Frieze set out the full exhibitor list for its first Abu Dhabi edition on its own site, in an announcement made with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi for a fair running at Manarat Al Saadiyat from 19 to 22 November 2026. Tabari Artspace sits in the Galleries section among the UAE exhibitors, named with Carbon 12, Lawrie Shabibi, The Third Line and Iris Projects.
Four sections structure the edition. Galleries forms the main body. Focus gathers younger international dealers, among them Management, Solo, W-galeria, Patel Brown, Iyad Qanazea Gallery and Commonwealth and Council. Global Futures, curated by Tarini Malik, brings in Taymour Grahne Projects, Aisha Alabbar Gallery, Vermelho, Zawyeh Gallery, Chatterjee & Lal and Marfa'. Frieze Masters Abu Dhabi, curated by Marika Sardar, takes the Indian Ocean as its frame, with specialists including ArtAncient, David Aaron, Daniel Crouch Rare Books and Peter Harrington. Exhibitors are drawn from Beirut, Tehran, Istanbul, Casablanca, Tunis, Mumbai, Lagos, Guatemala City, Busan, Shanghai and Hong Kong as well as London, Paris, Milan and New York. The selection committee is given as Yasmin Atassi, Asmaa Al-Shabibi, Amrita Jhaveri, Sandhini Poddar and Glenn Scott Wright.
Placement in the main Galleries section rather than a curated strand sets the terms for Tabari's showing at the fair, Be The Stone, and situates the Dubai gallery within the regional cohort the organisers have put at the centre of this edition.
