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Memory sews together events that hadn’t previously met
Drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation, artworks in the exhibition reflect the manifold ways in which artists in the Arab world have responded to socio-political events and the human condition across the twentieth century.
07 Apr 2021 - 30 May 2023
Sharjah Art Museum
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Museum Collection: Modern and Contemporary Arab Art
The Sharjah Art Museum’s collection embodies the richness and diversity of modern and contemporary art produced in the Arab World during the past fifty years.
01 Jan 2018 - 31 Dec 2022
Sharjah Art Museum
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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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
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Farah Al Qasimi: General Behavior
General Behavior presents Farah Al Qasimi’s encapsulation of the effects of a hyper global culture...
10 Mar 2022 - 20 Sep 2022
Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Mohamed Al Astad: Another Perspective
Another Perspective presents Mohamed Al Astad’s Danat Al Shawati – ‘The Art of Beach Pearls’, where he uses sea sand, rust and time to create dramatic visual pieces, and is created here for the first time as an interactive installation and an immersive experience of his world.
10 Mar 2022 - 20 Sep 2022
Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Wim Delvoye
A solo exhibition bringing together bodies of work by the Neo-conceptual artist.
07 Mar 2022 - 15 Sep 2022
Leila Heller Gallery
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Reza Derakshani
Leila Heller presents a series of new and never before seen paintings by the Iranian artist.
07 Mar 2022 - 15 Sep 2022
Leila Heller Gallery
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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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
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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
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Cristiana de Marchi: Finer: a thread…in the swell of wandering words
Lebanese-Italian artist Cristiana de Marchi turns the spotlight on stitched works.
07 Mar 2022 - 04 Aug 2022
Maraya Art Centre
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Aref Al Rayess
This major retrospective presents a largely unknown body of work created by the prolific Lebanese artist Aref El Rayess (1928–2005). The exhibition includes a wide range of paintings, drawings, works on paper, sculptures and tapestries that together reveal the rich and complex artistic practice of this important Arab modernist.
26 Feb 2022 - 01 Aug 2022
Sharjah Art Museum
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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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
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Gerald Annan-Forson: Revolution and Image-making in Postcolonial Ghana (1979-1985)
In collaboration with The Africa Institute, Sharjah Art Foundation presents the first retrospective of the work of Ghanaian photographer Gerald Annan-Forson.
07 Mar 2022 - 07 Jul 2022
Al Hamriyah Studios
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Lawrence Abu Hamdan: The Sonic Image
In his largest solo exhibition of new works to date, award-winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan brings together a selection of new multisensory commissions and recent works that probe the question: Can the frequencies, simulations and stimulations of sound reveal narratives concealed from history?
04 Mar 2022 - 04 Jul 2022
Sharjah Art Foundation
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Khalil Rabah: What is not
Khalil Rabah: What is not is an exhibition of significant works by Khalil Rabah, created from the 1990s to the present, that propose speculative frameworks and platforms for exploring how cultural institutions, curatorial practice, museological discourse and critical knowledge operate under long-standing states of emergency and displacement.
04 Mar 2022 - 04 Jul 2022
Sharjah Art Foundation
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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CAMP: Passages through Passages
Passages through Passages brings together a body of key works by CAMP, the Mumbai-based artist studio founded in 2007 by Shaina Anand and Ashok Sukumaran.
04 Mar 2022 - 04 Jul 2022
Sharjah Art Foundation
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Adel Abidin: Musical Manifest
Adel Abidin is currently working with the themes of identity, power, fear, escape, clichés and insecurities using language, by manipulating well known pop song lyrics that once used to express love, hope, and dreams.
08 Mar 2022 - 30 Jun 2022
Meem Gallery
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Jitish Kallat: Order of Magnitude
Ishara Art Foundation presents Order of Magnitude by Jitish Kallat, the artist’s first major solo exhibition in West Asia and the Levant.
12 Jan 2022 - 16 Jun 2022
Ishara Art Foundation
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Zemanna – Replaying the 90s
The 1990’s in the United Arab Emirates was a pivotal decade.
17 Jan 2022 - 13 Jun 2022
Dirwaza Curatorial Lab
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian: Parthenogenesis
This first institutional solo exhibition in the UAE is a testament to the trio's 13 years in Dubai as artists living and working together, creating a landscape and tapestry of continuously evolving ideas and dialogues with collaborators, artists, and visitors to their home.
01 Mar 2022 - 12 Jun 2022
The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi
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Versailles & the World
An exhibition which invites you to immerse yourself in 17th-18th century Versailles and discover this unique meeting place for different civilisations.
26 Jan 2022 - 04 Jun 2022
Louvre Abu Dhabi
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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
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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
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Safwan Dahoul: Awake
Safwan Dahoul’s Dream series has explored the physical and psychological effects of alienation and solitude for over three decades.
08 Mar 2022 - 15 May 2022
Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz
Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi