As the region’s first dedicated showcase to limited-edition art and design, Edition’s role as a site where local and regional voices are championed and placed in dialogue with global perspectives is only natural. With a diverse set of exhibitors, artists, and designers from the Arab World, Europe, Latin America, and Asia showcasing in November, the lineup’s range celebrates how local talent intertwines with broader conversations. 

With this year’s presentation, Editions celebrates talent rooted in the region, cultivating cultural capital and giving visibility to artists and designers who are both up-and-coming and those long contributing to the landscape. Whether they were born-and-raised in the Arab World or have found a home in the region, here are some of the local exhibitors and collectives to look out for at Editions 2025.

Asateer (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Abu Dhabi-based design studio Asateer was founded by Mohammed Al Suwaidi, who was born in Al Rams. As the grandson of a pearl diver, Al Suwaidi grew up hearing family tales of pearling and the captivating beauty of the sea. This would later manifest into his passion for design and heritage, leading him to establish Asateer. With the brand, Al Suwaidi interprets a contemporary pearling vision, honoring decades of Gulf history and aesthetics; whether it be by reflecting on months spent at sea, songs sung to pass time, or salt and sweat. 

At Editions, the studio will present WARESH, a culturally inspired, interactive modular wall divider that pays homage to the timeless patterns of Emirati architecture. More than a decorative element, WARESH invites interaction: its panels can be rotated, adapted with planters, hooks, frames, or shelves, creating endlessly unique configurations that merge form and function. Alongside WARESH, Asateer will showcase a curated collection of home accessories and debut a new collaborative furniture line, furthering its mission to celebrate cultural identity through sustainable and contemporary design.

With their versatility and experimental forms, Asateer’s designs would meld beautifully with varied spaces of your home, including a garden, or even your office. 

Mushy (Dubai, UAE)

Operating as an entirely-online platform, Mushy imagines a world where objects hold special powers. Born out of long-time friends Dina Adlouni and Tarlan Vaziri Farahani’s love for design, the Dubai-based brand values joy, emotion, and whimsy, aiming to inspire the same feelings in the pieces they curate. Offering a mix of playful and charming design objects, home décor, and furniture, serves as a platform for both local and international emerging designers and artists, providing them with an opportunity to showcase their creations and connect with audiences seeking design that inspires.

Beyond design, Mushy advocates for reflection and tranquility. In a world increasingly defined by speed and technology, it nurtures a home for meaningful, one-of-a-kind pieces crafted with heart and soul. Each item tells a story, imbued with care, heritage, and sentiment, inviting collectors to embrace the beauty of emotional connection through design.

Elevate your dining room with one of Aleksandra Zawistowska’s curving, handblown glasses, shimmering when the sunset’s light hits your table in the late afternoon. Zawistowska’s pieces range between $220 and $270, perfect for a starting collector.

Ila Colombo (Dubai, UAE) 

Ila Colombo moves fluidly between disciplines, with over a decade of experience across design, art, architecture, and technology. Her practice traverses spatial, material, and sonic realms, weaving together generative AI, spatial computing, sound, and advanced fabrication into a singular language of expression.

Through each of her mediums, Colombo’s work examines how machine-human collaboration can expand the parameters of storytelling, perception, and poetic form. For Editions, her showcase will consist of motion-based digital artworks and sculptural design-art pieces that navigate the thresholds of becoming: where forms, systems, and boundaries are in constant negotiation. 

Rooted in spatial anthropology and evolving from studies in proxemics (the study of human use of space and how it affects behavior, communication, and social interaction), the artist’s recent body of work centres on states of transition and ephemeral conditions that defy finality and definition. Using sculptural and digital mixed media, she captures the rhythmic cadence of transformation.

As part of her presentation, Colombo will be bringing Inkrelease 01 and Inkrelease 02, two digital screen-based works in continuous generative motion, both priced at $6500. We can picture these adding some movement to the entrance of your home, swirling as people come and go.

Wadi Finan (Amman, Jordan) 

Founded in Amman in 2008 by Suha Lallas, Wadi Finan Art Gallery stands as a cultural conduit within the region, bridging heritage and modernity through a distinctly contemporary lens. Committed to nurturing an appetite for Jordanian and Arab visual arts, the gallery continues to champion groundbreaking regional talent through a diverse, year-round programme focused on the local community. 

At Editions 2025, Wadi Finan’s showcase examines practices that reflect deeply on cultural, historical, and environmental narratives. The artists each push the boundaries of creative expression, weaving together tradition and experimentation to articulate a shared, yet complex sense of identity. Across these practices, ancient materials and enduring symbols find renewed purpose. Ranging in mediums, from clay, textile, or paint, the pieces reveal how tradition continues to evolve, shaped by memory, reimagined through innovation, and attuned to the pulse of contemporary life.

Imagine one of Raya Kassisieh’s intricate overlays of fiber and fabric, constructing flowing compositions of organic forms and deliberate lines while adorning your living room. Priced at $2400 each, her mix of minimal precision with bold sculptural gestures will make your space feel draped with warmth and elegance.

Zawyeh (Ramallah and Dubai)                                                                                                                              

With locations in both Ramallah and at Dubai, Zawyeh has become a vital platform for contemporary and modern Palestinian art, spanning painting, sculpture, installation, video, and photography, standing as one of the first independent spaces dedicated to championing Palestinian artists. Through its exhibitions and collaborations, the gallery continues to foreground narratives of identity, place, and resilience while exploring different forms of contemporary expression. 

Zawyeh’s presentation at Editions will show a mix of new and recent works by Mahmoud Alhaj and Yazan Abu Salameh, two artists with deeply contrasting practices and aesthetics, but who toy with similar topics of landscape, memory, and history. Aljah’s scenes unfold as layered palimpsests, with their architecture and everyday life delicately reimagined through photographic revisions, while Abu Salameh renders dense urban environments in cardboard and ink, where radiant suns punctuate the cityscape with symbolic intensity. The interchange between the two practices, so deeply rooted in place, offers a resonant meditation on land, memory, and imagination. Each piece is a testament to how creation can fortify the enduring relationship between place and identity.

We can imagine one of Abu Salameh’s intricate and vibrant works, all priced at $2,800, bringing some tranquility to your bedroom, a sprawling landscape framing the space above your bed.

This year’s presentations at Editions remind us that investing in art and design is also an act of investing in place, and the stories, skills, and visions that emerge from the region itself. From Asateer’s reinterpretation of Emirati heritage to Mushy’s celebration of playful, handcrafted design, and from Ila Colombo’s boundary-pushing experiments in digital form to Wadi Finan and Zawyeh’s grounding of contemporary practice in cultural memory, each exhibitor contributes to a shared narrative of creativity deeply rooted in the Arab World. 

As international dialogue around art and design continues to expand and transform, Editions offers a chance to connect with a range of local and regional artists, creatives, and designers. Both established and emerging collectors will find a unique selection of pieces at more approachable prices, from furniture and jewellery to prints and photographs.

Editions, dedicated to limited-edition art and design, will take place on 5-9 November alongside Downtown Design, as part of Dubai Design Week. Buy your tickets online.