Abu Dhabi Art is an innovative new platform for modern and contemporary art. Bringing together an exclusive selection of high-level art galleries and innovative emerging galleries from the four corners of the world within an ancient and modern crossroads of culture and trade, Abu Dhabi Art will be a new-model curated art fair, which will reflect the dramatically changing geography of today´s art world.
Organised exclusively by TDIC (Tourism Development & Investment Company) and ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage), Abu Dhabi Art will be presented under the patronage of His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
Featuring an extraordinarily rich roster of special exhibitions, public programmes and cultural events to complement a boutique-style art fair with leading galleries from the United States of America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, Abu Dhabi Art will take place in the capital of the UAE where the already renowned Saadiyat Island Cultural District is taking shape. Abu Dhabi Art will be the must-see event for collectors, artists, designers, art dealers, curators, critics and art lovers from around the world and an integral part of Abu Dhabi’s long-term cultural vision as the Zayed National Museum, the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Museum and the Louvre Abu Dhabi rise on the shores of the Arabian Gulf and build their world-class collections.
Participating Galleries
U.S. galleries participating in Abu Dhabi Art will include Aquavella Galleries (New York), Gagosian (New York), Pace Wildenstein (New York), Richard Gray Gallery (Chicago), L&M Arts (New York), Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery (New York), Lio Malca (New York) and Tony Shafrazi Gallery (New York).
European galleries will include White Cube (London), Waterhouse & Dodd (London), Paradise Row (London), Xerxes Fine Art (London), Galerie Gmurzynska (Zurich), Hauser & Wirth (Zurich), Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich), Galerie Louis Carré & Cie (Paris), Galerie Maeght (Paris), Malingue (Paris), Galerie Enrico Navarra (Paris), Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont (Paris), Galerie Perrin (Paris), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (Paris), Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris), Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris), Galerie Vallois (Paris), Galerie Caprice Horn (Berlin), Galerie Brigitte Schenk (Cologne), MF Toninelli Art Moderne (Monte Carlo), Galleria d’Arte Maggiore (Bologna) and ProjectB Contemporary Art (Milan).
Asian galleries will include Pundole Art Gallery (Mumbai), Gallery Ske (Bangalore), Nature Morte (New Delhi) and Hanart TZ Gallery (Hong Kong).
Middle Eastern galleries will include Salwa Zeidan (Abu Dhabi), Agial Art Gallery (Beirut), Galerie Janine Rubeiz (Beirut), Bait Muzna Gallery (Muscat), Atassi Gallery (Damascus), Ayyam Gallery (Damascus), Galerie El Marsa (Tunis), 1 x 1 Art Gallery (Dubai), Art Sawa Gallery (Dubai), B21 Gallery (Dubai), Cuadro Fine Art Gallery (Dubai), Hunar Gallery (Dubai) and The Third Line (Dubai).
