Exhibitions

Rachid Koraïchi

An Ode to Intertwined Histories February 27 - May 25, 2024 Dubai In an ode to Elmarsa Gallery’s longstanding collaboration with Artist Rachid Koraïchi, we would like to revisit a collection of his work. The exhibition will encompass a breadth of disciplines that Koraïchi has enmeshed into his practice, seeking to showcase his abiding fascination with the creation of deeply layered seams.... Read more

On The Roster

Highlighting Elmarsa Gallery's Represented Artists January 25 - February 20, 2024 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery takes great pleasure in announcing the forthcoming exhibition titled 'On the Roster', which serves as a comprehensive exploration of the artistic endeavors undertaken by the gallery's esteemed cadre of represented artists. The exhibition will be on view from the 25th of January to the 20th of February, 2024... Read more

Reviewing Landscape

A Group Exhibition November 20, 2023 - January 15, 2024 Dubai The story of landscape painting is one of slow development, into distinct styles throughout time, with some of its iterations culminating out of antiquity and into the formation of classic and historic landscape. Spawning new ways of portraying geography through paths previously carved out by orientalist predecessors, painters versed in impressionist and expressionist practices expanded their milieu of carefully observing nature.
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Brushstrokes & Perspectives

A Journey Through Interconnected Passages of Non-Figurative Art September 6 - November 14, 2023 Dubai This exhibition brings together both modern and contemporary artists whose practices were deeply influenced by the corporeality of painting techniques present in Art Informel, Abstract Expressionism, and Kinetic art, fearlessly rejecting representation within the context of their cultures. Read more

A Perfect World

Aly Ben Salem February 28 - July 30, 2023 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is delighted to present A Perfect World, the first solo exhibition by leading Tunisian modernist Aly Ben Salem (1910-2001) at Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai. Read more

Wisdom of The Crowd

Abderrazak Sahli November 14, 2022 - January 28, 2023 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is very pleased to present a selection of unique works by Abderrazak Sahli (1941 – 2009), one of the most prominent Tunisian abstract painters of the 20th century. Read more

Mémoire en raccourcis

Aicha Filali May 14 - June 30, 2022 Tunis Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present Mémoire en raccourcis (Memory in short), the gallery's first solo exhibition with Tunisian artist Aicha Filali, featuring a new body of work. Read more

JAFR. The Alchemy of Signs

Nja Mahdaoui March 8 - May 9, 2022 Dubai This exhibition marks 15 years of collaboration between Nja Mahdaoui and Elmarsa Gallery, both in Tunis and Dubai, presenting his third solo show, after Trance in Dubai (2016) and Awj - a retrospective exhibition of his works from 1966 to 2018 - in Tunis (2018). Read more

Algerian Modernism

November 15, 2021 - February 25, 2022 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to stage a group exhibition of Algerian painters considered as pioneers in the advent of Modernism. Abdelkader Guermaz (1919-1996), M'hamed Issiakhem (1928-1985), Mohammed Khadda (1930-1991), Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998) and Abdallah Benanteur (1931- 2017) Mahjoub Ben Bella (1946-2020) Rachid Koraichi (b. 1947) Read more

Horizons

Asma M'Naouar March 22 - October 27, 2021 Dubai Horizons expands on Asma M’Naouar’s career-long investigation into abstraction through movement, materiality and emotion. Read more

A Tunisian Story

January 20 - February 27, 2021 Dubai Read more

Art on Paper

July 18, 2020 - January 11, 2021 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present Art on Paper, showcasing a broad range of modern and contemporary art from the gallery’s collection, in which the use of paper as a surface is the primary consideration Read more

Nuances of Black and White

January 20 - June 11, 2020 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery in Dubai is pleased to present Nuances of black and white, an exhibition presenting a group of artists using black and white and the nuanced shades in between. Read more

النتيكا The rustling of the stone

Atef Maatallah November 18, 2019 - January 10, 2020 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present النتيكا The rustling of the stone, Atef Maatallah’s first solo exhibition in Dubai, opening on Monday 18 Novembre 2019 Read more

Les bruissements de la pierre

Atef Maatallah June 15 - July 20, 2019 Tunis Elmarsa Gallery à Tunis a le plaisir de présenter Les bruissements de la pierre, la troisième exposition personnelle de Atef Maatallah à la galerie, du 15 juin au 20 juillet 2019. Read more

What is a Box?

Curated by Mohamed Ali-Berhouma April 19 - May 19, 2019 Tunis Elmarsa Gallery is pleased to present What is a box? Jacques Derrida curated by Mohamed-Ali Berhouma, from April 19 to May 19, 2019 in Tunis. A group exhibition that highlights the dynamic contemporary art scene in Tunis Read more

Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998)

March 18 - June 15, 2019 Dubai Elmarsa Gallery in Dubai is pleased to present the exhibition of the work of self-taught Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine known as Baya. On view from March 18 through June 15, 2019 at Alserkal Avenue, Read more

L’Ecole de Tunis: an introduction

November 12, 2018 - January 12, 2019 Dubai Elmarsa is pleased to present L’Ecole de Tunis: an introduction, a group exhibition of the most influential artists in Tunisian early history. Read more

Architectures d’ombre… Oraisons de lumière…

Khaled Ben Slimane June 28 - July 19, 2018 Tunis As part of the artistic event Jaou Tunis from June 27 to July 19, 2018, Elmarsa Gallery in Tunis is pleased to present Architectures d'ombre...Oraisons de lumière..., a solo exhibition by Khaled Ben Slimane, a major figure of contemporary Arab art. The exhibition will take place from June 27 to July 19, 2018 at 2 place Saf Saf, La Marsa. Read more

Entre fractus et gestalt

Samir Triki April 28 - May 26, 2018 Tunis Elmarsa Tunis is pleased to present Entre fractus et gestalt, a solo exhibition by Samir Triki, a major Tunisian abstract painter from April 28th to May 27, 2018 at their gallery space in Tunis. Read more

Unknown program

برنامج غير معروف | دبي March 19 - April 26, 2018 Dubai There are informational tombs, lost in the cyberspace. Ghosts that materialize in traces. It is precisely this spectral trace around which Ali Tnani's exhibition Unknown program gravitates. Read more

Awj

Nja Mahdaoui February 23 - April 12, 2018 Tunis Elmarsa Tunis is pleased to present Awj, a retrospective of Tunisian artist Nja Mahdaoui, an important figure in contemporary Arab art and calligraphy. Read more

حليم كارابيبيني

المناظر الشخصية | دبي January 20 - March 1, 2018 Tunis ر Elmarsa Dubai أن يقدم "مناظر شخصية"، معرض فردي للنقوش واللوحات للفنان التونسي حليم كارابيبيني. Read more

Dans l'intervalle entre monument et document

Ali Tnani December 15, 2017 - January 27, 2018 Tunis Elmarsa Tunis is pleased to present Dans l'intervalle entre monument et document, Ali Tnani's first solo exhibition of multimedia works at the gallery curated by Marie Cantos & Aziza Harmel from 15 December 2017 to 27 January 2018. Read more

Heretic Spaces

Thameur Mejri September 13 - November 24, 2017 Dubai Elmarsa is very pleased to present Heretic Spaces, the first solo exhibition in the UAE by emerging artist Thameur Mejri, from September 13th to October 19th 2017 at their gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more

Ya Latif

Khaled Ben Slimane May 15 - June 30, 2017 Dubai Elmarsa is very pleased to present Ya Latif, the first solo exhibition by Tunisian painter, sculptor, and ceramist Khaled Ben Slimane in the UAE, from March 9th to April 8th 2017 at their gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more

S'hab / S'mè

Atef Maatallah May 14 - June 30, 2017 Tunis Elmarsa is pleased to present Atef Maatallah's third solo exhibition in Tunis S'hab / S'mè, in collaboration with guest artists Alaeddine Slim and Maher Habib Gnaoui, an account on the personal experience of confinement shared by the three artists. Read more

Tolerance and Peace

Abderrazak Sahli November 13 - December 24, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa is pleased to present the work of Abderrazak Sahli (1941-2009), one of the most important Tunisian abstract painters of the 20th century. Read more

Yesterday is Tomorrow's Memory

A group show of works from North Africa May 16 - July 30, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa Dubai presents a group exhibition of key works by major artists who have played an important role in the history of modern and contemporary Arab art from the Maghreb. Read more

Trance

Nja Mahdaoui March 14 - April 30, 2016 Dubai Elmarsa gallery is proud to present the exhibition Trance by Tunisian artist Nja Mahdaoui at its new gallery space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Read more

Il n’est d’autres souverains que ceux qui me regardent

Rachid Koraichi November 16, 2015 - January 30, 2016 Dubai As part of the launch of its new space in Dubai, Elmarsa presents Il n’est d’autres souverains que ceux qui me regardent, a long-awaited solo show by internationally renowned Algerian artist Rachid Koraichi. Read more

Cocotteries & Co

Halim Karabibene May 30 - June 28, 2015 Tunis This solo exhibition is part of a series of events that the artist has organized since 2007 in the name of MNAMC Tunis -the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art- a museum that does not exist, at least not yet. Read more

Survivances // أفلا يتذكرون

Nidhal Chamekh - Fakhri El Ghezal - Atef Maatallah May 11 - 18, 2014 Tunis Survivant comme l'oeuvre d'art qui se projette au delà de notre présence. Cette exposition est l'écho d'une bande filmique. Read more

Sleeper(s) Awake // الناّس نيامْ...

Nabil Saouabi April 4 - 27, 2014 Tunis Nabil Saouabi paints stark images of wounded, dead or almost dead bodies. Some we recognise as famous world leaders. Others are harder to name and yet we have a sense of already knowing them Read more

Mapping azimuth, two calligraphical ascensions

Jeddah Art Week February 1 - 6, 2014 Elmarsa in collaboration with Lina Lazaar is proud to bring major figures of Arab art Nja Mahdaoui and Khaled Ben Slimane together in the exhibition Mapping azimuth, two calligraphical ascensions as part of Jaou - Jeddah Art Week's second edition. Read more

Sur Le Fil

Emna Masmoudi April 12 - May 5, 2013 Tunis And time comes to caesura for a moment, as if pendulous on the art of Emna Masmoudi. The exposition Sur le fil presents numerous recent works on canvas, paper and sculpture, initiated in 2010. Read more

Disaster Pieces

Thameur Mejri December 7 - 31, 2012 Tunis As a young talent from the emerging scene in Tunisia, Mejri has already earned an international recognition through his particiation in restigious shows. Mejri is a multidisciplinary artist focusing on a both conceptual and Read more