{
  "id": 9568664,
  "title": "UAE art guide: Ten exhibitions to see, from Unseen Script at Rizq to Taking Form at The Third Line",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/uae-art-guide-ten-exhibitions-to-see-from-unseen-script-at-rizq-to",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-24T14:22:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The National UAE",
    "slug": "the-national-uae",
    "url": "https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art-design/2026/09/24/uae-guide-museum-gallery-exhibitions-to-see-abu-dhabi-dubai/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "1. Tashkeel Hamad Al Muzaini's Precarious Beings explores how individuals adjust to urban environments and the subtle behaviors that form their daily routines. The Kuwaiti artist, previously an architect, now questions why and how these structures take shape in his solo exhibition at Tashkeel Nad Al Sheba. From October 11 until October 11.\n\n2. Meena Vari's Unseen Script, featuring 10 artists, showcases how repeated actions, familiar journeys, and domestic objects create patterns that often go unnoticed. Works by Najat Makki, Nujoom Alghanem, Nasir Nasrallah, Abdulla PA, Ana Escobar Saavedra, Fadi Balhawan, Ismail Al Rifai, Joanna Barakat, Neveen Abu Samra, and Simrin Mehra Agarwal explore personal habits and perceptions in painting, sculpture, assemblage, and mixed media. Until October 28.\n\n3. Rana Begum's fifth solo exhibition at The Third Line, Taking Form, features new works in textile, linen, wood, and paper. Large wool tapestries suspended from the ceiling form the centerpiece, while diluted acrylic seeps into linen and smaller works on paper and wooden panels delve into color and surface interactions. Until November 10.\n\n4 & 5. Leila Heller Gallery presents two exhibitions examining Emirati identity and heritage. Azza Al Qubaisi's Between Land and Sea, curated by Aysha Al Hemeiri, surveys her multidisciplinary practice that connects the UAE's desert and coastal environments with themes of memory, identity, and place. Karima Al Shomely's Between a Fold and a Memory explores clothing, textiles, and objects associated with Emirati women, delving into themes of labor, social change, and cultural knowledge across generations. Until November 10.\n\n6. Kenyan artist Maggie Otieno's Sojourner: The Difference is the Same at Efie Gallery transforms reclaimed materials, such as 150-year-old railway sleepers and wooden canoes, into vessels of memory and passage. By cutting, assembling, and reconfiguring these objects, Otieno shifts their associations from movement and infrastructure to stillness, memory, and transition. Until November 13.\n\n7. Eman Al Hashemi's The Horizon We Inherit at Iris Projects explores the evolving rhythms of urban life in the UAE through ceramics, printmaking, and mixed media. The artist contemplates how cities influence attention, memory, and daily routines, inviting viewers to consider the impact of built environments on human experiences.",
  "summary": "Galleries and institutions across Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Sharjah are marking the start of the new art season with a fresh wave of exhibitions. Current highlights include Rana Begum’s Taking Form at The Third Line, which explores colour, geometry and material through textile, linen, wood and paper; Unseen Script at Rizq Art Initiative, bringing together 10 artists around the patterns and routines…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}