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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTSTAMP:20260913T142837Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Oussama Diab: Reimagined
DESCRIPTION:A solo show for the Palestinian-Syrian-Dutch artist that reinterprets celebrated masterpieces from Western art. Diab revisits iconic works by artists including Picasso\, van Gogh\, Michelangelo and van Dyck\, applying his own distinctive visual language to allow the images to speak to contemporary realities. Highlights of the exhibition are two striking reinterpretations of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’\, alongside ‘La Coiffure’ also after Picasso\, two sunflower paintings inspired by van Gogh\, and reinterpretations of Anthony van Dyck’s ‘Jupiter and Antiope’ and ‘Moses and the Serpent’.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/markclosing-todaymark-oussama-diab-reimagined/
LOCATION:Artbooth Gallery\, Centro Capital Center\, Al Khaleej Al Arabi Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTSTAMP:20260927T122903Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Bernar Venet: Sculptures\, Furniture and Works on Paper
DESCRIPTION:A survey of works by the French artist\, “one of the most restless practitioners of his generation” as the gallery has it. Since the early 1960s Venet unusually broad range of media has included tar poured on to canvas and cardboard\, a heap of industrial coal claimed as sculpture\, paintings and drawings built from mathematical equations and scientific diagrams\, sound recordings\, photography\, performance\, poetry and stage design – and\, from the 1980s onward\, the Corten steel Arcs\, Angles and Indeterminate Lines for which he is now best known. This exhibition includes examples of three of those: sculptures in steel are shown alongside Venet’s furniture\, which translates the geometry of the sculptures into functional form\, and a group of works on paper that trace the conceptual logic running beneath it all.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-bernar-venet-sculptures-furniture-and-works-on-paper/
LOCATION:Waddington Custot\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTSTAMP:20261003T110251Z
CREATED:20261003T110251Z
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SUMMARY:Salah Elmur: Just as the Heart of a Mango is a Stone
DESCRIPTION:Bringing together paintings\, archival photographs\, sketches and ephemera produced after 2018\, this exhibition offers an immersive encounter with Salah Elmur’s world\, “one where memory\, landscape and identity merge and ripple through time” as the Jameel puts it. \nThrough paintings that intertwine memory and myth\, Elmur reflects on his upbringing near the Blue Nile. These build upon the photographic legacy of his family’s Studio Kamal in Khartoum; Elmur repurposes archival images\, offering subjects who are captured twice\, once through film and again in painting\, a new way of being seen. \nCurated by Zain Al Saie and Qutouf Elobaid. \nTo 14 March. \nImage: Salah Elmur\, Fire Behind the Mountain (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/salah-elmur-just-as-the-heart-of-a-mango-is-a-stone/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T200000
DTSTAMP:20261003T144152Z
CREATED:20261003T144121Z
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SUMMARY:Joke Jam
DESCRIPTION:The Pepp’s regular early-evening showcase of Dubai’s local comedy talent\, always with four standups on stage.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/joke-jam/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2194872;55.2844808
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T200000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T125700Z
CREATED:20261003T125651Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T125700Z
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SUMMARY:Joke Hub
DESCRIPTION:A regular Mad Cat Comedy night – “Dubai’s wildest comedy show on Saturday” at “the first purpose built comedy room in the country”. The cover charge of AED 99 includes two F&B coupons.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/joke-hub-4/
LOCATION:Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef\, Al Seef Street\, Umm Hurair 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2558677;55.310187
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T203000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T213000
DTSTAMP:20261006T104429Z
CREATED:20261006T104429Z
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SUMMARY:Maria Hassabi: Us
DESCRIPTION:A 6m bench along the front edge of the stage compresses the space into a narrow\, linear runway. Five dancers trace this boundary through a sequence of calculated tableaus\, their bodies caught between rest and anticipation. The bench acts as a structural pivot\, serving simultaneously as physical support and a choreographic frame. Facing the audience directly\, the cast establishes a shared field of attention. Both individually and as an ensemble\, as well as among themselves and with the viewers\, the dancers navigate presence in real time. The performance unfolds within this shared alignment\, fostering a quiet exchange of attention and perception. \nThis is part of the fifth edition of Perform Sharjah\, Sharjah Art Foundation’s season of curated performances that serve as an engaging space for exploring\, remembering and imagining – “treating the body as a site of artistic inquiry\, the programme shifts fluidly between intimate reflection and collective experience”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/maria-hassabi-us/
LOCATION:Cultural Palace\, Cutlural Square\, Al Riqa Suburb\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T210000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261031T220000
DTSTAMP:20261003T143628Z
CREATED:20261003T143628Z
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SUMMARY:Valentina Danubio: I Love Them\, But …
DESCRIPTION:An hour of new material from the always excellent Valentina\, this time on the people we love\, the things they do that drive us crazy\, and all those moments that make relationships so complicated.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/valentina-danubio-i-love-them-but/
LOCATION:Pepperoni Comedy Club\, 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel\, One Central World Trade Center\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
GEO:25.2194872;55.2844808
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTSTAMP:20260204T101924Z
CREATED:20260204T101924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260204T101924Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin
DESCRIPTION:A monumental one-room installation that restages the Bangladeshi artist’s The River Remembers. Originally commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation and created in 2023\, this large-scale textile work has handcrafted threads mapping the colour of the water of the Teesta and the Brahmaputra\, two rivers flowing through the Bengal delta. Engraved brass disks convey the memories and migration stories of two women in the artist’s life whose own lives were strongly marked by the river.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-artists-rooms-kamruzzaman-shahdin/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTSTAMP:20260803T152019Z
CREATED:20260803T151828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260803T152019Z
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SUMMARY:Salah Elmur
DESCRIPTION: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 distance from his homeland\, Sudan\, in times of exile and political rupture. \nCurated by Zain Al Saie and Qutouf Elobaid. To 14 March. \nRight: Salah Elmur\, Fire Behind the Mountain (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/salah-elmur/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261103T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261103T213000
DTSTAMP:20260928T125325Z
CREATED:20260928T125325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T125325Z
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SUMMARY:Promis le Ciel | Promised Sky: dir Erige Sehiri (2025)
DESCRIPTION:Sehiri’s intimate drama follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity\, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. We’re dropped into the lives of Marie (Aïssa Maïga)\, Naney (Debora Lobe Naney) and Jolie (Laetitia Ky)\, as the three roommates care for a little girl\, Kenza (Estelle Kenza Dogbo)\, a displaced child who appears to have miraculously survived a migrant shipwreck before the three women found her. Female relationships are complicated enough as is\, even between those on a level playing field; but in their adopted home in Tunisia none of the women are equals from a socio-economic standpoint … \nScreens in the CinemaNA series of contemporary Arab cinema. Curated by NYUAD Arts Professor of Film and New Media Scandar Copti\, CinemaNA – which is celebrated 10 years of programming – is presented by the NYUAD Film and New Media Program in partnership with The Arts Center.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/promis-le-ciel-promised-sky-dir-erige-sehiri-2025-2/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
GEO:24.5238948;54.4345558
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTSTAMP:20260915T164600Z
CREATED:20260915T164600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T164600Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-alaa-itani-a-momentum-for-the-horizon/
LOCATION:Gallery Isabelle\, Unit 17\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTSTAMP:20260916T094614Z
CREATED:20260916T094614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T094614Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-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
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261104T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261104T210000
DTSTAMP:20261003T135649Z
CREATED:20261003T135649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T135649Z
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SUMMARY:Cineolio's Cinenights
DESCRIPTION:Founded by Emirati filmmaker and curator Nawaf Al Janahi in 2020\, Cineolio‘s mission is focused on promoting short films and expanding their audience reach internationally. Its Cinenights screening series presents a diverse selection of short films on the big screen\, celebrating cinematic togetherness and promoting intellectual and cultural exchange. \nThe screenings tonight will be followed by a discussion led by Nawaf Al Janahi. The films: \n32 Abo El Mahasein El-Shazly dir May Ziady (2023\, Egypt: 12 min) \nForce them to leave their old house and move to a new one\, director May Ziady and her aunt reflect on their memories of family members … \nAspis dir Antonio Romagnoli (2025\, Italy: 15 min) \nEvery year\, a viper awakens from hibernation and resumes its life cycle. But this year something changes … \nCinema Al Dunia  dir Amro Ali (2024\, Syria: 15 min) \nA short documentary that turns its lens on a storied Damascus movie house\, exploring its present condition and uncertain future. \nTempest dir Bridget Sutherland (2024\, New Zealand: 10 min) \nA portrait of the New Zealand artist Peter Roche\, highlighting works that speak to the dangers of the Nuclear Age and its psychological impact. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cineolios-cinenights-6/
LOCATION:Alliance Française Dubai\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Film
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTSTAMP:20260916T093316Z
CREATED:20260804T134130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T093316Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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 her has developed after leaving his home country\, Iran. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-amir-khojasteh-may-the-tree-no-longer-burn-when-i-wake/
LOCATION:CARBON 12\, 17th Street\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTSTAMP:20261005T093236Z
CREATED:20261005T093132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261005T093236Z
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SUMMARY:Recreating Gesture: Crafting a Gold Necklace from The Iron Age
DESCRIPTION:Following showings in Paris\, Lyon\, Seoul and Shanghai\, this exhibition – “a strategic research project for L’ÉCOLE\, at the crossroads of archaeology and the history of techniques\, and goldsmithing craftsmanship” – demonstrates the skills and techniques in reproducing a Celtic torque\, a neck collar discovered in 1843 in Montans (France) and dating from the Second Iron Age (450–25 BC). The exhibition project offers insights into the complexities behind the craftsmanship of this remarkable piece. \nAn Open House themed around the exhibition on 7 November invites the community to discover L’ÉCOLE through course demonstrations\, kids’ workshops\, guided tours and other activities. \nTo 24 April. \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/recreating-gesture-crafting-a-gold-necklace-from-the-iron-age/
LOCATION:L’ÉCOLE\, School of Jewelry Arts\, Building 10\, Dubai Design District\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261108
DTSTAMP:20260913T155525Z
CREATED:20260913T155525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T155525Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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 …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-benedicte-gimonnet-what-we-carry-becomes-the-terrain/
LOCATION:Aisha Alabbar Gallery\, Warehouse C19\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1196663;55.217749
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261108
DTSTAMP:20261003T111507Z
CREATED:20261003T111507Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T111507Z
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SUMMARY:Artist’s Garden: Amphibious Timelapse by the Rice Brewing Sisters Club
DESCRIPTION:Amphibious Timelapse by South Korean collective the Rice Brewing Sisters Club (RBSC) is the 2026-2028 Artist’s Garden commission at the Jameel – the Artist’s Garden being a space for artists to create\, cultivate and experiment with the conceptual limits of the ‘garden’ through a research-led commissioning process that responds to local and regional environmental concerns. \nRBSC is an artist collective established in 2018 exploring the notion of ‘social fermentation’ as an artistic form and work across visual art\, performance\, writing\, oral history\, ecological thinking and ‘auntie’s wisdom’. Amphibious Timelapse traces a continuum between land and sea; its guiding question “how are amphibious beings interconnected?” directs attention to the plants at the soil–sea interface. Plants such as mangroves and other halophytes resist any firm division between earth and sea; sabkhas\, salt marshes and tidal flats are understood not as boundaries but as continuums — the shared medium through which the meeting of soil and sea is sustained\, negotiated and made legible. \nStructured over two years\, Amphibious Timelapse unfolds across phases\, functioning as a garden\, a lab and a kitchen that is home to local species of halophytes. These plants embody different tactics of living with\, rather than against\, arid saline soil and salty coastal wetlands that define UAE’s distinctive ecology. Through them\, RBSC traces amphibious adaptability\, resilience and kinship with their salty landscapes. \nCurated by Daniya Jawwad and Indranjan Banerjee. \nTo 27 September 2028.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/artists-garden-amphibious-timelapse-by-the-rice-brewing-sisters-club/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261108
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261109
DTSTAMP:20260913T145341Z
CREATED:20260913T145341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T145341Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Bashar Khalaf: The Field of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Two series of works\, Junk Garden and Protective Shield\, from the Ramallah-born artist. “The Field of Dreams is an exploration of formations of ‘steel’ in the public space from the perspective of the relationship between the self\, the object\, and the other” says the gallery. “It can be viewed as an interactive space with the fragile reality in which humanity lives.” \nKhalaf’s dreaming energy gives steel junk – bulldozers\, vehicles\, surveillance cameras – an chance for self-reinvention; it confronts the machine with its own existence\, giving it a tragic form and allowing it reposition itself over time. The garbage bins in Protective Shield were used during the First Intifada to block street and provide shelter from bullets ; in contrast\, the colonial system used steel barrels filled with cement to seal off the entrances to villages and camps.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-bashar-khalaf-the-field-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Zawyeh Gallery\, Warehouse 27\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261108T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261108T183000
DTSTAMP:20261003T112303Z
CREATED:20261003T112303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T112303Z
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SUMMARY:Waterlands\, Elemental Dreams
DESCRIPTION:Guided by Jumana Emil Abboud’s practice and drawing on practices of performance\, storytelling\, and material research\, and drawing on his ongoing exhibition The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide\, this symposium brings together artists and practitioners to discuss the mythological and poetic dimensions of water\, with spiriting\, exile and return as central themes. \nParticipating artists include Sherko Abbas\, Katya Garcia-Anton\, Ahmad Nabil\, the Rice Brewing Sisters’ Club\, Raghad Saqfelheit and of course Jumana Emil Abboud. \nThis programme is part of a weekend of symposia on water\, alongside Water as Common Ground: Notes from a Majlis\, taking place on Saturday\, November 7\, 2026. \nImage: Jumana Emil Abboud\, The Promise of Morning (2025: video still)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/waterlands-elemental-dreams/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Symposium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260828T161706Z
CREATED:20260828T161706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T161706Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-rana-begum-taking-form/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260922T074149Z
CREATED:20260922T074149Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T074149Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Azza Al Qubaisi: Between Land and Sea
DESCRIPTION:A mid-career exhibition dedicated to the work of the Emirati multidisciplinary artist\, curated by Aysha Al Hemeiri. Ranging from intimate jewellery pieces to large-scale public works\, Al Qubaisi’s practice invites audiences to encounter the UAE’s natural resources through space\, structure\, and material presence.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-azza-al-qubaisi-between-land-and-sea/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260922T074835Z
CREATED:20260922T074835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T074835Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Manish Nai: In Search of Material Within Material
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition by the Mumbai-based artist; much of his work comes from what he has seen and handled there. Nai works with jute\, newspaper\, cardboard\, used clothing\, mosquito mesh and corrugated metal; he cuts\, folds\, compresses and layers these materials\, often through slow and repetitive processes. “Rather than hiding what they were originally used for\, he makes that history part of the work”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-manish-nai-in-search-of-material-within-material/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTSTAMP:20260922T075512Z
CREATED:20260922T075512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T075512Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Karima Al Shomely: Between a Fold and a Memory
DESCRIPTION:Karima Al Shomely’s work draws from the clothing\, textiles and adornments of Emirati women. The burqa is a recurring subject\, appearing in works that look at how it was made\, worn and passed down through generations; Al Shomely also works with traditional Emirati fabrics\, including Bou Tira\, Bu Glaym and Bu Teelah\, enlarging their patterns and remaking them in metal. Through photography\, sculpture\, textile and video\, she brings these materials and their histories into the present.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-karima-al-shomely-between-a-fold-and-a-memory/
LOCATION:Leila Heller Gallery\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260813T173413Z
CREATED:20260813T173413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T173413Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Ahmad Tallaa: The Living Archive
DESCRIPTION:A solo exhibition by the Syrian artist that includes large-scale portraits\, a tile installation\, sculptures\, artist books\, and works on paper. At the centre of Tallaa’s practice is the face\, not as portrait or likeness\, but as witness; this exhibition\, curated by Celine Azem\, considers the traces that experience leaves behind on the face\, the body\, and “the materials we touch and are touched by”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-ahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260701T082606Z
CREATED:20260630T141559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260701T082606Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAYAhmad 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 …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chnaceahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260913T153043Z
CREATED:20260913T153043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T153043Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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 …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-ahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260916T102454Z
CREATED:20260916T102454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T102454Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Katia Kameli: The Canticle of the Birds
DESCRIPTION:A solo presentation by the French-Algerian artist and filmmaker that reinterprets The Conference of the Birds\,a 12th-century epic poem by Farid ud-Din Attar\, in which a flock of birds search for a mighty ruler and ultimately find their strength within themselves. \nIn Kameli’s video Le Cantique des oiseaux (2022) actresses process while playing bird-shaped ceramic instruments\, an eerie procession that stands in sharp contrast to the urban environment of Paris. A follow-up film\, Le Cantique des oiseaux\, variation (2022)\, was staged in a seaside garden on the French Riviera; here\, the physical challenge of dancing while playing fragile ceramic instruments creates a visible tension between the performers’ bodies and the delicate artwork. The earthenware instruments are bird-shaped ocarinas\, created by Kameli with ceramicist Marie Picard; to bring these sculptural birds to life\, Kameli worked with composer Aurélie Sfez and choreographer Youness Anzane.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-katia-kameli-the-canticle-of-the-birds/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260916T103416Z
CREATED:20260916T103341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T103416Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Dalal Al-Obaidi: Frogs\, Jazz & Blisters
DESCRIPTION:A new body of 15 paintings by the Kuwaiti artist that takes us into a life split between two worlds\, London and Kuwait– considering what it means to live in two places\, or “to be two Dalals” as the artist put it\, without being entirely settled in either identity.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-dalal-al-obaidi-frogs-jazz-blisters/
LOCATION:Taymour Grahne Projects\, Warehouse 31A\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1431157;55.2246127
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261113
DTSTAMP:20261003T111947Z
CREATED:20261003T111947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261003T111947Z
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SUMMARY:Afrah Shafiq: Nobody Knows For Certain
DESCRIPTION:Afrah Shafiq’s Nobody Knows for Certain is a multimedia game that draws on the illustrated children’s books that were distributed widely in India by the USSR\, highlighting a little-known chapter of Cold War-era cultural exchange. These richly illustrated Soviet fairytales and folk stories shaped many childhood memories and are now the subject of a thriving subculture of collectors across South Asia. \nNobody Knows For Certain is an anthology of stories developed through a field research fellowship with the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art\, Moscow\, alongside an archive Shafiq has built of Soviet children’s books across Indian languages and oral testimonies gathered during her research. Sitting between interactive fiction\, documentary and point-and-click adventure games\, the work invites players to collect books virtually\, find portals from one tale to the next and move through archival findings and historical backdrops that trace how two seemingly disparate lands were closely tied to one another. \nTo 25 April.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/afrah-shafiq-nobody-knows-for-certain/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTSTAMP:20261006T105637Z
CREATED:20261006T105043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T105637Z
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Mayer: Hannibaby and Zarafa
DESCRIPTION:A public artwork\, performance and community project\, Sebastian Mayer’s Hannibaby draws from an absurd family adventure. Structuring a life-size baby elephant puppet around his toddler’s carrier\, the duo covered a 70km-distance from France into Italy through the Cottian Alps in 2026; Mayer’s trajectory creates a parallel between Hannibal’s storied challenges navigating unchartered landscape and his own encounter with the demands of parenthood. In Sharjah\, Hannibaby manifests as a walkabout performance by the life-sized baby elephant puppet\, alongside a workshop series instructing families in the art of creating and decorating their own 3D elephant masks. It also includes family-friendly movement games and other playful puppetry activities. \nAnother performance\, Zarafa\, retraces the extraordinary journey of the eponymous giraffe – the first to set foot in France in 1827\, a diplomatic gift from Muhammed Ali Pasha of Egypt to Charles X of France. In 2023\, Mayer created a life-size giraffe puppet and walked Zarafa’s original 1000km route from Marseille to Paris. Along the route\, local communities were invited to paint and draw directly onto the giraffe. For Perform Sharjah\, Mayer will use the giraffe puppet to conduct walkabouts for audiences and play host to a community canvas at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi. \nThere are performances at 4.30–6.30pm and again at 6.30–8.30pm. It’s repeated on 15 November. \nThis is part of the fifth edition of Perform Sharjah\, Sharjah Art Foundation’s season of curated performances that serve as an engaging space for exploring\, remembering and imagining – “treating the body as a site of artistic inquiry\, the programme shifts fluidly between intimate reflection and collective experience”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sebastian-mayer-hannibaby-and-zarafa/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation\, Bait Obaid Al Shamsi\, Arts Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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