diff --git a/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py b/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
index ed34f21f..1f70fb2c 100644
--- a/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
+++ b/dask_cuda/tests/test_explicit_comms.py
@@ -22,9 +22,16 @@
 from dask_cuda.explicit_comms.dataframe.shuffle import shuffle as explicit_comms_shuffle
 from dask_cuda.utils_test import IncreasedCloseTimeoutNanny
 
+# Skip these tests when dask-expr is active (for now)
+pytestmark = pytest.mark.skipif(
+    dask.config.get("dataframe.query-planning", None) is not False,
+    reason="https://github.com/rapidsai/dask-cuda/issues/1311",
+)
+
 mp = mp.get_context("spawn")  # type: ignore
 ucp = pytest.importorskip("ucp")
 
+
 # Notice, all of the following tests is executed in a new process such
 # that UCX options of the different tests doesn't conflict.