From 20 to 30 March 2023, The Fann A Porter Gallery in collaboration with Astrid Lesuisse present Couture Divas, an exhilarating exhibition during Women’s History Month, featuring the remarkable works of UAE-based artist, Azaïdé. Couture Divas, a two-year project by Azaïdé, showcases vibrant and expressive pieces that celebrate independent and strong women in diverse settings. The collection…
Present in a Lonely Image Group Exhibition by Alexander Gray Associates
Germantown: March 24–May 28, 2023 Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown presents Present in a Lonely Image, a group exhibition spotlighting the artistic practices of current and former Gallery staff. The show foregrounds the singular approach of seven artists while bringing to the fore their shared proclivity towards introspection. This inclination—defined by both self-representation and/or a critique of…
Christina Quarles “Collapsed Time” in Germany
Christina Quarles’s first institutional solo exhibition in Germany features paintings and works on paper by Quarles from 2016 onwards, as well as a large-scale painting installation created for the show at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin from 24 March – 17 September 2023. The artist has developed a site-specific architectural intervention that occupies the entire exhibition…
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
American artist Kehinde Wiley’s new body of paintings and sculptures confronts the silence surrounding systemic violence against Black people through the visual language of the fallen figure. It expands on his 2008 series, Down — a group of large-scale portraits of young Black men inspired by Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521–1522). Wiley investigates…
Michael Ray Charles Vendi Vidi at Galerie Templon
Following the success of Michael Ray Charles’ recent Paris exhibition, In The Presence of Light, Galerie Templon is celebrating along with the invaluable help of the exhibition’s curator Hedwig Van Impe, the artist’s comeback to New York with “VENI VIDI”. Michael Ray Charles is a pioneering artist in his exploration of African-American question. Since the…
Gallery Wendi Norris is honored to present Remedios Varo: Encuentros, the Spanish artist’s second solo gallery exhibition since her death in 1963. With approximately twelve works on display, Remedios Varo: Encuentros explores Varo’s engagement with the unexpected. A decade after organizing the artist’s first solo gallery exhibition (Indelible Fables, 2012), Gallery Wendi Norris is thrilled to deepen its…
Impact: Black AIDS Institute Auction by Artsy
Artsy is honored to present Impact: Black AIDS Institute, an auction in support of ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Black community in the United States. In honor of U.S. Pride Month and celebrating equality, freedom and people’s rights to control their own lives and bodies, Artsy will be donating a portion of the Buyer’s…
French Duo PIERRE ET GILLES Exhibiting in Sweden for the First Time
For the first time, French artistic duo Pierre et Gilles are exhibiting in Sweden from February 10 to September 14. For their show “Troubled Waters”, the artists have seized upon the old harbour setting around Spritmuseum. The romantic image of the sea, the harbour and the sailing life are contrasted with the overexploitation of our…
Hassan Sharif’s Political Paintings at AGA
Alexander Gray Associates, New York presents Hassan Sharif: Political Paintings (2008–2009) from March 17 to April 23. While Sharif (1951–2016) is best known for his sculptural compositions, he was a dedicated painter—insisting, “It is so easy now for me to give up painting and make objects, but time and time again I feel painting is…
Hayv Kahraman at The Mosaic Rooms
Pilar Corrias is pleased to announce Gut Feelings, a solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Hayv Kahraman at The Mosaic Rooms, London from 25 February to 29 May 2022. In this new work, the artist delves into scientific research to situate the effects of trauma in the body and to investigate methodologies…
Cornelius Völker’s In The Last Light
Hosfelt Gallery is pleased to announce Cornelius Völker solo exhibition In The Last Light from February 26 to March 19. Cornelius Völker explores the thorny relationships we humans have with nature and time in a series of paintings that, while rooted in conventions of historical European painting, are eminently contemporary. The centerpiece of the exhibition…
Are You Ready to Experience Art Freely?! Don’t Miss 3031 Art Festival at Darb1718
Darb1718 Contemporary Art and Cultural Center is pleased to announce its upcoming relaunch event, 3031 Art Festival, scheduled to take place from 4-12 March, 2022. This unique 9-day event brings together Cairo’s contemporary art community with the general public for a one-of-a-kind celebration of multi-disciplinary art and culture. The festival will include an eclectic display…
TAM Gallery Announce a Collective of Fantastic News for Art Lovers in Egypt
TAM Gallery, the largest multi-platform art organization; comprising of both online and offline galleries, has exciting news for art lovers in Egypt! Whether you’re a collector, artist or art fanatic there’s something for you at TAM Gallery. So set tight and enjoy this ride! New Artists Joining TAM Gallery Family! Four artists joins the growing…
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
In April 2022, the Whitney will present the eightieth edition of its flagship exhibition, the Whitney Biennial. Established in 1932 by the Museum’s founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, it is the longest-running exhibition of its kind. Featuring sixty-three artists and collectives from a variety of generations, working across disciplines and media, the 2022 Biennial takes full…
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset at Venice Biennale 2022
The National Pavilion UAE’s upcoming exhibition at the Biennale Arte 2022 (Venice Biennale) is titled Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset. The exhibition will present a new body of work created for the National Pavilion UAE by Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, a veteran of the experimental art community in the UAE. Curated by…
Quoz Arts Fest, The Region’s Best Loved Cultural Festival, is Back!
Quoz Arts Fest by Alserkal will return during the last weekend of January, on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 January, 2022, activating Alserkal Avenue and the creative neighbourhood of Al Quoz and as a celebration of homegrown creatives from the region. The festival will see live music, performances, food trucks, outdoor installations, contemporary art exhibitions,…
MODERN RELICS at FOLD
FOLD, London, is pleased to present Modern Relics a group show of artists working predominantly in sculpture from Wednesday 9th February 2022 – Saturday 12th March 2022. The work serves as imaginary artifacts, scavenged and excavated from contemporary culture and urban environments. Elements of classical architecture, modern cityscape, geometry and archaeological finds have been reformulated…
Amir Arsalan Sharifi “Entrance” at Etemad Gallery
“Space” from its human perspective, has always been one considered as one ofthe most intriguing and mysterious topics. Man is continuously on the move tono avail; and it is the artist, who through the power of imagination, creates theseother spaces. “Entrance” is the title of this forthcoming series by Amir Arsalan Sharifi from January 28…
Art Basel Selected to Stage New Contemporary and Modern Art Fair in The Iconic Grand Palais of Paris
Art Basel, together with its parent company MCH Group, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a seven-year contract to stage a new contemporary and Modern art fair at the prestigious Grand Palais in Paris, following a public competition initiated by the Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais in December last year….
Etemad Gallery Presents Mehrdad Pournazarali’s Pristine
Etemad Gallery presents the latest work by Mehrdad Pournazarali. Born in 1980, Rasht, Iran. Mehrdad Pournazarali passion for drawing both during and after his university studies has made him focus on this medium as means of artistic expression. Moreover, his keen interest in primitive, ethnic and tribal art as well as pictorial sources from different…
Gallery Wendi Norris welcomes Director Fernanda Partida Ochoa
Gallery Wendi Norris welcomes Fernanda Partida Ochoa (b. Guadalajara, Mexico) as our new Director of Contemporary Art. As Director, she will act as the primary liaison between artist studios and the gallery team. Fernanda brings to the position 15+ years of professional experience as a researcher, curator, and arts organizer, as well as a fluency…
Hady Boraey’s Eden Dance at Fann Á Porter
Fann Á Porter, The Workshop Dubai is pleased to share with you the exhibition catalogue of Eden Dance by Egyptian painter Hady Boraey, opening on Wednesday 26 January to 28 February. Hady Boraey is an independent visual artist as well as a lecturer for the Fine Arts department at Alexandria University. Boraey has amassed a…
GIDEON RUBIN’s Red Boys and Green Girls at Hosfelt Gallery
Hosfelt Gallery (San Francisco) presents Red Boys and Green Girls a solo exhibition by Gideon Rubin from January 27 to February 19. The paintings in Gideon Rubin’s seventh solo exhibition at Hosfelt Gallery reflect the zeitgeist of our COVID-defined world. Solitary figures, frequently turned away from the viewer, stand immobilized or move dreamily in blurry,…
Gisela McDaniel’s Manhaga Fu’una
Pilar Corris Gallery presents Gisela McDaniel solo exhibition “Manhaga Fu’una” from January 27 to February 26. Within the context of traditional Western (Colonial) art history, the relationship between the femme bodied sitter and the artist is one predicated on a hierarchical binary interaction: voyeur and object of desire; maker and object; author and subject. This…
wOnderlust By Oda Jaune At Templon Gallery
After a two-year absence, unconventional artist Oda Jaune is back, offering a Paris transformed by the pandemic wOnderlust, a powerful, dazzling new exhibition centring on a breath-taking 10-metre-long canvas and a life-sized hologram. The canvases, water colours and hologram together map out a fabulous journey, veering between the magical and the monstrous. The show is…
Mother Line By Laurel Nakadate at Tephra ICA
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, in partnership with Mason Exhibitions at George Mason University, will present exhibitions of the work of Laurel Nakadate. The exhibitions will be guest curated by Lily Siegel and Donald Russell. From January 22 to May 29, 2022. Laurel Nakadate (American, b. 1975) explores self-representation, identity formation, relationships amongst strangers, and…
Fatima Mortada’s First Solo Exhibition in Years “INANNA ASCENDS” at The LT Gallery
The LT Gallery (Beirut, Lebanon) is excited to immerse art lovers in a bygone era of worshipped goddesses where cryptic mythology meets the handwoven raw canvas of artist Fatima Mortada on January 20 until February 10. Mortada’s exhibition titled INANNA ASCENDS is a labor of love, celebrating the Powerful Female represented throughout history in legends…
RAKFAF Celebrates it’s 10th Anniversary
Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival’s RAKFAF landmark 10th edition was opened by H.H. Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) on Friday night with an array of local, regional and international VIP guests invited to mark the occasion. The annual arts festival, which is now established as one of…
Eloge de la Ligne A Dialogue Between Safaa Erruas & Katharina Hinsberg
MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch is pleased to present Éloge de la ligne, a dialogue between the singular worlds of Safaa Erruas and Katharina Hinsberg. On View from January 14 to February 26. Their initial sources of inspiration differ but each artist has developed a unique talent for revealing the sculptural potential of paper. Devoid of…
Alexander Gray Associates Announces Representation of Steve Locke
Alexander Gray Associates announces representation of Steve Locke (b.1963). Spanning painting, drawing, sculpture, and installation, Locke’s practice critically engages with the Western canon to muse on the connections between desire, identity, and violence. Alexander Gray Associates will present two exhibitions of the artist’s work in 2022: a Germantown, NY debut in the summer and Locke’s…
Join Carnivals of Clouds at Janet Rady Gallery
Janet Rady Fine Art is pleased to present Carnivals of Clouds, a group exhibition of international artists, featuring Koshiro Akiyama, Iain Andrews, Kerry Louise Bennett, Beatrice Hassell-McCosh, Yann Leto, Alice Macdonald, Lindsey Jean Mclean, Orla Murray, Blessing Ngobeni and Jade van der Mark. On view from January 12 – February 22. As the name of…
The List is Out! Art Dubai Reveals Galleries, Programs and An NFT Platform!
Art Dubai today announced the list of participating galleries at its 2022 edition, which will be its most extensive to date. The fair will take place at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai from 11-13 March 2022, with previews on 9 and 10 March. The leading global platform for art and artists from the Middle East and Global…
Muatasim Alkubaisy First Solo at Ayyam Gallery
Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present to you (t)irony the first solo exhibition featuring Sharjah-based sculptor Muatasim Alkubaisy’s work. From January 12 to March 1 in Dubai. (t)irony features Alkubaisy’s largest body of work yet, composed of a selection of figures, portraying those that have been ruined by power. These non-deserving and corrupt characters utilize…
Fatemeh Bahman Siyahmard’s To Live on Edges at Aaran Gallery
Living in a mega city like Tehran, by itself is an impossible act, a city that swallows soil, water, nature and identities. Thus leaving the citizens confounded and under constant pressure. There are moments where there are no answers to be found, no solutions to the problems and no possible future. It is no longer…
Three Fates Group Exhibition by Wendi Norris
Gallery Wendi Norris is pleased to present Three Fates, featuring works by artists Ambreen Butt, Chitra Ganesh, and Eva Schlegel at Fort Mason Center Pier 2 in San Francisco. Three Fates will be the seventh exhibition in the gallery’s innovative offsite exhibition model. On view from January 13 – January 30, 2022. In ancient cultures…
Broken Year by Valeska Soares at Alexander Gray Associates
Alexander Gray Associates is pleased to announce Broken Year, Valeska Soares’s third one-person presentation with the Gallery. From January 13 to February 26, 2022. Conceived as a broken calendar that marks the artist’s experience of the passage of time, Broken Year is Soares’s response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The work takes the shape of a gallery-wide…
Jennie C. Jones’s DynamicsSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum
From January 28 through April 18, 2022, an exhibition of new and recent works by interdisciplinary artist Jennie C. Jones will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Jennie C. Jones: Dynamics will include paintings, works on paper, and a sound installation that responds to the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture by interweaving visual and aural experience.Jennie…
Iran… Miss Your Favorite Artists? Catch Them in “Factory 04” at Mohsen Gallery!
“Factory” is a series of group shows dedicated to the less-seen artworks of a selected number of Mohsen Gallery artists that are either in-progress or have been missed from the view of the audience in Iran, as they were represented only in art fairs, group shows, and international exhibitions. “Factory 04” features works by Sasan…
Sharjah Art Foundation is Looking for a Photographer to Win!
Sharjah Art Foundation invites photographers to submit their work for Vantage Point Sharjah 9 (VPS9), the ninth iteration of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography initiative, which aims to foster the development and creativity of photographers, and encourages their engagement with the wider cultural community. The open call welcomes submissions from both local and international photographers…
Nasr Warour’s 21st SUMMER at XVA
Showcasing various works, including paintings, sculptures and photographs, this curated solo exhibition is a celebration of the 21 years the artist has spent in Dubai. The exhibition is opening June 21 and continues until July 21. Born and raised in Syria, Nasr began his art studies in 1984 as a young schoolboy. With sculpture as…
Gisela McDaniel for Art Basel
Pilar Corrias is delighted to announce its participation in Art Basel OVR: Portals with a solo presentation of new paintings and works on paper by Gisela McDaniel.Gisela (CHarfauros) McDaniel, Familian Capili yan Chunge’, Taotao Tamuning yan Barrigada (b. Bellevue, NE 1995) is a diasporic, indigenous CHamoru artist based in Detroit, Michigan. Her work depicts the…
Wilderness… A View of Life on the Ashes of Beirut
A dual exhibition that sets the large, colorful, floral abstracts of Louma Rabah in contrast with the neutral, sculptural works of Semaan Khawam at Mojo Gallery in Beirut. From May 27 to June 27.
Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival 9th Edition Standing Tall Against All Odds
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival (RAKFAF) is delighted to announce that it returns next month for its 9th edition, helping launch the UAE’s 2021 arts calendar.The annual arts festival, which was established under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi, UAE Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Ras Al…
The Woman of The Small by Mohamed El Kashef
A nudity art project by Egyptian photographer Mohamed El Kashef inspired by Riyad Al-Saleh Al-Hussein (1954-1982) poem titled (A Small & Narrow Room & Nothing Else). This project is a tribute for women who embrace their flaws as well as own their strengths and differences regardless of mainstream fake standards of how a woman should…
A Chance to Watch Independent Movies by MENA Female Filmmakers by SAF & Habibi Collective
Sharjah Art Foundation presents a series of online film screenings in collaboration with Habibi Collective, a digital film archive that celebrates the work of female filmmakers from the Middle East and North Africa. Taking place on 29 May, 12 June and 26 June 2020, the screenings will feature award-winning short and feature-length narrative, documentary and…
LEBANON MODERN : «UNEXPECTED TROVE – THE UNSEEN WORKS OF HUSSEIN MADI»
BEIRUT ART FAIR presents the exhibition «Unexpected Trove—The Unseen Works of Hussein Madi» comprising rare paintings by celebrated Lebanese artist Hussein Madi (b. 1938) which will take place within the framework of the Fair, September 18/22. «Unexpected Trove» showcases an exceptional ensemble of47 paintings, notably Italian landscapes produced between 1964 and 1970 during the artist’s first years in Rome, was assumed lost for almost forty years,…
Black Rock Senegal‘s Official Selection of Artists for First Year
(Featured Image: Eye to Eye by Sonya Clark) Black Rock Senegal today announced the official selection of artists for the inaugural year of its artist-in-residence program developed by Kehinde Wiley. Between August 2019 and April 2020, Black Rock will host 16 international, multi-disciplinary artists to live and work in Dakar, Senegal, on the Westernmost point of continental…
Carbon 12 Gallery at Chicago Invitational 2019
With a diverse array of artists, Carbon 12 is proud to present works by Amba Sayal-Bennett, Bernhard Buhmann, Amir Khojasteh, Sara Rahbar and Anahita Razmi for the 2019 edition of Chicago Invitational from September 18 to 21, 2019. German-Iranian Anahita Razmi subverts ideals through national, cultural and artistic appropriation of her Iranian cultural heritage, as well as…
Beirut Art Fair Announces Selected Galleries For it’s 10th Edition
BEIRUT ART FAIR is proud to announce the first wave of participating galleries for its 10-year anniversary edition, taking place September 18/22 at the Seaside Arena in the Lebanese capital. The Fair commits to its role of international cultural incubator, in the perspective of discovering emerging artists and rediscovering historical ones. This first selection includes 30 distinguished Lebanese and…
Zineb Sedira’s NOW at the National Galleries of Scotland
NOW Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One), Edinburgh, Scotland | 1 June – 22 September, 2019 Zineb Sedira participates in the fifth installment of the group exhibition NOW, a dynamic three-year programme of exhibitions at the National Galleries of Scotland. Zineb uses photography, film and installations to explore language, memory and history. In NOW, Zineb exhibits a…