the flora and fauna of Latin America, the [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Maryam Hoseini: Swells

Green Art Gallery Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The second solo exhibition at this gallery for the Iran-born, NY-based artist features new paintings that revels in transplanting elements within themselves. Hoseini says “the figures have moved from architecture to landscape"; so the flat figure expands and multiplies in [ ... ]

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MyLysses

XVA Gallery Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

How do contemporary artists grapple with the shifting role of text, literature and knowledge in an age of AI? This group exhibition curated by Tor Seidel tries to answer that question. As Seidel puts it, "Has access to texts and [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Mayar Obeido: Ever in Reform

Fann à Porter The Workshop, Villa 45, St. 23b, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park), Jumeirah 2, Dubai

While his previous work was embedded with themes of time, context, and the mutual influence of elements, Fann À Porter's second solo exhibition for Syrian artist Mayar Obeido introduces a focus towards place, location, and grounding. The artist navigates a [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Habuba Farah: Beams of Light

Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi

A selection of works from the 1970s to the present by the noted Lebanese-Brazilian artist, including oils on canvas, gouache on paper, and pencil drawings. A highlight is her exploration of 'neutral gray' or coloured gray, achieved by blending primary [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE A Room of One’s Own

NYUAD Project Space NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Curated by Duygu Demir, NYUAD assistant professor of Art History and curator at the Art Gallery, this exhibition features new work by current MFA students Maha Alasaker, Yuehan Dai, Nour Elbery, Almaha Jaralla, Tooba Shaikh, and Shaima Shamsi that has [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Huda Lutfi: Unraveling

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Huda Lutfi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery includes works from three recent series – When Dreams Call for Silence (2019), Our Black Thread (2020–2021), and Healing Devices (2020–ongoing) It also includes a selection of previously unshown miniature collages, offering [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Hazem Harb: Not There, Yet Felt

Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, Dubai

Unlike earlier works that centred around collective narratives, this new body of work from Hazem Harb is highly personal and intimate; it aims to draw the viewer into Harb's own lived environment, reflecting his sense of disembodiment, a feeling of [ ... ]

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Maitha Abdalla: Between Metamorphosis and Reality

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

With a mix of painting and sculpture, this solo exhibition by the Emirati artist explores folklore, mythology, psychology, and social constructs that shift between abstraction and representation. Says the blurb: "The exhibition highlights the power of art to spark dialogue, [ ... ]

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Bruno Sfeir: The Return to Essence

Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi

A solo exhibition for the Lebanese-Uruguayan painter. We're promised "a profound journey through imagination, memory, and abstraction ... With this poetic metaphor, the artist gestures toward a body of work that resists confinement. His paintings, like the river he evokes, [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Sama Alshaibi: طرس (Tterss)

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

A solo exhibition of recent body work by one of the gallery’s stars. Alshaibi’s multimedia work explores spaces of conflict and the power struggles that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation – its peaks, declines, and latent possibilities. Baghdad becomes a site of [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Kojo Marfo: HOME Heart Of My Existence

JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, Dubai

The inaugural exhibition in the Emirates for the Ghanaian artist explores the concept of ‘home’ through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. This series marks an introspective shift in his practice, reflecting his evolving sense of place in the world; HOME: Heart [ ... ]

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Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd: Garden of Murmurs

CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd's body of work delves into his Iraqi heritage, while bridging painting, drawing and fibre art – "reconciling the tactility of textiles with a sensitive examination of form", as the gallery puts it. "Focusing primarily on the [ ... ]

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Nazgol Ansarinia: Instruments of Viewing an Obscurity

Green Art Gallery Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Recent projects from the Tehran-born artist. Nazgol Ansarinia’s work examines the systems and networks that underpin her daily life – from everyday objects to routines, events and experiences. She's interested in the relationships they form to make up a larger [ ... ]

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Omar Al Gurg: Everyman’s Mountain

Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Emirati artist and designer's inaugural solo exhibition comprises a series of photographs that documents the striking ecological diversity of Mount Kilimanjaro. Captured through Al Gurg’s attentive and empathetic gaze during a six-day journey in 2021, this work offers "a [ ... ]

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Ahmad Kasha: Offerings – The War Series

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ahmad Kasha’s complete War Series (2018–2025) is presented here for the first time in association with Fann à Porter. Influenced by various traditions of war art, the series reflects on the psychological toll of violence on people, animals, nature, and [ ... ]

Architectures of the In-Between

Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A group show featuring Nevine Hamza, Atefeh Majidi Nezhad, and Layla Juma. Says the gallery: "Each artist navigates the threshold between structure and sentiment, material and memory, between what is seen and what is sensed ..." Hamza’s work draws on [ ... ]

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time heals, just not quick enough

Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

The second exhibition in Efie Gallery’s new Alserkal Avenue location, this group show of film and photography features works by contemporary artists across generations – Samuel Fosso (b.1962), Aïda Muluneh (b.1974), Kelani Abass (b.1978), Abeer Sultan (b.1999) and Sumayah Fallatah [ ... ]

LAST CHANCE Hassan Sharif: The Storyteller

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Curated by Murtaza Vali, this exhibition revisits Hassan Sharif’s 'objects', works which expand the definition of 'craft' beyond notions of skill, precision and medium-specific mastery and towards "an experimental, experiential and embodied practice of learning, understanding, and knowing through making". [ ... ]

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Tracing the Unseen: Landscapes of Memory and Metaphor

Foundry Downtown Boulevard Crescent, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Dubai

This exhibition brings together four artists from the Atassi Foundation collection – Walid El-Masri, Farouq Kondakji, Rida Hus Hus, and Omar Hamdi – whose work reimagines the landscape not as a fixed geography, but as a space of memory, metaphor, [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Reynier Llanes: Reverie

Firetti Contemporary Unit 29, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

An exhibition inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s comment on 'reverie' – "Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul", a space where imagination and memory intertwine [ ... ]

LAST CHANCE Thomas Lélu: Calm Down It’s Just Art

Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery 796 Jumeirah Street, Dubai

Thomas Lélu’s practice interweaves photography, installation art, and textual elements, frequently featuring the appropriation and recontextualisation of imagery from popular culture and media to interrogate themes of contemporary society, consumerism, and media representation. His methodology of exploration, archiving, and contextualization [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Ahmad Kasha: Offerings – The War Series

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ahmad Kasha’s complete War Series (2018–2025) is presented here for the first time in association with Fann à Porter. Influenced by various traditions of war art, the series reflects on the psychological toll of violence on people, animals, nature, and [ ... ]

LAST CHANCE Mohamed Al Astad: Rust & Waves

Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi Reem Island, Abu Dhabi

An exhibition showcasing the artistic journey of the Emirati artist known for his ability to capture maritime heritage and coastal landscapes through the interplay between nature and time; he characteristically incorporates elements of rust, waves, and the textures of the [ ... ]

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Nima Nabavi: Sunrise at the Vortex

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The second solo exhibition by Nima Nabavi at the gallery features new works that mark a significant evolution in the artist's practice, reflecting a deepened commitment to introspection, geometry, and modes of making that embrace technology alongside traditional tools. Created [ ... ]

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Richi Bhatia: Antevasin – the one who sits at the border of two worlds

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The first solo exhibition at Gallery Isabelle for the UAE-based Indian artist. Her practice spans drawing, performance, object-making, food interventions, and assemblage; says the gallery, "inviting us to engage with liminality, her work challenges the normative categories that shape our [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Zhou Song: Supernatural·Algorithm

Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

Zhou Song's solo show echoes traditional Chinese landscape painting but employs symbolic imagery to explore relationships between nature, technology, and faith. The 'anthropomorphic tree' is central, serving as a metaphor for nature’s alienation by technology – "these trees retain natural [ ... ]

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Summer Collective: Wavering Hope

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Ayyam Gallery’s summer group show celebrates and questions the current siutation in Syria with works by Kais Salman, Khaled Takreti, Tammam Azzam, Abdalla Al Omari, Othman Moussa, Safwan Dahoul, Thaier Helal, Elias Izoli, Abdul-Karim Majd Al-Beik, Mohannad Orabi, Nihad Al-Turk, [ ... ]

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Ihab Ahmad: I PUT MY BRAIN ON PAUSE!

Firetti Contemporary Unit 29, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The new body of work in this solo exhibition marks a turning point in Ihab Ahmad’s practice – "a move toward instinct, spontaneity, and emotional exploration" as the gallery puts it. Smiling faces populate the canvases, each a reflection of [ ... ]

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Mohammad Alfaraj: Seas are sweet, fish tears are salty

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

The first institutional solo exhibition of Mohammad Alfaraj brings together installations, photography, video works and site-specific commissions that respond to the gardens and outdoor spaces of the Jameel. Central to Alfaraj’s practice is his use of storytelling, both in written [ ... ]

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Shingo Yamazaki: Mauka to Makai

Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

The Middle East solo debut for the LA-based artist, known for layered, poetic paintings that explore the intersection of memory, identity, and place. Says the gallery: "Yamazaki constructs atmospheric compositions where domestic interiors dissolve into natural landscapes. Veil-like layers of [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Abdullah Al Othman: Structural Syntax

Iris Projects Studio 20, Madar 39, MiZa, Port Zayed, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

The Saudi artist has long been developing a highly characteristic visual language rooted in the Arabian urban landscapes, architecture, and linguistic history. In his work, In his monumental installations and sculptures Al Othman reflects on the layers of history embedded [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Bashir Makhoul: The Promise

Zawyeh Gallery Warehouse 27, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

New works by the noted Palestinian artist. The title The Promise suggests a poetic and ambiguous statement of intent; a promise is made but can also be broken. Makhoul's practice engages deeply with the concept of home, with the recurring [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Subtitled explicitly 'Contemporary Art from Korea, 1960s to Today', this exhibition is a selection of works from the Seoul Museum of Art, curated by SeMA's Kyung-Hwan Yeo and Maya El Khalil for the Abu Dhabi Festival, and it aims to [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE MyLysses

XVA Gallery Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

How do contemporary artists grapple with the shifting role of text, literature and knowledge in an age of AI? This group exhibition curated by Tor Seidel tries to answer that question. As Seidel puts it, "Has access to texts and [ ... ]

Free

Tajammul

XVA Gallery Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, Bur Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The XVA group show for the summer, curated by Carina Vicente, promises "beauty and grace, capturing the aesthetics of the evolving art landscape in the contemporary Middle East" – the title comes from the Arabic root word for beauty (jamaal), [ ... ]

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No Trespassing

Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Ishara’s first summer exhibition, curated by Priyanka Mehra, features six UAE-based and South Asian artists exploring their relationship with the street – “a collection of individual experiences that alternate between chaotic and orderly, gritty and beautiful, uninhibited and curated … [ ... ]

Bruno Sfeir: The Return to Essence

Artbooth Gallery Centro Capital Center, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street, Abu Dhabi

A solo exhibition for the Lebanese-Uruguayan painter. We're promised "a profound journey through imagination, memory, and abstraction ... With this poetic metaphor, the artist gestures toward a body of work that resists confinement. His paintings, like the river he evokes, [ ... ]

Free