5 November 2025
  • The Only Way Out Is Through: The Twentieth Line

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Shumon Basar curates this project marking the gallery’s 20th anniversary, a look back on "two decades of The Third Line’s story in relation to global cultural, political, and economic shifts". The exhibition component features both early and more recent works from [ ... ]

  • LAST CHANCE Nima Nabavi: Sunrise at the Vortex

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The second solo exhibition by Nima Nabavi at the gallery features new works that mark a significant evolution in the artist's practice, reflecting a deepened commitment to introspection, geometry, and modes of making that embrace technology alongside traditional tools. Created [ ... ]

    Free
  • Nima Nabavi: Sunrise at the Vortex

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The second solo exhibition by Nima Nabavi at the gallery features new works that mark a significant evolution in the artist's practice, reflecting a deepened commitment to introspection, geometry, and modes of making that embrace technology alongside traditional tools. Created [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Huda Lutfi: Unraveling

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Huda Lutfi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery includes works from three recent series – When Dreams Call for Silence (2019), Our Black Thread (2020–2021), and Healing Devices (2020–ongoing) It also includes a selection of previously unshown miniature collages, offering [ ... ]

    Free
  • Huda Lutfi: Unraveling

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Huda Lutfi’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery includes works from three recent series – When Dreams Call for Silence (2019), Our Black Thread (2020–2021), and Healing Devices (2020–ongoing) It also includes a selection of previously unshown miniature collages, offering [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Slavs and Tatars: Simurgh Self-Help

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    This is The Third Line's third solo exhibition with the artist collective Slavs and Tatar, presenting a new body of work inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’ Musée d'Art Moderne – Département des Aigles (1968-1972) – one of the most influential works [ ... ]

    Free
  • Slavs and Tatars: Simurgh Self-Help

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    This is The Third Line's third solo exhibition with the artist collective Slavs and Tatar, presenting a new body of work inspired by Marcel Broodthaers’ Musée d'Art Moderne – Département des Aigles (1968-1972) – one of the most influential works [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A group exhibition curated by Sanaz Askari that brings together a diverse collective of artists from across Africa and Asia – Faissal El-Malak, Hayv Kahraman, Mahsa Merci, Michael Ho, Omar Mismar, Sam Samiee, Sophia Al-Maria, Soufiane Ababri, Tahmineh Monzavi, and [ ... ]

    Free
  • Neither Here ~ Nor Elsewhere

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A group exhibition curated by Sanaz Askari that brings together a diverse collective of artists from across Africa and Asia – Faissal El-Malak, Hayv Kahraman, Mahsa Merci, Michael Ho, Omar Mismar, Sam Samiee, Sophia Al-Maria, Soufiane Ababri, Tahmineh Monzavi, and [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Vian Sora: House of Pearls

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    New paintings and works on paper from the Louisville-based artist that explore pearls as "a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate". Drawing on her experiences as a war survivor and immigrant (Iraqi-born, [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Vian Sora: House of Pearls

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line's first solo exhibition with Louisville-based artist Vian Sora features new paintings and works on paper that explore pearls as "a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate". Sora draws on [ ... ]

    Free
  • Vian Sora: House of Pearls

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    New paintings and works on paper from the Louisville-based artist that explore pearls as "a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate". Drawing on her experiences as a war survivor and immigrant (Iraqi-born, [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Khalid Jauffer: Looking, dwelling, leaving

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. "Discarded objects and [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Ala Ebtekar: The Sky of the Seven Valleys

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ebtekar's exhibition, is presented as "one work in seven chapters", each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist's distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's Sufi poem Conference of the Birds, [ ... ]

    Free
  • Khalid Jauffer: Looking, dwelling, leaving

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. "Discarded objects and [ ... ]

    Free
  • Ala Ebtekar: The Sky of the Seven Valleys

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ebtekar's exhibition is presented as "one work in seven chapters", each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist's distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's Sufi poem Conference of the Birds, [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Farah Al Qasimi: Toy World

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line's fourth solo exhibition with Farah Al Qasimi, Brooklyn based but Abu Dhabi born, is a collection of still and moving images in colour and – for the first time – black and white too. “Black and white [ ... ]

    Free
  • Farah Al Qasimi: Toy World

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line's fourth solo exhibition with Farah Al Qasimi, Brooklyn based but Abu Dhabi born, is a collection of still and moving images in colour and – for the first time – black and white too. “Black and white [ ... ]

    Free
  • Kamran Samimi: Before Nature (I Am Both Created and Destroyed)

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Kamran Samimi's first exhibition with The Third Line draws inspiration from the land's rich tapestry of natural materials. Delving into the concealed narratives of the UAE's mountainous terrain, Samimi's practice is deeply rooted in a profound sense of place. As [ ... ]

    Free
  • Pouran Jinchi: Fly Like Dandelions

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Pouran Jinchi was inspired to embark on this new body of work after reading an article about a Guatemalan farmer forced to flee due to the impact of climate change on agriculture; her inspiration for this series stems from landscapes [ ... ]

    Free
  • Nima Nabavi and Jason Seife: Duality

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    New works by two artists working together in symbiosis – pairings of canvases that are mixed and matched (the precise dimensions of each canvas are the same) but not exact: the works are cousins, not siblings. Geometry was the common [ ... ]

    Free
  • Sahand Hesamiyan: Prolepsis

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line's third solo exhibition with Sahand Hesamiyan is a collection of sculptures that celebrate his dedication to steel as a 3D medium and shine a light on a number of long-cherished yet unrealised projects. While Hesamiyan is known [ ... ]

  • Lamya Gargash: Isthmus

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Lamya Gargash’s fifth solo show at the gallery celebrates the artist’s poetics of space, recounting human experiences throughout different geographies without the direct presence of the human figure. “Photographing selections of objects, furniture pieces, window details, and wall trimmings speaks [ ... ]

    Free
  • Shabahang Tayyari: Stop counting the waves following me, you seabirds!

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    This solo exhibition explores themes of uniformity, replication, flatness, originality, fiction, and exclusivity within the frame of each painting, but also between the different frames, and throughout the overall arrangement of the works. The deliberate arrangement of the paintings, with [ ... ]

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  • Bady Dalloul: A country without a door and a window

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Bady Dalloul's solo show comprises a series of 200 miniature drawings displayed inside pocket matchboxes. The vividly coloured and seemingly childlike images sharply contrast with the harsh reality of the stories they depict of the Syrian civil war; by re-appropriating [ ... ]

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  • Anuar Khalifi: Mirror Ball

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line’s second solo exhibition for the self-taught Spanish-Moroccan artist debuts a new sculpture together with a series of richly detailed and vibrant paintings that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration into “the complexities of personal identity and the experience [ ... ]

    Free
  • Hayv Kahraman: Gut Feelings Part II

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The Third Line's fifth solo show with the LA-based Iraqi-Kurdish artist fills both gallery spaces with a series of new paintings and drawings that continue her ongoing exploration into the effects of trauma on the body, and the role of [ ... ]