Current

Past

Talks
Refugee Heritage DAAR

Refugee Heritage by Decolonizing Architecture

January 27, 2020

Project Space

Tours, Workshops
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Asma Khoory

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Asma Khoory

January 18, 2020

Project Space

Films
Erased_Ascent of the Invisible

Film: Erased_Ascent of the Invisible by Ghassan Halawani

January 9, 2020 - January 18, 2020

Gallery 9

Special events
What's ON

Jaddaf Aloud!

December 13, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Special events
Palestine Hosting Society. Courtesy of Mirna Bamieh

Palestine Hosting Society

December 6, 2019

Project Space

Films
Sarah Moheyas, Clouds of Petals. Courtesy of the artist

Film: The Lanthanide Series by Erin Espelie and Cloud of Petals by Sarah Meyohas

November 26, 2019 - December 2, 2019

Research Project
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Watertight: A Guided Tour of Jebel Ali Village

December 7, 2019

Various

Films

Film: All that is solid by Louis Henderson and Core Dump by Francois Knoetze

November 10, 2019 - November 17, 2019

Talks
Menhat Helmy 2

Histories of Abstraction in the Arab World

December 9, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Sarah Abu Abdallah, For the First Time in a Long Time. Installation view, Kunstverein in Hamburg, 2019. Photo: Fred Do

Sarah Abu Abdallah in conversation with Abdullah Al Mutairi

December 17, 2019

Lobby

Films
The Digger by Ali Cherri

Film: The Digger by Ali Cherri

December 11, 2019 - January 6, 2020

Gallery 9

Workshops
Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by John Marsland. Image courtesy of John Marsland.

Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by John Marsland

December 21, 2019

Project Space

Research Project
Egyptian architect and planner Mahmoud Riad (second row, second from left) in Kuwait. Image courtesy of Riad Architecture and Mahmoud Riad Archives

Library Circles: Reem Khorshid

September 2, 2019 - December 31, 2019

Jameel Library

Films
Munem Wasif, Kheyal (still), 2015-2018, 23m30s, BW, Stereo, Loop. Courtesy of the artist and Project 88 (1)

Film: Second Hand

November 23, 2019

Gallery 9

Exhibitions
Moffat Takadiwa, Second Hand Information (detail), 2014, Computer keys, 171 x 220 x 23 cm. Photo courtesy of the artist and Vigo Gallery. Photo by Justin Piperger.

Second Hand

July 3, 2019 - November 23, 2019

Galleries

Films

Digital Earth Talks: Film Programme

November 6, 2019 - November 9, 2019

Films

Film: Framing Territories by Geocinema and Mamelles Ancestrales by Tabita Rezaire

November 18, 2019 - November 25, 2019

Talks
Remnants of Sultan Isa’s palace, Hadibu. Image courtesy of Nathalie Peutz, 2013.

Library Talk: Nathalie Peutz

January 20, 2020

Jameel Library

Workshops
Digital Earth Talks

Digital Earth Knowledge Studio

November 7, 2019 - November 8, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Heman Chong, Photo courtesy of Nguan

THE ESSENTIAL HEMAN CHONG

November 16, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Pio Abad; The Collection of Jane Ryan William Saunders 2014-ongoing. Postcards 97 sets.-Photo courtesy Document Photography

Artist Talk: Pio Abad on The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders

October 9, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Conversations on Practice: Sustainability in Art and Design by Azra Akšamija

Conversations on Practice: Sustainability in Art and Design

September 23, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Digital Earth Talks

Digital Earth Talks

November 7, 2019 - November 8, 2019

Lobby

Films
Munem Wasif, Kheyal (2015-18, 23 mins). Courtesy of the artist and Project 88.

Film: Kheyal by Munem Wasif

September 15, 2019 - September 20, 2019

Gallery 9

Exhibitions
Prabhkar Pachpute, Sea of Fists, 2018-2019. Courtesy of the artist

Exhibition Opening: Artist’s Rooms Prabhakar Pachpute

September 21, 2019

Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre

Films
Clemens von Demeyer. Transformation Scenario, 2018. Courtesy of the artist

Film: Transformation Scenario by Clemens von Wedemeyer

October 3, 2019 - November 4, 2019

Gallery 9

Special events
Mindfulness Sound and Gong Session with Zarine Dadachanji

Mindfulness Sound and Gong Session

November 9, 2019

Lobby

Special events
Abwab 2019 KSA Azaz Render. Courtesy of Dubai Design Week

November in the UAE

November 6, 2019 - November 23, 2019

Films
Prabhakar Pachpute, Earthwork of Hadsati (2013, 3 mins) and Dark Cloud of the Future (2014, 3 mins). Courtesy of the artist.

Open Ground by U-ra-mi-li project and Earthwork of Hadsati by Prabhakar Pachpute

September 21, 2019 - September 30, 2019

Gallery 9

Special events
Nadia Christidi

Meet the Resident: Nadia Christidi

September 28, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Engy Mahdy

Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Engy Mahdy

September 28, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Middle East Podcast Forum 2018

Middle East Podcast Forum

October 4, 2019

Lobby

Reading Group
Publications from the Jameel Library Collection

Reading the Gulf (English)

April 27, 2019 - September 14, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Natalya Konforti

Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Natalya Konforti

October 12, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children's Tour and Workshop led by Bishoy Girgis. Image courtesy of Karim El-Kholy

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Bishoy Girgis

October 19, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children's Tour and Workshop led by Majd Alloush

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Majd Alloush

November 9, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Zahra Jewanjee

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Zahra Jewanjee

November 30, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Asma Khoory

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Asma Khoory

December 7, 2019

Project Space

Talks
Kuwaiti students in front of Kuwait House in Cairo, Egypt, circa 1950s. Image courtesy of Reem Khorshid.

Library Talk: Reem Khorshid

September 25, 2019

Jameel Library

Exhibitions
Shaikha Al Mazrou, Interior yet Exterior, Manmade yet Natural, 2018, Tempered glass, Dimensions variable. Art Jameel Collection. Photo by Mohamed Somji.

Artist’s Garden by Shaikha Al Mazrou

November 11, 2018 - November 30, 2019

Galleries

Workshops
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Moylin Yuan

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Moylin Yuan

July 27, 2019

Project Space

Films
Liliana Porter, Still from Actualidades/Breaking News, 2016, 22 mins. Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery

Film: Actualidades/Breaking News, Liliana Porter

September 2, 2019 - September 7, 2019

Gallery 9

Films
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, The Art of Sleep (2006, 18mins). Courtesy of the artists.

The Art of Sleep by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries

September 8, 2019 - September 14, 2019

Gallery 9

Exhibitions
Installation view of Jameel Prize 5_Younes Rahmoun at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai. Photo by Dani Baptista

Jameel Prize 5: Curatorial Tour

September 14, 2019

Galleries

Talks
Library Circles: Rumaitha Alshehhi

Library Circles: Rumaitha Alshehhi

July 17, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Mohammad Alshaibani

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Mohammad Alshaibani

September 14, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Malda Smadi

Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Malda Smadi

July 13, 2019

Project Space

Films
The three disappearances_film still

Film: The Three Disappearances of Soad Hosni by Rania Stephan

May 23, 2019 - June 22, 2019

Gallery 9

Research Project
Walid Al Wawi; Embassy of Unofficial Palestine (EOUP) 2018, commissioned by A. M. Qattan Art Foundation for YAYA 2018. Courtesy of the artist.

Library Circles: Walid Al Wawi

July 26, 2019 - August 17, 2019

Jameel Library, Lobby

Exhibitions
Marina Tabassum. Photo Sandro de Carlo Darsa

Jameel Prize 5

April 25, 2019 - September 14, 2019

Galleries

Talks
Close up of Palestinian textile

Conversations on Practice: The Language of Palestinian Embroidery

September 7, 2019

Project Space

Reading Group
Publications from the Jameel Library collection

Reading the Gulf (Arabic)

April 27, 2019 - June 29, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Teen Workshop led by Khalid Mezaina

Teen’s Tour and Workshop led by Khalid Mezaina

June 29, 2019

Project Space

Courses, Workshops
Embroidery workshop. Courtesy of Joanna Barakat.

Adult Workshop: Embroidery

June 29, 2019

Project Space

Films
Fabrizio Terranova; Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival 2016, film still. Courtesy the artist

Film: Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival by Fabrizio Terranova

June 27, 2019 - July 13, 2019

Gallery 9

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
Chiharu Shiota. Photo Credits: Mohamed Somji

Artist’s Rooms: Chiharu Shiota

November 11, 2018 - August 17, 2019

Galleries

Exhibitions
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Contrary Life by Alia Farid and Aseel AlYaqoub

November 11, 2018 - August 17, 2019

Roof Terrace

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
Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Sara Masinaei

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Sara Masinaei

August 10, 2019

Project Space

Talks

Artist Talk: Walid Al Wawi

August 7, 2019

Jameel Library

Workshops
Art Workshops for Children (2015) by Hervé Tullet

Children’s Tour and Workshop led by Sara Masinaei

June 15, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children’s Summer Camp at Jameel Arts Centre: Session 2

Children’s Summer Camp at Jameel Arts Centre: Session 2

July 21, 2019 - July 25, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

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

Teen’s Tour and Workshop: Instrument Making

May 4, 2019

Project Space

Workshops
Children's Summer Camp at Jameel Arts Centre: Session 1

Children’s Summer Camp at Jameel Arts Centre: Session 1

July 7, 2019 - July 11, 2019

Jameel Arts Centre

Exhibitions, Performances
Free Radicals, Abud Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, 2017. Photograph by İpek Çınar

Exhibition Opening: Second Hand

July 3, 2019

Galleries, Jameel Arts Centre

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

Talks
Artist Talk: Reem Falaknaz

Artist Talk: Reem Falaknaz

June 26, 2019

Jameel Library

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
Alessandro-BALTEO-YAZBECK-UNstabile-Mobile-from-the-series-Modern-Entanglements-U.S.-Interventions-2006-at-Crude-Jameel-Arts-Centre.-Courtesy-of-Art-Jameel-1_1100x500_acf_cropped

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

Film: Wild Relatives by Jumana Manna

November 11, 2018 - December 8, 2018

Gallery 9

Exhibitions
WaterlichtSchoklandRoosegaarde1

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

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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

Programmes

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