Sponsored: What’s On this spring at Sharjah Art Foundation
Sharjah Art Foundation kicks off its spring season this February with a fresh lineup of exhibitions and talks that you won’t want to miss. From bold contemporary art exhibitions to thought-provoking discussions, the season promises to spark conversation, creativity, and plenty of inspiration for art lovers of all kinds.
While every exhibition at Sharjah Art Foundation is worth exploring, these are the ones you need to make time for.
Exhibitions and events are free and open to the public. However, to avoid long waiting times and ensure a smoother and more seamless visit, pre-book your tickets.
Jorge Tacla: Time the destroyer is time the preserver
Jorge Tacla, La Distribucion de los Primarios (The Distribution of the Primes), 1995. Included in series ‘Identidades Ocultas (Hidden Identities)’, 2005–ongoing. Image courtesy of the artist
When: On view until June 7, 2026
Where: Gallery 1, 2 and 3, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah
The exhibition takes its title after a line from a T.S. Eliot poem, Jorge Tacla: Time the destroyer is time the preserver, and reflects the idea that the passage of time can both destroy and preserve life, memories, and structures.
Jorge Tacla, a third-generation Chilean of Palestinian and Syrian descent, explores this idea by painting time and space ‘in the negative,’ defining objects through the absence of colour to show how major political and natural events leave their mark. His fractured forms invite viewers to feel and engage with these traces, rather than simply observe them.
With over 170 works, including paintings, drawings and a large-scale installation, this is Tacla’s largest solo exhibition to date.
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Ahaad Alamoudi: Sunkissed
Ahaad Alamoudi, WHAT IS THIS?! (still), 2019. Image courtesy of the artist
When: On view until May 3, 2026
Where: Gallery 6, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah
In Sunkissed, multidisciplinary Jeddah-based artist Ahaad Alamoudi takes a look at how people in the Gulf form their identities and express themselves visually while living in a rapidly changing environment.
She uses a mix of humour and pop culture expressed through viral memes, talking falcons, toy cars, and trapped insects to showcase a meeting point between contemporary Khaleeji aesthetics and pop-cultural fluency.
It is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UAE and showcases her new commissions alongside recent works.
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March Meeting 2026: Between Us, the World
When: March 27 to 29, 2026
Where: Al Qasimiyah School, Al Manakh, Sharjah
Across the globe, social unrest, environmental crises, and systemic erasure threaten ways of life. In response, March Meeting 2026 (MM 2026) brings together artists, writers, researchers, and community organisers for three days of reflection, exchange, and exploration.
Through panels, keynotes, conversations, and performances, participants will come together and examine how history, society, and culture shape our present. The sessions encourage dialogue on how connections can be maintained even as stories shift or fade and explore the many ways knowledge and culture are passed along – through memory, storytelling, images, sound, writing, and archives. By tracing these exchanges, MM 2026 highlights the delicate yet enduring bonds between communities and the creative possibilities that emerge from them.
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Image Keepers: Photographic Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection
Hrair Sarkissian, Last Seen, 2018–2021. Installation view: Image Keepers: Photographic Works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Photography Gallery, Al Manakh, Sharjah, 2025. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Shanavas Jamaluddin
When: On view until April 26, 2026
Where: Photography Gallery, Al Manakh, Sharjah
Drawn from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, Image Keepers presents photographs exploring the social and political changes of the past six decades amid the complex and often fractured processes of modernisation and decolonisation.
On the lower floor of the exhibition space, portraits highlight a range of experiences across different regions and eras, capturing expressions of ethnic, civic, and diasporic identities while showing the complex connections between people and the places they inhabit. In the next section, the photographs explore what is hidden or lost during conflict and migration, with the artists showcasing these absences by embracing opacity – turning reality into abstraction or focusing on what remains.
Upstairs, the exhibition continues presenting photography in a variety of materials, techniques, and formats. The displayed works showcase a new way to retell history and imagine collective experience, deconstructing monuments and archives and reinterpreting them through speculation, performance, and humour.
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