Dubai Street Museum

Dubai Street Museum brings contemporary art into the places through which the city moves. Launched in 2016, the programme commissions Emirati and international artists to work with the surfaces of neighbourhoods, roads and infrastructure, making the city itself the setting for an expanding public collection.

Rom Levy’s work through SAN Projects combines curation, artist coordination and production. Each phase begins with a different context: the heritage of Satwa and 2nd December Street, Jumeirah’s coastal history, the repeated structures of the Dubai Metro, or the civic and technological imagery of Happiness Street.

The programme brings distinct artistic approaches into contact with a shared public brief. Photorealism, optical painting, abstraction and graphic forms appear across the commissions, allowing artists to retain their own visual language while responding to a particular place and audience.

Its scale is cumulative. A mural is experienced as an individual work, but the programme also builds connections across districts and across years. At Hatta, that history includes both Case Ma’Claim’s earlier painted portraits and the later Guinness World Record marble mosaic produced with DEWA and Brand Dubai.