In Dubai and Jeddah
Hayy Arts, Hayy Jameel, Jeddah: At the Edge of Land
Through April 13, 2024
A group exhibition looking into the intricate relationships between landscapes and trade and their interconnected geographies, resources and commodities. Through stories that trace trade routes to Jeddah, the exhibition draws parallels between the movement of goods and people, crossing lands, canals and rivers. Curated by Lucas Morin, it brings together new commissions, loans and works from the Art Jameel Collection by international artists, most showing in Saudi Arabia for the first time.
Artists include: Jananne Al-Ani, Iosu Aramburu, Au Sow Yee, Chihoi, Bady Dalloul, Aref El Rayess, Tarek Al Ghoussein, Daniele Genadry, Ho Rui An, Hiwa K, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Lala Rukh, Hira Nabi, Sarker Protick, Sim Chi Yin, Joar Songcuya, You Khin and Zarina.
Hayy Jameel Façade Commission
An annual programme that gives an artist the opportunity to develop a major public work for the 25-metre “canvas” on the front of the building, this 2022-23 commission The Face of the City by Mohammad Alfaraj parallels the walls of Jeddah, acting as unofficial records and a site for urban expression. The 2023-24 edition, opening December 1, 2023, features The Cell by Zahrah AlGhamdi.
Guest Relations
Through April 28, 2024
Bringing together artwork, archival material and architectural research from across the Global South, Guest Relations examines the historical, political, social and cultural transformations accompanying processes of intense touristification. The exhibition emerges out of, and responds to, the context of Dubai—one of the fastest-growing tourism destinations in the world.
Curated by Murtaza Vali with Lucas Morin, the exhibition includes artists: Pio Abad, Nadi Abusaada, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin, Marwa Arsanios, Abdul Halik Azeez, Asma Belhamar, Sophie Calle, Tenzing Dakpa, Shezad Dawood, Meschac Gaba, Mario García Torres, Lamya Gargash, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Mati Jhurry & Nabla Yahya, Eisa Jocson, Hilmi Johandi, Ranjit Kandalgaonkar, Ahmed Mater, Hind Mezaina, Park Sunyoung & Lee Somi, Michael Rakowitz, Marwan Rechmaoui, Yiyo Tirado Rivera, Salma Serry, Taryn Simon, Svay Ken, Rayyane Tabet, Hale Tenger, Sung Tieu, Lantian Xie, Ala Younis.
Some seasons: Fereydoun Ave and the Laal Collection, 1959-2019
Through March 24, 2024
Featuring more than 30 artists from the collection of one of Iran’s most influential and critical artists, this exhibition highlights five decades of modern and contemporary Iranian art, shaped by personal history, friendship, sensibility and circumstance. Some seasons was originally conceived by the Carnegie Museum of Art during the 58th Carnegie International and curated by Negar Azimi and Sohrab Mohebbi with Talia Heiman.
Featured artists: Shirin Aliabadi, Yaghoub Amaemehpich, Nazgol Ansarinia, Fereydoun Ave, Haydeh Ayazi, Ashurbanipal Babilla, Sadra Baniasadi, Leyly Matine-Daftary, Davood Emdadian, Parvaneh Etemadi, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Raana Farnoud, Shahab Fotouhi, Ali Golestaneh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Arash Hanaiae, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Sirak Melkonian, Yashar Samimi Mofakham, Ardeshir Mohasses, Houman Mortazavi, Farhad Moshiri, Nikzad Nodjoumi, Iman Raad, Behjat Sadr, Bijan Saffari, Mostafa Sarabi, Mamali Shafahi, Reza Shafahi, Shideh Tami, Cy Twombly, Manouchehr Yektai, Hossein-Ali Zabehi, among others.
Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics
Through January 7, 2024
The sixth edition of the Jameel Prize, the first to have a focus on contemporary design, arrives “home” in the UAE, having debuted at the V&A in London, and toured to Centro Cultural La Moneda in Santiago, Chile and El Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin in Argentina.
Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics features works by finalists: Golnar Adili, Hadeyeh Badri, Kallol Datta, Farah Fayyad, Ajlan Gharem, Sofia Karim, Jana Traboulsi, and Bushra Waqas Khan plus winner Ajlan Gharem.
Artist’s Garden: Samur by Zheng Bo
On view through December 1, 2024
Samur features a dance performance with a Samur tree growing in the UAE desert, presented as a film installation at the Jameel, surrounded by a landscape of indigenous plants.
