Alserkal Galleries Highlights During Art Dubai 2025

Publication about the artworld

Alserkal Galleries 2025

Highlights of the Alserkal Avenue, a renowned cultural district in Dubai, UAE.

Imran Qureshi’s Vanishing Point installation explores themes of violence, beauty, and resilience. Created by the Pakistani contemporary artist, the work is known for its striking use of red paint splatters, which at first resemble blood stains but, upon closer inspection, reveal intricate floral patterns, which is a signature of Qureshi’s fusion of traditional Mughal miniature painting with contemporary issues.
Here, Qureshi addresses the ephemeral nature of life, the trauma of conflict, and the hope that emerges from destruction. The title suggests a perspective where things converge and disappear, metaphorically speaking to histories, people, or truths that fade or are erased.

The sculptural installation by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora explores the tension between structure and fluidity, containment and liberation. Composed of terracotta elements that recall architectural fragments or shields, the work is brought to life by performance: women activate the space through movement, rhythm, and gesture.
The title Existence-Emitting Movements references the invisible traces left by action: it is a choreography of resistance and affirmation. Zamora’s practice often confronts socio-political constraints and offers poetic forms of embodied defiance. In this piece, movement becomes memory, material becomes witness.

French conceptual artist Bernar Venet continues his long-standing dialogue with mathematics, physics, and material weight in the artwork presented here. The sculpture features monumental Corten steel arcs, each leaning precariously, appearing as though frozen in a moment of collapse or lift.
This balance between calculated form and chaotic gesture lies at the core of Venet’s language. The arcs embody force, tension, and the elegance of instability, asserting their presence within space while questioning the nature of permanence and control.

Iranian-born, New York–based artist Maryam Hoseini constructs intimate, fragmented narratives that blur the boundaries between the personal and political. Her works, often on panel or in immersive installation form, feature disjointed female bodies, architectural motifs, and abstracted symbols, rendered in soft pastel tones and sharp geometric cuts. Hoseini’s practice subtly examines gender, exile, and fractured identity, using visual fragmentation to echo lived dislocation.
"Blind Dreamer" unfolds a surreal, fragmented dreamscape, where a figure is caught between seeing and being seen, between interior fantasy and external imposition. "Pink Distance" plays with spatial longing, the unbridgeable emotional or political gaps that separate people and identities. "Red Note, Blue Mouth" merges the sensual with the surreal, evoking a language of protest or poetry emerging from silence.

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Iranian sculptor Morteza Khazaie reimagines the classical form through a contemporary, existential lens. In refusing to name or narrate the subject, Khazaie invites viewers to project their own anxieties and hopes onto the form. The result is a poetic meditation on identity, loss, and collective memory, positioned quietly yet powerfully within the lineage of figurative sculpture.
Known for his poetic and deeply emotive approach to form and material, Khazaie captures the essence of human resilience through organic, sculptural works. His craftsmanship and thoughtful use of wood create pieces that are both grounded and transformative, resonating with the themes of survival, adaptation, and silent strength.