Sharjah Art Foundation: Start the autumn season with major exhibitions, learning programmes and music events

Emily Karaka: Ka Awatea, A New Dawn

7 September–1 December 2024

Galleries 1, 2 and 3, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah

Discover the first major exhibition of paintings by the renowned Māori artist.

Bouchra Khalili: Between Circles and Constellations

7 September–1 December 2024

Galleries 4, 5, 6, Bait Habib Yousef, Mirage City Cinema, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah

Explore artist Bouchra Khalili’s most significant projects over the last 15 years.

William Kentridge: A Shadow of a Shadow

28 September–8 December 2024

Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square, Sharjah

Delve into artist William Kentridge’s groundbreaking theatre practice, spanning from the late 1980s to the present.

Antonio Dias: The Search for an Open Enigma

28 September–8 December 2024

Al Hamriyah Studios, Sharjah

Discover the work of Antonio Dias, an artist who relentlessly transgressed material and conceptual boundaries.

Vantage Point Sharjah 12

28 September–8 December 2024

Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Square, Sharjah

Encounter new perspectives on photography by emerging artists from the region and beyond.

Early Learning Programme

30 September 2024

The Flying Saucer, Dasman

Develop your children’s language and listening skills through our engaging story time.

Children and Families Learning Programme

7 September–30 November 2024

The Flying Saucer, Dasman and Collections Building, Arts Square, Sharjah

Experiment with collage, printmaking, painting and storytelling in workshops inspired by our autumn exhibitions.

Adult Learning Programme

20-22 September 2024

The Flying Saucer, Dasman, Sharjah

Join a three-day course that examines the relationship between decolonisation and art. Develop a personal methodology to understand and appreciate art from your own perspective.

Library Programme

7 September 2024

The Flying Saucer, Dasman, Sharjah

Take part in the SAF Book Club discussion on Indigenous voices in literature.

Sufi-Hispano Pakistani Listening Session

11 September 2024

The Flying Saucer, Dasman, Sharjah

Enjoy the astonishing blend of Sufism and flamenco in the four-track EP Sufi-Hispano Pakistani (1962) by Aziz Balouch (1910–1978).

Conversations on Sound and Music

12, 18 and 25 September 2024

Online

Join the final three web-based sessions of our conversation series on sound and music with Julian Brimmers (COSMOS) and Luis Fernandes (Le Guess Who?), mastering engineer Heba Kadry, and musician and composer Maurice Louca.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: Casablanca Art School in Frankfurt

Until 14 October 2024

Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt

If you’re in Frankfurt, don’t miss The Casablanca Art School: Platforms and Patterns for a Postcolonial Avant-Garde (1962–1987), on view following its presentation in Sharjah earlier this year.