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Short Description Dubai Design Week (DXBDW) is pleased to announce the return of Urban Commissions, DXBDW’s annual competition that offers the opportunity to develop outdoor infrastructure in the public domain for Dubai Design District. 2025 Theme This year’s Urban Commissions theme, ‘Courtyard’, explores its role as a communal urban infrastructure across local and global architectural, urban planning […]

Sharjah Art Foundation, in collaboration with Alkazi Foundation for the Arts, Asia Art Archive and Contemporary And (C&), invites emerging and mid-career art writers living and working in Asia and Africa to apply for PARA, a fellowship programme supporting the development and publication of new critical writing about contemporary art.  PARA explores what it means […]

Short Description: The NYUAD Art Gallery is now accepting proposals for exhibitions at the Project Space for the 2025-2026 academic year. The deadline for proposal submissions is June 9, 2025. This is an opportunity for curators, artists, and researchers based in the UAE to present their work, collaborate with our museum staff, and engage diverse […]

Short Description The Artist Residency Grants invite both local and international artists to create new work and engage with the Ras Al Khaimah community. Inspired by the Emirates, these artists produce captivating works and share their talents through workshops. Open to all creative practices, the program offers six-month residencies that culminate in an exhibition and […]

Short Description RAi Residency is a 12 week program, aiming to provide opportunities for artists, curators, and theorists. To develop their practice in a studio environment, network, connect and expand their oeuvre through collaborations with communities and institutions.   RAi Residency is open to 4 residents at a time, 3 artists and 1 curator/theorist We provide practitioners with […]

Short Description What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death.” Octavio Paz’s profound words remind us that the rich diversity of human civilizations is not merely […]

Short Description: Ras Al Khaimah (RAK) Art 2026 Festival invites artists to explore the theme “Civilizations – A Journey Through Time and Culture“. The 2026 Festival seeks to celebrate both the magnificent diversity of human cultural expression and the universal aspirations that bind us together. From ancient wisdom to contemporary visions, from technological marvels to […]

Organizer Information Ettijahat – Independent Culture is a Lebanon-based cultural organisation founded in 2011 that supports independent artistic and cultural activities across the Arab region and its diaspora. Its mission is to enable artists to engage in cultural practice, social change, and artistic production across artistic disciplines. The organisation regularly publishes open calls for artists […]

Art Dubai is the Middle East’s leading international art fair, taking place every March in Dubai, UAE. Over the past 18 years, Art Dubai has cemented its role in being a major catalyst in the local, regional and international conversations on art from the Middle East and surrounding region (MENASA – Middle East, North Africa […]