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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260915T170631Z
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SUMMARY:On Photography: The Shortest Shadow
DESCRIPTION:A three-day discussion-based practical seminar (evenings\, 6-9pm) investigating photography’s seeming constraint – its ‘short shadow’\, edging in on what already exists – and how that makes it a radical driver of modern art and thought. The seminar leader is Rohit Goel\, Director of the Bombay Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). \nThis course is free\, and all necessary materials are provided by Sharjah Art Foundation.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/on-photography-the-shortest-shadow/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation\, Flying Saucer\, Sharjah\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Photography,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260913T143550Z
CREATED:20260913T143550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T143550Z
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SUMMARY:Makers Days
DESCRIPTION:Dubai Culture’s Makers Days initiative is back – two days intended to promote creative manufacturing in Dubai by bringing together makers\, designers\, artists\, creative entrepreneurs\, manufacturers\, and fabricators with a view to promoting new opportunities for SMEs (both manufacturers and people who might want something made). It’s aiming to attract more than 150 participants for a programme of workshops\, talks\, panel discussions\, networking sessions; a Maker’s Connect programme will provide “curated mentorship opportunities”; and there will be guided visits to a selection of production facilities within the Al Quoz Creative Zone. \nApplogies for the lack of detail; we have gleaned this much from a press release but there doesn’t seem to be any online information either at Dubai Culture’s website or Alserkal’s. The programme will probably be published first on Instagram\, so maybe keep an eye on that. We’ll try to keep abreast of this and update when we can …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/makers-days/
LOCATION:Concrete\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Networking
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260825T151100Z
CREATED:20260825T145801Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260825T151100Z
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SUMMARY:Spider's Web
DESCRIPTION:The final performances for H72 Productions’ treatment of the Agatha Christie play – a country-house thriller-comedy with clues aplenty and a good helping of plot contrivances (including a most convenient hidden door in the study that of course leads to a secret passage) and a disappearing corpse. There are shows at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/spiders-web-3/
LOCATION:The Junction\, Unit H72\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260407T140543Z
CREATED:20260407T134814Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T140543Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Shezad Dawood: Skin of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Shezad Dawood’s 25-year career spans painting\, textiles\, sculpture\, ceramics\, film\, performance and digital media. Fascinated by ecologies and architecture\, his work connects art\, science\, music\, environmentalism and technology to explore both alternative histories and futures\, through a process of continuous world-building expressed as an explosion of colour and multi-layered narratives; and that should make this first mid-career retrospective of the artist a must-visit. The exhibition\, which is curated by Jessica Cerasi\, features more than 40 works including painting\, sculpture\, monumental film installations\, and interactive virtual reality experiences.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chnace-shezad-dawood-skin-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260521T161140Z
CREATED:20260521T161140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260521T161140Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar: Body Quotidian
DESCRIPTION:Recent works by Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar that explore the human body and its presence in contemporary life through metaphor and symbolism. In Majid’s practice\, sculptural and photographic works unfold through slow revelation; Zafar’s practice explores themes of death and decay\, while foregrounding the body as a perishable entity. Bringing together these works\, Body Quotidian explores how light\, material\, gesture and atmosphere filters bodily experience; Moving between domestic scenes and abstraction\, the exhibition reflects on the quiet\, everyday moments through which the body continues to shape how we see and inhabit the world. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-laila-majid-and-inaam-zafar-body-quotidian/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260915T175453Z
CREATED:20260915T175329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T175453Z
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SUMMARY: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. \nTo 31 January.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/artists-room-shezad-dawood/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTSTAMP:20260915T180055Z
CREATED:20260915T175944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T180055Z
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SUMMARY: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. \nTo 31 January. \nRight: Walid Siti\, Mountains(2013)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/artists-room-walid-siti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T153000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260803T154326Z
CREATED:20260803T154326Z
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SUMMARY:Dance of the Emerald Isle
DESCRIPTION:A second and final chance to catch this “breathtaking” show that brings dancers\, musicians\, and singers together to capture “the magic of Ireland … Prepare to be enchanted”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/dance-of-the-emerald-isle-2/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T173000
DTSTAMP:20260915T172928Z
CREATED:20260915T172518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T172928Z
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SUMMARY:Music and Sound Club: Session #1 Tape Loop Manipulation
DESCRIPTION:Sharjah Art Foundation’s Music and Sound Club is a series of fortnightly hands-on workshops and meetup sessions form anyone interested in music and sonic arts. In this first workshop on Tape Loop Manipulation\, participants woll learn how to open\, splice and reattach cassette tape to build an endless loop; from those basics they will go on to explore “how this tactile analogue technique can unlock novel creative approaches to sound design and music composition”. \nThe sessions are free\, and all materials are provided.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/music-and-sound-club-session-1-tape-loop-manipulation/
LOCATION:SAF Photography Gallery\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Music,Sound art
GEO:25.351671;55.396596
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T190000
DTSTAMP:20260915T171442Z
CREATED:20260915T171224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T171442Z
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SUMMARY:Portfolio Reviews for Illustrators
DESCRIPTION:An opportunity for feedback from a successful UAE-based illustrator – Ibrahem Swaid (Noobovich)\, whose work spans comics\, games and visual development. This session is suitable for intermediate-level illustrators or comic artists working in character design\, digital painting and concept art; you are encouraged to come to the session with a clear goal or specific questions you would like addressed. \nIt’s free\, but you must apply in advance to community@sharjahart.org with a minimum of five artworks (or a link to a website containing five of your works).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/portfolio-reviews-for-illustrators/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation\, Flying Saucer\, Sharjah\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Comic art,Illustration,Workshop
END:VEVENT
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T213000
DTSTAMP:20260913T151233Z
CREATED:20260913T151233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T151233Z
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SUMMARY:Comedy at the Speakeasy
DESCRIPTION:The Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate\, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins\, fresh material\, and “the kind of moments that only happen in a room full of people who chose live entertainment over another night of scrolling”. The door price includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/comedy-at-the-speakeasy-5/
LOCATION:Moon Bar\, Mina Al Salam\, Madinat Jumeriah\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T210000
DTSTAMP:20260913T151556Z
CREATED:20260913T151556Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T151556Z
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SUMMARY:Spirit of the East: The Art of Oriental Fusion
DESCRIPTION:“A journey of ancient tradition and modern innovation” Spirit of the East is a contemporary musical collaboration built around the original compositions of oud maestro and composer Hooman Shirali\, bringing together the colors of Eastern music with contemporary sounds\, improvisation\, and the individual expression of each artist. Hooman is joined by tabla master Sandu\, Kadir on saxophone\, and soprano Yana Mann – with the backdrop of ToDA’s immersive 360o background visuals.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/spirit-of-the-east-the-art-of-oriental-fusion-2/
LOCATION:Theatre of Digital Arts\, Souk Madinat Jumeriah\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Music
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260920T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T152012Z
CREATED:20260913T152012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T152012Z
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SUMMARY:UAENO: To This Land\, We Belong
DESCRIPTION:Ahmed Farag conducts the full UAE National Orchestra and Choir for the start of its second season\, a concert programme of three new Emirati compositions that offer a musical journey through the UAE from its founding story and landscapes to the traditions\, memories and ideas that continue to shape the country today. \nThe Founder’s Journey by Khalid Nassir opens the programme; a six-part work inspired by the journey and philosophy of the UAE’s Founding Father. Ali Kano turns to the landscapes and musical traditions of the Emirates with his Homeland Melodies concerto\, bringing oriental instruments into conversation with the Orchestra. The third work\, by Fayez Al Saeed\, brings Orchestra\, Choir and poetry togethe; featuring the poem Lightning\, Thunder & Longing by Arif Al Khajah\, the piece moves between memory and the present\, tracing how identity and belonging are carried forward through time.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/uaeno-to-this-land-we-belong/
LOCATION:Dubai Opera
CATEGORIES:Concert
GEO:25.1928528;55.2789648
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTSTAMP:20260428T095345Z
CREATED:20260428T095043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260428T095345Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY In Abstracto\, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence
DESCRIPTION:A summer-long group show for Luke Agada\, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones\, Ludovic Nkoth\, and Naila Opiangah\, curated by Brice Arsène Yonkeu – whose curatorial statement defines the show as “an encounter with works on paper and paintings that move between visibility and erasure\, between the surfaces of lived experience and the abstractions of memory”. It goes on: “the exhibition is less concerned with depicting bodies in their recognisable form than with asking how the body … becomes a vessel for history\, inheritance\, and imagination”; and “rather than presenting a singular mode of figuration or abstraction\, the exhibition unfolds as a spectrum of strategies. Within this spectrum\, three interwoven threads emerge: Memory and Inheritance\, where surfaces register the weight of what is passed down and endured; Myth and Imagination\, where hybrid or surreal forms generate new lineages; and Presence and Care\, where the body is both affirmed and protected as a site of tenderness and resilience.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-in-abstracto-in-concreto-on-memory-and-presence/
LOCATION:Efiɛ Gallery\, 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue\, First Al Khail Street\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTSTAMP:20260630T143119Z
CREATED:20260630T141503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260630T143119Z
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SUMMARY:Ahmad Tallaa: The Living Archive
DESCRIPTION:Built from layers of sand collected in the UAE\, chalk powder\, pigments\, and acrylic\, the surfaces of Ahmad Tallaa’s large-scale portraits at the centre of this show are dense and almost sculptural – as the gallery puts it\, “Faces do not sit on the canvas so much as emerge from within it\, as though the act of painting were one of excavation rather than construction. Cracks\, scars\, and accumulated marks become evidence of time’s passage …” \nTo 11 November. \nRight: Ahmad Tallaa\, Untitled (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/ahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260921T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260921T220000
DTSTAMP:20260913T153246Z
CREATED:20260913T153246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T153246Z
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SUMMARY:Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro & Sing It!
DESCRIPTION:A two-act evening of improvised spells\, scenes\, and songs\, entirely based on audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse’s most experienced improv performers plus guest performer and improv instructor Andrew Gentilli from the UK. After warming up with some games and scenes\, the team will attempt to put together an improvised full-length musical extravaganza right in front of your very eyes – and of course it will be diferent every time\, since it’s entirely based on audience suggestions. This one features international guest performer and improv instructor Andrew Gentilli. \nIt’s free\, but you need to put your name on the guestlist (via the website) – it’s first-come first-served\, so get there early enough to grab a seat.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/monday-night-comedy-this-is-impro-sing-it-2/
LOCATION:Courtyard Playhouse\, Street 4B\, Al Quoz 1\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTSTAMP:20260913T153446Z
CREATED:20260913T153446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T153446Z
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SUMMARY:Mohamed Monaiseer: 85 Seconds To Midnight
DESCRIPTION:Monaiseer’s solo show examines history through cycles\, repetition and flows\, while testing the unstable boundary between imagination and reality. The title references the current status of the Doomsday Clock and its measurement of humanity’s proximity to catastrophe; notions of war\, occupation and imperial power have long animated his practice\, and here he considers how they recur across contexts and generations\, altering borders\, enemies and technologies while preserving familiar structures of domination. \nThe exhibition comprises drawings\, paintings\, sculptures and textile works\, as well as a video installation. Recurring motifs in these works are absorbed from literary fiction\, popular storytelling and contemporary media. And dark humour runs through them; for Monaiseer it is a means of examining the performance of power and the fantasies through which conflict can be romanticised\, rehearsed and projected. \nElsewhere\, pixelated figures and fragmented grids evoke the digital mediation of contemporary warfare and our era of misinformation\, in which information is increasingly manipulated and corrupted online. Monaiseer has previously engaged with the historical construction of conflict; in these works he considers how conflict reaches us through technology\, through compressed images\, screens\, news feeds and endlessly circulating footage\, producing realities that are experienced at a distance and often manipulated. \nTo 1 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/mohamed-monaiseer-85-seconds-to-midnight/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260922T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20260922T220000
DTSTAMP:20260914T105520Z
CREATED:20260913T153932Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260914T105520Z
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SUMMARY:The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
DESCRIPTION:Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-comedy-lab-easy-tiger-37/
LOCATION:Al Ain Palace Hotel\, Corniche Road\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T172825Z
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SUMMARY:Amir Khojasteh: May the Tree No Longer Burn When I Wake
DESCRIPTION: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. \nRight: Amir Khojasteh\, Garden Landscape #2 (2026) \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/amir-khojasteh-may-the-tree-no-longer-burn-when-i-wake/
LOCATION:CARBON 12\, 17th Street\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260818T142450Z
CREATED:20260818T142104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260818T142450Z
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SUMMARY:Hisham Sharif: Allusive Veil
DESCRIPTION: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 to convey privacy and intimacy\, “expressive hues that meld harsh truths with illusions of what could be … Sharif’s approach ensures that his depiction of these taboos is conveyed through humble depictions that preserve a certain Oriental sensibility\, avoiding the shock value or censorship they might otherwise provoke. The scenes are all about ambiance\, a haze of what was\, what is\, and what could be”. \nTo 30 October. \nRight: Hisham Sharif\, Behind the Mirror (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/hisham-sharif-allusive-veil/
LOCATION:Ayyam Gallery\, B11\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Rana Begum: Taking Form
DESCRIPTION: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 artist’s longstanding engagement with abstraction and minimalism and continuing her exploration of light through new materials and forms. Her characteristic engagement with geometry runs throughout\, with forms suggesting patterns that extend beyond their physical boundaries. \nSuspended from the ceiling in Gallery 1\, Begum’s nearly 5m-tall tapestries should transform the space into a vast\, immersive field of cascading colour. The tapestries are feature coloured triangles\, woven together using the ridging technique that results in a dual pattern revealed only as the viewer moves around them. \nGallery 2 will have a series of large-scale linen paintings. The natural\, unprocessed tone and texture of the linen influence the colour as it is absorbed into the weave\, creating a sense of rawness and an organic quality across the surface. Alongside the linens\, a set of wooden panel paintings punctuate the space with playful accents through their smaller scale and subtle shifts in colour. \nTo 10 November. \nRight: Rana Begum\, No. 1635 (2026). Below: Rana Begum\, No. 1670 (2026) \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/rana-begum-taking-form/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Maggie Otieno: Sojourner – The Difference Is the Same
DESCRIPTION: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\, her semi -abstract forms explore layered narratives of history\, memory\, human interaction\, and environmental survival. Her works function as vessels of remembrance and renewal\, grounding social and historical reflection in physical form. \nFeatured in the exhibition are new works based around railway sleepers\, symbols of East Africa’s colonial past. More than 150 years old\, these timbers travelled from India to Kenya for railway lines\, carrying with them the stories of travellers\, labourers\, and communities. Also included are works created during a residency at El Anatsui Studio in Ghana last summer. Sculptures made from fragments of wooden canoes bear traces of memory and passage; some are hinged to resemble books\, evoking the turning of a page and the opening of a new chapter. \nTo 13 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/maggie-otieno-sojourner-the-difference-is-the-same-2/
LOCATION:Efiɛ Gallery\, 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue\, First Al Khail Street\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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SUMMARY:Nada Elkalaawy: The Butterfly’s Burden
DESCRIPTION: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 layered processes of accumulation and erasure\, Elkalaawy explores memory\, loss\, regeneration\, and the passage of time; ephemeral forms including flowers\, butterflies\, domestic vessels\, family photographs\, and ghostly figures hold traces of shared human experience\, drifting between past and present\, presence and absence.” \nElkalaawy’s practice is based in the relationship between memory\, representation\, and materiality. Drawing from a personal archive of photographs accumulated over many years\, she constructs compositions “that blur the boundaries between the lived\, the remembered\, and the imagined … Through processes of collage\, reworking\, and painterly methods\, these fragments are displaced from their original contexts and absorbed into new configurations”. \nRight: Nada Elkalaawy\, A Soft Burning (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nada-elkalaawy-the-butterflys-burden/
LOCATION:Lawrie Shabibi\, Unit 21\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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SUMMARY:Bénédicte Gimonnet: What We Carry Becomes the Terrain
DESCRIPTION: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 that have long informed her practice; the rainforest\, in particular\, is treated as “a site of reckoning\, where recollection\, imagination and lived experience converge … Windows\, façades and thresholds surface within dense vegetation\, setting the human impulse to define and contain against everything around it that refuses a fixed boundary”. \nThe exhibition also introduces the Gran Eco series\, with tall vertical works isolating personally significant sites from countries where Gimonnet has lived (“an echo implies distance\, delay\, memory and transformation\, a place returning altered …” \nTo 7 November 2026 \nRight: Bénédicte Gimonnet\, Grand Echo Rouge (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/benedicte-gimonnet-what-we-carry-becomes-the-terrain/
LOCATION:Aisha Alabbar Gallery\, Warehouse C19\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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SUMMARY:Private World
DESCRIPTION: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\, [the works] invite a form of looking that is closer and more inward\, creating encounters that feel private rather than public”. The gallery goes on: “Many of the works evoke states of solitude\, seclusion and inward attention. They seem to exist apart from the demands of the outside world\, creating spaces for reflection\, imagination and feeling. Across the exhibition\, intimacy takes different forms: through personal observation\, fragments and fleeting moments\, relationships and lived experience\, or through atmospheric and psychologically charged spaces …” \nTo 24 October. \nRight: Khaled Jarada\, The Remains Gesture (2026)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/private-world/
LOCATION:Green Art Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260915T164436Z
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SUMMARY:Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon
DESCRIPTION: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 of temporal displacement\, a process informed in part by his work as a researcher and archivist through which he has closely encountered the work of Arab modernist painters – especially the Lebanese artist Rafic Charaf (1932-2003). \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Alaa Itani\, A Momentum for the Horizon (2023)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/alaa-itani-a-momentum-for-the-horizon/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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SUMMARY:Sara Masinaei: Boundaries and Breaches
DESCRIPTION: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 our surroundings”\, says the gallery. Her works include monoprints created by pressing canvas directly on to urban surfaces\, plus sculptural pieces that explore the tension between order and disruption. \nThis work results from 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. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sara-masinaei-boundaries-and-breaches/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
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SUMMARY:Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION: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). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios. \nTo 11 October.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T090433Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Studio\, Wounds\, and Battles
DESCRIPTION: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). \nThe programme gave each artist space and time to explore their practice without the pressure to produce a specific outcome\, allowing for experimentation\, uncertainty\, mistakes and new directions. The show has works by Joumana Mortada\, Meher Afroz Vahid\, Rabila Kidwai\, Aisha Alhammadi (work in progress\, right)\, Divyaaunshi Purohit and Teng Miras. Rather than presenting only finished works\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the creative process by including experiments\, works in progress\, research and completed pieces developed during their time in the studios.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-studio-wounds-and-battles/
LOCATION:Dom Arts Projects\, Warehouse 40\, Al Khayat Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTSTAMP:20260916T094434Z
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SUMMARY:Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me
DESCRIPTION: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 one another. For Hashemi and Erfanian\, tending to plants\, relationships and artistic practice all share a common faith in growth. And even amid destruction\, flowers return and spring cannot be stopped:the act of tending becomes a method of resistance. \nPrimarily oil pastel on paper\, the drawings use a rough and immediate visual language. Flowers are built from loose\, gestural marks; colours bleed as figurative scenes appear almost like small windows embedded within wild fields. The process is similarly intertwined. Hashemi and Erfanian move freely across the same surface; one may begin a work and the other finish. At other times\, their marks overlap as they work simultaneously. \nTo 4 November. \nRight: Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian\, Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)Without undressing her\, I watched her unfold\, soft as a bloom becoming itself (2024)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/tirdad-hashemi-and-soufia-erfanian-i-bloom-where-you-hold-me/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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