Past Exhibitions

Ways of Seeing
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, "Ways of Seeing" features works by 26 internationally-acclaimed artists and artist collectives from the region and the world.

Permanent Temporariness: Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti
Curated by Salwa Mikdadi and Bana Kattan
This marked the first retrospective of the renowned, award-winning artist duo Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, in which they explored how our understanding of the “Permanent Temporariness” of our environment shapes our experience. Curated by Salwa Mikdadi and Bana Kattan.

Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965
Organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and curated by Melissa Rachleff
This exhibition examined the New York art scene between the peak of Abstract Expressionism in the early 1950s and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism in the early 1960s. It was organized by the Grey Art Gallery at NYU, and curated by Melissa Rachleff.

But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988-2008
with: Abdullah Al Saadi, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Hassan Sharif, Hussein Sharif, Jos Clevers, Mohammed Kazem, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Vivek Vilasini
This exhibition focuses on the formative years of an influential creative community working at the vanguard of contemporary in the UAE art since the 1980s.

Invisible Threads: Technology and its Discontents
Artists: Ai Weiwei, Jamie Allen, Aram Bartholl, Taysir Batniji, Wafaa Bilal, Liu Bolin, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Heather Dewey-Hagborg, Michael Joaquin Grey, Monira Al Qadiri, Evan Roth, Phillip Stearns, Siebren Versteeg, Addie Wagenknecht, Kenny Wong.
This exhibition explored the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.