Exhibitions

In our Bones

Fariba Boroufar 31 October - 7 December 2024 Gallery Isabelle is delighted to present In our Bones, Fariba Boroufar’s first solo exhibition in the UAE, from October 31st until December 7th, 2024. Boroufar’s embrace of weaving—atavistic as it may appear—alongside her representation of architectural forms and traditions on the verge of extinction, offers a poetical portrait of our... Read more

I wish to be Happy, I want to be Yellow

Group Show 10 September - 26 October 2024 Gallery Isabelle is delighted to present the exhibition I Wish To Be Happy, I Want To Be Yellow, curated by Jad Karam. This show brings together an eclectic group of artists, Mohammad Alfaraj, Aminah Al huqail, Dalia Baassiri, Richi Bhatia, Jumairy, Tamara Kalo, Adrian Pepe, and Alia Zaal, who cultivate... Read more

Allegorical Ruins

RAED YASSIN 7 May - 31 July 2024 Gallery Isabelle is pleased to announce Allegorical Ruins, a journey through time and memory by Lebanese artist Raed Yassin running from May 7th to June 27th, 2024. Drawing inspiration from the profound words of French theorist Roland Barthes in Camera Lucida (1980), Yassin invites viewers to ponder the haunting essence... Read more

Rest

MOHAMMED KAZEM AND VIKRAM DIVECHA 27 February - 15 April 2024 Rest delves into the intricate relationship between labour, rest, and the ever-evolving urban landscape of the UAE. Considering the dynamics of human existence, alternating between cycles of depletion and restoration, the exhibition highlights the vital role of rest in the perpetual movement of cities. Driven by the forces of capitalism,... Read more

DISJUNCTIONS

LUBNA CHOWDHARY 14 November 2023 - 16 February 2024 Disjunctions, a solo exhibition by Lubna Chowdhary, foregrounds the artist’s distinctive breed of disruption—of material, of tradition, of expectations. While clay and ceramics constitute her principal pursuit, she subverts the expectations of this medium by exploring tensions between the handmade and the industrial, the domestic and the urban, ornamentation and... Read more

El Dorado

Vikram Divecha 8 March - 1 May 2022 In December 2017, Divecha chanced upon a projectionist’s block calendar diary among the refuse of the recently decommissioned El Dorado Cinema in Abu Dhabi. First opened in the 1990s on the capital’s El ectra Street, the El Dorado in its later years catered to South Asian audiences. From the banal... Read more

184 Nails

Hassan Sharif 12 January - 26 February 2022 Curated by Vikram Divecha 184 Nails is a non-static exhibition featuring works that will be replaced at the end of every week. Twenty-one works selected from Hassan Sharif’s ‘Semi-Systems’ series will be rotated across the gallery walls at least twice during the seven-week exhibition run. Works not exhibited will be... Read more

The Eternal Return of The Same

Manal AlDowayan 5 October - 23 December 2021 Manal AlDowayan's first solo exhibition at the gallery includes mixed media sculptural works inspired by the intricate form and occurrence of the desert rose. AlDowayan’s practice reimagines the body’s renegotiation with space, here she considers women’s new freedoms in daily life and society in Saudi Arabia. Grappling with these unreconciled... Read more

I AM HERE

Manal AlDowayan 22 - 25 September 2021 Manal AlDowayan's participatory art work inspired by “instruction art' I Am Here invited the gallery visitors to stencil the words 'I am here' as part of a running print. By stenciling over others’ own declarations of presence, the visitor is at once eraser and erased: her individualism disappears. Emblematic of... Read more

THE ETERNAL RETURN OF THE SAME

MANAL ALDOWAYAN | CROMWELL PLACE 2 - 9 June 2021 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan’s first solo exhibition in London entitled The Eternal Return of the Same from 2 to 9 June at Cromwell Place. The exhibition introduces some of the key works that will be part of the artist’s solo show... Read more

OUT OF PLACE

VIKRAM DIVECHA, MOHAMMED KAZEM, :mentalKLINIK, HALEH REDJAIAN, Hassan Sharif and Raed Yassin 22 March - 24 July 2021 A group show featuring works by Vikram Divecha , Mohammed Kazem , :mentalKLINIK , Haleh Redjaian , Hassan Sharif , and Raed Yassin , Out of Place examines our place in an ever-shifting world, suggesting that we can be out of place in space in much the same way we... Read more

Between Bodies

Hoda Tawakol 21 November 2020 - 14 March 2021 Death has never been more alive. Rising tolls seep into our daily newsfeeds; images of the deceased pile up in worldwide media; and mortality rates are on (nearly) every global leader’s lips. For her second solo show at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Hoda Tawakol fathoms death less as an... Read more

WHITE LEAVES ONE AND TWO ON THEIR PLACE

Haleh Redjaian 30 September - 15 November 2020 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present an exhibition by Haleh Redjaian, White Leaves One and Two on Their Place. This is the artist’s third solo exhibition with the gallery, and features works on paper, woven textiles, and a new series of experimentations based on pattern singing. Redjaian... Read more

Infinite Angles

Mohammed Kazem 23 March - 17 September 2020 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce its exhibition of Mohammed Kazem: Infinite Angles. The exhibition features new works on paper, paintings and readymade, which continue Kazem’s exploration of materiality and the visualization of light and sound. The artworks on view are imprints and records of both material... Read more

Towards Opacity

Vikram Divecha 14 January - 14 March 2020 It takes approximately ten minutes for the photoreceptive cone cells in the eye to adapt to the dark. This is roughly the running time of the looping audio narration in Divecha’s Gallery 354 (2019), the immersive installation that sets the central premise to Vikram Divecha’s solo-exhibition Towards Opacity. We... Read more

Vetera Novis Augere

Latif Al Ani 18 November - 28 December 2019 With the title Vetera Novis Augere - ‘augment the old with the new’ - Latif Al Ani’s exhibition interrogates the complex relationship between past and present. It also inaugurates a transmission process from older to younger generations, revealing a past and visual imagery mostly unknown to Iraqis themselves. Through the... Read more

WE ARE OPEN FOR INSTALLATION

RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN 15 May - 9 November 2019 From 15 May to 9 November, Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is ceasing to operate as an art gallery, in an attempt to unsettle the dictatorial art system and to reconnect with the fundamental process of art making. In its place, further to the gallery's invitation to Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni... Read more

Blue

Hassan Sharif 18 March - 9 May 2019 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present Blue, Hassan Sharif’s third solo show at the gallery, focusing on the late artist’s highly individualistic approach to colour. Spanning multiple bodies of work—paintings, Objects, Boxes, Experiments and even Semi-System-like pieces—Blue reveals how Sharif’s almost irreverent engagement with colour exemplifies his... Read more

Don't worry, spiders, i keep house casually

Hesam Rahmanian 14 January - 9 March 2019 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present  Don’t Worry Spiders, I Keep House Casually, the second solo exhibition of Dubai-based artist Hesam Rahmanian. The exhibition consists of assemblages, sculptural objects, and groupings such as “deadlines” and “corner works,” paintings that have taken on spatial, architectural form.  ... Read more

When the Dates Turn Red

Hoda Tawakol 12 November 2018 - 3 January 2019 For her first exhibition at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde entitled When the Dates Turn Red, Franco-Egyptian artist Hoda Tawakol researched traditional ritual practices and imagery associated with those pivotal, transitional and transformative moments in a woman’s ‘cycle of life’. Born in London, Tawakol’s French, German and Egyptian upbringing is... Read more

A PRIME ACTIVITY

Mohammed Kazem 17 September - 1 November 2018 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to announce Mohammed Kazem’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, which focuses on his paintings – a relatively unknown aspect of his practice. Kazem has been painting since his late teens and early 20s, went on to win the first prize in painting... Read more

I WILL BUILD A TALL CITY INTERCONNECTED BY CUL-DE-SACS

Nargess Hashemi 12 May - 26 July 2018 In a futuristic geometrical urban space filled with soft colourful crochet interiors, Nargess Hashemi feels her way through our living spaces for her fourth solo show at the gallery, entitled I will build a tall city interconnected by cul-de-sacs. Two collection of works come together in this exhibition, encompassing... Read more

INHABITING THE GRID

19 March - 3 May 2018 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian's second solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled Inhabiting the Grid. In 'Grids,' art critic Rosalind Krauss' authoritative essay on the subject, she dogmatically positions the grid as the modernist tool par excellence, a formal structure that... Read more

(UN)CONSCIOUS : A SERIES OF SMALL SERENDIPITIES

GROUP SHOW 20 January 2018 - 3 March 2019 Abdelkader Benchamma Vikram Divecha Mohammed Kazem Ahmad Amin Nazar Hassan Sharif Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present (Un)conscious: A series of small serendipities, a group exhibition in which five artists Abdelkader Benchamma, Vikram Divecha, Mohammed Kazem, Ahmad Amin Nazar and Hassan Sharif apprehend the irreconcilable dichotomy of... Read more

Truish

:mentalKLINIK 7 November - 30 December 2017 'How can art lie when the reality is not true enough,' - :mentalKLINIK We are pleased to announce artist duo :mentalKLINIK's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Truish not only presents an ambiguous scenario, but also asks a pertinent question: What is the truth? How does one gauge the... Read more

TO BE OR NOT TO BE, THAT IS THE QUESTION. AND THOUGH, IT TROUBLES THE DIGESTION

Ramin Haerizadeh 13 September - 2 November 2017 Spanning almost 20 years, Ramin Haerizadeh's work is a rare and ambitious feat of the human spirit, carried by the 40-year-old multidisciplinary artist in an endlessly renewable source of vitalist energy and creation, a constant force of mutation and subversion. His everyday activities guide the way to his work. According... Read more

GOOD PRINTING

Group Show 22 May - 19 August 2017 Drawing on the group show Nice Drawing (2015), Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde presents Good Printing, a second iteration of a series of exhibitions that don't need to emerge from a clever title or overarching concept, but rather presents works by 10 artists that have a quirky and humorous approach... Read more

MINOR WORK

Vikram Divecha 9 March - 11 May 2017 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present Vikram Divecha's works in a solo exhibition Minor Work, curated by Murtaza Vali. Over the last few years, Vikram Divecha has realised a series of ambitiously scaled and publically sited projects across the United Arab Emirates, each realised through an engagement... Read more

RECEIVING AND COLLECTING

Mohammed Kazem 9 January - 23 February 2017 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present new work by Mohammed Kazem in a solo exhibition entitled Receiving and Collecting. Throughout his practice, Mohammed Kazem has tried to capture the un-capturable. From his own body and the objects of his quotidian to nature itself, Kazem senses what is... Read more

A FEELING IN PERSPECTIVE

Raed Yassin 14 November - 22 December 2016 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present the work of Lebanese artist Raed Yassin in a solo exhibition entitled A Feeling in Perspective. Yassin's work is centred on producing moments of interaction and reflection through consumer culture and mass media. For this show, the artist reconstitutes his personal... Read more

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS: RESHAPED

GROUP SHOW 18 September - 3 November 2016 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Vikram Divecha Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Nargess Hashemi Zahra Imani Aisha Khalid Hesam Rahmanian Sara Rahmanian The strategy informing the 'reshape' of Domestic Affairs (a group show that started on 22 June) is to ease the sometimes-limiting process of planning an exhibition and instead focus on an... Read more

DOMESTIC AFFAIRS

Group Show 22 June - 8 September 2016 Khalid Al Banna Nargess Hashemi Zahra Imani Aisha Khalid Sara Rahmanian Stories told, untold, aspects of daily life, personal and collected memories, and the ever changing urban landscapes inform Domestic Affairs, featuring works by Emirati artist Khalid Al Banna, Pakistani artist Aisha Khalid, and Iranian artists Nargess Hashemi, Zahra Imani... Read more

THE UNBEARABLE LIKENESS

ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA 14 March - 5 May 2016 Curated by Yasmina Reggad For his second solo show at the gallery, French-Algerian artist Abdelkader Benchamma presents works on paper and sculptural installations, which use the gallery space as a stage to develop new demonstrations and theories. While Benchamma's Blue Beam Project from his 2013 show at the gallery meticulously... Read more

WHITE CUBE...LITERALLY

Group Show 18 January - 3 March 2016 There is a possibility that White Cube… Literally is the result of a simple curatorial exercise that consists of gathering artworks around a common form (the cube) and colour (white) – an anthology of white cubes in an immaculate white cube gallery located within a hub of white cube spaces... Read more

IN-BETWEEN SPACES

Haleh Redjaian 14 September - 5 November 2015 'All science rests upon mathematics, and mathematics is first and last, geometry... Geometry is the ultimate fact we have won out of a puzzling universe' Carl Lundy German-Iranian artist Haleh Redjaian (b. 1971, Frankfurt) makes use of the universal language of abstraction to draw upon the human tendency of overlaying... Read more

Images

Hassan Sharif 5 March - 15 April 2015 Every few weeks, Hassan Sharif takes a taxi to the city limits of Dubai. He is dropped off alone and walks out a little way into the desert. For about half an hour, he talks to the desert about politics or art history. Afterwards, he walks back to the road,... Read more

Nice Drawings

GROUP SHOW 13 January - 19 February 2015 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde felt there was no need to staple a clever title onto this show of 11 artists, because Nice Drawings came about via a simple request for some of the gallery's friends and collaborators to send over a new drawing: Nesa Azadikhah Niyaz Azadikhah Abdelkader Benchamma... Read more

SOUND OF OBJECTS

Mohammed Kazem 3 November 2014 - 4 January 2015 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present Sound of Objects, Mohammed Kazem's first solo exhibition following his participation in the 55th Venice Biennale. In the wake of Walking On Water, Kazem's expansive, immersive installation in Venice, Sound of Objects sets out to show a side of his practice... Read more

REARRANGED: SELECTED WORKS FROM 1998 TO 2014

Bita Fayyazi 16 September - 23 October 2014 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is pleased to present Rearranged: Selected Works from 1998 to 2014, a survey show and reinterpretation of the career of Bita Fayyazi, conceived by Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh. Rather than regard Fayyazi as a sculptor, installation artist or ceramicist, engaged in some mystic relationship with... Read more

Thank You For Your Cooperation

:mentalKLINIK 27 May - 28 July 2014 :mentalKLINIK play with colorful reflective surfaces, billboard type signs and rhetorical operations to explore new languages and alternative textures of pleasure. By drawing on these elements as the subject and medium of their work, the duo appears to collaborate with the capitalist project they seek to challenge. This exhibition presents... Read more

THE EXQUISITE CORPSE SHALL DRINK THE NEW WINE

RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN 18 March - 18 May 2014 As visitors enter the gallery and step onto a lavishly painted floor they become part of a production set in motion by artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. Without wall texts or guides it soon becomes apparent that sensation and experience is the overriding intent here and that... Read more

THE PLEASURE OF BOREDOM

Nargess Hasehmi 12 January - 27 February 2014 'Where artistic conventions are grounded in strict discipline and the application of rigid formulas, the practice of art will exclude any relaxation of standards. It is only when these standards are deliberately loosened that artistic practice becomes permeable to that free play of pen we call doodling.' E. H Gombrich... Read more

APPROACHING ENTROPY

Hassan Sharif 18 November 2013 - 2 January 2014 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present the work of Emirati artist Hassan Sharif in a solo exhibition entitled Approaching Entropy. Hassan Sharif (b.1951, United Arab Emirates) came of age during a formative period in the history of the United Arab Emirates. As he matured as an artist... Read more

CHROMOPHOBIA

ABDELKADER BENCHAMMa 19 June 2013 - 28 July 2019 In the works of Jessica Mein and Abdelkader Benchamma, colour and form endeavor to organize reality, but can only accomplish their work by capitalizing on the attractive force that images have on the human psyche. For David Batchelor, author of Chromophobia, colour can possess the capacity to affect perception and... Read more

POETICS AND MEANINGS

FRED EERDEKENS AND MOHAMMED KAZEM 8 May - 8 June 2013 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde presents an exhibition featuring Mohammed Kazem and Fred Eerdekens. In the works on view each artist holds the material and the ephemeral in a tight dialectic to elicit alternative modes of seeing. Mohammed Kazem creates tangible interpretations of immaterial forces and social experiences that interpret... Read more

NOW THE DOVE AND THE LEOPARD WRESTLE AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON

Hesam Rahmanian 14 January - 28 February 2013 Hesam Rahmanian's new explorations in collage revitalize leftover scraps of dried acrylic from his palettes and paint pots. His diptychs and triptychs similarly vivify the improbable by uniting disembodied or headless animals with miscellaneous objects. The resulting hybrids, such as pliers chirping from a crow's body, appear animate despite being... Read more

Salto

Ahmad Amin Nazar 10 December 2012 - 10 January 2013 This exhibition represents a novel direction for painter Ahmad Amin Nazar. In his new body of works, executed on large format paper, Amin Nazar moves away from recurring myths, heroes, divs and demonic theatrics that have often inhabited his paintings to date. Bold rapid brushstrokes dash off with power, urgency... Read more

CORRUPTED THEORIES

ABDELKADER BENCHAMMA 22 May - 15 July 2012 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present the first solo show of artist Abdelkader Benchamma in the Middle East. In this exhibition, a series of sculptures and works on paper showcase Benchamma's quintessential approach, in which he imposes restrictions and constraints to create delicately executed drawings of states... Read more

I PUT IT THERE YOU NAME IT

RAMIN HAERIZADEH, ROKNI HAERIZADEH, HESAM RAHMANIAN 17 March - 3 May 2012 We can seek to forget, to bury, to shed We can seek to remember, repeat, record Beside the knowledge of bleak truths and ugly deeds done, we carry within us our loves and obsessions. We are lined with our individual accumulations. We can paint the white walls around us... Read more

OBSCURE STREAM OF LIFE, BUT I’M STILL HAVING MY AFTERNOON CUPPA

Bita Fayyazi 25 October - 1 December 2011 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde is proud to present Obscure Stream of Life, But I'm Still Having My Afternoon Cuppa by Bita Fayyazi from October 25 to December 01, an exhibition of new works continuing the Dubai gallery's long-running association with the Iranian sculptor and installation artist. For her new... Read more

NARGESS HASHEMI - NEW WORKS

NARGESS HASHEMI 10 July - 15 September 2011 Beyond aesthetic kitsch, the works of Nargess Hashemi offera vision of acynical part of Iranian society, mired in the comfortof tradition. On large rectangular panels covered with lavishly fabric - richly embroidered or sewn sequins, Nargess Hashemi has set a transparent plastic sheet on which appears an interior scene drawn... Read more

I'LL HUFF AND I'LL PUFF

Ramin Haerizadeh 15 March - 16 April 2010 Iranian artist Ramin Haerizadeh tears apart the symbols around us and rearranges them to draw out darker, submerged and subtly humorous truths. Since his solo show in 2008 at GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE (prev. B21), and his appearance in Charles Saatchi's Unveiled: New Art from the Middle East and... Read more

THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD

Ahmad Amin Nazar 10 February - 11 March 2010 In his first exhibition in Dubai, Ahmad Amin Nazar presents a collection of kinetic paintings that evoke a tradition in chaos. A master of line and form, the artist taught private drawing classes to a new generation of Iranian artists in the early '90s, with Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh as... Read more

WRAP ME UP IN YOU

Nargess Hashemi 12 January - 4 February 2010 An exhibition supported by Ruinart Family gatherings can be isolating experiences. They can remind us how dissimilar we are from our families, and often leave us feeling that they inhabit a world quite different from our own. In her second solo show in Dubai, Iranian artist Nargess Hashemi explores the... Read more

Today's Woman

Ramin Haerizadeh 15 December - 15 January 2009 Ramin Haerizadeh's latest work tenaciously brings new life to familiar forms. With tremendous humour and a deft hand he has composed a new paradigm for artistic introspection with his elusively beautiful macro-scale self-portraits. In each of the three series presented - Theater Group, Men of Allah and Today's Woman, clear... Read more

OH VICTORY! YOU FORGOT YOUR UNDERWEAR

Rokni Haerizadeh 16 November 2009 - 7 January 2010 The paintings of Rokni Haerizadeh read like novels. Reflections on society are moulded around scenes that have a literary depth and complexity. Like a writer, Rokni enters the minds of his characters - his style shifting between paintings to reflect the atmosphere of the situation he is portraying. As this... Read more

Stories from the Boudoir

Nargess Hashemi 10 September - 9 October 2008 An exhibition supported by Audi Art Experience and Ruinart. To start the season, B21 is proud to host the first solo show of Iranian painter Nargess Hashemi. Twenty nine year old Nargess Hashemi obtained her MA in painting at the renowned AZAD University in her hometown of Tehran. Her works... Read more

The Donkey, The Pagan, The Bride

Rokni Haerizadeh 16 March - 10 April 2008 Rokni Haerizadeh paints with an extraordinary ability to immerse himself in the past - in myth and memory, literature and lore, whilst remaining firmly rooted in the popular culture and urban rhythm of the present. Born in Tehran in 1978, Haerizadeh has grown up with the Islamic Republic, and is... Read more