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august 2026

ART calendar of MENA Region:

Presenting a detailed guide to current art exhibitions in the MENA region for August 2026. Don't miss the temporary and permanent exhibitions in leading galleries and cultural centres across the MENA region.

open calls

OPEN CALL

  • Location: The Art Circle Award 2026
  • Deadline: September 10, 2026

Burj Khalifa's Open Call

  • Location: Burj Khalifa
  • Deadline: August 18, 2026

OPEN CALL

  • Location: Rizq Art Gallery
  • Deadline: August 10, 2026

open call

  • Location: Peru Biennial
  • Until August 31, 2026

open call

  • Location: Maritime Heritage Festival
  • Until 31 August 2026

G42 Advanced Technologies Art Award

  • Location: In Collaboration with Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)
  • Until 14 August 2026

open call

  • Location: Dubai Design Week
  • Until 15 August 2026

open call

  • Location: Harakat Sikka
  • Until 8 August 2026

open call's

  • Location: Sharjah Art Foundation
  • Until 8 August 2026

open call's

  • Location: Fire Station, Doha
  • Until 5 September 2026

Accepting Applications

  • Location: World Art Dubai 2026
  • Until 15 August 2026

Accepting Applications

  • Location: Art Dubai 2027

Workshops in UAE: Abu Dhabi

Quantum Dome Project

A Collective VR Experience

  • Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • Until 31 December 2026
  • Price: 40 AED (Adults) / 20 AED (Children, under 18 )

The World of Studio Ghibli

  • Location: Manarat Al Saadiyat
  • 4 June - 29 August

Once Upon an Art Camp

  • Location: Manarat Al Saadiyat’s Art Studio
  • 06 July - 20 August 2026

Spring 2026 Program: More than 40 workshops, reading circles and family events

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • 30 April - 26 September 2026

A Walk Through Our History

  • Location: Zayed National Museum
  • Until 31 December 2026

“A Board Game Adventure” Summer Camp

  • Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • 11 August 11 – 21 August

Workshops in UAE: dubai

Jameel’s Summer Cinema: in collaboration with The Culturist

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 20 June - 15 August 2026
    Saturdays 7:30 - 9:30 PM

Workshops, Talks & Tours

  • Location: Tashkeel
  • August 2026

Al Quoz Creative Entrepreneurship Competition

  • Location: Al Quoz
  • until 12 July 2026


Workshops in UAE: SHARJAH

Open studio – Pottery Basics

  • Location: Al Dhaid Art Centre
  • 27 April – 27 August 2026

Open studio – Calligraphy Basics

  • Location: Al Dhaid Art Centre
  • 27 April – 27 August 2026

Sunday Cinema Club

  • Location: Photography Gallery
  • 5 July–30 August 2026

Art events

  • Location: Sharjah Art Foundation
  • August

Aeons- New works by Nourhan Rahhal

  • Location: 1971-Design Space, Flag Island
  • 07 June - 3 September 2026

The Saffar of Coral By Nidanin

  • Location: 1971-Design Space, Flag Island
  • 07 June - 3 September 2026

UAE. Abu dhabi

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Human in the Loop by Dr. Ahmad AlAttar

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • 21 June - 13 September

Light & peace

  • Location: Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre
  • 1 September 2024 -
    1 September 2026

Shezad Dawood: Skin of Dreams

  • Location: Cultural Foundation
  • 30 April 2026 - 20 September 2026

Juma Al Haj: Interoception

  • Location: Iris Projects
  • 6 June - 6 August 2026
    4 - 6 pm

Mutable Devotions

  • Location: Rizq Art Initiative
  • 13 August 2026

In Transit

  • Location: Artbooth Gallery
  • 9 July - 31 August 2026

Seeing Ourselves

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 11 June – 31 August 2026

before the silence breaks

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 11 June – 30 August 2026

Unflowered

  • Location: Khawla Art Gallery
  • 08 July - 08 September 2026

UAE. DUBAI

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Collectors' Entry Point: Select Works Under $3,000

  • Location: Fann A Porter
  • 4 April - 20 September 2026

Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 15 March 2026 -
    1 November 2026

Global Positioning System

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 9 May - 4 October 2026

OBLIVION
Summer Show

  • Location: XVA Gallery
  • 28 July to 15 October 2026

Samira Abbassy - Of Loss and Redemption

  • ONLINE: Taymour Grahne Projects
  • 7 July - 4 August 2026

WITHIN REACH

  • Location: Etihad Modern Art Gallery
  • Opening Reception:
    23 July 2026


Summer Group Show: Between Memory and Imagination

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • July 10 – September 13, 2026

Spectra

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 30 June – 2 September 2026

Sultan Bin Fahad: Blue Note

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 12 May – 13 September 2026

Summer Collective: Tangerine Dreams

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 8 July - 18 September 2026

Time That Grows Slowly

  • Location: Dom Art Project
  • 13 May - 13 September 2026

Petr Kirusha

  • Location: Dom Art Project
  • 13 May - 13 September 2026

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In Abstracto, In Concreto: On Memory and Presence

  • Location: Efie Gallery
  • 16 May — 21 September 2026

Open Studio Residency 2026

  • Location: NIKA Project Space
  • 8 June — 28 August 2026

Fatma Lootah:
Under The Ghaf Tree.
Where Everything Belongs

  • Location: RARARES Gallery. DIFC Sculpture Park
  • 11 May — 10 September 2026

The Two Walks

  • Location: Carbon12
  • 4 June - 5 September 2026

Points of View

  • Location: JD Malat Gallery
  • 15 July - 15 September 2026

Same air

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • Until 1 September 2026

In Plain Sight

  • Location: Isabelle gallery
  • 4 June - 15 September 2026

scenec from the 90s

  • Location: Isabelle gallery
  • 4 June - 15 September 2026

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uae. SHARJAH

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Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar: Body Quotidian

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square, Gallery 6
  • 13 June – 20 September 2026

Rain Room

  • Location: Al Majarrah, Sharjah
  • Open all year

From Oyster to Crown

  • Location: Bait Al Naboodah
  • 06 November 2025 - 31 December 2026


Vantage Point 13

  • Location: Gallery 2, Photography Gallery, Al Manakh
  • 8 August – 29 November 2026


Permanent Exhibitions in the UAE

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Permanent Exhibition

Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi

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, narrating the Emirate's rich past

Location: National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah

Culture and Traditions

Location: Fujairah Museum

Technologies, Installations

Location: Phenomena Abu Dhabi

Permanent Exhibition

Location: Zayed National Museum

Permanent Exhibition

Location: Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum

Permanent Exhibition

Location: Sharjah Art Museum

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh

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Permanent exhibition

  • Location: National Museum of Saudi Arabia

Permanent exhibition

  • Location: Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA)

Permanent exhibition

  • Location: Riyadh Art

Syntax of the Ever-Changing

  • Location: Riyadh Art
  • From 20 May 2026

Jeddah

Permanent exhibition of artist Safeya Binzagr's works

  • Location: Darat Safeya Binzagr Gallery

Dhahran

In Praise of the Artisan

  • Location: Ithra Cultural Center
  • November 2024 - December 2027


Turkey

Istanbul

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Semiha Berksoy: Aria of All Colors

  • Location: Istanbul Modern
  • 22 January – 6 September 2026

Panorama: Dreams and Places

  • Location: Istanbul Modern
  • 19 February – 18 October 2026

Floating Islands Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Istanbul Modern
  • 1 January – 12 July 2026

Renzo Piano: Genius Loci Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Istanbul Modern
  • 1 January – 31 December 2026

By the Water

  • Location: Pera Museum
  • 5 March - 23 August 2026

Sakıp Sabancı Museum Painting Collection

  • Location: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)

Work in Progress. Emre Baykal

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 14 April 2027

Mehtap Baydu:Loving You Is So Hard!

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 15 November 2026

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan: Phantom Quartet

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 30 August 2026

Breaking Through a Damh

  • Location: Salt Beyoğlu
  • 22 April – 23 August 2026

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

Edward Burtynsky: Shifting Topography

  • Location: Borusan Contemporary
  • Until 16 August 2026

Archive Focus III

  • Location: SANATORIUM
  • 23 July - 20 September 2026

The Photography Studio of An Adventurous Architect. Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu 1893–1982

  • Location: Istanbul Research Institute
  • Until 04 October 2026

Fair Island of a Summer's Sky

  • Location: Galerist
  • 18 June - 18 September 2026

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: IMOGA Istanbul Museum of Graphic Arts

Bahrain

Manama

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Bahrain National Museum

Permanent exhibition dedicated to painting, Arabic calligraphy, sculpture, and engraving

  • Location: Busaad Art Gallery

Permanent exhibition of private museum

  • Location: La Fontaine centre of contemporary art

Muharraq

permanent exhibition

  • Location: Busaad Art Gallery

QATAR

DOHA

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Permanent exhibition.

One of the world’s greatest collections of Islamic art

  • Location: Museum of Islamic Art (MIA)

Permanent Exhibition of Qatar's History

  • Location: National Museum of Qatar

Resolutions: Celebrating 15 years of Mathaf

  • Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • Until 8 August 2026

Resolutions: Evolving Realities

  • Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • 1 May – 8 August 2026

what's between, between?

  • Location: Media Majlis Museum

Atharna 2025: Unearthing Qatar’s Ancient Textile Factories

  • Location: National Museum of Qatar

Libya

Tripoli

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Artist Ali Ghan's House

  • Location: Bayt Ali Gana
  • Permanent Exhibition

EGYPT

Cairo

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Permanent Grand Exhibition of Egyptian Heritage

  • Location: National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC)
  • Permanent Exhibition

Z FOR ZARAFA. A solo show by Lara Baladi

  • Location: Gypsum
  • 2 June - 23 September 2026

Giza

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Grand Egyptian Museum

Luxor

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Mummification Museum

ISRAEL

Tel AVIV

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Permanent Exhibition of Art and Archaeology

  • Location: The Israel Museum

Archetype: The Architecture of Ram Karmi

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 29 August 2026

Joshua Neustein: You cannot step into the same river twice

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 3 October 2026

Tom Wesselmann: All Out / From Marie and Jose Mugrabi Collection

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 11 June - ​26 December 2026

Vision of the New Bones: Jewish Imaginations after 1940

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 28 May​-​28 November 2026

Anne Simin Shitrit: Malachi

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 29 August 2026

Dudu Geva Was Here: New in the Collection

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 10 February - 29 August 2026

Beyond Small / Miniature Worlds in Contemporary Art

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 10 February - 3 October 2026

Yayoi Kusama — Infinity Mirrored Room

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Permanent Exhibition

Fragments of a Portrait

  • Location: Artport Tel Aviv
  • From 3 April 2026

Iran

tehran

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Museum of Contemporary Art

TUNISIA

Tunis

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Bardo Museum

Sudan

Khartoum

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: National Museum of Sudan

Morocco

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Marrakesh

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Yves Saint Laurent Museum

David Seidner – Yves Saint Laurent

  • Location: Yves Saint Laurent Museum
  • September 25, 2025 - August 2, 2026

Kuwait

Kuwait City

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Beyond the Weave: Contemporary Dialogues with AlSadu

  • Location: MEI Art Gallery
  • 13 February — 23 August 2026

Yemen

Sana’a

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Permanent Exhibition of artificat from the Islamic States era

  • Location: National Museum of Yemen

Syria

Damascus

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: National Museum of Damascus

Malta

Valletta

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Permanent exhibition of the national collection

  • Location: MUŻA — The National Community Art Museum

MCAST ICA Festival

  • Location: Spazju Kreattiv
  • 3 July - 16 August2026

Palestine

Birzeit

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Permanent exhibition

  • Location: The Palestinian Museum

I shall carve the sun's words

  • Location: A.M. Qattan Foundation


Ramallah

1030 +
Khaled Hourani

  • Location: Zawyeh Gallery
  • 1 August – 1 October, 2026

Cyprus

Nicosia

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Collections of Cypriot, Greek, and European art

  • Location: A. G. Leventis Gallery

Limassol

Permanent collection

  • Location: XeniArt Space 1

EGGspression’26

  • Location: XeniArt Space 1
  • From March 27

Mauritania

Nouakchott

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Exhibitions of works by artists from all across Mauritania

  • Location: Galerie Zeinart

Lebanon

Beirut

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Becoming Icon

  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 20 June 2027

As Close As It Gets

  • Location: Galerie Tanit Beirut
  • 16 July - 4 September 2026

UBI TERRA FLORET

  • Location: Galerie Tanit Beirut
  • 2 July - 29 August 2026