Delayed a year due to the pandemic, Dubai’s Expo 2020 will finally open this autumn (1 October to 31 March, 2022). The first world fair to take place in the Middle East, it includes large-scale art interventions by regional and international artists such as Hamra Abbas, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Khalil Rabah, Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Shonibare and Haegue Yang. UAE artists featured include Afra Al Dhaheri, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Abdullah Al Saadi and Asma Belhamar.