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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
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SUMMARY:Ahaad Alamoudi: Sunkissed
DESCRIPTION:The motifs of the sun and its intense heat as well as the sand and its pervasive orange hue often serve to represent and condense the Gulf’s complex ecologies and aspirations. This selection of recent and newly commissioned works by Jeddah-based artist Ahaad Alamoudi draws on these stereotypical symbols to examine how collective identity and visual expression intersect\, emerge and unfold amid the region’s rapidly transforming landscape. \nAlamoudi’s snapshots of contemporary Khaleeji aesthetics playfully capture the give-and-take between developmental goals and their real-world manifestation. Viral memes\, talking falcons\, automated toy cars and insect light traps all function as tools to process accelerating change; together\, these works explore how the overarching desire for development is absorbed and rearticulated in everyday life. \nThe exhibition is curated by Amal Al Ali\, Curatorial Assistant at the Foundation. To 3 May. \nAbove: Ahaad Alamoudi\, Those Who Don’t Know Falcons Grill Them (still)\, (2018)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/ahaad-alamoudi-sunkissed/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition,Photography
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
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SUMMARY:Jorge Tacla: Time the destroyer is time the preserver
DESCRIPTION:While Jorge Tacla was only an adolescent during the 1973 coup against Chile’s democratically-elected socialist president Salvador Allende\, the upheaval left an irrevocable mark on his politics and practice. Titled after a line from a TS Eliot poem\, Tacla’s “most expansive presentation to date” examines how enduring truths can be excavated in the aftermath of a destructive incident. \nStructured as eight ‘chapters’\, the exhibition traces Tacla’s sustained challenge to the supposed hierarchies of human suffering\, false binaries of victim and perpetrator\, and the structural violence connecting seemingly disparate events; the paintings reassert the primacy of human memory and perception in navigating the complexities of representation and interpretation. By depicting buildings and landscapes ‘in negative’\, the artist defines form through absence\, “creating images that reflect on how events are inscribed within individual and collective consciousness”. \nThe exhibition is curated by SAF director Hoor Al Qasimi with Abdulla Aljanahi\, Curatorial Assistant at the Foundation. To 7 June. \nAbove: Jorge Tacla\, La Distribucion de los Primarios (The Distribution of the Primes) (1995)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/jorge-tacla-time-the-destroyer-is-time-the-preserver/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
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SUMMARY:LAST CHANCE Leda Catunda: I like to like what others are liking
DESCRIPTION:The most comprehensive solo exhibition to date of Brazilian artist Leda Catunda outside her home country. Sharjah Art Foundation is presenting four decades of Catunda’s practice\, tracing the transformation of her art from figurative painting to hybrid forms that explore materiality\, abstraction and dimensionality; her works typically explore the limits of textures and materials\, exemplifed by her ‘soft paintings’ over materials like toweling\, bedclothes\, leather\, velvet and silk. But the scope is broad: from large-scale installations to elemental watercolours\, each piece embodies a sensuous negotiation between the handmade and the mass-produced\, offering a whimsical critique of pop culture and consumerism.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/last-chance-leda-catunda-i-like-to-like-what-others-are-liking/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20251213T150000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20251213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
CREATED:20251209T151236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251209T151308Z
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SUMMARY:Restless Circle: Tour and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:What goes into conceptualising and curating a solo exhibition? Artist Afra Al Dhaheri and curator May Al Qaydi lead an enquiry-based tour of Al Dhaheri’s current exhibition Restless Circle (ends tomorrow\, 14 December)\, followed by a conversation between the two that offers insight into the artist’s process and her collaboration with the curator.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/restless-circle-tour-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Conversation
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250927
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
CREATED:20250919T163445Z
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SUMMARY:Leda Catunda: I like to like what others are liking
DESCRIPTION:The most comprehensive solo exhibition to date of Brazilian artist Leda Catunda outside her home country. Sharjah Art Foundation is presenting four decades of Catunda’s practice\, tracing the transformation of her art from figurative painting to hybrid forms that explore materiality\, abstraction and dimensionality; her works typically explore the limits of textures and materials\, exemplifed by her ‘soft paintings’ over materials like toweling\, bedclothes\, leather\, velvet and silk. But the scope is broad: from large-scale installations to elemental watercolours\, each piece embodies a sensuous negotiation between the handmade and the mass-produced\, offering a whimsical critique of pop culture and consumerism. \nThe exhibition is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi\,  director Sharjah Art Foundation\, with Meera Madhu\, Curatorial Assistant at the Foundation. \nTo 8 February.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/leda-catunda-i-like-to-like-what-others-are-liking/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231119
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
CREATED:20230628T151057Z
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SUMMARY:Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective (1970–2023)
DESCRIPTION:Jantjes is recognised as a creative activist\, artist\, curator and critical thinker\, furthering the discourses and representation of African and African diaspora art. The largest solo presentation of the artist to date\, this retrospective for the UK-based South African artist brings together more than 100 prints\, drawings\, and paintings as well as archival material from the 1970s onwards. It includes a new body of work produced during his 2022 residency in Sharjah. Organised in collaboration with The Africa Institute\, the exhibition is curated by the Institute’s director Salah Hassan. \nTo 10 March. \nAbove: Gavin Jantjes\, Untitled. From the Zulu series (1989)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/gavin-jantjes-to-be-free-a-retrospective-1970-2023/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20230729T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20230729T190000
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
CREATED:20230724T124148Z
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SUMMARY:SAF Book Club: Readings on diaspora and migration
DESCRIPTION:This SAF Book Club meeting begins with a tour of the current Al Mureijah Art Spaces exhibition\, the rather good In the Heart of Another Country. The show is about diaspora and migration\, and that’s the theme of the book club meet; see here for reading references\, The event features both Arabic and English.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/saf-book-club-readings-on-diaspora-and-migration/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Book club,Words
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230716
DTSTAMP:20260426T160132
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SUMMARY:In the Heart of Another Country: the Diasporic Imagination Rises
DESCRIPTION:Originally shown at Deichtorhallen Hamburg\, this exhibition exploring the concept of home has been expanded for its Sharjah Art Foundation visit with the addition of recent acquisitions and newly restored works of art from the Foundation’s own collection. \nThe exhibition examines how mobility across space and time has shaped and contoured the frame of global art today. More than 150 works by over 60 artists will be on view\, including works by Etel Adnan\, Rasheed Araeen\, Huguette Caland\, Tiffany Chung\, Meschac Gaba\, David Koloane and Kamala Ibrahim Ishag. All the artists in the show have traversed migratory routes from South and West Asia\, through Africa and the Caribbean\, and many now live far from where they first believed that they belonged. \nOrganised in collaboration with Deichtorhallen Hamburg\, the exhibition is curated by Dr Omar Kholeif\, Sharjah Art Foundation’s Director of Collections and Senior Curator. \nTo 24 September. \nAbove: Etel Adnan\, Mount Tamalpaïs (2015)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/in-the-heart-of-another-country-the-diasporic-imagination-rises/
LOCATION:Al Mureijah Square\, Sharjah
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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