Group Presentation | "Maydan: A Living Agora": A1 Space | Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE
Past exhibition
Overview
A group show, curated by Behrang Samadzadegan.
Zaal Art Gallery presents works by Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Kiarash Alimi, Andisheh Avini, Shahryar Hatami, Ali Beheshti, Yousha Bashir, Mohammad Hossein Maher, Ashkan Abdoli, Fereydoun Ave, Sahand Hesamiyan, Reza Aramesh, Farah Ossouli and Mehrdad Mohebali.
Zaal Art Gallery presents works by Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Kiarash Alimi, Andisheh Avini, Shahryar Hatami, Ali Beheshti, Yousha Bashir, Mohammad Hossein Maher, Ashkan Abdoli, Fereydoun Ave, Sahand Hesamiyan, Reza Aramesh, Farah Ossouli and Mehrdad Mohebali.
Works
Press release
Zaal Art Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming collaborative exhibition with Leila Heller Gallery, titled Maydan: A Living Agora, curated by Behrang Samadzadegan, opening on April 14, 2025, at A1 Space, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai.
Maydan: A Living Agora brings together artists from diverse backgrounds who engage with the social, spatial, and conceptual dimensions of communal space. Their works reflect the multifaceted nature of Maydan as a platform for negotiation, memory, and storytelling within today’s shifting cultural landscapes.
Set within Alserkal Avenue, a former industrial zone turned vibrant cultural hub, the exhibition mirrors its setting: an Agora within an Agora. Here, artists, thinkers, and publics converge, not in isolation, but in active exchange.
Unlike Foucault’s heterotopia, Maydan is not a space of “otherness,” but one of togetherness, a participatory arena where overlapping narratives and identities intersect. Together, these threads invite the viewer to inhabit a living, breathing Maydan, an ever- evolving agora of voices, visions, and encounters.
Maydan: A Living Agora brings together artists from diverse backgrounds who engage with the social, spatial, and conceptual dimensions of communal space. Their works reflect the multifaceted nature of Maydan as a platform for negotiation, memory, and storytelling within today’s shifting cultural landscapes.
Set within Alserkal Avenue, a former industrial zone turned vibrant cultural hub, the exhibition mirrors its setting: an Agora within an Agora. Here, artists, thinkers, and publics converge, not in isolation, but in active exchange.
Unlike Foucault’s heterotopia, Maydan is not a space of “otherness,” but one of togetherness, a participatory arena where overlapping narratives and identities intersect. Together, these threads invite the viewer to inhabit a living, breathing Maydan, an ever- evolving agora of voices, visions, and encounters.
