With over 30 years of global experience in marketing and investment, Elie Khouri is CEO of Vivium Holding, a progressive single-family office specializing in alternative investing. He is also the Chairman of Omnicom Media Group (MENA), the media service division of leading global marketing communications company Omnicom Group.

Elie is a major Dubai-based art collector, who over the past several years, has brought together a group of emerging and established artists representing diverse international perspectives. An ardent supporter of the regional and global art and design communities, he is also an active patron, member of the Tate Middle East and North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC) and MoMA’s Media and Performance Committee, as well as supporter of numerous art publishing projects.

Adrian Pepe prompts reflections on our shared materiality and mortality with his exhibition A Shroud is a Cloth at NIKA Project Space, Dubai.

Jake Andrew’s work is a fusion of digital, physical and audio which he describes as a contemporary view of abstraction and a presentation of what painting can be in the future.

Vietnamese artist Trần Lương’s survey exhibition Tầm Tã—Soaked in the Long Rain at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre delves into personal and political histories.

Upon entering Garden of Emeralds – the inaugural exhibition to mark the opening of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Art’s newest permanent space in Dubai – visitors encounter a magnificent treasure called the Goliath Mineral. It is a huge specimen weighing 33 kilograms that was extracted from a mine in Zambia in 2010. .e uncut mineral stone is filled with more than 100 raw emeralds protruding from its natural base that convey the journey of the treasured gems, straight from the heart of the planet.

Imagine extracting Charles Darwin (or perhaps just his theory of evolution) from Victorian England and implanting him two centuries into the future to a time when technological and human intelligence are inseparable. In our age of AI, advanced medical science, and engineering, how would Darwin chart the survival of the fittest? Would man-made inventions be considered the building blocks of life? And who would the most likely survivors be?

For MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, paired with a drop on Foundation.

Mariah (Veštica) is a contemporary artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Her style is often characterized as a digital and traditional avant-garde experiment with indication of surreal, magic realism and post-expressionistic elements. Using the diverse approaches within a formally divergent field of media, from physical painting to processing art, she is confronting new and traditional techniques while questioning the position of art in technological society.

Ever wanted to try your hand at performing arts? The Courtyard Playhouse has new online improv courses available.

The Alumni Return is a group exhibition of eight artists and designers who have been associated with Tashkeel studio hub and have gone on to study for master’s degrees. This is a presentation of their final works for their studies.

A sketch battle competition open to automobile and product designers, graphic designers and artists based in the UAE will launch with a cash prize.

With decades of experience working in the field of cross-cultural engagement, Nasif Kayed, who is also known as The Arab Culturalist is an expert at answering tricky questions and straddling both Eastern and Western ideas.

Amir Khojestah’s The Gloomiest Sunset in the World is a satirical look at the state of the world today with some expert painterly techniques, which call into question the notion of the portrait.

Heitham Adjina’s first solo show combines the precision of architecture with the emotion of human experience.

The Jameel Prize 5 exhibition opened in London last year and now its opening in Dubai feels like a home coming of sorts.

Salsali Private Museum, which has been open in Alserkal Avenue since 2011, will close its doors at the end of May and relocate to Berlin. The final exhibition will be from Philip Mueller.

Nima Nabavi is interested in the possibilities of infinite geometry.

It was a game changer when it opened in November, here are some of my thoughts about the Jameel Arts Centre and if you haven’t been yet, I encourage you all to go.