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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260915T164436Z
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SUMMARY:Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon
DESCRIPTION:A visual meditation on the horizon as both boundary and promise\, a visible line that remains perpetually distant. Alaa Itani’s solo show brings together reverse glass paintings of horizons\, blurred landscapes\, and moving cloud formations; he explores landscape as acts of temporal displacement\, a process informed in part by his work as a researcher and archivist through which he has closely encountered the work of Arab modernist painters – especially the Lebanese artist Rafic Charaf (1932-2003). \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Alaa Itani\, A Momentum for the Horizon (2023)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/alaa-itani-a-momentum-for-the-horizon/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T085752Z
CREATED:20260916T085752Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T085752Z
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SUMMARY:Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches
DESCRIPTION:Sara Masinaei’s solo show explores how urban spaces shape memory\, movement and lived experience: “through walking\, collecting found objects and recording traces of overlooked surfaces\, she treats the city’s ground as an active part of how we experience and navigate our surroundings”\, says the gallery. Her works include monoprints created by pressing canvas directly on to urban surfaces\, plus sculptural pieces that explore the tension between order and disruption. \nThis work results from Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme\, introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sara-masinaei-boundaries-and-breaches/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T090334Z
CREATED:20260916T090334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T090334Z
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SUMMARY:Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by seven emerging UAE-based artists\, beneficiaries of Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme (introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T090433Z
CREATED:20260916T090433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T090433Z
UID:10014168-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition by seven emerging UAE-based artists\, beneficiaries of Dom Arts’ Studio Support Programme (introduced to gave artists space and time to develop their practices without requiring them to produce new work or meet predetermined outcomes). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T094434Z
CREATED:20260916T094434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T094434Z
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SUMMARY:Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me
DESCRIPTION:Collaborative works from Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian’s ongoing Flower series\, unfolding across gallery walls covered with hand-drawn graffiti; rooted in the artists’ shared and individual experiences\, the works consider what it means to care for\, sustain and grow alongside one another. For Hashemi and Erfanian\, tending to plants\, relationships and artistic practice all share a common faith in growth. And even amid destruction\, flowers return and spring cannot be stopped:the act of tending becomes a method of resistance. \nPrimarily oil pastel on paper\, the drawings use a rough and immediate visual language. Flowers are built from loose\, gestural marks; colours bleed as figurative scenes appear almost like small windows embedded within wild fields. The process is similarly intertwined. Hashemi and Erfanian move freely across the same surface; one may begin a work and the other finish. At other times\, their marks overlap as they work simultaneously. \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian\, Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/tirdad-hashemi-and-soufia-erfanian-i-bloom-where-you-hold-me/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T164227Z
CREATED:20260916T100118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T164227Z
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SUMMARY:Iqra Tanveer and Faheem Abbas: The importance of staying quiet: 6. Open Forms
DESCRIPTION:The final exhibition in the series The importance of staying quiet\, “an attempt to acknowledge a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art”\, focuses on conceptual and material practices shaped by stillness and abstraction. To 30 December. \nRight: Faheem Abbas\, Untitled (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/iqra-tanveer-and-faheem-abbas-the-importance-of-staying-quiet-6-open-forms/
LOCATION:Grey Noise\, Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T102341Z
CREATED:20260916T102242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T102341Z
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SUMMARY:Katia Kameli: The Canticle of the Birds
DESCRIPTION:A solo presentation by the French-Algerian artist and filmmaker that reinterprets The Conference of the Birds\,a 12th-century epic poem by Farid ud-Din Attar\, in which a flock of birds search for a mighty ruler and ultimately find their strength within themselves. \nIn Kameli’s video Le Cantique des oiseaux (2022) actresses process while playing bird-shaped ceramic instruments\, an eerie procession that stands in sharp contrast to the urban environment of Paris. A follow-up film\, Le Cantique des oiseaux\, variation (2022)\, was staged in a seaside garden on the French Riviera; here\, the physical challenge of dancing while playing fragile ceramic instruments creates a visible tension between the performers’ bodies and the delicate artwork. The earthenware instruments are bird-shaped ocarinas\, created by Kameli with ceramicist Marie Picard; to bring these sculptural birds to life\, Kameli worked with composer Aurélie Sfez and choreographer Youness Anzane. \nTo 11 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/katia-kameli-the-canticle-of-the-birds/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T171332Z
CREATED:20260916T103228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T171332Z
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SUMMARY:Dalal Al-Obaidi: Frogs\, Jazz & Blisters
DESCRIPTION:A new body of 15 paintings by the Kuwaiti artist that takes us into a life split between two worlds\, London and Kuwait– considering what it means to live in two places\, or “to be two Dalals” as the artist put it\, without being entirely settled in either identity. \nTo 11 November. \nRight: Dalal Al-Obaidi\, Phantom
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/dalal-al-obaidi-frogs-jazz-blisters/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260918T150223Z
CREATED:20260918T145934Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T150223Z
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SUMMARY:Sharmila Samant: Loca-Cola
DESCRIPTION:Coke bottles seem identical\, but differ subtly from one country to another. These variations in taste and appearance highlight the simulacral nature of the Coca-Cola bottle – a semblance of an imagined universal ideal. The incursion of multinational brands into local markets reflects a form of neocolonisation; but despite limited technical facilities and economic constraints\, local recycling practices thrive out of necessity; local vendors\, often resourceful and inventive\, repurpose discarded branded bottles to package their own beverages. \nSharmila Samant began the Loca-Cola project in 2000; he collects glass Coca-Cola bottles from various countries and juxtaposes them with distinctly local flavours to explore the polemics of ‘local’ and ‘global’: “Is the ‘local’ inherently oppositional to the ‘global’\, or is it an intrinsic part of it?
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sharmila-samant-loca-cola/
LOCATION:1×1 Art Gallery\, Unit 10\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T074032Z
CREATED:20260922T074032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T074032Z
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SUMMARY:Azza Al Qubaisi: Between Land and Sea
DESCRIPTION:A mid-career exhibition dedicated to the work of the Emirati multidisciplinary artist\, curated by Aysha Al Hemeiri. Ranging from intimate jewellery pieces to large-scale public works\, Al Qubaisi’s practice invites audiences to encounter the UAE’s natural resources through space\, structure\, and material presence. \nTo 10 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/azza-al-qubaisi-between-land-and-sea/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T075615Z
CREATED:20260922T074749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T075615Z
UID:10014210-1790121600-1790207999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:Manish Nai: In Search of Material Within Material
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition by the Mumbai-based artist; much of his work comes from what he has seen and handled there. Nai works with jute\, newspaper\, cardboard\, used clothing\, mosquito mesh and corrugated metal; he cuts\, folds\, compresses and layers these materials\, often through slow and repetitive processes. “Rather than hiding what they were originally used for\, he makes that history part of the work”. \nTo 10 November. \nRight: Manish Nai\, Untitled (2021)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/manish-nai-in-search-of-material-within-material/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260922T075433Z
CREATED:20260922T075433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T075433Z
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SUMMARY:Karima Al Shomely: Between a Fold and a Memory
DESCRIPTION:Karima Al Shomely’s work draws from the clothing\, textiles and adornments of Emirati women. The burqa is a recurring subject\, appearing in works that look at how it was made\, worn and passed down through generations; Al Shomely also works with traditional Emirati fabrics\, including Bou Tira\, Bu Glaym and Bu Teelah\, enlarging their patterns and remaking them in metal. Through photography\, sculpture\, textile and video\, she brings these materials and their histories into the present. \nTo 10 November. \nRight: Karima Al Shomely\, Bu Galim
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/karima-al-shomely-between-a-fold-and-a-memory/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTSTAMP:20260925T070237Z
CREATED:20260922T092843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T070237Z
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SUMMARY:Art Appears: Chant Avedissian
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events at Manarat al Saadiyat “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. This one has three days on Chant Avedissian\, an artist in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection\, that will explore the influences that shaped Avedissian’s distinctive visual language which reinterpreted Egypt’s cultural icons\, histories and collective memory through a contemporary artistic lens. \nWe’re not sure of the timings\, but the programme is … \n25 Sept Talks\n26 Sept Workshops\n27 Sept Quiz \nYou’re invited to preregister for one or more of these here. \nRight: Chant Avedissian\, Hind Rostom\, from the Icons of the Nile series (c.1991)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/art-appears-chant-avedissian/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Talk,Workshop
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTSTAMP:20260922T093809Z
CREATED:20260922T093431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T093809Z
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SUMMARY:Agatha Gothe-Snape: Network of Answers
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. This one is an interactive artwork by the Australian Guggenheim Abu Dhabi-commissioned artist Agatha Gothe-Snape: you respond to a series of questions through a phone booth installation\, intended to gather personal reflections\, memories and perspectives to build a collective archive of voices from Abu Dhabi. It’ll be available to 22 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/agatha-gothe-snape-network-of-answers/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Participation
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260913T162754Z
CREATED:20260913T162754Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T162754Z
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SUMMARY:Eman Al Hashemi: The Horizon We Inherit
DESCRIPTION:Al Hashemi’s practice examines what it means to remain human within increasingly automated systems of production and consumption – especiallyy seen through urban life in the Emirates. Al Hashemi works across ceramics\, printmaking and painting\, “investigating the systems through which contemporary experience is organized: the routes that structure daily movement\, the artificial illuminations that shape public space\, and the habitual routines through which urban environments are encountered and internalised … Central to this inquiry is the sun\, which recurs throughout the exhibition as both a defining condition of life in the UAE and a means of thinking through the relationship between body\, landscape\, and the built environment”. \nRight: Eman Al Hashemi\, Shams I\, Shams II\, Shams III (2026) 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/eman-al-hashemi-the-horizon-we-inherit/
LOCATION:Iris Projects\, Studio 20\, Madar 39\, MiZa\, Port Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260927
DTSTAMP:20260927T122644Z
CREATED:20260927T122644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260927T122644Z
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SUMMARY:Bernar Venet: Sculptures\, Furniture and Works on Paper
DESCRIPTION:A survey of works by the French artist\, “one of the most restless practitioners of his generation” as the gallery has it. Since the early 1960s Venet unusually broad range of media has included tar poured on to canvas and cardboard\, a heap of industrial coal claimed as sculpture\, paintings and drawings built from mathematical equations and scientific diagrams\, sound recordings\, photography\, performance\, poetry and stage design – and\, from the 1980s onward\, the Corten steel Arcs\, Angles and Indeterminate Lines for which he is now best known. This exhibition includes examples of three of those: sculptures in steel are shown alongside Venet’s furniture\, which translates the geometry of the sculptures into functional form\, and a group of works on paper that trace the conceptual logic running beneath it all. \nTo 31 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/bernar-venet-sculptures-furniture-and-works-on-paper/
LOCATION:Waddington Custot\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTSTAMP:20260917T100723Z
CREATED:20260917T100723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T100723Z
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SUMMARY:Heritage and Horizons
DESCRIPTION:The AD’Art artist collective with an exhibition celebrating the Sorbonne’s 20th anniversary – new works exploring heritage\, knowledge transmission\, and cultural dialogue\, through “diverse and personal artistic perspectives”. \nThe collective : \nAnne-Caroline Schoeller\nAnne-Marie Lacroix Raffy\nAnnunziata Tricarico\nCamille Lamelliere\nCarla Lemos\nMarina L’Hoir\nNathalie Guena\nNathalie Rousseau Laudou\nSoline Hardy\nThierry Jacquot\nZhang Tao \nGuest artists: \nFaezeh Mohammed Hassan\nNajat Makki\nTala H. Atrouni \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/heritage-and-horizons/
LOCATION:Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi\, Reem Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260929T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261001T200000
DTSTAMP:20260922T094803Z
CREATED:20260922T094724Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T094803Z
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SUMMARY:Abstractions: A Journey Between Islamic and Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. The mini-package closes with artist Rachid Koraïchi and curator Abdelkader Damani discussing abstraction as “a shared artistic language across cultures and time … Through reflections on calligraphy\, geometry and contemporary artistic practice\, the programme will offer audiences fresh perspectives on the connection between Islamic heritage and contemporary art\, revealing the connections and exchanges that continue to shape artistic expression today”. Preregister here. \nWarning: the PR bumf gave Louvre Abu Dhabi as the location (which makes sense) but the registration form says Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (which doesn’t). Good luck …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/abstractions-a-journey-between-islamic-and-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Conversation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261001
DTSTAMP:20260919T075419Z
CREATED:20260918T175636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260919T075419Z
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SUMMARY:Fabian Philandrianos and Pascal Navarro: Beyond the Gaze
DESCRIPTION:“An exhibition exploring the perception and relationship between the viewer and the artwork … an invitation to discover what may appear when we take the time to look beyond the surface.” The two French artists offer a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract\, the intimate and the universal\, movement and stillness: “from the intensity of a human gaze to the vastness of an imagined landscape\, the works encourage us to slow down\, look again and allow perception to shift”. \nTo 14 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/fabian-philandrianos-and-pascal-navarro-beyond-the-gaze/
LOCATION:La Galerie\, Alliance Française Dubai\, Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261002
DTSTAMP:20260913T153607Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Mohamed Monaiseer: 85 Seconds To Midnight
DESCRIPTION:Monaiseer’s solo show examines history through cycles\, repetition and flows\, while testing the unstable boundary between imagination and reality. The title references the current status of the Doomsday Clock and its measurement of humanity’s proximity to catastrophe; notions of war\, occupation and imperial power have long animated his practice\, and here he considers how they recur across contexts and generations\, altering borders\, enemies and technologies while preserving familiar structures of domination. \nThe exhibition comprises drawings\, paintings\, sculptures and textile works\, as well as a video installation. Recurring motifs in these works are absorbed from literary fiction\, popular storytelling and contemporary media. And dark humour runs through them; for Monaiseer it is a means of examining the performance of power and the fantasies through which conflict can be romanticised\, rehearsed and projected. \nElsewhere\, pixelated figures and fragmented grids evoke the digital mediation of contemporary warfare and our era of misinformation\, in which information is increasingly manipulated and corrupted online. Monaiseer has previously engaged with the historical construction of conflict; in these works he considers how conflict reaches us through technology\, through compressed images\, screens\, news feeds and endlessly circulating footage\, producing realities that are experienced at a distance and often manipulated.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-mohamed-monaiseer-85-seconds-to-midnight/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261003
DTSTAMP:20260804T140500Z
CREATED:20260804T140500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T140500Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Habeeb Abu-Futtaim: The Ongoing Performance of Melancholia and Songs in Solitude
DESCRIPTION:Two interconnected exhibitions\, both curated by Mo Reda and supported by the Department of Painting and Printmaking at VCUarts Qatar. Together\, The Ongoing Performance of Melancholia and Songs in Solitude mark the culmination of a two-month residency at Bayt AlMamzar; they present several different bodies of work developed over the past ten years\, drawing from an artistic practice shaped by sustained research\, investigation\, and critical inquiry. \nWorking across painting\, installation\, performance\, video\, and writing\, Abu-Futtaim investigates the construction and performance of collective identities\, examining how inherited symbols\, political imaginaries\, and cultural narratives become internalized as expressions of belonging. Songs in Solitude reflects on the intimate space of artistic practice through playfulness\, imagination\, intimacy\, and selfhood; The Ongoing Performance of Melancholia turns outward to examine the inherited performances of collective identity and the burden of unrealized political futures. Between them the exhibitions move between the personal and the political\, revealing how solitude\, memory\, and collective imagination continually shape one another.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-habeeb-abu-futtaim-the-ongoing-performance-of-melancholia-and-songs-in-solitude/
LOCATION:Bayt AlMamzar\, House 2\, 26 Street\, Al Mamzar\, Deira\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261003
DTSTAMP:20260929T180716Z
CREATED:20260929T180649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T180716Z
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SUMMARY:showCACE
DESCRIPTION:The projects exhibition for seniors of Zayed University’s College of Arts and Creative Enterprises – usually among the best student/grad work you see in the UAE. Covers animation\, graphic design\, interior design and visual arts. To 8 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/74838/
LOCATION:Zayed University\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.2048493;55.2707828
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261003
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTSTAMP:20261002T120452Z
CREATED:20261002T120452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T120452Z
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SUMMARY:A Way Through: Archive of Resilience
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition born out of the question: how will this time be remembered and who will tell the stories of the people who live here? It’s one of the outcomes of Kutubna’s initiative Documenting Culture in the Gulf in a Time of War\, an oral history project centring the experiences of diverse people living in the Khaleej. More than 40 artists and other contributors from different generations and cultural backgrounds are showing 70 works\, including journals\, poems\, short stories and publications\, embroidery\, crochet\, collage\, paintings\, digital works and photographs; their contributions speak of resilience\, protection\, unity\, faith\, gratitude\, and hope\, while also reflecting moments of fear and uncertainty and a deeper connection to home. \nTo 7 December.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/a-way-through-archive-of-resilience/
LOCATION:Kutubna Cultural Center\, Madina Avenues 17\, Nadd Al Hamar\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTSTAMP:20260427T153441Z
CREATED:20260427T153441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T153441Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Global Positioning System
DESCRIPTION:An ambitious large-scale group exhibition dedicated to mapping and navigation systems\, “telling stories of fast cars and donkeys\, spinning globes and street barricades\, cosmic highways and broken bridges … [it] delves into topographies\, transit lines and simulated landscapes to engage critically with the infrastructure of movement and navigation”. Set against real and imagined geographies and landscapes\, the exhibition asks questions about the infrastructures that enable transport and trade\, the promises of speed and progress\, the meaning of home\, and what ‘navigation’ means when the destination is not a place but a memory … It is curated by Indranjan Banerjee and Lucas Morin (both exhibition curators at the Jameel) and features 30 artists. A second ‘chapter’ of the exhibition runs at Hayy Jameel in Jeddah to 26 October featuring 22 artists – a third of whom are from the Dubai roster\, with new names making up the balance.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-global-positioning-system/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTSTAMP:20260813T153959Z
CREATED:20260813T153959Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T153959Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Phenomenological Alphabet
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition for six artists – Aya Afaneh\, Sarah Afaneh\, Sarah Brahim\, Amir Hazim\, Yoonsik Chico Park\, and Andrew Riad – exploring how language is formed through the body\, voice\, gesture\, and mark making practices. Each contributes a distinct artistic perspective on how meaning and communication are created.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-phenomenological-alphabet/
LOCATION:NYUAD Arts Centre Project Space
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTSTAMP:20260925T070917Z
CREATED:20260916T063349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260925T070917Z
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SUMMARY:Juma Alhaj: Revelation
DESCRIPTION:The first institutional solo exhibition by Emirati artist Juma Alhaj is the culmination of his participation in 421 Arts Campus’ Artistic Development Program. Grounded in reading\, journaling\, and philosophical inquiry\, it explores themes of reflection\, solitude\, and self-discovery; the exhibition marks “a significant and ambitious evolution in his practice” according to the gallery\, expanding beyond painting into installation for the first time. \nVisitors experience it barefoot (the space is carpeted); throughout the exhibition\, Alhaj’s abstract inscriptions\, encompassing both writing and image\, extend across glass\, fabric\, light\, and architecture – “shifting with the environment and the movement of visitors through the exhibition”. \nTo 10 January. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/juma-alhaj-revelation/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261004
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTSTAMP:20260925T070912Z
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SUMMARY:Archipelago of Whispers
DESCRIPTION:A group show curated by Deniz Kirkali and Elham Puriya Mehr that brings together works in video\, sound installations\, and performance that explore “alternative infrastructures for knowledge-making such as whispers\, murmurs\, hums\, gossip\, and storytelling”. \nThe artists include Aliaskar Abarkas\, Ruba Al-Sweel\, Farah Al Qasimi\, Gizem Karakaş\, Yen Chun Lin\, Omar Mismar and Ayman Zedani; they have approached communication from distinct perspectives\, from whispered confessions to an endangered whale song\, language games\, dreams\, and participatory performance. \nTo 10 January. \nRight: Omar Mismar\, Root and branch #3 \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/archipelago-of-whispers/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5224833;54.3877183
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261007T193000
DTSTAMP:20261002T150842Z
CREATED:20261002T150508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261002T150842Z
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SUMMARY:Artist Talks: Moza Al Mazrouei – For Purposes Other than Intended
DESCRIPTION:A conversation moderated by Sarah Almehairi exploring Moza Al Mazrouei’s artistic practice across sculpture\, film\, mixed media\, writing\, and curation. Moving between research and fiction\, observation and participation\, the discussion touches on authorship\, selfhood\, and the structures of power that shape how we see and understand the world. \nThis part of the NYUAD Art Gallery’s Artist Talks\, an artist-to-artist conversation series founded and curated by Sarah Almehairi. The series brings together creatives based in or affiliated with the UAE to discuss their practices\, forming part of Almehairi’s broader effort to expand cultural discourse and further connect the local art community. \nRight: Moza Al Mazrouei\, Bring Back the Queen (2024: film still)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/artist-talks-moza-al-mazrouei-for-purposes-other-than-intended/
LOCATION:NYUAD Art Gallery Reading Room\, أبو ظبي\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Talk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTSTAMP:20260919T085648Z
CREATED:20260919T085439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260919T085648Z
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SUMMARY:Fellow Travellers
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition conceived and curated by Prof Omar Kholeif\, featuring Sonia Balassanian\, Jai Chuhan\, Luísa Correia Pereira\, Lalitha Lajmi\, Irene Scheinmann and Omar Kholeif himself. \nDeveloped from nearly two decades of Kholeif’s research\, writing and relationships with artists\, the exhibition is an ambitious-sounding attempt to “re-dream the routes\, flows and counter-flows of modernity through the present”. As Kholief puts it: “Here\, the diasporic imagination is reclaimed\, illuminating the possibilities of shared movement—literal and metaphorical\, exploring how it affects artistic method. Fellow Travellers is a parcel\, a constitutive act of worlding\, of dreaming …” \nFellow Travellers brings landmark and rarely seen works from five artists into dialogue with Kholeif’s own paintings; painting is seen as a connective thread through which diasporic histories\, oral traditions\, symbolic languages and forms of ancestral knowledge can be recovered and reimagined. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a limited-edition publication featuring original poetry and a curatorial essay. \nTo 30 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/fellow-travellers/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261009
DTSTAMP:20261002T141208Z
CREATED:20261002T141129Z
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SUMMARY:Talal Moualla: The Table of Absence
DESCRIPTION:For more than five decades\, the Syrian artist\, poet\, and critic Talal Moualla has approached the image not simply as representation\, but (says the gallery) “as a form of thought … Moving between painting\, criticism\, poetry and research\, his practice asks how the visible can carry an idea\, shape consciousness\, and open new ways of understanding human existence. The Table of Absence brings this lifelong enquiry to one of its most distilled forms”. \nIn Moualla’s work\, the table is a symbolic structure\, a place where human beings recognise one another’s presence – “around it coexist memory and mourning\, intimacy and estrangement\, love and betrayal\, birth and death … Yet as the enquiry deepens\, even the table begins to disappear. It is reduced to a circle\, a plate\, a geometric sign\, a pale field\, until it approaches emptiness itself”. So “the image no longer delivers an answer; it becomes a way of thinking through the question”. \nTo 29 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/talal-moualla-the-table-of-absence/
LOCATION:K Gallery\, Al Barari\, Seventh Heaven\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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