• Maggie Otieno: Sojourner – The Difference Is the Same

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

    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, [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence

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

    A summer-long group show for Luke Agada, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ludovic Nkoth, and Naila Opiangah, curated by Brice Arsène Yonkeu – whose curatorial statement defines the show as "an encounter with works on paper and paintings that move between visibility and [... more]

    Free
  • In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence

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

    A summer-long group show for Luke Agada, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Ludovic Nkoth, and Naila Opiangah, curated by Brice Arsène Yonkeu – whose curatorial statement defines the show as "an encounter with works on paper and paintings that move between visibility and [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Maggie Otieno: Sojourner – The Difference Is the Same

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

    Otieno’s first solo presentation with Efie centres on her signature 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.

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY Aïda Muluneh: This Bloom I Borrow

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

    A new series of images by the Ethiopian art photographer, her second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show includes 10 works that have never been seen before. Muluneh has been a distinctive voice in contemporary photography throughout her 25-year [... more]

    Free
  • Maggie Otieno: Sojourner – The Difference Is the Same

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

    Otieno’s first solo presentation with Efie centres on her signature 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. To 16 May. [... more]

    Free
  • Aïda Muluneh: This Bloom I Borrow

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

    A new series of images by the Ethiopian art photographer, her second solo exhibition at the gallery. The show includes 10 works that have never been seen before, using techniques developed through Muluneh's recent residency at Efie. Muluneh has been [... more]

    Free
  • CLOSING TODAY The Shape of Things to Come

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

    A striking collection of artists feature in this group show, with works by El Anatsui, Iman Issa, Abdoulaye Konaté, Adam Pendleton, Yinka Shonibare and Carrie Mae Weems. Curated by Japan-based American curator Dexter Wimberly, the exhibition responds to "the shifting [... more]

    Free
  • Tajouj: dir Gadalla Gubara (1977)

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

    The first feature film to be directed by a Sudanese filmmaker, this historical romance tells of the beautiful Tajouj whose cousin publicly declares his love for her in a song. The traditions of the tribe decry such an act and [... more]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Xala: dir Ousmane Sembène (1975)

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

    This Senegalese satirical comedy, written and directed by Ousmane Sembène as an adaptation of his own novel, finds a corrupt government official cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage. He comes to realise it's connecting with [... more]

    Free, but pre-register
  • The Wind Will Carry Us: dir Abbas Kiarostami (1999)

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

    Kiarostami wrote and directed this deceptively simple but highly affecting film about a journalist posing as a city engineer who arrives in a Kurdish village to document the locals' mourning rituals in anticipation of the death of an old woman. [... more]

    Free, but pre-register