Al Serkal Avenue
As of late, we are seeing a sharp incline in the aesthetic culture of Dubai industry with more and more craftsmen, designers, creators, and artistes making their way to the city. Paving the way for Dubai’s growing artistic tradition is Al Serkal Avenue: a district in the Al Quoz industrial area that features a meandering street of around eighteen art galleries, an urban creative workspace, and an independent music company.

Carbon 12
Established in 2008, Carbon 12 became the first in the region to start a comprehensive and global program of institution-grade artists. Internationally known for its raw, contemporary, and often conceptual art, the gallery promotes both established and emerging artists.

Showcase
Showcase focuses largely on sculpture and the pieces exhibited by this gallery are visibly deep-rooted in African and Middle Eastern civilizations. Showcase gallery’s current summer exhibition presents art by three artists from Zimbabwe, inspired by the three mediums of wood, paper, and stone.

Green Art Gallery
Green Art gallery was established in 1995 and has since been ambitiously rebranded to feature art that spans across the Middle East, Africa, the Mediterranean and even South Asia. Its current exhibition ‘Damascenes’ is a curious set of drawings by Khaldoun Chichakli portraying still detailed scenes of Damascus city.

Grey Noise
This gallery contains art that is a lot more experimental requiring reflection and deep thinking. Established in 2008 in Lahore, the project expanded and relocated to Dubai, all along representing art from South Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

FN Gallery
FN is a design studio and gallery that represents art in modern contemporary and digital forms including visual design, illustration, publishing, photography, etc. Entering into the gallery it’s evident that the space holds much more than traditional art with even a collection of the independent zine: AMOR.

Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde
The owner of the same name established this gallery back in 2004 as a leading contemporary art space; since then Van Den Eynde has flourished opening a branch in B21 in Dubai as well as in Belgium.  The current exhibition is of Zoulikha Bouabdellah.

Lawrie Shabibi
The final gallery in this list is Lawrie Shabibi, another contemporary art house for works from the MENA region. Currently, the gallery is displaying the beautiful and serene creations of sculptor Mona Saudi, that blend into a calm state of balance and tranquility.

There are more galleries present at Al Serkal but are currently closed, or inactive during the Holy Month of Ramadan. For more information about future events and timings of each gallery go to:http://www.alserkalavenue.ae/