Art Dubai is currently accepting applications for all sections: Art Dubai Galleries, Zamaniyyat, Bawwaba, Art Dubai Digital, and Art Dubai Extended.
ART DUBAI GALLERIES
Located in Hall 1 and Hall 2, Art Dubai Galleries welcomes applications from established commercial galleries that have been operating for at least two years within the Contemporary and Modern markets. Exhibitors are selected on the basis of the quality of their exhibition programme, the artists they represent, and the curatorial strength of the booth presentation.
ZAMANIYYAT
The Art Dubai modern section, Zamaniyyat | زمانيات (from zaman, the Arabic word for ‘time’), is a dedicated platform featuring solo and group presentations that revisit the work of artists who shaped and reshaped modernism throughout the 20th century and into the present. The selected curator is Dr. Sarah A. Rifky (Egypt), curator, writer, and art historian, who has held curatorial, founding, and leadership roles internationally.
BAWWABA
Bawwaba | بوابة (meaning ‘gateway’ in Arabic) is a platform for discovery, dedicated to solo presentations of new work by emerging artists. Conceived as a space that presents a new generation of practice, it invites artists to showcase ambitious new bodies of work that reflect the cultural, political, and aesthetic concerns shaping their local contexts. The 2027 edition is curated by Amal Khalaf (Bahrain), a curator and artist whose practice spans contemporary art, civic engagement, and institutional transformation.
ART DUBAI DIGITAL
Art Dubai Digital is the anchor platform for digital art in the region — the place where the field's most engaged collectors, curators and institutions convene each year. As the first section dedicated to digital art in an international art fair, it has built a committed international audience for work that sits across art, technology and networked culture. Art Dubai Digital 2027 is curated by Nadine Khalil, independent art critic and curator working with artists exploring performance, environment, and technology, co-curated by Ulrich Schrauth, Artistic Director of the UBS Digital Art Museum in Hamburg.
ART DUBAI EXTENDED
Art Dubai Extended is a curated section dedicated to ambitious artistic practices that extend beyond the conventional gallery booth. Artist-led and gallery-supported, it welcomes applications from galleries worldwide, including those not participating in another section of the fair. Curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, Executive Director, Curatorial, Art Dubai Group, Art Dubai Extended gives galleries the opportunity to foreground the scale and ambition of their artists’ practices in ways not always possible within a conventional booth.