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Amir Khojasteh: May the Tree No Longer Burn When I Wake

CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai

Amir Khojasteh's third solo exhibition with the gallery presents the first body of work he has developed after leaving his home country, Iran. To 5 November. Right: Amir Khojasteh, Garden Landscape #2 (2026)  

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Hisham Sharif: Allusive Veil

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Sharif’s first solo exhibition in the UAE presents an autobiographical and very personal series of works about the struggles of private and artist life in a closed society – "a vulnerable, nuanced presentation of life”. The Bahraini artist uses colour [... more]

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Rana Begum: Taking Form

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Rana Begum brings her textile works to The Third Line for the first time. Her fifth solo exhibition at the gallery features a new body of large-scale wool tapestries presented alongside works on linen, paper and MDF, all reflecting the [... more]

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Maggie Otieno: Sojourner – The Difference Is the Same

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

New works by the Kenyan artist Maggie Otieno, her first solo show here since the gallery began representing her in 2024 . Otieno’s practice centres on the transformation of reclaimed and distressed materials.; working across wood, metal, and mixed media, [... more]

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Nada Elkalaawy: The Butterfly’s Burden

Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Borrowed from the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, the title of this exhibition by by London-based artist Nada Elkalaawy “speaks to the tension between sensitivity, beauty, and emotional weight”, as the gallery has it. “Across a body of paintings developed through [... more]

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Bénédicte Gimonnet: What We Carry Becomes the Terrain

Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Aisha Alabbar Gallery’s newly renovated space reopens with a solo exhibition by the UAE-based French artist that features paintings, screen prints, drawings and textile works. The theme is a pivotal journey to Peru and a renewed engagement with the roots [... more]

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Private World

Green Art Gallery Dubai

A group show for Lulua Alyahya, Rami Farook, Sohrab Hura, and Khaled Jarada that promises to take the viewer into “intimate, elusive worlds … Modest in scale, invite a form of looking that is closer and more inward, creating encounters [... more]

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Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

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 [... more]

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Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches

Dom Arts Projects Warehouse 40, Al Khayat Avenue, Dubai

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 [... more]

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Studio, Wounds, and Battles

Dom Arts Projects Warehouse 40, Al Khayat Avenue, Dubai

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). The programme gave each [... more]

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CLOSING TODAY Studio, Wounds, and Battles

Dom Arts Projects Warehouse 40, Al Khayat Avenue, Dubai

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). The programme gave each [... more]

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Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

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 [... more]

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Private World

Green Art Gallery Dubai

A group show for Lulua Alyahya, Rami Farook, Sohrab Hura, and Khaled Jarada that promises to take the viewer into “intimate, elusive worlds … Modest in scale, invite a form of looking that is closer and more inward, creating encounters [... more]

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Katia Kameli: The Canticle of the Birds

Taymour Grahne Projects Warehouse 31A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

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 [... more]

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Dalal Al-Obaidi: Frogs, Jazz & Blisters

Taymour Grahne Projects Warehouse 31A, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

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 [... more]

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