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,…
EXHIBITIONS
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,…
Echoes of the Familiar, an exhibition examining the idea of “home” through contemporary artistic practices in Saudi Arabia is on view at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). Curated by curator Gaida AlMogren, the exhibition brings together 28…
Mix & Match brings together a group of artists whose practices span painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and text-based work, assembling a deliberately layered exhibition that treats the gallery as a site of visual collage. Rather than presenting discrete bodies of…
Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have marks Bady Dalloul’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. Curated by Lucas Morin, the exhibition forms the second chapter of Dalloul’s ongoing Land of Dreams series, following its presentation in Tokyo…