Art Dubai 2013 Review by Art Dubai

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“Les foires sont toujours imprégnées de l’esprit de la ville qui les accueille. Celle de Dubaï (20 au 23mars) affichait un cosmopolitisme réjouissant conjugué à un esprit entrepreneurial qui repose de la vieille Europe.” “Fairs are always imbued with the spirit of the city that hosts them. Art Dubai (March 20 - 23) illustrated a delightful cosmopolitanism combined with an entrepreneurial spirit that differs from old Europe.” Le Journal des Arts, France, March/April 2013 “作为中东与南亚地区乃至亚洲地区具有领导地位的国际艺术博览会，迪拜艺术博览会会已日益显现其在该地区及在全球艺术世界的影响力，其作为画廊交流平台和促进地区间交流的角色也日益成熟并显示出值得信赖的实力。” “Art Dubai, the foremost international art fair of Middle East and South Asia, is manifesting its ever increasing influence not only to the art scene in the region but also in the world. Its role as the platform that advances the interactions amongst galleries and exchanges between different regions is becoming even more mature. Its strength is well trusted and continues to grow.” NOBLESSE, China, March 2013

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ART DUBAI MARCH 20-23, 2013 MADINAT JUMEIRAH DUBAI

Art Dubai is held under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum VicePresident and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Dubai.

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CONTENTS

16 Introduction 26 Galleries . Marker . Sculpture on the Beach 40 Supporters 2012-2013 . Honorary Board of Patrons . Board of Patrons . Curatorial Advisory Board 54 Visitors . Attendance by Region . Attendance by Invitation Type . Attendance by Profession 60 VIP Programme . Museum Groups 70 Marketing & Outreach . Art Dubai Branding . Press . Selected Press Attendance . Press Coverage . Marketing . Social Media . Outreach & PR . Press Coverage

90 Art Dubai Programme . Art Dubai Projects . Commissions . A.i.R Dubai . The Hatch . dXb Store 106 The Abraaj Group Art Prize 114 Art Dubai Education . Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Art Programmes . Campus Art Dubai . Internship Programme . Forum Fellows 124 Global Art Forum . Sessions . Contributors 144 Terrace Talks 150 Partner Exhibitions . Cartier . Hamdan International Photography Award . HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Photography Exhibition 156 Partners 170 Participating Artists & Speakers 176 Art Dubai Team

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“Dubai hat sich in sieben Jahren als Kunstzentrum der Golfregion etabliert. Entscheidend ist der Einfluss der Art Dubai, der Kunstmesse des Emirats. Was dort gezeigt wird, hat Vorbildfunktion.” “In seven years, Dubai has developed into the art centre of the Gulf region. Crucial to this development is the influence of Art Dubai, the art fair of the Emirate. What is shown there has role model quality.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany March 2013 “杜拜藝術博覽會已領先之姿成為中東，北非，南亞地當代藝術的最佳代言人，亦同時顯示在國際藝壇上舉足輕重。”

“Art Dubai is at the forefront and has become the best spokesperson in Middle Eastern, North African and South Asian contemporary art, while boasting its important status in the global art world at the same time.” CANS, Taiwan, April 2013

‫"أكدت الدورة السابعة لمعرض “آرت دبي” الذي‬ ‫يقام تحت رعاية صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن‬ ‫ رئيس مجلس‬،‫ نائب رئيس الدولة‬،‫راشد آل مكتوم‬ ‫ على المكانة الهامة للمعرض‬،‫الوزراء حاكم دبي‬ ‫بصفته أحد أبرز الفعاليات على خارطة النشاطات‬ ‫ كما عكست الدور الحيوي‬،‫الفنية في عالم الفن‬ ،‫الذي يلعبه المعرض كمنصة لالكتشاف واإلبداع‬ ‫ دولة‬30 ‫ صالة عرض فنية من‬75 ‫وذلك مع مشاركة‬ ‫ ممثل‬300‫ و‬،‫ مجموعة تمثل متاحف عالمية‬75 ‫و‬ "‫فردي عن متاحف ومؤسسات فنية‬

“The seventh edition of Art Dubai—held under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, VicePresident and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai—confirmed the status of the fair as one of the most significant art events on the global cultural agenda. It also reflected the dynamic role of the fair as a platform of discovery and creativity, with the participation of 75 galleries from 30 countries, 75 museum groups and 300 institutional representatives.” Al Bayan, UAE, March 2013

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“Having become a hub for business and communication in the region, Dubai is also developing more and more as a global art city. That is mostly thanks to Art Dubai, founded in 2007.” Damn Magazine, Belgium, April 2013 -

“Im Jahr 2007 als erste Messe für zeitgenössische Kunst in den Golfstaaten gegründet...zählt die Art Dubai 2013 zu einem der wichtigen Ziele im weltweiten Kunstmesse-Reigen.” “Premiered in 2007 as the first contemporary art fair in the Gulf, Art Dubai now counts as one of the important destinations in the art fair world.” Handelsblatt, Germany, March 2013 -

“Art Dubai zaehlt heute zu den bedeutendsten kunst messen der welt.” “Art Dubai counts today as one of the most important art fairs in the world. ” Die Welt, Germany, March 2013

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INTRODUCTION

In 2013, Art Dubai—the leading fair for the Middle East and South Asia—hosted 75 renowned galleries and upcoming artspaces from 30 countries, plus over 100 artists, curators and speakers participating in a rich programme of talks and commissioned projects. This seventh edition illustrated the ever-growing and deepening international interest in the arts scenes of the Middle East, and the recognition of Art Dubai as a crucial cultural hub linking Africa, the Arab world and Asia. We welcomed more than 25,000 collectors, curators, artists, arts professionals and enthusiasts over the five days—and had an overwhelming response from the world’s media. Meanwhile, each year, the numbers of UAE-based artists participating in the fair increases— in line with the development of a dynamic local arts scene.

Marker, the themed, curated section of upcoming spaces, turned its attention to the dynamic arts scenes of West Africa; highlighting the changing nature of African cities plus the Gulf’s historical and contemporary links with the continent. In 2013, we expanded our projects and educational programming: the Global Art Forum—the most innovative of discussion platforms—took place over six days in Doha and Dubai; while Art Dubai Projects featured 14 new commissions, plus radio, residencies, music and a mobile art gallery. Art Dubai now features the most extensive not-forprofit programme of any fair, worldwide. Art Dubai would not be possible without the support of its partners; in particular, we would like to thank The Abraaj Group, Cartier and the Jumeirah Group. Our extensive educational programming is run in partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

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75 galleries from 30 countries, showing over 500 artists

25,000 visitors, including 400 museum directors and institutional representatives

75 international museum groups, participating in bespoke, Gulf-wide programmes

Over 400 press including 80 hosted journalists from 27 countries

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Education 250 students and graduates participating in a year-round programme of courses, seminars and internships

Art Dubai Projects 14 new sitespecific projects and commissioned performances involving over 40 artists, a third based in the UAE Global Art Forum 6 days of talks, presentations and exhibitions in Doha and Dubai, featuring 50 contributors

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“Art Dubai is definitely a mostly regional art fair that caters both to regional and international collectors—and, in fact, strong regional, idiosyncratic fairs might be a viable alternative to the dilutions of seeing the same thing everywhere… The fair is not only an information platform but also a seismograph for the state of art, politics, and discourse in the region alike. ” Art Agenda, United States, March 2013 “In six years Art Dubai has established itself as the leading art event of the Menasa (Middle East, north Africa and South Asia) area and provided the magnet for a Friezestyle Art Week in the Emirate. This year’s edition, which runs March 2013, is surrounded by a plethora of events, projects and exhibitions—plus a new design fair, Design Days Dubai. Ahead of the pack is still Art Dubai’s own six-day Global Art Forum, a programme of debates, discussions and talks that will host some 40 contributors. The fair itself this year will field some 72 galleries from across the world, while in Sculpture on the Beach, 11 large-scale works range along the seashore.” The Financial Times, United Kingdom, March 2013

It is in the UAE, home to over 200 nationalities, that the art world as a globalised phenomenon is most vivid. Dubai has been a trading post and meeting point for South Asia, Iran, the Arab world and Africa for hundreds of years. Sharjah, with its major biennial, is established as a place of heritage and art production, and Doha and Abu Dhabi host to major museums. Over the past decade Dubai has become the region’s commercial art centre—home to over 40 galleries—and a city of ideas, of entrepreneurship, of debate. In 2007, when Art Dubai was founded, the prevailing rhetoric was one of exchange between East and West. Now, more than a decade after 9/11, the zeitgeist has taken a palpable shift towards more nuanced relationships built along trade routes and webs of communication; Dubai has emerged as a global hub and a gateway to both east and west Asia, not only for business and travel, but also in terms of contemporary art and culture. At Art Dubai we find ourselves increasingly invested in the complex weave that connects the East with the East and the South with the South—providing a point of connection for all those institutions and individuals in Europe and America who are seeking to engage with an art world that is resolutely global. We pride ourselves on placing outreach and collaboration at the heart of the fair, working in partnership with institutions across the UAE year-round.

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‫"في الوقت الذي تحتفل فيه دبي بأسبوعها‬ ‫ تتعدد النشاطات الفنية بشكل‬،‫السنوي للفنون‬ ‫ فالصاالت الفنية الموجودة فيها وهي‬،‫مذهل‬ ‫ إلى جانب المؤسسات الثقافية‬،‫نحو سبعين صالة‬ ‫ فهناك‬،‫ كلها تتسابق للمشاركة‬،‫المهتمة بالفنون‬ ‫معارض أقيمت بالمناسبة وفنانون من جميع أنحاء‬ ‫العالم قدموا إما لعرض أعمالهم عبر المنصات‬ ‫المختلفة أو لاللتقاء بنخبة من أهم الفنانين‬ "‫والخبراء في المنطقة والعالم‬

“Dubai celebrates its annual Art Week with an incredible multitude of artistic events organised by the local galleries— which amount to around 70—and cultural institutions. Numerous exhibitions have been put together for that occasion, and artists from all over descended on the city to showcase their work through the city’s different platforms and to meet their peers from the region and beyond.” Asharq Al Awsat, Pan-Arab, March 2013

ART WEEK Art Week is an umbrella initiative that highlights the plethora of exhibitions, projects and events that now coincide with the fair each March, the most dynamic time in the UAE’s cultural calendar. Special events this year included Design Days Dubai, the only fair in Asia dedicated to product and furniture design; Sikka, the fair run by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and dedicated to new work by UAEbased artists; and Galleries Nights, featuring 40 new exhibitions across Al Quoz and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC); plus other projects, museum shows and major events throughout the Emirates, Qatar and the Gulf.

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“Arab art is experiencing a renaissance, and Dubai has become an oasis of its richness… Unlike most cities around the world, Dubai, it seems, wants more artists. Its galleries now represent artists from all over the Arab region, from Egypt to Iran to Oman. Dubai has become the gateway to the art of the Middle East — just as Hong Kong is to China, and Singapore is to Southeast-Asia.” The Business Times, Singapore, March 2013 “Galleristi e collezionisti hanno confermato la forte crescita di Art Dubai sia in termini contenuti che nell’immagine. Ma l’unità di misura per una fiera restano le vendite, che quest’anno sono state eccezionali.” “Gallerists and collectors have confirmed that Art Dubai’s strength lies in its content rather than its image. But the measure of success of a fair remains its sales, which have been exceptional this year.” Arteconomy 24, Italy, March 2013

Art Dubai is the most globalised, yet the most intimate, of art fairs. Renowned as a centre of discovery, the fair features the world’s bestknown and most established galleries, plus upcoming art spaces from across Africa, Asia and the Arab world. Showing over 500 artists, Art Dubai is the go-to place for museum directors, curators and collectors looking to connect with the dynamic and diverse arts scenes of the East.

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“Among its participating seventy-five galleries, the fair is attracting a rising number from outside of the region. They have clearly identified Dubai as a promising marketplace where trade (money) and a growing interest in international contemporary art (culture) coincide.” Art Agenda, United States, March 2013 “所以在今年第七屆杜拜藝博會,我們見到許多年輕的本地當代藝廊, 本地藝術刊物的增加,以及非盈利藝術機構的積極踴躍… 今年杜拜的確與往年不同,整體氛圍與買氣活躍積極很多。”

“In the 7th Edition of Art Dubai, we witnessed many new galleries joining, the emergence of local art publications, as well as the very active participation of non-profit art organizations... This year’s edition is distinctively different from previous ones in that it manifests an even more active atmosphere overall with stronger buying activities.” Art & Collection, Taiwan, April 2013

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PARTICIPATING GALLERIES 2013 . Agial Art Gallery Beirut . Aicon Gallery New York/London . Albareh Art Gallery Manama . Sabrina Amrani Art Gallery Madrid . ARNDT Berlin/Singapore . Atassi Gallery Damascus . Athr Gallery Jeddah . Ayyam Gallery Dubai/Beirut/London/ Jeddah/Damascus . Bischoff/Weiss London . Bolsa de Arte Porto Alegre . Laura Bulian Gallery Milan . Campagne Premiere Berlin . Carbon 12 Dubai . Cardi Black Box Milan . Carpe Diem Segou* . Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos* . Galleria Continua San Gimignano/Beijing/Le Moulin . Pilar Corrias London . CRG Gallery New York . Galerie Chantal Crousel Paris . D Gallerie Jakarta . Espace Doualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;art Douala* . Edwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gallery Jakarta . Etemad Gallery Dubai/Tehran . Exhibit 320 New Delhi . Experimenter Kolkata . Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Dubai . Galerie Imane Fares Paris . Selma Feriani Gallery London . GAG Projects Adelaide/Berlin . Galerist Istanbul . Alexander Gray Associates New York . Green Art Gallery Dubai . Grey Noise Dubai . Grosvenor Vadehra London/New Delhi . Leila Heller Gallery New York . Hunar Gallery Dubai . Hussenot Paris

. In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc Paris . Rose Issa Projects London . Galerie Jaeger Bucher Paris . Galerie Rodolphe Janssen Brussels . Kalfayan Galleries Athens/Thessaloniki . Galerie Krinzinger Vienna . Yvon Lambert Paris . Lawrie Shabibi Dubai . Lombard Freid Gallery New York . Lumen Travo Amsterdam . Galeri Mana Istanbul . Galerie El Marsa Tunis . Victoria Miro London . Galeri NON Istanbul . Gallery Wendi Norris San Francisco . Nubuke Foundation Accra* . Galerie Nathalie Obadia Brussels/Paris . October Gallery London . The Pace Gallery London/Beijing/New York . Paradise Row London . Platform China Beijing/Hong Kong . Rampa Istanbul . Raw Material Company Dakar* . Almine Rech Gallery Brussels/Paris . Rodeo Istanbul . Galerie Janine Rubeiz Beirut . The Running Horse Beirut . Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska Salzburg . Schleicher/Lange Berlin . Sfeir-Semler Beirut/Hamburg . Sutton Gallery Melbourne . Galerie Tanit Munich/Beirut . Tashkeel Dubai . Tasveer Bangalore . Galerie Daniel Templon Paris . The Third Line Dubai . Galerie Tanja Wagner Berlin *Participating in MARKER, focusing in 2013 on West Africa.

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“As art gets stronger, contributing to economic and cultural development across the world, Africa has presented its case of prospective dynamics to a global audience at the just concluded Art Dubai Fair, in United Arab Emirate (UAE). The rare opportunity came via two platforms of the fair: a curated section tagged Marker and the yearly seven-day discussion segment, Global Art Forum, held at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. While Marker showed that the fast-rising contemporaneity of art has not left the continent of Africa behind, the various segments of the art forum focused art education in the Middle East, art appreciation and documentation in Africa,positioning music as art content, among others” The Guardian, Nigeria, March 2013

MARKER Marker is a set of five curated booths within the fair, selected and invited by a curator and Art Dubai, which gives a focus to one emerging arts scene. In this section of the fair, we place the emphasis on upcoming talent, and highlight young galleries that are rarely seen on the circuit of international fairs and arts events. A dynamic, innovative programme, Marker exemplifies Art Dubai’s role as a “fair of discovery”. The programme aims to build recognition, giving upcoming arts organisations and galleries a foothold in the international art world. For 2013, Art Dubai invited Lagos-based curator Bisi Silva to select and work with artspaces located in West Africa. Silva opted to theme the programme around the idea of ‘cities in transition’, with a particular focus on the work of dynamic, independent organisations and artists dealing with specific identities and localities. Bisi Silva selected five spaces to participate in the fair and worked collaboratively with directors, curators and artists to produce exhibitions for Art Dubai: Centre for Contemporary Art (Lagos, Nigeria), Espace doual’art (Douala, Cameroon), Carpe Diem (Segou, Mali), Nubuke Foundation (Accra, Ghana) and Raw Material Company (Dakar, Senegal). The five galleries were represented by directors, curators and artists, and their presence accompanied by commissioned projects and talks. The first major representation of contemporary West African art in the Middle East, Marker 2013 also encouraged a great influx of African collectors, curators and arts enthusiasts to the Gulf for the first time—and sparked longer-term initiatives and exchange. In 2014, Marker will focus on the diverse arts scenes of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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SCULPTURE ON THE BEACH In 2013 Art Dubai launched a new programme, titled Sculpture on the Beach—a curated exhibition of large-scale works located on the Mina A’Salam beach adjacent to the fair. The space played with the architecture of a park, something of a fabricated concept in the desert and beach of the UAE. Working from proposals made by participating galleries, curator Chus Martinez selected works by 11 artists: . Chris Burden Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna . Amahiguéré Dolo Carpe Diem, Ségou . Mounir Fatmi Lombard Freid Gallery, New York . Bita Fayyazi Gallery IVDE, Dubai . Vibha Galhotra Exhibit 320, New Delhi . Abdoulaye Konaté commissioned by Iniva, London* . Gabriel Kuri Sfeir-Semler, Beirut/Hamburg . Hassan Sharif Alexander Gray Associates, New York . Slavs and Tatars The Third Line, Dubai . UBIK Sabrina Amrani Art Gallery, Madrid . Saddek Wasil Athr Gallery, Jeddah

*Abdoulaye Konaté’s work was commissioned by Iniva and was exhibited internationally at Art Dubai for the first time, as a project accompanying Marker and Art Dubai 2013’s focus on West Africa

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‫"يحسب لمعرض ارت دبي استمراريته وتنوع طروحاته‬ ‫الفنية وجلبه اختيارات مغايرة في كل دورة حيث‬ ‫يثير المعرض في كل دورة االدهاش والجدل حول‬ ‫الفن الوافد او الجديد وكذلك المستقطب من دول‬ ‫العالم وآخر التجارب الفنية من مختبرات الفنانين‬ ‫ استطاع آرت دبي دفع عجلة المشهد‬...‫المشاركين‬ ‫ من‬،‫الفني المعاصر في منطقة الشرق األوسط‬ ‫خالل دوره في استكشاف الفنون العالمية والتبادل‬ ‫الثقافي ودعمها بإحضار الثروات الفنية العالمية‬ "‫متذوقي الفن في المنطقة‬ ‫ووضعها في متناول‬ ّ

“Art Dubai supports cultural exchange and contributes to the growth of the contemporary art scene in the Middle East through its rigorous exploration of international art scenes, granting access to enthusiasts from the region.” Al Rai, Jordan, March 2013 “相较于其他亚洲的本地博览会，迪拜艺博会整体表现出高水准，虽然参展商还是以地区性的画廊为主，但保有浓厚地域风情同时具备国际博览会的潜质。”

“In comparison to other art fairs in Asia, Art Dubai’s high standard is standing out. Most participating galleries are from within the region, and yet Art Dubai demonstrates its potential as a truly international art fair whilst possessing a strong local flair.” China Times, China, April 2013

Art Dubai is held under the Patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Dubai. Art Dubai Ladies’ Day is held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women’s Establishment, Wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE.

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“…Il secondo elemento di rilievo riguarda il collezionismo. Quest’anno oltre al forte numero di collezionisti autoctoni, vi era un’eccezionale presenza di collezionisti internazionali, moltissimi dall’Europa, soprattutto dal Belgio e dalla Francia…” “…The second highlight [of Art Dubai] is with regards to collecting. This year, in addition to the large numbers of local collectors, there was an exceptional presence of international collectors, many from Europe, especially from Belgium and France…” Arteconomy 24, Italy, March 2013

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Art Dubai is hosted by a country with an unrivalled reputation for hospitality, and is privileged to have the support of a passionate, collegiate Board of Patrons, which in 2013 was chaired by HE Abdul Rahman Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health (formerly UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development). Our Board of Patrons—based across the globe, but with a particular interest in supporting the arts in the Middle East and Asia—take on a crucial ambassadorial and advisory role for Art Dubai.

2013 CHAIRMAN, ART DUBAI BOARD OF PATRONS

HONORARY BOARD OF PATRONS 2012-2013

His Excellency Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Health (formerly UAE Minister of Culture, Youth & Community Development)

Saeb Eigner, patron, author (Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran, Merrell, 2010); Founder / Chairman, Lonworld; Governor, London Business School; Chairman, Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA); London HE Omar Ghobash, patron; Co-Founder, The Third Line Gallery; ex-Deputy CEO, Emirates Foundation; Founding Donor / Board Member, Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC); Board Member, Khatt Foundation; Sponsor, Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize; UAE Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine; Moscow Arif Naqvi, patron, collector; Founder / CEO, The Abraaj Group; Board of Directors, Endeavor; Board of Trustees, Aman Foundation; Member, Young Presidents’ Organization / WEF Arab Business Council / EMPEA Advisory Council / IMD Foundation Board; Board Member, Pakistan Human Development Fund (PHDF) / King Abdullah II Award for Youth Innovation & Achievement / Dubai

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Government Education Endowment Fund / United Nations Global Compact; Dubai HE Zaki Nusseibeh, Cultural Advisor, UAE Ministry of Presidential Affairs; Deputy Chairman, Abu Dhabi Culture and Heritage Authority (ADACH); Advisory Board, Middle East Centre London School of Economics / SOAS; Board Member, ParisSorbonne University Abu Dhabi / National Center for Documentation & Research / Emirates National School; President, Alliance Francaise Abu Dhabi / Abu Dhabi Classical Concert Committee / UAE chapter of the International ‘Friends of Richard Wagner’ society; CoFounder, Abu Dhabi Classics Programme / Al Ain Music Festival; Abu Dhabi HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani, patron, collector; ViceChairman, Qatar Museums Authority; Founder, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art; Doha

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BOARD OF PATRONS 2012-2013 Mohammed Afkhami, collector; Director, UBS Warburg; Managing Partner, MA Partners DMCC; Founding Member, British Museum’s Middle East and North Africa Art Acquisition Committee; Dubai Yasmin Teymour Alireza, patron, collector; London Faiza Meyassar Alireza, patron, collector; Chairman, Al Madad Foundation; London Paula Al Askari, patron, collector; Abu Dhabi Kito De Boer, collector; Director – Middle East, McKinsey & Company; Dubai Dr Farhad Farjam, patron; Founder, The Farjam Collection; Chairman / CEO, Farbro Group; Founder / Chairman, Hafiz Foundation; Dubai Lisa Farjam, editor, author; Founder / Editor-in-Chief, Bidoun Magazine; New York Dr Shayma Nawaf Fawwaz, collector; Vice President – Healthcare, Mubadala Development Company; Abu Dhabi

Fatima Al-Mazrui Ghobash, patron, collector; Co-founder, S*uce; Dubai Muna Al Gurg, patron, columnist; Director – Retail, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group (ESAG); Chairwoman, Young Arab Leaders; Board of Directors, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Charity Foundation; Dubai Dr Lamees Hamdan, collector; Commissioner, UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale; Board Member, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA) / Dubai Women Establishment (DWE); Fund Curator, Daman Middle East Art Fund; Founder, Shiffa; Dubai Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi, patron; Founder / Director, Royal Society of Fine Arts of Jordan / Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts; former Jordan Ambassador to Italy; Amman Dr Serra Kirdar, patron, collector; Director, Muthabara Foundation; Founding Member, New Leaders Group, Institute for International Education (IIE); Founder / Director, Initiative for Innovative Teaching (INTEACH); Founder, Oxford’s Middle East Centre; Chair

/ Founder, Copia Luxury Management; Life Fellow, St. Antonys College, University of Oxford; Dubai Georges Makhoul, patron, collector; former President – MENA, Morgan Stanley; Dubai Fatima Maleki, patron, collector; Donor / Committee Member, American Patrons of Tate; London Patricia Millns, artist; Advisory Board Member, American University of Dubai (AUD) / Sovereign Art Foundation / Contemporary Practices Journal; Member, Emirates Fine Art Society; Honorary Member, Oman Fine Art Society; Dubai

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Ramin Salsali, collector; Founder, Salsali Private Museum (SPM); Awardee, Patron of the Arts, UAE 2010-12; Dubai Ahmed bin Shabib, entrepreneur; Co-Founder / Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / The Pavilion / Shelter; Dubai Rashid bin Shabib, entrepreneur; Co-Founder / Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / The Pavilion / Shelter; Dubai Amir Shariat, collector; Founder / CEO, Auctor Capital Partners Limited; London Bashar Al Shroogi, patron, collector, curator; Founder / CEO, Cuadro Art Gallery; Dubai

Yola Noujaim, patron, collector; Senior Architect, ynzdesign; Board of Advisors, Design Days Çigdem Simavi, patron, Dubai; Beirut/Paris collector; Founder / President, KÜSAV; Advisory Board Lekha Poddar, patron, Member – Europe, Christie’s collector; President / CoInternational; Istanbul Founder, Devi Art Foundation; Founder, Carma; Patron/ Abir Dajani Tuqan, author, Founder, Textile Arts of India; collector; London New Delhi Sharaf Ahmed Zaki Lulu Al Sabah, writer, Yamani, collector; Director, collector, curator; Co-Founder / Windlesham Advisors LTD; Partner, JAMM; Kuwait Member, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation / Sheikha Paula Al Sabah, The Yamani Cultural and patron; Board Member, Charitable Foundation; Serpentine Gallery; Kuwait London

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PATRONS ADVISORY BOARD 2012 - 2013 Maria Baibakova, curator; Founder / Director / Chief Curator, Baibakov Art Projects (BAP); Moscow/Boston Dana Farouki, patron, collector; Committee Member, The Abraaj Group Art Prize; Trustee, MoMA PS1 / Creative Time; Dubai / New York Ali Yussef Khadra, collector, publisher; Founder, Mixed Media Publishing / Canvas / Canvas TV; Regional Consultant, Christie’s; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); Committee Member, Prix Pictet / V&A’s Jameel Prize / Parasol Future Unit / Magic of Persia Contemporary Art Prize; Dubai Lisa Mamounas, collector; Founder, Culinary Insiders; Member, The Junior Associates – MoMA; New York Fayeeza Naqvi, collector; Founding Trustee, Aman Foundation / Aangan Trust; Founding Director, Saharay Welfare Organisation; Dubai Smita Prabhakar, collector; Dubai

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, patron, collector, columnist and commentator; Founder / Chairman, Meem Gallery; Founder / Director, Barjeel Art Foundation; Sharjah Maya Rasamny, collector; patron, Tate Gallery; Co-Chair, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); London Alia Al-Senussi, patron; VIP Relations Manager – Middle East, Art Basel Miami Beach; Director, Albion Gallery, 200509; Ambassador, Tate Young Patrons, 2008; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); Committee Member – Future Contemporaries Group, Serpentine Gallery; Chair, Tate Young Patrons / Aiglon College Charitable Trust, 2009-10; Co-Chair, Parasol Future Unit; President, Friends of Aiglon College (FOAC), 2005-10; London Abdullah AlTurki, collector, curator; Creative Director, Edge of Arabia; Co-Chair, Parasol Future Unit; Member, Tate’s Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC) / Serpentine Gallery Future Contemporary Group; London/Riyadh

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CURATORIAL ADVISORY BOARD 2012-2013

Negar Azimi, curator, writer; Senior Editor, Bidoun Magazine; Member, Arab Image Foundation (FAI); Board of Directors, Artists’ Space; New York Aaron Cezar, curator; Founding Director, Delfina Foundation; London Rami Farook, curator, publisher; Founder / Director, Traffic, Satellite / The State; Dubai Vasif Kortun, curator, writer; Director - Research and Programmes, SALT; Board Member, International Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM), 2010-13; Curator, UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2011; Founding Director, Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center / Project 4L, Istanbul Museum of Contemporary Art / Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Istanbul

Lateefa bint Maktoum, artist, curator; Founder / Director, Tashkeel; Dubai Salwa Mikdadi, curator, art historian; Co-Founder / exDirector, Cultural & Visual Arts Resource/ICWA; Co-Founder, Association of Modern & Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran and Turkey (AMCA); Head of the Arts and Culture Programme, Emirates Foundation; Abu Dhabi Jessica Morgan, curator, writer; The Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate; Curator - Contemporary Art, Tate Modern; Committee, The Abraaj Group Art Prize; London Elaine W Ng, editor, publisher, curator; Editor / Publisher, ArtAsiaPacific (AAP) magazine; Programme Advisor - Exhibition Studies and Art Curatorship MA, Hong Kong Art School; Hong Kong/New York

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Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator, critic, art historian; Co-Director - Exhibitions and Programmes, Director - International Projects, Serpentine Gallery; Curator, Museum in Progress, Vienna, 1993-2000 / Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2000-06 ; Contributing Editor, Abitare Magazine, Artforum, Paradis Magazine and 032c Magazine; London Jack Persekian, curator; Founder / Director, Anadiel Gallery / Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art / XEIN Productions; Founder/Head Curator, The Jerusalem Show; Head Curator, The Palestinian Museum; Artistic Director / Head Curator, Sharjah Biennial 2004-09; Director, Sharjah Art Foundation 2009-11; Jerusalem

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VISITORS

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ATTENDANCE BY REGION TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 25,000

3.71%

ATTENDANCE BY INVITATION TYPE

0.74% 0.45% 4.04%

8.05%

9.46%

20.13%

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3.95%

61.47%

47.04%

UAE MIDDLE EAST EUROPE REST OF ASIA AMERICAS AFRICA AUSTRALIA

ART DUBAI GUEST GENERAL GUEST GALLERY GUEST SPONSOR GUEST

40.96%

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VIP PROGRAMME

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“Dubai has been called an “instant metropolis”, emerging in less than a decade to become a hub for the well-travelled, well-heeled and well-known. Similarly—and perhaps in an even shorter time—the Arab art scene has been flourishing and drawing the attention of global curators, critics and collectors.” The Business Times, Singapore, March 2013 “Given that Art Dubai has welcomed collector groups from London’s Tate Museum, the Pompidou in Paris, Beijing’s Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Art Gallery of NSW, it seems the art world is voting with its feet.” The Australian Financial Review, Australia, March 2013 “Art Dubai…attracted a truly global crowd to the opening of its seventh edition, with a number of prestigious ‘first-timers’… Among them were Californians Cliff and Mandy Einstein and the always-superfashionable Norman and Norah Stone. There was French-US art adviser Patricia Marshall and Belgian collector Guy Ullens, founder of the Beijing-based Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, accompanied by a dozen Chinese collectors, and there was also glamorous Texan Amy Phelan.” The Financial Times, United Kingdom, March 2013

Since 2007, Art Dubai has built up an unparalleled reputation for hosting and developing tours that facilitate networking and shed light on the arts scenes of the region. Guests are invited to join two tiers of VIP Programming—from three to ten days, and spanning the Gulf region—while Art Dubai’s specialist International Relations team also develops bespoke programmes for particular groups and associations. We also welcome guests to a series of year-round talks and events, held in the UAE and in different cities across the world.

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The Collectors’ Circle is an invitationonly association, developed specifically for collectors and arts professionals. This exclusive programme provides high-level, personalised access to the arts scenes of the Gulf and facilitates connections with collectors, artists and curators of the Middle East and Asia. The VIP Programme also welcomes arts enthusiasts and younger collectors; events each March include the Jumeirah Patrons' Preview, the night that celebrates the opening of Art Dubai in style, at the fair’s home at Madinat Jumeirah. Our Collectors’ Circle and VIP programmes include: - invitations to private views and opening nights of major gallery and museum exhibitions across the Gulf - exclusive access to specialised talks by world-renowned collectors and arts professionals - visits to Gulf-based collectors’ homes and tours of private collections - invitations to lunches, dinners and other social occasions, bringing together unique groups of artists, collectors and arts professionals with sponsors, financiers, ministers and other decision-makers Selected Collectors’ Circle and VIP Programme events in 2013: - two days in Doha, with tours led by leading curators and museum directors of the Museum of Islamic Art and collateral exhibitions, plus a dinner hosted by the Qatar Museums Authority - first access to Art Dubai and an exclusive preview of the gallery halls and artists’ projects, plus an invitation to The Abraaj

Group Lounge and the unveiling of the 2013 Abraaj Group Art Prize by CEO Arif Naqvi - a lunch at the Sharjah Art Foundation hosted by HE Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, the president and director of the Sharjah Art Foundation along with 2013 Sharjah Biennial curator Yuko Hasegawa - a private tour of the Barjeel Foundation, led by collector and columnist Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, and Maraya Centre - a tour of Al Ain, hosted by renowned culturalist and presidential advisor HE Zaki Nusseibeh - a tour of the Grand Sheikh Zayed Mosque followed by an afternoon tea hosted by a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family - a specialised preview of Design Days Dubai—Asia’s first design fair—led by fair director Cyril Zammit - access to private dinners and parties, including special evenings hosted by Canvas, by the Samawi family, and by Mouza Mohammed Al Abbar - an architectural tour of Dubai by architect Richard Wagner - exclusive visits to collectors’ homes including the private collections of Omar Abu Sharif, Amir Shariat, Farhad Bakhtiar, Samia Saleh, Jane and Kito de Boer and Alia Masood - artists’ studio visits including renowned Emirati artists Hassan Sharif and Mohammed Kazem, and guided tours to Dubai’s gallery districts - the exclusive Art Dubai Ladies’ Lunch hosted by Cartier

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MUSEUM GROUPS Art Dubai specialises in collaborating with the world’s major museums, arts institutions and associations to organise bespoke tours for curators and patrons. Taking in key exhibitions and events, and incorporating visits to artists’ studios, plus special talks and presentations, the Gulf-wide tours typically include Doha, Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, and feature the unrivalled, personal hospitality of Gulf-based patrons, artists and cultural leaders. In 2013, Art Dubai hosted over 300 leading museum directors and curators, plus 75 museum groups—more than any other art fair, worldwide.

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Our institutional guests included: . Adile Mermerci Foundation Turkey . African Art Foundation United Kingdom . Arab World Institute France . Architectural Foundation United Kingdom . Art Club Konstart Sweden . Art Gallery of New South Wales Australia . Art Gallery of Western Australia Australia . Arts Support Fund Ukraine . Australia China Art Foundation China . Breuerlakehouse United Kingdom . Caspian Arts Foundation United Kingdom . Centre d’art Contemporain Geneve France . Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos Nigeria . Centre Pompidou France . Centre Pompidou Foundation United States . Cobra Museum of Modern Art The Netherlands . Contemporary Art Center Inhotim CACI Brazil . Contemporary Art of São Paulo’s Pinacoteca Brazil . Creative Time United States . CuratorLab Sweden . Darat Al Funun Jordan . Delfina Foundation United Kingdom . Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Foundation United States . Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló Spain . Fiorucci Art Trust Italy . Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la Création France . Fondazione Giuliani Italy . Foundation of Museum of Modern Art (FOMMA) Pakistan . Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution United States . Fundation Arte y Mecenazgo Spain . Guggenheim Museum United States . Guy and Myriam Ullens Foundation China . Harvard Art Museum United States . International Council of Museums (ICOM) France . Independent Curators International United States . Institut des Cultures d’Islam France . Internationale Organisation de la Francophonie France . Kunsthal Charlottenborg Denmark . La Maison Rouge France

. Lahore Arts Foundation Trust Pakistan . L’association des Amis du CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux France . Lima Art Museum Peru . Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) United States . Macau Museum of Art Macau China . MACRO & MAXXI Museum Italy . Mansoojat Foundation Saudi Arabia . Miami Art Museum United States . Moderna Museet in Malmö Sweden . The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) United States . Monaco Museum Monaco . Museo de Arte de Lima Peru . Museum Dhondt Dhaenens Belgium . Museum Kunsthalle Schweinfurt and Kunst Salong Germany . Museum of Contemporary Art Denver United States . Museum of Modern Art, Equatorial Guinea South Africa . Museum of the America United States . Orientalist Museum Qatar . Raw Material Dakar . Royal Academy United Kingdom . Saha Association Turkey . Sammlung Verbund Austria . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art United States . Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center Russia . Singapore Art Museum Singapore . Tate Modern United Kingdom . Tate Young Patrons United Kingdom . Tauck Foundation United States . The Art Fund United Kingdom . The British Museum United Kingdom . The Fondation Louis Vuitton France . The Museum of Anthropology United States . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art United States . The Serpentine Gallery United Kingdom . Ullens Center for Contemporary Art China . Urban Cosmopolitans Foundation The Netherlands . Victoria & Albert Museum United Kingdom . Whitechapel United Kingdom . Whitney Museum United States . Zurich Art Museum Switzerland

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MARKETING & OUTREACH

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“Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the Middle East and South Asia, has turned to the UAE community-at-large to create its branding concept this year… Images, submitted by both amateurs and professionals, reflect experiences in and of Dubai. Art Dubai creative director, Hani Charaf, is creating the campaign by weaving together the visuals into a series of ever changing collages, with images set to be featured all through the year in adverts and magazines from across the world as well as on billboards, invitations and booklets, among other collateral.” Communicate, UAE, January 2013

BRANDING Art Dubai takes a particularly innovative approach to its branding. Each year, we work with guest artists to build a photographic and design campaign around our bilingual logo and identity, developed by Kemistry Design. For Art Dubai’s 2013 branding campaign we turned to the UAE community-at-large, inviting artists, photographers and arts enthusiasts to collaborate and contribute to a visual narrative that reflected Dubai’s essence and its varied urban fabric. Through this unique crowd-sourcing approach we received hundreds of photographs of Dubai that together captured the many layers and nuances of the city. Our branding weaved the photographs together into a series of collages, reflecting Dubai’s identity and diversity in our advertising campaign and marketing collateral. We also redesigned the environment of the fair itself, collaborating with local farms and nurseries to bring an organic flair to the Madinat Jumeirah.

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PRESS

Art Dubai 2013 featured a particularly strong turnout by and support from the media. Over 400 journalists, writers and art critics from around the world attended the seventh edition of the fair. Art Dubai also hosted an indepth press trip that included 80 key international media representatives; their bespoke programme covered the UAE, taking in Art Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numerous events, including Design Days Dubai, Galleries Night, Sikka and the Sharjah Biennial. Art Dubai and its various programmes, from Marker and Art Dubai Projects to the Global Art Forum, were previewed, covered and reviewed in over 750 articles between April 2012 and April 2013. Art Dubai's in-house PR team collaborates with two PR agencies to maximise its global outreach to media: . Dabo & Co UAE and the Arab world . Victoria Cheung Communications China

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SELECTED PRESS ATTENDANCE . Africultures France . Ahram Online Egypt . Annahar Lebanon . Arab News Saudi Arabia . Art & Collection Taiwan . Art Agenda United States . Art Bank China . Art Chronika Russia . The Art Newspaper United Kingdom . Art Review United Kingdom . Art Unlimited Magazine Turkey . Art+Auction United States . ArtAsiaPacific Hong Kong . ArtEconomy24 Italy . ARTFORUM United States . ARTINFO United States . Art.it Japan . Asharq Al Awsat Pan Arab . Australian Art Collector Australia . Al Bayan UAE . Brownbook UAE . The Business Times Singapore . CANS Magazine Taiwan . Canvas UAE . Connaissances des Arts France . Contemporary And Germany . Creative Time United States . Cumhuriyet Turkey . The Daily Star Lebanon . DAMn Belgium . Die Welt Germany . Diptyk Morocco . Les Echos France . The Economic Observer China . Elle Lebanon . Le Figaro France . The Financial Times United Kingdom . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Germany . Frieze United Kingdom . The Guardian United Kingdom . The Guardian Nigeria Nigeria

. HANDELSBLATT Germany . Harper’s Bazaar Art China . Harper’s Bazaar Art UAE . hART Belgium . Al Hayat Pan Arab . The Hindu India . Hindustan Times India . Hong Kong Economic Journal Hong Kong . The Huffington Post United States . Hurriyet Turkey . IBRAAZ United Kingdom . The Independent United Kingdom . International Herald Tribune Pakistan . Al Itihad UAE . The Jakarta Globe Indonesia . Al Jazirah Saudi Arabia . Le Journal des Arts France . Kommersant Russia . Kunstbeeld The Netherlands . Leap China . Lifestyle Journal Hong Kong . London Book Review Blog United Kingdom . Mashallah News Lebanon . Le Monde France . Monocle United States . Mousse Italy . Al Mustaqbal Lebanon . The National UAE . Neue Zürcher Zeitung Switzerland . The New York Times United States . NOWNESS United Kingdom . Nukta Art Pakistan . Ocula United Kingdom . L’Officiel Art France . Le Quotidien de l’Art France . Al Rai Jordan . Savvy Germany . Southern Metropolis Daily China . Vanity Fair United States . Ventures Nigeria . Al Watan Kuwait . Whitewall United Kingdom

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PRESS COVERAGE A total of 794 feature articles and broadcasts from around the world covered Art Dubai 2013, with a breakdown of 486 from the Arab world and 308 international.

2.58%

1.55% 0.52%

26.03% 21.01%

14.05%

34.26%

UAE MIDDLE EAST EUROPE REST OF ASIA AMERICAS AFRICA AUSTRALIA

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The combined reader circulation and online unique visits of media that covered Art Dubai is 13,504,904* KEY BROADCAST AND NEWSWIRE MEDIA INCLUDED . Agence France Presse TV France . Al Arabiya Saudi Arabia . Bloomberg United States . CNN United States . Dubai Eye UAE . Dubai One UAE . Les Echos TV France . Emirates 24/7 UAE . Kommersant FM Russia . Monocle Radio United Kingdom . ORF Austria . Paris PremiĂ¨re France . WDR3 Germany

*Figure based on data supplied by media, June 2013

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MARKETING

MEDIA PARTNERS INCLUDED

ART DUBAI NEWSLETTER A monthly newsletter announcing news and upcoming events is sent to Art Dubai’s database, comprising of over 35,000 contacts— from collectors, patrons and museum directors to artists, journalists and art enthusiasts.

. Agenda Culturel Lebanon . The Art Newspaper United Kingdom . ArtAsiaPacific Hong Kong . Artpress France . Bidoun United States . Bijutsu-Techo Japan . BlouinARTINFO.com Asia Singapore . Broadsheet Australia . Brownbook UAE . Canvas UAE . Harper’s Bazaar Art UAE . The International Herald Tribune United States . Latin American Art Puerto Rico . Motherland India . Nukta Art Pakistan . Qulture Qatar . Rukh France / Morocco . Sleek Germany . T Emirates UAE . THAT Turkey . The Wall Street Journal United States

E-FLUX AND ART AGENDA ANNOUNCEMENTS E-flux and Art Agenda announcements are news digests, part of an international network which reaches more than 90,000 visual art professionals. Between April 2012 and 2013, Art Dubai made 6 announcements promoting the various programmes of its seventh edition using this service. RADIO SEGMENT Art Dubai has a monthly slot on ‘The Edge Art & Culture’ show on Dubai Eye 103.8, highlighting art-related events, initiatives and news from the Arab world and beyond. Dubai Eye serves an audience of more than 91,000 listeners. MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVERTISING Art Dubai partnered with 56 different media— print, online and broadcast—to promote the seventh edition of the fair through an extensive international advertising campaign. The campaign ran from September 2012 to March 2013, and featured 80 advertisements.

The aggregate reader circulation of Art Dubai Media Partners is 3,139,017*

*Figure based on data supplied by media, June 2013

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SOCIAL MEDIA

ART DUBAI WEBSITE Art Dubai’s website features comprehensive information about the fair’s programmes, individual pages for participating galleries, as well as an extensive photo gallery. It is updated regularly, and constitutes an easily accessible source of information for the fair. Number of unique visitors between April 2012 and 2013: 206,217 ART DUBAI BLOG The Art Dubai Blog is a platform that shares and promotes exhibitions, projects, new work and ideas from the Middle East, South Asia and beyond. It is updated on average twice a week, and is growing to feature reviews, interviews, photo essays, artists’ projects, studio visits, diaries and more. Special series include a focus on Ramadan each year, in which we invite members of the global Art Dubai network to contribute images and texts, reflecting on the holy month in their corner of the world. Taking a playful and behindthe-scenes approach, each week the blog also invites a guest to create a Mixtape of favourite tunes that inspire or contribute to their working life. Contributors to the blog have included: writers Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Marisa Mazria Katz; photographers Amanda Vincelli and Hind Mezaina; designer and photographer Katrin Greiling; author Guy Mannes-Abbott; artists Huma Mulji, Rayyane Tabet, Hind Bin Demaithan, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Emeka Ogboh, Hrair Sarkissian, Vartan Avakian; presenter/producer Fari Bradley; curators Bisi Silva, Nav Haq, Nat Muller, and Alia Swastika; graphic artist Zena Adhami and many more.

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TWITTER FOLLOWERS FOLLOWERS: 32,601 TWEETS: 4,951

FACEBOOK FANS FANS: 50,223 FROM 20 COUNTRIES FRIENDS OF FANS: 20,752,697

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2% 14%

21.77%

29.67%

38%

6.48% 19%

1.67% 20.69%

14.51% 5.22%

24%

Figures accurate at time of print, June 2013

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REGIONAL ABU DHABI ART CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL INDIA ART FAIR BEIRUT ART FAIR MARRAKECH ART FAIR

10,581 9,579 3,939 1,578 659

INTERNATIONAL ART BASEL (BASEL, HONG KONG, MIAMI) 133,720 PARIS PHOTO 32,605 FIAC 30,996 FRIEZE (LONDON, NEW YORK) 20,368 THE ARMORY SHOW 17,111 ART STAGE SINGAPORE 6,365

UAE MIDDLE EAST EUROPE REST OF ASIA AMERICAS AFRICA AUSTRALIA

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32,601

REGIONAL CONTEMPORARY ISTANBUL ABU DHABI ART BEIRUT ART FAIR MARRAKECH ART FAIR

6,855 2,240 937 622

INTERNATIONAL ART BASEL (BASEL, HONG KONG, MIAMI) 92,094 FRIEZE 59,217 THE ARMORY SHOW 25,756 FIAC 14,378 ARCO MADRID 14,085 PARIS PHOTO 10,178 ART BRUSSELS 2,581 ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2,278

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OUTREACH AND PR Year-round, our Board of Patrons and other friends and colleagues host private dinners and events, bringing together like-minded patrons, sponsors, gallerists and artists, both in the Gulf and across the world. Art Dubai organises events to promote the fair and its collateral events to various audiences, from media to galleries, art collectors and patrons. In 2012-13, these events included: -A rt Dubai Patrons’ and Friends’ Reception at The Villandry, London, October 2012 -D inner with Art Dubai at The MAKE Business Hub, Dubai, November 2012 - Art Dubai Presentation for The Noble Savages at The Capital Club, Dubai, December 2013 -Y oung Collectors’ and Art Patrons’ Reception at The Arts Club, London, January 2013 -A rt Dubai UAE Press Briefing at The Pavilion, Dubai, January 2013, for over 40 key print, online, TV and radio journalists -C ollectors’ Circle Sundowners at Comptoir 102, Dubai, February 2013 -A rt Dubai 2013 Preview Presentation for the American Women’s Association at the Westin Hotel, Dubai, February 2013 - ‘Cartier and Art’ Presentation at Cartier Exclusive Lounge, Dubai, March 2013 -A rt Morning with Dubai Women Business Council: Women in Art Collecting at The Capital Club, Dubai, March 2013 -A rt Dubai 2013 Preview Presentation for The Hideaways Club, Dubai, March 2013 -A rt Dubai 2013 International Press Conference and Preview at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, March 2013, for over 400 journalists

In addition to our international PR events, Art Dubai was represented by members of its team at major international art and culture events throughout the year: - Edge of Arabia (Jeddah) January 2012 - Art Brussels April 2012 - Berlin Gallery Week April 2012 - Frieze New York May 2012 - Art Hong Kong May 2012 - Dak’art Biennial May 2012 - Kiev Biennial May 2012 -C hkoun Ahna, Museum of Carthage (Tunis) May 2012 - Art Basel June 2012 - Documenta 13 (Kassel) June 2012 -O pening of Yuz Museum, Long Museum & West Bank Cultural Corridor (Shanghai) June-July 2012 -C hinese Oil and Painting Biennial & other exhibitions (Beijing) June-July 2012 - Beirut Art Fair July 2012 - La Triennale (Paris) July 2012 - Manifesta 9 (Genk) July 2012 - 18th Biennale of Sydney July 2012 -B iennale des Antiquaires (Paris) September 2012 - SALT (Istanbul) September 2012 - Frieze (London) October 2012 - FIAC (Paris) October 2012 -Q alandiya International (Palestine) November 2012 -S ultan Gallery & other exhibitions (Kuwait) November 2012 - VASL Curatorial Programme (Karachi & Lahore) November 2012 - Art Basel Miami December 2012 - Kochi Biennial December 2012 - India Art Fair February 2013 - Sharjah Biennial March 2013

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ART DUBAI PROGRAMME

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‫"لم يعد آرت دبي مجرد معرض أو سوق توصف‬ ‫ بل صار دعامة‬،‫بأنها جسر بين الشرق والغرب‬ ‫أساسية تؤسس لبيوت فن تعمل على تربية أجيال‬ ‫جديدة من الفنانين اإلماراتيين والعرب ودعمهم من‬ "‫خالل برامج غير تجارية‬

“Art Dubai is no longer just a fair or a market bridging East and West. Art Dubai has established itself as an essential pillar supporting new generations of Emiratis and Arab artists through its strong noncommercial programme.” Al Hayat, Pan-Arab, March 2013 “The organisers of Art Dubai, held last week at the Madinat Jumeirah venue (2023 March), were keen to show that there’s more to the fair than purely commercial considerations. Its non-profit Art Dubai Projects programme included a selection of engaging pieces, such as Mohammed Kazem’s “Window 2011-2013” series of drawings.” The Independent, United Kingdom, March 2013

Art Dubai has the strongest noncommercial programme of any art fair, worldwide. Our educational initiatives, artists’ projects and talks programmes aim to: - nurture and develop the local arts scene, providing UAE-based galleries and artists with an international platform - give opportunities to young people in the Gulf to get involved and build their careers in the arts - enable upcoming artists from across the Middle East and Asia to produce original projects, supporting their careers and enhancing their practice - develop a culture of debate and the sharing of knowledge, skills and expertise through educational initiatives and innovative talks programmes - reflect on the global economic and cultural shift taking place towards the East, drawing on Dubai’s unique position at the centre of East-East, South-South dialogue

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ART DUBAI PROJECTS Art Dubai Projects is a not-for-profit programme that invites artists, predominantly from Asia and the Middle East, to create new works that engage audiences and interact with the fair, its economy and format. 2013 marked the expansion of this programme to include 14 commissions, plus residencies, radio, film and a mobile art gallery. In total, over 40 artists—ranging from the worldrenowned to emerging practitioners—were involved in the projects programming this year, a third based in the UAE. Art Dubai Projects illustrates the role that an art fair can play in the local community: this year’s programme was extraordinarily collaborative, featuring partnerships with foundations and institutions including the British Council, Tashkeel, Traffic and The Pavilion Downtown, while the residency programme brought in new voices to the arts scene and facilitated the exchange of ideas, technique and experience. - Allows leading curators and gallerists to discover new work by upcoming artists from the region - Provides international and Emirati artists with opportunities for exchange—of skills, expertise and ideas—in the context of the UAE - Supports and nurtures artists from the Middle East and Asia through residencies and commissions, and in the production of new work—essential for their career development - Presents new, dynamic and themed artists’ projects and performances to a global audience of arts professionals, critics and enthusiasts through the platform of Art Dubai - Encourages the participation and development of local audiences through interactive, participatory projects - Pushes the boundaries of what an art fair can be, positioning Art Dubai as the most innovative of arts events—grounded in the Gulf, yet of global significance Art Dubai Projects would like to thank Capsule Arts, the Dubai Folklore Society and Sika Crew for their support in 2013.

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COMMISSIONS Each year, Art Dubai Projects commissions upcoming and established artists to create new works at the fair. Artists are encouraged make the fair itself their spark, exploring its fabric and economy, and embracing the theatrical nature of the event. Artists commissioned to create new works for Art Dubai Projects 2013 included Dina Danish, Hind Bin Demaithan, Mary Evans, Ehsan Ul Haq, Shi Jinsong, Mohammed Kazem, Farideh Lashai, Basim Magdy, Joe Namy, Yudi Noor, Ahmet Öğüt and Fatima Al Qadiri.

The critically-acclaimed, interactive programme featured, for example: - A troop of life-like, life-size plaster donkeys by Ehsan Ul Huq, commenting on the “herd mentality” within both the world of art fairs and politics - An intricate set of 100 drawings by UAE artist Mohammed Kazem of forgotten moments of the everyday in Dubai’s development - A dynamic performance conceived by sound artist Joe Namy, combining a band of traditional Emirati folk musicians with hiphop dancers and performers - A major, interactive film work by (and tribute to) the renowned, late Iranian artist Farideh Lashai - A VIP Lounge for Interns created by rising global star Ahmet Öğüt, with an exclusive roster of events and benefits for the unpaid staffers at the fair - A witty video portrait of Art Dubai produced by Dina Danish, one of six artists-in-residence, marrying sports-style commentary with footage of VIP crowds at the fair The 2013 Art Dubai Projects commissioned programme also included: - Mobile Art Gallery: founded and curated by Angelle Siyang-Le and Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, this gallery-on-a-truck featured emerging artists from the UAE, and toured Dubai throughout Art Week - Radio: a dynamic, live station situated at the fair, presented by Fari Bradley of Six Pillars Radio, which included rolling interviews, music, discussions and debate, drawing together—and giving an added, global platform—to the fair community

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A.I.R DUBAI A collaboration between Art Dubai, the Delfina Foundation, the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Tashkeel. This unique programme offered international and Emirati artists the opportunity to work together in studios in Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood for three months in the lead-up to March 2013, making new work and exchanging ideas, experience and expertise. A.i.R Dubai 2013 hosted UAE-based artists Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Ammar Al Attar and Reem Falaknaz, plus three international artists (from the Middle East and Asia), Dina Danish, Joe Namy and Yudi Noor. The artists were selected by a jury comprised of members of the participating organisations and guest curator Cairo-based curator and writer Sarah Rifky. The 2013 curator-in-residence, BĂŠrĂŠnice Saliou, was selected following an Open Call, run in partnership with ArtAsiaPacific magazine.

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‫"يحسب لمعرض ارت دبي استمراريته وتنوع‬ ‫طروحاته الفنية وجلبه اختيارات مغايرة في كل دورة‬ ‫حيث يثير المعرض في كل دورة االدهاش و الجدل‬ ‫حول الفن الوافد او الجديد وكذلك المستقطب من‬ ‫دول العالم واخر التجارب الفنية من مختبرات الفنانين‬ "‫المشاركين المنطقة‬

“Art Dubai distinguishes itself with its consistency, the diversity of its artistic propositions, and the renewed selection of galleries and works each year. Every edition of the fair inspires admiration as well as debate around a constellation of contemporary artworks from around the world.” Al Rai, Jordan, March 2013

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THE HATCH The Hatch returned to Art Dubai 2013, reappropriating and transforming an ordinary stairwell into an intimate screening space for film and video. The 2013 programme was curated by artist Maha Maamoun, co-founder of the Contemporary Image Collective (CiC), Cairo, and featured programmes of work by three artists: Ali Cherri, Hassan Khan and Anri Sala. The films were screened in collaboration with not-for-profit contemporary artspace The Pavilion Downtown Dubai, where the series was shown throughout April under the title ‘Spinal Cord: A selection from The Hatch at Art Dubai’.

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“The dXb store will visit three different locations across Dubai in March, giving 35 UAE artists and fashion designers a chance to show their designs in its pop-up boutique…Launched in 2011, the boutique has become the ultimate place for UAE designers to sell their art, jewellery, furniture, stationary and clothes.” Ahlan, UAE, February 2013 “The dXb store, a not-for-profit initiative launched in 2011 by Art Dubai…features carefully curated selection of limited edition objects, artist multiples, jewellery, furniture and stationary, to name a few. The recent rise in creativity by young, independent Emirati and UAE-based creatives has seen a high degree in experimentation and innovation using familiar local and regional culture, locally-produced materials, and approaches to develop a wide range of limited-edition objects.” Marhaba, Qatar, May 2013 “One of our favourite art month installations is dXb store. Every time we come across this brilliant popup we get all giddy for a few reasons. Firstly, who doesn’t love going on a shopping spree in between running from event to exhibition to opening to party? Second, spending all that cash feels good when we know it’s in support of local artists and three, we get such pretty things!” Quint, UAE, February 2013

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DXB STORE The dXb store is a not-for-profit space that showcases UAE-based creativity, providing a platform for limited-edition objects, artists’ multiples and jewellery, created in the UAE. Now in its third year, and with over 80 practitioners to date, the dXb store is a leading platform for emerging and established artists and designers, and is highly illustrative of the fast growing creative industry in the country. Following an Open Call, the 2013 dXb store participants were selected by a guest jury panel which included furniture and objects designer Khalid Shafar, creative entrepreneur Saadia Zahid and Design Days Dubai director Cyril Zammit. The only initiative to have presence across all three Art Week fairs, the dXb store was featured at Sikka, a commissioned programme of visual arts projects by Emirati and UAE residents, run by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority; Design Days Dubai, the first fair in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to collectible and limited edition furniture and design objects; and Art Dubai. dXb store’s media partner in 2013 was creative ad agency Digital Republic.

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“The fair’s highlight is The Abraaj Group Art Prize. The special award for artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia is unique in that it is given to artists’ proposals rather than completed works of art. Each of the five selected artists then create pieces based on his or her ideas that, when completed, are exhibited during Art Dubai.” Concierge, March 2013

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The Abraaj Group Art Prize is the leading award for artists based in the MENASA region. Now in its fifth year, the prize awards artists annually on the basis of proposals rather than completed works or previous exhibitions. The number of works that have been created and go on to form The Abraaj Group Art Collection has now grown to 21. Since its inception, the prize has evolved considerably and the works are increasingly exhibited in major international biennials—including the Sharjah Biennial 11 and The Biennale of Sydney—and world-class museums—such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C. The prize reflects The Abraaj Group’s wider investment philosophy, which is to take viable businesses with great potential, and create regional and global champions. This year’s 2013 Abraaj Group Art Prize winners were: Vartan Avakian, Iman Issa, Huma Mulji, Hrair Sarkissian and Rayyane Tabet. They were exhibited at Art Dubai in an exhibition entitled ‘extra | ordinary’, conceived by Guest Curator Murtaza Vali, who worked closely with the artists as their projects evolved. The exhibition was accompanied by a five-volume publication.

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“Funded by leading private equity investor, The Abraaj Group, the Art Prize seeks to support and showcase exceptional talent emerging in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia… Underlining the annual art grant is a pursuit for projects that transcends geographic borders, while being entrenched in the region from which they emerge. Another curatorial commitment on the part of Abraaj [Group] is to toy around with the boundaries of mediums. The result? Five installations that carry political undertones within the context of broader social critique.” Ahram Online, Egypt, March 2013

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THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE 2013 WINNERS Vartan Avakian (b. 1977, Byblos) is a multidisciplinary artist, working with installation, video and photography. Avakian’s Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 winning project is entitled A Very Short History of Tall Men, which commemorates the forgotten leaders of failed coups d’état through miniature gold statues entombed in clear acrylic spheres. Avakian has exhibited throughout the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States and is a founding member of the art collective Atfal Ahdath and a member of the Arab Image Foundation. Avakian lives and works in Beirut and is represented by Kalfayan Galleries, Athens/ Thessaloniki. Iman Issa (b.1979, Cairo) lives and works between Cairo and New York. Issa’s Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 work, Common Elements, draws on her interest in autobiographies and museums, using fragments of this research, presented as text panels, photographs and sculptures, to create a collective narrative of a life dedicated to the pursuit of thought, culture and justice. Issa employs a

variety of mediums including text, sound, sculpture, photography and video in her work, to raise questions about the relationship between language, history and personal cognition and articulation. Issa was recently awarded the inaugural FHN MACBA Award, and is represented by Rodeo, Istanbul. Huma Mulji (b.1970, Karachi) currently lives in Lahore, and teaches at the School of Visual Art and Design at Beaconhouse National University. Mulji’s Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 project, The Miraculous Lives of This and That, is a twenty-first century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, slightly larger than life, full of objects such as taxidermy animals and porcelain imitations of cheap plastic dolls, meditating on the mortality of all things. Recent exhibitions include Project 88 stand, Frieze Art Fair, London, ‘Salaam Bombay: Beauty and chaos in the urban environment’, Art Basel Miami and the Twelve Gates Gallery, Philadelphia. Mulji is represented by Project 88, Mumbai.

Hrair Sarkissian (b.1973, Damascus) is a photographer, living and working in London. Sarkissian visited and shot hundreds of photography studios in six major Middle Eastern cities—Alexandria, Amman, Beirut, Byblos, Cairo and Istanbul—before selecting the images that form his Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 work Background, which marks the eclipse of a tradition of studio portraiture integral to the twentieth century history of photography in the Middle East. Sarkissian has recently been exhibited as part of the 7th Asian Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, ‘Ici, Ailleurs’, MarseilleProvence 2013 and ‘Encounter. The Royal Academy in the Middle East’, Cultural Village Foundation, Katara, Doha. Sarkissian is represented by Kalfayan Galleries, Athens/ Thessaloniki. Rayyane Tabet’s (b.1983, Ashqout) work is concerned with researching hidden histories that are transformed and retold through objects and installations. Tabet’s Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 winning work, FIRE/CAST/ DRAW, is a sprawling floor

piece comprised of thousands of unique lead pieces, inspired by art history, numismatics, folklore and superstition and the Middle East’s conflictridden recent past. Recipient of the special jury prize, Pinchuk Arts Centre, Kiev, Tabet will exhibit with the Future Generation Art Prize at Venice Biennale, 2013. Tabet lives and works in Beirut and is represented by SfeirSemler, Hamburg/Beirut. Murtaza Vali (b. 1974, Sharjah), the Guest Curator for the 2013 Abraaj Group Art Prize, is an independent art historian, critic and curator, living and working between Sharjah and Brooklyn. A visiting instructor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, Vali regularly publishes on contemporary art for various publications and has curated exhibitions for commercial and non-profit venues in both the United States and UAE.

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“Although it is a commercial event, Art Dubai has also played an important role in creating awareness and understanding about contemporary art and engaging the local community with art through its extensive non-commercial programme of curatorial and educational projects… The educational programme has also been extended this year to include The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program for children and Campus Art Dubai, an intensive sixmonth programme for artists and curators.” Gulf News, UAE, March 2013

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Education has been at the heart of Art Dubai since its launch in 2007; the fair now has the largest education programming of any such event worldwide, providing opportunities for children through to students, graduates, collectors and enthusiasts. In March each year, Art Dubai features artist-led children’s programmes, artists’ talks and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum. Our educational programming is run in partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. In 2013, Art Dubai Education expanded to include a new children’s programme (a collaboration with Sheikha Manal Little Artists) plus the launch of Campus Art Dubai, a year-round series of courses for artists and curators based in the UAE.

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‫ أصبحت اليوم من أكبر المعارض في العالم‬..." ‫وينظر إليها كجسر بين آسيا وأفريقيا والشرق‬ ُ ‫ التظاهرة الفنية صارت مؤسسة بكل ما‬.‫األوسط‬ ‫ تساهم في التسويق لإلمارة‬،‫للكلمة من معنى‬ ‫ وفي تحريك‬،‫النابضة بالشباب من خالل الفن‬ ‫جو من الحوار‬ ّ ‫ وفي إيجاد‬،‫عجلتها االقتصادية‬ ‫ واألهم‬،‫السياسي واالجتماعي والثقافي البنّ اء‬ ‫أنها أسست ألرضية ثقافية محلية تنطلق من جذور‬ "‫المنطقة‬

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CHILDREN’S ART PROGRAMMES In 2013, Art Dubai teamed up with The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program— launched for the first time at the fair—to produce a vibrant artist-conceived projects for children and teenagers aged three to 14.

“…[Art Dubai] has become one of the largest fairs in the world and is seen as a bridge between Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This art event has become an institution in all senses of the word, contributing to the promotion of the Emirate’s dynamic youth through art, activating the economic wheel, creating an atmosphere of constructive political, social and cultural dialogue, and more importantly, it has established a local cultural foundation stemming from the roots of the region…” Al Hayat, Pan-Arab, March 2013

The programme is held under the patronage and guidance of HH Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women’s Establishment, Wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE. The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Centre at Art Dubai featured interactive art tables, film screenings and a set of workshops created and led by the Morocco-based trilingual children’s art education specialists Zid Zid Kids, during which children designed and created puppets, and then performed in the shadow puppet theatre. In addition, the expanded programme included Discovery Tours of the fair for older children and young teenagers, around the theme of nature and the environment. Children discovered the fair and took in works through the gallery halls and Art Dubai Projects, using interactive maps and questionnaires, under the guidance of UAE-based artists. In a third element to this innovative programme, The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program commissioned UAE-based artists, including Mariam Abbas, Masa Taro and Reem Falaknaz, to create activity books for children at the fair.

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“Art Dubai is committed to nurturing the local art scene through educational initiatives for all ages: from children to university students to emerging artists and arts professionals. In 2013 the fair launches The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program, an expanded programme for children and teenagers that runs throughout the fair… This extended approach to education continues with the founding of Campus Art Dubai, a six-month ‘Saturday School’ for UAE-based artists and curators, which runs until June.” IkonoTV, Germany, March 2013

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CAMPUS ART DUBAI In January 2013, Art Dubai launched a new series of intensive courses for artists and curators living and working in the UAE, held in partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. The first, six-month module concluded in June 2013, having featured an intensive series of practical workshops, theoretical debates, group critiques, one-onone advising, and lectures by visiting artists and curators. Campus Art Dubai, dubbed a “Saturday art school”, returns with a second series of courses and seminars, in October 2013. Campus Art Dubai has been developed in part to help ‘bridge the gap’ between formal education and professional practice, and aims to build local knowledge and skills, and fasttrack participants for a career in the arts. Campus Art Dubai 2013 consists of two strands: - Artists’ sessions on portfolio-building; critical thinking; shipping and hanging works; applying for residencies and gallery exhibitions; and liaising with museums - Curators’ sessions offer expertise and dedicated coaching on writing about art; conceiving of and installing exhibitions; commissioning artists and texts; documenting artworks and exhibitions; and liaising with PR, press and critics

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In addition, Campus Art Dubai includes monthly public seminars, open to the public—from art enthusiasts to collectors, dealers, educators and students—providing access to international experts visiting tutors and engaging them in the discourses that populate Campus Art Dubai. PREVIOUS PUBLIC SEMINARS INCLUDED: Art and the Law: leading arts lawyers Daniel McClean and Harriet Balloch, specialists in international and UAE art law, led a seminar and debate on the rights of artists, gallerists and collectors The C Word (Curator): Writer Tirdad Zolghadr, currently based at Bard College, New York and a visiting tutor at Campus Art Dubai, (re) defined the role of the curator, followed by a debate with Shumon Basar and HG Masters Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Reflections on the Making of India’s First Biennale: A presentation and debate with lead curators and artists involved in India’s first Biennial.

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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME Since Art Dubai’s Internship Programme was initiated in September 2007, over 350 students and recent graduates from 40 nationalities and 18 educational institutions have participated in the scheme and gone on to find further work experience opportunities and permanent placements within Art Dubai and its partner organisations. One third of the interns have been Emirati and the remaining came from countries from across the Arab world and beyond. Internships are typically intensive threemonth placements during which participants engage in a particular area of the organisation. In addition, Art Dubai works with around 60 temporary interns and volunteers each year at the fair itself. FORUM FELLOWS Following sessions devoted to curating (led by Tirdad Zolghadr in 2011) and writing (Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, in 2012), the Global Art Forum’s fellowship programme returned in 2013 with a focus on translation. A group of writers, artists and curators from the Arab world met to discuss and unravel the practice of working across Arabic and English, through a series of intensive workshops led by renowned writer and translator Omar Berrada. The week culminated in a presentation on the final day of the Global Art Forum in Dubai. Going forward, the fellowship programme will keep within this three-year cycle, focusing in 2014 on curating, followed by writing and translation in subsequent editions of Art Dubai.

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“The staging of this year’s Global Art Forum at Art Dubai set the tone perfectly for what we were about to view: an animated, performative event… On stage, quicktongued hosts sat on sofas and were visited by a range of guests: writers, artists, curators and musicians, including the legendary front man of REM, Michael Stipe. GAF was by no means your typical conference with a series of talking heads presenting dry Power Points… Over the course of the forum, these personalities lectured, improvised, performed and ranted about a range of salient political and philosophical issues relevant to the region; while unmistakably cerebral, the talks somehow maintained an informal and playful tone.” ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong, April 2013 “They called Global Art Forum 7 (GAF), which started in Doha and continued at the seventh edition of Art Dubai, the brain of the fair that, as GAF Commissioner Shumon Basar said quoting David Foster Wallace, “throbs like a heart”… Directed by HG Masters, the forum wove together insightful presentations by artists, writers and thinkers… The understated elegance of GAF’s programming was echoed in this year’s Art Dubai.” Ocula, United Kingdom, March 2013

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In 2013, the Global Art Forum, presented by Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and held in partnership with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art (Qatar Museums Authority), featured commissioned projects and research, as well as live debates and presentations over six days. Having become a major, collaborative event in the art world calendar, the Forum was illustrative of Dubai’s propensity for debate, and the Gulf’s collaborative spirit. Over 50 contributors were involved in this year’s Forum—an array of regional and international voices from the worlds of music, literature, politics, publishing and art; most of whom were speaking in the Gulf for the first time.

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Entitled ‘It Means This’, Global Art Forum was directed by Istanbul-based writer/ editor HG Masters and commissioned by writer/curator Shumon Basar and was characterised by an even more innovative and dynamic approach than previous years. Thematically, the forum explored the concept of ‘definitionism’: investigating the words, terms, clichés and misunderstandings that proliferate in the art world and beyond. The Forum attempted to (re)define words, phrases and ideas we think we know, and those we need to know, to navigate the 21st century. Two new publications were launched under the Global Art Forum imprint GLOBE, featuring collections of new writing on “drone fiction” and biography, while the ForumForum exhibition area showcased video works drawing on the theme of autobiography.

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SELECTED GLOBAL ART FORUM_7 SESSIONS - former REM lead singer Michael Stipe and novelist Douglas Coupland in conversation with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist on their personal and professional trajectories and the ideas that have kept them committed to the notion of artistic practice

Al Qassemi, and artist Ala Younis. Discussions were chaired by author Oscar Guardiola-Rivera - ‘Place’: Ramallah and Lagos; artist Shuruq Harb and writer Guy Mannes-Abbott, and the latter redefined by artist Emeka Ogboh, writer Tolu Ogunlesi and curator Bisi Silva

- through a series of ‘polemics’—followed by discussions chaired by - In a series of reflections founder of ‘citizen journalist’ started last year at the newswire Demotix Turi Global Art Forum, Lara Munthe—political scientist Khaldi considered the Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, complexities of translating artist Manal Al Dowayan, contemporary art discourse writer and urbanist Keller into Arabic, with added Easterling, geostrategist contributions by Omar and director of Hybrid Berrada Reality Institute Parag Khanna and Doha-based - A major theme of the Forum analyst Tarik Yousef in 2013, the score (and its redefined the term relationship with art) was 'Freezone' explored through music (Andre Vida), lectures - Redefining (a redefined) (Tarek Atoui) and debates MENA (Middle East Nervous (led by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Anxiety), this topic was with Tristan Bera and unraveled through polemics Dominique Gonzalezdelivered by writer Elif Foerster) Batuman, Dakar-based curator Koyo Kouoh, artists Slavs and Tatars, anthropologist Uzma Rizvi, Sharjah-based commentator and art patron Sultan Sooud

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GLOBAL ART FORUM CONTRIBUTORS DR. ABDULKHALEQ ABDULLA is a professor of Political Science and chairman of the Cultural Committee at the Dubai Cultural and Scientific Association. He holds a PhD from Georgetown University and is the author of several books and articles: his latest is a 2010 LSE paper on the Gulf Moment. He writes a monthly op-ed for Gulf News and is a regular commentator on contemporary Gulf and Arab issues.

and is conceiving The Library is on Fire with the LUMA foundation. His last edited book is Space is The Time You Need To Go To Someone Else (CCA Kitakyushu).

TAREK ATOUI is a Lebanonborn sound artist. Since 1998, he has lived in France, where he studied sound art and electro-acoustic music. In 2008, he served as artistic director of the STEIM Studios in Amsterdam and has presented work internationally including at the New Museum of SARAH ABU ABDALLAH Contemporary Art, New was born in Saudi Arabia in 1990 and has a BFA from the York (2010); the 9th Sharjah Biennial (2009); La Maison College of Fine Arts, UAE. Rouge, Paris (2010); the Recent exhibitions have Mediacity Biennial, Seoul included ‘Soft Power’, Alāan (2010); the Haus Der Kunst, Artspace, Riyadh, ‘Edge of Munich (2010); Performa Arabia’, Jeddah (2012) and ‘The Graduates Show’, Traffic, 11, NYC (2011); dOCUMENTA Dubai (2011). Abdallah is also 13, Kassel (2012); the exhibiting in the 11th Sharjah Serpentine Gallery, London (2012); and Bonniers Biennial, 2013. Konsthall, Stockholm (2012). CHARLES ARSENE-HENRY RAYYA BADRAN was born founded White Box Black in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1984 Box in 2009. He co-curated and is a writer based in the exhibition ‘Translated Beirut. Her first publication, By’ in 2011 at SALT Galata, Radiophonic Voice(s) was Istanbul. He teaches the seminar Shapes of Fiction at published by Ashkal Alwan during ‘Homeworks 5’ (2010). the Architectural Badran is currently working Association, London

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on short form sound pieces including (In)action. MOURID BARGHOUTI is a Palestinian poet and was born in Ramallah, Palestine, in 1944. He has published 12 books of poetry, and his Collected Works was released in Beirut in 1997 and in Cairo 2013. He was awarded the Palestine Award for Poetry (2000) and the Naguib Mahfouz Award (1997). He is the author of two autobiographical novels: I Saw Ramallah and I Was Born There, I was Born Here. YTO BARRADA was born in Paris in 1971, and grew up in Tangier. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne, and photography in New York. Her recent exhibitions include the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), the Renaissance Society (Chicago), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Haus der Kunst (Munich), SFMOMA (San Francisco), Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), Marian Goodman (New York), and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennale. In 2011, she was the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year, and debuted the touring solo exhibit ‘Riffs’ at the Deutsche Guggenheim (Berlin). A monograph on

the work of Yto Barrada will be published by JRP Ringier in spring 2013. Barrada is the founding director of the Cinémathèque de Tanger (2003-2012). ELIF BATUMAN is writer-inresidence at Koeç University in Istanbul and a staff writer at the New Yorker magazine. She is the author of The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (2010). JOSH BEGLEY is a web artist studying interactive telecommunications at New York Univeristy. TRISTAN BERA is an artist based in Paris. He received a MA in philosophy (Sorbonne) and in Art History (École du Louvre) in 2009, specialized in Decadent aesthetics and cross-over exhibitions. His work is mainly based on literary and cinematic references and could include different formats and mediums. Since 2010, he has worked in collaboration with Dominique GonzalezFoerster on different projects such as exhibitions, films, happenings, performances and fanzines. OMAR BERRADA is a writer and translator and co-directs

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Dar al-Ma’mûn in Marrakech. Previously, he hosted shows on French national radio and public programmes at the Centre Pompidou. With Yto Barrada he recently edited Album – Cinémathèque de Tanger, a multilingual book about film in Tangier and Tangier on film. VICTORIA CAMBLIN is a writer, editor and art historian specialising in avant-garde periodicals. She currently lives in London. DOUGLAS COUPLAND is a Canadian writer and artist whose work, both written and visual, seeks to explore broad early 21st century modes of thinking and being. The interior and exterior effects of technology are continuing themes over the past two decades. In 2011, he published a biography of media theorist Marshall McLuhan. In 2013, a collection of essays and writings on art and culture will be published by Sternberg Press. NADA DADA was born in the UAE in 1989 and is a performance artist and writer. She uses self-portraits as a crucial device to comment on the problematics of the UAE arts scene, the personal tragedies

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of the Arab Muslim woman, and the demise of good food, music and religion in the present age. She refers to herself as a “recovering Sharjahian”. MANAL AL DOWAYAN uses photography, text and installation to examine Saudi identity, and in particular the role of women in contemporary society. Working mainly in black and white photography, she also experiments with other media and techniques. She has exhibited globally and is currently showing in two exhibitions in Dubai. KELLER EASTERLING is a writer, urbanist and professor at Yale University. Her books include Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America. A forthcoming book, Extrastatecraft: Infrastructure, Space and Political Arts, examines global infrastructure networks as a medium of polity. REEM FADDA joined the Guggenheim in 2010 as associate curator, Middle Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi

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Project. From 2005 to 2007, Fadda was director of the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Art (PACA) and worked as academic director for the International Academy of Art Palestine, which she helped found in 2006. She was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her PhD at the history of art and visual studies department at Cornell University. HU FANG is a fiction writer and curator based in Guangzhou and Beijing. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Vitamin Creative Space in Guangzhou and The Pavilion in Beijing. His latest novel (English version) is Garden of Mirrored Flowers (co-published by Sternberg Press and Vitamin). MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI is a writer and filmmaker. She has contributed essays, critical writing and poetry to a variety of publications and her solo and collaborative films have screened at Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Anthology Film Archive, New York, Boston Palestine Film Festival, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, among other venues. She founded

the blog South/South and is editor-at-large at The New Inquiry. She completed a doctorate in comparative literature and film and visual studies at Harvard University, where she teaches as lecturer. DOMINIQUE GONZALEZFOERSTER is an artist who was born in Strasbourg, France, and is now based in Paris. Among her recent solo exhibitions are projects for the Dia Art Foundation, New York (2009); the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London (2008); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris (2007). She also participated in Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007) and dOCUMENTA XI, Kassel (2002). OSCAR GUARDIOLA-RIVERA is a writer, philosopher, dancer and art critic. Born in Bogotá, Colombia, he works at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and is a lecturer and assistant dean of the Law School at Birkbeck, University of London. He’s the author of the award-winning What if Latin America Ruled the World?, selected by The Financial Times as one of the best non-fiction books of 2010. He has worked in film, radio, visual and printed

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media with the BBC and Monocle, among others, and as a nominator for the Prix Pictet. His Story of a Death Foretold is forthcoming in September 2013, published by Bloomsbury in the United States and the United Kingdom. KHALID HADEED holds a PhD in comparative literature from Cornell University and researches modern Arabic literature and post-colonial literature. He translates extensively between Arabic and English, and has done translation work for ArteEast, the Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, the Sharjah Art Foundation, the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennial, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Louvre Museum.

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dedicated to art and visual culture in the Arab world. SUNA KAFADAR recently co-founded Imprint Press with Efe Murat Balıkçıoğlu, with the aim of building an archive of Turkish literature in English. Last year, she cocurated the third leg of the exhibition ‘Translated By’ at Salt Galata in Istanbul, which was originally conceived and curated by Shumon Basar and Charles Arsène-Henry. She is a core member of and a regular contributor to 5harfliler, an online publication dedicated to gender issues. Her latest endeavor is a book on the literary history of Istanbul.

LARA KHALDI was born in Jerusalem and received her BA in Archaeology and Art History in 2005. Khaldi curated ‘Jerusalem Show IV: SHURUQ HARB is a visual On/Off Language’ (October artist, curator and writer 2011), as well as several based in Ramallah, Palestine. video and film programmes Harb’s artistic practice in Cairo and Jerusalem. She engages in discursive was assistant director for activities that take on programmes at the Sharjah the form of organised Art Foundation, UAE, from discussions, publications 2009 - 2011 and co-edited and interventions that Provisions I&II (Sharjah address the city, urban Biennial 10 catalogues). development and regional She currently lives between politics. She is the coBeirut, Amman and founder of Art Territories, an Jerusalem. online publishing platform

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HASSAN KHAN is an artist, musician and writer. He lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. PARAG KHANNA is director of the Hybrid Reality Institute and senior research fellow at the New America Foundation. He has been named one of Esquire magazine’s ‘75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century’ and featured in WIRED magazine’s ‘Smart List.’ He holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Georgetown University. KOYO KOUOH is a Cameroonborn independent exhibition maker and cultural producer. She is the founder and artistic director of Raw Material Company, a centre for art, knowledge and society in Dakar. Specialising in photography, video and art in the public space, she has curated numerous exhibitions internationally and written on contemporary African art. She lives and works in Dakar. GUY MANNES-ABBOTT is a writer, essayist and critic. In Ramallah, Running is the longest and latest in a series of texts—poems, stories, aphorisms—called ‘e.things’

which have been exhibited, published and performed alongside the work of leading British artists, as well as sporing artists’ videos, since 1997. TURI MUNTHE is CEO and founder of Demotix, the crowd-sourced newswire. Demotix has been described as ‘Journalism for the 21st Century’ by London’s Daily Telegraph, and is a Webby Honoree 2011. Munthe has been a publisher, editor, think-tank analyst, lecturer, journalist and talking head. He lives in London. ABDULLAH AL MUTAIRI is an artist who lives between Kuwait and the United States, studying liminal identities and the intersection of gender, religion and technology in the Gulf. HANS-ULRICH OBRIST is co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London. He has served as curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and museum in progress, Vienna. Obrist has curated over 250 exhibitions worldwide and is a contributing editor of Artforum, Paradis Magazine, Kaleidoscope and 032c magazine. In 2012, he

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co-curated exhibitions at the Serpentine Gallery for Jonas Mekas, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Yoko Ono and Thomas Schütte. In addition, he co-curated ‘12 Rooms’ at Museum Folkwang, Essen; ‘To the Moon via the Beach’, LUMA Foundation, Arles; ‘Lina Bo Bardi’, Casa de Vidro, Sao Paulo and ‘A call for unrealized projects’, DAAD, Berlin. Obrist’s recent publications include A Brief History of Curating, Project Japan: Metabolism Talks with Rem Koolhaas, Ai Wei Wei Speaks, along with two volumes of his Conversation Series. EMEKA OGBOH works primarily with sound and video in exploring ways of understanding cities as cosmopolitan spaces with their unique characters. It is Ogboh’s goal to employ field recordings to explore the history and aural infrastructure of cities, in particular Lagos, Nigeria, where he resides. TOLU OGUNLESI is a writer whose work has appeared in World Literature Today, Transition, Poetry Review, Farafina,and on CNN.com. In 2008, he was awarded a writing fellowship by the Nordic Africa Institute,

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Uppsala, Sweden and in 2009 a CNN Multichoice African Journalism award. In 2011, he earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of East Anglia. SULTAN SOOUD AL QASSEMI is the chairman and partner of Meem Gallery, a prominent art commercial gallery operating in Dubai. He is also the founder of the Barjeel Art Foundation, which features his private collection of contemporary Arab artwork in curated public exhibitions. He is also renowned as a commentator on Arab affairs and has written columns for international publications such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Open Democracy, The Independent, The Guardian and Gulf News. UZMA Z. RIZVI is assistant professor of anthropology and urban studies at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY. With an academic focus on cities, postcolonial theory and intersections of history (and its mis/representations) with the contemporary, Rizvi focuses on the MENASA region, with a particular specialisation in the third millennium BCE. As a cultural producer, her work

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(and passion) hinges at the juncture of art and social change/justice. ALIA AL SABI completed her degree in architecture at the American University of Sharjah and currently works on publications for the Sharjah Art Foundation. BISI SILVA is an independent curator and the founder/director of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. She is also currently co-curator of ‘The Progress of Love’, a transcontinental collaboration across three venues in the United States and Nigeria (October 2012-January 2013). Among other exhibitions, Silva cocurated the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Greece (2009) and the Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2006). She has written for many international art magazines, including Artforum and Third Text and is on the editorial board of N Paradoxa. MICHAEL STIPE was born in 1960 and is an American artist, producer and singer/ songwriter. He fronted the band REM for 31 years, selling over 100 million records and touring the world. As a film producer he has, since 1987, made over

25 feature films, including Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich and Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine. His focus in the past seven years is on sculpture and crossmedium work, including bronze, plastic, cardboard, photography, film and digital imagery. His book, FEAR OF THE EMPTY, is released in Autumn 2013 by Rizzoli. He lives in New York City and Athens, Georgia. SLAVS AND TATARS is a faction of polemics and intimacies devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia. The collective’s work spans several media, disciplines and a broad spectrum of cultural registers (high and low) focusing on an oft-forgotten sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. FADI TOFEILI is a Lebanese writer, poet, and translator. He is currently editor in chief of Portal 9, a bilingual (English and Arabic) journal of stories and critical writings about the city, based in Beirut. His writings have been published since the early 90s in various Lebanese newspapers and publications. He has published three

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books of poetry. Tofeili has translated many literal and mythological works into Arabic, including: The Myths of the Cherokees by James Mooney and Shame in the Blood by Tetsuo Miura. ANDRE VIDA is a composer and saxophonist who has performed widely as a soloist and collaborated most recently with Anthony Braxton, Rashad Becker, Anri Sala, Yona Friedman and Jean-Baptiste Decavèle. Vida’s compositional work focuses on the materiality of scoring, including explorations of animation, lighting and costume design to reconfigure the physicality of performance. JAMES WESTCOTT is the author of When Marina Abramovic Dies: A Biography (MIT Press, 2010) and works at AMO, the think tank and publishing unit of Rem Koolhaass’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture, where he co-edited Project Japan: Metabolism Talks (Taschen, 2011). CHARLY WILDER is a writer, editor and translator living in Berlin. She covers travel and culture for The New York Times and Spiegel International and has written

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for The Village Voice, Salon, The International Herald Tribune and others. BRIAN KUAN WOOD is a writer and editor based in New York. He is an editor of E-flux Journal. ALA YOUNIS is an artist and curator based in Amman. She exhibited in the 9th Gwangju Biennial (2012), the 2nd New Museum Triennial (2012), the 12th Istanbul Biennial (2011), Home Works 5 (2010) and Photo Cairo 4 (2008). Younis curated ‘Museum of Manufactured Response to Absence’ at Museum of Modern Art in Kuwait (2012), ‘Out of Place’ with Kasia Redzisz for Tate Modern and Darat al Funun (2011), ‘Momentarily Learning from Mega-Events’ at Makan in Amman (2011) and programmes for the three editions of ‘Arab Shorts’ in Cairo (2009-2011). Younis is curating Kuwait’s first national pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennial (2013). TARIK YOUSEF is the chief executive officer of Silatech. He was a professor of Economics at Georgetown University and founding dean of the Dubai School of Government. At present, he is the chair of the Global

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Agenda Council on the Arab World at the World Economic Forum and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. LANTIAN XIE was born in China and raised between Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. He is a graduate of the MFA programme at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the United States and a recipient of the Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award of the United Arab Emirates. Xie currently spends his time between New York City and Dubai. TIRDAD ZOLGHADR is a curator and writer who teaches at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College NY. His writing includes novels, essays and criticism. His curatorial experience includes two biennials, the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009 and a number of more discreet durational projects.

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Over the past seven years, the Global Art Forum, presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, has collaborated with the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH); the Museum of Islamic Art and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) in Doha; FIAC in Paris; and Ministry of Culture, Kingdom of Bahrain. For the past three years, the International Herald Tribune has been the media partner of the Forum.

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“Access to new collectors and a solid programme of commissions, talks and events have turned this fair into a fully-fledged, paid-up member of the international circuit.” The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom, March 2013 “Die Art Dubai hat es geschafft, sich zum internationalen Kunst Treffpunkt zu entwickeln.” “Art Dubai has managed to develop itself into an international meeting point for art.” Handelsblatt, Germany, March 2013 “Au lendemain de la foire de Dubaï et alors que la Biennale d’art contemporain se poursuit à Sharjah, les Émirats arabes unis s’imposent comme un nouvel acteur clé du marché de l’art.” “Following the opening of Art Dubai and while the Biennale continues in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates establishes itself as a new key player in the art market.” Le Figaro, France, March 2013

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Art Dubai’s extensive talks programme also includes an intimate series of oneon-one conversations which highlight the role of patronage in the arts, focusing on dynamic patrons who have developed innovative ways to support artists, curators, institutions and even collectors themselves. This highlevel series of discussions features internationally-known commentators, journalists, curators and collectors, and takes place before an invited audience participating in Art Dubai’s VIP Programmes.

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2013 contributors included: Georgina Adam has spent more than 25 years writing about the art market and the arts. In 2000 she joined The Art Newspaper as editor of the Art Market section, and she now has weekly column in The Financial Times. As well as her specialisation in the art market, Adam is particularly interested in emerging cultural centres. Stuart Comer is Curator: Film at Tate Modern and co-curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art: 2014 Biennial. He has contributed to numerous publications and periodicals, including Artforum, Frieze, Afterall, Mousse, Parkett and Art Review, and he is editor of Film and Video Art (Tate Publishing, 2009). Haro Cumbusyan is a London-based collector with an interest in moving image. He is the founding director of Collectorspace, a non-profit initiative that aims to bring private collections to public view and create a variety of reference points for new generations of collectors. Collectorspace launched its first location in Istanbul in September 2011.

Omar Kholeif is a curator, writer and senior editor of Ibraaz. Kholeif is a senior curatorial associate at FACT, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Liverpool (formerly its curator); visiting curator at Cornerhouse Manchester; curator at the Arab British Centre; founding director of the UK’s Arab Film Festival; and contributing curator to the Liverpool Biennial, Abandon Normal Devices and International Film Festival Rotterdam, among many others.

Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi is president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation, with a BFA from Slade School of Fine Art (2002) and MA curating contemporary art from the Royal College of Art (2008). She is chair of the Advisory Board for the College of Art and Design, University of Sharjah, member of the Advisory Board, Khoj International Artists Association, India, and serves on the Board of Directors for MoMA PS1, New York and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut.

Bomi Odufunade is a director at Dash & Rallo, a bespoke international art advisory specialising mainly in contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora. Odufunade advises on all aspects of establishing and building art collections, providing art consulting services for art collectors including individuals, estates, non-profits and corporations. Previously, Bomi has worked at Tate Modern and Haunch of Venison gallery in London. She is based between Paris, Lagos and New York.

Prince Yemisi Adedoyin Shyllon is a chartered engineer, legal practitioner, marketer, stockbroker, business and management consultant, and is widely acknowledged as the largest collector and patron of Nigerian art. He holds under his foundation—the Omooba Yemisi Shyllon Art Foundation (OYASAF)— the most comprehensive collection of art with over 6,500 works in diverse media, including sculpture and paintings as well as over 25,000 photographic prints of Nigeria’s cultural festivals and scenes.

Scott Stover, a former investment banker, is president of Global Art Development, a consulting firm offering strategic planning to cultural institutions, private collectors, foundations, and museums. Stover relaunched and restructured an inactive, US non-profit foundation for the Centre Pompidou, resulting in more than US$ 30 million in donations and acquisitions in seven years.

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“Art collectors had the unique opportunity to marvel at the jewels nestling in showcases and explore manufacturing secrets during the course of the fair... “A true testament of savoir faire and stylistic richness of Cartier”…Visitors also journeyed into a series of exclusive salons, particularly the legendary “Jeanne Toussaint” salon. Toussaint reigned over the jewellery world during her innings as Director of Jewellery at Cartier in 1933.” The Gulf Today, UAE, April 2013 “Sponsored by Cartier, the art fair started with the display of sets of jewels worthy of a Sheika. From the gemstone cut to its setting, privileged strollers admired the work of master craftsmen. The audience came forward and asked to see ornaments close up. Oscar Wilde once said ‘The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it…’ Fortunately some of the jewels were on sale.” The North Africa Post, Morocco, April 2013

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CARTIER Following Cartier’s exhibition ‘Cartier Naturellement’ in 2012, the “King of Jewellers” presented Le Visage Archaïque at this year’s Art Dubai, showcasing the Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini. Mendini’s ‘Le Visage Archaïque’–a part of Fondation Cartier pour l’Art contemporain collection–played centre stage to Cartier’s recreation of street 13, Rue de la Paix, the birthplace of Cartier’s art of jewellery-making and unique creations. Giving visitors the chance to experience a series of exclusive salons, homage was particularly given to the legendary Jeanne Toussaint, who reigned over the Jewellery world from the moment she was named Cartier’s Director of Jewellery in 1933.

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‫"جائزة حمدان للتصوير الضوئي ولدت عمالقة‬ ‫ فهي الجائزة‬،‫بمعاييرها ومستواها العالمي‬ "‫التي توجت الجوائز السابقة التي حصلت عليه‬

“The Hamdan International Photography Award [HIPA] was born a monumental prize in its standard and international level…HIPA is the culmination of all the previous awards I’ve received.” Waleed Qadoora, Head of Photography, Al Bayan, UAE, March 2013

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HAMDAN INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARD As part of an exclusive partnership in 2013, winners of the award, Hamdan International Photography Award (HIPA), were showcased at Art Dubai. HIPA is an internationally-renowned photography award, launched in 2011 under the patronage of HH Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai. Open to both local and international photographers, HIPA aims to support talented photographers, and reflects Dubai’s commitment towards artistic and cultural development in the UAE and beyond. The categories for the second season of the award were ‘Beauty of Light’, ‘Black and White’, ‘Emirates’ and ‘General’ Nominees of the award were presented throughout Dubai during Art Week at the Dubai International Financial Centre; Jumeirah Creekside Hotel; Design Days Dubai; and Dubai Mall, Grand Atrium. HH SHEIKH HAMDAN BIN MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION This year, Art Dubai featured a collection of photographs taken by HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, highlighting nature and wildlife from the region and beyond.

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“On breeding new artists, the major sponsor of Art Dubai Fair, The Abraaj Group – a capital investment organisation – showed how to invest in the future when it awarded some new artists who emerged winners in the art competition named after the financier of the fair... Frederic Sicre, Managing Director at The Abraaj Group said: “The Abraaj Group Art Prize is the flagship of our arts patronage programme and is at the heart of our stakeholder engagement strategies. As the prize turns five, we are delighted to be able to engage with five more innovative art installations in the exhibition this year and bring five more artists into our network of winners, who become ambassadors and act as role models for younger artists.” The Guardian, Nigeria, March 2013

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THE ABRAAJ GROUP

The Abraaj Group is a leading private equity investor operating in the global growth markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Employing over 300 people, the group has 33 country offices spread across seven regional hubs in Bogota, Dubai, Istanbul, London, Mumbai, Nairobi and Singapore. It currently manages US$ 7.5 billion across 25 sector and countryspecific funds encompassing private equity and real estate investments. Through its Strategic Stakeholder Engagement Track, the company values social investing, thought leadership and value creation as key catalysts for sustainable growth across communities. Art Dubai has been held in partnership with The Abraaj Group since 2008 playing an integral role in the development of the fair. The Abraaj Group unveils The Abraaj Group Art Prize at the fair each year, and hosts The Abraaj Group Lounge for Collectors and special guests.

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‫" قد يثير اسم «كارتييه» لدى السامع صورة لقطعة‬ ‫مجوهرات رفيعة المستوى أو ساعة كالسيكية‬ ‫ فالدار العريقة تعد من‬،‫ وهو أمر طبيعي‬،‫فاخرة‬ ‫ وتزهو بتاريخ عريق بدأ‬،‫أكبر دور المجوهرات العالمية‬ "1847 ‫منذ عام‬

“The name “Cartier” might evoke a picture of fine jewellery or classic watch…this is natural as the perpetual design house is one of the biggest jewellers in the world and embraces a long-standing history since 1847… the Cartier pavilion at Art Dubai shows originality and tradition inspired by Parisian streets.” Asharq Al Awsat, London, March A2013 “Cartier’s jewellery and designs have reflected creativity and art since 1847 as demonstrated by the house’s paramount mélange of imagination and expertise. The results were creations that inspired King Edward the seventh to calling Cartier ‘the maker of jewels for kings, and the king of jewellers’.” Nawa3em.com, Pan Arab, March 22, 2013

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Founded in 1847 in Paris, Cartier stands as one of the world’s most esteemed and respected companies in the luxury goods industry. Today, the Maison is renowned worldwide for its high jewellery creations and watches, perfumes and prestige accessories— symbols of craftsmanship and elegance, quality and excellence. Following the Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain’s first exhibition at Art Dubai in 2011, the “King of Jewellers” joined Art Dubai as a main sponsor in 2012 where it revealed ‘Cartier Naturellement’, a unique high jewellery creation never seen before in the region. In 2013, the Maison turned to the birthplace of Cartier’s art of jewellery-making, re-creating Street 13, Rue de le Paix in Paris. Titled ‘Le Visage Archaique’, Cartier also showcased Italian designer and architect Alessandro Mendini, and paid homage to the legendary Jeanne Toussaint, Cartier’s Director of Jewellery in 1933.

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“Art Dubai located in the splendour of the city’s Madinat Jumeirah attracted a sea of heavy-hitters from the art world including Tate Modern Head of Exhibitions Achim Borchardt-Hume, Anne Pasternak, Artistic Director of Creative Time in New York, to Catherine Grenier, Associate Director of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and Curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.” Ventures, Nigeria, April 2013

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The Madinat Jumeirah consists of two grand boutique hotels, courtyard summer houses, a traditional souk, the Talise Wellness Spa and the region’s leading centre. The concept is one of ‘old Arabia’ in a luxurious context. This combination of authentic Arabian themes has created a destination of unique qualities and outstanding beauty. The Madinat Jumeirah has been the home of Art Dubai since its beginning in 2007 and hosts the Jumeirah Patrons’ Preview; the largest cultural gathering in the region and a highlight of Dubai’s social calendar.

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DUBAI CULTURE AND ARTS AUTHORITY

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is dedicated to strengthening the Emirate’s heritage, culture and arts. Established in 2008 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, looks to fostering global dialogue, facilitating robust platforms for cultural initiatives and nurturing talent; positioning Dubai as vibrant global destination for culture and the arts. Since its inception, Dubai Culture has launched several pioneering initiatives that have enriched the region’s cultural scene. The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority is the strategic partner of Art Dubai and presents the Global Art Forum as well as supporting Art Dubai’s education programming such as Campus Art Dubai. dubaiculture.ae/en

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HER HIGHNESS SHEIKHA MANAL BINT MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM In 2013, Art Dubai teamed up with The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program– launched for the first time at the fair in partnership with Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum–to produce vibrant artist-conceived projects for children and teenagers aged three to 14. Her Highness plays an active role in the arts and culture scene of Dubai. As president of the Dubai Ladies Club, Her Highness is involved in various initiatives supporting women and the youth in the UAE including The Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award, Funoon, and The Sheikha Manal Art Exchange Program. dubailadiesclub.com/en/arts-centre MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART The Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art is a Doha-based institution dedicated to Arab culture and creativity. Established by Qatar Museums Authority in partnership with Qatar Foundation, the museum is home to a permanent collection offering a unique and comprehensive overview of modern Arab art, and is poised to become a vital centre for dialogue and scholarship in the region. The Global Art Forum is is held in partnership with Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art with the first two days of the forum taking place in Doha. mathaf.org.qa

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JOHN JONES Established in the 1960’s, John Jones is a bespoke framing company based in London. Family-owned and family-run, these masterframers have grown to encompass a team of 90 craftspeople and designers whose services include museum-quality art materials, printing, fine art installation, artwork conservation and collection management. In 2012, Art Dubai launched the annual prize, The John Jones Art on Paper Award. The award aims to recognise the potential for excellence and innovation for works made on paper, and provide further opportunities for artists working in this medium. The prize is open to any artist exhibiting with a gallery at Art Dubai, regardless of age, nationality and gender. The winning artist is also awarded a cash prize of Dhs30,000, and has their work acquired for the John Jones Contemporary Art Collection in London. In 2013, the winner of the award was Fahd Burki, represented by Grey Noise. The judges this year included visual artist Matt Collishaw, curator and director Jean-Marc Prevost, and writer and curator Nada Raza. johnjones.co.uk

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ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE Organisation Internationale De La Francophonie (OIF) represents countries and regions where the French language, or a notable affiliation with French culture, is shared. OIF’s 75 member states and governments account for a population of over 890 million people, including 220 million French speakers. OIF organises and supports activities and multilateral cooperation that benefit French-speaking populations; respecting cultural and linguistic diversity. With a focus on West Africa, this year’s Marker was supported by OIF. francophonie.org AVID LEARNING For the second year running, The Hatch was supported by AVID Learning, an Essar Group Initiative. AVID fosters creative learning through workshops, discussion forums and other programmes across the fields of Culture and Heritage, Literature, and Art including Visual, Performing and Applied Arts. avidlearning.in

BRITISH COUNCIL UAE The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations; organising art and cultural activities with local partners. The British Council gave support to artist Mary Evan’s project Fayre as well as Radio at Art Dubai by Fari Bradley, both a part of the Art Dubai Projects 2013 commissions.

THE PAVILION DOWNTOWN DUBAI Developed by the multidivisional group Cultural Engineer, The Pavilion is a unique hub offering a platform to promote an active arts community to the public and support the work of local and regional artists. Films selected for the 2013 Hatch programming were also screened in collaboration with this not-forprofit artspace, where the series were shown throughout April under the title Spinal Cord: A selection from The Hatch at Art Dubai.

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INFINITI Infiniti is the luxury vehicle of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company. Infiniti was the official car sponsor of Art Dubai 2013 providing VIP cars to Art Dubai’s Collectors’ Circle and VIP guests. infiniti-dubai.com ELECTRA EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS Electra Events and Exhibitions is one of the leading singular solutions provider offering end-to-end solutions for exhibitions and events in the UAE, Qatar and the GCC. electra-exhibitions.com WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME Art Dubai partnered with the World Food Programme (WFP) in 2013. WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries. Proceeds from Art Dubai's ticket, catalogue and bag sales were donated to WFP’s operations to assist displaced families through the Arab world. wfp.org

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. Moulay A. Essakalli . Hamra Abbas . Shafic Abboud . Ebtisam Abdulaziz . Abdulkhaleq Abdulla . Lamia Maria Abillama . Marina Abramovic . Sarah Abu Abdallah . Ibrahim Abumsmar . Adam & Oliver Broomberg & Chanarin . Ade Adekola . Etel Adnan . Maliheh Afnan . Shiva Ahmadi . Morteza Ahmadvand . Farhad Ahrarnia . Nader Ahriman . Haig Aivazian . Monif Ajaj . Murat Akagunduz . Haluk Akakce . Karo Akpokiere . Mustapha Akrim . Rasim Aksan . Ammar Al Attar . Ammar Al Beik . Manal Al Dowayan . Azim Al Ghussein . Sara Al Haddad . Abdullah Al Mutairi . Shamsa Al Omaira . Fatima Al Qadiri . Sultan Al Qassemi . Abdul Qader Al Rais . Nasser Al Salem . Mounira Al Solh . Sami Al Turki . Nevin AladaÄ&#x; . Sadik Alfraji . Hala Ali . Ayad Alkadhi . Sama Alshaibi . Ahmad Amin Nazar . Carlos Amorales . El Anatsui . Ziad Antar . Kamrooz Aram . Arcangelo . Charles Arsene-Henry . Moje Assefjah . Said Atabekov . Kutlug Ataman . Tarek Atoui . Kader Attia . Vartan Avakian . Ayman Baalbaki . Mohamad Said Baalbaki (BAAL) . Rayya Badran

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. Faycal Baghriche . Barry X Ball . Davide Balula . Rina Banerjee . Mourid Barghouti . Rathin Barman . Yto Barrada . Kelly Barrie . Michel Basbous . Taysir Batniji . Elif Batuman . Jose Bechara . Josh Begley . Rana Begum . Farid Belkahia . Rania Bellou . Gordon Bennett . Amel Bennys . Tristan Bera . Omar Berrada . Walead Beshty . Huma Bhabah . Michael Biberstein . Wafaa Bilal . Hind bin Demaithan . Emmanouil Bitsakis . Matthias Bitzer . Zsolt Bodoni . Alighiero Boetti . Zoulikha Bouabdellah . Meriem Bouderbala . Louise Bourgeois . Fari Bradley . Miguel Branco . Olaf Breuning . Rameshwar Broota . Bernhard Buhmann . Fahd Burki . Faiza Butt . Andre Butzer . Huguette Caland . Alexander Calder . Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla . Tunc Al Cam . Victoria Camblin . Luis Camnitzer . Banu Cennetoglu . Ali Cherri . Saloua Raouda Choucair . Chaouki Choukini . Abdur Rahman Chugtai . Soly Cisse . James Clar . Brian Clarke . Philippe Cognee . Mat Collishaw . MadeIn Company . Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro

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. Douglas Coupland . Johan Creten . Nada Dada . Martin Dammann . Dina Danish . Annabel Daou . Tagreed Darghouth . Shezad Dawood . Ayman Yossri Daydban . Willem de Rooij . Wim Delvoye . Elizabeth Di Maggio . Oussama Diab . Harandane Dicko . Ndidi Dike . Atul Dodiya . Amahiguere Dolo . Tara Donovan . Anita Dube . Adip Dutta . Keller Easterling . Melvin Edwards . Em’kal . Erdem Ergaz . Kate Eric . Elger Esser . Mary Evans . Kirsten Everberg . Extrastruggle . Reem Fadda . Omar Fakhoury . Reem Falaknaz . Hu Fang . Francisco Faria . Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian . Rami Farook . Mounir Fatmi . Bita Fayyazi . Aboubakar Sidiki Fofana . Parastou Forouhar . Theo Frids . Inci Furni . Meschac Gaba . Hill Gary . Gandalf Gavan . Leyla Gediz . Kendell Geers . Bassam Geitani . Daniele Genadry . Maryam Monalisa Gharavi . Abdulnasser Gharem . Ghazel . Bita Ghezelayagh . John Giorno . Ablade Glover . Fernanda Gomes . Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster . Kevin Francis Gray

. Loris Greaud . Oscar Guardiola-Rivera . Shilpa Gupta . Selma Gurbuz . Nilbar Gureş . Pascal Hachem . Khalid Hadeed . Ramin Haerizadeh . Rokni Haerizadeh . Aya Haidar . Ni Haifeng . Dima Hajjar . Rula Halawani . Nermine Hammam . Hazem Harb . Shuruq Harb . Zarina Hashmi . Ariel Hassan . Mona Hatoum . Romuald Hazoume . Susan Hefuna . Gil Heitor Cortesao . Taraneh Hemami . Rudi Hendriatno . Sahand Hesamiyan . Gregor Hildebrandt . Nir Hod . Candida Hofer . Josef Hoflehner . Jenny Holzer . Ingrid Hora . Rachel Lee Hovnanian . Sheree Hovsepian . Zhang Huan . Isabella Ellaheh Hughes . MF Husain . Iraida Icaza . Ida & Wilfried Tursic . Mille . Taiye Idahor . Saba Innab . Robert Irwin . Raafat Ishak . Iman Issa . Khaled Jarrar . Ayesha Jatoi . Yang Jiechang . Shi Jinsong . Rania Jishi . Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige . Nadia Kaabi-Linke . Suna Kafadar . Hayv Kahraman . Hiba Kalache . Reena Saini Kallat . Šejla Kamerić . Nadim Karam . Kasmalieva & Djumaliev

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. Mohammed Kazem . Marya Kazoun . Zilvinas Kempinas . Lara Khaldi . Aisha Khalid . Rashid Khalifa . Hassan Khan . Waqas Khan . Parag Khanna . Laleh Khorramian . Kristof Kintera . Julie Klear . Karen Knorr . Servet Kocyiğit . Abdoulaye Konate . Rachid Koraichi . Valery Koshlyakov . Nicene Kossentini . Koyo Kouoh . Adaman Kouyate . Rajan Krishnan . Gabriel Kuri . Annie Kurkdjian . Yayoi Kusama . Jukhee Kwon . Yi Hwan Kwon . Farideh Lashai . Bertrand Lavier . Lindy Lee . Shirley Paes Leme . Emeric Lhuisset . Maya Lin . Maha Maamoun . Atef Maatallah . Gabriela Machado . Tala Madani . Basim Magdy . Nja Mahdaoui . Hazem Mahdy . Basir Mahmood . Taus Makhacheva . Dr Najat Makki . Maha Malluh . Jumana Manna . Guy Mannes-Abbott . MARWAN . Ahmed Mater . Tomokazu Matsuyama . Thameur Mejri . Gerold Miller . Naeem Mohaiemen . Mehrdad Mohebali . Jamil Molaeb . Jonathan Monk . Rui Moreira . Francois Morellet . Karim Mortada . Farhad Moshiri

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. Jean-Luc Moulene . Sam Moyer . Ali Mukawwas . Ranu Mukherjee . Huma Mulji . Charlotte Mumm . Turi Munthe . Mouteea Murad . Mehreen Murtaza . Greely Myatt . Mehdi Nabavi . Youssef Nabil . Joe Namy . Yoshitomo Nara . Moataz Nasr . Nasir Nasrallah . Timo Nasseri . Eva Nielsen . Otobong Nkanga . Yudi Noor . Boris Nzebo . Mahmoud Obaidi . Hans-Ulrich Obrist . Emeka Ogboh . Lorraine O’Grady . Tolu Ogunlesi . Ahmet Ogut . Melik Ohanian . Charles Okereke . Hans Op de Beeck . Gabriel Orozco . Guclu Oztekin . Giovanni Ozzola . Seza Paker . Christodoulos Panayiotou . Nina Papaconstantinou . Leila Pazooki . Enoc Perez . Dan Perjovschi . Gianni Piacentino . Michelangelo Pistoletto . Bob Potts . Ana Prvacki . Qin Qi . Ibrahim Quraishi . Nusra Latif Qureshi . Saad Qureshi . Khalil Rabah . Edwin Rahardjo . Sara Rahbar . Hesam Rahmanian . Thilleli Rahmoun . Younes Rahmoun . Michael Rakowitz . Mary Ramsden . Aref Rayess . Anahita Razmi . Marwan Rechmaoui

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. Anselm Reyle . Kinez Riza . Uzma Z. Rizvi . Pietro Ruffo . Jehangir Sabavala . Alia Al Sabi . Sadequain . Syed Sadequain . Henri Sagna . Anri Sala . Berenice Saliou . Lucas Samaras . Sarkis . Hrair Sarkissian . Yasam Sasmazer . Adrian Schiess . Hanns Schimansky . Markus Schinwald . Eva Schlegel . Sachin George Sebastian . Alain Sechas . eL Seed . Antonio Segui . Hadieh Shafie . Seher Shah . Shirana Shahbazi . Hassan Sharif . Laila Shawa . Wael Shawky . Sudarshan Shetty . Batoul S’Himi . Susumu Shingu . Chiharu Shiota . Scott Short . Kan Si . Jose Maria Sicilia . Bernardo Siciliano . Shahzia Sikander . Bisi Silva . Regina Silveira . Taryn Simon . Walid Siti . Angelle Siyang-Le . Slavs and Tatars . Hedi Slimane . Khaled Ben Slimane . Bosco Sodi . Hanibal Srouji . Michael Stipe . Christine Streuli . Hiroshi Sugimoto . Adeela Suleman . Joseph-Francis Sumegne . Abdullah MI Syed . Sharmeen Syed . Rayyane Tabet . Parviz Tanavoli . Iqra Tanveer

. Ali Emir Tapan . Alfred Tarazi . Dimitris Tataris . Pascale Marthine Tayou . Hale Tenger . Diana Thater . Wolfgang Tillmans . Sadegh Tirafkan . Gert & Uwe Tobias . Fadi Tofeili . Nazif Topcuoğlu . Patrick Tosani . Rosemarie Trockel . Gavin Turk . James Turrell . UBIK . Ehsan Ul Haq . Elif Uras Uras . Hossein Valamanesh . Murtaza Vali . Joana Vasconcelos . Fabienne Verdier . Carlos Vergara . Andre Vida . Danh Vo . Hajra Waheed . Walid Raad / The Atlas Group . Paul Wallach . Andy Warhol . Saddek Wasil . Chris Weaver . Gao Weigang . James Westcott . Michael John Whelan . Jack Whitten . Nelson Wilbert . Charly Wilder . Kehinde Wiley . Brian Kuan Wood . Lantian Xie . Huang Xu . Sun Xun . Saad Yagan . Nil Yalter . Haegue Yang . Raed Yassin . Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck . Fadi Yaziji . Ala Younis . Tarik Yousef . Song Yuanyuan . Akram Zaatari . Ramtin Zad . Camille Zakharia . Billie Zangewa . Raphael Zarka . Elias Zayat . Tirdad Zolghadr

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ART DUBAI TEAM FAIR DIRECTOR Antonia Carver ART DUBAI Gate Village 1, DIFC PO Box 72645 Dubai, UAE T +971 4 384 2000 info@artdubai.ae FAIR MANAGEMENT Natasha Carella, Fair Manager Muhammad Akram, Accountant Sabrina Kaupp, Events Manager Roland Carella, Fair Coordinator Anne Schutman, Fair Coordinator Reem Abdulwahid, Fair Assistant Poppy Ward, Fair Assistant EXHIBITOR RELATIONS Zain Masud, Assistant Fair Director Bettina Klein, Exhibitor Relations Manager COLLECTOR AND VIP RELATIONS Lela Csáky, Head of Collector and VIP Relations Victoria Gandit Lelandais, Collectors’ Circle Coordinator Karen Simon, VIP Relations Assistant

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ART DUBAI FAIR LLC BOARD OF DIRECTORS GLOBAL ART FORUM Hala Alhedeithy, Global Art Forum Manager Miriam Butti, Global Art Forum Assistant ART DUBAI PROJECTS Ghada Aldabbagh, Projects Manager DXB STORE Tima Ouzden, Creative Director COMMUNICATIONS Farah Atoui, Press and Marketing Manager Katrina Weber Ashour, Press Consultant Farah Al Sharief, Press and Marketing Coordinator THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE Laura Egerton, Curator SPECIAL PROJECTS / ART DUBAI EDUCATION Maya Nasser, Special Projects Manager Muhanad Ali, Project Manager Lee Xie, Campus Art Dubai Coordinator ART WEEK Sherin Al Alami, Programme Manager FAIR DESIGN Hani Charaf Firas Alsahen

Roberta Calarese – Chairwoman Benedict Floyd – CEO Maitha Al Falasi Savita Apte Hana Al Rostamani Ali Al Shabibi

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DUBAI INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE Art Dubai is run as a joint venture between Art Dubai Fair LLC and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is an onshore financial centre that provides a supportive and secure platform for financial institutions to develop their businesses. Located in a 110-acre financial district, DIFC has all the elements found in the world’s most successful financial industry ecosystems: an independent regulator, an independent judicial system with a common-law framework, a global financial exchange, inspiring architecture, powerful and enabling infrastructure, support services and a vibrant business community. This, combined with Dubai’s world-renowned lifestyle, education, healthcare and transportation infrastructure, make DIFC the perfect base to take advantage of the region’s rapidly growing demand for financial services. SUPPORTING A STRONG ARTS SCENE DIFC supports a strong place for art in the community, not only because there are multiple commercially associated links between art and finance, but also because DIFC believes that art can stimulate new ideas and new perspectives in business. Not only does DIFC serve as home to one of Dubai’s most well-known gallery communities, but it also has placed works of art in public spaces across the financial district to complement the Centre’s beautiful architecture. Ultimately, DIFC’s support for a strong arts scene has helped establish Dubai as a regional and international centre for arts and culture, with galleries based in DIFC offering an eclectic mix of contemporary art from across the world. difc.ae

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DUBAI EXPO The UAE has put forward a bid to host the World Expo 2020. This would be the first Expo held in the MENASA (Middle East, North Africa and South Asia) region. The UAE is recognised as a hub and major player in the global economy, maintaining strategic economic, trade, scientific and technological partnerships with most influential countries across the world. As the global community faces ever more complex, and increasingly interconnected challenges, the links between people, societies and ideas have never been more important. Dubai Expo 2020 will be a platform for connectivity to help pioneer new partnerships for growth and sustainability for the future. expo2020dubai.ae

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