30 galleries · 1 museum · 1 place
Dubai's leading contemporary art district — a cluster of converted warehouses in Al Quoz industrial area that somehow became the most important concentration of contemporary art galleries in the Middle East. Over 30 art spaces spread across 500,000 square feet of raw concrete and natural light, with car workshops still operating two units down from some of the region's most influential galleries. The contrast is the point.
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