On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Gallery Isabelle is holding a 20-day exhibition Move, Pause, Return, running until 26 May 2026. Reflecting two decades of collaboration with artists across the region, the exhibition brings together 20 artists, with artworks…
Even as conflict continues to shape many lives across the Middle East, galleries and museums persist in offering spaces of attention and encounter. Our thoughts remain with those enduring displacement, loss, and uncertainty. This week’s presentations attest to art’s capacity…
Across the Arab region, a climate of uncertainty continues to weigh on everyday life, reshaping both social and cultural landscapes. Yet within this tension, galleries, fairs, and museums persist as spaces that hold continuity, reflection, and exchange. In moving forward,…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES At The Third Line, From the Perspective of Language (from 4 Mar – 7 Apr 2026) marks Sara Naim’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and her first public presentation of paintings. Produced between 2023 and 2026,…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES In the UAE this week, exhibitions gather around a shared preoccupation of giving form to memory and spirit, as though art were less an object than a conduit. At Leila Heller Gallery, three concurrent exhibitions are unfolding…
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Across Dubai and Abu Dhabi, exhibitions challenge the ordinary: maps without borders, symbols stripped of certainty, the human form remade, exposing the stories we inherit and those we rewrite. Using iron, clay, wood, stone, and pigment, Khozema…
QATAR This week, Doha becomes the gravitational centre of regional attention. Art Basel Qatar (5–7 Feb), curated by Wael Shawky, brings together 87 galleries from 31 countries in an open-format presentation across the city. Shawky described the fair as a…
To mark its 15th anniversary, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art presents two exhibitions that reflect on its institutional legacy while engaging urgently with the present. Together, Resolutions: Celebrating 15 Years of Mathaf and we refuse_d frame the museum as both…
Presented in collaboration with the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, Resonant Histories: India and the Arab World opened at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, and remains on view until 15…
In That Same Hour is an exhibition unfolding across multiple buildings at the Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation and remaining on view until 31 May 2026. Emerging from a period marked by sustained violence, displacement, and erasure,…