Tickets are on sale now for the festival’s thirteenth edition.
It’s time to paint the town. Now in its fourteenth edition, Quoz Arts Fest takes place on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 January 2026. Celebrating the region’s arts and culture, it takes place across Alserkal and Al Quoz. The weekend brings together homegrown and international talent through experimental installations, live music, performances, exhibitions, workshops, food experiences and community-led encounters for all ages.
The 2026 music programme gathers some of the region’s most inventive and boundary-pushing artists. Palestinian hip-hop collective DAM and Lebanese singer-songwriter Yasmine Hamdan lead the bill, bringing powerful, career-defining sets shaped by their deep-rooted artistic legacies. They are joined by TootArd and Gayathri Krishnan, who weave Levantine rhythms, desert blues and soulful South Asian influences into genre-bending performances.
Created especially for the festival, From the Lips to the Moon is a collaborative sonic journey hosted by Pouya Ehsaei and Tara Fatehi. Staged as a recurring spoken-word and music performance, it draws audiences into an evolving soundscape shaped by voice, gesture, and improvisation.
French artist Jean Baptiste André presents Floe, a nomadic project that combines a sculptural stage designed by Vincent Lamouroux with a choreographed performance, blurring the lines between visual art and movement.
For the first time in Dubai, Numen/For Use brings its acclaimed TAPE project to Concrete. The installation unfolds as a cocoon-like, site-specific structure shaped through a self-forming process inspired by patterns in nature. Linear strands are first stretched across the space, then wrapped diagonally in layers of elastic tape until they form a walkable, inhabitable volume.
Reel Palestine, in partnership with Cinema Akil, presents a programme of independent Palestinian cinema across the weekend. Screenings are accompanied by a souk of more than fifty vendors, hosted inside Warehouse 67 and spilling into surrounding outdoor areas. Here, visitors can explore crafts, design objects and culinary concepts rooted in Palestinian heritage, turning the space into a hub for storytelling and shared cultural memory.
Basmah El Bittar, Director of Alserkal Avenue, says: “Over the years, Quoz Arts Fest has grown alongside Dubai’s creative community creating a space where artists, neighbours, and visitors can move, gather, and explore new forms of connection. The 2026 edition highlights the depth of regional talent. Artists whose work reflects the pulse, perspective and creative energy of the region and brings together the local artisans whose craft and culinary expressions shape the cultural fabric of the festival.”
Tickets for Quoz Arts Fest 2026 are available via Platinumlist. Entry is free upon registration for visitors under 18 and above 60, while an AED 100 day pass applies to all other guests.
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