In the heart of Dubai, NIKA Project Space presents Hybrid Vistas, an evocative exploration of contemporary landscapes where nature is no longer a static backdrop but an evolving, mediated construct. Running until 7 February 2026, the exhibition brings together five international artists, Adel Abidin, Daniele Genadry, Ali Kaeini, Katya Muromtseva, and Melissa Rios, whose practices traverse painting, installation, photography, and mixed media to interrogate memory, perception, and cultural identity.
The show opens a dialogue on the instability of the natural world in the contemporary imagination. Adel Abidin’s refracted terrains merge memory with global experiences of migration, decay, and political unrest, creating spaces that are at once familiar and disquieting. In contrast, Daniele Genadry’s ethereal compositions engage absence and light, requiring viewers to navigate the fragile and transient nature of perception.
Ali Kaeini fuses geometric precision with organic fluidity, drawing on Iranian architectural motifs to explore displacement and historical memory, positioning his paintings as both landscape and barrier. Katya Muromtseva deconstructs visual narrative in No Such Thing As Day and Night, producing chromatically charged abstractions that reflect global upheaval and the collapse of conventional communication. Finally, Melissa Rios inhabits a surreal, dreamlike terrain, bridging figuration and abstraction to explore the intersection of imagination and lived experience.
Together, these five artists craft a hybrid visual language where painting becomes a tool for reconstructing our understanding of place, perception, and time. Hybrid Vistas challenges the viewer to confront the fluidity of landscapes, prompting reflection on how technology, memory, and global interconnectivity reshape our experience of the world.
In an era where the real and the virtual constantly overlap, Hybrid Vistas demonstrates that contemporary landscape painting is far more than a window onto nature, it is an interface for navigating the complexities of our mediated visual culture.