• Urdu Worlds

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    A contemporary art exhibition dedicated to the Urdu language: according to Ishara, "the show explores how language provides the tools with which we create and shape our internal ‘worlds’. Words, rather than simply describing our surroundings, give rise to our [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Prix Pictet: Storm

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Prix Pictet, founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, is the world’s leading award for photography that draws attention to issues of global sustainability; this exhibition showcases work by 12 photographers who have been shortlisted for the eleventh cycle of [ ... ]

    Free
  • Prix Pictet: Storm

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Prix Pictet, founded in 2008 by the Pictet Group, is the world’s leading award for photography that draws attention to issues of global sustainability; this exhibition showcases work by 12 photographers who have been shortlisted for the eleventh cycle of [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE No Trespassing

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Ishara’s first summer exhibition, curated by Priyanka Mehra, features six UAE-based and South Asian artists exploring their relationship with the street – “a collection of individual experiences that alternate between chaotic and orderly, gritty and beautiful, uninhibited and curated … [ ... ]

  • No Trespassing

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Ishara’s first summer exhibition, curated by Priyanka Mehra, features six UAE-based and South Asian artists exploring their relationship with the street – “a collection of individual experiences that alternate between chaotic and orderly, gritty and beautiful, uninhibited and curated … [ ... ]

  • LAST CHANCE Ayesha Sultana: Fragility and Resilience

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    The first major solo show in the GCC for the Bangladesh-born US-based artist. Her practice spans drawing, painting and sculpture, "exploring the material and conceptual possibilities of form and medium ... Sultana proposes that fragility can be a form of [ ... ]

  • Artist Talk: Ayesha Sultana

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Ayesha Sultana’s first public talk in the UAE examines the complex relationship between the human body and the natural world, and in particular her hand-blown glass sculptures and watercolour paintings on tissue displayed at Ishara in her ongoing Fragility and [ ... ]

    Free
  • Ayesha Sultana: Fragility and Resilience

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    The first major solo show in the GCC for the Bangladesh-born US-based artist. Her practice spans drawing, painting and sculpture, "exploring the material and conceptual possibilities of form and medium ... Sultana proposes that fragility can be a form of [ ... ]

  • LAST CHANCE Sheher, Prakriti, Devi

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Riffing on the interwoven relationship between cities, the natural environment and the sacred, this show presents work by 12 artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces. In this show are works [ ... ]

    Free
  • Sheher, Prakriti, Devi

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Riffing on the interwoven relationship between cities, the natural environment and the sacred, this show presents work by 12 artists and collectives working across diverse contexts of urban, rural, domestic, communitarian, public and non-material spaces. Sheher, Prakriti, Devi comes from [ ... ]

    Free
  • Silent Objects | An Interactive Storytelling Session by Shereen Saif

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    Taking as its point of departure a folktale that inspired Sudarshan Shetty’s artwork ‘A Song A Story’, Shereen Saif's workshop invites participants to uncover stories layered in everyday objects. Touching on history, memory and silences, the workshop is a companion [ ... ]

    Free but pre-register
  • Sudarshan Shetty: Only Life, Myriad Places

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    This major solo exhibition for Sudarshan Shetty celebrates the global premiere of the artist’s latest film One Life Many with the first-ever survey of Shetty’s moving image works, including rarely seen videos, multimedia installations and sculptures. A key motif is [ ... ]

    Free
  • Artist Talk: Haroon Mirza

    Ishara Art Foundation Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

    In his first public presentation in the UAE, the UK based artist-composer will talk about recent works underpinned by his interest in energy and power in their various forms – Mirza considers electricity as his primary artistic medium, creating from [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register