# @artbasel on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYsHNdvDZ09
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65992145-artbasel-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-05-23T17:17:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Art Basel (@artbasel) — https://gondola.cc/artbasel

## Caption

'What is the future of art?' is the question we posed to #ArtBaselAwards medalist sumi_v 🌟

Honored this year in the Cross-Disciplinary category, artist, architect, and founder of _counterspace Sumayya Vally redefines urban design through African and Islamic cultural frameworks.

Learn more about this year’s Art Basel Awards and the upcoming festivities planned during our Basel show at the link in our bio.
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Image credits:

Sumayya Vally: Architect, Activist
Asiat-Darse Bridge renders alongside research imagery (boats along the Congo River), and Phase 1 of the project — a series of floating ‘boat’ gardens - pollinators planted in close collaboration with faculty and students of Horteco agricultural school, a secondary school in Vilvoorde focused on nature, science, vegetation, animals, and the environment. 

Sumayya Vally: Architect, Artist
Sumayya’s Vally’s Serpentine Pavilion, 2021, which drew on past and present spaces of belonging across London. 
Credit: Photos: Iwan Baan, courtesy Counterspace

Sumayya Vally: Artistic Director, Curator
The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which marked a pivotal moment in reimagining the definition of Islamic art.
Credit: Islamic Arts Biennale. Scenography by OMA. Artistically directed by Sumayya Vally. Copyright Marco Cappalletti, courtesy of OMA

Sumayya Vally: Artistic Director, Curator
The inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which marked a pivotal moment in reimagining the definition of Islamic art.
Credit: Islamic Arts Biennale. Scenography by OMA. Artistically directed by Sumayya Vally. Copyright Marco Cappalletti, courtesy of OMA

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