Upcoming Events
Past Events
May 2025

CURATORS TALK
Nada Raza
Discomfort as Method: Curating through the Pain
Nada Raza is the Director of Alserkal Arts Foundation.

MFA Mid-Program Exhibition
Opening Reception: "A Room of One's Own"
Maha Alasaker, Yuehan Dai, Nour Elbery, Almaha Jaralla, Tooba Shaikh, Shaima Shamsi

An Archive of Future Memories: Letters to My Daughter
Dena Al-Adeeb with moderation and introduction by Salwa Mikdadi and Maya Allison
In this lecture-performance, Dena Al-Adeeb weaves performance, biography, art, sound, and letter-writing towards bearing witness to the textures of memories that accompany transnational migration and refugee movement—both the trauma and hope.
April 2025

Arts Chat
Building a Life as an Artist
Jomel Reyes, Noush Like Sploosh, Shereen Saif, and Simrin Mehra Agarwal
Presented in partnership with the NYUAD Arts Center and NYUAD Career Development Center

CURATORS TALK
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa
How Easily Modernism Could Be Disturbed
Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, Senior Curator and Head of Exhibitions at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Film Screening
Aseel AlYaqoub
Join us for a screening program of three films by "Between the Tides" artist Aseel AlYaqoub.
March 2025

Book Launch
Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits
Join us for the Abu Dhabi launch of artist and NYUAD faculty Vikram Divecha’s publication "Short Circuits," published by Art Jameel and Press Works.
February 2025

The Project Space
Opening Reception: "Crystal No. 6"
Mobius Design Studio
Sharjah-based Mobius Design Studio presents its latest research project "Crystal No. 6" which delves into the layered histories and vibrant culture of Freej Al Murar, a historic Dubai neighborhood.

CURATORS TALK
Hammad Nasar
Curating Nation: Exhibitions as Infrastructures of Difference and Belonging
"Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play", Hammad Nasar’s project for the UAE’s National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2017), explored play as a framework for embodied practices of belonging.

Who's on Campus?
Biljana Ciric
Curating the Future: On Exhibition Histories and the Importance of Creating Citations from the Margins
Biljana Ciric sees the margin as an active site shaped by the historical entanglements of places. In her talk, she will discuss how these places and their contexts, the humans and non-humans who inhabit them, as well as the worlds they produce affect her curatorial position and practice within the world.

Open Campus Day 2025
Witness the entire campus come alive with music, food, activities, and performances at the inaugural Open Campus Day on Saturday, February 15, 2025.

Who's on Campus?
Robert Kilroy
Materiality in the Museum: Some Thoughts on a Media Postmortem
Please join us in the Reading Room for a talk by Robert Kilroy, an art historian, curator, theorist, and visiting lecturer at the Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi.