It’s become a commonplace that centres of art can turn up in rundown neighbourhoods or industrial wastelands, and actually thrive there given the advantages of low rents, large spaces and (eventually) a community of like-minded practitioners. Tick two of those [ … ]
Art Dubai has added three new members to its gallery Selection and Advisory Committees, all of them good names to be seen with and all firm supporters of the fair. Glenn Scott Wright (co-director of Victoria Miro in London) and [ … ]
MEEM GALLERY Al Quoz Back in 2008, Meem put together an influential show of print works by Arab artists. Now it returns to the theme, with an exhibition that brings together work by Dia Azzawi, Kamal Boullata, Marwan, Mohammad Omar [ … ]
CUSTOT GALLERY DUBAI Alserkal Avenue After featuring Bernar Venet’s work in its inaugural exhibition The World Meets Here, Custot has followed up with a full solo show for the influential French artist – his first in the region. Venet is [ … ]
GREY NOISE Alserkal Avenue Grey Noise is in a run of strong shows right now, and this one keeps up the standard. Fahd Burki uses a characteristic vocabulary of symbols, forms and shapes, but the new work does mark a [ … ]
CARBON 12 Alserkal Avenue Carbon 12 has come up with another interesting show, one that “puts the materiality back on the map and chops the meta from the physics” as the bumf puts it. New works from the gallery’s artists [ … ]
AYYAM GALLERY Alserkal Avenue Ayyam’s Alserkal show celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding by highlighting all 52 artists who have had Ayyam solo shows in the past decade – hence the name. There’s painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and [ … ]
AYYAM GALLERY DIFC Recognised as a leading figure among the new generation of contemporary calligraphers, Bozorgi uses his formal training at the Society of Iranian Calligraphers to advance the art of calligraphy through experimental formalism. So it’s calligraphy, but it’s [ … ]
GREEN ART GALLERY Alserkal Avenue Jaber Al Azmeh’s fifth solo at Green Art Gallery continues the artist’s fiercely sharp view of the world in general and the Middle East in particular. There’s a bleak, almost Orwellian feel to these photographs, [ … ]
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