Global Positioning System

Global Positioning System is a group exhibition about mapping and navigation systems at Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, from 9 May to 4 October 2026. The Dubai presentation brings together thirty artists and artist groups.

In the centre's words, the exhibition "tells stories of fast cars and donkeys, spinning globes and street barricades, cosmic highways and broken bridges." It ranges from research-based work on infrastructure projects to conceptual works about the perception of distance. It focuses on movement, conceptual gestures and time-based practices, and on the infrastructure of mobility that enables transport and trade. The centre writes: "This exhibition's central provocation is to steer away from the map's imposing presence, asking what remains of space and movement in its absence."

The artists in Dubai are Bani Abidi, Madiha Aijaz, Fatma Al Ali, Mahmoud Alhaj, Lulua Alyahya, Ana Amorim, Nazgol Ansarinia, Fayçal Baghriche, Mirna Bamieh, Heman Chong, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Harun Farocki, Md Fazla Rabbi Fatiq, Devadeep Gupta, Hylozoic/Desires, Mohammed Kazem, Lawrence Lek, Dora Longo Bahia, Cinthia Marcelle, Seher Naveed, Şener Özmen & Erkan Özgen, Fazal Rizvi, Hassan Sharif, Vishwa Shroff, Dima Srouji, Do Ho Suh, T. Vinoja, Subas Tamang, Bo Wang and Tatyana Zambrano.

The exhibition is curated by Indranjan Banerjee and Lucas Morin. It is presented in two parts across Art Jameel's two centres. The second part is at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, from 20 May to 26 October 2026. Together the two parts gather over forty artists.