Tarek Atoui is a visual artist and musician interested in the corporal experience of sound and listening. He has collaborated with Sharjah Art Foundation for more than a decade, culminating in Cycles in 11, his first institutional exhibition.
Read MoreArt In The Age of Anxiety: a timely, tightly curated exhibition of contemporary art, so relevant for our current era and enlightening in its presentation
Read MoreJust before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down normal life, Shaikha Al Mazrou opened her first institutional show at Maraya Art Centre. It remains closed but there is a new video up on the Maraya site and here is my short review to help you enjoy the show until you can see it in person.
Read MoreSacred Spring is a celebration of the new season of creativity that will not be stemmed no matter what the current global situation. These stone sculptures come from some of Zimbabwe’s leading sculptors.
Read MoreWolf Tone is a group exhibition that I curated in Dubai’s XVA Gallery. Here is the curatorial essay.
Read MoreBody Building is a curated exhibition that explores South Asian identities and perspectives in the context of architecture and the built environment and in particular, in relation to the Gulf context.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreSurface 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreInvestigating 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.
Read MoreAmir 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.
Read MoreIn a pop-up exhibition, Cristiana De Marchi explores notions of national identity, migration and the fleeting nature of clouds.
Read MoreHeitham Adjina’s first solo show combines the precision of architecture with the emotion of human experience.
Read MoreThe Jameel Prize 5 exhibition opened in London last year and now its opening in Dubai feels like a home coming of sorts.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreSadik 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
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