Lawrie Shabibi

Lawrie Shabibi Lawrie Shabibi is a contemporary art gallery based in a 3000 sq ft warehouse in Alserkal Avenue in Dubai's Al-Quoz industrial district.

Lawrie Shabibi was founded in 2011 by William Lawrie and Asmaa Al-Shabibi and represents both emerging and established artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. For directions please see http://www.lawrieshabibi.com/about-us/

We are pleased to present ‘Cross Scripts’, our summer show, bringing together creatives whose practices move fluidly bet...
03/06/2026

We are pleased to present ‘Cross Scripts’, our summer show, bringing together creatives whose practices move fluidly between categories, resisting the distinctions that have traditionally separated art, design, architecture, and craft.

Across painting, sculpture, furniture, jewellery and textiles, the exhibition traces a series of overlapping visual languages. Geometry becomes ornament. Utility becomes sculpture. Traditional techniques are reimagined through contemporary forms. Historical references, material traditions and systems of making are translated and reimagined, revealing unexpected connections between makers working across different generations and geographies.

Featuring Hamra Abbas, MODU Method by Omar Al Gurg, Farhad Ahrarnia, Sarah Almehairi, Kamrooz Aram, Bernhard Buhmann, Nada Debs, Areen Hassan, KAMEH, Bil Arabi by Nadine Kanso, Mehdi Moutashar, Timo Nasseri, Driss Ouadahi, and Ishmael Randall-Weeks, alongside works by Zein Daouk, Carlo Massoud, Mary-Lynn Massoud, and Rasha Nawam, presented by Iwan Maktabi.

Opening Reception
Saturday, 6 June, 2026
Time: 2 – 7 PM
Venue: Lawrie Shabibi, Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
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Eid Mubarak from all of us at Lawrie Shabibi Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous Eid filled with peace, reflection,...
27/05/2026

Eid Mubarak from all of us at Lawrie Shabibi Wishing you and your loved ones a joyous Eid filled with peace, reflection, and togetherness. May this special time bring warmth, generosity, and moments of quiet beauty into your days 🌙

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Artwork shown:
Marwan Bassiouni
‘New Swiss Views #18-1, Switzerland’, 2022
Pigment print on fine art paper mounted on Dibond
200 x 150 cm

‘Rogue Agents of History’ is Larissa Sansour’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands at the Wereldmuseum. The exhibit...
21/05/2026

‘Rogue Agents of History’ is Larissa Sansour’s first solo exhibition in the Netherlands at the Wereldmuseum.

The exhibition features three films: the premiere of ‘A Sunken Tale of Losses Delayed’, commissioned by Wereldmuseum, and the films ‘In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain’ and ‘Familiar Phantoms’. In addition, the presentation includes a range of Sansour’s artworks, as well as personal heirlooms, film props, and historical museum objects.

Pirates, ghosts, and guerrilla archaeologists play a central role in the exhibition. These “rogue agents” appropriate historical narratives, disrupt them, and imbue them with new meaning. Drawing on the Palestinian context, the exhibition explores universal themes such as identity, memory, belonging, loss, and the human drive for adventure.

‘Rogue Agents of History’ deliberately blurs the boundaries between eras, fact and fiction. The works span a broad spectrum of past, present, and future—from the Ottoman period and the ongoing Israeli occupation to imagined, bleak future scenarios.

‘Rogue Agents of History’ is currently on view at the Wereldmuseum, Netherlands until September 27, 2026.

Image credits: ‘Rogue Agents of History’, Wereld Museum, Installation View © Aad Hoogendoorn. Courtesy of Wereld Museum and the artist.
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Last day to catch us at Frieze New York! We are at booth D11 collaborating with P420 Gallery 🇮🇹🇦🇪
17/05/2026

Last day to catch us at Frieze New York!
We are at booth D11 collaborating with P420 Gallery 🇮🇹🇦🇪

16/05/2026

We’re open this Saturday, May 17 from 10 am – 6 pm. Make sure you drop by if you’re in the avenue!

Opening this weekend at Storm King Art Center as part of the ‘Outlook’ series, Saif Azzuz presents his first large-scale...
16/05/2026

Opening this weekend at Storm King Art Center as part of the ‘Outlook’ series, Saif Azzuz presents his first large-scale outdoor public art commission, ‘weych-pues / tàkhòne (where the rivers meet)’, 2026.

Taking the form of a monumental sturgeon constructed from steel, aluminum, salvaged car parts from the Hudson Valley, and natural materials gathered from the San Francisco Bay Area, the work emerged from Azzuz’s time as artist in residence at Storm King in 2024. An enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe, Azzuz draws upon Indigenous histories, ecological knowledge, and personal memory to reflect on the interconnectedness of land, water, and community.

Etched across the sculpture’s surface are drawings of native plants, Yurok motifs, and text created in collaboration with the artist’s family and Storm King staff. Strings of beads, steel, and abalone shells move with the wind, while reclaimed hardwood elements remain just beyond the viewer’s reach. Referencing both the Klamath River and Lenapehoking, the work connects ancestral geographies and shared histories of displacement, survival, and resistance.

For Azzuz, the sturgeon — an ancient and endangered species — becomes a symbol of Indigenous survivance, carrying stories of the land and reminding us of the profound interdependence between human and ecological well-being.

Image credits: Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins. Courtesy of the artist and Storm King Art Center.

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Join us at Booth C8 for the Special Edition of Art Dubai () on the occasion of the fair’s 20th Anniversary!Featured arti...
14/05/2026

Join us at Booth C8 for the Special Edition of Art Dubai () on the occasion of the fair’s 20th Anniversary!

Featured artists at the booth include Mona Saudi, Nabil Nahas, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Omar Al Gurg, Saif Azzuz, Farhad Ahrarnia, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, James Clar and Hamra Abbas.

We hope to see you there!

Art Dubai 2026
📌 Booth C8
🗓️ 14 – 17 May, 2026
📍Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

Images are courtesy of the artists and Lawrie Shabibi

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11/05/2026

We are pleased to announce our participation in Art Dubai 2026 at Booth C8, on view from 14–17 May 2026!

For our presentation we bring together a diverse group of artists including Mona Saudi, Nabil Nahas, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Saif Azzuz, Omar Al Gurg, Farhad Ahrarnia, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, James Clar and Hamra Abbas.

Working across sculpture, painting, installation, photography, and works on paper, the artists engage with natural landscapes, geological forms, organic structures, and built environments through practices rooted in material exploration and processes of transformation.

We hope to see you there!

Art Dubai 2026
📌 Booth C8
🗓️ 14 – 17 May, 2026
📍Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

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Now on view! ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’ by Nabil Nahas unfolds as a monumental new installation at the Lebanese Pavilion ( ) ...
07/05/2026

Now on view! ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’ by Nabil Nahas unfolds as a monumental new installation at the Lebanese Pavilion ( ) at the 61st edition of the Venice Biennale.

Bringing together the distinct strands of his work, Nahas unites his practice of painting parallel series into a single, expansive vision. His celebrated tree portraits, powerful symbols of the Lebanese landscape, merge with his intricate fractal compositions, which reflect shifting scales of cosmological and quantum phenomena. Reflecting Lebanon’s fluid and multicultural identity, the Pavilion becomes an ode to unity within diversity and the beauty of contradiction, an enduring concern in Nahas’s decades-long artistic journey between Lebanon and the United States.

Spanning forty-five metres within the Arsenale, the installation consists of twenty six acrylic on canvas panels, each rising three metres high. Arranged side by side, they form an enveloping frieze that invites viewers to move within it. Drawing on the visual language of Persian miniature painting, the work resists linear narrative and fixed interpretation, proposing instead an experience that unfolds through presence and perception.

This installation marks the culmination of Nahas’s sustained exploration of parallel series, uniting his symbolic tree paintings and his cosmic abstractions on an unprecedented scale.

‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’ by Nabil Nahas is now on view at the Lebanese Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia, from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

Image credits:
1. ‘Don’t Get Me Wrong’, Nabil Nahas - Installation view. Pavilion of Lebanon at La Biennale Arte 2026. Courtesy of the Artist & LVAA - Photo by Celestia Studio ©️ LVAA

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01/05/2026

We are pleased to announce our participation in Frieze New York 2026, Booth D11, 13 – 17 May 2026, where we bring together artists working across diverse cultural contexts and artistic disciplines, including Nabil Nahas, Hamra Abbas and Nada Elkalaawy.

Our presentation includes several works spanning painting and material processes. These are presented in dialogue with marble inlay works by Hamra Abbas and textural paintings by Nabil Nahas, alongside figurative compositions by Nada Elkalaawy that engage with layered surfaces and the fragmentation of memory.

We hope to see you there!

Frieze New York
📌 Booth D11
🗓️ 13 – 17 May, 2026
📍The Shed, New York
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Dubai

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Monday 10:00 - 18:00
Tuesday 10:00 - 18:00
Wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
Thursday 10:00 - 18:00
Friday 10:00 - 18:00
Saturday 11:00 - 18:00
Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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