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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261102
DTSTAMP: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/staging4/event/last-chance-artists-rooms-kamruzzaman-shahdin/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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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. \nAbove: Salah Elmur\, Fire Behind the Mountain (2025)
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/salah-elmur/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261106
DTSTAMP:20260804T134130Z
CREATED:20260804T134130Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T134130Z
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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/staging4/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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261108
DTSTAMP:20260913T155525Z
CREATED: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/staging4/event/closing-today-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: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/staging4/event/closing-today-bashar-khalaf-the-field-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Zawyeh Gallery\, Warehouse 27\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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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/staging4/event/last-chance-rana-begum-taking-form/
LOCATION:The Third Line\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260813T173413Z
CREATED: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/staging4/event/last-chance-ahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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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/staging4/event/last-chnaceahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261112
DTSTAMP:20260913T153043Z
CREATED: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/staging4/event/closing-today-ahmad-tallaa-the-living-archive/
LOCATION:Firetti Contemporary\, Unit 29\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTSTAMP:20260913T154520Z
CREATED:20260913T154520Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 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.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/closing-today-maggie-otieno-sojourner-the-difference-is-the-same/
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:20261129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261130
DTSTAMP:20260720T102553Z
CREATED:20260720T102553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260720T102553Z
UID:70249-1795910400-1795996799@magpie.ae
SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Vantage Point 13
DESCRIPTION:The latest edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s open-call photography exhibition examines the evolving possibilities of documentary photography through newly commissioned works by six artists – Luisa Dörr\, Latifa AlBokhari\, Sathish Kumar\, Adam Rouhana\, Guanyu Xu and Maheder Haileselassie. \nThe principle is that photography is not simply as a tool for recording reality but can be treated as a medium through which histories and systems of representation are negotiated. So through portraiture and observational strategies\, Dörr\, AlBokhari and Kumar probe the nuances of lived experience\, tracing intimate connections between land and belonging via long-term collaborations with individuals\, families and communities; Rouhana\, Guanyu Xu and Haileselassie explore themes of absence and rupture\, photography as a means of grappling with questions of visibility and with histories interrupted by conflict or erasure. As SAF puts it: “The works position documentary photography as a field in transformation – one defined not by static truths\, but by continual discernment”.
URL:https://magpie.ae/staging4/event/last-chance-vantage-point-13/
LOCATION:Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery\, Al Manakh\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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