Current Exhibition
Navjot Altaf: Pattern
Pattern marks the first solo exhibition of Navjot Altaf in the Arabian Peninsula. Featuring site-specific installations, sculptures, videos, drawings and photo prints, the exhibition foregrounds Navjot’s longstanding commitment to issues of climate-change, ecology and feminism and the challenges they face in the digital age. Navjot’s practice stands at the intersection..
Past Exhibition
Jitish Kallat: Order of Magnitude
Jitish Kallat’s first major solo exhibition in West Asia, presenting new bodies of work that reflect profound deliberations on the interrelationship between the cosmic and the terrestrial.
Upcoming
Programmes
Reading Between the Lines
A three-part workshop comprising of reading circles, a public talk and a film-screening as a companion to the exhibition ‘Proposals for a Memorial for Partition’ curated by Murtaza Vali.
Public Talk | Urvashi Butalia
Renowned feminist writer, publisher and activist Urvashi Butalia delivers a public talk revisiting her seminal book 'The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of India'.
About
Ishara Art Foundation was founded in 2019 as a non-profit organisation dedicated to presenting contemporary art of South Asia. Located in Dubai, the Foundation supports emerging and established practices that advance critical dialogue and explore global interconnections.
Guided by a research-led approach, Ishara realises its mission through exhibitions, onsite and online programmes, education initiatives and collaborations in the UAE and internationally. The Foundation facilitates exchange between South Asian and international artistic networks that include museums, foundations, institutions, galleries and individuals.
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