Commissions – magpie

9 May 2026

Alla Abdunabi (left) and Maktoum Marwan Al Maktoum from Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond Emerging Artists programme

Abu Dhabi Art’s three emerging artists for the Beyond programme

17 July 2025

Abu Dhabi Art has named Alla Abdunabi, Salmah Almansoori, and Maktoum Marwan Al Maktoum for its Beyond Emerging Artists commissions programme. They’ll be mentored by Issam Kourbaj and will show their new work at Abu Dhabi Art this November; the [ … ]

Abu Dhabi Art extras: the artist commissions for 2023

18 October 2023

Abu Dhabi Art has filled in the details for exhibitions and artist commissions around the 2023 fair, and — as one would expect – the results are a decent mix of the established and the new(ish). The 2023 programme includes [ … ]

Jaddaf Playscape commission: a playground for everyone

25 July 2023

The winning proposal for the inaugural Jaddaf Playscape Commission for Dubai Public Art is a playground for all ages from the UAE-based design collective Theories of Imagination (TOFI) – artist-architect Noor Alwan and artist-designer Abdulla Buhijji. Due to open to [ … ]