The Farjam Collection:
Dialogues across Fourteen Centuries of Middle Eastern and Global Art
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The Farjam Foundation at PROXIMITIES: Inextricably Involved
Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul 16 December 2025 – 29 March 2026 The Farjam Foundation is pleased to announce its participation in PROXIMITIES: Inextricably Involved, a major exhibition of contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates, jointly organized by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) and the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF).…
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Marwan Sahmarani in Conversation with The Kurator: Art, Resistance, and Public Space
The Farjam Foundation is pleased to present the ongoing exhibition by Marwan Sahmarani, which has recently been featured in an interview published by The Kurator in Gulf News on January 2, 2026. The interview offers insight into Sahmarani’s artistic philosophy and his approach to presenting work within a non-profit institutional context.Read the full interview on…
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The Farjam Foundation Sponsors Landmark U.S. Exhibition on the Baghdad Modern Art Group
June 21 – October 19, 2025 Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York The Farjam Foundation is proud to sponsor the groundbreaking exhibition All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, currently on view at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College’s Center for Curatorial Studies. This is the first major…
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Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes
Current Exhibition | The Farjam Foundation, DIFC, Dubai On View: April 15, 2025 – October 15 2025 The Farjam Foundation is proud to present Shifting Gazes: Women Through Middle Eastern Eyes, an exhibition exploring how women have been represented—and have represented themselves—across the evolving visual landscape of the Middle East. Spanning over eight decades of artistic…
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The Farjam Collection Books Reviewed in The Art Newspaper
The Farjam Foundation thanks The Art Newspaper and art journalist Cyrus Naji for the comprehensive review of The Farjam Collection of Islamic and Middle Eastern Art (pub. Yale University Press, 2024), launched late last year at the British Museum and The Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Editors, Drs Sheila Canby, Venetia Porter, Sarah Rogers and Nada Shabout, as well as…
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The Farjam Collection Book Launch Captivates Audiences at Louvre Abu Dhabi
A standing-room-only crowd, in the presence of His Highness Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, graced the Auditorium of the Louvre Abu Dhabi on November 20 to hear the distinguished panel of scholars who had authored The Farjam Collection Masterpieces (pub Sept 2024, Yale University Press) speak about the Islamic and Modern and…
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