Exhibitions

Rachid Koraïchi

An Ode to Intertwined Histories February 27 - May 25, 2024 Dubai In an ode to Elmarsa Gallery’s longstanding collaboration with Artist Rachid Koraïchi, we would like to revisit a collection of his work. The exhibition will encompass a breadth of disciplines that Koraïchi has enmeshed into his practice, seeking to showcase his abiding fascination with the creation of deeply layered seams.... Read more

On The Roster

Highlighting Elmarsa Gallery's Represented Artists January 25 - February 20, 2024 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery takes great pleasure in announcing the forthcoming exhibition titled 'On the Roster', which serves as a comprehensive exploration of the artistic endeavors undertaken by the gallery's esteemed cadre of represented artists. The exhibition will be on view from the 25th of January to the 20th of February, 2024... Read more

Reviewing Landscape

A Group Exhibition November 20, 2023 - January 15, 2024 Dubai The story of landscape painting is one of slow development, into distinct styles throughout time, with some of its iterations culminating out of antiquity and into the formation of classic and historic landscape. Spawning new ways of portraying geography through paths previously carved out by orientalist predecessors, painters versed in impressionist and expressionist practices expanded their milieu of carefully observing nature.
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Brushstrokes & Perspectives

A Journey Through Interconnected Passages of Non-Figurative Art September 6 - November 14, 2023 Dubai This exhibition brings together both modern and contemporary artists whose practices were deeply influenced by the corporeality of painting techniques present in Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, and Kinetic art, fearlessly rejecting representation within the context of their cultures. Read more

A Perfect World

Aly Ben Salem February 28 - July 30, 2023 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is delighted to present A Perfect World, the first solo exhibition by leading Tunisian modernist Aly Ben Salem (1910-2001) at Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai. Read more

Wisdom of The Crowd

Abderrazak Sahli November 14, 2022 - January 28, 2023 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is very pleased to present a selection of unique works by Abderrazak Sahli (1941 – 2009), one of the most prominent Tunisian abstract painters of the 20th century. Read more

JAFR. The Alchemy of Signs

Nja Mahdaoui March 8 - May 9, 2022 Dubai This exhibition marks 15 years of collaboration between Nja Mahdaoui and Elmarsa Gallery, both in Tunis and Dubai, presenting his third solo show, after Trance in Dubai (2016) and Awj - a retrospective exhibition of his works from 1966 to 2018 - in Tunis (2018). Read more

Algerian Modernism

November 15, 2021 - February 25, 2022 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to stage a group exhibition of Algerian painters considered as pioneers in the advent of Modernism. Abdelkader Guermaz (1919-1996), M'hamed Issiakhem (1928-1985), Mohammed Khadda (1930-1991), Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998) and Abdallah Benanteur (1931- 2017) Mahjoub Ben Bella (1946-2020) Rachid Koraichi (b. 1947) Read more

Horizons

Asma M'Naouar March 22 - October 27, 2021 Dubai Horizons expands on Asma M’Naouar’s career-long investigation into abstraction through movement, materiality and emotion. Read more

A Tunisian Story

January 20 - February 27, 2021 Dubai Read more

Art on Paper

July 18, 2020 - January 11, 2021 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present Art on Paper, showcasing a broad range of modern and contemporary art from the gallery’s collection, in which the use of paper as a surface is the primary consideration Read more

Nuances of Black and White

January 20 - June 11, 2020 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery in Dubai is pleased to present Nuances of black and white, an exhibition presenting a group of artists using black and white and the nuanced shades in between. Read more

النتيكا The rustling of the stone

Atef Maatallah November 18, 2019 - January 10, 2020 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present النتيكا The rustling of the stone, Atef Maatallah’s first solo exhibition in Dubai, opening on Monday 18 Novembre 2019 Read more

Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998)

March 18 - June 15, 2019 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery in Dubai is pleased to present the exhibition of the work of self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine known as Baya. On view from March 18 through June 15, 2019 at Alserkal Avenue, Read more

L’Ecole de Tunis: an introduction

November 12, 2018 - January 12, 2019 Dubai Elmarsa is pleased to present L’Ecole de Tunis: an introduction, a group exhibition of the most influential artists in Tunisian early history. Read more

Unknown program

Ali Tnani March 19 - April 26, 2018 Dubai There are informational tombs, lost in the cyberspace. Ghosts that materialize in traces. It is precisely this spectral trace around which Ali Tnani's exhibition Unknown program gravitates. Read more

Heretic Spaces

Thameur Mejri September 13 - November 24, 2017 Dubai Elmarsa is very pleased to present Heretic Spaces, the first solo exhibition in the UAE by emerging artist Thameur Mejri, from September 13th to October 19th 2017 at their gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more

Ya Latif

Khaled Ben Slimane May 15 - June 30, 2017 Dubai Elmarsa is very pleased to present Ya Latif, the first solo exhibition by Tunisian painter, sculptor, and ceramist Khaled Ben Slimane in the UAE, from March 9th to April 8th 2017 at their gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more

Tolerance and Peace

Abderrazak Sahli November 13 - December 24, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa is pleased to present the work of Abderrazak Sahli (1941-2009), one of the most important Tunisian abstract painters of the 20th century. Read more

Yesterday is Tomorrow's Memory

A group show of works from North Africa May 16 - July 30, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa Dubai presents a group exhibition of key works by major artists who have played an important role in the history of modern and contemporary Arab art from the Maghreb. Read more

Trance

Nja Mahdaoui March 14 - April 30, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa gallery is proud to present the exhibition Trance by Tunisian artist Nja Mahdaoui at its new gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more