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Sikka Art and Design Festival 2024

Al Shindagha Dubai Creek, Dubai

The 12th edition of Sikka runs from 23 February to 3 March 2024 at the Al Shindagha Historic Neighbourhood (it’s moved from Al Fahidi to simplify access and increase the range and number of exhibits and event spaces – all [... more]

Free

Alserkal Art Week

Alserkal Avenue Al Quoz 1, Dubai

The always enjoyable Alserkal Art Week, a taster for Art Dubai that has become established in the own right, runs this time from 25 February to 3 March. All the Alserkal Avenue galleries seem to be committed, along with guest [... more]

Free

Rachid Koraïchi: An Ode to Intertwined Histories

Elmarsa Gallery 23 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A solo exhibition with examples of many of the disciplines and media that made up Koraïchi's practice, all "showcasing his abiding fascination with the creation of deeply layered seams within the spiritual, political and intellectual". Koraïchi often speaks of belonging [... more]

Free

Ana Mazzei: How to disappear

Green Art Gallery Dubai

The Brazilian artist has been given regular solo shows at Green Art Gallery every couple of years, and they're always interesting. Her widely (and sometimes wildly) experimental practice appropriates different materials, connecting to the environments in which she works; art, [... more]

Free

Manjit Bawa: I Was Born a Poet …

Volte Art Projects Warehouse 13, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Paintings and drawings by Manjit Bawa (1941-2008), a modernist master of 20th-century Indian figuration whose work is distinguished by expressive line and colour. To 30 April. The exhibition marks the inauguration of Volte Art Projects’ new Alserkal Avenue space under [... more]

Free

Chiaroscuro

ICD Brookfield Place Al Mustaqbal Street, DIFC, Dubai

A group exhibition of 20 artists and designers in the central atrium of ICD Brookfield Place, curated by Michèle Lamy and presented in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery. The exhibition “finds inspiration in the city’s starkly contrasting landscape as it [... more]

Free

Elastic Visions

Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, Dubai

A group exhibition curated by Faridah Folawiyo, showcasing artists of African origin across the world and examining how artists from Africa and the diaspora see the restrictive concepts of Eurocentric cultural superiority. The show aims to stretch audiences’ limits and [... more]

Free

Charmaine Chanakira: Taking L’s

Mestaria Gallery Unit 35, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The latest work from the Zimbabwean artist is described by the gallery as "a vibrant celebration of life's unexpected lessons, captured through a fusion of neo-expressionism, Japanese Manga, Pop Art, and African art influences ... Her art – alive with [... more]

Free

Farah Al Qasimi: Toy World

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Third Line's fourth solo exhibition with Farah Al Qasimi, Brooklyn based but Abu Dhabi born, is a collection of still and moving images in colour and – for the first time – black and white too. “Black and white [... more]

Free

Elham Shafaei & Sara Al Haddad: Threads of Existence

Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Two UAE-based artists reflect on "identity and the eternal quest for belonging within the ebb and flow of time ... the longing for connection amid the bittersweet journey of loss. Sara Al Haddad creates delicate yarn and fibre works that [... more]

Free

Kenia Almaraz Murillo: Invitation to a Mystical Dreamland

Waddington Custot Dubai

The first solo exhibition in the region for the Bolivian artist is a group of six new and five existing works that represent "a journey into a dreamlike universe where her dreams blend vivid memories with powerful symbolic language". The [... more]

Free

Mohammed Kazem and Vikram Divecha: Rest

Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Two of the most distinctive Dubai-based artists with works that explore the intricate relationship between labour, rest, and the ever-evolving urban landscape of the UAE. "Considering the dynamics of human existence, alternating between cycles of depletion and restoration, the exhibition [... more]

Faisal Samra: Immortal Moment II – Coping with the Shock

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A solo exhibition with the second body of work from Faisal Samra’s Immortal Moment project, artworks created through the accumulation of instances that push the viewer to question the opportunities of a single moment. In the first chapter of this [... more]

Free

Alserkal Lates

Alserkal Avenue Al Quoz 1, Dubai

Alserkal Lates takes place in the middle of Alserkal Art Week, so there should be more than two dozen exhibitions in Avenue galleries open till 10pm (half of them taking the opportunity to open on the night) – with the [... more]

Free

Kirill Gerstein

The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

The Russian-American concert pianist promises an energetic, interesting and imaginative Abu Dhabi Festival recital spanning various musical traditions. Programme: Chopin Polonaise-Fantasie in A flat major, Op.61 Fauré Nocturne No.13 in B minor, Op.119 Poulenc Three Intermezzi (FP71/118) Liszt Polonaise in [... more]

AED 100

The Phantom of the Opera

Dubai Opera

Continuing its policy of attracting established blue-chip touring performances, Dubai Opera is running Broadway Entertainment Group's production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's critically acclaimed musical for a three-week run. The story is based on Gaston Leroux's classic novel of a musical [... more]

From AED 350

Funeral Home Comedy

Ting Irie, Mamsga al Saadiyat Mamsha Al Saadiyat, Cultural District, Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi's regular comedy night at an undoubtedly great location ("the UAE’s first Jamaican Restaurant & Lounge"). The AED 95 charge includes two drinks. ...    

AED 95

Simple Minds: Global Tour 2024

Coca-Cola Arena City Walk, Dubai

This eight-month-long Simple Minds tour genuinely is global (they started in January in New Zealand: Dubai is a stop between Australasia and Europe) and they expect to play to over one million people worldwide, showcase their eighteenth studio album Direction [... more]

From AED 195