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Ghada Zoghbi, The Recreation of Adam, 2025, acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 46.5×83.5cm. Courtesy of Galerie Janine Rubeiz and the artist

Between Dust and Dawn: Ghada Zoghbi at Galerie Janine Rubeiz

Galerie Janine Rubeiz presents Ghada Zoghbi’s fourth solo show titled Between Dust and Dawn, from September 10 to October 10, 2025. In her previous body of work, Ghada Zoghbi offered a profound meditation on the poetic relationship between humanity and…

Jal Hamad on Curating ‘Go East, Young Man’: A Retrospective of Chant Avedissian

Opening on the 11th of September at Sabrina Amrani Gallery, the exhibition Go East, Young Man traces the life and work of Chant Avedissian (1951–2018) through the artist’s own words. Structured around a handwritten autobiography completed shortly before his death,…

Arab Voices at London Design Festival 2025

Launched in 2003, London Design Festival has grown into one of the world’s leading design events, celebrating the city as a global hub of creativity. Each September, the festival transforms London into a stage for design across disciplines, drawing together…

Between Ashes and Roses: Arab Representation at Aichi Triennale 2025

The Aichi Triennale, first launched in 2010, has become one of Japan’s most expansive international art festivals, transforming Aichi Prefecture into a site of exchange between contemporary art, performance, and public space. Staged every three years across venues including the…

‘What Remains’: Adel Abidin at Galerie Tanit

Adel Abidin returns to painting with the solo exhibition What Remains curated by Tamara Chalabi, at Galerie Tanit in Beirut. The artist turns to the horizon as both a visual anchor and a metaphorical threshold. Across seascapes and fractured terrains,…

Arab Voices at Bukhara Biennial 2025

From 5 September to 20 November 2025, the city of Bukhara will host its first contemporary art biennial, staged across newly restored landmarks. Commissioned by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation under Chairperson Gayane Umerova, the Biennial is set…

Andrée Sfeir-Semler on Building a Platform for Arab Contemporary Art

In celebration of its 40th anniversary in Germany and 20th in Beirut, SFEIR-SEMLER Gallery is holding multiple shows in its different spaces; including the launch of the gallery’s book The Rise of Arab Art: Volume I at the Sursock Museum…

Shahram Karimi: ‘In the Garden’ at Taymour Grahne Projects

Shahram Karimi paints from memory gardens of Shiraz, the rustle of trees, the scent of blossoms carried through time. These impressions shape In The Garden, his online solo exhibition with Taymour Grahne Projects, running from 15 August to 12 September…

‘Genius Loci – Central Asia’: Almagul Menlibayeva at Andakulova Gallery

Andakulova Gallery, in collaboration with Legend Art Club, hosts Genius Loci – Central Asia, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Almagul Menlibayeva, on view from 3 August to 3 September 2025 at the DIFC Satellite Gallery. The exhibition draws on…

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