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‘The Edges’ by Ayda Roozbayani at SARAI Gallery

Ayda Roozbayani’s solo exhibition The Edges, is on view from 1 until 15 August 2025 at SARAI Gallery, Tehran. In her second exhibition at the gallery, Roozbayani deepens her exploration of solitude, estrangement, and adaptation in the context of contemporary…

Three Artists to Open 5th Edition of Forever Is Now at the Pyramids of Giza

In preparation for its fifth edition of Forever Is Now, Art D’Égypte announces three prominent names in contemporary art to headline its line-up: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alexandre Farto, and Recycle Group. Set against the enduring backdrop of the Pyramids of Giza, the…

Timo Nasseri on Gardens, Geometry, and the Logic of Intuition

Timo Nasseri’s solo exhibition, The Garden of Forking Paths, concludes at Sabrina Amrani. Drawing on the symbolic language of the Persian garden, it explored questions of order, perspective, and multiplicity. The exhibition weaves together architecture, mythology, and cosmology to stage…

‘School of Seeing’: Laila Shawa in Austria

For the first time in Austria, the work of pioneering Palestinian artist Laila Shawa is presented under a title that honours her early encounter with Salzburg: School of Seeing. Between 1960 and 1963, Shawa studied at Oskar Kokoschka’s experimental summer…

We Are in Open Circuits: Abu Dhabi and Seoul’s First Joint Exhibition

Concluding its run at Manarat Al Saadiyat, Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits marked the first exhibition in a three-year partnership between the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation and the Seoul Museum of Art. Co-curated by Maya El…

‘Lost and Found’: Tala Worrell at IYAD Qanazea Gallery

IYAD Qanazea Gallery in Abu Dhabi showcases Lost and Found, a solo exhibition by Tala Worrell, a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by her Lebanese-American heritage and upbringing between New York and the UAE. The exhibition unfolds across material,…

Iraqi Modernism Abroad: Tracing the Baghdad Modern Art Group at Bard

All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group marks the first major U.S. institutional effort to trace the impact of one of Iraq’s most influential artistic movements. On view at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard…

La toile résonnante: A Collective Reflection on Fragility, Form, and Resistance

Galerie Janine Rubeiz presents La toile résonnante, a curated collective exhibition featuring works by fourteen artists working across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and mixed media. Going into its last week on display, the exhibition offers a porous surface upon which…

Taymour Grahne Projects Hosts Three Online Exhibitions

This summer, Taymour Grahne Projects invites audiences into a trio of online exhibitions, each unfolding in distinct visual registers: Anchored to Distant Shadows by Camille Zakharia, Garden of Memories, Palace of Colors by Latifa Alajlan, and Black and White, a…

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