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Curatorial Ethos
Taymour Grahne Projects is a contemporary art gallery on Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, founded in New York in 2013 by Finnish-Lebanese dealer Taymour Grahne. After twelve years of nomadic programming between New York and London, the gallery opened its first permanent space — 2,000 square feet in Dubai's leading art district — in September 2025, alongside a London office. The programme bridges artists from the MENA region and its diasporas with an international contemporary roster: Daniele Genadry, Amy Lincoln, Ala Younis, Samira Abbassy, Dominique Fung and Latifa Alajlan, among others. Grahne describes the space as a project space rather than a gallery — built for artist talks, sustained engagement and the kind of programming that comes from being genuinely present in a scene rather than passing through it.
Why this gallery matters
Exhibo editorial
Taymour Grahne spent twelve years refusing to have a permanent space. Not because he couldn't — because he didn't want to. He operated nomadically, moving between New York and London, hosting shows in borrowed spaces and unconventional venues, building a roster of more than fifty artists through relationships rather than real estate. The model worked. The programming was sharp. The artists were right. Then in September 2025 he opened 2,000 square feet on Alserkal Avenue and called it a project space, not a gallery. The distinction matters to him. "I don't want to represent artists, I want to collaborate with them," he has said. "Let's have coffee and walk around the show." For a dealer who is Finnish-Lebanese, who has spent his career moving between cultures and working with artists from the MENA region and its diasporas alongside an international roster, Alserkal was less a new market than a return to something. "Opening here feels like coming home," he said. The inaugural show was a solo by American painter Gail Spaien — meticulously composed interiors, painting as emotional exchange. An unexpected choice for a debut in Dubai, which is exactly the kind of choice Taymour Grahne tends to make.
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Warehouse D31-A, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1
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