Art

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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 [... more]

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.

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 [... more]

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 [... more]