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XVA Gallery Since the 2003 inauguration, heritage and history have merged to create a constantly evolving designer haven called the XVA Art Gallery.

The gallery is located in the heart of the Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood, the oldest community in Dubai. Established in 2003, XVA is one of the leading galleries in the Middle East that specializes in contemporary art from the Arab world, Iran and the Subcontinent. Exhibitions focus on works by the regions foremost artists as well as those emerging onto the scene. The gallery’s artists express their different cultural identities and perspectives while challenging the viewer to drop prejudices and borders. XVA Gallery exhibits both locally and internationally; collaborating with galleries and participating in international art fairs, such as Art Basel Hong Kong, SH Contemporary, Singapore Art Fair and Abu Dhabi Art in 2014, in order to further expose Middle Eastern contemporary art. XVA Gallery and XVA Art Hotel are located in Dubai’s heritage district, now called Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood. XVA founded and organized the Bastakiya Art Fair from 2007- 2010 as part of its commitment to raising the profile of contemporary art practice in Dubai. For three years XVA was located in DIFC, and has now expanded itself in Al Fahidi.

Two experiences, one evening at XVA.Join us on Saturday, 24 October, for an afternoon of contemporary artfollowed by an ...
14/10/2026

Two experiences, one evening at XVA.

Join us on Saturday, 24 October, for an afternoon of contemporary art
followed by an evening of food, culture and connection.

SYNCHRONICITY
Charlie Koolhaas
Exhibition opening: 3–6pm
24 October – 12 November 2026

XVA x Five Spice Supper Club: ROUTES & ROOTS
An eight-course Chinese dinner exploring cultural heritage, regional
ingredients and the traditions of the Chinese home table.
Doors open: 6pm · Dinner served: 6:30pm
AED 439 + VAT

Book your place via the link in our bio.



Pictured:
Charlie Koolhaas, KOOL, 2026. © Charlie Koolhaas. Courtesy of the
artist and XVA Gallery.
XVA x Five Spice Supper Club event.
XVA Courtyard.

ROUTES & ROOTS | Five Spice x XVAAs the second act of Charlie Koolhaas’ Synchronicity exhibition opening, Five Spice pre...
11/10/2026

ROUTES & ROOTS | Five Spice x XVA

As the second act of Charlie Koolhaas’ Synchronicity exhibition opening, Five Spice presents an immersive eight-course Chinese dinner in the XVA courtyard.

Through shared plates and authentic Chinese flavours, we travel back in time to explore cultural fluidity and hybridity through food, tracing how regional ingredients took root to shape the Chinese home table.

Saturday, 24 October 2026 | 6:30 pm
XVA, Al Fahidi, Dubai

Limited places available. Reserve your place via the link in bio.

SYNCHRONICITY | Charlie KoolhaasXVA Gallery is pleased to present Synchronicity, an exhibition bringing together three i...
11/10/2026

SYNCHRONICITY | Charlie Koolhaas

XVA Gallery is pleased to present Synchronicity, an exhibition bringing together three interconnected bodies of work by Charlie Koolhaas across photography, sculpture and painting.

Exploring the unexpected relationships between seemingly disconnected things, Koolhaas finds humour, beauty and meaning in the overlooked details of everyday life. Across each medium, coincidence becomes composition, revealing the extraordinary within the ordinary.

Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, 24 October, from 3–6 pm.

Exhibition: 24 October – 12 November 2026
XVA Gallery, Al Fahidi, Dubai

Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, now showing at XVA Gallery. 🕷️Morteza ZahediUntitled 5, 2011Cast bronze50 x 50 x...
19/08/2026

Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man, now showing at XVA Gallery. 🕷️

Morteza Zahedi
Untitled 5, 2011
Cast bronze
50 x 50 x 50 cm
Edition 4/5

OBLIVION | Summer ExhibitionTo forget is not only to lose. Oblivion explores forgetting as an act of transformation, mak...
09/08/2026

OBLIVION | Summer Exhibition

To forget is not only to lose. Oblivion explores forgetting as an act of transformation, making room for new meanings, forms, and possibilities.

Bringing together works across painting, sculpture, textile, and mixed media, the exhibition looks at how familiar objects and images can be released from their original purpose and take on new identities.

What remains is not absence, but possibility.

On view at XVA Gallery until 15 August 2026.

28/07/2026

Forgetting, in this light, is less erasure than editing: a structural condition of how identity stays alive, how history keeps moving, how images and objects find new use once their first purpose has passed. What remains in these works is not absence but possibility, gesture freed from context, object freed from owner, form open to whatever meaning arrives next.

Featuring:
Halim Al Karim, Basem Al Sayer, Jane Beveridge, Debjani Bhardwaj, Ale Dehghan, Nada Debs, Noel Duigan, Brian Gonzales, Mahmoud Hamadani, Halona Hilbertz, Sehr Karim, Charlie Koolhaas, Behdad Lahooti, Colleen Quigley, Mukesh Shah, Yoshihiko Tsusumi, and Morteza Zahedi.

28/07/2026

Working across metal, textile, found and fabricated materials, the artists in this exhibition ask what becomes possible once memory stops holding on so tightly. Domestic and bodily objects are freed from their original function, made strange, playful, ornamental, evidence not of loss but of renewal, of a self continually remaking itself. Nothing here mourns the past. It repurposes it.

Part 2 of 3

28/07/2026

O B L I V I O N


28 July to 15 August 2026
XVA Gallery

To forget is not only to lose. Oblivion is also where the mind makes room, clearing space for what matters now, letting go of what no longer serves. The works gathered here treat forgetting as a generative act: a hairbrush, an armchair, each object caught mid-transformation, shedding one meaning to make way for another.

Part 1 of 3

The exhibition continues.After The Image, Charlie Koolhaas’ solo exhibition at XVA Gallery, has been extended through 24...
18/07/2026

The exhibition continues.

After The Image, Charlie Koolhaas’ solo exhibition at XVA Gallery, has been extended through 24 July.

We invite you to visit and experience the exhibition before it closes.

Open daily, 10am to 6pm.

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Al Fahidi
Dubai

Opening Hours

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 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 10:00 - 18:00

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