Eman Ali Oman, b. 1986

Throughout literature and cinema, imagined worlds have long served as sites of resistance, refuge, and reinvention and yet in contemporary visual art, this speculative impulse remains comparatively underexplored. In Elsewhere,...

“The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her” (太陽がキスをやめたら、地球は死んでしまうだろう) explores what it means to be human, caught between the brightness of the day and the quietness of the...

MIA Art Collection

MIA Art Collection is a private art collection with a global footprint aimed at promoting women artists and their work.
The collection truly of women, created by women, seeks to create visibility of women and their work in the world through various art projects.
MIA Art Collection builds on a multidisciplinary team and global network to support participation in museums, art fairs, amongst others. The MIA art collection is available and supportive of expositions centred around women artists and their participation in activities visualizing the role of women in the arts. The MIA project encourages education through private and public seminars, workshops and expositions on a global scale.

Al Safa Library

Al Safa Art & Design Library, which originally opened in 1989, reintroduced its space to the public in March 2019. It is designed to reflect the Dubai Public Libraries’ purpose as prominent centres for knowledge and culture in the emirate, and to support its National Reading Strategy.
In its design, the library embodies Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of creating quiet, spacious and beautiful urban spaces for reflection that express the sublimity of contemplation and aloofness. It is home to modern multi-purpose rooms and work areas, as well as a dedicated children’s library that has been designed to engage the younger generation with an activity room, a media room, a book room, a piano and an interactive digital wall, green wall and feature wall.

In “My Palm Fronds Breathe (̶F̶o̶r̶ ̶Y̶o̶u̶)̶”, Alymamah Rashed explores the sensation of the spirit’s yearning to reside in a celestial home of eternity. This series of new drawings, paintings...