Maraya Art Centre Exhibitions

The Place I Call Home

Date: Saturday 07 Mar, 2020 - Sunday 31 May, 2020
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

The Place I Call Home is a project that uses contemporary photography to explore the idea of home related to the experiences of young people living in the Gulf and the UK at a time of rapid change and social mobility....

Rearranging the Riddle

Date: Saturday 07 Mar, 2020 - Saturday 25 Jul, 2020
Time: 05:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

New works by Shaikha Al Mazrou Shaikha Al Mazrou’s sculptural experimentations and investigations are expressions of materiality—articulations of tension and the interplay between form and content as well as an intuitive, keenly felt understanding of materials and their physical properties....

Bloom

Date: Thursday 12 Dec, 2019 - Saturday 22 Feb, 2020
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

As part of the 22nd edition of Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, Maraya Art Centre presents Bloom by Beijing-based sculptor Li Hongbo. The exhibition is curated by the Dubai-based curator Jolaine Frizzell, and acts as the artist’s first solo in the...

Colour Bar: Colour, Space and Bits per Pixel

Date: Saturday 12 Oct, 2019 - Saturday 30 Nov, 2019
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Colour Bar is an exhibition that places in proximity bits of creative minds from the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, channeled together through a showcase that is dedicated to feature time-based media art. The exhibition seeks to address a...

(Be)Longing

Date: Monday 09 Sep, 2019 - Wednesday 25 Sep, 2019
Time: 05:00 p.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

"(Be) longing. Home, Place and Identity in the Works of Graduates from the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah " Returning again to Maraya Art Centre, works by five recently graduated students of the College of Fine Arts...

Silk Road Exhibition

Date: Sunday 18 Aug, 2019 - Saturday 19 Oct, 2019
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

China is today the focus of many children’s books. Chinese authors and illustrators are arousing increasing interest, as are China’s ancient stories and legends as well as its contemporary literature. Silk Road was an ancient network of routes that connected the East and West....

Tashweesh: Material Noise

Date: Saturday 02 Mar, 2019 - Saturday 24 Aug, 2019
Time: 05:00 p.m. - 08:30 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Tashweesh: Material Noise is the fifth edition of the annual exhibition of UAE Unlimited, founded and patroned by His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, and is the second collaboration between UAE Unlimited and Maraya Art Centre,...

The Silence Between Us

Date: Thursday 20 Dec, 2018 - Monday 18 Feb, 2019
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

“The Silence Between Us: Poetry and Light in the work of Dana Awartani” 20 December, 2018 - 18 February, 2019 This exhibition is the second collaboration between the Maraya Art Centre and the Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival, and the first institutional...

Between the Visible and the Invisible

Date: Saturday 15 Sep, 2018 - Saturday 24 Nov, 2018
Time: 06:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

‘Between the Visible and the Invisible’ features the works of a group of seven international artists that include Pia Sandström (Stockholm), Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin (London), Chooc Ly Tan (Paris), Nikolaus Gansterer (Vienna), Leah Fusco (London), Vladimir Nikolic (Belgrade) and Oliver...

Yaminay Chaudhri – Arwa Al Neami

Date: Saturday 12 May, 2018 - Thursday 23 Aug, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

12 May - 23 August, 2018 Maraya Art Centre is excited to be opening two new solo presentations by emerging artists Yaminay Chaudhri (Pakistan) and Arwa Al Neami (Saudi Arabia). The exhibitions are part of an experimental format co-curated by Maraya...

Timo Nasseri: All the Letters in All the Stars

Date: Thursday 14 Dec, 2017 - Thursday 05 Apr, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Timo Nasseri: All the Letters in All the StarsCurated by Laura Metzler14 December, 2017 – 5 April, 2018 Maraya Art Centre is collaborating with Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival to present "Timo Nasseri: All the Letters in All the Stars". The...

From the Shelf to the Wall

Date: Sunday 01 Oct, 2017 - Saturday 02 Dec, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 07:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

From the Shelf to the Wall: Artistic Research and Resources from the Maraya Collection This exhibition highlights the research resources available at Maraya Art Centre and creates a dialogue between our collection, library, and video archive. The space is open...

Collectivity: Objects and Associations in the U.A.E. Art World

Date: Thursday 15 Jun, 2017 - Saturday 19 Aug, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Collectivity: Objects and Associations in the UAE Art World 15 June – 19 August, 2017   “All artistic work, like all human activity, involves the joint activity of a number, often a large number of people. Through their cooperation the...

Once Upon A Time: Hadiqat Al Umma

Date: Saturday 04 Mar, 2017 - Saturday 06 May, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Once Upon A Time: Hadiqat Al Umma, a solo exhibition by Iraqi Artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji Iraqi artist Sadik Kwaish Alfraji presents a panoramic multi-media installation reviving his childhood experience of Baghdad’s Hadiqat Al Umma. This park, full of plants,...

PLACE AND UNITY

Date: Monday 31 Oct, 2016 - Tuesday 31 Jan, 2017
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

PLACE AND UNITY: Works from the ADMAF Art Collection at Maraya Art Centre 31 October, 2016 – 31 January, 2017 Artists are frequently concerned with place – examining and capturing the soul of a location they have a connection with,...

Selected Works from the Maraya Art Centre Collection

Date: Friday 14 Oct, 2016 - Sunday 23 Oct, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

This exhibition will present selected works of contemporary art and design from the Maraya Art Centre collection, including new acquisitions. It will include works by 10 Emirati and U.A.E.-based artists and designers or from the wider Gulf area.The exhibition is a...

Al Haraka Baraka: In Movement There is Blessing

Date: Thursday 25 Feb, 2016 - Wednesday 06 Jul, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Artists: Ammar Al Attar, Alaa Edris, Reem Falaknaz, Hazem Harb, Zeinab Al Hashemi, Tulip Hazbar, Hind Mezaina, Khalid Mezaina, Walid Al Wawi with special guest Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim. A project commissioned by U.A.E. Unlimited Arab Exploration.The theme of the exhibition...

[ana] please keep your eyes closed for a moment

Date: Wednesday 21 Oct, 2015 - Saturday 30 Jan, 2016
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Participating Artists: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), Hong Soun, Young In Hong, Hyojin Jeong, Gayoung Jun, Ingeun Kim, Juyeon Kim,Yeesookyung, Sujin Lee, Ghada Da. Secret Cinema: Sojung Jun, Ayoung Kim, Ingeun Kim(Red Carpet Spirit), Hyun Mi Yoo. [ana]  please keep your eyes closed for a...

A Burgeoning Collection

Date: Wednesday 16 Sep, 2015 - Saturday 03 Oct, 2015
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

This exhibition will present selected works of contemporary art and design from the Maraya Art Centre collection, including new acquisitions. It will include works by thirty artists and designers who are Emirati, UAE-based or from the wider Gulf area. The...

Art Index 1.0

Date: Monday 15 Jun, 2015 - Saturday 29 Aug, 2015
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Ammar Al Attar presents a series of fifty new portraits of artists and art world figures from across the U.A.E.The photographer travelled around the country to make portraits of artists, designers, curators, gallerists, collectors and writers in their studios and...

Accented

Date: Sunday 01 Mar, 2015 - Saturday 16 May, 2015
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre Third Floor (Gallery) & Maraya Art Park Al Majaz Waterfront Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Maraya Art Centre is pleased to invite you to ‘Accented’ exhibition curated by Sharjah-born critic Murtaza Vali. The exhibition’s theme originates in the...

Marwan: Topographies of the Soul

Date: Saturday 06 Dec, 2014 - Friday 06 Feb, 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Marwan Kassab Bachi, Syrian artist born in 1934, is well known for his unique depictions of human faces. In some instances they are well-articulated representations of individuals with distinct features, while at other times, individual traits are abstracted, turning faces...

Islamopolitan

Date: Wednesday 04 Jun, 2014 - Saturday 23 Aug, 2014
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

ISLAMOPOLITAN is an exhibition that highlights the universal topic and dialogue between Islam and design, not only from a decorative angle, but from a holistic perspective, this proposed exhibition will feature works by emerging and established UAE based, regional and...

Customs Made: Quotidian Practices and Everyday Rituals

Date: Wednesday 12 Mar, 2014 - Wednesday 14 May, 2014
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

CURATED BY: Livia Alexander and Nat Muller Devotional, personal, prescribed, subversive or self-invented, our everyday rituals breathe identity, belonging, community, and a sense of order into our daily lives. We practice them in public open areas, as well as in...

In the Absence of Script

Date: Saturday 25 Jan, 2014 - Wednesday 05 Mar, 2014
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

CURATED BY: Noor Al Suwaidi Throughout history mankind has found ways to express and document thought, mythology and beliefs through hieroglyphs and scripts. Script could be described as a phase in writing in which a sketch conveys the direct likeness...

Mohammed Kazem: RAW DATA

Date: Sunday 17 Nov, 2013 - Saturday 11 Jan, 2014
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Mohammed Kazem: RAW DATA (1999-2013) CURATED BY: Sara Raza Raw Data (1999-2013) is a site commissioned project of leading Emirati artist Mohammed Kazem at Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah. Kazem is renowned for producing highly conceptual works that map objects, architecture,...

The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric

Date: Wednesday 17 Jul, 2013 - Monday 30 Sep, 2013
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Sarah Al Abdali, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Sarah AbuAbdallah, Farhad Ahrarnia, Zeigam Azizov, Faycal Baghriche, Ala Ebtekar, Basmah Felemban, Fatima Al Qadiri & Alex Gvojic, Mobius Design Studio & Faysal Tabbarah, Hayv Kahraman, Nasir Nasrallah and Jamal Tayara-Baroudy The Beginning of Thinking...

Adel Abidin: Blueprint

Date: Monday 11 Mar, 2013 - Sunday 16 Jun, 2013
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre is proud to present the unique exhibition Blueprint by renowned Finnish-Iraqi artist Adel Abidin, curated by Sara Raza Maraya’s London based associate curator. Blueprint employs informal architecture and sound to create a large scale interactive drawing. Transforming...

Ayman Yossri Daydban: Change

Date: Monday 11 Mar, 2013 - Monday 10 Mar, 2014
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre, in collaboration with Athr Gallery is presenting a project from the ‘Subtitles’ series by artist Ayman Yossri Daydban as part of a public art project.The project will re-examine both the terms ‘public’ and ‘art’. The Pop Art...

Khalid Shafar: Naturally re-oriented

Date: Monday 11 Mar, 2013 - Thursday 31 Dec, 2015
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre commissioned a site specific project by Emirati furniture & objects designer Khalid Shafar. Shafar will intervene in the space transforming completely the perception of the venue and creating a sort of disorientation effect through an installation that...

Islamic art festival Horses of the desert

Date: Thursday 13 Dec, 2012 - Saturday 12 Jan, 2013
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre will be host to one of Qatar’s most influential artist as part of the 15th edition of the month long Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival. The exhibition, which will feature 37 artworks for the Artist Ali Hassan, including paintings...

The Present

Date: Thursday 18 Oct, 2012 - Wednesday 28 Nov, 2012
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre will be hosting an exhibition showcasing the work of 13 young Emirati artists and creative designers under the title ‘The Present, Contemporary Art From The Emirates’. Curated by eminent contemporary artist and UAE native Noor Al Suwaidi,...

A Most Precarious Relationship: Artists, Audiences and Interactive Art in the Emirates

Date: Wednesday 30 May, 2012 - Saturday 28 Jul, 2012
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

The two-month exhibition will highlight the works of four UAE-based artists. Emirati artists Maitha Al Jassim and Amna Al Zaabi, Saudi artist Ahmed Bouholaigah and Indian artist UBIK. The interactive art exhibition will feature four installations created by the UAE-based...

Migrasophia

Date: Wednesday 14 Mar, 2012 - Saturday 19 May, 2012
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 12:00 a.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Migrasophia, curated by the London-based independent curator and critic Sara Raza. Migrasophia is the first curatorial art exhibition to be staged in the entire UAE which explores contemporary art practices from the post-Soviet terrain of Central Asia, and its neighbouring...

Renditions

Date: Monday 21 Nov, 2011 - Sunday 18 Dec, 2011
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Maraya Art Centre is proud to present ‘Renditions’, A series of seven works that are an interpretation of the socio-political events that have unraveled in the Arab Region from 2003 onwards curated by Aida Eltorie. Displaying a transformation of natural...

Roaming Images

Date: Wednesday 22 Jun, 2011 - Saturday 06 Aug, 2011
Time: 12:00 a.m. - 11:59 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Through cultural exchange nations become closer, ideas become universal, and differences become understanding. Roaming Images is a nomadic forum that highlights the concept of image – as a universal vehicle that tells us the story of how we speak, how...

CAVE

Date: Tuesday 02 Nov, 2010 - Saturday 11 Dec, 2010
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Venue: Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Block (E), Third Floor (Maraya Art Gallery)

Investigating social movements within a regional collective, CAVE is an assortment of personal statements reiterated by ten exceptional artists from the Arab world.  Presented through short video expressions and accompanied by installations as well as printed projects, this contemporary “multimedia...