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BODY LANGUAGE

Our cover features Rithika Merchant’s The Gates of Horn and Ivory (2020), currently on display in Bvlgari’s exhibition in Mumbai, as the artist explores dreams and realities through creatures, mythology and symbolism. The work speaks to this issue, Body Language, as we delve into what it means to be human in an exploration of the mind, body and soul.

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16 Oct
1-54 London 2025
Somerset House
20 Sep
Istanbul Biennial 2025
Various locations
20 Sep
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2025
Various venues
05 Sep
Bukhara Biennial 2025
Bukhara city
13 Sep
Aichi Triennale 2025
Aichi Prefecture
01 Nov
14th Taipei Biennial
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
09 Sep
I still insist
Dirimart
27 Sep
Michael Rakowitz: Proxies for Poets and Palaces
Stavanger Art Museum
20 Sep
Bady Dalloul: Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have
Jameel Arts Centre
30 Sep
Hoda Afshar. Performing the Invisible
musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
01 Oct
The Unsaid Remains Remembered
JD Malat Gallery
23 Sep
Ala Younis: Past of a Temporal Universe
NYUAD Art Gallery
25 Sep
Fire
Villa Empain - Boghossian Foundation
18 Sep
The importance of staying quiet
Grey Noise, Dubai
13 Sep
Ruba Salameh: Refined Compositions
Zawyeh Gallery, Dubai
24 May
Wild Uplands
Penistone Hill Country Park
21 Jun
All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
Hessel Museum of Art (Bard College)
19 Sep
Marwan Bassiouni: New Western Views 
Lawrie Shabibi
18 Sep
The Only Way Out is Through 
The Third Line
18 Sep
Inside Out ‘25
Ayyam Gallery
11 Oct
The Shape of Things to Come
Efie Gallery
18 Sep
Arranging Flowers 
Taymour Grahne Projects
19 Sep
I’m Never Coming Back
Firetti Contemporary
06 May
Torn Time: Bilgé
Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
21 Aug
The Shade
Sfeir-Semler Gallery Karantina
21 Aug
Kamyar Bineshtarigh: Group Show
Southern Guild Cape Town
22 Jul
Stéphanie Saadé: The Encounter of the First and Last Particles of Dust
Sursock Museum
15 Nov
MUNCH Triennale 2025
MUNCH
27 May
Massinissa Selmani: distances
Aranya Art Center North
06 Jun
Resonant: Bodies, Songs, and Strings
Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO® (MACS MTO®)
06 Jun
The Watchers
[mac] – Museum of Contemporary Art of Marseille
26 Aug
13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale 
Seoul
26 Feb
IMMA Collection: Art as Agency
Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA)
13 May
Allspice: Michael Rakowitz & Ancient Cultures
The Acropolis Museum
29 Jan
Gathering Ground
Tate Modern
07 Mar
in situ: Refik Anadol
The Guggenheim Museum
14 Jun
Anna Boghiguian The Sunken Boat: A glimpse into past histories
Turner Contemporary
27 Jun
12th SITE SANTA FE International
SITE SANTA FE
12 Apr
Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
29 May
A Seat at the Table: Food & Feasting in the Islamic World
Museum of Islamic Art
15 May
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
ΕΜΣΤ, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
29 Aug
41st EVA International — Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art
Various venues
01 Feb
Wafaa Bilal: Indulge Me
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
19 Dec
Ouverture 2024
Castello di Rivoli
02 Feb
MACAAL: Seven Contours, One Collection
Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL)
25 Apr
Yto Barrada: Le Grand Soir
MoMA PS1

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