‍Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) and Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) present Proximities as part of Abu Dhabi Festival, a landmark exhibition concluding 2025 and ushering in 2026.

Following the resounding success of Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits, which brought Korean new media artists to Abu Dhabi and garnered significant attention in Spring 2025, open until 29 March 2026 at Seoul Museum of Art, Proximities features more than 110 artworks by 47 UAE-based artists, including 33 Emiratis. It marks the largest presentation to date in Korea highlighting contemporary art from the United Arab Emirates.

Curated by Maya El Khalil and Eunju Kim, the milestone exhibition explores how artistic perspectives become forms of proximity – ways of sensing and processing transformation across domestic, social and geopolitical scales. The exhibition presents ways of encountering the world that emerge from contexts shaped by compressed modernisation and accelerated development. Meeting Seoul’s cultural landscape, Proximities reveals shared experiences between the UAE and Korea – tracing parallel negotiations of the local and the global and between tradition and futurity.

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