Current Exhibitions
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Fellow Travellers Curated by Dr Omar Kholeif
Tabari, DIFC Tabari presents Fellow Travellers , an exhibition conceived and curated from the research of award-winning author, curator, cultural historian and professor of global art theory and practice at the iconic Glasgow School of Art, Dr Omar Kholeif. Fellow Travellers seeks to continue Tabari’s long-standing commitment to making debates around modernism... Explore -
Fertile Dreams, Group Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 1 November 2025 - 1 April 2026 Fertile Dreams exists in the slippages between soil and psyche, where earthly terrain fuels the landscape of the unconscious. Fertility is not only a question of biology, but of sustenance, origin, and return - a force that feeds, replenishes, and reawakens. It speaks to cycles of growth and erosion, presence... Explore -
Proximities at the Seoul Museum of Art
Featuring Maitha Abdallah, Almaha Jaralla and Hazem Harb 16 December 2025 - 29 March 2026 Maitha Abdallah, Almaha Jaralla and Hazem Harb are participating in Proximities, a major exhibition presented by the Seoul Museum of Art in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation . Curated by Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim, Proximities brings together more than 40 UAE-based artists, including 33... Explore -
Observers of Change at Etihad Museum
Featuring works by Ziad Al Najjar, Hashel Al Lamki, Hazem Harb and Miramar Al Nayyar 7 January - 30 June 2026 Observers of Change Featuring works by Ziad Al Najjar, Hashel Al Lamki, Hazem Harb and Miramar Al Nayyar, Etihad Museum, Dubai, UAE, curated by Rémi Homs. Spanning five decades of artistic practice in the UAE, the exhibition brings together approximately 60 works by pioneering and contemporary artists whose practices reflect... Explore
Past Exhibitions
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Tabari Artspace Presents Hazem Harb at Art Basel
3 - 7 February 2026 Tabari Artspace presents a solo booth dedicated to Palestinian visual artist Hazem Harb at Art Basel, Qatar, 2026. Harb’s project mobilises archaeology as a critical framework through which to examine displacement, circulation, and the epistemic violence embedded in the production of historical knowledge. Drawing together works produced across distinct moments... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Miramar Al Nayyar at Alserkal Avenue
16 November - 5 December 2025 The exhibition's title, Hujra (ﺣُﺟرة), translates to “chamber,” sharing its roots with ḥajar (ﺣَﺟَر, stone). For Tabari Artspace's first exhibition at Alserkal Avenue, we present Hujra — ﺣُﺟرة, a solo exhibition by Miramar Al Nayyar, curated by Abeer Seikaly. In Hujra — ﺣُﺟرة, Al Nayyar traces how flow crystallises onto... Explore -
Public Installation by Nasser Almulhim at ICD Brookfield Place
5 November - 8 December 2025 High Spirits is an installation by Saudi artist Nasser Almulhim at ICD Brookfield Place, DIFC, Dubai. The work transforms the site into a setting animated by colour, form and spatial play. Almulhim extends his abstract language beyond the canvas: forms lifted from his paintings rise from the floor and descend... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Hazem Harb at Offscreen, Paris
21 - 26 October 2025 The Labyrinth (2021) The Labyrinth is an immersive site-specific, installation built around a 1920 black-and-white photograph of Jerusalem. This historic cityscape shows a diverse architectural identity: Arabic, Ottoman and Christian architectures overlap. Domes of mosques and church towers line the narrow alleyways placed in front of a peaceful, landscaped value.... Explore -
Mesh and Mayhem a Solo Exhibition by Talal Al Najjar
Tabari Artspace 27 September - 24 October 2025 Talal Al Najjar’s MESH & MAYHEM unravels a terrain where digital architectures and Gulf memory entwine, forming a fabric stretched thin across speculative futures and fractured realities. The exhibition confronts the way simulation infiltrates identity—where the mesh becomes both structure and rupture, at once a connective tissue and a site... Explore -
Maitha Abdalla Presents at the Aichi Triennale, Japan 2025
13 September - 30 November 2025 Maitha Abdalla makes her debut at the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Japan, one of Asia’s most vital contemporary art platforms. This sixth edition, staged across Nagoya and Seto, is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, whose artistic direction draws its title and spirit from Adonis’s 1970 poem A Time Between Ashes... Explore -
Tabari Artspace and B7L9 Art Centre (Kamel Lazaar Foundation) Present Béchir Boussandel
3 June - 18 September 2025 Following its debut in Tunis, Tempted By Other Suns , a solo exhibition of Béchir Boussandel, travels to Dubai, where it continues at Tabari Artspace, 3 June-5 September 2025. For Béchir Boussandel—an artist of Tunisian heritage, raised in France—the first chapter of this exhibition marked a significant personal landmark, as... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Saj Issa at Art Dubai 2025
Never Make a Wish in a Dry Well 16 - 20 April 2025 Palestinian American artist Saj Issa views ceramics as intimate repositories of touch, memory, and myth. In Never Make a Wish in a Dry Well , she borrows from an old adage, at once evoking the futility of ungrounded desires and the layered depth beneath surfaces that appear barren. The metaphorical... Explore -
Not There, Yet Felt | لستُ هُناك، ولكنك محسوس, Hazem Harb Solo
Tabari Artspace 12 April - 27 May 2025 'I have long been drawn to surfaces, materials, and artefacts that bear witness to time and summon its weight. Previously, my work was often produced at a distance, centered around collective narratives and cultural memory. Here, I invite you into my Gaza home—to observe the peeling walls that embody histories... Explore -
Works by Miramar Al Nayyar, Hashel Al Lamki, Lulwah Al Homoud On View at Art Week Riyadh
Art Week Riyadh 2025 6 - 13 April 2025 Centered around the theme At The Edge , the inaugural Art Week Riyadh explores thresholds, transitions, and liminal spaces—concepts that mirror Riyadh’s evolving role as a global hub for cultural dialogue and artistic exchange. On view will be Hashel Al Lamki’s video performance, Desert Hay (2016-23) . In this performance,... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents MENA Artists in Milan
The Power of Intention, A Group Exhibition Curated by Bebe Leone 6 March - 1 April 2025 Tabari Artspace presents The Power of Intention in Milan, a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring works by La Serena’s resident and visiting artists. Curated by Bebe Leone and hosted at Villa Cramer in the heart of Milan’s Brera district, the exhibition will later travel to La Serena Hotel, where guests can experience... Explore -
Maitha Abdalla Solo at Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation
Between Metamorphosis and Reality 27 February - 30 August 2025 Multi-disciplinary artist, Maitha Abdalla's, practice combines film, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing and performance. Abdalla harnesses the performative and constructed character of the theatre to tackle themes that range from folklore and mythology to gender, social conditioning and psychology. For the artist, the theatre is a space where she might confront... Explore -
Across a Velvet Horizon, an Exhibition of Nada Baraka and Esraa Elfeky
Tabari Artspace 20 February - 8 April 2025 Across a Velvet Horizon , is a collaborative presentation of Egyptian artists Nada Baraka and Esraa Elfeky. The exhibition orbits a sense of incompleteness, an expanse of the unknown that speaks to the human impulse to make sense of the past - to impose coherence on chaos, and create stories... Explore -
Hashel Al Lamki Presents at Sharjah Biennial 16
6 February - 15 June 2025 Curated by Alia Swastika, Amal Khalaf, Megan Tamati-Quennell, Natasha Ginwala and Zeynep Öz, Sharjah Biennial 16 convenes under the title to carry , a multivocal and open-ended proposition. Examining an ever-expanding list of what to carry, and how to carry it, the Biennial is an invitation to encounter the different... Explore -
Béchir Boussandel Solo Travelling Between B7L9 Art Centre (Kamel Lazaar Foundation) and Tabari Artspace
B7L9 Art Centre, Tunis 23 January - 30 March 2025 Tenté par d'autres Soleils is the solo exhibition of Bechir Boussandel debuting in Tunisia at the B7L9 Art Centre of the Kamel Lazaar Foundation on 23 January 2025, will travel to the Tabari Artspace in Dubai later that spring. From Dunkerque, where Boussandel was born, to Bizerte, the hometown of... Explore -
Limen: Thresholds / ليمين : الجير وعتبَات أُخرَى, Mohamed Monaiseer Solo Curated by Hannah Elsisi
Tabari Artspace 17 January - 13 February 2025 Limen: Thresholds , is the solo exhibition of Egyptian multidisciplinary artist Mohamed Monaiseer, curated by Hannah Elsisi. In Limen , Monaiseer and Elsisi explore space-times of in-betweenness: of being neither here nor there, of belonging to this world while existing irretrievably beyond it. Central to the exhibition is the concept... Explore -
Hot Spots, A Collaboration Between Tabari Artspace and The Third Line at Sotheby’s
Adel El Siwi, Almaha Jaralla, Aya Haidar, Béchir Boussandel, Hanna Noor Mahomed, Hashel Al Lamki, Margaux Derhy, Nasser Almulhim 9 January - 10 March 2025 Hot Spots is the first collaborative exhibition between Tabari Artspace and The Third Line at Sotheby’s, Dubai. This exhibition is part of Sotheby’s ongoing collaboration with regional galleries and brings together a collection of artists from across the Middle East and North Africa, creating intersections of artistic exploration and exchange.... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Maitha Abdalla, Ziad Al Najjar, and Talal Al Najjar at Abu Dhabi Art 2024
20 - 24 November 2024 In Tracing the Murmurs , Tabari Artspace presents a multi-sensory experience that captures the inner and outer landscapes of three Emirati artists - Maitha Abdalla, Ziad Al Najjar, and Talal Al Najjar - through sculpture, audio, and canvas work that create a space of introspection and connection. Maitha Abdalla shifts... Explore -
Yellow Tropics, a Solo Exhibition of Adel El Siwi
Tabari Artspace 15 November 2024 - 15 January 2025 'Adel El Siwi, an Egyptian painter, is a chronicler and storyteller of his generation. Born in the 1950s, a period of both upheaval and change in postwar and post-revolutionary Egypt, his painting practice spans over fifty years, and it is one which the artist describes as having been one continuous... Explore -
Hazem Harb, Group Exhibition, ICD Brookfield Place Arts and Dar Jacir for Art and Research
Water Like Tears, Flour Like Soil 13 November - 4 December 2024 'Exploring themes of land and cultural resistance, Water like tears, flour like soil is a group exhibition formed in partnership between ICD Brookfield Place Arts and Dar Jacir for Art and Research. This project is part of the ICD Brookfield Place Arts Program, which explores ways of supporting regional creatives... Explore -
Chafa Ghaddar Solo at Maraya Art Centre
Your Sun That Kept Setting 2 November 2024 - 10 January 2025 In her solo exhibition, Your Sun That Kept Setting , Chafa Ghaddar explores landscapes as evolving fragments. Inspired by the ancient fresco technique, Ghaddar paints on fresh lime plaster, preserving each artwork as a unique “day’s work” or 'giornata'. Her approach redefines fragments not as partial remnants but as complete... Explore -
Khaled Zaki at the Great Pyramids of Giza
24 October - 16 November 2024 'Khaled Zaki, an internationally acclaimed Egyptian sculptor, is known for blending ancient Egyptian statuary with contemporary reflections on society and technology. Drawing on his background in archaeology and sculpture, Zaki’s monumental works have been exhibited worldwide, from New York to Venice, with a focus on the evolution of human civilisation.... Explore -
Maitha Abdalla, Arts AlUla x AFALULA Residency, Paris
AlUla, Saudi Arabia and Paris, France 15 - 20 October 2024 'Orbis Tertius is an exhibition bringing together 20 contemporary artists who have participated in the artists residency programme in the oasis city of AlUla in Saudi Arabia. Curated by Arnaud Morand, Head of Arts at AFALULA, it revolves around themes such as how the world can be embedded into storytelling... Explore -
Mirrors From the Sidewalk, Alymamah Rashed Solo
Tabari Artspace 12 October - 10 November 2024 I see myself mirrored on the sidewalks I see myself picking one date after another I see myself gazing at the seventh sky I see myself coming back to myself A central theme in Alymamah Rashed’s work is the belief that bodily connection to specific environments and elements can facilitate... Explore -
Hazem Harb Participates in Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial, NYU Abu Dhabi
1 October 2024 - 20 April 2025 The inaugural Between the Tides بين المد والجذر: A Gulf Quinquennial opens at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery on October 1, celebrating the gallery's 10th anniversary with a survey of significant artistic voices from the GCC. Among the featured artists, Hazem Harb presents his 2023 Gauze شاش series, a profound... Explore -
Hanging Gardens Randa Maddah Solo
Tabari Artspace 12 September - 10 October 2024 In this ongoing series, Hanging Gardens, Randa Maddah repurposes the vocabulary of traditional miniature paintings to depict dream-like scenes that negotiate themes of belonging, resilience, rootedness, rebirth, and renewal through natural elements. Hanging Gardens was initiated by Maddah in 2022 and further developed for this exhibition. The work embodies the... Explore -
Hashel Lamki Presents at Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
7 September - 1 December 2024 Dreamscape delves into the collective and individual dreams of the African continent, showcasing over artists from 16 countries: Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria, Mauritius, Ghana, Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Sudan, Senegal, Kenya, Cameroon, Benin, Mauritania, Egypt and Mozambique. While our selection cannot substitute the multitude of voices from the... Explore -
Chafa Ghaddar, Al Safa Library, Public Commission
4 September 2024 - 11 September 2025 Explore -
In-Between, Nasser Almulhim Solo Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 6 June - 6 September 2024 In-Between is the solo exhibition of Saudi abstract painter Nasser Almulhim. For Almulhim, painting, particularly the application of vibrant, expressive colours, serves as a form of healing and therapy, contributing to his spiritual and artistic growth. The creative process acts as a catalyst for navigating circular thoughts, memories, and trauma,... Explore -
Moving Through The Ether, Miramar Al Nayyar Solo Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 5 - 30 May 2024 In Moving Through The Ether , Miramar Al Nayyar unveils a collection of abstract figurative works on canvas, inviting viewers into a realm of recognition and constant metamorphosis. Each 190 x 120cm canvas serves as a conduit for Miramar's endeavour to encapsulate the essence of the natural formations of the... Explore -
Alymamah Rashed Solo, Strawberry Fields
Online Exhibition 1 April 2024 - 5 June 2025 Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Women Artists of the MENA at Art Dubai 2024
Corporeal: Lands Through The Female Gaze 1 - 3 March 2024 Multi-artist booth Chafa Ghaddar, Tagreed Darghouth, Hana Almilli, Miramar Al Nayyar, Aya Haidar, Maitha Abdalla, Samah Shihadi and Alymamah Rashed For Art Dubai, Tabari Artspace presents a multi-artist booth uniting a curation of women artists from the MENA region. This collective endeavour foregrounds the intertwined concepts of the body and... Explore -
Battlegrounds, Aya Haidar Solo Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 23 February - 18 April 2024 Battlegrounds is the inaugural exhibition of Lebanese-British artist Aya Haidar at Tabari Artspace now represented by the gallery. Aya Haidar’s multimedia practice addresses themes related to womanhood, invisible labour, forced displacement, Homeland and territory, social constructs and inequalities. A graduate with a BA in Fine Arts from the Slade School... Explore -
Chafa Ghaddar Participates in, In Real Time, Group Show at NYUAD Gallery
22 February - 9 June 2024 ' This is an exhibition about visiting and revisiting, about being physically present in the space, with the traces left by artists who have been there, or hints of those who will be there. Watch for updates, here and elsewhere. This exhibition emerged as a response to a sense of... Explore -
Gauze, Hazem Harb Solo, Curated by Munira Al Sayegh
Tabari Artspace 22 January - 15 February 2024 Palestinian visual artist, Hazem Harb presents Gauze a solo exhibition curated by Munira Al Sayegh. Gauze offers insight into the multifaceted significance of the material 'gauze' within Palestinian collective histories, particularly in the context of the corporeal. The exhibition invites viewers to explore the profound connections between material, the body,... Explore -
Aya Haidar Participates in Material Power, Group Show, Kettle's Yard
24 November 2023 - 7 April 2024 The Whitworth presents Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, an exhibition exploring the historical life and contemporary significance of Palestinian embroidered craft. This ancient practice is characterised by exceptional beauty and intricacy – some of the finest dresses, known as thobes, carry over 200,000 stitches. It remains an important living tradition and... Explore -
Art Here, Group Exhibition, Louvre Abu Dhabi
Hashel Al Lamki 24 November 2023 - 18 February 2024 Louvre Abu Dhabi invited artists to propose new sculptures and installations that explored the dynamics of transparency – its material and perceptual significance. The exhibition is enclosed beneath the museum's intricate floating dome of light and shade, drawing on the interplay of shadows, liquid reflections, and flashes of permeating sunlight... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Alymamah Rashed, Abu Dhabi Art 2023
22 - 26 November 2023 For her presentation at Abu Dhabi Art Alymamah Rashed has produced a body of work that had evolved from research conducted during her recent residency on Failaka Island in Kuwait. Failaka Island is known as a key archaeological site in the Gulf with relics from the Bronze Age, Hellenistic Age,... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Hazem Harb at Abu Dhabi Art 2023
Dystopia Is Not A Noun 22 - 26 November 2023 For Abu Dhabi Art, Palestinian visual artist Hazem Harb has produced a new body of work, Dystopia Is Not A Noun , against the backdrop of the atrocities inflicted upon Gaza's civilians that intensified during October 2023. As a Gazan native and with numerous family members still residing there, violence... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Alfred Basbous at Abu Dhabi Art 2023
22 - 26 November 2023 Alfred Basbous's works express a lifelong exploration of the human form and its abstract properties. Focused on the aesthetic principles of shape, movement, line and material, his sculptures display a deeply ingrained sincerity and a search for the essence of beauty. Working in the tradition of sculptors such as Jean... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents the Alfred Basbous Museum & Chafa Ghaddar at Abu Dhabi Art 2023
22 - 26 November 2023 Contemporary Lebanese artist Chafa Ghaddar has produced a compelling new body of work inspired by her sojourn at the Alfred Basbous Foundation in Rachana, Lebanon. Ghaddar, whose recent conceptual exploration is anchored in the realms of the natural world, found profound inspiration during her summer visit to the UNESCO heritage... Explore -
A Survey of Hashel Al Lamki, Curated by Dr Venetia Porter (British Museum)
Hashel Al Lamki 22 - 26 November 2023 The annual exhibition Gateway, at Abu Dhabi Art, highlights local and international artists through unique perspectives. This edition was curated by Dr Venetia Porter, who has chosen to present a survey show for Emirati painter and multi-disciplinary artist Hashel Al Lamki. The exhibition, entitled Maqam - after the residential neighbourhood... Explore -
A Presentation of Almaha Jaralla at Abu Dhabi Art, Curated by Morad Montazami
Crude Memory 22 - 26 November 2023 Abu Dhabi-based Emirati visual artist, Almaha Jaralla (b. 1996) works between installation art, painting and photography, reflecting on the history of the UAE and the Gulf, with emphasis on local architecture – between vernacular and postmodern forms. Her new installation Crude Memory presents an (almost) fictional reenactment of the emblematic... Explore -
Resurrection, Khaled Zaki Solo Exhibition
Tabari Artspace 19 November 2023 - 13 January 2024 These marble works explore the relationship between form and material in the context of geopolitical unrest in the Middle Eastern region and reflect Khaled’s aspirations for a brighter, more hopeful future. In the exhibition, the artist seeks to capture the essence of his subjects with minimal formal elements, while retaining... Explore -
Berlin Diary, Stedelijk Museum Vianen
Samah Shihadi 4 November 2023 - 18 February 2024 Text by Laura Cherrie Beaney and Dr. Werner van den Belt An individual lodged between worlds, Samah Shihadi's art transcends boundaries, speaking from a multitude of places. As a Palestinian residing in Haifa, Samah embodies dual marginality, belonging to the Arab minority in Israel—a community of Israeli citizens rooted in... Explore -
Asia Now, Paris, Dancing In A Lonely Forest
Maitha Abdalla 20 - 22 October 2023 “In the middle of our walk of life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost”. - Dante, The Divine Comedy Emirati visual artist Maitha Abdalla will present a new body of work at the Asia Now art fair in Paris, 20-22 October 2023.... Explore -
Postmordial Soup | ICD Brookfield Place
Talal Al Najjar, Ziad Al Najjar, and Miramar Al Nayyar 5 - 20 October 2023 5 October - 20 October, 2023 ICD Brookfield Place and Tabari Artspace present a group exhibition featuring Talal Al Najjar, Ziad Al Najjar, and Miramar Al Nayyar, entitled Postmordial Soup. Postmordial Soup invites visitors to experience an immersive realm in ICD Brookfield Place. Working through cross-dimensional mediums, from video to... Explore -
Gardens and Jungles
Tagreed Darghouth 12 September - 18 November 2023 For this highly anticipated solo exhibition, powerful female painter, Tagreed Darghouth has produced a body of work that responds to the militarisation of civil society. Explore -
Hazem Harb Presents at Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
What Palestine Brings to the World 31 May - 19 November 2023 Hazem Harb, What Palestine brings to the world, Group Exhibition, Institut du monde arabe, Paris Explore -
Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger Presents Maitha Abdalla, Basel
Evaporating Suns 12 May - 16 July 2023 Evaporating Suns Contemporary Myths from the Arabian Gulf, Maitha Abdalla, Group Show, Kulturstiftung Basel H. Geiger, Basel
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Seham | ( سهام )
Almaha Jaralla 4 May - 1 September 2023 Presented at Tabari Artspace Gallery in Dubai, Seham is the solo exhibition of emerging Emirati artist, Almaha Jaralla. Explore -
Beneath Latent Skies
Chafa Ghaddar 27 February - 27 April 2023 Presented at Tabari Artspace art gallery in Dubai, Beneath Latent Skies is the first part of a series of exhibitions by Lebanese contemporary artist, Chafa Ghaddar, Working across multiple media, Chafa Ghaddar casts a contemporary gaze towards the historic fresco mural painting technique. The exploration and excavation of new potentials... Explore -
Roots, Museum MORE, Netherlands
Samah Shihadi 17 February - 3 September 2023 Homesickness, or perhaps more a yearning for a lost home, is a significant theme in the burgeoning oeuvre of Samah Shihadi. She uses graphite and charcoal to paint subjects including vegetables, fruit and herbs. Motifs such as thyme and fig leaves are not selected by chance: these are common products... Explore -
Land Survey
Bechir Boussandel 1 - 26 February 2023 Bechir Boussandel's paintings raise questions relating to identity by destabilising notions of the space of time and the time of space. The artist is preoccupied with the boundaries that define public and private spaces and reflects upon the duality involving everyday objects and practices that relate to notions of territory,... Explore -
Maitha Abdalla Participates in the Sharjah Biennial 15
1 February - 1 June 2023 Maitha Abdalla is an interdisciplinary artist who utilises cultural narratives rooted in notions of nostalgia, memory and folklore to question the dynamics of power often represented in parables. Taking inspiration from traditional storytelling across varied cultures, Abdalla approaches themes of social and political identity through the theatrical narratives constructed within... Explore -
Under Your Eyes
Ziad Al Najjar 12 - 31 January 2023 Tabari Artspace presents Under Your Eyes, the solo exhibition of Emirati visual artist Ziad Al Najjar. Explore -
Shadia, Abu Dhabi Art
Almaha Jaralla 16 - 21 November 2022 Shadia is the continuation of Almaha Jaralla’s first solo exhibition at NYUAD Project Space. The exhibition follows Shadia, Jaralla’s grandmother and a heroic character, who travelled alone through the Arabian Peninsula, as a direct result of lack of access to safety, economy, and prosperity. She left and collected marks in... Explore -
A Journey Through the Nile, Abu Dhabi Art
Adam Henein, Omar El Nagdy, and Mohamed Abla 15 - 22 November 2022 In the formative years of her journey, Maliha Tabari, founder of Tabari Artspace, frequented Egyptian studios, becoming acquainted with the renowned late artist Adam Henein (1929-2000), as well as emerging talents that later formed the first generation of Middle Eastern artists. Twenty years after the opening of Tabari Artspace, the... Explore -
When my Heart Danced Near Your Mirage
Alymamah Rashed 11 November 2022 - 5 January 2023 When my Heart Danced Near Your Mirage was the solo exhibition of Kuwaiti painter, Alymamah Rashed presented at Tabari Artspace Gallery, DIFC Explore -
East - East 東 - الشرق Uae Meets Japan Vol. 5, Atami Blues
Hashel Al Lamki 3 - 27 November 2022 For East - East 東 - الشرق UAE meets Japan Vol. 5, Atami Blues, Emirati visual artist Hashel Al Lamki has produced a site-specific, immersive installation entitled Lucy. Explore -
Works - INT. The Body - Sunrise
10 - 16 October 2022 INT. The Body – Sunrise is the solo exhibition of Emirati visual artist Maitha Abdalla at Cromwell Place, London. Explore -
The Journey
Khaled Zaki 27 September - 11 November 2022 The Journey is the solo exhibition of celebr ated Egyptian sculptor, Khaled Zaki . For Zaki , Sufi poet and mystic, Rumi has conquered both earth and time, with his wisdom that continues to connect cultures and generations. For Zaki poetic verse is a medium that is both peaceful and... Explore -
The 16th Lyon Biennale
Hashel Al Lamki 14 September - 31 December 2022 For the Biennale Al Lamki has produced a multidisciplinary body of work, Rodinia , in response to the Lyon Biennale’s ‘manifesto of fragility’, displayed in Lyon’s Musee Guimet (Natural History Museum). Rodinia: Rodinia translates from Russian into English as 'motherland, birthplace” and was the name given to the Neoproterozoic supercontinent... Explore -
The 16th Lyon Biennale
Chafa Ghaddar 14 - 18 September 2022 The 16th Lyon Biennale: manifesto of fragility positions fragility at the heart of a generative form of resistance that is emboldened by the past, responsive to the present and primed for the future. In acknowledging fragility as one of few universally felt truths in our divided world, the Biennale assembles... Explore -
Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak During Art Basel
13 - 19 June 2022 Palestinian hyperrealists Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak in Basel, Switzerland, June 13- 19, 2022. Selected works by the two artists present a multi-faceted gaze into lived experiences in Haifa, Israel, approached at the intersections of sociology, spirituality, gender and culture. Samah Shihadi Selected works see the artist meditates upon her... Explore -
Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak During Art Basel
13 - 19 June 2022 Palestinian hyperrealists Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak in Basel, Switzerland, June 13- 19, 2022. Selected works by the two artists present a multi-faceted gaze into lived experiences in Haifa, Israel, approached at the intersections of sociology, spirituality, gender and culture. Michael Halak Shihadi’s art tends to negotiate the space between... Explore -
A City Undisguised; Beirut: No Home No Exile
Tagreed Darghouth 8 - 12 June 2022 Tabari Artspace presented the solo exhibition of Tagreed Darghouth at Cromwell Place, London. Explore -
Beyond: Emerging Artists (During La Biennale di Venezia)
Maitha Abdalla 20 April - 22 May 2022 Beyond: Emerging Artists programme commissions from 2021 were showcased at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice from 20 April to 22 May 2022. Abu Dhabi Art’s second international presentation, following last year’s successful collaboration with London’s Cromwell Place to present the 2020 Beyond: Emerging Artists programme in the UK. Abu Dhabi Art,... Explore -
Beyond: Emerging Artists Present Hashel Al Lamki and Maitha Abdalla During La Biennale di Venezia
20 April - 22 May 2022 Beyond: Emerging Artists programme commissions from 2021 were showcased at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice from 20 April to 22 May 2022. Abu Dhabi Art’s second international presentation, following last year’s successful collaboration with London’s Cromwell Place to present the 2020 Beyond: Emerging Artists programme in the UK. Abu Dhabi Art,... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Hazem Harb at Art Dubai 2022
11 - 13 March 2022 For Art Dubai, Palestinian visual artist, Hazem Harb presented a multidisciplinary body of work entitled, Thorns (2022), combining 2-dimensional collages and installation. This latest series continued Harb’s visual investigation into the representation of the Palestinian experience, raising questions about the authoring and preservation of histories. Architecture as a mode of... Explore -
Tabari Artspace Presents Maitha Abdalla at Art Dubai
11 - 13 March 2022 For Art Dubai Emirati multidisciplinary artist Maitha Abdalla presented a body of work that navigates internal struggles and meditations on the self. Abdalla reflected upon her personal experiences as an 18-year old gaining independence and moving between new cultures and communities for the first time. Much of the artist’s practice... Explore -
Hashel Al Lamki Solo, Sensu Lato, at Tabari Artspace
7 March - 1 September 2022 Sensu Lato is a newly produced body of work that comprises several works on canvas as well as mixed media pieces inspired by Al Lamki’s lifelong relationship with and ongoing research into the Jebel Hafeet Mountain in Al Ain, UAE. Translating from Latin to English, Sensu Lato means ‘in the... Explore -
Generascope
Jason Seife 3 March - 3 April 2022 At the nexus of the contemporary and the historic, the global and the culturally specific, Seife’s exhibition brings together his long-standing interest in traditional textiles and embroideries of the MENA region with cutting-edge technological tools of the digital art space. Explore -
Shadow Work
Nasser Almulhim 7 - 24 February 2022 Exhibited at Tabari Artspace Dubai-based gallery, Shadow Work was a solo exhibition of Saudi Arabian abstract painter, Nasser Almulhim. Explore -
Hazem Harb Participates in Portrait of a Nation II, Curated by Maya El Khalil and Roxane Zand
Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE 21 January - 16 April 2022 Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives curated by Maya El Khalil and co-curated by Roxane Zand was inaugurated by HE Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of State, on 21 January. Explore -
Maitha Abdalla Participates in Portrait of a Nation II, Curated by Maya El Khalil and Roxane Zand
Maitha Abdalla 21 January - 16 April 2022 Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives curated by Maya El Khalil and co-curated by Roxane Zand was inaugurated by HE Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of State, on 21 January. Explore -
Beyond Emerging Artists Abu Dhabi Art
Maitha Abdalla 17 - 21 November 2021 Maitha Abdalla, Too Close To The Sun, 2021 Explore -
Beyond Emerging Artists, Abu Dhabi Art
Hashel Al Lamki 17 - 21 November 2021 Hashel Al Lamki, Neptune, 2021, immersive video and audio installation, pigment on canvas and sculpture. Explore -
Earthly Treasures
Mohamed Abla 10 November 2021 - 24 January 2022 This three-month exhibition marked Mohamed Abla’s fifth solo show with Tabari Artspace. Channelling Abla’s unique optimism the aim of this presentation was to capture imaginations and unite generations through the artist’s mesmeric world. Explore -
Hazem Harb Solo Exhibition at Maraya Art Centre
Temporary Museum. For Palestine 20 October 2021 - 10 February 2022 Presented at Maraya Art Centre, Hazem Harb's first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates was "Temporary Museum. For Palestine". Explore
