As it grows as a focused, site-specific platform for contemporary art in dialogue with the cultural and material realities of the region.
From September 11 to 13, 2026, the Art & Bali fair will make its return in the Nuanu Creative City in Bali, Indonesia.
A boutique international art fair, it engages with wider regional and global conversations while remaining rooted in its home city.
The Art & Bali fair brings together galleries, artists, collectors, and cultural practitioners within a setting shaped by the island’s layered artistic and ceremonial life.
In the 2026 edition, there will be greater emphasis on its marketplace, with 20 exhibitors in the main section, while continuing to develop as a cultural meeting point for artistic exchange, thoughtful collecting, and cross-disciplinary dialogue.
Lev Kroll, CEO of Nuanu Creative City, shared, “Indonesia’s cultural landscape is extraordinary and still largely underrepresented in the international art world. That’s the gap Art & Bali is here to address.”
He added, “In a world that sometimes feels like it’s coming apart, art is one of the few things that still brings the right people into the same room. When I see investors and future residents — people with serious skin in this place — genuinely moved by what they discover here, it confirms something: culture isn’t decoration. That’s the whole point.”
Kelsang Dolma, Fair Director of Art & Bali conveyed how the faur aims to showcase how the contemporary art in the region is able to meet global standard.
“Art & Bali is part of a wider effort by different organisers on the island to build stronger platforms for contemporary art in this region that can operate to an international standard,” she said. “For us, that means shaping a fair that is culturally grounded, commercially credible, and open to a wider range of audiences and conversations.“
“We are not interested in applying an existing model from elsewhere, but in developing one that makes sense here in Bali and can grow with depth and integrity over time,” noted the director of the said event.
Art & Bali has also appointed Bandana Tewari as curator, with Brina Paska as assistant curator, for the fair’s annual curated exhibition that will chiefly focus on the intersections of fashion, art, and craft—examining how material knowledge, adornment, labour, memory, and embodiment move across contemporary practice.
Bandana Tewari is widely recognised for her work across fashion, culture, and sustainability, with a curatorial lens shaped by long-standing engagement with craft traditions, contemporary design, and critical discourse across Asia and beyond.
“This exhibition will explore the intersections of fashion, art and craft as powerful forms of cultural expression,” said Bandana Tewari. “We are focused on practices that embody memory, technique, intimacy, labor and transformation. Developing this project in Bali, where craft and ritual are not only vibrant but also continually evolving, is both timely and exciting.”
Brina Paska, meanwhile, brings a curatorial perspective grounded in contemporary art, Indonesian textile cultures, and exhibition-making rooted in local knowledge.
Together, they will shape an exhibition that “sees fashion and craft not as fixed categories, but as living cultural languages bound up with making, memory, identity, and material practice.”
Alongside its main fair section, Art & Bali 2026 will unfold through a wider public programme that includes talks, performances, and site-responsive works staged across key venues within Nuanu Creative City’s 44-hectare site.
Further details on exhibitors, participating galleries, artists, ticketing, and programme highlights will be announced ahead of the opening.
In the inaugural edition held last year, work by more than 150 artists across 18 exhibitors and a curated annual group exhibition saw more than 10,000 visitors across the entire event period.