You still need to make an appointment but thanks to the lifting of restrictions across Dubai, galleries are beginning to reopen their doors. Alserkal Avenue has a temporary entrance for temperature checks and don’t forget to wear your face mask.

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde announces the representation of Iraqi photographer Latif Al Ani and welcome him to the gallery’s programme in advance of his upcoming solo exhibition.

The summer exhibition at Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde is more of an open studio, morphing and mutating as the weeks go by. The Iranian trio - Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian - have titled the ongoing process We Are Open For Installation and it will culminate in a final show in September. Read my latest update here.

A deeper look at the ongoing installation by the trio Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. They are taking over the gallery space for the summer, subverting the art system as we know it.

In a kind of gallery takeover lasting the duration of the summer, the trio of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are using the gallery as a working studio working towards a final exhibition to be unveiled in September.

Art Week is in full swing, here is a round up of just some of the happenings on Alserkal Avenue this week.

An exploration and extension of painting as a medium with strong subject matter relating to the social and economic structure of the UAE makes Mohammed Kazem’s most recent show an excellent presentation both conceptually and formally.

Quoz Arts Fest takes place this coming weekend with performances across genres and artistic tours. I have laid out some of the highlights for you here

What does it mean to live in a world of "post-truth"? How can we navigate through an emotion driven, fact-loose society? Explore all this and more in Truish, the latest exhibition by artist duo :mentalKLINIK

Ramin Haerizadeh's solo show in Dubai is both a physical and symbolic collage of works spanning over the past eight years. There is a good dose of absurdity and humour too. 

As the new art season approaches in Dubai, three very different solo shows have some unexpected parallels and point to a regional aesthetic.

Good Printing is an exhibition that explores the medium of print without showing any prints. The 10 artists have work that questions the nature of reproduction and the originality of the image

Vikram Divecha is one of five artists who will represent the UAE at the Venice Biennale next month in Italy. He is also one of three UAE-based artists exhibiting artworks at the ongoing Sharjah Biennial. Yet his work is rarely found in a gallery.