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.
To receive email reminders and for more information on upcoming exhibitions email us at onlineexhibitions@artdubai.ae.
September 29 — October 12, 2020
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.
October 15 — 28, 2020
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s exhibition showcases a selection of the Emirati artist’s meditative monochromatic works, examining his lifelong relationship with the landscape of his birthplace and the effects urbanisation has on nature.
October 31 — November 13, 2020
Recognised as one of the pioneers of modern Arab art, the London-based, Iraqi artist Dia Azzawi’s exhibition presents a survey of some of his most recent paintings and prints, a large-scale seminal composition, as well as earlier works from the 1970s.
November 16 — 29, 2020
Amman & Dubai-based artist duo Naqsh Collective present a selection of works encompassing the ethos of their practice, a harmonious union between the oriental and the modern, while integrating aspects of art, architecture and heritage.
December 2 — 15, 2020
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.
December 17— 30, 2020
Contemporary Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem’s Art Dubai Portrait Exhibition highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of geographical location, materiality and the elements in relation to the rapid pace of modernisation in the Emirates since the country’s founding.
January 7 — 20, 2021
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.
