Past Exhibitions
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965 examines 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.
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.
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 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.
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.