Current
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So expansive, you and I become null
Solo Show by Raya Kassisieh 4 Dec 2024 - 30 Jan 2025 In her first solo exhibition, Raya Kassisieh employs different languages, visible and invisible through her own writing, gestures and different drafts on the body. By moulding these to different scales, from the ultra-minute to the expansive and distorted, she expresses that the act of becoming is also a gesture towards... Read more -
Lilies
Solo Show by Reem R. at Bayt AlMamzar 13 Dec 2024 - 5 Jan 2025 Reem R.'s body of work, presented in her first solo exhibition 'Lilies,' invites us to see fragments of a whole — pieces deconstructed and reassembled, allowing us to navigate a space where the boundaries of reality and illusion are constantly shifting. Her practice is process-driven, involving the instinctive manipulation of... Read more
Past
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Gentle Porosities
Solo show by Mashael Alsaie 23 Oct - 26 Nov 2024 Hunna Art is thrilled to announce the opening of its first permanent space within one of Kuwait’s most exciting cultural spaces, the Design District Center. This significant milestone reaffirms the gallery’s commitment to championing the voices of contemporary women artists from the Arabian Peninsula and its diasporas, while fostering dialogues... Read more -
The Earth Would Die If The Sun Stopped Kissing Her
Solo Show by Eman Ali 19 - 27 Oct 2024 “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 night. This collection of moments where everyday life meets dreams reminds us that we are part of something much bigger,... Read more -
BOUNDLESS/BINDING
At Subliminal Projects (LA) 17 Feb - 6 Apr 2024 Boundless / Binding presents a female group exhibition showcasing powerful narratives around personal and collective themes. The exhibition will serve as a dialog for refection highlighting the beauty and strength inherent in embracing the boundless possibilities of creative expression. The exhibition serves as a catalyst for dialogue and reflection, a... Read more -
Noor Riyadh 2023
At the Riyadh Art space in JAX District 30 Nov 2023 - 2 Mar 2024 Four artists -Aidha Badr, Amna AlBaker, Mashael Alsaie and Talin Hazbar- have been selected for 'Refracted Identities, Shared Futures', the exhibition accompanying the 2023 of Noor Riyadh. Held at the Riyadh art space in JAX District, this exhibition is curated by Neville Wakefield, formerly of MoMA PS1, Frieze Projects, and... Read more -
Earth can be as dead as it can be alive
Solo show by Alymamah Rashed 3 - 18 Nov 2023 FIKAR & Hunna Art are honored to invite you to Alymamah Rashed’s fourth solo exhibition, ‘Earth can be as dead as it can be alive’, curated by Mathqaf at Dar FIKAR (Failaka Island, Kuwait). ‘Earth can be as dead as it can be alive’ presents a new body of works... Read more -
When I desire you a part of you is gone
Solo Show by Aidha Badr 19 May - 6 Jun 2022 ‘All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies’ - AnneCarson, Eros the Bittersweet (1986). In her seminal book Eros the Bittersweet, Anne Carson explores the multidimensional possibilities and intricacies of desire. Through a philosophical and poetic analysis... Read more -
Eyes Wide Shut
At Firetti Contemporary (Dubai) 12 May - 12 Aug 2022 Eyes Wide Shut is a collective exhibition including ten women artists from the UAE, Iran, Armenia, Ukraine, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Kuwait. The exhibition embodies a visual exploration on a wide range of socio-political issues through multidisciplinary mediums, such as painting, collage, video, and installation. Eyes Wide Shut is... Read more -
Serendipity
At Al Safa Art and Design library, (Dubai) 8 - 31 Mar 2022 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. Read more -
I Saw Time Passing (I)
At Foundry Downtown (Dubai) 2 Mar - 30 Apr 2022 Alia Zaal is a multidisciplinary artist from the UAE who explores memory, history and the changing urban and natural environment of her surroundings. Exploring the connection between vision and perception, her work often tracks the interplay between digital and analogue.
Her paintings are based on personal photographs - of interiors, landscapes and scenes extracted from her visual diary. The transformation of images from one medium to another is seen as an allegory of the perceptions and lenses through which memories pass.
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Pathways
At Raffles The Palm Dubai 28 Jan - 23 Mar 2022 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 and watercolors converges the sightings of the everyday in Kuwait with her spiritual epiphanies. Pebbles and seashells found in Salwa’s... Read more
