Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai (2026)

07/05/2026

For Art Dubai’s upcoming special edition, HUNA returns with their talks series, featuring leading cultural figures in conversation spanning art, lifestyle and contemporary cultural production.

Presented in collaboration with ARM Holding and HUNA, the HUNA talks bring together voices from media, design, wellness, publishing and cultural institutions to explore how art shapes the ways we live, gather and communicate.

Moving beyond a single discipline, the programme considers the wider ecosystem around artistic production — from the platforms that circulate ideas to the spaces, objects and communities that define contemporary life.

HUNA Talks will take place on Friday 15 May at Madinat Jumeirah.

06/05/2026

Episode 3: The City

Leading up to Art Dubai’s special edition, we are releasing a series of short films reflecting on 20 years of the fair.

As Dubai grew into a global meeting point, so did Art Dubai — evolving alongside the city, its communities and its cultural ambitions.

What began as the Gulf Art Fair became something rooted in place, shaped by exchange, dialogue and a shared vision.

This episode reflects on how Art Dubai reimagined the role of a fair within a city — becoming a platform where regional narratives meet global conversations.

Art Dubai Special Edition, taking place 15–17 May 2026.

الحلقة 3: المدينة

في الفترة التي تسبق النسخة الخاصة من آرت دبي، نُطلق سلسلة من الأفلام القصيرة التي تتأمل 20 عاماً من مسيرة المعرض.

مع تحوّل دبي إلى نقطة التقاء عالمية، تطوّر آرت دبي بدوره - متماشياً مع المدينة، ومجتمعاتها، وطموحاتها الثقافية.

ما بدأ كـ”معرض فن الخليج” أصبح منصة متجذّرة في المكان، تشكّلت عبر التبادل والحوار ورؤية مشتركة.

تتناول هذه الحلقة كيف أعاد آرت دبي تصوّر دور المعرض داخل المدينة - ليصبح منصة تلتقي فيها السرديات الإقليمية مع الحوارات العالمية.

آرت دبي - النسخة الخاصة، تُقام من 15 إلى 17 مايو 2026

Directed and filmed by Ted Beagles

Featuring: Aaron Cezar, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Myrna Ayad, Alexie Glass-Kantor and Andree Sfeir-Semler

06/05/2026

Art Dubai, in collaboration with Ab-Anbar Gallery, is pleased to present Silk Road by Neda Razavipour as part of the Art Dubai Special Edition.

Working with textiles, Razavipour creates large-scale, architectural forms that explore movement and material memory.

Silk Road unfolds as an expansive tapestry, its surface layered with interwoven motifs that shift with light and movement.

Rather than a fixed image, the work reads as a field in flux, where forms appear and dissolve, tracing connections across histories of trade and exchange.

Developed in collaboration with designer Afsaneh Modir Amani and produced with Flanders Tapestries, the work reveals itself through scale, texture and duration.

On view 15–17 May at Madinat Jumeirah.

04/05/2026

| In The Studio | with Edgar Orlaineta, whose works will be part of Carbon 12 at Art Dubai Special Edition.

Born in 1972 in Mexico City, Edgar Orlaineta develops hybrid sculptural forms that draw on modernism, popular culture and specific historical moments. His work engages with post-war design and architecture, often characterised by biomorphic forms shaped by surrealist influence. Through this lens, he revisits industrial design objects that shift from mass-produced goods into highly valued collectors’ items, questioning their symbolic and economic status.

By introducing craft-based interventions and combining them with every day, historically neutral objects, he disrupts their original function and meaning. These assemblages and interventions seek to suspend notions of utility and value, opening new readings that reactivate the legacy of the historical avant-garde.

Discover Edgar Orlaineta's work as part of Carbon 12 in Art Dubai Special Edition.

02/05/2026

| In The Studio | with Mohammed Al-Hawajri, whose works will be part of Iyad Qanazea Gallery at Art Dubai Special Edition.

Mohammed Al-Hawajri is a Palestinian artist born in 1976 in the Al Bureij refugee camp in Gaza. He is a founding member of the Eltiqa Group for Contemporary Art in Gaza.

His work reflects the living conditions in Gaza, combining elements of sarcasm and reality to highlight socio- political issues. Al-Hawajri works across a variety of mediums and techniques including painting, video and photography, and employs unconventional materials such as household spices and animal bones. Al-Hawajri's notable projects include Cactus Borders, Animal Farm, and Guernica-Gaza.

Discover Mohammed Al-Hawajri's work as part of Iyad Qanazea Gallery in Art Dubai's Special Edition.

01/05/2026

Art Dubai, in collaboration with Leila Heller Gallery, is pleased to present two monumental installations by Kevork Mourad as part of the Art Dubai Special Edition.

‘The Memories of Stone’ form a powerful dual presentation, bringing together suspended and freestanding structures that transform drawing into space.

Working directly through hand-drawn mark-making, Mourad builds expansive environments where images of architecture, landscape and history emerge, fragment and reassemble.

These are ambitious, large-scale works that shift between stillness and movement, holding a tension between structure and collapse.

Developed through a practice that often unfolds live alongside music, the works carry a quiet sense of rhythm, where drawing becomes both image and action.

Kevork Mourad is a Syrian-Armenian artist whose work brings together visual art, music and live performance, including long-standing collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble.

On view 15–17 May at Madinat Jumeirah.

Photo credit: Details of the artwork, Aly Manji

30/04/2026

Be among the first to preview artworks from the Art Dubai Special Edition.

This edition brings together a considered mix of galleries, from long-standing international participants to Dubai galleries that have grown alongside the fair, alongside a new generation of regional and international exhibitors joining for the first time.

Together, they highlight contemporary practices, digital work, and modern art histories.

Head to the link in our bio to discover preview highlights of the fair.

29/04/2026

Art Dubai and Alserkal present ‘Moving’, a co-curated commissioning programme supporting artists across a shared gallery ecosystem.

This programme builds on a multi-year partnership between the two institutions, bringing together artists from Alserkal Avenue galleries who are also participating in the fair.

Focusing on moving image, ‘Moving’ foregrounds works that emphasise atmosphere, gesture and rhythm rather than linear narrative. The programme considers how images unfold over time, inviting audiences to engage with works that are experienced as much as viewed.

Presented across Alserkal Avenue and within Art Dubai’s Special Edition, these projects extend the fair beyond the halls, creating a dialogue between the city and the exhibition.

On view during Art Dubai’s Special Edition in Madinat Jumeirah and on The Yard screens in Alserkal Avenue from 15–17 May 2026.

The programme includes works by:
• Abeer Sultan,
• Anahita Razmi,
• Bady Dalloul,
• Dima Srouji,
• Faisal Samra,
• Huda Lutfi,
• :mentalKLINIK,
• Mohamed Kazem,
• Mounir Fatmi,
• Raed Yassin,
• Sadik Alfraji,
• Sudarshan Shetty, and
• Sumayah Fallatah

Presented in collaboration with:
• Ayyam Gallery,
• Carbon 12,
• Efie Gallery,
• Gallery Isabelle,
• Lawrie Shabibi,
• Leila Heller Gallery, and
• The Third Line

28/04/2026

Art Dubai, in collaboration with Efie Gallery, is pleased to present ‘Heart of a Place’ by Yaw Owusu as part of the Art Dubai Special Edition.

Yaw Owusu is a Ghanaian artist whose work transforms everyday materials into richly textured sculptural forms.

Working with coins and metals, Owusu builds layered surfaces that shift in colour and texture, bringing together materials from Ghana, the UAE and the US.

‘In Heart of a Place’, these elements come together in a dense, luminous work that changes as you move around it.

Presented at the entrance to the fair, it will present a strong first encounter through scale, material and presence.

On view 15–17 May at Madinat Jumeirah.

27/04/2026

Announcing the Global Art Forum 2026 - Full Schedule

The upcoming 20th anniversary edition of our flagship, transdisciplinary summit is entitled “Before and After Everything,” a focused and timely reflection on the forces shaping cultural thought today. Organised by long-term Commissioner Shumon Basar, this special one-day edition brings together leading voices from across the UAE and beyond to explore beginnings, mythic landscapes, history, media, and confronting uncertainty.

Speakers include:
Antonia Carver, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassimi, Reem Fadda, Sunny Rahbar, Hazem Harb, Aaron Cezar, Binna Choi, Butheina Kazim, Isaac Sullivan, Sarra Alayyan, Sophia Al Maria, Ruba Al-Sweel, Fady Nageeb and Alexie Glass-Kantor.

Head to the link in our bio to see this year’s Global Art Forum schedule, taking place on Saturday 16 May.

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