Äj

Short Biography

Äj has built an active exhibition presence in Dubai since 2025, showing work across several galleries, including her first solo exhibition at Intent Gallery, Downtown Dubai, in late 2025, featuring two bodies of work: 'Colorful World' and 'Talisman'. She has since continued to exhibit across group shows in Dubai through 2026.

Exhibitions

Äj held her first solo exhibition at Intent Gallery, Downtown Dubai, from October to November 2025, presenting her 'Colorful World' and 'Talisman' series. Her group exhibition record includes a Year End Group Exhibition at Intent Gallery (December 2025); 'Tribute to the UAE' with Funun Arts Group, for which she created an original artwork specifically for the exhibition (December 2025); a group exhibition at Mondoir Gallery, Downtown Dubai (March 2025); 'Open Invitation' at Satellite Gallery, Alserkal Avenue (January 2026); 'As We Appear' with Saku Art and La Bella Art Gallery (February 2026); 'Threshold' with Saku Art and CASA Collective (May to June 2026); and 'The Art of Connection' at Avid Learning, Dubai (June to September 2026).

Artistic Style

Äj works across two ongoing series, 'The Colorful World' and 'Talisman', alongside more intimate capsule works inspired by specific places, moments, and experiences. Her compositions layer colour, symbols, handwritten words, and texture into surfaces that function as visual records of emotional and lived experience. The work moves fluidly between abstraction and figurative reference, with resilience, joy, and the unexpected as recurring thematic concerns. For Äj, the act of painting transforms emotion into something visible and communicable, offering the viewer a point of reconnection with their own inner life. [Äj](https://diarbid.com/admin/resources/users/899) Country (residence) [United Arab Emirates](https://diarbid.com/admin/resources/countries/4) Nationality [France](https://diarbid.com/admin/resources/countries/50) Profession Abstract Artist About Äj is a French contemporary abstract artist based between Dubai and the South of France. Her practice explores emotion, memory and the defining moments that shape our lives through an instinctive language of color, symbols, words and layered textures. Moving between abstraction and increasingly figurative elements, her work is deeply rooted in lived experience and in the belief that art can transform emotion into something visible, vibrant and universal. Across her ongoing series The Colorful World and Talisman, alongside more intimate capsule works inspired by specific places, moments and experiences, Äj creates work that invites viewers to reconnect with resilience, joy and the beauty of the unexpected. Birth Date 10/21/1985 Featured Artist CV Title Description SELECTED EXHIBITION 2026 June–September — The Art of Connection Avid Learning, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition May/June — Threshold Saku Art × CASA Collective, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition February — As We Appear Saku Art × La Bella Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition January — Open Invitation Satellite Gallery, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition 2025 December — Year End Group Exhibition Intent Gallery, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition December — Tribute to the UAE Funun Arts Group, Dubai, UAE Group Exhibition — original artwork created specifically for the exhibition October–November, FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION Intent Gallery, Downtown Dubai, UAE Featuring two bodies of work: Colorful World & Talisman March, Group Exhibition Mondoir Gallery, Downtown Dubai, UAE