• LAST CHANCE Adel Dauood: Immigrant

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    "The immigrant embodies the human capacity to adapt and rebuild wherever they settle. They create bridges between cultures, carrying a soul heavy with memories that form a part of their identity." New work by the prominent Syrian artist, blending abstraction [ ... ]

    Free
  • Adel Dauood: Immigrant

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    "The immigrant embodies the human capacity to adapt and rebuild wherever they settle. They create bridges between cultures, carrying a soul heavy with memories that form a part of their identity." New work by the prominent Syrian artist, blending abstraction [ ... ]

    Free
  • Bente Christensen-Ernst: Under Cover.

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    A sadly short show of new works from the Danish painter of vivid, hyperrealistic works (mainly portraits) in oil. To 28 February.

    Free
  • Hala Dabaji: Shadow Puppet

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    Hala Dabaji's distinctive paintings feature an androgynous character called Obu ("he has a challenging spirit") created in acrylic on canvas and more recently watercolour on fabric; the flatness and stylised hand gestures suggest a form of communicating that echoes shadow [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Echoes of Sierra Leone

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    A group show by five artists from Sierra Leone – Hawa-Jane Bangura, Hickmatu Leigh, Julius Parker, Felix Rhodes, Zahra Fakih Zato.

    Free
  • Echoes of Sierra Leone

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    A group show by five artists from Sierra Leone – Hawa-Jane Bangura, Hickmatu Leigh, Julius Parker, Felix Rhodes, Zahra Fakih Zato. To 22 June.

    Free
  • Imad Habbab: Identity Traces

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    New work by the Syrian artist aims to capture the echoes of thoughts, ideas and experiences of the cities he's lived in: Damascus, Beirut and Istanbul. "His work reflects and expresses the amalgamation of human and urban relationships within each [ ... ]

  • Mohannad OrabI: Coloured Shadows

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    Collage art by the Dubai-based Syrian artist whose work reflects his interest in spontaneity, the liberation of forms and colours, and the creation of art without specific guidelines. To 20 December.  

    Free
  • Fahad Salim: The Sin Within

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    The Omani artist’s first solo show in Dubai declares that there's always a way to emerge from darkness to lightness, as exemplified by the transformation of shame from something sinister into strength and confidence: bold colours suspending and transcending traumatic [ ... ]

    Free