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MAy 2026

ART calendar of MENA Region:

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

highlights of MAY

Art dubai 2026

  • Location: Madinat Jumeirah
  • 15 - 17 May
    (preview 14 May)

Alserkal
Art Month

  • Location: Al Quoz
  • 18 April - 18 May

Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026

  • Location: Diriyah
  • 30 January - 2 May 2026

DIFC Sculpture Park 2026

  • Location: Oblong Contemporary
  • 5 March - 30 June 2026

QatArt Market

  • Location: Katara Art Studios, Building 19
  • 1 May 2026
    4:00 PM - 8:00 PM

UAE. Abu dhabi

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ALL MANNER OF EXPERIMENTS:
LEGACIES OF THE BAGHDAD MODERN ART GROUP

  • Location: NYUAD Art Gallery
  • 12 February – 7 June 2026

Picasso, the Figure

  • Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • 21 January - 31 May 2026

Constructing the Orient: Fragments of a Western Dream

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 24 October 2025 - 31 May 2026

home is not a placE

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 13 February - 31 May

Reflections: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Villain Collection

  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 13 February - 31 May

Rays, Ripples, Residue

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • 1 November - 17 May 2026

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

UAE. DUBAI

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Sara Naim: From the Perspective of Language

  • Location: Third Line Gallery
  • 13 March - 31 May 2026

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

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

Jumana Emil Abboud: The Storyteller and the Obedient Tide

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 28 January - 28 June 2026

Artists’ Rooms: Kamruzzaman Shahdin

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

White

  • Location: XVA Gallery
  • 25 April - 21 May 2026

Flor Salina by Cveto Marsic

  • Location: Oblong Gallery
  • 16 March - 1 May 2026

Mr. Brainwash Explained: The Hidden Language of Graffiti

  • Location: Oblong Gallery
  • 23 March - 23 May 2026

SUPERMARKET

  • Location: Foundry (Gallery 8)
  • 5 May - 7 June 2026

A CONTINUUM OF LIGHT

  • Location: Foundry (Gallery 3)
  • 5 May - 7 June 2026

THE RED DOT

  • Location: Foundry (Gallery 5)
  • 5 May - 7 June 2026

Monira AL QADIRI:
Altered States

  • Location: Perrotin
  • until 22 May 2026

Spring Group Show

  • Location: Taymour Grahne Projects
  • 3 April - 7 May 2026

Group show: Limited Editions

  • Location: Taymour Grahne Projects
  • 3 April - 7 May 2026

Group show: Five Painters

  • Location: Taymour Grahne Projects
  • 17 May – 11 July 2026


Elusive Territories
Group Exhibition

  • Location: Zawyeh Gallery
  • 4 April – 30 June, 2026

Douglas White: The Great Wave

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 14 March – 6 May 2026

Atieh Sohrabi, Farshid Shafiey, Baran Shafiey: All in the Family

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 14 March – 6 May 2026

Mehdi Farhadian: Revealing the Unseen

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 14 March – 6 May 2026

The importance of staying quiet: Fahd Burki

  • Location: Grey Noise, Warehouse 24
  • 18 April 2026– 9 May 2026

Exodus Through the Maze: Disorientation As Fate: Mouteea Murad

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 4 March - 9 May 2026

Creatures of Hope: Nihad Al-Turk

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 4 March - 9 May 2026

The Eye: An Aperture Into the Soul: Safwan Dahoul

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 16 May - 4 July 2026

20-day Exhibition: One Artist / One Note per Day

  • Location: Isabelle Gallery
  • Until 28 May 2026

A Shared Ground

  • Location: Waddington Custot
  • 17 January – 8 May 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

"In circulation"

  • Location: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • 18 April - 15 July 2026

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Unfixed Ground

  • Location: Lawrie Shabibi
  • 18 April - 9 May 2026

Deeper Than You Know

  • Location: Firetti Contemporary
  • 19 April - 8 May 2026

All the Lands from Sunrise to Sunset

  • Location: Green Art Gallery
  • 18 April - 1 June 2026

This bloom i borrow

  • Location: Efie Gallery
  • Until 9 May 2026

Nazilya Nagimova
Follow the Snail

  • Location: NIKA Project Space
  • 14 February — 23 May 2026

In the Wake of Time

  • Location: RARARES Gallery. DIFC Sculpture Park
  • 25 November 2025 –
    31 May 2026

Get Well Soon

  • Location: Carbon12
  • 14 April - 25 May 2026

All at Once

  • Location: JD Malat Gallery
  • 30 March - 15 May 2026

Fellow Travellers Curated by Dr Omar Kholeif

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • 13 April - 5 June 2026

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uae. SHARJAH

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Ahaad Alamoudi: Sunkissed

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square, Gallery 6
  • 8 February - 3 May 2026

Jorge Tacla: Time the destroyer is time the preserver

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square, Gallery 1, 2, and 3
  • 8 February – 7 June 2026

Of Land and Water

  • Location: Kalba Ice Factory
  • Until 31 May 2026


Of Land and Water

  • Location: Kalba Ice Factory
  • Until 31 May 2026


From Oyster to Crown

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


Who I Become

  • Location: Maraya Art Centre
  • 26 April - 30 July 2026


The Sky Forgets, the Heart Remembers

  • Location: Maraya Art Centre
  • 26 April - 30 July 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

Unmirror

  • Location: ATHR Gallery
  • Until 9 May 2026

I Stay, in Pieces

  • Location: ATHR Gallery
  • Until 9 May 2026

Jeddah

Permanent exhibition of artist Safeya Binzagr's works

  • Location: Darat Safeya Binzagr Gallery

The Legends of Motherland by Sarah Alabdali

  • Location: Hafez Gallery
  • 21 April 21 - 24 May 2026



AiUia

Intimate Architectures of Belonging

  • Location: ATHR Gallery
  • Until 5 May 2026

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

Extraordinary Minas

The Story of Inspiration and Innovation in Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics

  • Location: Pera Museum
  • From May 27, 2025

Sakıp Sabancı Museum Painting Collection

  • Location: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (SSM)

Work in Progress. Emre Baykal

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 14 April 2027

Nilbar Güreş: Velvet Stare

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 10 May 2026

Hera Büyüktaşcıyan: Phantom Quartet

  • Location: Arter
  • Until 30 August 2026

Subsoil
Onur Gökmen

  • Location: Salt Beyoğlu
  • 2 April – 3 May 2026

Breaking Through a Damh

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

KEREM GİRİŞ

  • Location: Art On Istanbul
  • 8 April - 23 May 2026

Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture

Edward Burtynsky: Shifting Topography

  • Location: Borusan Contemporary
  • Until 16 August 2026

The Whistling Memory

  • Location: Yapı Kredi Culture and Art
  • 22 Jaunuary 2026 - 7 June 2026

Terra_Fluens

  • Location: .artSümer Gallery
  • April 18 – May 29, 2026

OĞULCAN KUŞ
I’m Feeling Lucky

  • Location: Anna Laudel Gallery
  • April 10 – May 31, 2026

MATHIAS HORNUNG
Washed Up to the Surface

  • Location: Anna Laudel Gallery
  • April 10 – May 31, 2026

Seeping Into the Horizon

  • Location: SANATORIUM
  • 2 April - 8 May 2026

It Sounds Like Rain is Coming

  • Location: SANATORIUM
  • 8 April - 16 May 2026

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

  • Location: Istanbul Research Institute
  • Until 17 May 2026

Locus Affectus

  • Location: Galerist
  • 27 April - 13 June 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

Tarek Atoui: Waters’ Witness

  • Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
  • Until 18 May 2026

what's between, between?

  • Location: Media Majlis Museum
  • Until 14 May 2026

Atharna 2025: Unearthing Qatar’s Ancient Textile Factories

  • Location: National Museum of Qatar

Empire of Light: Visions and Voices of Afghanistan

  • Location: Museum of Islamic Art
  • Until 30 May 2026

Chung Seoyoung: Endless Facts

  • Location: Fire Station, Garage Gallery
  • 5 February - 31 May 2026

Haroon Mirza: Everything Was, Is and Always Will Be

  • Location: Fire Station, Garage Gallery
  • 5 February - 31 May 2026

Ho Tzu Nyen: Hotel Aporia

  • Location: Fire Station, Garage Gallery
  • 5 February - 31 May 2026

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

SOFT BOIL
A solo show by Nada Baraka

  • Location: Gypsum
  • 20 April - 13 May 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

The Day Is Gone: 100 Years of the New Objectivity

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 23 May 2026

Year Zero

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 30 May 2026

Archetype: The Architecture of Ram Karmi

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 27 June 2026

Joshua Neustein: You cannot step into the same river twice

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 20 June 2026

Ronen Sharabani: Strings Attached

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 30 May 2026

Observation / The Field Observers of the Gaza Sector: A Video Installation by Talya Lavie

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 23 May 2026

Anne Simin Shitrit: Malachi

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Until 13 June 2026

Dudu Geva Was Here: New in the Collection

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 10 February - 8 July 2026

Beyond Small / Miniature Worlds in Contemporary Art

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • 10 February - 4 July 2026

Yayoi Kusama — Infinity Mirrored Room

  • Location: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Permanent Exhibition

Absalon: Solutions and Problems

  • Location: CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • 19 February - 30 May 2026

Amir Yatziv: A Report

  • Location: CCA Tel Aviv-Yafo
  • 19 February - 30 May 2026

Fragments of a Portrait

  • Location: Artport Tel Aviv
  • From 3 April 2026

Holon

Heroines

  • Location: Design Museum
  • Until 2 May 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

STEEL GENETICS

  • Location: Selma Feriani
  • 30 April- 25 July 2026

A NEVER-ENDING M

  • Location: Selma Feriani
  • 30 April- 25 July 2026

Sudan

Khartoum

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Permanent Exhibition

  • Location: National Museum of Sudan

Morocco

Casablanca

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Nature Morte

  • Location: Villa des Arts
  • 26 March - 31 May 2026

Larbi Cherkaoui

  • Location: L'ATELIER 21
  • 21 April - 23 May 2026

THE LOFT COLLECTIVE

  • Location: Loft Art Gallery
  • 16 April - 31 May 2026

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

Les battements d’ailes des crocodiles

  • Location: Montresso Foundation
  • 10 April - 18 July 2026

Porter le ciel

  • Location: Montresso Foundation
  • 7 March - 2 May 2026

Regards Croisés

  • Location: Comptoir des Mines Galerie
  • 1 May - 15 June 2 2026

Kuwait

Kuwait City

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My Dear Prophecies : Baró Galeria

  • Location: Hunna Art Gallery
  • 9 April - 25 May 2026

The Whisperings: At Kristine Hjellegjerde

  • Location: Hunna Art Gallery
  • 23 April - 16 May 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

Celebrating 25 Years of Spazju Kreattiv: Nurturing Legacy Through Art

  • Location: Spazju Kreattiv
  • 18 September 2025 – 10 May 2026

For Want of (not) Measuring

  • Location: Spazju Kreattiv
  • 12 March - 3 May 2026

A Few Rules for Predicting the Future

  • Location: Spazju Kreattiv
  • 13 March - 10 May 2026

Art Will Wake the Dead – Celebrating 25 Years of Spazju Kreattiv: Nurturing Legacy Through Art

  • Location: Spazju Kreattiv
  • 18 March - 10 May 2026

Palestine

Birzeit

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Permanent exhibition

  • Location: The Palestinian Museum

I shall carve the sun's words

  • Location: A.M. Qattan Foundation

Cyprus

Nicosia

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Collections of Cypriot, Greek, and European art

  • Location: A. G. Leventis Gallery

Fluid Persistence

  • Location: NiMAC — Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre
  • Until 31 May 2026

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

À Mon Père

  • Location: Galerie Tanit Beirut
  • 30 April - 4 June 2026



MAy 2026

ART calendar of MENA Region:

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