Each year, Abu Dhabi Art collaborates with artists to create the fair’s visual campaign. The chosen images by the artist are used across the marketing campaign and define the visual identity of the fair each year.
Kazem was a member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society early in his career and is acknowledged as one of the 'Five', an informal group of Emirati artists. He has developed an artistic practice that encompasses video, photography and performance to find new ways of apprehending his environment and experiences.
Mohammed Kazem is represented by Dubai based Gallery Isabelle
Image Credit : Photo by Joseph Rahul
Mohammed Kazem
Coordinates, 2024
Acrylic on paper
76 x 56 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Isabelle
Mohammed Kazem
Directions, 2002
Colour video installation, with sound, 2 min 15 sec; 4 chromogenic prints, stickers and 2 acrylic on wood panels, 100.23 x 69.23 cm each
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Isabelle
Image Credit : Hassan Sharif
Image Credit : Mohammed Kazem
Mohammed Kazem
My Neighbours, 2006
Inkjet print on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Photo Rag Pearl 320 gsm paper Part of a set of 14 works
70 x 50 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Isabelle
2025 Visual Campaign Artist
2025 Visual Campaign Artist
Shaikha Al Mazrou (b. 1988, UAE) received her MFA in 2014 at the Chelsea College of Fine Art, University of the Arts, London where she was awarded the prestigious MFA Student Prize. Prior to that she studied at the College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah where she later was a sculpture lecturer. Currently she is an Assistant Arts Professor of Visual Arts at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Al Mazrou’s practice is anchored in the history of art, borrowing formally from minimalism and intellectually from conceptual art. In her practice she combines and evolves ideas from contemporary artistic movements similarly preoccupied with formal and material elements, from colour theory to geometric abstraction.
Often in her works she combines mass-produced materials - such as electronic waste or construction materials - with colour and form, experimenting with these resources to create abstract geometric arrangements. Fascinated by notions of physical space, her sculptures and installations materialise as simple gestures that emphasise the representation of tension, weight and space.
She is a winner of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize (2020) and was shortlisted for the Louvre Abu Dhabi Richard Mille Art Prize.
Al Mazrou lives and works in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and is represented by Lawrie Shabibi.