• CLOSING TODAY The sky held it, the earth remembered

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Major works by Shahana Rajani, the recipient of the inaugural South Asian Video Art Production Grant, Rohini Devasher, and Sarker Protick that examine how land, water, and the cosmos serve as living archives of memory and history. Through photography, moving [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Juma Alhaj: Revelation

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

    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 [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Archipelago of Whispers

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

    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”. The artists include Aliaskar Abarkas, [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Library Circles: Rend Beiruti

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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, [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY 100 Years of Paul Guiragossian

    Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    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 – [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Roots Before Petals

    Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    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]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Alfred Basbous: Sculpting the Line

    Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

    A selection of work by a pioneering figure of modern sculpture in Lebanon, presented in collaboration with the Alfred Basbous Foundation. Basbous worked across stone, marble, wood and bronze, responding closely to the particular qualities of each material rather than [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Lulua Alyahya

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Shezad Dawood

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Walid Siti

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Salah Elmur

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Artist’s Room: Bani Abidi

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    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]

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