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MENA REGION ART EVENTS: September 2025

We present to you a detailed guide to current art exhibitions in the MENA region for September 2025. Make sure to visit temporary and permanent exhibitions in leading galleries and cultural centres in the MENA region.

Exhibitions in Abu Dhabi

1

Uncertainty: A Journey Through Art

  • Location: Artbooth Gallery
  • 20 September - 18 October 2025


To Know Malaysia Is to Love Malaysia

  • Location: Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation
  • Until 10 September 2025
2

Ana Escobar Saavedra:
It All Starts Where It Ends

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • Until 7 September 2025


Unstable Grounds:
NYUAD Graduates

  • Location: 421 Arts Campus
  • Until 7 September 2025
3

ALA YOUNis: PAST OF A TEMPORAL UNIVERSE

  • Location: NYUAD Art Gallery
  • 23 September - 18 January 2026


The Other Side of the Moon

  • Location: Baró Galeria
  • Until 28 October 2025
4

Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire

  • Location: Louvre Abu Dhabi
  • 17 September 2025 – 25 January 2026

"Currents: Journeys in Motion" by Vandana Sudhir

  • Location: Etihad Modern Art Gallery
  • 10 - 15 September 2025


5

THE BLIND MAN

  • Location: Iyad Qanazea Gallery
  • From 11 September 2025

Exhibitions in Dubai

1

Tenté par d'autres soleils

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • Until 5 September 2025
2

Caravan of Colours Through Time

  • Location: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • 18 September - 5 November 2025
3

"Whispers of the Past" в коллаборации с Sotheby’s Middle East

  • Локация: Aisha Alabbar Gallery
  • 11 сентября - 14 ноября 2025
4

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

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

Shifting Gazes

  • Location: The Farjam Foundation
  • Until 15 October 2025
6

Bady Dalloul: Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have

  • Location: Jameel Arts Centre
  • 20 September - 22 February 2026
7

Obels – Rubat: A Dialogue

  • Location: Opera Gallery Dubai
  • 11 September – 18 October 2025
8

Raw Emotion

  • Location: Opera Gallery Dubai
  • 19 September – 10 October 2025
9

Tempted by Other Suns

  • Location: Tabari Artspace
  • Until 18 September 2025

Exhibitions in Dubai

Rooted Echoes, Ahed Al Khatiri, Yasminе Al Awa, Zahra Jewanjee

  • Location: NIKA Project Space
  • 10 September - 1 November 2025

Gustavo Vélez: Geometria senza Confini

  • Location: Oblong Contemporary Gallery
  • Until 21 September

Morteza Khazaie: Upside Down

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15 September

Naeemeh Kazemi: Bubble Land


  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15 September

Reza Derakshani

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

  • Location: Leila Heller Gallery
  • Until 15 September

Gustavo Vélez: GEOMETRIA SENZA CONFINI

  • Location: Oblong Contemporary
  • Until 21 September 2025

Exhibitions in Dubai

1

Instruments of Viewing and Obscurity by Nazgol Ansarinia

  • Location: Green Art Gallery
  • Until 6 September 2025
2

Summer Collective: Wavering Hope

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • Until 5 September 2025
3

Omar Al Gurg Everyman's Mountain

  • Location: Lawrie Shabibi
  • Until 12 September 2025
4

Marwan Bassiouni: New Western Views

  • Location: Lawrie Shabibi
  • 19 September - 5 November 2025
5

Richi Bhatia: Antevasin – The One Who Sits at the Border of Two Worlds

  • Location: Gallery Isabelle
  • Until 10 September 2025
6

I'm Never Coming Back

  • Location: Firetti Contemporary
  • 19 September - 7 November 2025
7

Inside Out '25: Elias Izoli

  • Location: Ayyam Gallery
  • 18 September - 7 November 2025

Exhibitions in SHARJAH

Leda Catunda

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square
  • 26 September - 8 February 2026

Afra Al Dhaheri: Restless Circle

  • Location: Al Mureijah Square
  • Until 14 December 2025

Permanent Exhibitions in the UAE

Highlights of the Collection

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 Detailing 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: National Museum of Saudi Arabia
  • Permanent Exhibition
2

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

Jeddah

1

Permanent Exhibition of Artist Safeya Binzagr's Works

Location: Darat Safeya Binzagr 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

Permanent Largest Exhibition of Egyptian Heritage

  • Location: National Museum of Egyptian Civilisation


Luxor

Permanent Exhibition at the Mummification Museum

Exhibitions in Iran. Tehran

Paradise: Lilith – Eve

  • Location: Aaran Gallery
  • Until 12 September 2025

Niloofar Mahabadi "Dāuru"

  • Location: Seyhoun Art Gallery
  • Until 3 September 2025

3 on 3 (V)

  • Location: O Gallery
  • Until 2 September 2025

Exhibitions in Jordan. Amman

1

Dear Viewers, Raeda Saadeh

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

Exhibitions in ISRAEL.
Tel Aviv

Once the Sky Was Sea

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

Yossi Mark: Good Night, Mother

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

Yana Rotner | LUMIÈRE

  • Локация: Alon Segev Gallery
  • До 5 сентября 2025

Exhibitions in TUNISIA

Black Seeds

  • Location: Selma Feriani Gallery
  • 27 September - 22 November 2025

Exhibitions in Marrakech

The Water Cabinet by Hanakam & Schuller

  • Location: Le Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Maaden
  • Until 7 September 2025

Exhibitions in Lebanon. Beirut

1

The 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 the Light - Joana Hadjithomas & 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 Ladybirds”

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

Dia al-Azzawi False Witnesses

  • Location: Saleh Barakat Gallery
  • September 11 — October 31, 2025