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OCTOBER 2025
ART calendar of MENA Region:
Presenting a detailed guide to current art exhibitions in the MENA region for October 2025. Don't miss the temporary and permanent exhibitions in leading galleries and cultural centres across the MENA region.
New Openings in October
The eastern universe
  • Location: Form & Seasons Gallery (Dubai)
  • Opening Date: 17 October 2025
Exhibitions in Abu Dhabi
The Imaginary Museum
  • Location: RIZQ ART Gallery
  • 19 September –
    23 November 2025
ALA YOUNis: PAST OF A TEMPORAL UNIVERSE
  • Location: NYUAD Art Gallery
  • 23 September –
    18 January 2026
Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire
  • Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • 17 September 2025 –
    25 January 2026
THE BLIND MAN
  • Location: Iyad Qanazea Gallery
  • 11 September –
    25 October 2025
The Other Side of the Moon
  • Location: Baró Galeria
  • Until 28 October 2025
HERITAGE, MEMORY, AND THE BODY: a GROUP SHOW
  • Location: Artbooth Gallery
  • 18 September –
    31 October 2025
Sotheby’s, together with the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
the first Masterpiece Exhibition of works by
Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, René Magritte, and Camille Pissarro
  • Location: Bassam Freiha Art Foundation
  • 1 October, from 2:00 PM to 7 PM
  • 2 October, from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Vagabondages - Les Cartes Rêvées de Nicolas Vial: The Dream Maps
  • Location: Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi
  • Until 3 October 2025
Third Eye by Amjad Gharezeddin
  • Location: Etihad Modern Art Gallery
  • 27 September – 4 October 2025
Balnur Assanova's "Nomads in Time"
  • Location: Etihad Modern Art Gallery
  • 16 October – 25 October 2025
"Between Lines and Colours" Group Exhibition
  • Location: Etihad Modern Art Gallery
  • 19 September – 3 October 2025
Exhibitions in Dubai
"Whispers of the Past" in collaboration with Sotheby’s Middle East
  • Location: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • 11 September - 14 November 2025
Caravan of Colours Through Time
  • Location: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • 18 September - 5 November 2025
Shifting Gazes
  • Location: The Farjam Foundation
  • Until 15 October 2025
Bady Dalloul: Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have
  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 20 September –
    22 February 2026
The Only Way Out Is Through: The Twentieth Line
  • Location: The Third Line
  • 18 September –
    7 November 2025
Where Roots Touch the Light
Karim Abu Shakra
  • Location: Zawyeh Gallery
  • 29 August –
    5 October 2025
Refined Compositions by Ruba Salameh
  • Location: Zawyeh Gallery
  • 13 September –
    9 November 2025
NORREM AUTUMN BLOSSOM
  • Location: Urbanist Art Gallery
  • 4 – 25 October 2025
The Unsaid Remains Remembered
  • Location: JD Malat Gallery Dubai
  • 1 October –
    2 November 2025
Rooted Echoes, Ahed Al Khatiri, Yasmin Al Awa, Zahra Juanji
  • Location: NIKA Project Space
  • 10 September –
    1 November 2025
NOWADEUS by Tim Christie and The Grid
  • Location: Kanvas
  • 2 October – 7 November 2025
Thomas Dillon, The Raw and the Cooked
  • Location: Opera Gallery Dubai
  • 23 October –
    17 November 2025
Moving Borderlines
  • Location: Foundry Downtown. Gallery 3
  • 20 September –
    20 October 2025
The Machine Curates
  • Location: Foundry Downtown. Gallery 5
  • 20 September –
    20 October 2025
MOLOCH
  • Location: Foundry Downtown. Gallery 4
  • 20 September –
    20 October 2025
Katya Emelyanova: Elevated State
  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 3 October –
    5 November 2025
Wassef Boutros-Ghali: A Retrospective (1965–2016) and Book Launch
  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 3 October –
    5 November 2025
Morteza Khosravi: The Floating Table
  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • 3 October –
    5 November 2025
Marwan Bassiouni: New Western Views
  • Location: Lawrie Shabibi
  • 19 September - 5 November 2025
I'm Never coming back
  • Location: Firetti Contemporary
  • 19 September - 7 November 2025
Inside Out '25: Elias Izoli
  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 18 September - 7 November 2025
Abdelkader Benchamma: Rumors from the Skies
  • Location: Gallery Isabelle
  • 18 September - 2 November 2025
Amina Illuminati
  • Location: RARARES Gallery
  • 18 September - 21 November 2025
The Narrative of Decline
  • Location: Carbon12
  • 18 September – 6 November 2025
Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity. Nazgol Ansarinia
  • Location: Green Art Gallery
  • Until 28 October 2025
Talal Al-Najjar | Mesh & Mayhem
  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • 27 September - 24 October 2025
The importance of staying quiet
  • Location: Grey Noise
  • 18 September – 5 November 2025
"Paintings of Nowhere" by Richard Ketley and "Rooted" by Alejandra Palos
  • Location: XVA Gallery
  • 13 September - 16 October 2025
The Shape of Things to Come
  • Location: Efie Gallery
  • 11 October - 10 January 2026
Exhibitions in SHARJAH
Leda Catunda: I like to like what others are liking
  • Location: Sharjah Art Foundation
  • 26 September 2025 -
    8 February 2026
Afra Al Dhaheri: Restless Circle
  • Location: Sharjah Art Foundation
  • Until 14 December 2025
SILA - All That Is Left To You
  • Location: Maraya Art Centre
  • 21 September - 5 January 2026
Permanent Exhibitions in the UAE
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
Exhibitions in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh
Artistic and Historical Exhibits
  • Location: National Museum of Saudi Arabia
  • Permanent exhibition
Permanent exhibition at the Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMoCA)
Jeddah
Permanent exhibition of artist Safiya Binzagr's works
Location: Darat Safiya Binzagr Gallery
Exhibitions in Bahrain
Manama
Permanent Exhibition
  • Location: Bahrain National Museum
Permanent exhibition dedicated to painting, Arabic calligraphy, sculpture, and engraving
  • Location: Busaad Art Gallery
Exhibitions in QATAR. DOHA
"A Seat at the Table: Food and Feasting in the Islamic World"
  • Location: Museum of Islamic Art (MIA)
  • Until 8 November 2025
Permanent Exhibition of Qatar's History
  • Location: National Museum of Qatar
EXHIBITIONS IN EGYPT
Cairo
Egypt's Largest Permanent Heritage Exhibition
  • Location: National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
Luxor
Permanent Exhibition at the Mummification Museum
Exhibitions in IRAN. Tehran
The Hidden Cerulean
  • Location: Aaran Gallery
  • 19 September – 3 October 2025
Portrait in the Abyss
  • Location: Asrart Gallery
  • 26 September – 10 October 2025
Isfahan
Prince Hooman
  • Location: Aknoon Art Gallery
  • 26 September – 1 October 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
Gideon Rubin, Sara Berman THE FOLD
  • Location: Alon Segev Gallery
  • 18 September – 21 November 2025
Nadine Schemmann: Mother Fields
  • Location: Sommer Contemporary Art
  • From 26 September 2025
Exhibitions in TUNISIA
Black Seeds
  • Location: Selma Feriani Gallery
  • 27 September - 22 November 2025
Exhibitions in Morocco. Casablanca
Nabil El Makhloufi
Resonances
  • Location: L'Atelier 21 Gallery
  • 30 September – 1 November 2025
Exhibitions in Lebanon. Beirut
the Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust by Stephanie Saade
  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 15 January 2026
Becoming Icon
  • Location: Sursock Museum
  • Until 20 June 2027
What Remains. Adel Abidin
  • Location: Galerie Tanit
  • 10 September – 23 October 2025
Vartan Avakian - A Curse that Turns Gold into Ladybugs
  • Location: Marfa’ Projects
  • Until 20 October 2025
Dia Al-Azzawi -False Witnesses
  • Location: Saleh Barakat Gallery
  • 11 September – 31 October 2025