• Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige: The Vertiginous Story of Orthosia

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    A second performance for Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige's speculative performance about the lost Roman city of Orthosia. buried beneath the Nahr al Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon. The ruins of the ancient city of Orthosia, lost since being [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Three Tired Tigers

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Bringing together more than 40 artists and collectives, drawing from politics, history, economics and urbanism, this exhibition takes a playful yet serious approach to how animals navigate and thrive within the gaps of urban environments. What happens when animals escape [ ... ]

    Free
  • Creative Career Days

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel's introduction to careers in the creative sector, aimed primarily at school and college students, is back. Under the (somewhat unwieldy) title Form = Function = Form = Function = Form, the 2024 edition focus on design careers "and [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE At the Edge of Land

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    This group exhibition, curated by Lucas Morin, highlights unexpectedly interconnected geographies, resources and commodities, moving between land and sea to tell stories of conflict, erosion and extraction; it's based on works from the Art Jameel Collection plus loans and new [ ... ]

    Free
  • Candice Lin: Night Stone

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The LA-based artist’s first solo exhibition in West Asia. In Night Stone, a large one-room installation, Candice Lin uses ceramic sculptures, textile works and a site-specific mural to connect the contemporary trade of manganese between Australia and China with the [ ... ]

    Free
  • Artist’s Rooms: Sancintya Mohini Simpson

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descended from indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa; her work navigates the complexities of migration, memory and trauma, moving between painting, video, poetry and performance to address [ ... ]

    Free
  • Artist’s Rooms: Augustine Paredes

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Augustine Paredes’ artist’s room brings together his own personal histories and stories that explore his relationship to identity and family via his personal journey as a migrant, navigating constantly between time, places and identities. Gradually moving away from the camera [ ... ]

    Free
  • Artist’s Rooms: Amba Sayal-Bennett

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Works spanning the last eight years of the artist’s practice that critically engage with the socio-political contexts of architectural heritage and modernist ideologies and aesthetics. Drawing is at the centre of Amba Sayal-Bennett’s practice, expanding across works on paper, projections [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Vikram Divecha’s exhibition covers the Dubai-based artist’s practice since 2013, showcasing his playful and poetic site-specific works, public art, installations, videos, photography and drawings. In particular, Divecha has long had an in-depth interest in the invisible structures of planning, construction, [ ... ]

    Free
  • All That Perishes at the Edge of Land: dir Hira Nabi (2019)

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Before the Ocean Master met its demise at the Gadani shipbreaking yards in Pakistan, filmmaker and artist Hira Nabi gave it a voice and staged conversations between the vessel and the labourers dismantling it. The stories exchanged between the workers [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • At the Edge of Land

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    This group exhibition, curated by Lucas Morin, highlights unexpectedly interconnected geographies, resources and commodities, moving between land and sea to tell stories of conflict, erosion and extraction; it's based on works from the Art Jameel Collection plus loans and new [ ... ]

    Free
  • Youth Takeover 2024

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel's annual handover of the arts centre to a selected cohort of young visionaries starts on Saturday 4 May and runs to Monday 27 May. There will be multiple artwork and installation "interventions" across the ground floor of the [ ... ]

    Free
  • Visualizing Palestine: Gaza in Context

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Aline Batarseh, Executive Director of Visualizing Palestine talks about her organisation's most recent work contextualising the crisis in Gaza — from infographics to videos to interactive platforms – while also providing insight into Visualizing Palestine’s process for data collection and [ ... ]

    Free
  • Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Vikram Divecha’s exhibition covers the Dubai-based artist’s practice since 2013, showcasing his playful and poetic site-specific works, public art, installations, videos, photography and drawings. In particular, Divecha has long had an in-depth interest in the invisible structures of planning, construction, [ ... ]

    Free
  • Traversing Landscapes

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel is running a third season of Night School, a seminar programme where UAE residents can discuss urbanism and history in Dubai. Under this season's theme, There You Are, participants will assess how much we can know about a [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • (No) Body is Translating

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel is running a third season of Night School, a seminar programme where UAE residents can discuss urbanism and history in Dubai. Under this season's theme, There You Are, participants will assess how much we can know about a [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • Every Brilliant Thing

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Second and final performance for his highly recommended one-hander, directed and performed by the Junction's Gautam Goenka. As his mother battles chronic depression, a child creates a list of every thing they can think of that makes life worth living. [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • Every Brilliant Thing

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    As his mother battles chronic depression, a child creates a list of every thing they can think of that makes life worth living. As the child grows, so does the list. Looking back on a life of ups and downs, [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • Creative Careers Days

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The Jameel's annual festival devoted to helping the young explore a possible future in the arts is pitched at "all high school and university students, teachers, developing professionals and creatively minded youth in the UAE". Day one is aimed at [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-registration recommended
  • Some seasons: Fereydoun Ave and the Laal Collection, 1959-2019

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Over the past five decades, artist, curator, designer and collector Fereydoun Ave (b. 1945) has assembled a singular collection of modern and contemporary Iranian art inflected by personal history, friendship, sensibility and circumstance. A linchpin figure, Ave returned to Iran in 1970 [ ... ]

    Free
  • Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Founded in 2009, the Jameel Prize is a collaboration between the V&A and Art Jameel; it is the world’s leading award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. This sixth edition, the first to have a focus on [ ... ]

    Free
  • Jameel Arts Centre Youth Takeover

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    The annual Jameel Arts Centre Youth Takeover – a physical takeover of the Jameel's spaces by the eight members of The Assembly 2022-2023 – features multiple audiovisual and artwork interventions around the stairs, passageways and galleries 9 and 10. The [ ... ]

    Free
  • Library Circles: Another Empty House

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    For the Fall iteration of Library Circles, the jameel's series of research, talks and experimental interventions by UAE practitioners that explores alternative research methodologies and representations, Jameel Library presents a display by Another Empty House. This collaborative research-based project by [ ... ]

    Free
  • Tsuyoshi Hisakado: Polite Existence

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Now we think this could be one of the highlights of the art year locally: it will be Tsuyoshi Hisakado’s first exhibition in the region (he shows mainly in his native Japan and the Pacific Rim, with a foray to [ ... ]

    Free
  • Tsuyoshi Hisakado

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    In his first exhibition in the Middle East and South Asia, co-produced by Art Jameel with the Japan Foundation, Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Hisakado’s solo exhibition in Galleries 4-8 focuses on large-scale conceptual installations that span techniques and materials including sound, [ ... ]

    Free