UAE: Artistic Development Program 2025

The program is open to early to mid-career artists and creative practitioners, this program offers recipients participation grant and guidance from experienced art educators, interlocutors, and curators to produce a new body of work that will be presented in a solo exhibition in 2025.

The program focuses on the conceptual development, realization, and production of exhibition with scheduled group crits and discussion circles to support artists selected for the program.

Benefit

• The program emphasizes the professional and creative development of participating artists and awards them a AED10,000 participation grant and financial and logistical production support.

Criteria

• This program aims to provide UAE-based emerging artists with the opportunity to sustain a rigorous art practice, allowing them the space to continue to experiment. Prospective applicants are advised to review the application requirements early in their preparation process.
• The program accepts ambitious project proposals that will grow to occupy Gallery 1 in 421. Each cycle of the program accepts three participating artists, who will be given the opportunity to select an interlocutor of their choice to support them through the process of developing their project.  With this support, the artists will develop their exhibition from ideation to installation, production of text materials, and a public program that is organized in response to the ideas and themes presented in their exhibition.

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