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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