Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Inside the Fire Circle Mounir Fatmi’s first solo exhibition in Dubai. The exhibition expands on the artist’s interest in the circle, its form and symbolic meaning throughout history. In particular, ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to announce Everything Should Be OK a solo exhibition by New York-based British artist Oliver Clegg, who works between two and three-dimensional disciplines using a diverse range of materials and methods. Delving into the complexities of modern life, Clegg ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Bodies by Hamra Abbas, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Moving effortlessly between a variety of materials, Bodies is influenced by Abbas’s recent move back to her hometown ... Read more →

Artists: Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Daniele Genadry, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Yazan Khalili, Taus Makhacheva, Shahpour Pouyan, Pia RönickeCurator: Nat Muller Before the time of day—I am Before the wonder of the sun—I burn. Trees run behind me. Blossoms walk in ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is delighted to announce In the Future They Ate From the Finest Porcelain by Larissa Sansour. The exhibition will present screenings of her most recent film—of the same name—together with an installation and three ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present A Dish Fit for the Gods by Farhad Ahrarnia, his first solo at the gallery.  A Dish Fit for the Gods juxtaposes ancient imagery, 20th-century modernism, hand-embroidered textiles depicting archival ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Immortals by Adel Abidin, the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Abidin has embarked on a radical shift in his artistic practice by returning to painting, for the first time since ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Poetry in Stone, the first solo exhibition in the UAE for renowned Jordanian sculptor Mona Saudi. Featured in this exhibition are seven sculptures from the period 2003–12. Mona Saudi’s sculptural ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present FAHRENHEIT311: Seven Legends of Machismo, Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s second solo at the gallery.  FAHRENHEIT311 brings together a set of existing and new artworks, demonstrating the breath of her practice and preoccupations ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Kaaba Picture as a Misprint, a solo exhibition by Hamra Abbas. Kaaba Picture as a Misprint marks the return of the artist to the UAE following her award of the ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is proud to announce Shahpour Pouyan: PTSD, his second solo exhibition at Lawrie Shabibi, consisting of new sculptures and drawings and curated by Murtaza Vali. Pouyan’s first foray into ceramics, an ancient material and technique ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is proud to announce Asad Faulwell: Bed of Broken Mirrors, his first solo exhibition at Lawrie Shabibi and presentation of his celebrated ongoing series “Les Femmes d’Alger.” In this series Faulwell wryly references French Orientalist ... Read more →

Nabil Nahas brings his inimitable sense of scale, opulence, and sheer sumptuousness back to Dubai this November with a second solo exhibition at Lawrie Shabibi. Focusing this time on his three-dimensional paintings, as tactile as they ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is excited to announce Science Faction, a solo exhibition by Larissa Sansour that premieres the “Nation Estate” series in the Middle East. Originally developed for the Lacoste Elysée Prize 2011, “Nation Estate” became the ... Read more →

Lawrie Shabibi is pleased to present Symphony a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Adel Abidin. Curated by Basak Senova, the exhibition opens on 18 March as part of Dubai’s 2013 Art Week and coincides with ... Read more →

“While Arab societies undergo processes of technical, social and cultural modernisation, their traditions are getting stronger and stronger too.  How long can a collective withstand the increasing tensions between the present and the past?” Nadia Kaabi-Linke Lawrie ... Read more →