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Dead or alive, which artist would you invite to dinner?

@louislane7 took the question to @artbasel Paris 2026, asking visitors to name the artist they’d most like to share a table with. From art-world legends to contemporary favourites, the answers offer a glimpse into who continues to fascinate us.

This year’s edition took an unexpected turn, closing two days earlier than planned amid concerns over protests across Paris.

Watch the reel to hear everyone’s picks. Who would be on your guest list?

Featured in the video — and their dinner guests:

@queenofoud — @ahmedmater
@daviddelcastillo — @yugoguerin
@tatjana_sinkevica — Salvador Dalí
@detritusdesigns — Marcel Duchamp
@dasha.inyutkina — Vincent van Gogh
@wildwoodair — Taryn Simon

Interviews & Video: Louise Daniel for DSCENE

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Le nuove generazioni al centro di una riflessione collettiva sul cambiamento e sulle possibilità di immaginare il futuro.
A Palazzo Reale, Youth and Future presenta un percorso espositivo che mette in dialogo le parole e le visioni dei giovani con le opere di grandi protagonisti dell’arte contemporanea, dando forma a una riflessione condivisa sulle sfide del presente e sulle prospettive di domani.

Ideato da Giovanni Caccamo e con la consulenza scientifica di Mario Cristiani, il progetto invita a riconoscere nei giovani una forza attiva di trasformazione, attraverso il linguaggio dell’arte e della creatività. Grazie a tutte le anime coinvolte in questo viaggio rivolto alla luce.

📍 Palazzo Reale Milano, Piazza Duomo 12
📅 Fino al 1° novembre 2026
🎟️ Ingresso libero

Mostra promossa da Comune di Milano – Cultura e prodotta da Palazzo Reale e @youthandfuture in collaborazione con @associazioneartecontinua e @fondazione_sylva

Main partner @bancaifis e @ifisart
Con il supporto di @pulsee_energy
Media partner @urbanvision_group
Partner tecnico @mag_brokerdiassicurazione
Allestimento a cura di @tomo.projects
Ufficio stampa @noracomunicazione

Grazie a Tommaso Sacchi, Domenico Piraina, Archivio Mimmo Paladino, Fondazione Isgrò, Fondazione Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Eduardo Cycelin, @cc_tapis @masifilm_official @angelicafontana @saverio_zi_save_teruzzi Alessandro Lacirasella, Roberta Ziglioli, Agnese Bendotti, Carla Bruni, Arianna Canalicchio, Luigi De Vecchi e tutte le persone che hanno reso possibile questo progetto e grazie alla dolcezza di @bonajuto che ha accompagnato queste ore d’arte e di parola.

#PalazzoRealeMilano #YouthAndFuture #MilanoCultura

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On view at Frieze London 2026!

ATHR is delighted to welcome visitors to Booth A23 at Frieze London (@friezeofficial), presenting a group exhibition featuring works by Dr. Ahmed Mater (@ahmedmater), Rami Farook (@ramifarook), Mohammed AlFaraj (@mohammadalfaraj), Sarah Abu Abdallah (@sarahabuabdallah), Sara Abdu (@citizen_saraabdu), Dr. Ahaad AlAmoudi (@ahaadalamoudi), and Hatem Al Ahmad (@hatem_al_ahmad).

Explore the works on view and visit us at Booth A23 through 18 October 2026.

Frieze London | 14–18 October 2026
Booth A23

يسرّ أثر استقبال زوار فريز لندن ٢٠٢٦ في الجناح A23، حيث تقدم عرضًا جماعيًا يضم أعمالًا لكل من د. أحمد ماطر، رامي فاروق، محمد الفرج، سارة أبو عبدالله، سارة عبده، د. عهد العمودي، وحاتم الأحمد.

ندعوكم لاسكتشاف الأعمال المعروضة وزيارتنا في الجناح A23 حتى ١٨ أكتوبر ٢٠٢٦.

فريز لندن | ١٤–١٨ أكتوبر ٢٠٢٦
الجناح A23

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Early start today ✨ Joined @theartsfoundation @sothebys for a private morning tour on New Bond Street, celebrating the October Contemporary Day Auction and the Arts Foundation Fundraising Auction, with a look at highlights from the Evening Sale too. Loved seeing you @Saadisoudavar, @Stephenstapleton and hugest thanks for your passion and expertise @mackiehc 🙏

Works are generously donated by @antonygormley420 @anish.kapoor @CatherineGoodman Joy Gregory, Jane Harris, Florian Meisenberg, Erin O’Keefe, @AhmedMater PermindarKaur and @abdulnassergharem for the cause.
Every penny goes to the Arts Foundation Futures Awards, which give UK artists unconditional funding at a pivotal moment in their careers 💚
The Arts Foundation’s online auction is no less impressive, with dinner with Simon Schama, a private curator-led tour of Renoir and Love @nationalgallery Gallery, a signed first edition of Ali Smith’s Free Love, an evening at the Royal Opera House for Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM, and even a highland dance workshop with Charlotte McLean (the reeler in me is very tempted!).

Key dates:
📅 9–15 Oct: works on public view at Sotheby’s, 34–35 New Bond Street
📅 Thu 15 Oct, 6pm: Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction
📅 Fri 16 Oct: Sotheby’s October Contemporary Day Auction
📅 Fri 16 Oct, 6pm: the Arts Foundation online auction closes, artsfoundation.co.uk/auction 🙏
#TheArtsFoundation #Sothebys #AntonyGormley #AnishKapoor #ahmedmater

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مع استاذي الفنان @ahmedmater

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A people counter is a familiar machine, found in malls, metros, hospitals and public spaces around the world. It counts who enters, who passes through, who is present. But that simple function points to something larger: how much of contemporary life has come to depend on what can be measured, recorded and assigned a value.⁠
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@ahmedmater has long used photography and technology within his practice, but here he makes a deliberate reversal. Rather than use a machine to photograph another machine, he paints it by hand. As he puts it, he uses his own hand to depict the machine, removing the very technology that would ordinarily mediate the image.⁠
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That decision is central to the work. People Counter reflects a reality increasingly governed by what can be measured: attendance, productivity, performance, value. Yet much of what gives human life meaning cannot be counted at all. Feeling, memory, identity and experience remain outside the system. ⁠
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People Counter (2025) is a recent acquisition by the Dalloul Art Foundation.⁠
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#DAFBeirut #ArabArt #Beirut #Arts #SaudiArabia

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سعدت اليوم بزيارة استوديو الفنان أحمد ماطر في حي جاكس، والتعرف على مساحاته الإبداعية المختلفة التي تُغذي خيال الفنان وتتسع لتطلعاته

@ahmedmater

Grateful for today’s visit to artist Ahmed Mater’s studio in the Jax District, exploring its various creative spaces built to nurture artistic imagination and ambition.

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⁨ ⁨ من قرية المفتاحة في أبها إلى حي جاكس، ومن شغف بدأ مبكرًا إلى أثر وصل أبرز المؤسسات الفنية حول العالم.

أحمد ماطر، فنان وطبيب سعودي، جعل من الفن لغةً تقرأ تحولات المجتمع والمكان والذاكرة، وتحمل قصصها إلى العالم.

في «ارتباط»، نقترب من تجربته وعلاقته بالقهوة؛ رفيقة التفاصيل ومساحة تجمع الفن بالمكان والناس.

في يوم الوطن، نحتفي بمواهب سعودية صنعت من شغفها أثرًا.

عزّنا بمواهبنا، وقهوتنا تجمعنا.

#خطوة_جمل #اليوم_الوطني_السعودي

From Al-Muftaha Village in Abha to JAX District, and from an early passion to an impact recognized by leading art institutions around the world.

Ahmed Mater, a Saudi artist and physician, uses art to explore the transformations of society, place, and memory, carrying their stories to the world.

In Irtibat, we explore his journey and relationship with coffee—a companion in everyday moments and a space where art, place, and people come together.

On Saudi National Day, we celebrate Saudi talents who have turned their passion into lasting impact.

Our talents are our pride, and coffee brings us togeth

#Camel_step⁩⁩

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AlMukarramah and AlMunawwarah—the honored and the Illuminated—stand as two permanent pavilions at the heart of the Islamic Arts Biennale. Dedicated to Makkah and Madinah, these spaces explore the profound spiritual significance of the two holiest cities in Islam.

#مؤسسة_بينالي_الدرعية
#بينالي_الفنون_الإسلامية
#AhmedMater
#DiriyahBiennaleFoundation
#IslamicArtsBiennale

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This year, I was invited alongside a team of curators to work on an exhibition on the history of cartography. The brief was simple, the method was not, to bring contemporary artworks into dialogue with historical loans; to move between European mappae mundi and Islamic cosmographies; to speak of the present while remaining situated within the historic.

In working on the exhibition, the map often disappeared as an object of measurement and reappeared as a vessel for fantasy, memory and belonging. What we found was the same persistent fiction, recurring across cultures and centuries, of that which unites us, and that which divides us, all born from the same allegorical myth.

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"A Necessary Fiction: Art, Maps & the Models of Our World" - Venice, May, 5 - November, 22, 2026

The exhibition is conceived as a journey into the fictive nature of cartography, and the enduring role of narrative in shaping what we hold to be true. It treats cartography as a cultural and political device, capable of translating reality into fictional systems of representation charged with imagination and ideology. Rather than positioning cartography from a place of truth, it speculates on the innately arbitrary nature of truth in the cartographic, reminding us of the role of fiction in manifesting our collective reality. These intricate creations, composed of historical maps, memoirs, objects and contemporary artworks, manifest political and religious thought, mythological visions, and the delicate interplay of scientific inquiry with belief.

Co-curators: Aurora Fonda & Sara Almutlaq
Associate curators: @aminabdiab & @zaira.carrer

Scenography: @nimportekii @bianca_pedron

Installation views featuring works by: @aseelalyaqoub @moniraism @wael_shawky @albinali.arts @data_body @ahmedmater @tavaresstrachan @reenakallat

Photo Credit 1,3,4,5,6,7,9: @_marcocappelletti @marcocappellettistudio

Photo Credit 2,8: @markblower

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من الممارسة الفنية إلى قاعة الدراسة.. الفنان أحمد ماطر متحدثًا زائرًا في محاضرة وورشة عمل لطلاب ماجستير إدارة الفنون
#جامعة_الرياض_للفنون

From artistic practice to the classroom, artist Ahmed Mater joins our MA Arts Management students for a guest lecture and workshop at #RiyadhUniversityofArts

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سعيدة جدًا بلقاء الفنان أحمد ماطر، كان لقاء جميل ومثري واستمتعت بكل لحظة فيه 🤍 شكرًا جامعة الرياض للفنون على هالفرصة الحلوة. @riyadhuniarts @ahmedmater

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