• The importance of staying quiet: Fahd Burki II.a

    Grey Noise Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    In 2014, an exhibition was held in Hong Kong under the title The importance of staying quiet; conceived by Saira Ansari and Umer Butt, it was an attempt to find a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art. A decade later, The [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE The Poetry of Birds

    L'ÉCOLE Middle East, School of Jewelry Arts Building 10, Dubai Design District, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Following previous editions of this exhibition in Paris and Tokyo, L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts aims to offer a dialogue between 19th and 20th-century Western jewellery and Islamic arts, with poetry as the common thread. Jewels, precious objects, and gouaché [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Image Keepers

    Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    For its inaugural exhibition, SAF's Photography Gallery presents a panorama of artistic experimentation and engagement drawn from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection of photography. Says the Foundation: "the works navigate the sociopolitical terrain of the last six decades against a [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Ahaad Alamoudi: Sunkissed

    Al Mureijah Square Sharjah

    Alamoudi’s snapshots of contemporary Khaleeji aesthetics playfully capture the give-and-take between developmental goals and their real-world manifestation. Viral memes, talking falcons, automated toy cars and insect light traps all function as tools to process accelerating change; together, these works explore [ ... ]

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  • LAST CHANCE The importance of staying quiet: Fahd Burki II.a

    Grey Noise Unit 24 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    In 2014, an exhibition was held in Hong Kong under the title The importance of staying quiet; conceived by Saira Ansari and Umer Butt, it was an attempt to find a minimal vocabulary within Pakistani art. A decade later, The [ ... ]

    Free
  • Vantage Point 13

    Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    The latest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation's open-call photography exhibition examines the evolving possibilities of documentary photography through newly commissioned works by six artists – Luisa Dörr, Latifa AlBokhari, Sathish Kumar, Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie. The principle [ ... ]

    Free
  • Mobile Portrait Photography

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    Vantage Point 13 artist Luisa Dörr introduces different ways of approaching portraiture today, through observation, collaboration and visual storytelling using a smartphone. A series of hands-on guided exercises will help participants beyond quick snapshots to consider how gesture, environment and [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • SAF Book Club Meetup: Theories of Photography

    SAF Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    SAF's August book club meetup will explore how our perspectives shape the way we interpret photographs. Through books such as On Photography by Susan Sontag, Listening to Images by Tina M. Campt and Photography’s Orientalism by Ali Behdad and Luke [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Creative Photography Fundamentals

    Souq Al Qattara Shareat Al Qattara, Al Ain

    A workshop and Develop your photography skills through hands-on training in composition, lighting, and camera settings using a professional camera or smartphone. The workshop, in celebration of World Photography Day, is led by Mansour Al Mansoori.

    Free
  • The Artist as Gatherer: Mapping Meaning

    Sharjah Art Foundation, Flying Saucer Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    A two-day workshop (same times tomorrow) with Amparo Baquerizas Carreras and her photobook Gauchito Querido (2026), which will be used as a case study for alternative cartography and the concept of ‘artist as gatherer’. Participants will explore how artistic research [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • LAST CHANCE Vantage Point 13

    Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery Al Manakh, Sharjah

    The latest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation's open-call photography exhibition examines the evolving possibilities of documentary photography through newly commissioned works by six artists – Luisa Dörr, Latifa AlBokhari, Sathish Kumar, Adam Rouhana, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie. The principle [ ... ]

    Free