Art Dubai announces physical fair edition for March 2021, with a diverse list of galleries and new inventive programme of events and experiences, adapted to safety protocol.
Visit Art Dubai Portrait Exhibitions, Art Dubai’s online solo artist exhibitions programme, diving into the life and practice of a selection of some of the finest practitioners across the Global South, with works available to acquire.
Contact our in-house travel team at travel@artdubai.ae for discounted rates at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai’s leading beach resort, and the home of Art Dubai.
Art Dubai’s patron, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai recently announced the launch of the Dubai Collection. The new initiative, built in collaboration between Dubai Culture and Art Dubai, will bring together key stakeholders to create an innovative system to help develop the emirate’s art community.
Lebanese artist Samir Sayegh is a pioneer of modernism in the Arab world. His practice is driven by his interest in the formal power of letters; Sayegh was a pioneer in seperating Arabic calligraphy from its contextual language in an effort to create a universal visual language.
Read moreLebanese artist Ali Cherri doesn’t believe in creative inspiration; he thinks art takes work, time, and patience. His work is largely impacted by the framework of growing up in civil war, highlighting questions of death, heritage, war and critical thought about the world and context within which we live.
Read moreSherin Guirguis’s contemporary practice aims to evolve traditional sacred geometry into a new visual language that seeks to tell stories and personal narratives. She works almost exclusively on paper, and is particularly interested in the history and embodied politics of working exclusively with this medium.
Read moreMoroccan artist Meriem Bennani’s work applies humour and surreal approaches to subjects that are often considered taboo. Most recently, her digital characters serve as a vehicle through which to comment on social, political and cultural experiences through conversations that are relevant and reflective of the times we live in.
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