Manama / Retail stores and brands
MODA selects its brands, so your canvas deadline starts only once your stand is confirmed and the organizer confirms the dates for your run.
Your fashion, beauty, lifestyle or home-decor brand may have a confirmed MODA 2027 stand at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center. Or your shop plans painted words on a canvas seen from the street. Selling your own artwork at Market Street instead? Our Manama guide for artists covers its Winter Market and Galleria store.
This page is for brands selling in Bahrain. Planning art for a hotel instead? Our Manama hotel art guide covers that.
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01 / Licensed dates and the rail stand
MODA 2027 is a fashion, beauty and lifestyle pop-up at the Gulf Hotel Convention Center in Manama. The organizer's site lists two runs, 7 to 9 January and 12 to 14 February 2027. Home Decor is one of the product categories brands can apply in. Brands are selected, so a canvas deadline only exists once your stand is confirmed.
Bahrain's official tourism site listed the 2026 edition, from 28 February to 2 March 2026, with more than 130 Bahraini and Arab brands. Home accessories were among them.
Selling exhibitions in Bahrain also have their own rules. Ministry of Tourism Decision No. (1) of 2025, issued 26 February 2025, has the organizer apply to the Bahrain Tourism and Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) at least two months ahead. BTEA decides within 15 days, and 15 days of silence counts as a rejection.
These steps are the organizer's job, not yours. The decision's text, in the English guidance translation from Bahrain's Legislation and Legal Opinion Commission, does not say which Manama pop-ups fall under it. So we suggest asking your organizer for the licensed dates, and planning the canvas from those, not from the announced ones.
BTEA's portal guide lists the booth plan among the documents an organizer uploads. At MODA, your stand balance falls due one month before the event. We suggest settling the canvas size before both.
| Stand | What to settle before the stand canvas is sized |
|---|---|
2 x 2 m, for one business only, with up to two clothing rails | Ask the organizer whether the stand has a wall or display surface above or behind your two rails, and how wide and tall it is. |
3 x 2 m, with up to three rails, and it can be shared by two businesses | On a shared stand, agree with the other business which section of the surface is yours. Then send us that section's width and height. |
4 x 2 m, with up to four rails, and it can be shared by two businesses | Agree your section in the same way. Tell us too whether you show at the January run, the February run or both. |
The organizer's page gives no wall or panel size and no height. That is why the measurements come from your organizer before we size the piece.
Dates in view: MODA on 7 to 9 January and 12 to 14 February 2027.
02 / Stock a customer can carry away
Under the same 2025 decision, a direct-sale exhibition sells inside the venue, during its set hours (Article 9(7)). It runs for ten days at most, unless BTEA accepts a longer run. If your pop-up is licensed as a direct-sale exhibition, your stand works like a small shop with its stock on hand.
We suggest bringing finished pieces that a customer can pay for and take home that day. Match the count to the selling time: one day at the Winter Market, three days for each MODA run.
Article 16 lets BTEA inspectors enter exhibitions, inspect stands and check that published adverts match the goods on show. So for your posts and flyers, we suggest photographing the actual finished canvases, not mock-ups or room images. It also helps to describe the medium the same way on posts and labels (our Dubai galleries guide has more).
A customer may ask for a size you did not bring. Before you promise a later delivery, ask your organizer how such orders are handled.
03 / Words that face the street
Bahrain's Decree-Law No. 14 of 1973 regulates advertisements. Article 1 covers writing, drawings or symbols that tell the public about a product. Article 2 asks for Arabic, with any foreign language added alongside, and the permit number written on the advertisement. Article 3 requires a license from the municipalities ministry.
Its regulation, Resolution No. 2 of 1977, was amended in 2016 and again on 15 October 2024. Its exemptions include indoor adverts that are not easily visible from outside. Whether a given canvas counts as an advertisement is for the municipality to say.
So if a canvas seen easily from the street will carry your brand name, a slogan or a collection name, plan Arabic as the leading line. Leave a clear space for the permit number. We suggest settling the Arabic wording through the municipal permit first, then sending it to us before painting starts.
A canvas without lettering leaves no wording to settle. A logo or brand symbol seen from the street may still need the municipality's view, since Article 1 also covers drawings and symbols. Our Amsterdam retail guide covers flagging logos and campaign text early.
A horizontal window canvas with painted words. Your approved permit text decides the real wording and layout.
Plan for the person who approved your Arabic wording to review the finished canvas too.
04 / Your dates, stand and wording
If yes, send us those dates, and the quote confirms a feasible painting and delivery date against them. If not yet, we can still price the canvases now and fix the date once the organizer confirms it.
05 / More Manama selling cases
Not without a municipal road-occupancy permit, because Bahrain's Decree-Law No. 2 of 1996 covers shelves, goods stands and exhibits placed on public roads. The ministry has 30 days to reply, and no reply means refusal. Even with a permit, the 2019 Unified Building Permit guidebook says a display stand must be closed, raised and no more than 50 cm from the wall. Its Arabic version prevails. So we suggest showing your canvases inside the shop or behind the glass.
More than a one-day table: Al Aali Mall’s last Winter Market, in Seef in Manama, ran in the evenings from 19 November 2025 to 10 January 2026. That is about seven weeks of trading. The mall says the market will return, with dates still to be confirmed, and takes vendor inquiries through its Leasing Department. We suggest an opening set plus at least one top-up batch, reordered by artwork code, once the mall confirms its dates.
A canvas facing a Manama mall walkway is the unclear case, because the 1977 regulation's indoor exemption covers adverts not easily visible from outside the building. Where a permit is needed, the municipality's advertising e-service asks for approval from Bahrain's national Advertising Committee. So we suggest asking the mall or the municipality about your frontage. Bring the canvas design and its position when you ask.
Yes: quote the artwork code from your first order, and we paint that design again as a one-piece order for your next MODA run. A hand-painted repeat matches closely but never exactly.
Whoever approved your Arabic wording compares the painted letters with the permit text, in the daylight photos you approve before any canvas ships to Bahrain. Send us the approved wording as typed text and as an image of the layout. While the canvas is in progress, you also receive photos and short videos as the painting goes. You can see how a canvas is built up, from sketch to final marks, on our painting process page.
Rails, stand or shopfront
On a shared 3 x 2 m or 4 x 2 m stand, tell us which section of the surface is yours, and we size the canvas to it.
Our fastest way to discuss your schedule and price. The written quote follows by email for your records.
WhatsApp: usually an immediate reply.
Email: usually within 12 hours. Monday–Sunday.
support@palettemomento.comOr share your brief through our quote form.