March offers a rich selection of exhibitions across the Gulf region, bringing together emerging and established artists. From explorations of identity and memory to reflections on technology and everyday objects, these exhibitions highlight the diversity and vitality of the region’s art scene. So, as usual, here is our list of the top 10 notable exhibitions on view throughout March 2026.
1. Digital Art Exhibition: Printed Works
This group exhibition, on display at Kutubna Cultural Center until 9 March 2026, features more than 35 artworks by 27 creatives from around the world, translating digital creations into physical printed formats. The show addresses themes of healing, resistance, heritage, and identity, and reflects on the shifting relationship between technology and human experience. Through textures, symbolic imagery, and digital processes, the participating artists blur the boundaries between virtual and material realities.
2. In the Space of Becoming by Alia Hussain Lootah
Presented at Aisha Alabbar Gallery until 10 March 2026, In the Space of Becoming marks the first solo exhibition by Emirati artist Alia Hussain Lootah. It features paintings, objects, and sculptures that unfold as a quiet and intimate meditation on kinship and domestic life. Lootah’s works reflect on motherhood and the subtle processes through which forms (and relationships) gradually emerge.
3. Remnants by Kais Salman
On view at Ayyam Gallery until 18 March 2026, Remnants is a solo exhibition by Syrian artist Kais Salman, who approaches painting as a site for reconstructing memory, assembling fragmented visual traces drawn from the region’s recent past. His canvases resemble layered archives in which forgotten images resurface after decades of historical and media accumulation. The works suggest memory as a process of excavation, shaped by both preservation and loss.
4. Past Through Here
Maraya Art Centre and the Barjeel Art Foundation have co-organised Past Through Here, a group exhibition running through 20 March 2026. Drawing on works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection, the show reflects on memory, movement, and transformation. The featured art pieces explore not only what is remembered but how memory itself is formed, presenting recollection as layered and non-linear. Themes of nostalgia, displacement, and imagined futures run throughout the exhibition.
5. must i be useful? thoughts as objects
Until 10 March 2026, Foundry Downtown Dubai is hosting must i be useful? thoughts as objects, a solo exhibition by Zahra Khamissa, who works under the name “sure ok”. The show turns attention toward ordinary objects that populate daily life yet rarely receive notice. Here, usefulness is temporarily suspended: objects are freed from expectations of productivity and allowed to exist without purpose.
6. ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH by :mentalKLINIK
Gallery Isabelle presents ARE YOU HUMAN ENOUGH, an exhibition by the Brussels-based artist duo :mentalKLINIK. On view until 20 March 2026, the exhibition examines the human figure as it dissolves into surfaces and digital interfaces, becoming less a subject than a carrier of data and visual signals. The displayed works include a video featuring the MetaHuman character Viola from the series Lunatic Poet (2024), as well as LIKEWISE (2025), a 360-degree mirrored installation that immerses viewers in a shifting visual environment.
7. I Am Not a Chair. Am I a Fox? by Noura Ali-Ramahi
This solo exhibition by Lebanese-born Emirati artist Noura Ali-Ramahi is on display at Khawla Art Gallery until 18 March 2026. Bringing together works created over several years, the show revolves around two recurring symbols: the chair and the fox. The chair evokes structure and imposed identity, while the fox represents instinct and autonomy. Together, these motifs frame identity as fluid and evolving rather than fixed.
8. The Task of the Mythologist by Anahita Razmi
The Task of the Mythologist is German-Iranian artist Anahita Razmi’s solo exhibition, with an intervention by artist Peyman Shafieezadeh. Inspired by Mythologies (1957) by Roland Barthes, Razmi investigates how systems of power operate through signs and symbols across both physical and digital environments. Her works examine how contemporary myths are constructed and sustained within global cultural structures. The exhibition is being held at CARBON 12 until 31 March 2026.
9. A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Architecture as Metaphor
Meanwhile, 1×1 Art Gallery is holding A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, a collective exhibition inspired by an aphorism by Franz Kafka. Focusing on architecture as both physical structure and conceptual framework, the exhibition explores the intersections of memory, materiality, and imagination. The featured artists consider how built environments reflect human experience, balancing enclosure and openness, order and instability. The show will remain open to the public until 31 March 2026.
10. Louvre Abu Dhabi: Picasso, The Figure
This stunning exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi examines Pablo Picasso’s lifelong engagement with the human body. Featuring approximately 130 works, many from the Musée national Picasso–Paris alongside loans from institutions across France and the Middle East, the show traces Picasso’s evolving treatment of the figure across different periods of his career. One of the museum’s major exhibitions of the year, it will end on 31 May 2026.
You might also be interested in exploring Of Land and Water: Works from SAF Collection and Poetry of Birds.
