Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue is transforming into a playground of ideas, art, and experiments as we speak. Alserkal Art Week 2025, themed “Uprooted”, explores displacement, reconnection, and the unexpected ways humans and non-humans find their footing in shifting worlds. Expect immersive installations, performances, talks, workshops, and public art that challenge the way we think about memory, value, and belonging.
Here’s everything you need to know to navigate this week:
Exhibitions and Installations
Visualizing Care (LIAVH) | 16–23 Nov | WH 23
We Must Therefore Turn Our Attention Skywards (Devadeep Gupta) | 16–23 Nov | WH 46
Departure (Shailesh BR) | 16–23 Nov | WH 23
Hujra — حُجرة (Miramar Al Nayyar) | 16 Nov – 1 Dec | WH 81
Galleries across the avenue host over 15 exhibitions, each exploring memory, identity, architecture, and the shifting realities of contemporary life.
Open Studios
Step into the artists’ worlds:
Abdul Halik Azeez blends speculative fiction and history | 22 Nov | 12 PM | WH 51
Rana Haddad & Pascal Hachem explore Gulf urbanism through absurdist experimentation | 23 Nov | 2:30 PM | WH 50
Hussein Nassereddine stages a poetic interplay of song and time | 23 Nov | 4:30 PM | Concrete
Public Art Highlights
Kirstine Roepstorff: A wind-animated coin reflecting myths, movement, and digital economies
Nujoom Alghanem: Neon bird nests that celebrate coexistence, migration, and care for non-human life
Films
Dahomey (Mati Diop) | 22 Nov | 8 PM | The Yard
Royal treasures, repatriation, and art that engages history with urgency.
Banksy Most Wanted | 23 Nov | 8 PM | The Yard
Stunts, artworks, and mysteries – the Banksy enigma in full swing.
Film screening by Cinema Akil
Other Experiences
Nerpala (Dileep Chilanka): A meditative exploration of labor and everyday objects | 22–23 Nov | WH 50
Little Alserkal Explorers: Hands-on creative trails for kids | 22 Nov | 11 AM | The Yard
Cold War Art Worlds: South Asian art, transnational modernisms, and stories of decolonisation | 22 Nov | 4 PM | WH 51
