Contributor
Rahel Aima

Rahel Aima is a writer. Her work has been published in ArtforumArtnewsArtReviewThe AtlanticBookforum, friezeMousse and Vogue Arabia, amongst others.

 

Representing the UAE at the Biennale, the artist is considered a founding member of the Emirati avant-garde of the 1980s and ’90s

BY Rahel Aima |

Despite a lackluster inaugural exhibition, Hampi Art Labs shows promise as a revitalizing institution in the region

BY Rahel Aima |

From Farah Al Qasimi’s first exhibition of black and white photography to Katya Muromtseva’s watercolours of displaced women

BY Rahel Aima |

At Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, a group show examines the role of hospitality in the UAE and the wider Gulf region

BY Rahel Aima |

A public exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza offers sun, sand and monumental landscapes with a dash of Burning Man

BY Rahel Aima |

Archival research projects and the city’s historic venues were the highlights of this year’s somewhat inert biennial

BY Rahel Aima |

At Sharjah Art Foundation, a landmark group exhibition explores art inspired by popular culture in South Asia

BY Rahel Aima |

Despite some worthy presentations, this year’s edition adds little to the ongoing conversation about decolonization

BY Rahel Aima |

At SculptureCenter, a recent survey takes a narrow look at the artist’s career, focusing on his tech-inspired works from the 1980s and ’90s

BY Rahel Aima |

Two concurrent shows at the Bronx Museum and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, track the artist’s career and ‘chopped-and-screwed’ process of reimagining art history

BY Rahel Aima |

A beautifully spare presentation at Lomex, New York, uses a tangle of haberdashery-esque materials to invoke transcedent scenes

BY Rahel Aima |

From hobnobbing with Oprah to championing new art centres, millennial crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is following a well-trodden path

BY Rahel Aima |

The Third Line, Dubai, UAE

BY Rahel Aima |

What the re-creation of Palmyra's Triumphal Arch in New York and London says about shared cultural identities

BY Rahel Aima |