Bali’s first international art fair strives to shake up the model in 2025

Art & Bali launches this September and ArtsHub speaks with Fair Director Kelsang Dolma on what to expect.
Two large installations looking like female heads decorated with face paint while two performers are dancing on the ground in front of an audience at dusk. Nuanu, Bali.

Nuanu Creative City, located on the west coast of Bali, will be home to the island’s first international art fair. Art & Bali 2025 is set to welcome visitors from 12-14 September, with the overarching theme ‘Bridging Dichotomies’.

For an island that welcomed 6.3 million international visitors in 2024, it’s a promising start for a new fair, let alone the first of its kind. Miami saw approximately the same number of international guests in 2023 and the city has already established its place on the global fair calendar, with Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Miami, Untitled Art, Design Miami and a whole suite of events packaged as Miami Art Week. Similarly, Taiwan’s Taipei Dangdai has successfully attracted collectors, galleries and curators of international renown while servicing the local scene in its past five years.

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Celina Lei is ArtsHub's Content Manager. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_