Ali Kazim and Zarina Beckon Us Into Their Urdu Worlds

The UAE’s inaugural exhibition dedicated to the Urdu language, curated by Hammad Nasar

Ahmed Emad and the Path of Desire

A desire path is an unofficial route formed when people choose the shortest, most instinctive way between two points, favouring lived experience over prescribed design. It is a path made by repetition, conviction, and quiet resistance. Based between Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, Ahmed Emad’s journey follows a similar logic. A Civil and Environmental Engineering graduate, former museum educator at Louvre Abu Dhabi, he is currently the Public Programming Specialist at the highly anticipated Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Please Mind the Gap: Amine Habki’s Tender Epics of Desire

Paris-based artist Amine Habki works between painting, drawing, and embroidery, building scenes where ordinary moments slip into something surreal, and quietly charged

Bad Boys and Big Feelings: Abdulaziz Al-Hosni Toys with the Anatomy of the Heart

From heart-embroidered kummahs to 50 dancers arranged in formation against a crimson background, Abdulaziz Al-Hosni’s work is a love letter to softness

What Fashion Brands Brought to Milan Design Week 2026

Baskets, trunks, tomato chairs, and woven light

Salasil: Practitioners of Care and Experimentation

The UAE-based curatorial duo favours slowness, depth and imagination, resisting extractive cultural models and spectacle-driven sameness of today’s institutions. Studio salasil responds to the shifting contours of the world, forging encounters where care grounds the work and experimentation keeps it breathing