Exhibitions

Shahpour Pouyan to Exhibit First Solo Museum Show in the US: 'Winter in Paradise'

Curated by Trinita Kennedy 30 May - 25 Aug 2024 Museums Shahpour Pouyan is set to exhibit his largest solo museum exhibition to date, and first solo museum show in the US, Winter in Paradise, at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, on May 30th (curated by Trinita Kennedy). Presented across three galleries, the exhibition explores architectural symbols of power and... Read more

Mona Saudi, Mohamed Melehi, and Mehdi Moutashar | The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Group Exhibition 5 Apr - 25 Aug 2024 Museums Lawrie Shabibi artists Mona Saudi, Mohamed Melehi, and Mehdi Moutashar works are being showcased at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, in the group exhibition 'Arab Presences Modern Art and Decolonisation: Paris 1908-1988'. The exhibition features a selection of over 200 works (most of which have never been exhibited before... Read more

Driss Ouadahi at Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, Germany

24 Feb - 1 Sep 2024 Museums Driss Ouadahi's work is exhibited at the 'Not much to look at. Ways of Abstraction 1920 Until Today' group show at the Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal, Germany. The Von der Heydt Museum has unveiled a group exhibition with a focus on abstraction: from classical modernism to current trends... Read more

Timo Nasseri at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA)

16 Jan - 20 May 2024 Museums Timo Nasseri takes part in ‘In the Night’, curated by Géraldine Bloch, at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA) in the Jax District in Riyadh. The night, often a sanctuary for artists and poets, serves as a canvas for imagination, introspection, and observation. ‘In the Night’ invites visitors... Read more

Mounir Fatmi at the Pola Museum of Art in Japan

16 Dec 2023 - 19 May 2024 Museums Mounir Fatmi participates in the group exhibition 'Modern Times in Paris 1925 - Art and Design in the Machine Age'⁠, curated by Yo Shoji at the Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan⁠. ⁠ This exhibition introduces aspects of the relationship between machines and humans in Europe, America, and Japan, with... Read more

'Mehdi Moutashar: Introspection as Resistance' at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art

Curated by Amin Alsaden 26 Oct 2023 - 4 May 2024 Museums Mehdi Moutashar has been experimenting in geometric abstraction over a remarkable career that spans five decades. Exquisitely controlled, his works are almost scientific in their mathematical precision. Despite this exactitude, however, the artist’s practice equally conveys spontaneous and fleeting moments from his youth, when he witnessed mesmerising ornamentation in local... Read more

Dima Srouji at London Design Festival

Spaces within the V&A Museum will be transformed by a collection of specially commissioned installations 16 - 24 Sep 2023 Museums During London Design Festival's 21st edition Palestinian architect, artist and V&A 2022-23 Jameel Fellow Dima Srouji presents objects and film that reframe the history of glass in Greater Syria and Palestine. The new works part of her project 'But She Still Wears Kohl and Smells like Roses’ include replicas of... Read more

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim at the Bihar Museum

G20: Together We Art 7 Aug - 7 Oct 2023 Museums Together we art is based on the theme of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, a concept from the Maha Upanishad. Art reflects society, the concerns of community, from the political, to the cultural, from the traditional to the modern and finally to the contemporary. The world of art, of imagination, of creative expression... Read more

Christie's London: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World

Group Exhibition 20 Jul - 23 Aug 2023 Museums Christie’s presents Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, bringing together works of art across mediums in an exhibition which collectively celebrates the creativity, diversity and history of Arab Art. The exhibution is organised in two distinct sections, Kawkaba: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation, features artworks by Mohamed... Read more

Mona Saudi & Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim at Sharjah Art Foundation

In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises 15 Jul - 24 Sep 2023 Museums We are pleased to announce that works by Mona Saudi and Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim are currently part of 'In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises', curated by Dr Kholeif and presented across all six galleries in Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Art Foundation, from July 15 to September... Read more

Mohamed Melehi: The Casablanca Art School at Tate St Ives

Group Exhibition 27 May 2023 - 14 Jan 2024 Museums Tate St Ives is the first museum in the UK to explore the intense period of artistic rebirth that followed Morocco’s independence, forged by the experimental teaching methods of the Casablanca Art School in the 1960s and 1970s.'The Casablanca Art School' exhibition features artworks by pioneering artists Mohamed Melehi ,... Read more

Shahpour Pouyan at the Hayward Gallery

Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art 26 Oct 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 Museums Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics. The artworks on show encompass fantastical creatures and uncanny representations of the everyday, as well as ranging from small abstract works to large-scale installations that take the medium beyond the kiln. The... Read more

TAKING SHAPE: ABSTRACTION FROM THE ARAB WORLD, 1950S – 1980S

Mohamed Melehi and Maliheh Afnan at the Block Museum of Art, United States 22 Sep - 4 Dec 2022 Museums Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University will present Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, a groundbreaking exhibition drawn from the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The exhibition explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora,... Read more

The Invented History

Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Larissa Sansour at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin 13 Sep 2020 - 21 Feb 2021 Museums Curated by Kathrin Becker, as part of Berlin Art Week 2020, The Invented History is a group exhibition that examines the need to critically question historical narratives. History is no longer viewed as a mere collection of data and facts, as a linear sequence of clearly defined events. Instead, there... Read more

Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize

Shaikha Al Mazrou at Galeria Municipal do Porto, Portugal 12 Sep - 12 Nov 2020 Museums The Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize was created in 2015, by Porto City Council, as a tribute to the former Councilor for Culture, Paulo Cunha e Silva, and is aimed at artists under 40 years of age. The jury of the second edition of the award – Isabel Lewis,... Read more

Miniature 2.0

Hamra Abbas and Shahpour Pouyan at the Pera Museum, Istanbul 11 Aug 2020 - 17 Jan 2021 Museums Focusing on contemporary approaches to miniature painting, the exhibition brings together the works of 14 artists from different countries such as Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Azerbaijan. The artists do not treat miniature solely as a historical object, they emphasize its theoretical potential as a contemporary art form. Using... Read more

Global(e) Resistance

Nadia Kaabi-Linke at Centre Pompidou, Paris 29 Jul 2020 - 4 Jan 2021 Museums Global(e) Resistance, curated by Christine Macel, Alicia Knock, and Yung Ma, features works from more than 60 artists acquired by the museum over the past decade. With a strong focus on artists from the Global South, it aims to examine ideas and strategies of resistance in the context of contemporary... Read more

In Vitro

Larissa Sansour at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai 10 Jun 2020 - 3 Jan 2021 Museums Larissa Sansour’s film In Vitro (2019) is an Arabic-language sci-fi film, set in the biblical town of Bethlehem during the aftermath of an eco-disaster. The film presents an otherworldly reflection on memory, history, place and identity, with the locale of the film providing a narratively, politically and symbolically charged backdrop.... Read more

Mophradat's Consortium Commission

Yazan Khalili at KW Institute Berlin 30 May - 19 Jul 2020 Museums A pioneering model for co-commissioning ambitious new work initiated by Mophradat, the Consortium Commissions exemplify the organization’s inventive approach to supporting artists from the Arab world. KW Institute for Contemporary Art presents part of the first edition of the new program with two solo exhibitions by Jasmina Metwaly (born in... Read more

Rearranging the Riddle

Shaikha Al Mazrou at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah 7 Mar - 25 Jul 2020 Museums Shaikha Al Mazrou’s sculptural experimentations and investigations are expressions of materiality—articulations of tension and the interplay between form and content as well as an intuitive, keenly felt understanding of materials and their physical properties. She combines and evolves ideas from contemporary artistic movements similarly preoccupied with formal and material elements,... Read more

Our world is burning

Mounir Fatmi at Palais de Tokyo, Paris 21 Feb - 13 Sep 2020 Museums Exhibition conceived in collaboration with the MATHAF. The exhibition Our World is Burning offers a fully political view of international contemporary creation seen from the Gulf, where wars and diplomatic tensions have constantly determined the history of the early 21st century. The title explicitly refers to the human disasters generated... Read more

A Matter of Resilience

Nadia Kaabi-Linke at Darat al Funun, Amman 11 Jan - 31 Jul 2020 Museums A Matter of Resilience by Tunisian-Ukrainian artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke features five works, including one recreated for this exhibition, and two new works, one of which is a site-specific new work made in Amman. Through quiet and minimal formal gestures, the artist shows five different paths of dependency in these times... Read more

Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s

Mohamed Melehi at Grey Art Gallery, NYU New York 4 Jan - 4 Apr 2020 Museums Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s-1980s explores mid-20th-century abstract art from North Africa, West Asia, and the Arab diaspora-a vast geographic expanse that encompasses diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. Comprising nearly 90 works by artists from countries including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine,... Read more

Every Colour is a Shade of Black

Hamra Abbas at COMO Art Museum 1 Jan - 1 Jun 2020 Museums In his recent essay The Changing Colours of Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk laments on the disappearance of yellow light from shops and houses in Istanbul. Instead, white fluorescent light has taken over his native city. Reading him, one wonders on the formation, effect and origin of light. For some, every tone... Read more

Heirloom

Larissa Sansour at Copenhagen Contemporary (CC), Copenhagen 13 Dec 2019 - 10 May 2020 Museums The exhibition Heirloom presented Larissa Sansour’s evocative dark science fiction film In Vitro and the large-scale sculpture Monument for Lost Time. Both works were created in collaboration with the writer and artist Søren Lind and shown for the first time in the Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2019.... Read more

Refuge

Zak Ové at 21c Museum Hotel, Bentonville, AR 1 Oct 2019 - 1 Sep 2020 Museums Refuge explores the contemporary human condition through depictions of needing, seeking, and creating shelter. Ranging from paintings and photographs to model trains and boats, these multi-media artworks combine realism and fantasy, the mythical and the mundane, in images and objects that highlight our shared vulnerability. Read more

New Waves - Melehi and the Casablanca Art School Archives

Mohamed Melehi at Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) 21 Sep 2019 - 5 Jan 2020 Museums New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School Archives offers a chronological journey that retraces the period in the artist's career from the 1950's to the 1980's through the exploration of previously unseen works and archives. Curated by Morad Montazami for Zamân Books & Curating. After a first stop... Read more

Utopian Imagination

Zak Ové at The Ford Foundation Gallery, New York 17 Sep - 7 Dec 2019 Museums Utopian Imagination brings together works by artists who are imagining our existence on an imperiled planet. With the understanding that (radical) love is the answer to the violence presented in Perilous Bodies, this exhibition recognizes the difficulties of the task ahead. Utopias are increasingly hard to imagine in a world... Read more

Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance

Nadia Kaabi-Linke and Shahpour Pouyan at The Rubin Museum of Art, New York 16 Aug 2019 - 6 Jan 2020 Museums Contemplate the power of non-conformity and your own potential for action at Clapping with Stones: Art and Acts of Resistance. Using the Rubin’s circular architecture to create an immersive site-specific display, the exhibition examines social, cultural, and political events through a local and global lens, offering unique perspectives from 10... Read more

New Waves: Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca Art School Archives

Mohamed Melehi at the Mosaic Rooms London 12 Apr - 22 Jun 2019 Museums The Mosaic Rooms present works by the abstract painter Mohamed Melehi (b. 1936). This is the first UK exhibition dedicated to Mohamed Melehi, now regarded as a cornerstone of postcolonial Moroccan art and of modernism in the Global South. New Waves presents Melehi the painter, photographer, designer, teacher and cultural... Read more

Op Art In Focus

Mohamed Melehi at Tate Liverpool 12 Jul 2018 - 21 Jul 2020 Museums A dazzling display from pioneering artists of the 1960s to today Op Art emerged in the 1960s. Its leading figures included Bridget Riley, Jesus Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely. They combined lines, geometric shapes and eye popping colour to create artworks that fool the eye. Images could be subtle or... Read more

Being: New Photography 2018

Yazan Khalili at MoMA, NY 18 Mar - 19 Aug 2018 Museums Every two years, MoMA’s celebrated New Photography exhibition series presents urgent and compelling ideas in recent photography and photo-based art. This year’s edition, Being, asks how photography can capture what it means to be human. At a time when questions about the rights, responsibilities, and dangers inherent in being represented—and... Read more

Elements

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim at Sharjah Art Foundation 16 Mar - 16 Jun 2018 Museums Sharjah Art Foundation presents a survey of works by Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim in Gallery 3 at Al Mureijah Square. Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the exhibition will feature works spanning over three decades of the artist’s practice, which includes paintings, drawings, sculpture and installations as well as documentation... Read more

Poetry and Form

Mona Saudi at the Sharjah Art Foundation 7 Mar - 7 Jun 2018 Museums Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with Sharjah Art Museum, presents a survey of work by artist Mona Saudi. Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Noora Al Mualla, the show will include works from the mid-1960s till today, encompassing a large selection of the stone sculptures for which she is best... Read more

But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art from the Middle East and North Africa

Nadia Kaabi Linke at Solomon R. Guggenheim New York 29 Apr - 5 Oct 2016 Museums Through painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and video, But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa presents a spectrum of artistic voices and critical concerns from a rapidly evolving region. Interwoven with questions around the Middle East and North Africa’s colonial histories, the... Read more