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Members-Only Event | Showcasing Projects Redefining Contemporary Creative Culture📍Next: WUF Basel 2025: Celebrating Paper
On June 17, WUF Basel 2025 Celebrating Paper opened on the 30th floor of Messe Basel inside Bar Rouge. Between city views and printed matter, @JesseDraxler's U&Air Basel installation floated above the Lounge, setting the tone for two days of reflection on the power of print.…
A research and exhibition platform based in Abu Dhabi, Dirwaza Curatorial Lab brings a collective voice to WUF Issue 004. Their section charts institutions, makers, and initiatives that shape creative life in the UAE—mapping knowledge through proximity and cultural continuity. A…
Over the past months, I haven't been very active on social media, focusing instead on the deeper layers of my work. During this time, I've been evolving its architecture, pushing it into new dimensions and reconstructing its internal logic. My upcoming project with…
We're proud to announce our remaining 2025 schedule of on view and upcoming solo exhibitions. ↓
After a year dedicated to art, fashion, music and design, WUF returned to Basel to turn the spotlight on printed matter. With Celebrating Paper, we explored the book, the page and the editorial object as spaces of reflection, memory and form. Installations, catalogs and hybrid…
My first AI-generated short film, CONTACT, was presented in Milan alongside the BLACKOUT project. The work reimagines the iconic spark of connection from The Creation of Adam, replacing divine hands with the delicate tension between humans and machines. Audio on🔊 (1/3)
Ready for the press event at Wuf Studio, where an immersive experience of my latest project, BLACKOUT, will unfold. The project debuted as a public exhibition across six large-scale billboards spread throughout the city of Milan.
Proud to support @skygolpe's powerful new public work, BLACKOUT: six billboards across Milan exploring the tension between AI, language, and art.
From May 19th to June 1st, my latest work, BLACKOUT, will be displayed on six massive billboards across the city of Milan. The project explores the paradoxical relationship between art, humanity, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Words will take center…
West Asia: A Name Reclaimed. WUF Dubai 2025 brought together eleven curators across geographies and disciplines to reshape the narrative. Here few frames that capture the collective energy. A super Thanks goes the Host Curator @G_Moscatello And the Guest Curators: Pablo del Val…
With extensive experience in cultural strategy and institutional development, Sumantro Ghose brings to WUF Issue 004 a curatorial section that examines the evolving relationship between South Asia and the Gulf. His selection highlights practices that foreground hybridity,…
As a writer, curator and researcher with a focus on contemporary art from West Asia, Nat Muller has long investigated how media, memory, and politics intersect in artistic production. For WUF Issue 004, she curated a section dedicated to artists and spaces that challenge…
Artist, curator, and cultural organizer, @amalandaplan brings to WUF Issue 004 a curatorial vision rooted in social justice and collective memory. Her section brings together practices that challenge systems of oppression and imagine spaces of care—foregrounding resistance,…
Curator and writer, Gaith Abdulla brings a research-based, community-grounded approach to WUF Issue 004. His section traces a new cultural geography of the UAE—spotlighting collectives, independent spaces, and collaborative practices that rethink authorship and local knowledge.…
Curator and researcher, Suheyla Takesh brings to WUF Issue 004 a deep engagement with modernity in West Asia. Her section revisits overlooked narratives, transnational aesthetics, and the decolonial re-reading of institutional histories. A curatorial gesture that reframes the…
Typographer, researcher, and founder of the Khatt Foundation, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès brings a unique perspective to WUF Issue 004. Her curatorial section focuses on design as language—highlighting graphic narratives, lettering practices, and archives that articulate Arab…
Researcher, curator, writer. Nada Raza brings to WUF Issue 004 a curatorial section shaped by historical rupture, resilience, and the politics of place. Her selection reflects on cultural memory, feminist narratives, and the symbolic power of landscape—tracing connections across…
Architect, curator, educator. @GonzaloHerrero brings an interdisciplinary lens to WUF Issue 004, connecting design, climate, and cultural production. His selection highlights practices operating across architecture, performance, and activism—proposing new ecologies of space and…
Artistic Director of Art Dubai, @PabliDV has been a leading voice in redefining the global South’s relationship to contemporary art. As a guest curator for WUF Issue 004, he contributes a curatorial section focused on artists whose work navigates memory, transformation, and…
