Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Visits Quoz Arts Fest To Highlight Dubai's Contemporary Culture
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum visited Quoz Arts Fest at Alserkal Avenue. The visit marked the 14th edition as a meeting point for contemporary culture in the UAE. It also showed how Dubai links creativity, community participation, and human development within its innovation strategy.
During the visit, His Highness toured the cultural district and explored galleries, studios, and public spaces. His Highness met artists, cultural practitioners, and members of Dubai’s growing creative community. They reflected efforts to build sustainable creative ecosystems that contribute to knowledge, dialogue, and urban life.
Quoz Arts Fest takes place from 24th to 25th January 2026 across Alserkal Avenue. The weekend programme brings experimental installations, live performances, and music into the district’s lanes and warehouses. This edition highlights practices that invite movement, collective listening, and ways of engaging with public space.
As part of the tour, His Highness visited Concrete, one of the exhibition venues in Alserkal Avenue. There, TAPE Dubai by Numen/For Use is installed as a large-scale immersive structure. The work belongs to the collective’s TAPE series, previously realised in Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, and Zagreb. In each location, architectural spaces become elastic, walkable environments built from layered tape. At Quoz Arts Fest, visitors interact with the structure through movement, balance, and shared experience.
His Highness stopped at Fiker Institute, an interdisciplinary international affairs think tank founded by Dubai Abulhoul. Based in Dubai, the institute focuses on advancing intellectual debate on global governance reform and diplomacy. Its research extends to climate security, culture, and the future of multilateralism, linking policy discussions with cultural contexts. By positioning culture and critical thinking as essential tools, Fiker Institute contributes to wider global dialogue.
Quoz Arts Fest brings together artists, musicians, performers, families, and visitors from across the wider community. Across its 14 editions, the event has become one of Dubai’s established cultural gatherings. Programming across Alserkal Avenue links creative practice, public space, and urban life. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid’s presence at the 2026 festival reflects support for cultural initiatives. Such initiatives help position Dubai as a global centre for arts, culture, and contemporary creative expression.
With inputs from WAM
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