The Top Art Stories from Sekka Magazine - March 2022

With the support of Sekka, and in collaboration with Dubai Festival City, the Khaleeji Art Museum, the first digital museum dedicated to art and photography of the Arab Gulf States, will host an art show that will celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022. Titled This Is Me: Celebrating Arab Womanhood, the show will bring together six Arab artists and photographers, some of whom were featured in Sekka’s latest issue, who will showcase their work on an Imagine Screen positioned on a 37-story high building in Dubai Festival City. The screen is the largest permanent outdoor projection in the world...

Hala Al Abbasi created the first Ramadan stickers for Instagram to be used by millions of users around the world...

On Tuesday, 15 March, the Khaleeji Art Museum opened its door to visitors to its latest exhibition Before Take Off.  Taking place at House 11 (also known as the ‘Khaleeji House’) in Dubai’s Al Fahidi Historic District, the exhibition is a pop up art event held on the ground by the Khaleeji Art Museum, the first digital museum dedicated to art and photography of the Arab Gulf States, as part of the UAE’s annual Sikka Art and Design Festival...

On Thursday, 17 March 2022, Oman’s latest art experience, Ahlam El Asr, officially opened in Muttrah and was visited by the Foreign Minister of Oman His Excellency Sayyid Badr Albusaidi ambassadors, dignitaries and creatives. The special art event is born out of a collaboration between Sekka, Zawraq Collective, a duo of creative Omani women who reimagine Muscat’s art scene as belonging to its youth and their explosive talents, and Teepee, an Omani pop-up glamping experience that creates one of a kind experiences that encourage cultural immersion, reconnecting with nature and ignite a sense of adventure...

The Women Series: She is Who Births One Half of Society and Raises the Other is a group exhibition brought together through a collaboration between Sekka and “1971-Design Space.” The exhibition opened on March 8 and showcases the works of three artists from the Gulf region: Budoor Al Reyami from Oman, Maha Al Asaker from Kuwait and Hessa Al Suwaidi from the United Arab Emirates. The works exhibited reflect on Arab womanhood, identity and culture, while exploring how each artist perceives cultural traditions in different contexts and how each portrays these reflections through their work...