Art Dubai Portrait Exhibitions is a new online solo artist exhibitions programme, diving into the life and practice of a selection of some of the finest practitioners across the Global South, with works available to acquire.
The inaugural season, running through to January 2021, will have a regional focus on home-based and diaspora Middle Eastern artists.
The sister duo Nisreen and Nermeen Abudail behind Naqsh Collective explore traditional narratives, folklore and motifs through a selection of design-art pieces. Using Palestinian embroidery as a starting point, the Collective offers a permanence to the stories told through this delicate, age-old tradition by deconstructing its basic elements and reinterpreting them using solid, elemental materials — such as marble, wood and brass — that stand the test of time.
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Lebanese multi-medium artist Aya Haidar presents a selection of works informed by her nomadic roots, as well as a generational narrative of the history of the Middle East, posing questions focused on memory, loss and migration.
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Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem’s Art Dubai Portrait Exhibition highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of geographical location and materiality in relation to the rapid pace of UAE’s modernisation since the country’s founding.
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The final Art Dubai Portrait Exhibition of the season presents works by Abdul Rahman Katanani, in which he examines the precariousness of our current conditions, as well as themes of hope, homeland, resilience and displacement – while considering future possibilities for different realities.
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Aya Haidar — Dec 2, 2020
Mohammed Kazem — Dec 17, 2020
Abdul Rahman Katanani — Jan 7, 2021
Timo Nasseri’s Art Dubai Portrait Exhibition explores his most recent body of work, A Universal Alphabet, reflecting on the universality of geometrical patterns and creating a visual code that brings different shapes to life.
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Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s exhibition showcases a selection of the Emirati artist’s monochromatic works, examining his relationship with the landscape of his birthplace and the meditative nature of his practice.
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Dia al-Azzawi’s exhibition examines the prolific career of the Iraqi artist, recognised as a pioneer of modern Arab art, through a selection of his works from the 1960s until the present day, including paintings, sculptures and prints.
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Timo Nasseri — Sep 29, 2020
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim — Oct 15, 2020
Dia al-Azzawi — Nov 2, 2020
