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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270111
DTSTAMP:20260916T064019Z
CREATED:20260916T064019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T064019Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-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;VALUE=DATE:20270111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270112
DTSTAMP:20260913T144357Z
CREATED:20260913T144357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T144357Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Library Circles: Rend Beiruti
DESCRIPTION:Rend Beiruti’s research display\, sharing insights into her investigation of the baqala neighbourhood grocery store as a vital urban entity in Dubai\, exploring its history\, its influence on urban development\, and its role as a cultural signal. Through photographs\, mapping\, and archival documents\, the display brings together the findings of this urban investigation and considers the ubiquitous baqala as both an everyday space and a cultural signal.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-library-circles-rend-beiruti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf Dubai;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Al Jaddaf:geo:55.3309395,25.216757
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270116
DTSTAMP:20260928T110115Z
CREATED:20260928T105721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T110115Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY The Territory Dreams Back
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition of newly commissioned and recent works by Rajni Perera\, Sancintya Mohini Simpson\, Soma Surovi Jannat\, Karan Shrestha and Rain Wu\, five artists who offer different perspectives on our relationship with place. \nSays the gallery: “The Territory Dreams Back moves between mythology and memory\, migration and ecology\, political power and the systems through which places are mapped and organised. At its heart is the idea that places are shaped by more than their physical geography. Land and water hold histories and memories; stories and beliefs influence how landscapes are understood; political decisions affect who can access and control land; and maps and infrastructure can change the environments they set out to describe …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-the-territory-dreams-back/
LOCATION:NIKA Project Space\, Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue\, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1399294;55.2285748
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118
DTSTAMP:20260918T111102Z
CREATED:20260918T111102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T111102Z
UID:10014189-1800144000-1800230399@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 100 Years of Paul Guiragossian
DESCRIPTION:A landmark retrospective for one of the key modernist painters to emerge from the Levant in the twentieth century. Alongside significant works drawn primarily from the artist’s estate\, many travelling outside Lebanon for the very first time\, the exhibition – the first significant retrospective for Guiragossian since 2013 – includes archival photographs\, personal documents\, and other rarely seen materials that provide an intimate portrait of the artist. \nStructured as a chronological journey\, the exhibition traces Guiragossian’s artistic evolution from his early years in an Armenian family shaped by displacement and migration\, including the 1948 relocation from Jaffa to Lebanon\, through to global recognition. It’s the keystone of From a Shared Ground\, an homage to Lebanon through three concurrent exhibitions that explore how artists across generations have drawn upon experiences of homeland\, displacement\, memory and belonging. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-100-years-of-paul-guiragossian/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island Abu Dhabi;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Cultural District Saadiyat Island:geo:54.4095952,24.5335392
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118
DTSTAMP:20260918T112036Z
CREATED:20260918T111944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T112036Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Roots Before Petals
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition that brings contemporary UAE-based artist Lana Khayat into dialogue with Lebanese modernists Etel Adnan and Helen Khal\, linking distinct practices across generations of Lebanese artists. Says the gallery: “Their work differs in scale and sensibility\, yet each built an abstract visual language from the natural motif and shared engagement with the memory of homeland”. \nThis is one of three concurrent BFAF exhibitions under the title From a Shared Ground\, an homage to Lebanon that explores how artists across generations have drawn upon experiences of homeland\, displacement\, memory and belonging. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-roots-before-petals/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T174535Z
CREATED:20260915T174535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T174535Z
UID:10014153-1801353600-1801439999@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Lulua Alyahya
DESCRIPTION:Marking her first solo exhibition in the UAE\, Lulua Alyahya’s Artist’s Room brings together new commissions\, loans and works from the Art Jameel Collection. Through her paintings\, Alyahya explores culturally embedded archetypes with tenderness\, humour and a critical inflection\, often engaging with representations of masculinity set against the natural and built environments of the Gulf; working on an intimate scale\, her layered\, gestural brushstrokes suggest a process of continual revision that contributes to the atmosphere and surreal quality of her paintings.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-lulua-alyahya/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf Dubai;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Al Jaddaf:geo:55.3309395,25.216757
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T175508Z
CREATED:20260915T175508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T175508Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Shezad Dawood
DESCRIPTION:Dawood’s New Dream Machine Project centres on a 3m-high rotating and flickering light sculpture\, an homage to artist and writer Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine; driving the mechanism is a perforated cylinder emitting pulses of light at the frequency of the brain’s alpha waves\, said to induce altered states of consciousness. Originally commissioned for the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2011 and first presented at Art Dubai that same year\, the work is part of the Art Jameel Collection and has rarely been exhibited since. \nHere the sculpture is presented alongside two smaller Recyclages prototypes and archival materials tracing the project’s history.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-shezad-dawood/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf Dubai;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Al Jaddaf:geo:55.3309395,25.216757
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T180239Z
CREATED:20260915T180239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T180239Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Walid Siti
DESCRIPTION:This Artist’s Room traces forty years of Walid Siti’s practice\, including new sculptural commissions and material from the artist’s studio. Across his body of work\, structural forms mirror geological formations\, rising summits\, Mesopotamian ziggurats\, and the Tower of Babel\, all alluding to a persistent\, often reckless\, human drive toward ascension. A newly commissioned large-scale sculpture\, Registry of the Lived\, reflects on the troubled history of Kurdistan\, displayed alongside the War Series\, an early ensemble of drawings and etchings from the 1980s made during Siti’s years of exile.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-walid-siti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf Dubai;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Al Jaddaf:geo:55.3309395,25.216757
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270215
DTSTAMP:20261003T141459Z
CREATED:20261003T141459Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T141459Z
UID:10014297-1802563200-1802649599@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean
DESCRIPTION:This spectacular exhibition follows a thousand years of maritime history and culture\, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa\, Asia\, and beyond. It documents the evolution of navigation and the techniques that enabled adventurous sailors to explore the unknown; spices were the prize\, and as people travelled\, so did ideas and cultures. Spanning from Antiquity to the 17th century\, the exhibition explores centuries of trade\, movement and cultural exchange through displays of spices\, textiles\, ceramics and other special cargos which crossed the ocean. \nThe exhibition is presented in partnership with the National Museum of Asian Arts – Guimet in France; it is curated by Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Guilhem André and Claire Déléry\, Curator of the Chinese Ceramics collection at Guimet in Paris. A second edition of this touring exhibition will be presented at Guimet next year.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-spices-and-wonders-sailing-the-indian-ocean/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5302924;54.4451578
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270311
DTSTAMP:20260928T114809Z
CREATED:20260928T114809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T114809Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY The Matter of Light
DESCRIPTION:A group show curated by Eugenia Kikodze\, this exhibition brings together a multigenerational group of artists from across the Arab world and Eastern Europe\, bound by a shared interest in metaphysics and its representation within art. The artists include Zaha Hadid\, Ilya Kabakov\, Kamal Boullata\, Akram Zaatari\, Susan Hefuna\, Timo Nasseri\, Eduard Steinberg\, Yuri Zlotnikov\, Vladimir Andreenkov\, and others\, with loans from Barjeel Art Foundation and Art Jameel.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-the-matter-of-light/
LOCATION:Dom Art Projects\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1399294;55.2285748
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270315
DTSTAMP:20260803T152015Z
CREATED:20260803T152015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T152015Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Salah Elmur
DESCRIPTION:Bringing together paintings\, archival photographs\, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018\, this exhibition promises an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world – “where memory\, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time”\, exploring the artist’s shifting sense of belonging and distance from his homeland\, Sudan\, in times of exile and political rupture.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-salah-elmur/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270314
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270315
DTSTAMP:20261003T110419Z
CREATED:20261003T110419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T110419Z
UID:10014259-1804982400-1805068799@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Salah Elmur: Just as the Heart of a Mango is a Stone
DESCRIPTION:Bringing together paintings\, archival photographs\, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018\, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world\, “one where memory\, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time” as the Jameel puts it.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-salah-elmur-just-as-the-heart-of-a-mango-is-a-stone/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf Dubai;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Al Jaddaf:geo:55.3309395,25.216757
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270426
DTSTAMP:20260915T174931Z
CREATED:20260915T174931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T174931Z
UID:10014154-1808611200-1808697599@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Bani Abidi
DESCRIPTION:Bani Abidi’s Artist’s Room displays a single body of work\, Trembling hands (2024) – a series of portraits of artists\, journalists\, politicians\, lawyers\, doctors and civil society leaders who publicly spoke out against the genocide of Palestinians\, often using public platforms that exposed them to backlash\, censorship or repression. Drawn in 2024\, the portraits primarily refer to speeches made in late 2023 and early 2024 during the most brutal and deadly period of the Israeli onslaught on Gaza\, also characterised by widespread international inaction. Some of the speakers depicted by Abidi are Palestinian; others spoke in solidarity.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-bani-abidi/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270425
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270426
DTSTAMP:20261003T112111Z
CREATED:20261003T112111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T112111Z
UID:10014262-1808611200-1808697599@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Afrah Shafiq: Nobody Knows For Certain
DESCRIPTION:Afrah Shafiq’s Nobody Knows for Certain is a multimedia game that draws on the illustrated children’s books that were distributed widely in India by the USSR\, highlighting a little-known chapter of Cold War-era cultural exchange. These richly illustrated Soviet fairytales and folk stories shaped many childhood memories and are now the subject of a thriving subculture of collectors across South Asia. \nNobody Knows For Certain is an anthology of stories developed through a field research fellowship with the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art\, Moscow\, alongside an archive Shafiq has built of Soviet children’s books across Indian languages and oral testimonies gathered during her research. Sitting between interactive fiction\, documentary and point-and-click adventure games\, the work invites players to collect books virtually\, find portals from one tale to the next and move through archival findings and historical backdrops that trace how two seemingly disparate lands were closely tied to one another.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-afrah-shafiq-nobody-knows-for-certain/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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