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ART EVENTS in MENA: AUGUST 2025

Here’s a detailed guide to current art exhibitions in MENA region for August 2025. Make time to visit temporary and permanent exhibitions in leading galleries and cultural centres in the MENA region.

Exhibitions in Abu Dhabi

THE PRISM. PROJECT ONENESS Trust, Gratitude and Love Journey

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation & the Italian Embassy in UAE
  • Until 31 August 2025



To Know Malaysia is to Love Malaysia

  • Location: Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation
  • Until 10 September 2025

Maita Abdullah: Between Metamorphosis and Reality

  • Location: Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation
  • Until 30 August 2025




The Other Side of the Moon


  • Location: Baró Galeria
  • Until 1 September 2025

Ana Escobar Saavedra:
It All Starts Where It Ends

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • Until 7 September 2025



Unstable Grounds:
NYUAD MFA Graduate Exhibition

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • Until 7 September 2025

Exhibitions in Dubai

1

Tempted by Other Suns

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • Until 5 September 2025
2

Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes

  • Location: The Farjam Foundation
  • Until 15 October 2025
3

Elysian Awakening

  • Location: RARARES Gallery
  • Until 31 August 2025
4

Asunción Molinos Gordo: The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • Until 28 September 2025
5

Garden of Murmurs: Malik Thomas & Jalil Kydd

  • Location: CARBON 12, Alserkal Avenue
  • Until 31 August 2025
6

Architectures of the In-Between

  • Location: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • Until 23 August 2025
7

Richie Bhatia: Antevāsin — The One Who Sits at the Boundary of Two Worlds

  • Location: Gallery Isabelle
  • Until 10 September 2025


Ihab Ahmad: I've put my brain on pause!

  • Location: Firetti Contemporary
  • Until 20th August

Gustavo Vélez: Geometria senza Confini

  • Location: Oblong Contemporary Gallery
  • Until 21st September

Morteza Khazaie: Upside Down

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15th September

Naeemeh Kazemi: Bubble Land


  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15th September

Reza Derakshani

I PAINT YOUR GRACE, I PAINT YOUR PAIN, I PAINT LOVE

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15th September

Nature and Form: Sculptural Dialogues Across Time and Place

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 31st August

Exhibitions in Dubai. Alserkal Avenue

1

A Memorial in Fragments

  • Location: Gulf Photo Plus
  • Until 13 August 2025
2

Omar Al Gurg: Everyman’s Mountain

  • Location: Lawrie Shabibi
  • Until 12 September 2025
3

Nazgol Ansarinia: Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity

  • Location: Green Art Gallery
  • Until 6 September 2025
4

Summer Collective: Wavering Hope

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • Until 5 September 2025
5

Open Studio Residency

  • Location: NIKA Project Space
  • Until 24 August 2025
6

‘No Trespassing’

  • Location: Ishara Art Foundation
  • Until 30 August 2025
7

Sophia Vari: Eidos – La Forma della Felicità

  • Location: Oblong Contemporary
  • Until 31 August 2025
8

Tenté par d'autres soleils (Tempted By Other Suns), Béchir Boussandel

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • Until 5 September 2025

Exhibitions in Sharjah

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
"Between Sunrise and Sunset"

  • Location: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba
  • Until 10 August 2025

Afra Al Dhaheri: Restless Circle

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square
  • 30 August — 14 December 2025

Permanent exhibitions
in the uae

Immersive technologies

Location: Museum of the Future (Dubai)

History of the formation of the United Arab Emirates

Location: Etihad Museum (Dubai)

Archaeological finds and historical artefacts that tell of the emirate's rich past

Location: National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah

Exhibition dedicated to the culture and traditions of the UAE

Location: Fujairah Museum

Technologies, installations

Location: Phenomena Abu Dhabi

Exhibitions in Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

1

Artistic and historical exhibits

  • Location: The Saudi National Museum
  • Permanent exhibition
2

Permanent exhibition at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA)

Dahran

1

Crafts in Conversation: A Convergence Between Traditional and Contemporary Art

Location: King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture (Ithra)

Until 30 August 2025

Jeddah

1

Permanent exhibition of works by the artist Safia Binzagr

Location: Darat Safiya Binzagr Gallery

Exhibitions in Qatar. Doha

Wafa al-Hamad: Sites of Imagination


  • Location: Mathaf. Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • Until 9 August 2025

"Qatar: Close to My Soul Art from the Collection of Abdulla bin Ali Al Thani"

  • Location: Mathaf. Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • Until 9 August 2025

Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices



  • Location: Mathaf. Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • Until 9 August 2025

"A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World"

  • Location: Museum of Islamic Art (MIA)
  • Until 8 November 2025

Permanent Exhibition of the History of Qatar



  • Location: National Museum of Qatar

Printed Nostalgia


  • Location: Gallery 4, Fire Station
  • Until 1 September 2025

Exhibitions in EGYPT

Cairo

Permanent largest exhibition of Egyptian heritage

  • Location: National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation

Ubuntu Revisited 8

  • Location: Ubuntu Art Gallery
  • Until 9th August

The Bright Side

  • Location: Picasso Art Gallery
  • Until 31st August 2025

Luxor

Permanent exhibition in the Mummification Museum

Exhibitions in Iran. Tehran

Listen, the Farthest Bird in the World is Singing

  • Location: Aaran Gallery
  • Until 22 August 2025

Setare Taji

  • Location: Etemad Gallery
  • Until 5 August 2025

Clime — Hamid Fam

  • Location: Etemad Gallery
  • Until 5 August 2025

Exhibitions in Jordan. Amman

1

Dear Viewers, Raeda Saadeh

  • Location: Darat al Funun -The Khalid Shoman Foundation
  • Until 30 September 2025
2

“Let There Be Color and The World Shall Breathe” by Heba Sweis

  • Location: Dar Al-Anda Art Gallery
  • Until 13 August 2025

Exhibitions in Israel
Tel Aviv

Once, the Sky Was the Sea

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 1 November 2025

Yossi Mark: Bona Nox, Mater

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 22 December 2025

Permanent exhibition of art and archaeology

  • Location: The Israel Museum
  • Until 22 December 2025
1

Adam Cohn Amalgam

  • Location: Gordon Gallery
  • Until 30 August 2025
2

Yana Rotner | LUMIÈRE

  • Location: Alon Segev Gallery
  • Until 5 September 2025
3

The best words in the best order

  • Location: Gallery Har-El
  • Until 10 August 2025
4

Between Earth and Sky

  • Location: Inga Gallery of Contemporary Art
  • Until 23 August 2025
5

HOMESICK

  • Location: Sommer Contemporary Art
  • Until 8 August 2025

Exhibitions in Tunisia

Nous trouverons
un chemin, ou nous en créerons un

  • Location: Selma Feriani Gallery
  • Until 23 August 2025

Asma Ben Aissa Solo Exhibition

  • Location: Selma Feriani Gallery
  • Until 23 August 2025

Najia Mehadji
" MON AMIE LA ROSE "

  • Location: Le Violon Bleu
  • Until 3 August 2025

Exhibitions in Marrakesh

The Water Cabinet by Hanakam & Schuller

  • Location: Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden (MACAAL)
  • Until 7 September 2025

Exhibitions in Lebanon. Beirut

1

"Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust" by Stéphanie Saadé

  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 15 January 2026
2

"Becoming Icon"

  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 20 June 2027
3

"Remembering Light" — Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige

  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 4 September 2025
4

Pretend it's a pool

  • Location: Beirut Art Centre
  • Until 20 September 2025
5

"Sorry for Interrupting" – Jacques Vartabedian

  • Location: Galerie Tanit
  • Until 3 September 2025
6

"Flow" – Joumana Jamhouri

  • Location: Galerie Tanit
  • Until 3 September 2025
7

Vartan Avakian "A Curse That Turns Gold into Ladybugs"

  • Location: Marfa’ Projects
  • Until 25 September 2025
8

Azza Abo Rebih "The Unlived "

  • Location: Saleh Barakat Gallery
  • Until 16 August 2025