ARTSPACE Gallery

Various Artists

ARTSPACE Gallery will be holding the opening reception of its group exhibition featuring works by Kamel Yahiaoui, Hani Zurob, George Bahgory, Ayad Alkhadi, and Harriet Logan. Looking at the notion of conflict, this will be the last opening we will be having before the summer kicks in so be sure to stop by.

On view until May 30 | www.artspace-dubai.com

Ayyam Gallery

"Through The Looking Glass" by Mouteea Murad

Ayyam Gallery celebrates the opening of Mouteea Murad's first solo exhibition in Dubai. This show will highlight a new take on Mouteea's complex geometric abstractions for which he has become known over the past few years.  Born in Homs, Syria in 1977, Mouteea Murad is a rising young artist whose recent explorations into abstraction have set him apart within the contemporary Arab art.

On view until June 16 | www.ayyamgallery.com

Opera Gallery

"Chinese Contemporary Masters"

Opera Gallery is delighted to present 5 of the contemporary Chinese masters exhibition featuring Yue Minjun, Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Guang-Yi, Wang Qingsong and Yao Shaobin, who have accepted to select 20 of their favorite paintings and have them printed as lithographs in limited edition exclusively for the gallery. Each artwork is associated with a different poem written by Fernando Arrabal, a famous Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet.

On view until May 23 | www.operagallery.com

The Empty Quarter

"Euphoria & Beyond"

The Empty Quarter Gallery has invited critically acclaimed Palestinian artist Steve Sabella, whose work was recently acquired for the permanent collection of he new MATHAF Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar, to present three new bodies of work in Dubai. In "Beyond Euphoria", Sabella relinquishes all bonds with representational photography to make room for a new order of things. In an almost prescient manner, the journey of the artist seems to mirror the recent awakenings of new beliefs across the Arab world

On view until June 11 | www.theemptyquarter.com

The Farjam Collection

"Love Is Not Everything: A Selection of Works" by Farhad Moshiri

At this May’s Art Nights @ Gate Village, visitors to The Farjam Collection are invited to partake in an interactive multi-sensory special event directly influenced by cake paintings displayed in the current exhibition LOVE IS NOT EVERYTHING: A SELECTION OF WORKS BY FARHAD MOSHIRI, guaranteed to leave their taste for art fulfilled.

On view until June 15 | www.farjamcollection.org

XVA Gallery

"Ketab"by Hadieh Shafie

"Love in the time of Unrest" by Behrang Samadzadegan

XVA Gallery invites you to enjoy nibbles and drinks and a chance to view the two ongoing exhibitions by Hadieh Shafie and Behrang Samadzadegan. Shafie explores beauty and liberation from the body through thousands of tightly wrapped Farsi scrolls packed together creating concentric motifs. Samadzadegan's work simultaneously depicts hope, regret and optimism. Reflecting on our inability to accept sadness and gloom, the artist fuses the whimsy of contemporary popular culture with appropriated press images.

On view until May 14 | www.xvagallery.com

La Petite Maison

La Petite Maison, the exclusive French fine dinning restaurant, will be giving away dinner for two during Art Nights @ Gate Village. Make sure you drop off your business card at the event venue for a chance to win.

7:30 pm

Movement Preview by Gayathri 

Gayathri: The voice of Movement, a creative collaboration of over 100 musicians and artists from the UAE, will perform at Art Nights @ Gate Village accompanied by a string quartet part of the UAE Philharmonic Orchestra, a section of the DIY choir who will be using hand-made instruments and musical foley elements along with electronic percussion. A unique marriage of contemporary & classical music, further enhanced by an interplay of projections and shadow puppetry. 

www.movementuae.com

8:30 pm

Noush Like Sploosh

A transmedia artist whose philosophy is grounded in innovation and multi-dimensional storytelling, Noush is an award winning, multi-skilled, edgy singer-songwriter whose music, drawings and films share underlying themes of grotesque, vaudeville and nostalgia. Her sense of whimsy and play is often contrasted with dark, comedic elements. Their first video '3 Act Circus' was an attempt at bringing together her diverse talents into a single vision: where her music meets her visual art in the form of stop-motion animated film-making. The video was selected to screen at the recent Gulf Film Festival. 

Together with Aaron Kim (cello), Hadi Farra (guitar) and Sinan Al-Jawad (drums), the band will be performing live exclusively for Art Nights @ Gate Village. 

www.noushlikesploosh.com