This National report covers the opening of the Aichi Triennale 2025 in Japan, the country's largest international arts festival, under the artistic direction of Sharjah Art Foundation president Hoor Al Qasimi. The article centres on Al Qasimi's opening address, in which she framed the edition's theme, A Time Between Ashes and Roses, around solidarity with Palestine and with indigenous struggles elsewhere, and describes the political tone she set for the festival's sixth edition.
Reporting on the scale of Arab participation, the piece notes that this edition features a record number of Arab artists, drawn from Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan and Tunisia alongside a strong Emirati contingent. Maitha Abdalla is named among that UAE group, alongside Afra Al Dhaheri, Shaikha Al Mazrou and Mohammed Kazem, as presenting work in the festival's Contemporary Art programme; the article does not go into detail on her individual piece, focusing instead on the wider political and curatorial framing of the edition.
For Abdalla, the mention adds to a run of major international showings in 2025, sitting alongside her continued representation by Tabari Artspace and her recent presentation in Proximities at the Seoul Museum of Art, and confirms her place among the Emirati artists given prominence on this Japanese festival stage.
