Tabari Artspace gallery

Tabari Artspace was founded in 2003, at a moment when artists from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region were still largely absent or misrepresented within international discourse. We began by championing key figures in the development of regional modernism, foregrounding artists whose practices had been critically significant yet insufficiently historicised. The early days established an approach that continues to inform the gallery’s programme today, centred on identifying practices of lasting importance and developing the curatorial, scholarly and institutional frameworks required to support their visibility over time.