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Lalla Essaydi: The Dangerous Frontier

Kashya Hildebrand is pleased to announce Moroccan photographer Lalla Essaydi’s second exhibition with the gallery in London. While Essaydi’s 2013 show served as a retrospective spanning five major bodies of work from 2003 to 2012, The Dangerous Frontier (April 24 – June 5, 2015) focuses on new works created in the last year as part of her Bullets Revisited series.

Gazmend Kalemi & Miriam Humer: ‘Seeds from the Desert Sand’

The exhibition 'Seeds from the Desert Sand' by Oman based German artists Gazmend Kalemi and Miriam Humer opened at XVA Gallery. The exhibition features work created individually by each artist alongside work they have created together. This is the first time Kalemi and Humer are exhibiting their work in collaboration publicly and also the first time they are showing their work in the UAE.

‘Sands of Time’ by Zineb Sedira

The Third Line is pleased to present 'Sands of Time', Zineb Sedira’s first solo show in the region. The acclaimed artist will be showing photographs and sculptures that document the economic, political and geographical movements around sugar trade. She will also be exhibiting the video 'Transmettre en abyme', which will be shown in a three-channel installation in the Project Space. Zineb's photographs and video works use the intimate perspective of her own experience to investigate more universal ideas of mobility, memory and transmission, as well as explore issues concerning the environment.

The First Eco Exhibition ‘ZERO’

Sheikh Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairman of Sharjah Urban Planning Council, in presence of Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi, Chairperson of Sharjah Investment and Development Authority 'Shurooq' inaugurated yesterday 'ZERO' exhibition at 1971 Gallery Space, multi-functional design space dedicated to exhibition, display and discussion on all forms of contemporary design ranging from graphic, furniture to interior as well as interactive design and new technologies.

Write me a Poem

'Write me a Poem' curated by Mojgan Endjavi-Barbé, showcases the works of three Iranian artists Ezra Aghighi, Alireza Astaneh and Mohammad Bozorgi who are dedicated to taking this traditional art form forward into the contemporary 21st century expression and a new era.

‘Nowheresville’ by Ala Ebtekar

The Third Line will open its Spring 2015 program with Ala Ebtekar’s Nowheresville\'nä-kōja,-abäd\. Working with ideas of the celestial, home to planetary and spiritual configurations that have fascinated humanity since the beginning of time.

‘Light Bodies’ by Maimouna Guerresi

Composed of photographic works, sculpture, installation and video, made in different periods, the exhibition 'Light Bodies' will be on view from March 5-8, 2015 at Volta NY and from March 20- May 1, 2015 at the Mariane Ibrahim Gallery in Seattle.

Hassan Sharif: Images

Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present Images, a provocation from an arch-provocateur after more than 40 years of art-making. At a time when Sharif is being increasingly referred to as the ‘father (or even ‘grandfather’) of Emirati art’, Sharif challenges this with very new works that reject commonplace understandings of his practice.

LACMA and the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture to Collaborate on Islamic Art Exhibition

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Saudi Aramco’s King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture are pleased to announce that the Center will exhibit more than 130 highlights of Islamic art from LACMA’s renowned collection on the occasion of the Center’s opening in 2016. The installation will include works of art from an area extending from southern Spain to northern India along with a never-before shown 18th-century period room from Damascus, recently acquired by LACMA.