The Sharjah Art Museum is an

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in the city of

Sharjah Sharjah (; ar, ٱلشَّارقَة ', Gulf Arabic: ''aš-Šārja'') is the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Sharjah is the capital o ...

United Arab Emirates The United Arab Emirates (UAE; ar, اَلْإِمَارَات الْعَرَبِيَة الْمُتَحِدَة ), or simply the Emirates ( ar, الِْإمَارَات ), is a country in Western Asia (The Middle East). It is located at th ...

.Sharjah Art Museum

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Sharjah Government. It was housed in Bait Al Serkal in Al Shuwaihean Area. It is one of the leading art institutions in the Persian Gulf region. A new building of the museum was established on April 7, 1997, under the patronage of Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, the Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah during the 3rd Sharjah International Arts Biennial. Sharjah Art Museum has a collection of modern and contemporary art by artists from

and other Middle Eastern countries. It also organizes and hosts temporary exhibitions and educational events. It has a total floor area of 111,000 m² with galleries over two floors and an underground car park beneath it. The museum celebrated 25 years in April 2022 since opening for public to promoting art and fostering creativity in the UAE.

Exhibitions

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Sharjah Art Museum since its establishment, held numerous temporary exhibitions throughout the years. They were curated by the museum or in collaboration with other institutions. Some of those institutions were Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam,

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in London,

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in the

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, and The Gibran Museum in Lebanon.

Temporary Exhibition

* Stations by , 2007 *

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, 2007 * Face of Asia:

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Photographs, 2008 * Lure of the East, 2009 * Tarek Al-Ghoussein, 2010 * Lithographs of

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, 2011 * Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, 2012 * Trajectories: 19th and 21st Century Printmaking from India and Pakistan, 2014 * Cobra: 1000 Days of Free Art, 2015 * Drawings of Gibran: A Human Perspective, 2015 * Considering Dynamics and Forms of Chaos: Angela Bullock and Maria Zeres, 2016 * Kamal Youssef: Egyptian Surrealism's Time Capsule, 2016 * Ahmed Morsi: A Dialogic Imagination Exhibition, 2017 * Subversive Forms of Social Sculpture: Abdulnasser Gharem and

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, 2018 * A Century in Flux: Highlights from the

, 2018-2023

Annual Exhibitions

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Exhibition * Lasting Impressions Exhibition organized by the museum to highlight pioneer Arab artists in the

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some of them include: ** Thuraya Albaqsami ** Abdulqader Al Rais ** Ismail Al Rifai ** Abdul Latif Al Smoudi ** George Bahgory ** Najat Maky ** Ismail Shammout and Tamam El Akhal *

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, organized by

Sharjah Art Foundation The Sharjah Art Foundation ( ar, مؤسسة الشارقة للفنون) is a contemporary art and cultural foundation based in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, founded in 2009 by Hoor Al Qasimi, daughter of Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi, a me ...

* Sharjah Islamic Art Festivalhttps://www.sdc.gov.ae/en/Content/48

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* {{Authority control Museums in Sharjah (city) Arab art scene Art museums and galleries in the United Arab Emirates Museums established in 1997 1997 establishments in the United Arab Emirates

Exhibitions

Temporary Exhibition

Annual Exhibitions

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