Following his first solo show at Ayyam Gallery, we are thrilled to announce the representation of Khaled Akil!
Known for his captivating photography and more recently, his oil on canvas work, that blends intuitive influences and spiritual themes. Khaled’s art resonates on multiple levels.
Stay tuned for upcoming exhibitions as we embark on this creative journey together.
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Venetia Porter in conversation with Sadik Kwaish Alfraji
23 July 2015 On Thursday 23 July at 6.00 pm, in conjunction with the 2015 Shubbak Festival for Arab culture, Ayyam Gallery London... Read more -
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji 'Ali's Boat' screening at the British Museum
12 July 2015 Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s large scale stop motion video animation, Ali’s Boatwill be shown at the British Museum on 12 July... Read more -
Tammam Azzam
Artist in Residence at Vancouver Biennale 2015 July 2015 Tammam Azzam, currently participating in the Artist in Residence program at the Vancouver Biennale, unveiled his multimedia installation on 4... Read more
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Sadik Kwaish Alfraji's ‘Ali’s Boat Diary 1’ acquired by the British Museum
July 2015 Ayyam Gallery is proud to announce the recent acquisition of Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s ‘Ali’s Boat Diary 1’ by the British... Read more -
Rashed Al Shashai
All The World's a Mosque 28 May – 15 June 2015 Rashed Al Shashai’s LED work Shortcut is featured in All The World's a Mosque, a unique, container-based, mobile art exhibition,... Read more -
Ammar Al Beik
'Dolce Siria' at 51st Pesaro International Film Festival & Berlinale Forum Expanded_MMCA 10 June – 5 July 2015 (Seoul, Korea) | 20-27 June 2015 (Pesaro, Italy) Following the screening at the 65th Berlin Film Festival in February 2015, Ammar Al Beik’s Dolce Siria has been selected... Read more
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Khaled Jarrar
That Thou Canst Not Stir a Flower Without Troubling of a Star 28 May – 11 July 2015 Khaled Jarrar’s exhibition That Thou Canst Not Stir a Flower Without Troubling of a Star, opened at Art Bärtschi &... Read more -
Rula Halawani at Carnegie Museum of Art
She Who Tells A Story 20 May – 27 September 2015 Rula Halawani is part of She Who Tells A Story, a group exhibition that brings together the engaged works of... Read more -
Artist Talk: Samia Halaby in Conversation with Maymanah Farhat
Paintings from the Sixties and Seventies 19 May 2015 Following the opening of Samia Halaby: Paintings from the Sixties and Seventies on 18 May, Ayyam Gallery London will host... Read more
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Shurooq Amin, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, and Khaled Hafez at 56th Venice Biennale Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab World
9 May – 22 November 2015 Shurooq Amin, Sadik Alfraji, and Khaled Hafez will be part of In the Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi
Ten: The Exhibition 8 May – 4 October 2015 From 8 May until 4 October, Sama Alshaibi will be featured in Ten: The Exhibition, a group exhibition at the... Read more -
Sadik Kwaish Alfraji in Conversation with Wael Hattar
28 April 2015 Please join Sadik Kwaish Alfraji in conversation with Wael Hattar on Tuesday, 28 April at 7pm, at A4 Space in... Read more
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BADminton by Khaled Jarrar
Screening at 'Deconstructing Reality' 23 – 26 April 2015 Khaled Jarrar’s video, BADminton, will be featured in Deconstructing Reality, a group exhibition curated by Marco Trulli and presented in... Read more -
View From Inside, Contemporary Arab Photography, Video and Mixed Media Art
Abu Dhabi Festival 20 March – 20 April 2015 The mixed media works of Khaled Hafez, Sama Alshaibi, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji, Faisal Samra, Tammam Azzam and Ammar Al Beik... Read more -
Faisal Samra
Global Warming 8 March – 26 April 2015 Following his first suggestive retrospective at Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz, Dubai (2014), Saudi artist Faisal Samra will present his recent... Read more
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Sadik Kwaish Alfraji and Khaled Jarrar
ide-mémoire: footnotes 1 March 2015 Khaled Jarrar and Sadik Alfraji will be featured in 'aide-mémoire: footnotes' opening at Sharjah’s Barjeel Foundation on 1 March. The... Read more -
Farzad Kohan at MIM Gallery
Is It in the Middle? 20 February – 12 March 2015 Farzad Kohan is participating in the exhibition 'Is It in the Middle?', which delves into conceptions of corporeality. On view... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi awarded the 2014 – 2015 Fulbright Scholar Fellowship
February 2015 Sama Alshaibi has recently been awarded with the prestigious Fulbright Scholar Fellowship, she will be based at the new Palestine... Read more
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Tammam Azzam
Crisis of History Part 2: Fight History 8 February – 8 March 2015 Acclaimed Syrian artist Tammam Azzam will be featured in Amsterdam’s cultural hub Tolhuistuin as part of a group exhibition titled... Read more -
Ammar Al Beik
65th Berlin Film Festival 5 – 15 February 2015 Syrian artist and filmmaker Ammar Al Beik will be attending the Forum Expanded program of the 65th Berlin Film Festival... Read more -
Samia Halaby
'Five Decades of Painting and Innovation' at Beirut Exhibition Center 2 – 26 February 2015 Following a major retrospective at Ayyam Gallery Dubai, Al Quoz in 2014, Samia Halaby’s oeuvre will be showcased at the... Read more
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Sadik Alfraji
Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art from the Middle East 1 February 2015 Iraqi artist Sadik Alfraji, renowned for his large-scale interdisciplinary works, will participate in LACMA’s exhibition Islamic Art Now : Contemporary... Read more -
Samia Halaby
'Self: Portraits of Artists in their Absence' at the National Academy of Arts, New York City 29 January – 3 May 2015 Palestinian artist Samia Halaby will be exhibiting in Self: Portraits of Artists in their Absence at the National Academy of... Read more -
Khaled Jarrar
'Too Early, Too Late. Middle East and Modernity' at Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy 22 January – 12 April 2015 Khaled Jarrar will be participating in a group exhibition at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna in Italy from the 22... Read more
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Farzad Kohan
Francis Boeske Projects 11 January – 21 February 2015 Marking Farzad Kohan’s debut in the Netherlands ‘Opening Up, 9 Artists From Iran’ features the work of 9 Iranian artists... Read more -
Artist in Residency | Noor Bahjat
January 2015 Ayyam Gallery is proud to announce that a residency program for young artists will be launched in Dubai with the... Read more -
Safwan Dahoul Dubai Metro Collaboration
January 2015 Safwan Dahoul’s iconic portraitures of female protagonists covers the surface of a Dubai Metro carriage. As continuation of Dahoul’s monochromatic... Read more
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Sama Alshaibi and Khaled Jarrar
MADATAC 06 Film and Digital Arts Festival 13 December 2014 Works by Sama Alshaibi and Khaled Jarrar will be screened at Waiting for Good, the Unexplored Territories 06_Palestinia section, being... Read more -
Shurooq Amin
Reversible: Narrating Identity from the Inside Out and Outside In 7 – 9 December 2014 Shurooq Amin is participating in Reversible: Narrating Identity from the Inside Out and Outside In, a conference held by NYU... Read more -
Khaled Ead Samawi Scholarship Foundation
December 2014 Lara Atallah, the first recipient of the Khaled Ead Samawi Art Scholarship, has recently completed an MFA in Photography from... Read more
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Khaled Takreti and Faisal Samra: Insusubordination
Musée de la Palmeraie in Marrakech, Morocco 28 November – 30 December 2014 The work of Khaled Takreti and Faisal Samra is currently on display at Insusubordination, an exhibition marking the second World... Read more -
Shurooq Amin in conversation with Khaled Samawi and Anthony Downey
Ayyam Gallery London 12 November 2014 Ayyam Gallery London presents Shurooq Amin in conversation with Ayyam Gallery founder Khaled Samawi, and Anthony Downey, contemporary art scholar... Read more -
Athier
Salma and The Cactus Workshop November 2014 On a recent trip to Palestine, Athier conducted Salma and The Cactus Workshop , a children's workshop held as part... Read more
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Faisal Samra
Artist led tour and book signing 8 November 2014 A personalised tour of 39, led by the artist Faisal Samra will take place on Saturday, 8 November 2014 during... Read more -
Samia Halaby
Seeing through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection 5 November 2014 – 26 March 2015 Samia Halaby’s 'Yellow Spiral' (1970) a seminal work inspired by the artist’s admiration for Arabic architecture and calligraphy will be... Read more -
Mohannad Orabi and Maymanah Farhat
Leading Global Thinkers 2014 November 2014 Artist Mohannad Orabi and Ayyam Gallery’s Artistic Director Maymanah Farhat were listed among Foreign Policy’s prestigious 100 Leading Global Thinkers... Read more
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Ammar Abd Rabbo
Aleppo, A Elles, Eux, Paix! at Europia Gallery in Paris 4 – 28 November 2014 A solo exhibition entitled Aleppo, A Elles, Eux, Paix! by Syrian photographer Ammar Abd Rabbo is currently on display... Read more -
Ayyam Gallery Launches Ayyam Projects
November 2014 Ayyam Gallery will be launching Ayyam Projects, a new experimental space in Beirut, at the end of October. Ayyam Projects... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi: Chain of Fire
Prologue Exhibition - Honolulu Biennial 30 October – 9 November 2014 Sama Alshaibi has been selected to show her work at the Prologue Exhibition Chain of Fire at the Honolulu Biennial,... Read more
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Sama Alshaibi participating in the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2014)
20 October – 8 November 2014 Sama Alshaibi will be participating in the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art. Hosted by Zayed University, ISEA is an... Read more -
Faisal Samra
Book launch and artist talk with Myrna Ayad 20 October 2014 Ayyam Gallery Dubai (Al Quoz) presents artist Faisal Samra in conversation with Myrna Ayad, Editor of Canvas Magazine on Monday,... Read more -
Shurooq Amin at Intersections of Art and Literature
University of Trento Conference 15 – 17 October 2014 Sharooq Amin will be participating in Intersections of Art and Literature, a conference to be held at the Department... Read more
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Khaled Jarrar takes part in RCD>PLY>RWD>FFWD>STOP>EJ
Kashya Hildebrand, London 14 October – 22 November 2014 Curated by Aya Haidar, RCD> PLY> RWD> FFWD> STOP> EJ is based around the recording of the present as a... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi's short films at the Intelligence Report
Peacock Visual Arts: Center for Contemporary Art 4 October – 8 November 2014 Sama Alshaibi’s work will be on show in Intelligence Report at Peacock Visual Arts Center for Contemporary Art. Organised by... Read more -
Ayyam Gallery artists at upcoming auctions
October 2014 We are delighted to announce that several works of our represented artists will be appearing in some of the world’s... Read more
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Sama Alshaibi: Opposing Gestures
University of Southern Main (USM) 23 September – 10 December 2014 Sama Alshaibi will be participating in a two-person exhibition with Joseph Farbrook exploring the dilemmas of the political, existential and... Read more -
Nadim Karam
JISP Biennale 2014, Shanghai 20 September – 20 November 2014 Nadim Karam's Stretching Thoughts sculptures are exhibited at Jing'an Sculpture Park as part of the Shanghai JISP Biennale 2014 from... Read more -
Khaled Jarrar
TO THE SQUARE 2 at Helsinki Festival 2014 22 – 31 August 2014 As part of Checkpoint Helsinki’s TO THE SQUARE 2 project, Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar has begun work on a large-scale... Read more
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Khaled Jarrar 'Dis-/Obey'
Helsinki Festival 2014 August 2014 Commissioned by Checkpoint Helsinki as part of Helsinki Festival, Khaled Jarrar’s Dis-/Obey saw 50 volunteers participate in a large-scale... Read more -
Khaled Jarrar at New Museum, New York
Here and Elsewhere 16 July – 28 September 2014 Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar will be exhibiting in Here and Elsewhere , a major exhibition organised by New York City's... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi at Alwan for the Arts auction in New York
Shirin Gallery, New York 26 June 2014 Artist Sama Alshaibi’s photographic work, 'To Eat Bread' from the monochromatic series, Between the Rivers (2008-2009) will be featured in... Read more
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Sama Alshaibi in The Postcard Project
Fundraiser for Honolulu Biennial 2014 23 June – 23 July 2014 Sama Alshaibi’s work Birket Siwa (2014) from the Silsila series is being featured in a pop-up fundraiser to raise funds... Read more -
Ammar Abd Rabbo participates in 'The sea is my land – Artists from the Mediterranean'
Triennale di Milano, Italy 17 June – 24 August 2014 Photojournalist Ammar Abd Rabbo has been selected to present his works in this year’s The sea is my land –... Read more -
Tammam Azzam and Kais Salman at the 26th Alexandria Biennale
10 June - 6 July 2014 Tammam Azzam and Kais Salman are participating in the 26th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries on view in Cairo, Egypt... Read more
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Syria's Apex Generation
New publication 9 June – 2 August 2014 Ayyam Gallery launches the publication, Syria’s Apex Generation which coincides with the gallery's June openings of contemporary Syrian painting featuring... Read more -
Khaled Jarrar’s installation "Gently I Press the Trigger"
Paris | Ramallah 23 May – 30 June 2014 Palestinian artist Khaled Jarrar’s installation works from Gently I Press the Trigger will be shown concurrently in Paris at the... Read more -
Contemporary Arab Art featured in "Fluid Forms II"
Samsung Blue Square & Busan Museum of Art 21 May – 4 July 2014 Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce 38 works by 13 of its artists will be featured alongside other prominent Arab... Read more
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Khaled Takreti at Gwangju Museum of Art
South Korea 19 May – 13 July 2014 Khaled Takreti will be exhibiting in Songs of Loss and Songs of Love on view at the Gwangju Museum of... Read more -
Tammam Azzam's International Exhibitions
Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal and others May – June 2014 From 9 May - 8 June, 2014 artist Tammam Azzam’s works from the Syrian Spring and Freedom Graffiti series will... Read more -
Tammam Azzam participates in UNESCO exhibition
Hague, Netherlands 10 May – 15 June 2014 From 10 May - 15 June 2014, Tammam Azzam will be participating in an outdoor group photography exhibition taking place... Read more
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Samia Halaby in "Ultrapassado - Part I"
Broadway 1602, New York 3 May – 21 June, 2014 Samia Halaby will be participating in the exhibition 'Ultrapassado-Part I' at New York City art space Broadway 1602 from 3... Read more -
Walid El Masri participates in "Syria: Cris-Action (Artists in Creation)"
Institut du Monde Arabe 30 April – 22 June 2014 Walid El Masri will be participating in a group exhibition alongside award-winning photo-journalist, Ammar Abd Rabbo and others entitled, ... Read more -
Tammam Azzam in 'The Grand Cypher: Hip Hop, Iran & Syria'
Rush Arts Gallery, New York 24 April – 24 May 2014 Tammam Azzam will be participating in 'The Grand Cypher: Hip Hop, Iran & Syria' , a collective exhibition featuring artists,... Read more
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Sama Alshaibi Talk at The Center for Creative Photography
Center for Creative Photography, Arizona 22 April 2014 Iraqi-Palestinian artist Sama Alshaibi will be discussing the major themes of her work in an artist talk entitled, 'Sand rushes... Read more -
CNN 'Inside the Middle East'
April 2014 Ayyam Gallery was featured on CNN’s 'Inside the Middle East', in a report on the movement of Syrian art and... Read more -
Institut des Cultures d’Islam presents "Despite it all they make art! Syria: faith in art"
Paris, France 10 April – 27 July 2014 Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris hosts Despite it all they make art! Syria: faith in art , a collective... Read more
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Nadim Karam Talk in Doha
Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art 10 April 2014 In collaboration with Doha Architecture Forum , Nadim Karam will be discussing his art and architecture at Mathaf, Arab Museum... Read more -
Ayyam Gallery awarded 'Best Art Space'
Arabian Business Lifestyle Awards 2 April 2014 Ayyam Gallery was awarded 'Best Art Space' at the Arabian Business Lifestyle awards gala held recently at the Montgomerie Golf... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi Panel Discussion
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Texas) 1 April 2014 Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Sama Alshaibi will be speaking at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston... Read more
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Ayyam Gallery artists at FotoFest Biennial 2014
Houston, Texas 15 March – 27 April 2014 Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce its participation at the 2014 FotoFest Biennial to be held March 15 - April... Read more -
Khaled Jarrar in 'Fragile Hands: a curatorial essay on state subjectivities'
University of Applied Arts, Vienna 12 March – 11 April 2014 Khaled Jarrar is participating in the exhibition 'Fragile Hands: a curatorial essay on state subjectivities' on view at the University... Read more -
Walid El Masri at Europia Productions Paris
6 – 24 March 2014 Walid El Masri will present new artworks at Cocoon, his solo exhibition at Europia Productions in Paris from 6-28 March.... Read more
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Biography of a Head by Sadik Alfraji
Beirut Exhibition Center 6 March to 13 April 2014 From 6 March to 13 April, 2014, the Beirut Art Exhibition Centre is pleased to present, Biography of a Head,... Read more -
Samia Halaby amongst "The World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women"
ArabianBusiness.com March 2014 Palestinian abstract expressionist painter Samia Halaby has been named amongst 'The World’s 100 Most Powerful Arab Women' by Arabian Business... Read more -
Sama Alshaibi speaking at CAMCSI - Workshop "On Representation"
University of North Texas 28 February 2014 Sama Alshaibi will be speaking about her work at the Contemporary Arab + Muslim Cultural Studies Institute's workshop 'On Representation'... Read more
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Samia Halaby Talk and Book Signing
19 February 2014 at 7pm Ayyam Gallery Dubai (Al Quoz) is pleased to present an artist talk and book signing by legendary Palestinian painter Samia... Read more -
The Young Collectors Auction
Hisham Samawi on Dubai Eye (103.8FM) discussing The Young Collectors Auction 20 January 2014 The World show on Dubai Eye (103.8FM) hosted Hisham Samawi, auctioneer of The Young Collectors Auction, who gave insights about... Read more -
Architecture of Memory
Sama Alshaibi's collaborative work at The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA)'s exhibition 'Architecture of Memory'. 2014 Sama Alshaibi's collaborative work with Dena Al-Adeeb will be part of The Middle East Center for the Arts (MECA)'s exhibition... Read more