Past Exhibitions
But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988-2008
With: Hassan Sharif, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Abdullah Al Saadi, Mohammed Kazem, Hussein Sharif, Vivek Vilasini, Jos Clevers, Ebtisam Abdulaziz
This exhibition focuses on the creative community, sometimes called “the 5.” An intersection of artists, writers, and filmmakers from the UAE, South Asia, and Europe.
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 explores the tensions that emerge in our everyday relationships with technology, looking at such issues as isolation vs. connectedness, and privacy vs. social media.
Diana Al-Hadid Phantom Limb
“Phantom Limb” is Al-Hadid’s first solo exhibition in the Arab World. Her towering sculptures, spectral wall pieces, and surreal bronzes will fill the 7,000 square foot gallery.
On the Campus Plaza by the Palm Trees
Live Painting Event
Featuring: Fats, Enforce1, JustOne, Steffi Bow, and Sya One
Join us for an all-afternoon event of art and exchange about the art of spray painting and the artistic process of 5 street artists from Dubai. The public community, students, faculty, and staff will be welcome to experiment with tools of the trade and leave their mark of creativity on the 3D structure.
Slavs and Tatars Mirrors for Princes: Both Sides of the Tongue
A major new project by the art collective known as "Slavs and Tatars." The exhibition and accompanying book trace the contemporary obsession with self-help to a medieval genre of political science, “mirrors for princes,” shared among Christian and Muslim lands, with Machiavelli’s THE PRINCE being the most famous example.