More than 110 works by 47 UAE-based artists have gone on show at the Seoul Museum of Art in South Korea, in the largest presentation of contemporary art from the Emirates staged in East Asia.
The landmark exhibition, titled Proximities and created in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, aims to foster cultural exchange while spotlighting the UAE’s diverse artistic scene.
Proximities forms part of the Abu Dhabi Festival Abroad programme and represents the second chapter of a three-year institutional collaboration between the Seoul museum and Admaf.
In March 2025, a showcase of South Korean art was presented at Manarat Al Saadiyat and the responding exhibition – co-curated by Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim – traces 50 years of UAE cultural production, shaped by migration, rapid urban transformation and evolving social structures.
Divided into three themed sections, developed with UAE artists acting as sub-curators, the exhibition invites visitors into the domestic, public and imagined worlds of the Emirates.
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