Current

Past

Films
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Film: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni by Rania Stephan

May 23, 2019 - June 22, 2019

Gallery 9

Talks
Artist Talk: Reem Falaknaz

Artist Talk: Reem Falaknaz

June 26, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Children's Workshop led by Brady Izquierdo

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Brady Izquierdo

June 1, 2019

Project Space

Special events
Installation view of Artists Rooms; Seher Shah and Randhir Singh at Jameel Arts Centre.

Artist’s Rooms: Curatorial Tour

June 8, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
Farah Al Qasimi; Baba in photo album. Courtesy of the artist

Artist’s Rooms: Farah Al Qasimi

March 7, 2019 - June 8, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
Hemali Bhuta, Fold (detail), 2016. Courtesy of artist and Green Art Gallery. Photo Sara Al Haddad

Artist’s Rooms: Hemali Bhuta

March 7, 2019 - June 8, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
Seher Shah and Randhir Singh; Akbar Bhavan_7

Artist’s Rooms: Seher Shah and Randhir Singh

March 7, 2019 - June 8, 2019

Galleries

Workshops
Art Workshops for Children (2015) by Hervé Tullet

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Sara Masinaei

June 15, 2019

Project Space

Tours, Workshops
Teen's Tour and Workshop: Instrument Making

Teen’s Tour and Workshop: Instrument Making

May 4, 2019

Project Space

Special events
Farah Al Qasimi; M Napping on Carpet 2016

Conversations on Practice: Farah Al Qasimi

March 13, 2019

Galleries

Special events
A Serious Jolt. Kerning Cultures.

Ramadan Nights: Podcast Listening Party

May 7, 2019

Lobby

Special events
Game night at the Jameel

Ramadan Nights: Board game Fridays

May 10, 2019

Lobby

Special events
Ramadan Nights at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Photo by Brent Galotera

Ramadan Nights: Poetry Majlis

May 14, 2019

Lobby

Special events
Game night at the Jameel

Ramadan Nights: Board game Fridays

May 17, 2019

Lobby

Films
Naeem Mohaiemen; Tripoli Cancelled (2017). Film still. Courtesy of the artist

Film: Tripoli Cancelled by Naeem Mohaiemen

April 10, 2019 - May 18, 2019

Gallery 9

Tours, Workshops
Children's Tour and Workshop led by Faissal El-Malak

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Faissal El-Malak

May 18, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

Conversations on Practice with Ranjit Kandalgaonkar

April 10, 2019

Jameel Library

Special events
Henna design. Courtesy of Dr Azra

Ramadan Nights: Curator-led tour

May 21, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Special events
Ramadan Nights - Board games

Ramadan Nights: Board game Fridays

May 24, 2019

Lobby

Special events
Nujoom Alghanem, Passage (production still), 2019. Courtesy National Pavilion UAE – La Biennale di Venezia. Photo credit Augustine Paredes of Seeing Things

Ramadan Nights: National Pavilion UAE – LA Biennale Di Venezia

May 28, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Round-table discussion

Round-table discussion: Imagining A New Arts Landscape

April 26, 2019

Jameel Library

Tours, Workshops
Teen's Workshop

Teen’s tour and workshop led by Nahla Al Tabbaa

April 27, 2019

Project Space

Films
Sunstone (2018) still. Louis Henderson and Filipa Cesar

Film: Sunstone by Filipa Cesar and Louis Henderson

March 3, 2019 - March 23, 2019

Gallery 9

Tours, Workshops
Children Workshop

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Reem Falaknaz

March 2, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Special events
Ibrahim Ismail; Earthquake 1967 Image Courtesy of Barjeel Art Foundation

Conversations on Practice: Ibrahim Ismail

March 15, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Umber Majeed, In the Name of Hypersurface of the Present- Video Still, 2018

Open Studio: Umber Majeed

February 11, 2019

Jameel Library

Talks
Mohamed Mahdy Moon Dust

Conversations on Practice with GPP Photo Week

February 3, 2019

Project Space

Exhibitions
Latif Al-Ani, Construction for the Darbandikhan water supply pipeline project in Baghdad, 1961, Gelatin silver negative on cellulose acetate film. Image courtesy of Arab Image Foundation.

Crude

November 11, 2018 - March 30, 2019

Galleries

Performances, Special events
Ganj-i-shakr

Performance in the Park: Ganj-i-shakr

April 20, 2019

Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park

Workshops
Select works by Zara Mahmood. Courtesy of UAE Unlimited.

Drawing Workshop with Zara Mahmood

April 20, 2019

Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park

Tours, Workshops
Childrens’ Tours and Workshops

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Nahla Al Tabbaa

January 5, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Special events
The Youth Takeover

Youth Assembly Takeover

April 26, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Tours, Workshops
Children Workshop

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Nahla Al Tabbaa

March 9, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Workshops
Backyard poetry_pic

Spoken Word Workshop with Backyard Poetry

March 29, 2019

Project Space

Films
Ursula Biemann; Deep Weather (2013, 9 min) still. Courtesy of the artist

Film: Following the oil

April 4, 2019 - April 7, 2019

Gallery 9

Films
Shirin Sabahi; Film Still from Mouthful 2018

Film: Shirin Sabahi

March 24, 2019 - April 2, 2019

Gallery 9

Special events
Crude; Curated by Murtaza Vali

Crude: A Symposium

March 30, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Mehdi MOUTASHAR. Deux carrés dont un encadré (2017). Courtesy of the artist

Conversations on Practice with Mehdi Moutashar

April 25, 2019

Galleries

Talks
Tashweesh exhibition view. Courtesy of Maraya Art Centre and UAE Unlimited

Conversations on Practice with UAE Unlimited

April 16, 2019

Project Space

Tours, Workshops
Children Workshop

Children’s tour and workshop led by May Ali

April 6, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Performances, Special events
Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park by Mohamed Somji

Performance in the Park: Poetry in the Park

April 13, 2019

Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park

Talks
Icosahedron within a Dodecahedron II from The Platonic Solid Duals by Dana Awartani, 2018

Conversations on Practice: Dana Awartani

January 30, 2019

Project Space

Films
Film Still, The Worldly Cave by Zhou Tao

The Worldly Cave [Fán Dòng] by Zhou Tao

December 9, 2018 - January 12, 2019

Gallery 9

Special events, Tours
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Crude: Curatorial Tour

March 23, 2019

Special events
Flora Rebollo; Untitled 2017. Courtesy of Art Dubai

March in the UAE

March 7, 2019 - March 31, 2019

Various

Talks
Walid Abdel Hamid, a local resident of 'Anah standing on the minaret.

Library Circles: Rand Abdul Jabbar

April 17, 2019

Jameel Library

Tours
Crude_Exhibition_Preview

Crude: Curatorial Tour

February 8, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Films
Ana Vaz Occidente 2014 Film Still

Film: Ana Vaz

January 15, 2019 - February 23, 2019

Gallery 9

Films
©Werner Herzog Film

Crude Double Feature at Cinema Akil

February 13, 2019 - February 16, 2019

Cinema Akil

Tours
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Artist’s Rooms Tour

February 9, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Tours, Workshops
Children's Tours and Workshops

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Nahla Al Tabbaa

February 16, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Talks
Video Still from video within Past Disquiet exhibition

Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile

January 19, 2019

Project Space

Special events
Exhibition view of Past Disquiet at the Sursock Museum. Photo by Christopher Baaklini

Exhibiting the Archive; Seminar with Kristine Khouri

January 19, 2019

Project Space

Tours, Workshops
Childrens’ Tours and Workshops

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Sara Masinaei

February 2, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Workshops
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Childrens’ Tours and Workshops

December 2, 2018

Jameel Arts Centre

Workshops
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Childrens’ Tours and Workshops

December 1, 2018

Jameel Arts Centre

Talks
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Conversations on Practice: The Gulf Abstracted

December 15, 2018

Project Space

Reading Group
Image Courtesy of Omar Berrada

Confluence Reading Group: Second Edition, Arabic Language

December 15, 2018 - January 26, 2019

Jameel Library

Reading Group
Image Courtesy of Omar Berrada

Confluence Reading Group: Second Edition, English Language

December 22, 2018 - February 9, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
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Teens’ Tour

December 8, 2018

Jameel Arts Centre

Talks
Detail, Sialkot to Jammu, graphite and acrylic wash on watercolour board, 2018. Image courtesy of Saba Qizilbash

Artist Talk: Saba Qizilbash

November 28, 2018

Jameel Library

Films
Still from Wild Relatives

Wild Relatives by Jumana Manna

November 11, 2018 - December 8, 2018

Gallery 9

Exhibitions
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Waterlicht

November 11, 2018 - November 16, 2018

Jaddaf Waterfront Sculpture Park

Special events
Jameel Arts Centre skyline view

Opening Week

November 11, 2018 - November 17, 2018

Various

Exhibitions
Lala Rukh, Rupak (still), 2016, digital animation, sound, 6.12’. Art Jameel Collection. Image courtesy of Grey Noise.

Artist’s Rooms: Lala Rukh

November 11, 2018 - February 9, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
Maha Malluh. Photo credits: Mohamed Somji

Artist’s Rooms: Maha Malluh

November 11, 2018 - February 9, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
Mounira Al Solh. Photo credits: Mohamed Somji

Artist’s Rooms: Mounira Al Solh

November 11, 2018 - February 9, 2019

Galleries

About

About us

Jameel Arts Centre is an independent arts Institution dedicated to engaging communities through its exhibitions and programming

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Programmes beginning at primary ages and continuing through to post-graduate level, plus community events open to all

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Year-round talks and exhibitions alongside engaging commissions and youth-generated programming