Exhibitions

Vian Sora

House of Pearls 31 Oct - 10 Dec 2024 The Third Line is pleased to announce House of Pearls, our first solo exhibition with US-based, Iraqi American artist Vian Sora. The exhibition presents new paintings and works on paper that explore pearls as a metaphor for achieving stability and the needed structural integrity for life itself to regenerate. In... Read more

Ala Ebtekar

The Sky of the Seven Valleys 7 May - 28 Jun 2024 Ala Ebtekar’s exhibition The Sky of the Seven Valleys sits engorged with the subjective weight of epic flight, enduring beings, and immense galactic scale within a room of endless perspective and possibility. Combining multi-wavelength photographic processes with the distinct brushstroke of cloudmaking, Ebtekar continues a quarter-century of art practice and... Read more

Khalid Jauffer

Looking, dwelling, leaving 7 May - 28 Jun 2024 Consciousness and sensitivity are compromised states. Part and parcel of the comfort of habit is an ignorance of the environments we occupy, move between and pass, enjoying the ease of simplifying the lexicon of the public realm into digestible blocks, like consuming simple carbohydrates. It is in a less comfortable... Read more

Farah Al Qasimi

Toy World 27 Feb - 19 Apr 2024 If I go to Google and ask it to define “actor,” I am greeted with the following secondary definition: “a person who behaves in a way that is not genuine.” The example sentence illustrating this definition: “in war one must be a good actor.” Ipso facto: IN WAR ONE MUST... Read more

Pouran Jinchi

Fly Like Dandelions 11 Jan - 16 Feb 2024 Pouran Jinchi was inspired to embark on this new body of work, Fly Like Dandelions, after reading an article titled Great Climate Migration in the New York Times. The article tells the story of Jorge A., a Guatemalan farmer forced to flee due to climate change's impact on agriculture. Jinchi's... Read more

Kamran Samimi

Before Nature (I Am Both Created and Destroyed) 11 Jan - 16 Feb 2024 Kamran Samimi's first exhibition with The Third Line – Before Nature (I Am Both Created and Destroyed) – draws inspiration from the land's rich tapestry of natural materials. During his three-week trip to Dubai in the lead up to this exhibition, Samimi harnessed the organic shapes of the UAE's mountains... Read more

Nima Nabavi and Jason Seife

Duality 14 Nov 2023 - 5 Jan 2024 The Third Line is pleased to announce Duality, featuring new works by artists Nima Nabavi and Jason Seife. Duality is a showing of two artists working together in symbiosis, a product of an enduring 'art friendship'. In ways both literal and metaphorical, the exhibition is a way of putting pen... Read more

Sahand Hesamiyan

Prolepsis 28 Sep - 3 Nov 2023 The Third Line is pleased to announce our third solo exhibition with Sahand Hesamiyan. Marking the artist’s 24-year journey with steel, Prolepsis will showcase a collection of sculptures that celebrate his dedication to this medium, and shine a light on a trove of long-cherished yet unrealised projects. Prolepsis serves as... Read more

Shabahang Tayyari

Stop counting the waves following me, you seabirds! 23 May - 21 Jul 2023 Gallery 2 Stop counting the waves following me, you seabirds! is a container of different scenarios that are in tension with the capacity of the exhibition, matters of uniformity, replication, flatness, originality, fiction, and exclusivity. Shabahang Tayyari explores these themes within the frame of each painting, between the different frames,... Read more

Bady Dalloul

A country without a door or windows 23 May - 21 Jul 2023 Project Space Bady Dalloul's A country without a door or windows, is a series of 200 miniature drawings displayed inside pocket matchboxes. The vividly coloured and seemingly childlike images sharply contrast with the harsh reality of the stories they depict of the Syrian war that erupted in 2011. By re-appropriating... Read more

Lamya Gargash

Isthmus 23 May - 21 Jul 2023 Gallery 1 Curated by Sophie Mayuko Arni Lamya Gargash’s fifth solo show at The Third Line – Isthmus –is an exhibition that celebrates the artist’s poetics of space and recounts human experiences throughout different geographies, all without the direct presence of the human figure. Photographing selections of objects, furniture pieces,... Read more

Anuar Khalifi

Mirror Ball 6 Apr - 19 May 2023 The Third Line is pleased to announce our second solo exhibition with Spanish-Moroccan artist Anuar Khalifi. The exhibition, titled Mirror Ball, will debut a unique sculpture together with a series of richly detailed and vibrant paintings that continue the artist’s ongoing exploration into the complexities of personal identity and the... Read more

Hayv Kahraman

Gut Feelings: Part II 6 Feb - 24 Mar 2023 The Third Line is pleased to announce Gut Feelings: Part II, our fifth solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Hayv Kahraman. Occupying both gallery spaces, Kahraman presents a series of new paintings and drawings that continue her ongoing scientific research and exploration into the effects of trauma on the... Read more

Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1: An Exercise in Looking

Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif 19 Dec 2022 - 29 Jan 2023 Perpetual Inventory and Dr. O’s Pop Shop at The Third Line, Dubai this December. The Third Line presents Perpetual Inventory, Volume 1 and Dr. O’s Pop Shop: The Live Edition, opening 19 December 2022 at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. The exhibition continues until 29 January 2023. A major new collaboration with... Read more

Sarah Awad

Rainbow Clearance and Other Paintings 14 Nov - 16 Dec 2022 The Third Line is pleased to announce Rainbow Clearance and Other Paintings, our first solo exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Sarah Awad. Occupying both gallery spaces, Awad presents a series of new paintings that traverse notions of space, colour and the act of looking. Rainbow Clearance and Other Paintings... Read more

Youssef Nabil

The Beautiful Voyage 22 Sep - 28 Oct 2022 The Third Line is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Youssef Nabil. The Beautiful Voyage presents a curated selection of recent works including photographs of cinematic landscapes and imaginary self-portraits, as well as the regional debut of Nabil’s fourth video, also called The Beautiful Voyage. Youssef... Read more

Sara Naim

Rose Tinted 12 May - 8 Jul 2022 The Third Line is pleased to present Sara Naim's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Rose Tinted introduces a new body of work featuring photographs based on utopian scenes that don't entirely correspond with their sculpted forms. For the last time after six years, Naim uses plexiglass, wood and print in her wall and floor-based artworks, which contain imagery related to food, land, and objects depicted in an idealised form. Read more

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Messages with(out) a code 8 Mar - 26 Apr 2022 The Third Line is pleased to present a solo exhibition by artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige. The exhibition proudly debuts The Third Line's newly renovated space, which is being unveiled alongside this show. Messages with(out) a code presents a selection of new and seminal pieces from their... Read more

The Third Line at Cromwell Place

Gallery 5, Cromwell Place, London 2 - 10 Jun 2021 The Third Line is pleased to announce a group exhibition of works by Anuar Khalif__b/b__, Sara Naim and Sophia Al Maria at Cromwell Place in London. Featuring painting, sculptural photography and video, the exhibition provides unconventional insights into identity, image-making and history while probing the relationship between human memory and... Read more

NEGUS

yasiin bey 25 Mar - 5 May 2021 The Third Line and Sole bring yasiin bey's audio and visual installation, Negus, to the Middle East for the first time. Negus is a 28-minute listening experience consisting of 8 compositions recorded in London in 2015, produced by Lord Tusk, Steven Julien, and Acyde. Negus is presented as an immersive... Read more

ODYSSEUS

Tarek Al-Ghoussein 22 Mar - 5 May 2021 The Third Line is pleased to present Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s fourth solo exhibition in its Gallery II. Odysseus also proudly debuts the gallery’s series of online exhibitions taking place on its new website. The show explores a selection of new works from his ongoing series Odysseus where Al-Ghoussein sets out to... Read more

THERE IS FICTION IN THE SPACE BETWEEN

23 Mar - 30 Jul 2020 The Third Line is pleased to present There Is Fiction In The Space Between , a group exhibition celebrating the gallery’s fifteenth anniversary. This exhibition draws on the breadth of The Third Line’s program by presenting eleven pairings of artworks by twenty- two different artists. Each of these pairings tells... Read more

SAHWA

Lamya Gargash 23 Mar - 30 May 2020 Here I am in the presence of rich human history, all of which has been dormant for many years and brought to life through conservation. I picture this slumbering human resting amidst the desert sand only to be awoken gently by another, and thus their new journey together begins. ... Read more

FOREVER IS A CURRENT EVENT

Anuar Khalifi 27 Nov 2019 - 4 Mar 2020 The Third Line is pleased to present Anuar Khalifi’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, with works on canvas exploring the exchange between tradition and the contemporary world. Embodying both the stylistic elements and socio-political spirit of neo-impressionism, Khalifi equips his paintings with metaphors and symbols which bridge visuals of... Read more

ARRIVAL

Farah Al Qasimi 18 Sep - 23 Nov 2019 The Third Line is pleased to present Arrival, Farah Al Qasimi's third solo exhibition at the gallery. Using the language of horror cinema, Al Qasimi reveals a new body of work featuring jinn folklore across the UAE. The show presents Al Qasimi's first feature-length film; a 40 minute horror-comedy titled... Read more

I WILL SEE IT, WHEN I BELIEVE IT

15 May - 27 Jul 2019 The Third Line is pleased to present its summer exhibition I Will See It, When I Believe It, with works by Abbas Akhavan, Farhad Moshiri, Hayv Kahraman, Laleh Khorramian, Rana Begum, Slavs and Tatars, and Sophia Al Maria. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Or is... Read more

PERCEPTION AND REFLECTION

Rana Begum 5 Mar - 9 May 2019 The Third Line is pleased to present Rana Begum’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Comprised entirely of reflectors, Rana’s latest body of work captures the unexpected geometries of urban environments while light continues to hold sway over the works’ formal aspects. The exhibition takes its cues from Rana’s 2006... Read more

BUILDING BLOCKS

Sara Naim 16 Jan - 27 Feb 2019 The Third Line is pleased to present Building Blocks, Sara Naim’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Extending the artist’s preoccupation with micro images and dichotomies between proximity and distance into an examination of memory and cognitive associations, Building Blocks maps the cellular make up of three elements nostalgic to... Read more

FOR YOUR EYES

Jordan Nassar 16 Jan - 27 Feb 2019 The Third Line is pleased to present For Your Eyes, Jordan Nassar’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. Also marking the artist’s debut in the Gulf region, For Your Eyes brings to question the effects of diaspora on cultural and mnemonic identity through the various formal and conceptual layers of... Read more

SAFINA

Ala Ebtekar 12 Nov - 27 Dec 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present Safina, the final chapter of Ala Ebtekar’s solo exhibitions trilogy. This project continues Ala’s commitment to folding space and time onto itself through painting, drawing, and premieres a new installation that shifts harmonies of landscape and horizon. In the titular work Safina, the... Read more

STILL

Huda Lutfi 12 Nov - 27 Dec 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present Still, Huda Lutfi’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. Featuring new works produced over the last year and a half, the exhibition presents a different approach to Huda’s practice as she turns to minimalist and calligraphic abstractions to create compositions she calls ‘paper... Read more

THE BREEZE AT DAWN HAS SECRETS TO TELL YOU

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian 24 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present The Breeze at Dawn Has Secrets to Tell You, a solo exhibition featuring Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s most recent body of work. While they continue to draw from Islamic cosmology, mathematics and Sufi mystic philosophies, Monir’s mixed-media installations define a new step in the... Read more

1, 2, 3

Nima Nabavi 24 Sep - 3 Nov 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present 1, 2, 3, the first solo exhibition of Nima Nabavi at the gallery. Influenced by geometric abstraction, numeric symbolism and their connection to the natural world, Nima creates meticulous grids of ink on archival paper and in so doing, reveals the inherent beauty... Read more

CLOSE-UP

Farhad Moshiri 19 Mar - 28 Apr 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present Close-up, Farhad Moshiri’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Following the artist’s first US-based museum solo, which was held at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh last year, Farhad returns to the UAE with a new body of hand embroidered works. Close-up includes... Read more

RECENTLY

Abbas Akhavan 19 Mar - 5 May 2018 The Third Line is pleased to announce recently—Abbas Akhavan’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. A collection of recent works, the exhibition lies somewhere between an open studio, an index, an inventory, a table of contents and a periodic table. Put on display are material explorations related to the artist’s... Read more

AL SAWABER

Tarek Al-Ghoussein 5 Nov 2017 - 14 Feb 2018 The Third Line is pleased to present Al Sawaber, Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s third solo exhibition in Dubai curated by Salwa Mikdadi. Eponymous of a government-housing complex in Kuwait slated for demolition, Tarek’s new body of work documents forgotten spaces specific to a historical moment in urban development and the vestiges of... Read more

THE LINE OF MARCH

Pouran Jinchi 13 Sep - 21 Oct 2017 The Third Line is proud to present The Line of March, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Pouran Jinchi. With her new body of work, Pouran returns to a fundamental preoccupation—the parallels between art and language as modes of communication—while extending her artistic expression in new directions. The artist... Read more

ALMOST HOME

Amir H. Fallah 24 May - 25 Jul 2017 Amir H. Fallah returns to The Third Line with a new body of work titled Almost Home reflecting on the idea of belonging outside one’s country of origin. The exhibition shows a series of the artist’s signature style landscapes and portraits, respectively referencing floral Persian ornamentation and Iranian-American immigrants who... Read more

SUITE EGYPTIENNE

Fouad Elkoury 13 Apr - 16 May 2017 The Third Line is pleased to present Fouad Elkoury’s fourth solo exhibition in Dubai Suite Egyptienne, an account of the artist’s photographic travels through Egypt starting in the late 80’s. Using Gustave Flaubert and Maxime Du Camp as guides, Fouad followed their footsteps along the Nile valley nearly 150 years... Read more

EVERYTHING MUST GO

Sophia Al Maria 22 Feb - 1 Apr 2017 The Third Line is proud to present the first solo-exhibition by Sophia Al Maria in the UAE. The exhibition EVERYTHING MUST GO is an iteration of Black Friday— Sophia’s solo exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016— and takes its name from a new series of work.... Read more

SATURNS NECKLESS

Laleh Khorramian 2 Nov - 10 Dec 2016 Do you remember the future? What will remain from that time to come? What happens when that future vision collapses with the past? The Third Line is very pleased to present Saturns Neckless, Laleh Khorramian’s third solo show at the gallery. Laleh returns with a new body of work featuring... Read more

EL BEIT EL KABIR

Sherin Guirguis 2 Nov - 10 Dec 2016 The Third Line is pleased to present El Beit El Kabir, Sherin Guirguis’ second solo show in Dubai. Sherin’s new body of work, built in three parts over the past two years, incorporates a combination of sculptural forms, paintings and works on paper. Shown together for the first time, they... Read more

AUDIBLE INAUDIBLE

Hayv Kahraman 18 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 The Third Line is pleased to present Audible Inaudible, Hayv Kahraman’s fourth solo show in Dubai. Hayv returns with a new body of works on linen, wood and paper through which she narrates the violence of sound and the sonic trauma connected to her past—and that of many others—as an... Read more

MADE IN GERMANY

Slavs and Tatars 18 Sep - 22 Oct 2016 When we think of foreign powers in the Middle East, we often think of France, England or the United States. For their second exhibition at The Third Line, Made in Germany, Slavs and Tatars look to the unlikely story of German Orientalism and what it can tell us about Europe’s... Read more

MAGNETIC BODIES: IMAGING THE URBAN

Huda Lutfi 25 Apr - 4 Jun 2016 The Third Line is pleased to present Magnetic Bodies: Imaging the Urban, Huda Lutfi’s second solo show in Dubai. The exhibition, which includes photo-collage, sculpture, installation and video works, is part of an on-going exploration which cross-examines the urban sprawl of Cairo through the lens of Huda as an artist... Read more

LA SALLE DE GYM DES FEMMES ARABES

Hassan Hajjaj 14 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 The Third Line is pleased to present Hassan Hajjaj’s third solo show in Dubai, La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes. The title, which translates into Gym for Arab Women, is a continuation of Hassan’s depiction of strong and spirited Arab women in his vision of Moroccan pop-culture. For the... Read more

WHEN HEARTSTRINGS COLLAPSE

Sara Naim 14 Mar - 16 Apr 2016 The Third Line is pleased to present When Heartstrings Collapse, Sara Naim’s first solo show with the gallery. Sara’s interest in micro images, particularly that of skin cells, investigate the perception of boundaries and proportion. On a cellular scale all space is merged and the only variation is the different... Read more

I SAVED MY BELLY DANCER

Youssef Nabil 3 Feb - 5 Mar 2016 After months of intense planning, filming and production, New York-based Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil's second video, I Saved My Belly Dancer, will be premiering in the Middle East at The Third Line's new space at Alserkal Avenue. I Saved my Belly Dancer is a poetic depiction of Youssef’s fascination with... Read more

INFINITE GEOMETRY

Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian 5 - 30 Jan 2016 The Third Line is delighted to announce the opening of its new gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, with the inaugural exhibition focusing on a solo presentation by Iranian nonagenarian Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian. The exhibition will reflect upon the different facets and materials of her geometric practice and will feature a... Read more

SANDS OF TIME

Zineb Sedira 29 Apr - 6 Jun 2015 The Third Line is pleased to present Sands of Time, Zineb Sedira’s first solo show in the region. The acclaimed artist will be showing photographs and sculptures that document the economic, political and geographical movements around sugar trade. She will also be exhibiting the video Transmettre en abyme, which will... Read more

STUDY FOR A CURTAIN

Abbas Akhavan 16 Mar - 15 Apr 2015 Study for a Curtain is a continuation of Abbas Akhavan's ongoing exploration of gardens and domesticated landscapes. Abbas Akhavan’s practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video, sculpture and performance. The direction of his research has been deeply influenced by the specificity of the sites where he works: the... Read more

NOWHERESVILLE \ 'NÄ-KŌJA,-ABÄD \

Ala Ebtekar 16 Mar - 18 Apr 2015 The Third Line is pleased to open its Spring 2015 program with Ala Ebtekar's Nowheresville \'nä-kōja,-abäd\. Working with ideas of the celestial, home to planetary and spiritual configurations that have fascinated humanity since the beginning of time, the artist combines early 12th Century traditions of Persian cosmic philosophy with modern-day... Read more