Louvre Abu Dhabi has opened the sixth edition of Art Here, its flagship platform for contemporary art, beneath the museum's dome. The exhibition, organised with Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille, runs from 11 November 2026 to 28 February 2027 and presents six newly commissioned works by shortlisted artists, chosen from more than 300 proposals.

Guest curator Kamini Sawhney, the former founding director of the Museum of Art and Photography in Bengaluru, set the theme as Confluences. The works explore the histories, exchanges, migrations and cultural connections that have shaped communities across the Indian Ocean, and how those ties continue to shape identity today. For the first time, the call for proposals welcomed artists from India alongside those from the Gulf states.

The six artists are Saudi Arabia's Ahaad Alamoudi, Emirati artist Almaha Jaralla, Malaysian artist and designer Muhammad Shamin Sahrum, who is based in Dubai, and Indian artists Ravikumar Kashi, Reena Kallat and Vivek Vilasini. Alamoudi shows You Promised the World and the Tide Came In, while Kashi's Meghadutam suspends cloud forms made from handmade paper. Their practices take up questions of memory, borders, movement and inherited histories across the region.

The winner of the Richard Mille Art Prize, worth 60,000 dollars, will be announced in December. The prize jury is led by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, the art collector and patron. The exhibition falls in the second half of a ten-year partnership between Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille, which the museum says has become one of the region's leading platforms for contemporary practice.