Artist Sondos Azzam explores the underbelly of our gastronomic longings

A series of portraits attempting to examine the relationship between a woman and her practice

What is sacred to the dining table is reduced to its form and colour in this photo series by Sondos Azzam

A photo series that challenges our perception of food by distorting the familiar

Series of photographs documenting the impacts of continual human manipulation of the UAE's natural landscapes

How our urban environment shapes nature and our individual activities within these spaces

The Magnum Foundation commissioned these images of Dubai residents hit hardest by the pandemic

Featuring: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez (curator, educator, writer), Lara Rudar (artist, filmmaker, environmental advocate), Philip Mawn Maughan (writer, editor, co-founder, black almanac).

The sound trail is from Asma Belhamar’s slow tour that took place in Custot Gallery and Green Art Gallery. The slow tour sheds light on different ways of preserving art by activating senses. The tour focuses on observational methods using tools such as art and design principals to achieve a collective experience.

Episode 02 of Cultures in Conversation programmed by Alserkal: Preludes & Postscripts

Featuring: Vilma Jurkute (Executive Director, Alserkal), Charles Landry (author and international authority on urban change),  Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty (co-founders Bard Studio, founding members School of Environment and Architecture), and  Hamed Bukhamseen (Co-founder, Civil Architecture). PART OF  CULTURES IN CONVERSATION: PRELUDES & POSTSCRIPTS. The brand new series with Alserkal and powered by afikra. Cultures in Conversation is commissioned by Expo2020 Dubai and programmed by Alserkal

A conversation with one of Saudi Arabia's most significant artists about her evolving methodologies, the shifting significance of her work, and the thought behind her practice

A conversation with award-winning designers Yousef and Elias Anastas about their latest installation piece, While We Wait.

A conversation with the creative visionaries and cultural entrepreneurs who have partnered with Alserkal Avenue over the past decade.

A conversation with the creative visionaries and cultural entrepreneurs who have partnered with Alserkal Avenue over the past decade.

A conversation with UAE Unlimited Executive Director Shobha Shamdsani

A conversation with Fabric(ated) Fractures curator Diana Campbell Betancourt and participating artists

A conversation with Fabric(ated) Fractures curator Diana Campbell Betancourt and participating artists

Fari Bradley in conversation with Hassan Hajjaj prior to his show at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie

A conversation with arts writer Kevin Jones, curator of the Foretold Now summer programme

In the context of shifting definitions surrounding the role that the artist plays in nation building and place-making, Stephen Hobbs (Director of Johannesburg’s The Trinity Session) and Laila Binbrek (Coordinating Director of the National Pavilion UAE la Biennale di Venezia) unpack insights that reflect on current trends and possible futures.

Multiple screenings of recorded drawing and sound performance throughout Refugee Week from 20-26 June 2022

Episode 03 - Cultures Conversation Preludes and Postscripts: The brand new series with Alserkal and powered by afikra.

In this third iteration of Concrete Closed Sessions, Nujoom Alghanem performs her poem "I Found My Way to You", which was part of her artistic intervention at our second Cultures in Conversation event "Never Be Lost: Learn to Read the Stars" for space week at Expo 2020

Artist Nja Mahdaoui speaks about JAFR. The Alchemy of Signs, his third solo exhibition at Elmarsa Gallery during Alserkal Art Week in March 2022

Cultures Conversation Preludes and Postscripts: The brand new series with Alserkal and powered by afikra.

Artist Vikram Divecha speaks about his solo exhibition on show at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde during Alserkal Art Week in March 2022

Intangible Cultural Heritage as a focus for Vision 2071

a triptych of projections capturing movement and time

An intimate and engaging conversation between two of the UAE’s leading champions of cultural and public diplomacy, hosted by the UAE Pavilion.

Watch Augustine Paredes' performance during the December Jubilee celebrations

Watch Moza Almatrooshi's performance at Le Guepard, Alserkal Avenue

Cultures Conversation Preludes and Postscripts: The brand new series with Alserkal and powered by afikra.

Exploring the ties that bind urban communities

We went to Nightjar for coffee but found Leon.

The cultural imagination of the celestial and how important systems of knowledge have been passed down through literature, memory, and oral narratives, continuing to hold meaning as we imagine space futures.

We live at the epicentre of an ecological catastrophe with unimaginable consequences.

Filipino poet Danabelle Gutierrez collaborates with all-sibling band Charlie119 on an improvisational performance of poetry.

A musical gathering around Qawwali music

From 6-8 May 2015, Alserkal created an itinerant space on the waterways of Venice

Under is Hale Tenger’s first major public work in Dubai commissioned by Alserkal, guest curated by Mari Spirito of Protocinema

An immersive installation by Bethlehem-based architects about the cultural claim over nature in Palestine

Curator Dr. Cliff Lauson and artist Youmna Chlala discuss the need of adaptation for survival

Investigating how societies influence and mould us through systems of social politics, particularly in South Korea

A work by Block Universe, supported by Alserkal, questions the power structures of the Venice Biennale

The follow-up to 2020's Introductory Curriculum for Reparations revealed

This edition of Echo Holdings, artist Isaac Sullivan’s context-shifting series of hybrid live sets and collaborative lecture performances, features vocals by independent researcher Dana Dawud and takes up a machinic sense of the psychoanalytic death drive. Here, an uncanny ambiguity between recorded and live speech, and a seemingly infinite field of images within images, produces an ecstatic blurring of presence and asynchrony as we negotiate a sonic palette alternately sparkling and ragged.

Dayanita Singh discusses her body of work with curator Nada Raza

These are notes from the field from our ongoing research project Embodied Cartographies and Visual Entanglements in the Delta. It is a reflection on colonial protocols of seeing and knowing, Karachi’s relationship to the Indus delta, and place-making practices in the face of erasure / disappearance.

Perspective by Troy Pieper on how he learned to appreciate the e-scooter

This third and final installment of the curatorial narrative linking corporeal depictions by young GCC-based artists will consider how technology expands, projects and amplifies the artist’s body. Mediation becomes a means of re-materializing the body and the negative spaces it inhabits in virtual space. Through distortions, duplications, glitches, and the act of voicing the machinic, the body moves beyond digital circuitry—deconstructed into a language of gestures, and forms.

Experiences from the Youth Climate Movement

A reflection on A Supplementary Country Called Cinema, a film programme that was a prelude to the exhibition A Slightly Curving Place, curated by Nida Ghouse and programmed by Alserkal Arts Foundation

Curator and artist Nahla Al Tabbaa converses with conceptual artist, writer, and chef Moza AlMatrooshi

Tolerance in the UAE is largely owed to the country’s multiculturalism. A national virtue, it is also synonymous with the UAE’s founder, HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Curated by Nida Ghouse

A dive into the layers behind "Wamda : A Glimpse", UAE Unlimited's retrospective exhibition showcasing the works of UAE-based artists during Alserkal Art Week

A deeper insight into the exhibition Hair Mapping Body; Body Mapping Land at ICD Brookfield Place

Rania Habib takes us through the presence of the Earth and Sustainability at this year's Quoz Arts Fest

Read some of the questions explored in the World Conference on Creative Economy

an artistic intervention

An argument for how to find optimism in place of frustration in the local cultural institutional landscape

Explore the studios of Alserkal Arts Foundation's three artists-in-residence

For the final part of this series, we look at the past decade, the current state of cinema exhibition and the ongoing mission of filling the gaps in UAE’s cinema heritage

Hair Mapping Body; Body Mapping Land, an exhibition at ICD Brookfield Place from 10 November to 19 December 2021, Programmed by Alserkal Advisory

Reflections on Cultures in Conversation, a programme Commissioned by Expo2020 and programmed by Alserkal that consists of ten theme weeks of events and interventions that challenge the typical ‘talks’ format.

Curator and artist Nahla Al Tabbaa converses with filmmaker and interdisciplinary foodways researcher Salma Serry about Mastic and its connections to UAE's history

The warrior poses and sun salutations practiced in yoga studios around the world aren’t mentioned in any ancient yoga text. If that disconnect is a direct result of colonial influences, should we feel anxious about the authenticity of our modern yoga practices?

Compiled entirely out of footage appropriated from luxury real estate advertisements

Part two of a curatorial narrative around the absent, suffering and technological body in contemporary works by GCC-based artists

Personal archives are fraught sites filled with memories and stories that drag us into the past. How does a writer respond to a letter he receives years after it is written? The result is an exploration of the gaps and elisions laid bare by forgotten memories and unspoken sentiments.

Curator and artist Nahla Al Tabbaa savours unlearning traditional food narratives with ethnobotanists Namliyeh

An online / offline audiovisual trail of celebratory wedding music

Shaping New Thinking on Burning Issues - Programmed by Alserkal, commissioned by Expo 2020 Dubai, Cultures in Conversation challenges the conventional talks programme with artist interventions, immersive experiences, and new thinking on critical challenges

An insight into the practices of Emirati women challenging notions within their professional fields

The Alserkal Ecology Reader is a compilation of three lectures held in 2018 and 2019 in relation to Civil Architecture’s residency at Alserkal Arts Foundation. These three lectures form a summary of on-going issues in the discipline and are intended to be a loose primer for architects in the Gulf.

Mapping disembodiment and performativity among GCC artists

As India continues to find its bearings amidst COVID tumult, Aveek Sen explores how his own conversations have become at once more vital, yet oddly unfamiliar

In Part 2 of her Incomplete History, Mezaina explores the rise of the multiplex model, film festivals, and the creation of alternative viewing spaces in the 2000s.

Designer and educator Zena Adhami explores the dangers of assumptions when designing for communities

As India continues to find its bearings amidst COVID tumult, Aveek Sen explores how his own conversations have become at once more vital, yet oddly unfamiliar

Muscat-based artist Majeda Alhinai considers how viewers become part of artworks

As India continues to find its bearings amidst COVID tumult, Aveek Sen explores how his own conversations have become at once more vital, yet oddly unfamiliar

A chronicle of daily conversations with artists Sandi Hilal

Palestinian artist Samia Halaby's approach to painting reveals her precise complex process, astute peripheral sensibilities, and why abstraction is the only movement left unexploited.

An informational response by our community on the Black Lives Matter Movement

As the global art world shines a light on Africa, Rebecca Anne Proctor writes on the growing dialogue between the Middle East and Africa

Malaysian artist Hasanul Isyraf Idris tackles his homeland’s multiculturalism through densely populated compositions that engage episodic memory, manifested by mythological through to Sci-Fi imagery

The role of the artist in relation to collecting is reconsidered

'Under' is Hale Tenger's first major commission in almost a decade, on view at The Yard in 2018

The 2017 CiMAM Annual Conference brought together museum professionals from around the world to re-evaluate the public functions of museums.

Hale Tenger's 'Under' asks us what beliefs we accept without question and what our potential could be without such self-imposed restrictions.

A review of Building Bauhaus, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation’s tribute to the German art school’s centenary – with a regional twist.

Nancy Lorenz’s exhibition 'Silver Moon' at Leila Heller Gallery presents a complex craft-meets-contemporary body of work that references Japanese tradition and Abstract Expressionism

Whitechapel Gallery curator Lydia Yee explores the works of five pairings of artists and architects

A public art commission by the artist collective METASITU welcomed visitors to a post-apocalyptic ruin

A sound installation first realised in a residency at Alserkal Arts Foundation

Exploring ‘sensitive spaces' that challenge ideas of nation, state, and territory

A collaboration with Samdani Art Foundation, challenging ideas of nation, state, and territory

Dialogues between cultural practitioners & scholars from the Alserkal Arts Foundation network

A six-week series screenings, workshops, performances, and exhibitions around the theme of maintenance

Director Shireen Atassi expands on Atassi Foundation efforts

Works by major figure in postcolonial Moroccan art showcased at Concrete

Founder of clothing brand One and Four speaks about sustainable practices

What contemporary arts institutions might become in the future

Micro-fiction by Amrita Shergar to inaugurate alserkal.online's new showcase for creative writing

Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi shares her thoughts on curating the second edition of the Lahore Biennale

A conversation with Nabila Abdel Nabi, Tate Modern's first MENA curator

The works in Reza Derakshani’s latest show at Leila Heller Gallery reveal the mystical connections between the artist’s time in Russia, and the forgotten tales and symbolism of his Iranian heritage

Architecture and arts writers experience the show from their own perspectives

Architect, designer, and writer Edwin Heathcote reflects on Concrete’s significance

Nujoom Al Ghanem fuses poetry and filmmaking for 'Passages', a reflection on the universal experience of displacement and alienation. The Emirati poet and director speaks to Melissa Gronlund about her solo presentation for the National Pavilion UAE at the 58th Venice Biennale

Alserkal's Executive Director Vilma Jurkute sat down with Hashem Montasser, creator of The Lighthouse Podcast, to share her experience in developing Alserkal Avenue as the leading arts & culture district in the region.

The eighth edition of Investec Cape Town Art Fair took place in February against an uneasy socio-economic backdrop — concluding in solid sales, and a newfound zeal for multiculturalism.

Artist collective in discussion with an architect on urban and ruin

Thoughts on Stephanie Comilang’s film Lumapit Sa Akin, Paraiso (Come to Me, Paradise)

In Part 1, Dubai-based writer Mezaina examines independent cinemas pre-multiplex days

Fresh insights on Filipino artists in Dubai through the lens of Sa Tahanan Collective founder

On Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s practice, about the mind, its subconscious and space.