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Jameel Arts Centre

Jameel Arts Centre is an independent institution dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art to the public and engaging communities through learning, research and commissions.

Jameel Arts Centre, Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai, UAE

Jameel Arts Centre is an independent space dedicated to promoting contemporary art through an innovative cultural programme and engaging activities addressed to the entire community. Aimed to be a leading contemporary art institution for the UAE, the Middle East and South Asia region and beyond, the centre hosts a varied programme which includes solo and group exhibitions, commissions and projects drawn both from the Art Jameel collection and external collaborations, and promotes artists from the region and outside.

The centre was founded and supported by Art Jameel, an independent organisation which operates in order to nurture contemporary art practice and protect the cultural heritage of the UAE region and beyond.

Located in Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai, the architectural complex was designed by the UK-based Serie Architects led by principal Christopher Lee. Besides the exhibit spaces, it hosts also an open-access library and research centre, a restaurant, a shop, a rooftop terrace designed for installations, film screenings and events and dedicated projects and events spaces.

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Contacts & Details

OPENING TIMES:
Sat – Wed 10am – 6pm; Thu, Fri 12pm – 8pm

CLOSED:
Tue

T: +971 4 873 9800
M: hello@jameelartscentre.org
W: Jameel Arts Centre

ADDRESS
Jameel Arts Centre, Jaddaf Waterfront, Dubai, UAE

ESTABLISHED
2018
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Past Exhibitions

Exhibitions

An Ocean in Every Drop

The group show brings together works from around the globe that explore human relationships to water, ‘An Ocean in Every Drop’ asks us to think with water, following its flows through the past to inform our present.

22 Sep 2022 - 02 Apr 2023
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Fahd Burki: Daydreams

This exhibition is Fahd Burki’s first international solo, bringing together more than 50 works spanning the past 15 years of the artist’s practice.

05 Mar 2022 - 24 Sep 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Sunoj D and Namrata Neog: Desert is a Forest

Attempting to see through the UAE landscape, this work asks what kinds of negotiations, relationships and hierarchies emerge and submerge if we imagine the desert to be a forest?

17 Oct 2020 - 04 Sep 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Taus Makhacheva: A Space of Celebration

In ‘A Space of Celebration’, facts merge with myth and fiction, troubling the notion of authenticity and opening doors to the fantastical.

23 Feb 2022 - 13 Aug 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Salma Serry: Library Circles

Jameel Library presents food writer and filmmaker Salma Serry’s research, exploring food as a site of confluence where history, knowledge, politics, economies, senses and semantics become interconnected elements that are produced and reproduced continuously throughout time.

02 Feb 2022 - 01 Aug 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Trevor Yeung: Rock Universe

Trevor Yeung presents a new site-specific work, Rock Universe (2022) at Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture...

22 Jan 2022 - 30 May 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Off Centre / On Stage

Off Centre / On Stage seeks an earlier Dubai, much of which has now been bulldozed or cast in the shadow of a new city.

29 Sep 2021 - 21 May 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Samson Young: Artist’s Room, Reasonable Music

Samson Young’s Artist’s Room features a new, site-specific installation, Reasonable Music – an interactive environment consisting of (text as) sound and (text as) image.

30 Oct 2021 - 07 May 2022
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Age of You

On view at Jameel Arts Centre, the exhibition explores the perception of self in the 21st century

29 Jan 2021 - 14 Aug 2021
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Hiwa K: Do You Remember What You Are Burning?

The first solo exhibition by the artist in Asia and the Middle East

16 Dec 2020 - 24 Jul 2021
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Hassan Khan: Composition for a Public Park

Originally commissioned for the Parc de Belleville in Paris, as part of La Nuit Blanche (2013) and later shown at the 57th Venice Biennial (2017) where it won the Silver Lion

02 Nov 2019 - 17 May 2021
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Michael Rakowitz 

A major survey of work by the renowned Iraqi-American artist, organised in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery and Castello di Rivoli.

11 Mar 2020 - 08 Aug 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Lubna Chowdhary: Metropolis

“Metropolis” is a multi-object work of 1000 handmade clay sculptures that celebrate architectural...

15 Feb 2020 - 01 Aug 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Artist’s Garden: Asunción Molinos Gordo

IN TRANSIT: Botany of a Journey by Asunción Molinos Gordo is the second Artist’s Garden commission at Jameel Arts Centre.

01 Dec 2019 - 01 Jun 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

waiwai: Follies

Follies is a display of built and unbuilt projects by Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto, principals...

08 Feb 2020 - 30 Apr 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Jaddaf Aloud Online: an interactive virtual programme by Jameel Arts Centre

Jaddaf Aloud Online is a new virtual programme launched to celebrate homegrown creative talent and provide...

19 Apr 2020 - 24 Apr 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Sarah Abu Abdallah: For the First Time in a Long Time

A coproduction with the Kunstverein in Hamburg

17 Dec 2019 - 20 Apr 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Phantom Limb

Interrogating our lived relationship to material heritage,”Phantom Limb“, as its title implies,...

10 Oct 2019 - 15 Feb 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

The Library of Unread Books

Initiated by Heman Chong and Renée Staal, The Library of Unread Books is a 10-year art project that...

16 Nov 2019 - 31 Jan 2020
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Second Hand

Gathering together the works from the Art Jameel Collection that explore materiality in contemporary...

03 Jul 2019 - 23 Nov 2019
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Chiharu Shiota: Departure

Specially commissioned for the opening of the Jameel Arts Centre, “Departure” is a large-scale...

10 Nov 2018 - 07 Sep 2019
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Contrary Life: A Botanical Light Garden Devoted to Trees

Kuwait-based artists Alia Farid and Aseel AlYaqoub created the immersive installation “Contrary...

11 Nov 2018 - 01 Sep 2019
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Artist’s Rooms

“Artist’s Rooms” of the Jameel Arts Centre presents Farah Al Qasimi, Hemali Bhuta, Seher...

07 Mar 2019 - 08 Jun 2019
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions

Crude: Oil as Archive, Infrastructure and Technology

The exhibition groups 17 artists and collectives which investigate the topic of oil, considered as an...

11 Nov 2018 - 30 Mar 2019
Jameel Arts Centre

Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi