Abu Dhabi Art 2025 - Community Projects Application |
Applications Deadline: 26 May 2025
Important dates:
15 - 16 November 2025 Installation Days
17 November 2025 Media & Host Committee Preview
18 November 2025 Patrons & Collectors Opening
19 - 23 November 2025 Fair Days
23 - 24 November 2025 De-installation Days
Abu Dhabi Art Community Projects 2025
This year, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) has been invited to transform the Community Partners exhibition space into a dynamic platform for artistic and cultural dialogue, reflecting the spirit of the "Year of Community." To bring this vision to life, ADMAF is collaborating with Salasil—a future-focused curatorial studio rooted in care, research, and experimentation, and committed to nurturing collaboration between curators, artists, and audiences. The Community Partners are prompted to explore the theme “Community” as channels of care, ecosystems, memory + future, resource + practice, sacred spaces and an extension of everyday life.
Community partners are expected to fund their proposals. Should any display objects be made available for the public to purchase, all proceeds must go directly to the artisans participating in the Community Section or to support art and culture initiatives.
About ADMAF
Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) was established in 1996 as one of the earliest cultural foundations in the Gulf region and Arab world. ADMAF supports the sustainability and creativity of the cultural industries and contributes to enriching Abu Dhabi as a cultural beacon by offering a wide array of initiatives, often in partnership with leading national and international institutions, including Abu Dhabi Festival and several youth and societal programmes and platforms, to support creative talents in the UAE and abroad. For more information, visit the ADMAF website at: www.admaf.org
About Studio Salasil
A future-focusing curatorial studio and library tending to care, playfulness, research and experimentation. Through these principles, we develop exhibitions, publications, programs, mentorship and artworks that invite collaboration and conversation as we explore the ever-changing nature of creative work revealing the infinite possibilities of exhibition making and artwork creation.
Highlighting the relationship between curators, artists and the audience, our aim is to encourage risk and disruption. For more information visit the Salasil instagram page: @sa_la_sil_
Important dates:
15 - 16 November 2025 Installation Days
17 November 2025 Media & Host Committee Preview
18 November 2025 Patrons & Collectors Opening
19 - 23 November 2025 Fair Days
23 - 24 November 2025 De-installation Days
Abu Dhabi Art Community Projects 2025
This year, Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) has been invited to transform the Community Partners exhibition space into a dynamic platform for artistic and cultural dialogue, reflecting the spirit of the "Year of Community." To bring this vision to life, ADMAF is collaborating with Salasil—a future-focused curatorial studio rooted in care, research, and experimentation, and committed to nurturing collaboration between curators, artists, and audiences. The Community Partners are prompted to explore the theme “Community” as channels of care, ecosystems, memory + future, resource + practice, sacred spaces and an extension of everyday life.
Community partners are expected to fund their proposals. Should any display objects be made available for the public to purchase, all proceeds must go directly to the artisans participating in the Community Section or to support art and culture initiatives.
About ADMAF
Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) was established in 1996 as one of the earliest cultural foundations in the Gulf region and Arab world. ADMAF supports the sustainability and creativity of the cultural industries and contributes to enriching Abu Dhabi as a cultural beacon by offering a wide array of initiatives, often in partnership with leading national and international institutions, including Abu Dhabi Festival and several youth and societal programmes and platforms, to support creative talents in the UAE and abroad. For more information, visit the ADMAF website at: www.admaf.org
About Studio Salasil
A future-focusing curatorial studio and library tending to care, playfulness, research and experimentation. Through these principles, we develop exhibitions, publications, programs, mentorship and artworks that invite collaboration and conversation as we explore the ever-changing nature of creative work revealing the infinite possibilities of exhibition making and artwork creation.
Highlighting the relationship between curators, artists and the audience, our aim is to encourage risk and disruption. For more information visit the Salasil instagram page: @sa_la_sil_