Spanning 500,000 sqft in the Al Quoz industrial area of Dubai, Alserkal Avenue is home to a community of over 70 contemporary art galleries, visual and performing arts organisations, designers, home-grown and entrepreneur-led businesses, and community spaces. As one of the region’s foremost destinations for contemporary art, and home to Dubai’s risk-takers, makers and wide-ranging creative communities, the Avenue provides cultural experiences for local, regional and international audiences through its extensive year-round programming.

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Set within five Grade II listed Victorian townhouses in South Kensington, Cromwell Place is one of London’s most exciting arts destinations. Offering a year-round programme of diverse exhibitions open to the public across 15 gallery spaces. As a membership organisation and innovative arts hub, it also provides an environment in which galleries, collectors, dealers, curators, and arts professionals can collaborate and flourish together.

Founded in 1766, Christie’s is a world-leading art and luxury business. Renowned and trusted for its expert live and online auctions, as well as its bespoke private sales, Christie’s offers a full portfolio of global services to its clients, including art appraisal, art financing, international real estate and education.

Christie’s auctions span more than 80 art and luxury categories, at price points ranging from $200 to over $100 million. Christie’s has sold 8 of the 10 most important single-owner collections in history, including the Paul G. Allen Collection—the most valuable collection ever offered at auction (November 2022).

Following the groundbreaking 2021 sale of the first digital art NFT ever offered by a global auction house (Beeple’s Everydays), Christie’s recently launched the first fully on-chain auction platform dedicated to exceptional NFT art. As an industry leader in digital innovation, Christie’s also continues to pioneer new technologies that are redefining the business of art, including a new venture capital investment fund, the use of hologram technology to tour life-size 3D objects around the world, and the creation of viewing and bidding experiences that integrate augmented reality, global livestreaming, buy-now channels, and hybrid sales formats.

Private collector and patron of young artists, Fiorenzo Manganiello at only 30 years old, is already a visionary. As a business owner, professor and expert in the Blockchain Technology, and founder of Lian Foundation – partner of the United Nations of Geneva and the Geneva Red Cross – Fiorenzo, as young collector, sees that the exponential development of technology is transforming our world and its reflection can be found through art. His private collection is composed of NFTS and painting of not only renowned artists such as Oli Epp, Austin Lee and Alexander Gardner, but also of young emergent contemporary artists as Chloé Wise and Marja Djordjevic.

JPG is a platform and infrastructure to promote and preserve the NFT ecosystem’s cultural objects via exhibitions and canons.

JPG’s Exhibitions allow users to curate online NFT exhibitions, which are stored on Arweave in perpetuity. JPG Canons are community created and governed lists of NFTs, designed to index a new contextual data layer for the ecosystem that will map relational networks and improve discovery, context, and searchability.

TRLab fuses Web3 technology with fine art expertise to pioneer the future of collecting. Since its founding in 2021, TRLab has successfully designed and launched NFT collecting experiences with leading digital and traditional artists, including “The Calder Question”, a multi-season educational project developed with the Calder Foundation, “Your Daytime Fireworks,” an interactive collecting journey with contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang, which was shortlisted for a 2022 Lumen Prize, and “Exploding the Self”, a limited-edition series with Cai Guo-Qiang which is now represented in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Co-founded by Audrey Ou, CEO, and Xin Li-Cohen, Deputy Chairman at Christie’s, TRLab is backed by partners and investors from both the fine art and tech sectors, including Dragonfly Capital, Pace Verso, and Rockbund Art Museum, one of Asia’s premier contemporary art museums.

arte EXPERIENCE is an anchor that acts as the centre of the arte community, bringing together all those in the industry to a physical location.

arte is a WEB3 meta-community by the Crypto Oasis with the purpose of empowering creators in the web3 economy through events, resources, and opportunities to create the biggest WEB3 creator community in the World.

arte is the community arm of the Crypto Oasis which is the fastest growing Blockchain Ecosystem in the World. They’re responsible for nurturing the MENA Ecosystem and are one of the main drivers in attracting global web3 talent to Dubai.