Our aim is to offer hands-on educational content on arts and culture in the region that instigates thought-provoking conversations and ultimately inaugurates a new community of art collectors and enthusiasts.
Workshop: Screen Printing Workshop
📍 Workshop DXB, Alserkal Avenue
🗓 TBD
🕖 TBD
🎟 300 AED
✨ About: Join us for a hands-on screen printing workshop exploring the process behind printmaking and learning more about editions, multiples, and the role of prints within collecting.
Workshop: From Memory to Matter with Fabiola Chiminazzo
📍 Artist’s Studio
🗓 Sunday, 11 October
🕖 TBD
🎟 300 AED
✨ About: Explore personal memory through collage, photography, and beeswax in an intimate, hands-on workshop led by artist Fabiola Chiminazzo. Participants will transform personal images and archival fragments into layered compositions that explore how memory can be preserved, softened, and reinterpreted through material.
Art Fair Highlights Tour: MENART Fair
📍 116 Rue de Turenne, Paris
🗓 Saturday, 24 October
🕖 TBD
🎟 Complimentary ticket
✨ About: Join the Young Collectors Circle for a guided tour of MENART Fair, discovering artists and galleries from across the MENA region and gaining insight into the works, practices, and presentations shaping this year’s edition.
Collectors Experience: Ode by Judy x Karkour Collection
📍 Karkour Private Residence
🗓 Saturday, 21 November
🕖 7:30 PM
🎟 450 AED
✨ About: Join us for an intimate evening bringing together art, collecting, and food through a special collaboration between Ode by Judy and the Karkour Collection. The evening will offer members a closer look at the collection, accompanied by a thoughtfully curated dining experience.
Art Fair Highlights Tour: Frieze Abu Dhabi
📍 Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
🗓 TBC
🕖 TBC
🎟 Complimentary ticket
✨ About: Join the Young Collectors Circle for a curated highlights tour of Frieze Abu Dhabi, exploring standout presentations, artists to watch, and key works across the fair. Designed through a collector-focused lens, the tour will offer insight into different practices, price points, and approaches to navigating and collecting at an art fair.
Exhibition Highlights: Alserkal Avenue
📍 Alserkal Avenue
🗓 TBC
🕖 TBC
✨ About: Join the Young Collectors Circle for a guided walkthrough of selected exhibitions across Alserkal Avenue. Together, we’ll explore current gallery presentations, discuss key works and artists, and unpack the ideas shaping the exhibitions through an accessible, collector-focused lens.
Attending the Young Collectors Circle event was a transformative experience for me as someone who didn’t know much about art, as it provided an engaging and accessible space to learn, connect with others, and discover the joy of art collecting.
Young Collectors Circle was a really interesting and informative experience for me because I don’t have an art background. It’s nice to see the thought process behind each of the pieces and have a personal session with the artist to hear about their experiences throughout their art journey.
The artist’s tour was an exceptional experience. Their personalized approach and Nadine’s informative talk about the UAE’s art scene gave me a new perspective and opened up opportunities for me to explore the world of emerging artists.
