Art Dubai 2025

Art Dubai’s core gallery programme will feature over 120 participants across four sections as befire: Contemporary, Modern, Bawwaba (featuring exclusively new work) and Art Dubai Digital. Works on sale are included in the excellent online catalogue for browsing.

Away from the commercial side the programme includes a series of site-specific works and interventions, including performances at the fair by Mexican artist Héctor Zamora and an installation by New York-based artist Ania Soliman plus an ambitious new digital installation by Mohammed Kazem, commissioned by Julius Baer. Alia Zaal Lootah  has curated a selection of Dubai Collection works under the title ‘Encounters’.

There’s the always-excellent Global Art Forum (the theme this year is ‘The New New Normal’) and the second edition of Art Dubai Digital’s Digital Summit. The Art Dubai Modern Talks programme is back too, a series supporting “Art Dubai’s commitment to scholarship and unexplored art histories” that usually delivers some good isnights; also worth catching will be the Conversations with Artists strand of generally informal chats.

And at the end of each day there’s music and dancing at The Art Bar on Fort Island – under the label Art Dubai After Dark, we’re prmised “some of the best up-and-coming DJs from around the world and locally, delivering great vibes throughout the night”.

Art Dubai takes place at Madinat Jumeirah from 18 to 20 April, 2-9 pm (midday to 6pm on 20 March). There are also invitation-only previews on 16 and 17 April. A one-day ticket is AED 100, a three-day pass is AED 200; you can buy tickets at the site, but it makes sense to pre-purchase via the Art Dubai app or Platinumlist.