Highlights will include a range of new performative, food-based art commissions by leading artists from South Asia in partnership with several leading galleries and institutions, a new group show in partnership with 421, and a world-class talks and events programme, featuring the brightest and best minds across a range of disciplines and specialisms. There will be the return of Art Dubai’s celebrated Global Art Forum; the debut Dubai edition of Christie’s renowned Art+Tech summit; plus a new series of inspiring Modern and Collector Talks focusing on current collecting trends in the region’s art market.
The 16th edition of Art Dubai will feature more than 100 contemporary, modern and digital participants from over 40 countries and 6 continents. The 2023 fair will include 30 first-time participants and over 60% of the gallery programme is drawn from the Global South, reaffirming Art Dubai’s position as the leading marketplace for art from this region.
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Art Dubai’s celebrated annual Global Art Forum brings together leading international artists, curators, technologists, and thinkers to take the cultural temperature of our contemporary moment. The 2023 edition’s theme will be “Predicting the Present”. Commissioned by Shumon Basar, the Forum will invite speakers discuss navigating through uncertain times, to share their vision of new sources of optimism, hope, and inspiration. To read more, please click here.
The Swiss wealth management group Julius Baer has renewed its position as lead partner of Art Dubai for a further five years, continuing a long-term partnership that began in 2015 into a second decade. As part of their new global initiative “NEXT”, launched to encourage the interdisciplinary exploration of arts science and technology, the Julius Baer lounge at the fair will premiere an immersive new commission created by new-media artist Refik Anadol. For more information, click here.
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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