Jitish Kallat’s expansive practice spans painting, photography, drawing, video and sculptural installations and displays a dialogue between conceptual concepts of time, history and social commentary.

Working with live art, theatre, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation, Nikhil Chopra’s performances highlight issues such as identity, the role of autobiography, the pose and self-portraiture.

Lebanese artist Samir Sayegh is a pioneer of modernism in the Arab world. His practice is driven by his interest in the formal power of letters; Sayegh was a pioneer in seperating Arabic calligraphy from its contextual language in an effort to create a universal visual language.

Based between Lebanon and Spain, Marwan Sahmarani’s practice is a reflective experience on the historical and political turmoil and tension felt throughout his native Lebanon.

Michael Tsegaye uses photography as a framework to tell stories and visually express some of the rich cultural traditions of his native Ethiopia.

Beirut-based artist Raed Yassin employs his theatre and musical background to create dynamic multi-disciplinary work that often explores personal narratives and their position within a greater shared history.

A figurehead of the Ethiopian modernist movement and a professor at Addis Ababa’s Ale School of Fine Art, Tadesse Mesfin’s paintings are influenced by ancient Egyptian sculptures and mythological drawings, in a colour palette that pays homage to his native country.

Marwan Rechmaoui derives inspiration from the geography and complex multi-cultural history of Beirut, reflecting on themes of urbanisation and contemporary social and behavioral demographics.

Since childhood, Hayv Kahraman has always been a painter, and saw this as an outlet for storytelling and creating narratives. Her current work is a reflection of internal dialogues on personal experiences of movement, migration and feelings of placelessness.

Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata’s work spans several decades and disciplines. His early career featured colourful palettes of Arabic words and letters in geometric Kufi script, which later evolved into artistic interpretations of traditional Palestinian embroidery.

Haleh Redjaian is an Iranian-German artist who works with a variety of artistic mediums spanning drawing, watercolour, textile, and installations.

For the inquisitive German-Iranian photographer-turned-sculptor Timo Nasseri, the concept of infinity has held a dominant presence in his body of sculptural and illustrative works.

Chaouki Choukini is a Lebanese-born, Paris-based artist, who is known for his bold yet poetic wooden sculptures.

Through her artistic practice, Iranian artist Setareh Shahbazi develops digitally reconstructed narratives through a combination of her personal stories and forgotten items that she comes across.

Lebanese artist Ali Cherri doesn’t believe in creative inspiration; he thinks art takes work, time, and patience. His work is largely impacted by the framework of growing up in civil war, highlighting questions of death, heritage, war and critical thought about the world and context within which we live.

Sherin Guirguis’s contemporary practice aims to evolve traditional sacred geometry into a new visual language that seeks to tell stories and personal narratives. She works almost exclusively on paper, and is particularly interested in the history and embodied politics of working exclusively with this medium.

Iranian artist Farzad Kohan grew up playing music, which intrigued him to be curious about other creative outlets; he eventually discovered himself in painting and sculptures, and now creates work infused with emotive themes of the evolution of self, migration and identity.

Jeddah-based Basmah Felemban’s artistic and academic background focuses on traditional Islamic art, and ranges from works on paper to installations.

Ania Soliman is an interdisciplinary artist whose research-based, conceptual approach spans a wide range of media such as drawing, video, text, installation and performance.

A pioneer of modern Arab art, Iraqi artist Dia al-Azzawi’s work has evolved throughout the years and focuses largely on a sense of yearning for one’s homeland, as he often incorporates elements of Arabic calligraphy, historical Iraqi scenes and ancient Babylonian symbols.

Amir H. Fallah is fascinated by the concept of ‘opposites’, and he works to combine various approaches, perspectives and styles of art and thinking to develop work that is uniquely his own amalgamation of influences.

Shezad Dawood works across film, painting and sculpture, and his practice often involves collaboration with different groups and individuals, aiming to thoughtfully combine dialogue and critical thought throughout different disciplines.

Aya Haidar’s heritage informs many aspects of her work, and she uses old objects like letters and photographs as ways to retell and recreate her own narrative of various memories, experiences and interpersonal stories from throughout history.

Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani’s work applies humour and surreal approaches to subjects that are often considered taboo. Most recently, her digital characters serve as a vehicle through which to comment on social, political and cultural experiences through conversations that are relevant and reflective of the times we live in.

Based in Ramallah, Palestinian artist Khalil Rabah’s work applies a witty and conceptual approach to reflecting on history, politics and social entanglements.

Dubai-based Iranian artists Ramin and Rokni Harizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are redefining the limits of their practice as individual artists as a collaborative, developing work as a collective that seeks to comment on contemporary issues.

Abdul Rahman Katanani uses Palestine as a metaphor for themes of hope, homeland, resilience and displacement throughout his multi-disciplinary works.