10101.art, Dubai
Known for its sleek digital-native aesthetic, 10101.art took us on a visually hypnotic journey with generative art pieces that responded to real-time audience movement, reminding us how algorithms can be poetry.
AAF Projects X Ellen Sheidlin Studio, Amsterdam
A surrealist fantasy meets hyper-reality — this collaboration stunned with interactive dreamscapes and virtual fashion worn by Sheidlin’s famous avatar. A playful yet unsettling commentary on identity in the metaverse.
Art on 56th, Beirut
This Lebanese gallery brought a rare softness to the digital realm. Their presentation explored the tension between tangible craft and virtual mediums, using digital embroidery and poetic animation.
DG Art Project, Istanbul
A poetic dive into machine learning and language, this Istanbul-based gallery collaborated with Turkish poets to create AI-generated visual poems in real time.
Sevil Dolmaci, Istanbul / Dubai
With a focus on digital sculpture, this gallery brought museum-level gravitas to virtual works. Their AI-modeled busts of “future humans” were deeply compelling.
Future Maastricht, Maastricht / Bologna
True to their name, Future Maastricht showed cybernetic artworks that adapted and evolved throughout the fair, blurring the line between artist and organism.
GAZELL.iO, London / Baku
Always a digital pioneer, GAZELL.iO highlighted artists who experiment with biofeedback and generative audio, creating works that responded to viewers’ brainwaves.
Hafez Gallery, Jeddah
The Saudi-based gallery made a strong digital debut with VR calligraphy and AI-assisted interpretations of Islamic geometric patterns — a blend of reverence and rebellion.
Hilton Contemporary, Chicago
Minimal, moody, and technically brilliant — their presentation featured interactive LED panels that shifted based on facial recognition, probing the ethics of surveillance.
Immaterika / Blackdove, Milan / Rome
This powerful joint installation layered holographic storytelling with physical space, creating emotional depth with narratives around migration and digital identity.
Inloco, Dubai
Inloco tapped into the urban language of Dubai — billboards, neon, construction noises — and transformed it into a digital art experience that celebrated the city’s flux and contradictions.
koshta.collective, Dubai
One of the most refreshing collectives at the fair, koshta presented a game-like virtual world that encouraged collaboration between visitors and artists, erasing authorship boundaries.
Mondoir Art Gallery, Dubai
A sleek, cinematic booth that felt like stepping into a sci-fi thriller. Their immersive AI-generated films were some of the most Instagrammed of the fair.
Nguyen Wahed, New York
Focused on diaspora narratives, Nguyen Wahed used AI to remix family archives into digital collages that pulse and move like living memory.
Art Dubai Digital 2025 proved that digital art is no longer a niche, but a new language of expression. It’s inclusive, collaborative, and boundary-breaking — and at its best, deeply human. This year’s exhibitors left us with a sense of curiosity, urgency, and possibility. The future is not just digital — it’s already here.
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