VIMA (@vima.artfair ) is now open to the public! Come find us at Booth C3 – swipe through for a look at our installation.
On view until 17 May 2025
📍Limassol, Cyprus
The Third Line presents a solo presentation of new paintings by Sarah Awad (@saraheawad ). The works extend the artist’s distinctive painterly language that layers vivid hues rendered in bold, free-flowing forms and confident brushstrokes.
In parallel, ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ (2013) and ‘Palimpsests’ (2017) by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige ) will be featured in ‘The Waves Crashing,’ the film program of VIMA 2026, curated by Kostas Stasinopoulos (@kostasstas ).
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Art Dubai (@artdubai ) is now open to the public! Come find us at Booth C7 — swipe through for a look at our installation.
On view until 17 May 2026
📍 Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, UAE
The Third Line presents a dynamic body of works by Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion ), Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ), and Vian Sora (@viansora ) at Art Dubai Special Edition. Spanning photography, sculpture, and painting, the presentation asks what different mediums can reveal about power, land, and the weight of lived experience. Where Al Qasimi’s photographs of interiors, objects, and non-human life draw out the structures of power and relation embedded in everyday moments, Naim’s Tender Grain series extends photography into sculptural form—drawing on flora reliefs from Assyrian monuments to examine how plant life transgresses borders and reframes our relationship to land. Sora’s gestural painting deepens the inquiry, its luminous, layered surface holding the residue of memory and displacement in gesture.
Image: The Third Line at Art Dubai Special Edition, 2026. Photography by Ismail Noor, Seeing Things (@weareseeingthings ).
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NOW OPEN: 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (@labiennale )
Swipe right to view our artists’ presentations across the Central Pavilion and multiple National Pavilions.
Abbas Akhavan (@abbasakhavan )
Canada Pavilion (@natgallerycan )
‘Entre chien et loup’
Farah Al Qasimi (@frequentlyaskedquestion )
National Pavilion UAE (@nationalpavilionuae )
‘Washwasha’
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (@studiohadjithomasjoreige )
Central Pavilion
‘In Minor Keys’
Lamya Gargash (@lamya_gargash )
National Pavilion UAE (@nationalpavilionuae )
‘Washwasha’
Sophia Al-Maria (@sxphix_xl_mxrix ).
National Pavilion of Qatar
‘untitled 2026 (a gathering of remarkable people)’
Installation Views:
Abbas Akhavan, ‘Entre chien et loup,’ Canada Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Francesco Barasciutti
Farah Al Qasimi, ‘Washwasha,’ National Pavilion UAE, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Ismail Noor of Seeing Things.
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, ‘In Minor Keys,’ La Biennale di Venezia, 2026.
Lamya Gargash, ‘Washwasha,’ National Pavilion UAE, La Biennale di Venezia, 2026. Photo: Ismail Noor of Seeing Things.
Still: Sophia Al-Maria, DAMAR TV, 2026.
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Sunny Rahbar shares with MOJEH that she has been reflecting on the importance of community and staying present for those around her. “I can remain calmer than I expected in moments like this, but it has reminded me how important community is, and how much it matters to show up for and support the people around us during these difficult times.”
She speaks about grounding moments with friends, daily walks, and time in the gallery, alongside a hope rooted in her experience of the city’s resilience.
Read the full interview in MOJEH April 2026 Issue.
Editor In Chief: @mojeh_i
Editor: @kelly_baldwin87
Interview by: @gracieastwood
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Take a walk through ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ Sara Naim’s (@saranaim__ ) solo exhibition at The Third Line, marking the artist’s first public presentation of paintings exploring the notions of language and boundaries.
The show is #OnView both at the gallery and online through a viewing room on the website.
On view until 7 April 2026
📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
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May we all be reminded of how much we have in common today and may we allow that light to enter our hearts 💖
Eid Mubarak, Nowruz Pirouz 🌿
Peace in the Middle East
Peace on Earth
NO TO WAR!
Thanks to @saranaim__ & @zainmasud for their art🌷
Sara Naim’s (@saranaim__ ) solo exhibition, ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ is now #OnView at the gallery until 7 April 2026.
To those of us in our community who are seeking a breath amidst the current events in the region, we welcome you to join us at the gallery 🌷
For those of you who are unable to be here, we have created an online viewing room for you to explore the show from wherever you are. Please see the link in our bio.
Installation photography by Ismail Noor (@ismailnoor ).
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𝗘𝗫𝗛𝗜𝗕𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗣𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗗 | Due to current events in the region, ‘From the Perspective of Language,’ the fourth solo exhibition by Sara Naim (@saranaim__ ) at The Third Line, has been postponed. Kindly follow our channels for further updates.
During this time, our thoughts and prayers are with all those who are affected. We hope you and your loved ones remain safe.
📅 Exhibition dates to be announced
📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
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Image: Sara Naim, Skin 9, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 240 x 175 cm
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Such a beautiful week in Doha for the incredible inaugural @artbasel Qatar. So proud of Sophia Al Maria and so happy to celebrate her homecoming. A week full of great art, friendships,and connection ❤️✨
Meet Sunny Rahbar ✨ Gallerist - Co-Founder of Third Line Gallery Dubai - I had the opportunity of seeing The Only Way Out Is Through: The 20th Line , a group show curated by writer curator Shumon Basar, just before it closed in December, that felt incredibly personal ——It charts the gallery’s history the last 20 years, alongside the socio-economic and political developments of the region —— I keep thinking about my early visits to the gallery and my encounters with works by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Hassan Sharif, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Akram Zaatari, Walid Raad, and Farhad Moshiri, Tarek El Ghoussein, Lamya Gargash, to name a few… who became canons on the international art scene.
and how, through them, I wasn’t just watching a gallery grow, but my cultural education and awareness growing alongside it. Under Sunny Rahbar’s and her business partner Claudia Cellini, vision and leadership, The Third Line has been a true pioneer over the past two decades, expanding global awareness of artists from the region and carrying their voices far beyond its walls. The art, like the region itself, has carried us through moments of questioning, transformation, and becoming. 🤍 and Sunny 🌞 at The Third Line is here to tell the story of an art region in ebullition 🐦🔥
• Tune in on Spotify to discover the path of a gallerist who built a market organically, grounded in trust, intuition, values, and conviction. History in the making - Listen Now 🎧🔗 Link In Bio 🧚♀️ #callthembytheirnamepodcast #sunnyrahbar #thethirdlinedxb #gallery #alserkalvenue #arthistory #arteducation
The Third Line is thrilled to present ‘HILUX,’ a new body of work by Sophia Al-Maria (@sxphix_xl_mxrix ) debuting at the inaugural Art Basel Qatar 2026 (@artbasel ). In ‘HILUX,’ Al-Maria returns home to Doha and to her originary practice of drawing and cartooning with a major new body of mixed media work. Rendered in monumental ink and watercolor paintings, the series marks a shift from video toward a more intimate, gestural mode of art-making, layered with complex historical and symbolic references.
📅Preview: 3-4 February | Public View: 5-7 February 2026
📍Booth M118 | M7, Doha, Qatar
Taking the Toyota Hilux—a ubiquitous civilian vehicle turned emblem of resistance—as both subject and structure, Al-Maria traces symbolic timelines that fold and bend across centuries of human movement, extraction, and resistance. At the center of these works are goats and sheep: the first domesticated animals, whose entanglement with human survival and symbolism marks the beginning of civilization itself.
Through spiraling compositions, swirling timelines, and fragmented manga motifs, HILUX charts the entropic cycles of empire, acceleration, and collapse. Simultaneously elegiac and insurgent, the works ask what it means to return to land, to language, to form, and how history can be read in the lines of a speeding truck or a goat.
Image: Sophia Al-Maria, detail of HILUX, 2026, multimedia installation, dimensions variable.
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We thank everyone who joined us in celebrating 𝚁𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙵𝚞𝚝𝚞𝚛𝚎, Anuar Khalifi’s (@anuarkhalifi ) third solo exhibition at The Third Line! Swipe right for installation views.
On view until 1 March 2026
📍The Third Line, Dubai, UAE
Image:
• Installation photography by Ismail Noor, Seeing Things (@ismailnoor )
• Artwork photography by Altamash Urooj (@altamashurooj )
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