• Tirdad Hashemi and Soufia Erfanian: I Bloom Where You Hold Me

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    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 [... more]

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  • Alaa Itani: A Momentum for the Horizon

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    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 [... more]

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  • Alia Zaal: In Plain Sight

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Alia Zaal’s first exhibition with the gallery features new paintings – on canvas, paper, and ceramic tiles – depicting intimate fragments of landscapes loved by the artist. Highlighting details of familiar plants, trees, and flora from the scrublands and forest [... more]

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  • Move, pause, return: gathering

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The culmination of Gallery Isabelle's 20th anniversary 20-day exhibition welcomes artists, contributors, and friends (the full exhibition, during which one work has been unveiled each day, remains on view until 28 May). Those involved: Artists: Hassan Sharif, Bahman Jalali, Mohammed [... more]

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  • Move Pause Return

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Gallery Isabelle is celebrating its 20th anniversary, not least with this interesting exhibition that grew out of a conversation with Alexie Glass-Kantor, Curatorial Director at Art Dubai Group, around the notion of accumulation – as both a curatorial method and [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY :mentalKLINIK: Are You Human Enough

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Set within an environment of visual overload and compulsive accumulation, the work in this third solo exhibition at the gallery for the artist duo centres on the human figure at risk of dissolving into surface, interface, and pattern – a [... more]

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  • :mentalKLINIK: Are You Human Enough

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Set within an environment of visual overload and compulsive accumulation, the work in this third solo exhibition at the gallery for the artist duo centres on the human figure at risk of dissolving into surface, interface, and pattern – a [... more]

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  • Fereydoun Ave, Raana Farnoud, Shaqayeq Arabi: IMPROVISATIONS

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The artists in this group show have distinct visual languages that do find commonalities: they "transform the familiar through acts of care, attention, and intuitive play ... a shared attentiveness to what is provisional, such as a line that wavers, [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Mahmoud El Safadi: Personal Sea

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Exhibiting for the first time in Dubai, Lebanese artist Mahmoud El Safadi is showing a collection of miniature paintings on playing cards, a series of works that reflect on the Mediterranean as a site of memory, inheritance, and continuity – [... more]

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  • CLOSING TODAY Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    For his third solo exhibition here, the French-Algerian artist has taken inspiration from Kometenbuch (The Comet Book), a 16th-century Flemish treatise depicting comets and fantastical apparitions; Benchamma suggests how astronomy and astrology, science and folklore, continue to overlap in shaping [... more]

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