What’s On at the Sharjah Art Foundation This Spring
Culture enthusiasts have plenty to look forward to this season. The Sharjah Art Foundation is keeping weekends busy with a fresh lineup of exhibitions, events, and artistic experiences.
Major exhibitions with new commissions are taking place at Al Mureijah Square, alongside the return of the March Meeting—a free, public event at Al Qasimiyah School. The March Meeting continues to foster artistic exchange and collaboration with the international arts community.
Highlights include Jorge Tacla’s sprawling exhibition, Time, the destroyer is time the preserver, on display across Gallery 1, 2, and 3 until Sunday, June 7.
Spring Highlights at the Sharjah Art Foundation
Culture enthusiasts have plenty to look forward to this season at the Sharjah Art Foundation, with exhibitions, installations, and events keeping weekends lively.
Jorge Tacla doesn’t do things in small measures: his sprawling exhibition, Time, the destroyer is time the preserver, fills Gallery 1, 2, and 3 with over 170 works. Tacla’s paintings explore ruins, architecture, and the traces of history left behind after conflict, and are on view until Sunday, June 7.
Ahaad Alamoudi makes her UAE solo debut with Sunkissed at Gallery 6 until Sunday, May 3. Based in Jeddah, Alamoudi uses installations to highlight the quirks of Khaleeji culture, combining vivid visuals, humour, and pop-culture references to capture contemporary regional aesthetics.
In Kalba, Of Land and Water: Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection presents the work of nine international artists and collectives, offering diverse perspectives on our relationship with land, water, and homeland.
Meanwhile, the Photography Gallery in Al Manakh hosts Image Keepers, a selection of photographic works from the Foundation’s collection spanning six decades of social and political change.
With these exhibitions and the March Meeting—a free event at Al Qasimiyah School promoting international artistic exchange—there’s no shortage of cultural experiences to enjoy this spring.
The big draw for the thinkers and talkers is the March Meeting: Between Us, the World taking place from Friday March 27 to Sunday March 29.
Al Qasimiyah School – a repurposed building from the 1950s – will host artists and writers from all over the globe to tackle the big, uncomfortable questions about social unrest and the environment.
It’s a chance to listen to live performances and join conversations about how we keep connections alive through humour and shared memory, even when everything else feels a bit fractured.
