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SUMMARY:Korean National University of Arts Symphony Orchestra: Jaewon Wee and Sang Hyeok Park
DESCRIPTION:The KNUA Symphony Orchestra have their Arab World Premiere with this Abu Dhabi Festival performance under the baton of Chung Chi-Yong\, one of the country’s most celebrated conductors. For this evening\, KNUA Symphony Orchestra the soloists the award-winning violinist Jaewon Wee and cellist Sang Hyeok Park. They will be performing a programme of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky\, preceded by an extract from the ballet Princess Bari by Korean composer Geon-yong Lee.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/korean-national-university-of-arts-symphony-orchestra-jaewon-wee-and-sang-hyeok-park/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Concert
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SUMMARY:Curators Talk: Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
DESCRIPTION:The latest in the NYUAD Art Gallery’s series of conversations with curators features Shabbir Hussain Mustafa\, Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi In this conversation with the Art Gallery’s curator Duygu Demir\, he will discuss some his curatorial projects and reflect on the exhibition as “a field of struggle: where forms of storytelling\, archival dissonance\, and epistemic tension gather …” \nHe may also face audience questions about when exactly the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will – which may be later this year\, nearly 20 years after plans were unveiled and 14 years after construction began: there again\, it may be delayed again …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/curators-talk-shabbir-hussain-mustafa/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:Art Dubai 2025
DESCRIPTION:Art Dubai’s core gallery programme will feature over 120 participants across four sections as befire: Contemporary\, Modern\, Bawwaba (featuring exclusively new work) and Art Dubai Digital. Works on sale are included in the excellent online catalogue for browsing. \n\n\n\nAway from the commercial side the programme includes a series of site-specific works and interventions\, including performances at the fair by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora and an installation by New York-based artist Ania Soliman plus an ambitious new digital installation by Mohammed Kazem\, commissioned by Julius Baer. Alia Zaal Lootah  has curated a selection of Dubai Collection works under the title ‘Encounters’. \nThere’s the always-excellent Global Art Forum (the theme this year is ‘The New New Normal’) and the second edition of Art Dubai Digital’s Digital Summit. The Art Dubai Modern Talks programme is back too\, a series supporting “Art Dubai’s commitment to scholarship and unexplored art histories” that usually delivers some good isnights; also worth catching will be the Conversations with Artists strand of generally informal chats. \nAnd at the end of each day there’s music and dancing at The Art Bar on Fort Island – under the label Art Dubai After Dark\, we’re prmised “some of the best up-and-coming DJs from around the world and locally\, delivering great vibes throughout the night”. \nArt Dubai takes place at Madinat Jumeirah from 18 to 20 April\, 2-9 pm (midday to 6pm on 20 March). There are also invitation-only previews on 16 and 17 April. A one-day ticket is AED 100\, a three-day pass is AED 200; you can buy tickets at the site\, but it makes sense to pre-purchase via the Art Dubai app or Platinumlist.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/art-dubai-2025/
LOCATION:Madinat Jumeirah\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:April Acts 2025: to carry new formations
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural edition of April Acts\, a weekend initiative expanding on the curatorial framework of Sharjah Biennial 16 and held across various  SB16 venues\, has the title to carry new formations – an extesion of SB16’s theme\, to carry. The April Acts programme “endeavours to build constellations of gathering and dialogue across multiple positions\, societal experiences and ongoing transitions … How can we reimagine and critically investigate our current situations or positions to construct and manifest new approaches to resistance\, reciprocity\, communal networks and life-enabling systems and structures?” \nThrough guided walks\, panel discussions\, artist talks\, participatory workshops\, film screenings and live music\, April Acts aims to create “a polyphonous space that invites multiple perspectives to co-exist and thrive”. Among the offerings are a listening session with Singing Wells; self-publishing workshops using several printing techniques such as Risograph\, including one led by Bhumika Saraswati and Siddhesh Gautam (founders of the magazine All That Blue); discussions with artists such as Brian Martin\, Yhonnie Scarce and Megan Cope; and a screening of First Horse (2024) by Awanui Simich-Pene. \nBaşak Günak\, Berke Can Özcan\, Sandy Chamun and Hauptmeier I Recker will collaborate in a performance based on their sound installation in the Biennial; Koleka Putuma will offer a performance titled WATER (reprise); and there will also be a series of performances based on the SB16 work He Kōrero Pūrākau mō te Awanui o te Motu: Story of a New Zealand river (2011). \nIt’s free\, but pre-register via this link. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/april-acts-2025-to-carry-new-formations/
LOCATION:vrs SB16 locations\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Biennial,Performance,Workshop
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
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SUMMARY:Flower Shop
DESCRIPTION:A group show – with Maria Andrievskaya\, Almendra Bertoni\, Katie Hector\, Jen Hitchings\, and John Denniston II– that invites us to think of colour not just as a visual element but as a language of its own. “Colour is what makes the world visible\, yet its perception is deeply personal. Does a vibrant burst of red or the delicate fade of blue appear the same to everyone? Or does each of us experience a slightly different reality?” The five artists “push the boundaries of how we see and feel colour”; the show’s title “was born from a fleeting yet vivid moment—passing by a florist and being struck by the explosion of hues\, an everyday spectacle that suddenly revealed itself as something more …” \nTo 17 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/flower-shop/
LOCATION:Volery Gallery\, Maze Tower - 5201\, Dubai International Financial Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250419
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SUMMARY:Laura Garcia Karras: Eidolon
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition by that French artist that explores “the spectral space between presence and absence\, giving form to what lingers just beyond perception” (the ancient Greek word ‘eidolon’ means phantom\, double\, or apparition). \nKarras’s works appear as delicate traces of something once vivid\, now fading\, like the echo of a body or the glimmer of a vanishing dream; the exhibition becomes a meditation on memory\, loss\, and the persistence of desire. As Karras writes: “We live surrounded by ghosts. Bodies fade\, but leave imprints. Desire wanes\, yet its echo remains. Artifice dazzles\, but beneath its glow\, matter disintegrates”. \nTo 17 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/laura-garcia-karras-eidolon/
LOCATION:Volery Gallery\, Maze Tower - 5201\, Dubai International Financial Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T210000
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SUMMARY:En Fanfare | The Marching Band: dir Emmanuel Courcol (2024)
DESCRIPTION:The third feature film from screenwriter\, actor and director Emmanuel Courcol is a sensitive work that matches music and meaningful relationships. Thibaut\, an acclaimed orchestra conductor\, diagnosed with leukaemia \,discovers that he is adopted when a DNA test to find a possible bone marrow donor reveals a biological brother\, Jimmy. The two meet up;  Jimmy is a factory worker who plays trombone in a local marching band. When the band loses its conductor\, Thibaut steps in as replacement\, and the brothers learn more about the circumstances that have shaped each other’s lives … \nThis screening\, which is in French with English subtitles\, opens SUAD’s Francofilm Festival– a series of five films showing on consecutive nights between 19 and 23 April\, celebrating the French language and the diversity of Francophone cinema.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/en-fanfare-the-marching-band-dir-emmanuel-courcol-2024/
LOCATION:Germaine Tillion Garden\, SUAD Campus\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T190000
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SUMMARY:The Fridge Open Mic / Marisa Sardo
DESCRIPTION:The Fridge’s Open Mic night is one of the best in town\, both because of the venue (good vibes\, good acoustics\, good crowd) and because of the top tech available – includes drum kit\, electric keyboard\, bass amp\, guitar amp\, mics\, plus an AUX socket for plugging in a prerecorded backing track (and it’s sponsored by Sennheiser\, for extra cred). \nPerformers can register for slots on a first-come\, first-served basis\, either online in advance or from 6.30pm on the night. Each act gets 10 minutes \nThis time there’s an extra performance in the middle of the session\, a spot for the award-winning classical guitarist Marisa Sardo. The gifted young Italian-American is currently touring the Middle East\, and she’s well worth catching …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-fridge-open-mic-marisa-sardo/
LOCATION:The Fridge Warehouse\, Warehouse 5\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Open mic
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250417T113000
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SUMMARY:The Power of Words: When Humour Meets Visual Culture
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with around Thomas Lélu’s current Zidoun-Bossuyt show Calm Down It’s Just Art exploring the impact of language and humour in contemporary art\, and how it resonates within an international cultural context like that of the UAE. \nThe panel: \nThomas Lélu artist\nSalem Alshamsi artist\, lawyer and lecturer at Sorbonne Abu Dhabi\nJudith Benhamou art writer\nStéphanie Salha director\, Institut Français Des Émirats Arabes Unis \nRSVP to leslie@zidoun-bossuyt.com.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-power-of-words-when-humor-meets-visual-culture/
LOCATION:Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery\, 796 Jumeirah Street\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Conversation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250421
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SUMMARY:World Art Dubai 2025
DESCRIPTION:World Art Dubai is back for its eleventh edition\, with more than 10\,000 artworks from 400+ galleries and individual artists who come from more than 65 different countries. WAD has grown out of its early days as a simple lo-fi affordable art fair into a bustling\, buzzy four days. It still majors on the affordable art of the title (prices from $100\, we’re told); and since there’s no jury to oversee applications\, it’s likely to be variable in quality. But then that’s all part of the vibe …  There’s a full schedule of extras like live painting\, talks\, demos\, workshops\, and more: check out the programme here. \nWAD is open 1pm to 9pm. As well as the one-day one-adult ticket at AED 30 and a four-day pass for AED 50\, there’s reduced-price entry for kids aged 12-18 and family tickets at AED 60 (two adults one child) and AED 70 (two adults\, two children). All of these represent a modest but noticeable increase on 2024 prices …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/world-art-dubai-2025/
LOCATION:Dubai World Trade Centre\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250418
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SUMMARY:Thomas Lélu: Calm Down It’s Just Art
DESCRIPTION:Thomas Lélu’s practice interweaves photography\, installation art\, and textual elements\, frequently featuring the appropriation and recontextualisation of imagery from popular culture and media to interrogate themes of contemporary society\, consumerism\, and media representation. His methodology of exploration\, archiving\, and contextualization positions the French artist as “one of the archaeologists of our present epoch”\, as the gallery puts it. To 14 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/thomas-lelu-calm-down-its-just-art/
LOCATION:Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery\, 796 Jumeirah Street\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250418
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Niga Sayyed and Ali Zolghadri: Silence & Noise
DESCRIPTION:The connection between silence and noise\, minimalism and maximalism\, is explored in this exhibition\, which contrasts contemporary and traditional art: Ali Zolghadri works with minimalistic black-and-white photography\, Niga Sayyed captures quiet stories from the past in pieces that evolve from traditional printmaking to contemporary mixed media.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-niga-sayyed-and-ali-zolghadri-silence-noise/
LOCATION:XVA Gallery\, Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood\, Bur Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T220000
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SUMMARY:Katia and Marielle Labèque
DESCRIPTION:We’re promised “an original and innovative musical programme” from the Labèque sisters\, and they never disappoint. Noted for their impeccable synchronicity\, electrifying energy\, and deftness of interpretation\, the sisters “have transformed the piano duo” (New York Times) and “their musical line always sounds as if it’s being woven for the very first time” (The Times). For this Abu Dhabi Festival recital\, the programme begins and ends with music from two Philip Glass opera inspired by Jean Cocteau – La Belle et la Bête and Les Enfants Terribles – which bookend Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) piano duet.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/katia-and-marielle-labeque/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Recital
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20250416T203000
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SUMMARY:Diamanti: dir Ferzan Özpetek (2024)
DESCRIPTION:A dazzling film set in n 1970s Rome in a dressmaking atelier for film and theatre. The atelier is directed by two very different sisters\, one determined and slightly despotic\, the other more fragile and tormented. An important order comes in for a huge film set in the eighteenth century: the costume designer is an Oscar winner\, the director is equally demanding. The dressmakers get to work; they don’t have much time\, but plenty to contend with\, including a rivalry between two prima donnas who should be prevented from crossing paths when trying on their costumes. And each of the dressmakers has their own problems at home too … \nThere’s a little bit of everything in the film: humour and drama\, sisterhood and competition\, grave losses\, loves that might have been\, secret relationships. The outfits are dazzling\, and the sets and lighting do them justice. The result is a genuine crowd-pleaser\, deploying a big cast of well-known Italian actresses (18\, in all) and set in its entirety in this most glamorous of locales. \nThe film is in Italian\, with English subtitles. It screens in the NAAS: She Reel series\, which is labelled ‘Women in Society: Stories That Inspire\, Change That Empowers’ and features films that are dedicated to highlighting women’s stories and raising awareness about the realities and roles of women in our lives. \nHighly recommended.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/diamanti-dir-ferzan-ozpetek-2024/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
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SUMMARY:Kojo Marfo: HOME Heart Of My Existence
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural exhibition in the Emirates for the Ghanaian artist explores the concept of ‘home’ through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. This series marks an introspective shift in his practice\, reflecting his evolving sense of place in the world; HOME: Heart of My Existence consists of 13 large-scale works that reimagine home not as a fixed location\, but as something carried within\, “a space shaped by memory\, emotion\, and personal understanding” … To 31 May. \nAbove: Kojo Marfo\, Elegance in Unity (2024)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/kojo-marfo-home-heart-of-my-existence/
LOCATION:JD Malat Gallery\, ACT 2 Tower\, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A \,Downtown Dubai\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
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SUMMARY:Calder / Hiquily: Balancing Act
DESCRIPTION:A clever juxtaposition of works by two masters of the poetry of balance and movement that reveals unexpected harmonies between the artistic languages of Alexander Calder and Philippe Hiquily. Calder’s gouaches on paper\, with their bold colours and rhythmic compositions\, provide a visual counterpoint to Hiquily’s sculptural explorations of balance\, weightlessness\, and abstraction. These works\, essential to Calder’s creative process\, exhibit the same principles that animate his mobiles\, two of which are included in this exhibition – New Old Universe (1953)\, an elegant example of his ‘constellations’\, and Caged Stone on Yellow Stalk (1966)\, a rare standing mobile. With these works are four of Hiquily’s Girouette mobiles\, each representing a different season. \nTo 4 May. \nAbove left: Alexander Calder\, Bunny Eared Horse (1971). Right: Philippe Hiquily\, La Reorneadora (2006)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/calder-hiquily-balancing-act/
LOCATION:Opera Gallery\, DIFC\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Asunción Molinos Gordo: The Peasant\, the Scholar and the Engineer
DESCRIPTION:Asunción Molinos Gordo’s second major collaboration with Art Jameel – following her 2019 Artist’s Garden\, In Transit (Botany of a Journey) – is her first retrospective exhibition in West Asia. This show spans 15 years of Molinos Gordo’s work\, tracing her journey from foundational artwork on food systems and agriculture in Egypt and the Arab world to recent investigations of Arab and Muslim heritage in her native Spain. \nCentral to her work is the concept of pensamiento campesino (peasant knowledge)—the accumulated wisdom and expertise of small farmers over centuries\, often overlooked by agronomic science and prevailing notions of progress. Molinos Gordo aims to reclaim this knowledge to foster more sustainable relationships with land\, resources\, and social harmony. For the artist\, this perspective is vital to achieving food sovereignty\, sustainability and the long-term stability of the global food supply. \nThe exhibition brings together key works that defined Molinos Gordo’s engagement with histories of food production and agriculture. They include the 2015 Sharjah Biennial Prize winner WAM (World Agriculture Museum) (2010). Emblematic of the latest developments of her practice\, Como solíamos (As we used to) (2020) is a large-scale rammed-earth installation that evokes the vernacular irrigation systems of Al-Andalus and reflects on the transformations of agricultural land over time. \nTo 21 September.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/asuncion-molinos-gordo-the-peasant-the-scholar-and-the-engineer/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Diana Al-Hadid
DESCRIPTION:A preview of Al-Hadid Art Dubai exhibits in advance of the art fair\, showing in the Plaza at One Za’abeel in partnership with Galleri Brandstrup and Bureau Safavid. We promised “a dialogue between memory\, architecture\, and cultural identity”; guided tours between 2 and 4pm on 9\, 10 and 11 April should give more insights into the artist’s intricate process\, philosophy\, and impact.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chnace-diana-al-hadid/
LOCATION:The Plaza\, One Za’abeel\, Za'abeel 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Morteza Khazaie: Upside Down
DESCRIPTION:Khazaie’s solo show is inspired by nature\, particularly by trees that bend in the face of wind and storms yet do not break. These symbolise resilience and flexibility; just as in life\, people too change under pressure and harsh conditions\, being guided towards new paths. The artist’s craftsmanship and thoughtful use of wood create pieces that are both grounded and transformative\, resonating with the themes of survival\, adaptation\, and silent strength. As curator Farshad Mahoutforoush writes; “Trees that yield in storms\, yet continue to grow\, became a metaphor for how we as humans navigate change. This exhibition is my reflection on the ways we adapt\, redirect\, and find new shapes for ourselves under pressure … Through these works\, I wanted to explore how softness can be strength\, and how being ‘upside down’ might simply mean seeing things differently”. \nTo 15 September.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/morteza-khazaie-upside-down/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Naeemeh Kazemi: Bubble Land
DESCRIPTION:A solo show for an artist whose distinctive approach to visual storytelling lies in her ability to blend hyperrealism with dreamlike distortion. In this series\, a follow-on from her gorgeous but unsettling La La Land works\, her paintings transform the sea into a metaphor for modern existence where joy and anxiety coexist\, and spectacle conceals fragility\, turning the ocean into a theatrical\, disorienting place filled with bioluminescent creatures\, clown-like figures\, and confetti-like bubbles; every detail serves as a fragment of a larger\, immersive universe where beauty and unease intertwine – and where despite the chaos there is a space to pause\, reflect\, and immerse in a universe that resists simplification. \nTo 15 September.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/naeemeh-kazemi-bubble-land-2/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Naeemeh Kazemi: Bubble Land
DESCRIPTION:A solo show for an artist whose distinctive approach to visual storytelling lies in her ability to blend hyperrealism with dreamlike distortion. Her paintings transform the sea into a metaphor for modern existence where joy and anxiety coexist\, and spectacle conceals fragility\, turning the ocean into a theatrical\, disorienting place filled with bioluminescent creatures\, clown-like figures\, and confetti-like bubbles; every detail serves as a fragment of a larger\, immersive universe where beauty and unease intertwine – and where despite the chaos there is a space to pause\, reflect\, and immerse in a universe that resists simplification. \nTo 15 September.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/naeemeh-kazemi-bubble-land/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
DTSTAMP:20260420T080008
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250414T083627Z
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SUMMARY:a radical intimacy of hanging out
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition featuring Emirati artists Asma Khoory\, Taqwa Alnaqbi\, and Sultan Al Remeithi\, curated by Salem AlSuwaidi. “In a world rushing forward\, the exhibition invites you to linger—where ‘killing time’ becomes a quiet\, radical act of care\, presence\, and shared stillness … Wander through gestures both tender and rebellious\, where hanging out becomes a language of connection\, memory\, and meaning.” To 23 May. \nAbove: Sultan Al Remeithi\, Flashes of Moments (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/a-radical-intimacy-of-hanging-out/
LOCATION:Aisha Alabbar Gallery\, Warehouse C19\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Hassan Sharif: The Storyteller
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Murtaza Vali\, this exhibition revisits Hassan Sharif’s ‘objects’\, works which expand the definition of ‘craft’ beyond notions of skill\, precision and medium-specific mastery and towards “an experimental\, experiential and embodied practice of learning\, understanding\, and knowing through making”. \nIts title references a 1936 essay by German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin which laments the eclipse of the art of storytelling in the modern era and posits a unique relationship between craft and storytelling – the craftsperson\, primarily preoccupied with their hands but free to listen\, provides the storyteller with a captive audience: the storyteller’s tales would help allay the tedium of repetitive action that serves as the foundation of much craft practice. \nSharif’s ‘objects’ exemplify this combination of storytelling and craft\, of narrativity and materiality. Although they obviously owe much to the Duchampian readymade\, they are undeniably handcrafted and the products of mundane manual tasks – cutting\, folding\, rolling\, twisting\, knotting\, tying\, plaiting\, weaving\, binding\, gluing\, wrapping. These actions produce small units which are then simply piled\, stacked\, bundled\, or strung together and hung to create a larger form. The artist himself explained: “Despite the fact that my works are based on a sequential\, industrial mode of creativity\, they also demolish the sequential autonomy of an industrial product.” \nThis exhibition emphasizes materiality\, manufacture\, and form through careful groupings and juxtapositions\, pairing exhibited ‘objects’ with texts that present an account of their crafting and perception. Sharif famously characterised himself as a “single work artist\,” unifying his diverse oeuvre under one conceptual premise. The Storyteller” will attempt to trace some of the myriad material and formal complexities that are otherwise masked by this provocation\, presenting a fragmented biography and (art) history of Sharif through thee works. \nTo 7 June.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/hassan-sharif-the-storyteller/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Al Braithwaite: MATAB
DESCRIPTION:Al Braithwaite is a contemporary artist from London who works across a variety of disciplines including sculpture\, assemblage\, found material and installation. For this show\, Braithwaite’s Material Abstraction (MATAB) comprises textured panels arrayed as physical sculptures. Says the gallery: “Their weight and conceptual terrain is contained within a language where flatness of form and potency of industrial energy is paramount … The artist asks questions by intersectioning materials: what happens when this touches that\, when one idea divides another\, when this angle reaches for another angle\, or when that thing becomes empowered as an abstract entity?” To 22 May
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/al-braithwaite-matab/
LOCATION:XVA Gallery\, Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood\, Bur Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Halim Al Karim: Mythological Love
DESCRIPTION:Experimental photography works by the Iraqui artist\, who says: “Inspired by the Sumerian myth and my archaeological excavations in our invisible life\, the mythological love series invites us to contemplate the magical love relationship between human women and the Anunnaki who descended from the heavens to planet Earth. This series reflects the concept of the eternal need to tame the anxious self; it embodies the mystery surrounding our existence between two worlds and challenges the construction of historical narratives about the ideologies of immortal love …” To 22 May
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/halim-al-karim-mythological-love/
LOCATION:XVA Gallery\, Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood\, Bur Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Maryam Hoseini: Swells
DESCRIPTION:The second solo exhibition at this gallery for the Iran-born\, NY-based artist features new paintings that revels in transplanting elements within themselves. Hoseini says “the figures have moved from architecture to landscape”; so the flat figure expands and multiplies in rounded limb\, breast\, buttock\, organ\, and thigh … Ground\, now rectangular\, sometimes rounded\, is repossessed by this swell. It grows as if vegetal. Devouring itself\, boring into the wood panel’s visible\, soaked\, grain like a termite\, the figure makes of such pictorial amplification a carnal feast …” \nTo 24 May. \nAbovce: Maryam Hoseini\, Psychic Fold (detail) (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/maryam-hoseini-swells/
LOCATION:Green Art Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
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SUMMARY:Elias Sime: Through the Window
DESCRIPTION:The first solo exhibition in the Middle East for the Addis Ababa artist showcases Sime’s distinctive practice of transforming colourful wires\, circuit boards\, and electronic components into intricate\, layered compositions that blur the boundaries between technology\, nature\, and abstraction. \nThe title ‘Through The Window’ speaks to both literal and metaphorical apertures that frame perception\, whether through architecture or digital screens. His layered\, textured surfaces recall aerial landscapes\, circuit pathways\, and organic topographies\, offering a meditation on interconnectedness and the materials that shape our digital world. \nTo 24 May. \nAbove: Elias Sime\, Tightrope: Through the Window 5 (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/elias-sime-through-the-window/
LOCATION:Lawrie Shabibi\, Unit 21\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Huda Lutfi: Unraveling
DESCRIPTION:Huda Lutfi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery includes works from three recent series – When Dreams Call for Silence (2019)\, Our Black Thread (2020–2021)\, and Healing Devices (2020–ongoing) It also includes a selection of previously unshown miniature collages\, offering insight into Lutfi’s artistic experimentations that culminated in these sculptural abstractions\, along with a new video work\, The Seven-legged Demon of the Night (2025)\, made in memory of Lutfi’s mother\, whose lifelong work as a seamstress inspired the artist’s practice centred on thread and fabric. To 27 May. \nAbove: Huda Lutfi\, Missing Shoe (2018)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/huda-lutfi-unraveling/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Sama Alshaibi: طرس (Tterss)
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition of recent body work by one of the gallery’s stars. Alshaibi’s multimedia work explores spaces of conflict and the power struggles that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation – its peaks\, declines\, and latent possibilities. Baghdad becomes a site of physical presence and alternative visions – one that is “always mediated\, annotated\, and glimpsed through shifting thresholds” as Alshaibi puts it. \nAfter 40 years\, Alshaibi returned to her homeland several times between 2021 and 2023. To reorient herself with a city she had once known more through imagination than lived experience\, she constructs an abstracted and interrupted history and reality; the Arabic title evokes the idea of a palimpsest\, a concept Alshaibi explores through the superimposed strata of imagery within her collages that immerse the city’s ruins and infrastructures into a deeper narrative of alienation. LiDAR data mapping is interwoven with photographs and archival materials to create a speculative space for understanding historical Arab cities as microcosms of broader global crises\, where past and present collide \nTo 30 May. \nAbove: Sama Alshaibi\, Duplicates (2024)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sama-alshaibi-%d8%b7%d8%b1%d8%b3-tterss/
LOCATION:Ayyam Gallery\, B11\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Michael Sailstorfer: Air Electric
DESCRIPTION:Sailstorfer’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery brings together three series of works that explore one of the artist’s signature themes: energy. He reflects on energy as a source\, as storage\, as a transmitter\, as working material – in short\, as fuel for life. \nThe sculptural series C-Batterie plays with notions of classical sculpture such as eternity\, uniqueness and preconceived values. At first glance\, the five bronze casts on white pedestals seem to fulfil these ideas: but is this really the case? Referencing Joseph Beuys’ Capri-Batterie (1985)\, Sailstorfer creates wax models of the original Capri battery\, places them in beehives\, leaves the bees to work on them for a few months\, and then removes the moulds to cast bronzes from them. The results feels as if nature has taken over\, destabilising and questioning the so-called balance while capturing the transience and the creative energy of the moment. \nAnother set of casts made from ordinary lightbulbs\, using the same process\, are suspended from the ceiling with reference to their original function. \nSailstorfer’s latest series – Air Electric\, from which the exhibition takes its title – turns electricity into his painting medium. A power supply unit provides a constant flow of direct current that ‘paints’ silver on to copper mesh; the result is an abstract\, electric landscape of pale blue cloud formations against a golden sky. Occasionally\, certain\nshapes can be made out through the web of clouds\, but the interpretation of the work is ultimately left to\nthe viewer. \nThe final work in the exhibition is an addition to Sailstorfer’s Tank series (2020 on). Tank 11 (2024\, above) consists of an empty Audi fuel tank\, deprived of its original function and context; the tank takes on anthropomorphic features\, reminiscent of oceanic masks from a bygone era. The sound of breathing fills the last part of the room\, reminding us that energy in any given form is always fuel for life. \nTo 23 May.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/michael-sailstorfer-air-electric/
LOCATION:Carbon 12\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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