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.

The event came to a close in June 2019, here is a look back over the Sharjah Biennial’s 14th edition, which had three curators for the first time and achieved a wonderful symbiosis of place and content.

Surface Tension is an expertly curated group show that takes a selection of emerging artists working across new media to explore notions of the present moment and offering a dip into ongoing, worldwide conversations.

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.

Investigating architecture aesthetically as well as its social and political roles, Driss Ouadahi’s solo show is a display of the past 20 years of his practice.

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.

In a pop-up exhibition, Cristiana De Marchi explores notions of national identity, migration and the fleeting nature of clouds.

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.

As part of Jameel Arts Centre’s continued effort to integrate the community and engage all sectors in artistic discourse, the Youth Assembly staged a Youth Takeover and pop-up exhibition for 10 days.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s current exhibition is an extension of his practice lamenting the melancholy of life as a migrant and an homage to the life his forefathers led in the marshlands of Mesopotamia

Atassi Foundation has one of the largest collections in the world of modern and contemporary art from Syria. This exhibition explored female creativity.

Now that Art Week is over, here is just a little musing about the section of Art Dubai that offered an insight into the UAE.

Whether it is literal child’s play or artistic playfulness with technique and form, Tashkeel’s latest exhibition explores the subject of play from many different angles.

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s practice is about accessing a part of the subconscious where the mind switches off and emotions take over. His work occupies that space, poetically described as the space between the eyelid and the eyeball in his latest exhibition in Dubai.

Swiss artist Zimoun uses humble materials to create audio-visual works that sound like a symphony but that should be listened to in the same way as you might experience silence. A truly wonderful show.

Wissam Shawkat is a calligrapher who straddles the gap between the ancient and the contemporary. His work looks out on two fronts and his abstract and minimal pieces are the result of a life long relationship with the letters themselves.