Presented in collaboration with Alserkal Arts Foundation and Dubai Culture & Arts Authority

Presented in collaboration with Alserkal Arts Foundation and Dubai Culture & Arts Authority

Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the intersection of sound, politics, and the environment.

Domestic Departures

Shaping New Thinking on Burning Issues

Alserkal Advisory initiated The Global Co-commission in partnership with the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN)

UAE based researchers make their home at the Foundation studios for the summer.

In reimagining the Avenue’s public spaces, we wanted not only to reinstate the primacy of vanished plants as a necessary gesture of horticultural de-colonisation, but also to humanise our spaces of congregation.

The region’s best-loved arts & culture festival will be back on 27 & 28 January 2024.

Life provided him with an abundance of reasons to surrender, but he never backed down.

This Sustainability Spotlight mini-series is in collaboration with Alserkal Avenue and hosted by Radical Contemporary founder Nour Hassan.

A self-taught artist, Ghabin prefers the intimacy of painting with his fingers over the intermediary of a brush.

"What does it mean to map a shifting, mobile landscape? Anchoring permanent forms to impermanent things?"

Take a closer look at the experiments and stories that inspired the final culmination of the eight week long culinary programme.

The series of 6 episodes spotlights risk-taking entrepreneurs from the Alserkal Avenue community.

Discover the unique story behind Curate's products

Haroon Mirza had sifted through many iterations of defining his practice before he came to notice that his true medium is electricity.

The Global Co-commission project unites three cultural districts across three continents in a collective response to the global climate crisis.

The inaugural cycle of the Global Co-commission project, A Feral Commons, is underway and Alserkal Avenue is one of three cultural districts participating under the theme of climate change.

What arts and cultural podcasts do the Alserkal team listen to, we hear you ask? Wonder no more!

Sheba Chhachhi and Mariah Lookman discuss time, activism and the digital age.

Historic archives feed our identity and origin stories. But who builds them?

We chart the global and cultural impact of Telugu film ‘RRR’ in a post-pandemic, streaming world.

Despite a painful upbringing in foster care, poet Lemn Sissay espouses hope, power and light in his writing.

A day-by-day written response to the four Tree school sessions from Monday 27 February - Thursday 2 March, 2023.

View the complete public programme from our archives.

World-renowned mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy talks to Perspectives about how maths can help us hack life, understand AI better, and solve the riddles of the universe.

Three photographers capture life and work in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa

In an era of digital publishing, working with ink, paper, and print is a daunting art form that requires pluck, business acumen, resilience and constant funding.

Six virtuosic albums on vinyl that capture the evolution of recorded music through the ages.

Can archaeology help us reassess our experience of sound?

Palestinian, French and Serbian rapper Saint Levant seeks home in his lyrics and music.

Beyond its talking shop reputation, what were our key takeaways for the region at the latest climate summit?

Does the 17th Istanbul Biennial deliver on its curatorial promise?

A photo essay by Shama Nair on the visual language of memory and belonging.

Three public installations question daily rituals and time.

In search of the indie alchemists of print publishing in the region

Our critic takes a journey through Arab Cinema Week with Rabih El-Khoury.

‘Pop South Asia’ stakes a claim to the art form

The Pakistani pop-folk duo, the Justin Bibis, make a comeback.

Will AI art end the careers of human artists?

A journal of sights and sounds from the 59th International Art Exhibition

Can geo-politics in the boardroom and on the battlefield stop pop music?

How practices of care can oppose the climate crisis

In a trilogy of animated films entitled Lost Migrations, a refugee crossing South Asia’s lines of 1947, transforms into a weightless paper plane.

Seeking identity through poetry and hip-hop

Mansi Choksi’s Newlyweds explores the challenges of forbidden love for India’s youth.

What is multidisciplinary research in the arts? Why is it important to support projects that are imaginative and experimental, and how might they engage with a wider public?

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.

Experiences from the Youth Climate Movement

Sarah Almehairi's concrete floor sculptures and works on paper become visual pathfinders in 'When the Ground Was'.

Kais Salman's 'Fables in the Unknown' represents a wide expanse of powerful vivid emotions and sentiments.

Nathaniel Rackowe considers the notion of light as a reflector in his exhibition 'Fractured Landscapes'.

A closer look at Emirati artist Azza Al Qubaisi's multi-layered works titled 'Between the Dune Lines'.

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

Episode 03 - Cultures Conversation Preludes and Postscripts, powered by afikra.

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

a triptych of projections capturing movement and time

Nujoom Alghanem performs her poem "I Found My Way to You" for Concrete Closed Sessions.

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.

Intangible Cultural Heritage as a focus for Vision 2071

We went to Nightjar for coffee but found Leon.

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

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.

Exploring the ties that bind urban communities

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

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.

Dayanita Singh discusses her body of work with curator Nada Raza

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

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

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

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

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

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

Episode 01 of Cultures in Conversation programmed by Alserkal: Preludes & Postscripts Featuring: Vilma Jurkute (Executive Director, Alserkal), Charles Landry, Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty (co-founders Bard Studio), and Hamed Bukhamseen (Co-founder, Civil Architecture). Part of Cultures in Conversation: Preludes & Postscripts, commissioned by Expo2020 Dubai and programmed by Alserkal.

Uma Bista points her lens at the patriarchy while searching for identity, gender equality and freedom from cultural confinement.

Tavish Gunasena, a fine art and documentary photographer has built up a body of work from around his paradise island, but found himself in the middle of the frenzy, capturing the rage and bravery of his people.

“One never begins in a pure space, but rather on a surface saturated with images and unexpressed thoughts.” - Seloua Luste Boulbina

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

Consuming food is a part of the narrative of a table. Transferring food off the table and onto the screen challenges its consumption. Flattening and distorting these meals produces a topographical exchange between the screen and ourselves.

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

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

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