Art Dubai Art 2025

Renowned data and kinetic artist BREAKFAST will debut a monumental new sculpture, Carbon Wake, at Art Dubai 2025.

Paris-based gallery that merges tradition and technology, presenting digital artists, Bernar Venet, Fabin Rasheed, Agoria, Alice Gordon, ChunHua Catherine Dong and Lionel Bayol-Themines.

For Art Dubai Digital they present works by seven notable and pioneering previous residents of Gazelli Art House’s digital programme: Sougwen Chung, CROSSLUCID, Primavera De Filippi, Licia He, Zach Lieberman, Monica Rizzolli and Adesola Yusuf.

Located in Milan, Holy Club is recognized for its avant-garde digital art exhibitions. In Dubai, they are presenting two Italian artists: Them, and Andrea Crespi.

Based in New York and London, the gallery will present DOKU The Creator by Lu Yang. The new artwork was just exhibited in a major installation at Art Basel Hong Kong.

The digital extension of Plan X Gallery, with locations in Milan and Capri, the gallery debuts in Dubai and presents works by Argentinian artist Six N Five, American artist Michael Hafftka, and South Korean artist Deekay. Deekay will also be a featured speaker at this year’s Art Dubai Digital Summit.

TAEX is a London-based platform dedicated to experimental digital art. Founded by collector and former Art Newspaper International owner Inna Bazhenova, the initiative champions bold artistic voices. In Dubai, TAEX showcases works by Krista Kim (Canada), Alper Derinboğaz (Turkey), and Tatsuru Arai (Japan).

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The fair’s 18th edition presents new global perspectives across four sections: Contemporary, Modern, Bawwaba and Digital, as well as extensive parallel programming including new major artist commissions, performances, talks, workshops and educational programmes. The three public days on April 18, 19 and 20 will follow two VIP preview days.

Curator Gonzalo Herrero Delicado

One of the first fairs to include a digital art sector, Art Dubai Digital 2025 is curated by Gonzalo Herrero Delicado, Project Curator for Serpentine and an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art, around the theme “after the technological sublime”. This edition examines how inspiring technologies like AI and quantum computing are shaping, and sometimes distracting from urgent environmental, social, and political conversations. Beside the 21 galleries exhibiting, a series of large sculpture commissions and immersive installations will be on display at the fair.

Now in its second edition, the Digital Summit is a key part of Art Dubai’s digital art programming. Over two days of talks, lectures, and breakout sessions, the summit will feature leading curators, artists, and museum directors, exploring the future of digital art, activism, and institutions. Held in strategic partnership with Dubai Culture. We recommend the following sessions:

Saturday, April 19 at 1pm: Collecting Digital Art in a Post-NFT World with Fiorenzo Mangianello, Art Collector and Tech Entrepreneur; Amir Soleymani, Web3 Thought Leader, Mondoir Gallery; Mimi Nguyen, Director, Nguyen Wahed and Assistant Professor, Central Saint Martins, UAL

Saturday, April 19 at 6:45pm: Art, Nature, and the Digital Frontier with Ben Cullen Williams, Visual Artist and Sofia Crespo, Artist. Moderated by Stefanie De Regel, Head of Development, TAEX

World Art Dubai is the largest art fair in the MENA region, returning for its 11th edition. Featuring 10,000 artworks from 400 international artists and galleries, WAD creates an immersive space for discovery and innovation.

The largest affordable art fair of the region, WAD also features an artist prize and a program of performances and talks onsite.

TOKEN2049 is an annual crypto and Web3 conference held in Dubai and Singapore, bringing together founders, executives, developers, investors, and media from across the global blockchain ecosystem. The event offers a platform for industry leaders to share insights on emerging trends and technologies, while facilitating networking and collaboration across the decentralized landscape.

Shilpa Gupta, Listening Air (2019 – 22), Image courtesy of the artist, Photography by Jens Ziehe

Indian artist Shilpa Gupta presents recent and old works dating back to 2006 that include a new sound installation, site-specific interventions, sculptural objects, drawings, videos and prints. The exhibition foregrounds Gupta’s long standing critical engagement with borders, both visible and invisible, and the will to think beyond.

Asunción Molinos Gordo, Al-Mat’am Elli Mish Masri, (2012), Image courtesy of the artist

The exhibition spans fifteen years of Molinos Gordo’s work, tracing her journey from foundational artwork on food systems and agriculture in Egypt and the Arab world to recent investigations of Arab and Muslim heritage in her native Spain. It brings together key works that defined Molinos Gordo’s engagement with histories of food production and agriculture.

The exhibition considers the afterlife of images, how they function not just as present-day records but as future testimony. The show presents an extensive body of work by Majd Arandas, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike near his home in central Gaza in 2023. By presenting images retrieved by his brother after his tragic death, this exhibition invites viewers to interrogate the politics of image-making, and the shifting role of photography as tools of evidence.

Expanding beyond traditional mark-making, the Iranian-born artist Shafie transforms paper into sculptural forms that shift between stillness and vibration, containment and release. Her practice relies on the layering of handwritten and printed Farsi text, disrupted by precise cuts and rotations to create optical compositions that transcend linguistic barriers. Her sculptural scrolls and cascading book forms reimagine storytelling as fluid and cyclical, revealing fragments of poetry and memory.

Bashir Makhoul, Drift (2024), Image courtesy of the artist

In The Promise, artist Bashir Makhoul reflects on home as both a sanctuary and a site of loss. A Palestinian who has spent most of his life in exile, Makhoul explores his relationship with his homeland in this exhibition, examining its emotional and psychological complexities. His work captures the tension between nostalgia and rupture, presence and displacement, permanence, and impermanence.

Solo exhibition by Iraqi photographer and conceptual artist Sama Alshaibi, featuring mixed-media collages and video works that reimagine Baghdad as a layered site of memory and possibility.Between 2021 and 2023, Alshaibi returned to a city she had long known more through imagination than experience. Using LiDAR technology, she scanned its neighborhoods, landmarks, and marshland peripheries, capturing both physical structures and the ghostly silhouettes of people navigating daily life. These scans reveal a city shaped by post-war realities, where failing infrastructure mirrors the resilience of its inhabitants.

Under the theme “A Wild Stitch,” Alserkal Art Week returns with a full program of exhibitions, public art, performances, and talks across Alserkal Avenue. Highlights include Imran Qureshi’s solo show “Vanishing Points” at Concrete, site-specific works by Shilpa Gupta and Hector Zamora, and gallery exhibitions featuring Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Bashir Makhoul. The week also features Majlis Talks, curated by Stephanie Bailey, exploring regional and global art discourses.