n In recognition of the lately growing energy of artistic expression by Saudi youth, Athr gallery is excited to present Y.S.A. The upcoming exhibition, which opens Jan. 12, presents some of the most disparate artworks by young Saudi artists across a range of styles and mediums. The artworks delicately depict the local collective conscience nowadays. The artists featured are: Badriya Abdallah, Sara Abdu, Faisal Abu Al-Adel, Omar Al-Ashour, Reem Bajabaa, Huda Beydoun, Nada Hakeem, Sami Jeraidi, Amna Kamel, Sa’ad bin Mohammed, Saleh AlShehri, Saud Al-Saud, Yousef Al-Shaikh, Nasser Al-Salim, Majed Al-Thebeiti, Talal AlToghais, and Salwa Zahid.

— www.athrart.com
 


n Green Art Gallery is inaugurating its new space in Al Serkal Avenue with a solo show for rising Turkish painter Ebru Uygun. This will mark Ebru’s first solo presentation in the region. Ebru Uygun’s work can be seen as a semaphore for the deconstruction of traditional artistic practice. Her work, while displaying many of the aspects of traditional paintings — created with paint, hung on walls, existing in two dimensions — also encompasses various practices including performance, collage, sound-making and sculpture. In her works, Uygun effortlessly combines several binaries: deconstruction and reconstruction; pulling apart and putting back together; silence and noise; chaos and order.

— www.gagallery.com
 


n Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce “Venus of the Clouds,” the forthcoming solo exhibition of Syrian painter and sculptor Mounzer Kamnakache on the Jan. 20. Known for sensual figures that possess mythical overtones, Kamnakache is a prominent artist of his generation. With his latest body of work he resumes the themes found in earlier pastels with the buttery forms of his female protagonist dominating airy compositions.

— www.ayyamgallery.com
 

(London — Jan. 20-March 2)

n Lahd Gallery presents An Istanbul Legacy, a group exhibition featuring an exquisite selection of art works from three leading contemporary Turkish artists. This diverse exhibition will explore the art and culture of Turkey incorporating many different aspects of artistic traditions. Art works by distinguished artists Guido Casaretto, UgurCakiand BedriBaykamwill be shown, which will be aimed at provoking interest amongst varied audiences through the diversity of their individual styles.

— www.lahdgallery.com