Art Dubai 2016: Review

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‘If the world needs an art fair, then it's this one.’

Der Taggespiegel, Germany, March 26, 2016 ‘It’s hard to think of another instance when an art fair has been so instrumental in creating a scene.’

Artforum, United States, March 23, 2016 ‘Art Dubai is a progressive fair— which is why people love it and keep coming back.’

Ocula, Hong Kong, April 5, 2016 ‘The locus for some of the most exciting artists, galleries, art movements and conversations’ Forbes, United States, March 23, 2016 ‫ اىل‬،2007 ‫"ارتفع عدد زوار املعرض من ثمانية آالف يف‬ ً 25 ‫اكرث من‬ ‫ وسط توقعات بنمو‬،2015 ‫الفا يف العام‬ ".‫إضايف هذه السنة‬ 2016 ‫ مارس‬16 ،‫ لبنان‬،‫السفري‬

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‘Successful like no other fair in bringing collectors from South Asia, The general feeling is that this was the best edition of the fair thus far, and most seem to agree…

Well-known art world personalities— like curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Germano Celant, artist Hito Steyerl, and MoMA's Glenn Lowry—now make regular appearances. And though the fair is still small—there are less than one hundred galleries—its offerings are more diverse than what you'll find elsewhere.’

Artnet, United States, March 17, 2016 “Dubai could be called the capital of South Asia…Dubai has become a hub for all those who live next door to meet every year at a common ground. And to view works that are produced in the neighbourhood but cannot be sent or seen within the region, except in the ‘capital’ Dubai” The News on Sunday, March 27, 2016

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‘This booming creative world takes centrestage every year during Dubai Art Week, a cluster of events that attract thousands of visitors which have gradually gained their rightful place in the international art-market and design calendar.’ Yatzer, Greece, April 5, 2016

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 004 Art Dubai 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 004 Art Week 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 010 GALLERIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 013 Contemporary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 020 Modern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 024 Marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 030 COMMITTEES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 Honorary Board of Patrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 038 Board of Patrons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 039 Curatorial Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 043 VISITORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 045 Visitor Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 046 Attendance by Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 047 VIP PROGRAMME . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 049 Museum Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 056 Art Salon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 062 PRESS AND MARKETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 065 Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 066 Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 071 Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 079 Social Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 086 ART DUBAI PROJECTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 093 Art Dubai Commissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 A.I.R Dubai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 The Wedding Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Radio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

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THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 EDUCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Campus Art Dubai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Internship .Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Student Visits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Volunteer Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Forum Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 89Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 GLOBAL ART FORUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 TERRACE TALKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 PARTNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS . . . . . . . . . 246 ART DUBAI TEAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

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A decade ago, when Art Dubai was founded as the first major fair in Asia, the prevailing rhetoric was one of exchange between East and West. Now, as the fair celebrates its tenth anniversary, 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. Parallel to this, Art Dubai has become a cornerstone of the region’s fast-growing contemporary arts community, recognised as one of the most diverse meeting points in the art world today.

The (art) world seen from Dubai shifts on its axis; our horizon spans East and West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia.

The ten-year milestone has led to a reflection of the past decade and of a moment in 2007 when Art Dubai was established. The shifts both locally and internationally have been dramatic: the art world has embraced the

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world, evident in the 94 galleries from 40 countries – across three distinct gallery programmes: Contemporary, Modern and Marker – that make Dubai their home from home each March.

Art Dubai would not be possible without the support of its partners; in particular, we thank The Abraaj Group and the Jumeirah Group, with the fair since its first year in 2007, and Piaget and Julius Baer. Our extensive year-round educational and community programming is run in partnership with the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and Dubai Design District (d3).

Mashreq Private Banking returns for the third year as sponsor of Art Dubai Modern. Art Dubai is hosted by a country with a particular reputation for hospitality, and we are privileged to have the support of a passionate Board of Patrons, chaired by His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan, UAE Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development.

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At Art Dubai, we pride ourselves on placing outreach and collaboration at the heart of the fair, working in partnership with institutions across the UAE year-round. As always, the fair places an emphasis on maintaining its intimate, human scale while foregrounding quality and diversity.

Art Dubai achieved its highest-ever turnout from universities and colleges, welcoming 1,000 UAE and GCC-based students on specially organised tours. A revamped volunteer programme had 123 UAE-based arts enthusiasts supporting all aspects of the fair, from the welcome desks to gallery booths.

A total of 95 of the world’s most notable museums, curators and institutions attended, confirming Art Dubai’s role as the meeting point in the Middle East and South Asia, and the global fair of choice for the art world.

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Alongside the gallery halls, Art Dubai presents an extensive not-for-profit programme – the largest of any international art fair, worldwide – including a series of dynamic commissioned site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects; the critically acclaimed 5-day Global Art Forum; Art Dubai Cinema; The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program for children and teenagers; plus an engaging programme of curator-led tours, book launches, talks and other onsite events.

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94 galleries from 40 countries and 500 participating or exhibiting artists representing 70 nationalities

Global Art Forum: 5 days of talks, presentations and exhibitions in London and Dubai, featuring 50 contributors

95 museums, curators and institutions in attendance from across the world, participating in bespoke, Gulf-wide programmes

Art Dubai Projects: 20 artists and artist collectives created site-specific projects and commissioned performances on-site at the fair

27,516 visitors throughout the week, including capacity crowds of 5,142 during the Patrons Preview —an increase on last year—and a further increase of 7,211 during Wednesday’s VIP Preview

Education: Over 500 children took part in arts workshops at the fair; 1,000 students participated through organised tours; 123 volunteers supported all aspects of the fair

428 accredited press attended Art Dubai, representing 265 media outlets and publications from 40 countries

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Campus Art Dubai: a year-round community art school with courses for more than 500 members

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ART WEEK Art Week, initiated by Art Dubai and supported

by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and Dubai Design District (d3), is a central week-long event in the region’s cultural calendar, bringing together Dubai’s thriving creative scene under one comprehensive platform.

In addition to the week’s pillar events Art Dubai, Design Days Dubai and the Global Art Forum, the annual celebration of art, design and culture returned with an expanded programme of more than 350 events across the city: 100 fairs and exhibitions; 23 openings, private gatherings and gala dinners; 9 book launches; 54 commissions and projects; 4 major awards; 15 artist/curator-led tours; 18 artist/designer talks; 49 panel discussions; 55 workshops; 39 film screenings; 5 open studios; and more than 55 public performances.

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Following last year's event, Art Week’s website, phone application and digital channels complemented the free Art Week print guide to help visitors navigate the extensive roster of events.

10,000 copies of the printed guide were distributed across the UAE and beyond from March 13-19 2016. artweek.ae

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‘Each of the three gallery halls of the fair were filled with excitement and art enthusiast discussions taking place in every corner…Tonight, Art Dubai was alight with the excitable noise of art appreciation.’

ArtReport, United States, March 17, 2016 ‘If Art Dubai 2016 says anything about the future, it would be that art is going to be more cerebral than in the past, more ingenious in concept, and more advanced in technique and artistic craftsmanship.’

Hi Weekly, Oman, April 1, 2016 ‘For Art Dubai, expanding the scope of the global art market by bringing the big galleries and emerging ones under one event has been one of the fair’s strongest points.’

The Guardian Nigeria, Nigeria, March 20, 2016

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‘Even though the fair is known for its quantitative and qualitative representation of art from the Middle East and around the world, it is also recognised and admired for its inclusion of Pakistani, Indian, Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan artists...The presence of artists from Pakistan and India is indeed impressive.’ The News on Sunday, Pakistan, March 27, 2016

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INTRODUCTION Art Dubai is an international fair with its roots in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Known as a particularly global and innovative event, Art Dubai features three gallery programmes—Contemporary, Modern and Marker—offering audiences the opportunity to discover the works of artists through histories and across geographies. In 2016, Art Dubai welcomed 94 galleries from 40 countries, and the work of more than 500 artists representing 70 nationalities. artdubai.ae/galleries

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According to an independent survey of 926 visitors that attended the fair in 2016, 92% rated their experience as good-excellent.

66% of visitors said that their main reason for visiting Art Dubai was to discover new artists via galleries, and 89% rated the gallery halls as good-excellent.

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‘It is an undeniable fact that Art Dubai continues to draw in people and ideas, “From Georgia to Ghana; Palestine to the Philippines,” in a world that needs cultural spaces of knowledge exchange in order to reflect, debate, define, and even counter, the narratives that are currently shaping our present moment.’

Ocula, Hong Kong, April 5, 2016 ‘With over 500 artists representing 70 nationalities, highlighting a region stretching from Algiers to Manila, Art Dubai is truly representative of the widest possible array of current art production from across the globe.’

Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Pan Arab, March 13, 2016 ‘At the Contemporary part of Art Dubai, one realised how art transcends territories.

Perhaps the mark of this transnationalism was evident where one could see works of a Pakistani painter next to artists from Croatia, Australia, India and Germany.’

The News on Sunday, Pakistan, March 27, 2016

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CONTEMPORARY Reaffirming Art Dubai’s reputation as the most globally diverse of art fairs, the Contemporary halls in 2016 included 75 galleries from 37 countries, selected via a stringent independent committee process. More galleries than ever presented ambitious solo and two-person shows, affirming their confidence in the fair and its collector base. Audiences discovered the work of more than 350 artists representing 70 nationalities, from an extraordinarily diverse roster of galleries that included the world’s most prominent alongside fresh, upcoming artspaces. The works galleries presented covered all artistic media—including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, photography and performance.

Always aiming to foreground quality and curatorial approach, Art Dubai has a close relationship with its galleries: the artists they represent, and the works they select, reconfirm year-on-year the fair’s role as a site of discovery.

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Galleries in Art Dubai Contemporary were selected by a committee comprised of gallerists and guest curators, including Lorenzo Fiaschi, Galleria Continua (San Gimignano / Beijing / Le Moulin / Havana); Kate Fowle, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow); Ursula Krinzinger, Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna); Sunny Rahbar, The Third Line (Dubai); and Andrée Sfeir-Semler, SfeirSemler (Hamburg / Beirut).

In 2016, the Contemporary halls featured a special project devoted to the archives —preserved and re-presented through works and films—of the Atassi Foundation for Art and Culture, previously the Atassi Gallery, which played a pivotal role in Damascus for over thirty years. artdubai.ae/contemporary

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CONTEMPORARY ·· 1x1 Gallery, Dubai ·· Ag Galerie, Tehran ·· Agial Art Gallery, Beirut ·· Aicon Gallery, New York ·· Albareh Art Gallery, Manama ·· Sabrina Amrani, Madrid ·· Artwin Gallery, Moscow / Baku ·· Athr, Jeddah ·· Ayyam Gallery, Dubai / Beirut ·· Blain | Southern, London / Berlin ·· Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York ·· Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris ·· Carbon 12, Dubai ·· Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin ·· Carroll / Fletcher, London ·· Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid ·· Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai ·· Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbai ·· Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana ·· Dastan's Basement, Tehran ·· East Wing, Dubai ·· Elmarsa, Tunis / Dubai ·· Espacio Valverde, Madrid ·· Experimenter, Kolkata ·· Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai ·· Galerie Imane Fares, Paris ·· Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis / London ·· Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo ·· Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome ·· GAGProjects, Adelaide ·· Gala Gallery, Tibilisi ·· Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York

·· Green Art Gallery, Dubai ·· Grey Noise, Dubai ·· GVCC, Casablanca ·· Gypsum Gallery, Cairo ·· Leila Heller Gallery, New York / Dubai ·· Galerie Iragui, Moscow ·· Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai ·· Kalfayan Galleries, Athens / Thessaloniki ·· Khak Gallery, Tehran / Dubai ·· Krampf Gallery, Istanbul ·· Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna ·· Lakeeren, Mumbai ·· Galerie Lelong, Paris / New York ·· Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne ·· Mind Set Art Center, Taipei ·· Meem Gallery, Dubai ·· Victoria Miro, London ·· NK Gallery, Antwerp ·· Galleria Franco Noero, Turin ·· Nubuke Foundation, Accra ·· Gallery One, Ramallah ·· Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore ·· Pechersky Gallery, Moscow ·· Project 88, Mumbai ·· Rampa, Istanbul ·· The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius ·· Sakshi Gallery, Mumbai ·· Sanatorium, Istanbul ·· Gallery Sarah, Muscat ·· Brigitte Schenk, Cologne ·· Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg / Beirut ·· Gallery SKE, Bangalore / New Delhi ·· Silverlens, Manila ·· Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris / Brussels ·· The Third Line, Dubai

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·· Travesia Cuatro, Madrid / Guadalajara ·· Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam ·· Vigo Gallery, London ·· X-ist, Istanbul ·· Yay Gallery, Baku ·· Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah ·· Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg ·· Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul ·· PROJECT SPACE: Atassi Foundation for Art & Culture, Dubai

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MODERN Art Dubai Modern is the only gallery programme of its kind in the world. The third iteration included 13 booth exhibitions, each a solo or two-person show, featuring works from 1903 to the 1980s by modern masters from the Middle East and South Asia, and the continent of Africa.

Galleries were asked to submit proposals for booth exhibitions by artists whose work has proven highly influential during the twentieth century and on a later generations of artists. These proposals were reviewed by an advisory board, composed of curators and art historians with a particular interest in modernist practices of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

The 2015-16 Art Dubai Modern curatorial committee included Savita Apte, an art historian specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art; Catherine David, a renowned curator with an extensive experience in the Middle East, whose exhibitions include Documenta X;

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Kristine Khouri, a researcher and writer based in Beirut and co-founder of the History of Arab Modernities in the Visual Arts Study Group; Nada Shabout, an art historian specialising in modern Arab and Iraqi art, and curator, among other exhibitions, of ‘Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art’, at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar (2010); and Bisi Silva, a curator specialised in modern and contemporary African art and founder/director of Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (CCA, Lagos).

For the last three years, Mashreq Private Banking has been the exclusive partner of Art Dubai Modern. artdubai.ae/modern

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MODERN ·· Chaouki Chamoun / Alfred Basbous Artspace, Dubai / London

·· Samia Halaby / Moustafa Fathi Ayyam Gallery, Dubai / Beirut

·· Geoffrey Mukasa Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi

·· Yahia Turki Elmarsa, Tunis / Dubai

·· Adam Henein Karim Francis Gallery, Cairo

·· Abdur Rahman Chughtai / Syed Sadequain Grosvenor Gallery, London

·· Mounirah Mosly / Ahmed Nawar Hafez Gallery, Jeddah

·· Maliheh Afnan Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai

·· Hédi Turki / Rafik El Kamel Le Violon Bleu, Tunis

·· Shakir Hassan al Said / Faiq Hassan Meem Gallery, Dubai

·· Huguette Caland / Laure Ghorayeb Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut

·· Ali Akbar Sadeghi Shirin Gallery, Tehran / New York

·· Muhanna Durra / Samia Taktak Zaru Wadi Finan Art Gallery, Amman

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‘This year’s Art Dubai Modern further proves that a strong female presence in the region’s art scene has a precedent dating back many decades.’

ArtSlant, United States, March 18, 2016 ‘This gallery program indicated a boost of the market and deep interest in modern regional works.’

Haute Living, United States, April 5, 2016 ‘It’s fascinating to learn about these masters of their practice – a walk through this section is like a thorough lesson in the history of regional art.’

What's On, UAE, March 17, 2016 ‘The 2016 programme featured access to curator-led tours, which shed light on the rich storytelling and histories behind these unique works.’

Saudi Gazette, KSA, March 19, 2016

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‘Visitors learned the progression of the Philippine contemporary and modern art scene in the eyes of 16 artists, from their mid-20s to their early 30s. They have gone against the traditional art form of painting, having been open and blessed with innate ingenuity of self-expression amid the democratic space of their country.’

The Gulf Today, UAE, March 18, 2016 ‘Given Dubai is home to one of the biggest Filipino expatriate communities in the Middle East, many of whom work in the creative industry, it seems fitting. Work is experimental and exciting, places such as 98B COLLABoratory that encourages artists to engage with the public and feels like the next Delfina, with active programming including talks, residencies and publishing outlets’ Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Pan Arab, March 13, 2016 ‘Art Dubai Marker emphasized the fair’s importance as a spotlight tackling thematic or geographical subjects related to the Gulf and the Arab world.’

Haute Living, United States, April 5, 2016

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MARKER Marker is Art Dubai’s curated programme, located within the fair’s gallery halls, which highlights a particular theme or geography.

Curated by artist and researcher Ringo Bunoan, Marker 2016 turned its focus to the Philippines, highlighting dynamic independent artspaces and artists from Manila.

Artist-run spaces have long been vital for the development of contemporary art in the country, allowing artists to create and present works outside the conventional frameworks of museums and commercial galleries.

Marker 2016 paid tribute to Roberto Chabet, a pioneering Filipino conceptual artist, teacher, and curator who played an active role in several artist-run spaces in the Philippines from the 1970s until his passing in 2013.

The exhibition featured one of his plywood installations alongside works by an emerging generation of Filipino artists—all in their 20s and 30s—from artist-run spaces currently active in the city. These included 98B, Post Gallery, Project 20, and Thousandfold.

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Marker 2016 included more than 25 artworks (photographs, videos, paintings, soft sculptures, works on paper, and textiles) by 14 artists, including Mark Barretto, Tammy David, Jed Escueta, Miguel Lope Inumerable, Gino Javier, Czar Kristoff, Wawi Navarozza, Katherine Nuñez, Jayson Oliveria, J Pacena, Julius Redillas, Issay Rodriguez, Gail Vicente, and Tanya Villanueva. Alongside the artworks, the exhibition featured around 70 selected books and publications on Filipino modern and contemporary art curated by the online platform artbooks.ph, which was cofounded by Bunoan.

Marker exemplifies the Art Dubai's role as a site of discovery and cross-cultural exchange, and is a feature of Art Dubai’s not-for-profit programming.

Marker 2016 was supported by The Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development and The Philippines Business Council-Dubai and Northern Emirates.

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Marker 2016 was curated by Ringo Bunoan, an artist, curator and researcher based in Manila, Philippines. Bunoan was the co-founder of Big Sky Mind, an alternative space active from 1999 to 2004. From 2007 to 2013, she worked as the researcher for the Philippines for Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong where she initiated special research projects on artist-run spaces and Filipino conceptual artist Roberto Chabet. In 2010, she co-founded King Kong Art Projects Unlimited and was one of the lead curators of ‘Chabet: 50 Years’, a series of exhibitions in Singapore, Hong Kong and Manila from 2011-2012. In 2014, she cofounded artbooks.ph, an independent bookstore focusing on Filipino art and culture.

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Art Dubai is held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, Ruler of Dubai.

Art Dubai Ladies Preview is held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of UAE Gender Balance Council and President of Dubai Women Establishment, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs of the UAE. Based across the globe with an invested interest in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, our Board of Patrons, chaired by His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, take on a crucial ambassadorial and advisory role at Art Dubai. Art Dubai is grateful for the support of its patrons and friends, who have made extraordinary commitments to the contemporary arts scenes of the region and beyond.

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2016 CHAIRMAN, ART DUBAI BOARD OF PATRONS HE Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development HONORARY BOARD OF PATRONS 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 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 Government Education Endowment Fund / United Nations Global Compact; Dubai

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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, Paris-Sorbonne 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; Co-Founder, Abu Dhabi Classics Programme / Al Ain Music Festival; Abu Dhabi HE Abdul Rahman Mohammed bin Nasser Al Owais: UAE Minister of Health; Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dubai Culture and Arts Authority; Dubai HE Sheikh Hassan bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani: Patron, collector; Vice-Chairman, Qatar Museums Authority; Founder, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art; Doha

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BOARD OF PATRONS 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 Maria Baibakova: Curator; Founder/ Director/Chief Curator, Baibakov Art Projects (BAP); Moscow/Boston

HE Omar Ghobash: Patron; Co-Founder, The Third Line Gallery; exDeputy 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 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

Kito De Boer: Patron, collector; London Dr Shayma Nawaf Fawwaz: Collector; Dubai; Founder/CEO of Gossip Cafe & Desserts Fatima Al-Mazrui Ghobash: Patron, collector; Co-founder of S*uce; Dubai

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Dr Lamees Hamdan: Collector; Commissioner, UAE Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2009-13; Board Member, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (DCAA) / Dubai Women Establishment (DWE); Fund Curator, Daman Middle East Art Fund; Founder, Shiffa; Dubai

Founder, Copia Luxury Management; Life Fellow, St. Antony's 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

Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi: Patron; Founder/Former Director, Royal Society of Fine Arts of Jordan / Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts; former Jordan Ambassador to Italy; Amman

Lisa Mamounas: Collector; Founder, Culinary Insiders; Member, The Junior Associates – MoMA; New York

Tariq Al Jaidah: Patron, collector; Managing Director, Al Jaidah Brothers; Member, Middle East Committee, Guggenheim Museum; Founder/Managing Director, Katara Art Center; Doha

Patricia Millns: FRSA artist, advisor Fellow Royal Society of Arts London, Board Member American University AUD Dubai Elected Member IAPA, UNESCO and Emirates Fine Art Society UAE

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/

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Dina Nasser-Khadivi: Patron, curator; Founder, of DNK Art Consulting; International Consultant, Christie’s; Member, Tate Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee MENAAC / Caspian Arts Foundation Committee / Yarat Contemporary Art Organisation Advisory Board; Geneva/London Yola Noujaim: Patron, collector; Senior Architect, ynzdesign; Board of Advisors, Design Days Dubai; Beirut/Paris Lekha Poddar: Patron, collector; President/ Co-Founder, Devi Art Foundation; Founder, Carma; Patron/Founder, Textile Arts of India; New Delhi Sheikha Lulu Al Sabah: Writer, collector, curator; Co-Founder/Partner, JAMM; Kuwait Sheikha Paula Al Sabah: Patron; Board Member, Serpentine Gallery; Kuwait

Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal: Patron, collector; Developer, Alserkal Avenue Arts District; Dubai Ahmed bin Shabib: CoFounder/Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / Cultural Engineering; Dubai Rashid bin Shabib: CoFounder/Co-Director, Brownbook Magazine / Cultural Engineering; Dubai Bashar Al Shroogi: Patron, collector, curator; Founder/CEO, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery; Dubai Abir Dajani Tuqan: Author, collector; London Sharaf Ahmed Zaki Yamani: Collector; Director, Windlesham Advisors LTD; Member, Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation / The Yamani Cultural and Charitable Foundation; London

Ramin Salsali: collector; Collector; Founder, Salsali Private Museum (SPM); Awardee, Patron of the Arts, UAE, 2010-12; Dubai

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PATRONS ADVISORY BOARD 2016 Dana Farouki: Patron, collector; Chair of The Abraaj Group Art Prize; Trustee, MoMA PS1 / Creative Time; Dubai/ New York

Maya Rasamny: Collector; patron, Tate Gallery; CoChair, Tate's Middle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC); London Alia Al-Senussi: Patron; VIP Relations Manager —Middle East, Art Basel; Director, Albion Gallery, 2005-09; 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; London

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

Abdullah AlTurki: Collector, curator; CoChair, Parasol Future Unit; Member, Saudi Art Council / TateMiddle East North Africa Acquisitions Committee (MENAAC) / Serpentine Gallery Future Contemporary Group; London/Riyadh

Fayeeza Naqvi: Collector; Committee Member, The Abraaj Group Art Prize; 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

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CURATORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Aaron Cezar: Curator; Founding Director, Delfina Foundation; London Rami Farook: Curator, publisher; Founder/ Director, Traffic, Satellite / The State; Dubai Lateefa bint Maktoum: Artist, curator; Founder/ Director, Tashkeel; Dubai Salwa Mikdadi: Curator, art historian; Co-Founder/ Ex-Director, Cultural and Visual Arts Resource/ ICWA; Co-Founder, Association of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran and Turkey (AMCA); Abu Dhabi

Artforum, Paradis Magazine and 032c Magazine; London Jack Persekian: Curator; Founder/Director, Anadiel Gallery / AlMa’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art / XEIN Productions; Founder/ Head Curator, The Jerusalem Show; Head Curator, The Palestinian Museum, 2012-15; Artistic Director/Head Curator, Sharjah Biennial, 200409; Director, Sharjah Art Foundation 2009-11; Jerusalem

Jessica Morgan: Curator, writer; Director, DIA Art Foundation; New York Hans Ulrich Obrist: Curator, critic, art historian; Co-Director –Exhibitions and Programmes, Director– International Projects, Serpentine Gallery; Curator, Museum in Progress, Vienna, 19932000 / Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 2000-06; Contributing Editor, Abitare Magazine,

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‘The halls in the Madinat Jumeirah were full to the brim, and the energy displayed at the fair, from gallery booths to the commissions to the talks program and the social calendar, have demonstrated the vitality of a young art fair on the way to maturity.’

Artnet, United States, March 17, 2016 ‘Art Dubai has also broadened the existing culture by propelling budding artists and notable masters, supporting collectors, regional and global artists or welcoming international collectors and curators who embedded this cultural event with a new perspective and a fresh breadth. The current market, set up through the joint efforts of local galleries, collectors and emerging artists, is particularly impressive because of its unsaturated potential as compared to other European or American art markets.’

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‘Art Dubai consolidates some of the best in the form of talks or panels and book launches. For example, Sharjah’s Maraya Art Centre hosted a conversation between four Emirati artists about their work currently on display in the latest exhibition, Al Haraka Baraka; while the team from the New York University Abu Dhabi hosted a book launch for Diana Al Hadid’s Phantom Limb, which was full of information about the Syrian artist and her practice.’

The National, UAE, March 20, 2016

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For the past decade, Art Dubai has built up an unparalleled reputation for hosting an exceptional VIP programme that facilitates networking and sheds light on the arts scenes of the region. In a survey conducted in March-April 2016, over half of the guests who attended Art Dubai 2016 stated that the quality of VIP Programme is what sets Art Dubai apart from other fairs.

Guests are invited to join three tiers of VIP Programming—spanning three to ten days across 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 cities around the world.

The Patrons Circle is an invitation-only 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 deep connections between collectors, artists and curators of the Middle East and Asia.

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The Collectors Circle Programme, also invitation only, 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.

87% of Patrons Circle and Collectors Circle members who participated in Art Dubai’s independent visitors survey rated the VIP Programme good-excellent.

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Art Dubai's Patrons Circle Programme includes: ·· 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 personalised 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 major decision-makers Selected Patrons Circle and Collectors Circle events in 2016 included: ·· Two days in Doha, with private views of spring exhibitions at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Islamic Art and the Fire Station Artist-inResidency ·· First access to Art Dubai and an exclusive preview of the gallery halls and Art Dubai Projects, plus an invitation to The Abraaj

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Group Lounge and preview of the 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize hosted by CEO Arif Naqvi ·· Specialised preview of Design Days Dubai—Asia’s first design fair—led by Fair Director Cyril Zammit ·· Tour of Al Ain, and private lunch at the residence of renowned culturist and presidential advisor HE Zaki Nusseibeh ·· Exclusive visits to collectors’ homes including the private collections of Mohammed Afkhami, Farhad Bakhtiar, Agnes and Peter Cooke, Dana Farouki, Doha & Kareem Abu Ghazaleh, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Nisreen and Teymour Salaam and the Atassi family collection ·· Artists’ studio visits including Manal AlDowayan, eL Seed and Mohammed Kazem ·· Visit to Sharjah and a tour of the Sharjah Art Foundation, Barjeel Art Foundation and Maraya Art Centre ·· Visit to Abu Dhabi with director-led tours of New York University Abu Dhabi’s Art Gallery and Manarat Al Saadiyat

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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 2016, Art Dubai hosted over 200 leading museum directors and institutional curators, plus over 90 museum groups – more than any other art fair, worldwide.

Ahead of the British Council’s UK-UAE Exchange 2017, Art Dubai and the British Council partnered to offer leading UK-based curators the opportunity to engage further with the Middle East and South Asia region by participating in the fair’s dynamic Patrons Circle Programme. artdubai.ae/vip-programme

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KEY INSTITUTIONS ATTENDING ART DUBAI 2016 AAN Collection,Pakistan Aga Khan Museum, Canada Agence France-Muséums - Louvre Abu Dhabi, France / United Arab Emirates Arab British Centre, United Kingdom Art in General, United States ArteEast Foundation, United States Artist Pension Trust, Germany Ashmolean Museum, United Kingdom Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong Asia House, United Kingdom Barjeel Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates BASMOCA, Saudi Arabia Bengal Foundation, Bangladesh Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom Birmingham Museum of Art, United Kingdom BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Belgium Centre d’art Contemporain Geneve, Switzerland Centre for Contemporary Art Lagos, Nigeria Centre Pompidou, France Cini Foundation, Italy Coleccion Isabel y Agustin Coppel, United States Creative Time, United States Delfina Foundation, United Kingdom Devi Art Foundation, India Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Turkey Farideh Lashai Foundation, Iran Fondazione Prada, Italy Glasgow Sculpture Studios, United Kingdom Goethe-Institut, Gulf Region Goethe-Institut, Pakistan Green Box Museum, United States Grey Art Gallery, United States Honar Foundation, United States Honart Museum, Iran Ikon Gallery, United Kingdom Il Sole 24ore, Italy Iniva, United Kingdom Institut du Monde Arabe, France Katara Arts Centre, Qatar King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Saudi Arabia Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foundation, India

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Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), United States Lahore Biennial Foundation, Pakistan Liverpool Biennial, United Kingdom MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland Mara Foundation, United Arab Emirates Maraya Art Centre, United Arab Emirates Marrakech Biennale, Morocco Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States MoTA—Museum of Transitory Art, Slovenia Musée National d'Art Moderne, France Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Salta (MAC), Argentina Museu Serralves, Portugal Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands Museum Lenbachhaus Munich, Germany Museum Ludwig, Hungary Museum of Contemporary & Modern Art Lebanon (MACAM), Lebanon Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), Belgium Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, United Sates Museum of Decorative Art, France Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Poland Museum of Modern Art New York, United States MuseumQuartier Vienna, Austria New Museum, United States Outset Contemporary Art Fund, Germany Palais de Tokyo, France Parasol Unit for Contemporary Art, United Kingdom Piasa, France Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands Public Art Fund, United States Qatar Museums, Qatar SAHA, Turkey Samdan Art Foundation, Bangladesh Saudi Art Council, Saudi Arabia Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, United Kingdom Serpentine Galleries, United Kingdom Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates Shubbak, London Festival of Contemporary Arab Culture, United Kingdom

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation, United States Sovereign Art Foundation, Hong Kong Stedelijk, Netherlands Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Swiss Institute, United States Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom Tate Modern, United Kingdom The British Museum, United Kingdom The Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Jordan Victoria & Albert Museum, United Kingdom Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom Whitworth Art Gallery, United Kingdom Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, China

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OUTREACH Year-round, our Board of Patrons, ambassadors, friends and colleagues host private dinners and events, bringing together like-minded patrons, collectors, museum directors, curators, 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 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.

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Frieze, New York, May 2015 JAOU, Tunis, May 2015 Venice Biennale, Venice, May 2015 Art Basel, Basel, June 2015 Frieze, London, Oct 2015 1:54, London, Oct 2015 FIAC, Paris, Oct 2015 Paris Internationale, Paris, Oct 2015 Farideh Lashai: 'Towards the Ineffable' Opening, Tehran, Nov 2015 Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami, Dec2015 Art Stage Singapore, Singapore, Jan 2016 Forum Investing in Culture, Bahrain, Jan 2016 India Art Fair, New Delhi, Jan 2016 Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka, Feb 2016 Jeddah Art Week, Jeddah, Feb 2016 March Meeting, Sharjah, March 2016

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ART SALON Art Salon is a private community of 98 members, launched in 2014 by the Art Dubai Group, which provides GCC based collectors and patrons with the opportunity to meet and interact with other like-minded individuals.

Gatherings usually take place in an intimate setting and feature high profile regional and international guests. Art Salon aims to generate innovative ways to shape the future of art in the region by deeply engaging its collectors and encourage contemporary art patronage.

Art Salon members graciously contribute to Art Dubai Projects, supporting the fair’s notfor-profit initiatves to nurture rising and midcareer artists from the region.

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Featured Art Salon guest speakers included: Henry Kim, CEO and Director of Aga Khan Museum; Toronto Aric Chen, Curator of M+ Museum; Hong Kong Mario Bellini, Architect responsible for the design of the Department of Islamic Arts at the Musée du Louvre, Paris Helen Clark, Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and former prime minister of New Zealand Alexandra de Royère, Art patron, collector and member of the International Committee of arteBA Fundación, Buenos Aires Asif Khan, Architect and Designer, London Bernard Khoury, Architect, Lebanon Humberto Campana, The Campana Brothers, Designer, Brazil

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DESIGN Art Dubai takes a particularly innovative approach to its branding. Since 2011, Art Dubai has launched a new visual identity each year centred on the fair’s bilingual logo and identity, created by graphic designer Hani Charaf of Kemistry Design— a creative studio based in Dubai. Hani's arts and culture portfolio includes work for Saadiyat Cultural District, the Saudi Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennial, and Sharjah Art Foundation, among others.

Art Dubai's 2016 campaign celebrated the tenth year of the fair in a highly original way.

The fair’s creative team worked with Kemistry Design to develop a visual campaign that was a story in and of itself: one that articulates the age and development of the fair, playing on the fact that the tenth birthday is highly significant – but also just the beginning of the growth that is to come.

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The campaign references a range of events, trends and happenings of ten years ago—from the miniscule to the momentous. Each image tells its own story; together, they build a picture of a moment ten years ago, at the time of the founding of the fair: a reference to Pluto no longer being considered a planet; the debut of Kuala Lumpur’s Islamic Fashion Festival; the premiere of Bab Al-Hara on MBC; and the record-breaking sale of Jackson Pollock’s Number 5, 1948.

Running over six months, the build-up of images—through invitations, promotional materials, digital platforms, advertisements and other applications—acted as a trail of “breadcrumbs”, drawing in audiences and encouraging them to follow the campaign and become a part of Art Dubai 2016.

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90% of visitors rated the design, look and feel of Art Dubai 2016 as good-excellent.

Art Dubai’s approach to maintaining its intimate, human scale size was what differentiates Art Dubai from other international art fair and events, according to 64% of respondents.

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PRESS Art Dubai 2016 featured a particularly strong turnout by, and support from, the media: 428 accredited press representing 265 unique publications from 40 countries. The fair’s annual hosted press trip saw 40 of the world’s top international and regional editors and journalists spend three days in Dubai, taking in the city’s dynamic art scenes, attending collector dinners and gaining exclusive access to partner events and programming.

Art Dubai's communications team collaborates with the regional PR agency ASDA’A BursonMarstellar and the international, Londonbased arts PR agency SUTTON PR to maximise its global outreach and impact.

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‘Among [the press conference speakers] were several continents, over a dozen languages and widely different cultures. But this might be precisely what has made Art Dubai so compelling over the years. It’s a fair that accounts for all of these nationalities and cultures, without imposing any kind of hierarchy. It has built a reputation on inclusivity.’

The Philippines Star, Philippines, April 1, 2016 ‘A packed hall of journalists and writers from across the world’ The Guardian Nigeria, Nigeria, March 20, 2016

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KEY PRESS ATTENDANCE Al Ahram, Egypt Agence Communic’Art, France Altitudes Arabia, UAE Architectural Digest, USA Architectural Digest, Middle East Art Asia Pacific, Hong Kong Art Bahrain, Bahrain Art China, China Art Forum, United States Art News, United States Art News, Italy The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom The Art Newspaper, Russia Art Report, United States Art Review, United Kingdom Art Review Asia, Hong Kong Art Slant, United States ARY News, Pakistan artinfo.com, United States ARTNET, United States Artsy, United States Associated Press, United States Azad News, India Al Bayan, UAE BBC, United Kingdom Bijutsu Techo, Japan Bloomberg, United States Business Week, Middle East Brownbook, UAE Buro 24/7, Middle East Buro 24/7, Russia Canvas, UAE Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Egypt CNBC, USA CNN, United States Conde Nast Traveller, Middle East Cool Hunting, United States The Daily Star, Lebanon

Daily Telegraph, United Kingdom Dar Al Khaleej, UAE Deutsche Welle, Germany De Volkskrant, Germany Deccan Herald, India DesignBoom, United States DesignMENA, UAE Die Zeit, Germany Die Welt, Germany Die Presse, Germany Dubai TV, UAE Dubai Eye, UAE El Beit, Egypt Les Echos, France Elle, Middle East Emirates Woman, UAE Entrepreneur, UAE Esquire, United States The Financial Times, United Kingdom Forbes, United States Future TV, Lebanon Getty Images, United Kingdom The Guardian, United Kingdom The Guardian Nigeria, Nigeria Gulf News, UAE The Gulf Today, UAE Harper's Bazaar Art, UAE Harper's Bazaar Art, China Haya Magazine, Saudi Arabia Al Hayat, Lebanon Hong Kong Economic Journal, Hong Kong Huffington Post, United States Hype Magazine, UAE Hyperallergic, United States Ibraaz, United Kingdom Il Sole 24 Ore, Italy Kommersant, Russia Kunstforum, Austria Le Quotidient De L'Art, France

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MBC, Pan Arab Modern Painters, United States The National, UAE Ocula, Hong Kong Reuters, United States The Telegraph, United Kingdom The Times on Sunday, Pakistan The Times of India, India TimeOut Dubai, UAE TIME, United States El Pais, Spain Al Raya, Qatar Al Sharq Al Awsat, London T Magazine, United States Telemundo, United States Vogue, United States Vogue, Netherlands Vogue, India The Wall Street Journal, United States Wallpaper*, United Kingdom Whitewall Magazine, United States WhatsOn Dubai, UAE Al Yaqza Magazine, Saudi Arabia Yatzer Magazine, Greece Zahrat Al Khaleej, UAE

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REGIONAL COVERAGE The total regional reach of coverage for Art Dubai 2016 was an estimated 229.3 million, obtained through broadcast, print and online coverage—from a documentary film series on the fair by Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia to the cover page of TimeOut Dubai.

INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE A total of 239 articles in top international publications featured Art Dubai, including a double-page feature in The Art Newspaper, a review in the International New York Times, reviews in Die Welt, Die Presse and Il Sole 24 Ore and in-depth coverage in Art Asia Pacific, Ibraaz, Forbes and Le Quotidien de L’Art.

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BROADCAST REACH Art Dubai 2016 was featured on several television broadcast and radio channels including AFP, BBC, Dubai TV and ARN Radio.

NEWSWIRES The fair welcomed the world’s top news agencies and wire services, including The Associated Press, the BBC, Reuters, Bloomberg, Agence France-Presse (AFP), Getty Images, Agencia EFE and Xinhua News Agency.

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MARKETING ART DUBAI WEBSITE Art Dubai’s website features comprehensive information about the fair, pages for participating galleries and an extensive press page. Updated regularly, it's an easily accessible source of information for the fair and its programming. artdubai.ae ART DUBAI BLOG The Art Dubai Blog promotes exhibitions, projects and new works related to the fair and showcases the work and ideas of artists and curators from the Middle East, South Asia and beyond. The pieces spotlight the region’s best and brightest with original interviews, behindthe-scenes insights and latest news. Among the most successful editorial features of 2016 was a series on Art Dubai Modern's pioneering women artists of the twentieth century, featuring interviews with Mounirah Mosly (b.

1954), Laure Ghorayeb (b. 1931), Samia Halaby (b. 1936) and Samia Taktak Zaru (b. 1938). blog.artdubai.ae

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ART DUBAI NEWSLETTERS An e-newsletter is sent out every month, announcing news and upcoming events, to Art Dubai’s database of over 45,000 contacts– from collectors, patrons and museum directors to artists, journalists and the local community of art enthusiasts. During the fair, e-newsletters are sent out every other day. In 2016, to broaden its reach, Art Dubai offered complimentary entrance to the fair to its partners’ core stakeholders and subscribers.

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 2015 and 2016, Art Dubai made five announcements promoting the various programmes of its tenth edition using this service.

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RADIO Along with regular advertisement slots across ARN Radio – the region’s largest radio network, with 3 million listeners each day – Art Dubai appeared on Dubai Eye’s ‘Business Breakfast Show’ to reveal the results of the Art Dubai 2015 Economic Survey in February 2016.

Dubai Eye also broadcasted live throughout the fair, interviewing projects curators, artists and directors across departments about programming, the current regional arts market and The Abraaj Group Art Prize. Dubai Eye serves an audience of more than 91,000 listeners across the UAE.

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MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVERTISING Art Dubai partnered with 52 different media —print, online and broadcast—to promote the tenth edition of the fair through an extensive international advertising campaign. The media partnership and coinciding advertising campaign ran from June 2015 to March 2016, and featured over 130 advertisement placements worldwide.

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The aggregate reader circulation (online and in print) of Art Dubai’s 2016 Media Partners and advertisements is 36.5 million The total social media following of Art Dubai’s 2016 Media Partners is 6 million.

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KEY MEDIA PARTNERS Al Tashkeel, United Arab Emirates Art Forum, United States Art Africa, South Africa ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong Brownbook, United Arab Emirates Canvas, United Arab Emirates Contemporary Practices, United Arab Emirates Depart, Bangladesh Diptyk, Morocco Harper's Bazaar Art, United Arab Emirates Motherland, India Mousse, Italy My Art Guides, United States Selections, Lebanon The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom The Carton, Lebanon The Financial Times, United Kingdom The International New York times (INYT), United States The Outpost, Lebanon The State, United Arab Emirates Tribe, United Arab Emirates WTD, United Arab Emirates

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In 2016, the Financial Times selected Art Dubai to be one of the six international art fairs featured in its Collecting Supplement.

The Financial Times was also the 2016 International Media Partner of Global Art Forum. With over 1.8 million readers in more than 140 countries worldwide, the Financial Times has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 780,000 and publishes four editions (US, Europe, UK, Asia) that cover the globe six days a week.

In 2016, Art Dubai also ran an innovative advertising campaign at the Dubai International Airport, which has the highest international passenger traffic in the world with 140 airlines regularly flying to over 270 destinations worldwide.

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SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK Art Dubai’s Facebook page is used to promote the fair’s programming. The platform exists as an extension of original editorial content from the Art Dubai Blog and announcements from our websites.

Accompanying each post with an external link, we encourage users to visit other digital platforms. Our organicallyproduced engagement levels increased by over 60% in 2016.

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FOLLOWERS 9% increase 2015: 68,626 2016: 74,817

ENGAGEMENT 61.2% increase 2015: 3,778 2016: 6,110

REACH 512.5% increase 2015: 11,359 2016: 69,578

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TWITTER Art Dubai’s Twitter feed provides year-round support for all participants involved in the fair’s previous editions. In 2016, Art Dubai’s Twitter account reaffirmed its reputation as a mouthpiece for art-related news. Providing comprehensive coverage of all Art Dubai programming, it has acquired a reputation as the region’s most valuable resource to gain insights into the art scene in the Middle East, South Asia and North Africa.

This year, our Twitter content reached over half-a-million users; followers increased by 25% and engagement levels were 190% higher than 2015. @artdubai

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FOLLOWERS 24.5% increase 2015: 60,700 2016: 75,589

ENGAGEMENT 190% increase 2015: 1,974 2016: 5,726

REACH 187.4% increase 2015: 185,400 2016: 533,000

*Numbers reflective of the ten-day period of the fair, March 9-20

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INSTAGRAM Art Dubai’s Instagram account received a curated re-vamp in advance of our tenth edition. Implementing a visually engaging feed with a primary focus on the artists exhibiting at the fair, our followers have doubled in the last year, and Art Dubai’s Instagram content was seen by 1.8 million people between 9 March and 20 March, 2016.

In 2016, Art Dubai invited New York-based founder and creative director of @paridust, Pari Ehsan to the fair’s tenth edition to produce four images for her website and brand.

The Instagram celebrity wore UAE-based designers’ clothes and took part in an Art Dubai-produced photoshoot, working with a UAE-based photographer and makeup artist.

Her Instagram network has captured the attention of 206,000 individuals.

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Art Dubai also organized an #empty event—part of a growing worldwide digital movement—for some of the region’s leading Instagrammers, who were given first access to the fair. Twenty-five Instagrammers (combined following of 500,000) entered the fair at 7am on its first day to shoot the gallery halls before anyone had visited, generating a global buzz about the fair and posting a strong line of images to promote the fair and its galleries. @artdubai

FOLLOWERS 106% increase 2015: 17,581 2016: 36,138

Total engagement for 2016* was 15,568 and total reach was 1,873,140.

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‘Art Dubai has always tried to contribute to the development of arts education, artists’ practices and community engagement in Dubai and the UAE through its not-for-profit public programme and education programming, which are the largest of any fairs in the world; and by bringing leading galleries, artists and art professionals to Dubai.’

Gulf News, UAE, March 9, 2016 ‘[The A.i.R artists] then create artworks that are shown during Art Dubai—an incredible opportunity for them as the art fair attracts major international curators, museum directors, gallerists and artists to the region...It’s a stellar process of both nurturing and exposure.’

The National, UAE, October 22, 2015 ‘In formal terms, Art Dubai Cinema’s program was as varied as regional artists’ practices. Some works echo Sansour’s concerns with material culture, often inseparable from contemporary politics, while others are engaged with a pop culture aesthetic uninterested in regional politics.’

The Daily Star, Lebanon, March 22, 2016

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Art Dubai has the largest not-for-profit programme of any international art fair worldwide. Our educational initiatives, artists’ projects and talks programmes: ·· Allow leading curators and gallerists to discover new work by upcoming artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia ·· Provide international and local artists with opportunities for exchange – of skills, expertise and ideas – within the context of the UAE and the GCC ·· Present new, dynamic and themed artists’ projects and performances to a global audience of arts professionals, critics and enthusiasts through the global platform of Art Dubai ·· Encourage the participation and development of local audiences through interactive, participatory projects onsite and throughout the city ·· Push 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

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ART DUBAI PROJECTS The 2016 Art Dubai Projects programme included a residency and projects programme (A.i.R Dubai), commissioned site-specific works (Art Dubai Commissions, including a major food-art experience, The Wedding Project), Radio and Art Dubai Cinema.

The 2016 residencies, artists’ projects and commissions were curated

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Art Dubai Projects curator Yasmina Reggad is an independent curator, writer and researcher based in London, and works between London, Algiers and Athens. She holds an M.A. in History of the Middle Ages from Sorbonne University.

Her recent curatorial projects include ‘The Unbearable Likeness’ by Abdelkader Benchamma (Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery, Dubai), 'We Can’t Be There. Emergency Provisions for (Un) Anticipated Futures,' (exhibited over six months at Goldsmiths University, Tate Modern, Institute of Contemporary Arts and Delfina Foundation), 'Puppetmaster' by Adrian Lee (DJART Biennal, Algeria), 'Djazaïr' with Ali MacGilp (John Jones Art, UK), 'Intervening Space: From the Intimate to the World' (The Mosaic Rooms, UK) and 'Sketches of Algiers 1' by Amina Menia (1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, UK). Reggad is currently Programme Curator at Aria, an artist residency in Algiers.

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ART DUBAI COMMISSIONS Art Dubai Commissions provides opportunities for mid-career artists, predominantly from Asia and the Middle East, to develop new work for the context of the fair. Artists are encouraged to engage audiences and interact with the fair, its economy and format, embracing the theatrical nature of the event.

All six artists, which included a collective of three, worked closely with curator Yasmina Reggad to develop and produce their site-specific works.

Artists commissioned to create new works for Art Dubai Commissions 2016 included Cairo-based artist Doa Aly; Algerian-born artist Massinissa Selmani; New York-based installation artist Sreshta Rit Premnath; and the collective trio Nile Sunset Annex. artdubai.ae/commissions

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DOA ALY Free Radicals—a performative montage of texts and choreographies exploring the affective atmospheres created by acts of guilt and hope, forging an analogy between those atmospheres and schizophrenia: a mental illness whose disruptive symptoms often suspends appropriate affect. This was Doa Aly’s first staged live performance, which took place daily at the fair. The performance was choreographed by Doa Aly, performed

by Noura Seif with an original score by Alaa Abdullatif.

Doa Aly earned a BFA in painting in 2001 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cairo. She started her career with an interest in anatomy, and movement that evolved over the years into an interest in psychology, ideas of power, sexuality and language. Her art practice spans drawing, painting, performance-based videos, and text-collages. She mostly draws inspiration from classical fiction, medical literature, mythology, philosophy, and most recently, current news articles. Aly has exhibited in prestigious international institutions and biennials including Tate Modern, London; ICP, New York; and Haus DerKunst, Munich; as well as the Busan, Istanbul and Dakar Biennials. Doa Aly is represented by Gypsum Gallery in Cairo.

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MASSINISSA SELMANI On y voit Mieux (We See Better)—a site specific installation that resembled an architectural table with drawings, works on paper and a 3D print displayed on top of the table. The project explored the use of photography in architecture and the production of meaning. Massinissa meticulously studies images of architectural projects that are still in their initial design stage and draws a fictional history of the conception of African building projects, which opens up possible future forms or ideas of a society.

Massinissa Selmani was born in Algiers. Before starting his artistic career, Selmani studied Computer Science. He studied at the School of Fine Arts of Tours, graduating in 2010. His work experiments with drawing and it’s boundaries, oftentimes inclusive of montages of images and drawings or animations. The subjects of his works are often rooted in political news, social news and press clippings. His work presents images that have been treated and encoded according to documentary codes and/ or archival systems.

Massinissa Selmani is represented by Selma Feriani Gallery.

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SRESHTA RIT PREMNATH PLOT (Recto/Verso)—a large scale installation that is part of an ongoing project, exploring the paradox between the occupation of land with one’s body (squatting) and the abstract accumulation of property by the real estate market. The installation, located in the middle of Foyer 2, was comprised of an advertising banner or makeshift wall made of corrugated plastic with torn, LaserJet prints. Behind the banner, two stacked metal frames were draped with figure-like forms created using sheets of sand.

Sreshta Rit Premnath is the founder and co-editor of the publication Shifter. Premnath completed his BFA at The Cleveland Institute of Art, his MFA at Bard College, and has attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, Skowhegan and Smack Mellon. He has had solo exhibitions at KANSAS, New York; Gallery SKE, Bangalore; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Wave Hill, New York; Art Statements, Art Basel. He was awarded the Arthur Levitt Fellowship from Williams College. Premnath is Assistant Professor at Parsons, New York. Sreshta Rit Premnath is represented by Gallery SKE.

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NILE SUNSET ANNEX 70 Artists Toasts—a collaboration with all the A.i.R Dubai and Art Dubai Commissions artists to produce seven unique publications inspired by the artist’s work. The project also explored the ‘limited edition nature’ of some artworks. The small works ranged from a clay brain, fired and painted— inspired by A.i.R Dubai artist Jumairy—to a coloured glass tube filled with sand from the desert—inspired by A.i.R Dubai artist Moza Almatrooshi.

Nile Sunset Annex is an evolving production and dispersion outfit for contemporary art.

Founded in 2013, it is a small self-funded art space that puts on exhibitions of artists’ work in a flat in Cairo, but also embraces other roles when necessary. Its current iteration consists of Taha Belal, Jenifer Evans and Andeel.

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A.I.R DUBAI For the last five years, Art Dubai has partnered with Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and Tashkeel on Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai, an annual residency programme for international and UAE-based artists and curators. A.i.R Dubai supports artists by providing a platform to develop their practice and create new work, while facilitating exchange between the artists, the local communities, and the broader cultural landscape.

Through the course of the programme, participating artists are commissioned to produce site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects, and take part in a series of artists’ talks, workshops, Open Studios, and other outreach and community programmes at Tashkeel, in Al Fahidi and in the city-at-large.

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Furthermore, the curator-in-residence position gives an upcoming practitioner the opportunity to write, research and cultivate ideas for future projects that engage with the regional artistic sphere. The programme also aims to nurture and encourage intercultural dialogue through contemporary art.

In 2016, the residency programme, curated by Yasmina Reggad, supported emerging artists: UAE-based artists included land artist Moza Almatrooshi; musician and artist Jumairy; Areej Kaoud, who presented new performative work; and Algeria-born/London-based artist Lydia Ourahmane, whose practice references the structure of society, the workforce and labour.

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MOZA ALMATROOSHI Markings I—a land art sculpture by Emirati artist Moza Almatrooshi, which she created using a space at the fair. The sculpture, which consisted of twenty-five custom made flag poles that created an enforced pathway, examined human movement in the desert and mountain landscapes of the UAE while exploring methods of mark-making found in these areas. The flags were screen-printed, depicting natural textures of rock and sand formations found in Mleiha, an area in the Emirate of Sharjah.

Moza Almatrooshi graduated with a B.A. degree in Fine Arts and Creative Enterprises from Zayed University in 2013. Almatrooshi developed an interest in human relationships with different spatial conditions. She has worked in the fields of art and design, and has written for several independent publications. She is developing her own artistic practice through the Sheikha Salama Emerging Artist Fellowship programme. Â

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JUMAIRY The Sleepless Pe-Tal and An Introvert’s Dream Party—two interactive artworks by Emirati artist Jumairy, which required participation by fair visitors.

Fascinated by our dreams and their interpretations, Jumairy worked with students at Rashid School for Boys to develop a sleep clinic and invited fair visitors to book an appointment for a complimentary evaluation. The second performative work, inspired by flash mobs, was an antithesis to the parties at Art Dubai: Jumairy offered fair guests a unique ‘silent disco experience’ on Fort Island via wireless headphones.

Jumairy is an Emirati artist and musician based in Dubai. Jumairy actively uses social networking sites to exhibit his work, challenging the boundary between the physical and the online, sustaining a level of attention, sharing, contextualisation, discussion and feedback that much net art involves.

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AREEJ KAOUD The Artist Hard at Work and Brigade D’Urgence (Emergency Brigade)—durational performances by Areej Kaoud that explored how the body, insignificant gestures and absurd repetitive movements can trigger narratives. For The Artist Hard at Work, Kaoud spent two months watching TV workout videos, and performed the workouts when visitors entered her studio space during her residency at Tashkeel. Kaoud’s second performance, Brigade D’Urgence, took place onsite at the fair and looked at emergency provisions designed for Madinat Jumeirah, culminating into interventional enactments of safety procedures— from rescuing drowning victims to safely evacuating the premises—in various locations throughout the fair. Kaoud’s performance triggered narratives that speculated on one’s perception of a safe space.

Areej Kaoud is a Palestinian artist raised in Montreal, Canada. She completed a B.A. in Visual Arts at York University where she specialised in Printmaking and Drama Theatre. She later completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and another in Fine Art Curating at Goldsmiths College.

Kaoud has maintained a practice in silk screening, sculpture and conceptual art. She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions including Propeller Gallery, Toronto; Bargehouse Gallery, London; ARTLAB, Berne; and Desert Design Art Gallery, Saudi Arabia. She lives and practices in Dubai, UAE

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LYDIA OURAHMANE FREEWIFI—a sequel to Lydia Ourahmane’s previous work Harraga (2014). FREEWIFI consisted of a short, one minute film by the artist (Felt Fiction) that included video samples, newly collected footage and blinking text that could only be viewed once visitors at the fair used their mobile phones to log onto the Wi-Fi network, dubbed FREEWIFI.

Lydia Ourahmane was born in Algeria. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Her artistic practice spans new media, video, public interventions, lecture-performance, sculptures and found objects. Ourahmane’s work explores youth and transitional existences, surveillance and complex social and political structures. Her work has been exhibited at the World Museum, Liverpool; John Jones Project Space, London; Delfina Foundation, London; and Ellis King Gallery, Dublin; among others. Ourahmane was awarded The Nicholas and Andrei Tooth Travelling Scholarship in 2014. She currently lives in London, and works between the UK and Algeria.

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‘The Wedding Project dinners at Art Dubai were a tour-de-force of emotion.’

Forbes, USA, March 24, 2016 ‘The set [of The Wedding Project] was just amazing, and both the ambiance and the energy in the air recalled of those of a real wedding.’

My Art Guides, United States, March, 2016 ‘It is a surreal and yet complementary relationship with food and art coming together; art becomes food, or the food is art to begin with? You decide.’

ArtReport, United States, March 17, 2016

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THE WEDDING PROJECT Artists have often employed food in their creative process and practice. For the last two years, Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food programme has brought together leading artists, celebrity chefs and scientists to explore food as a medium for understanding complex histories and questioning current issues, from globalisation to waste.

Art Dubai Projects commissioned Delfina Foundation to bring together several elements of its popular dinner performances to create The Wedding Project, with sitespecific commissions and interventions by former resident artists Fari Bradley, Sunoj D, Manal al Dowayan, Candice Lin, Taus Makhacheva, Hind Mezaina, Larissa Sansour, the Centre for Genomic Gastronomy, and Nile Sunset Annex.

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Hotel. Curated by Delfina Foundation, the wedding reception-themed evening married an artist-created 11-course dinner with timebased performances and interactive elements inspired by a tenth century Arabic text defining the eleven stages of love, from hawa (attraction) to huyum (insanity). The dining experience was produced in collaboration with the culinary team at Madinat Jumeirah, and Absolut Elyx, who created the pop-up bar serving bespoke cocktails and drinks integrated within the menu.

Each course matched a stage of love—ranging from an edible garden to a wooden wedding cake guests took home as a token, served with eatable plates, cutlery and napkins.

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The Wedding Project was accessible to the public as an installation piece during Art Dubai’s opening times and was visited by 5,591 people during the fair. Visitors were able to experience an exquisitely decorated wedding reception space: the floor, walls and ceiling were adorned with living flowers and draped with greenery—bringing natural outdoor elements inside to create an enchanting garden setting. The three Gala dinners on March 16, 17 and 18 were attended by 226 guests including renowned artists, sponsors, VIPs, curators, collectors, international journalists and art enthusiasts.

The Wedding Project was sponsored

by Absolut Elyx, with additional support

by ROI Land Investments Ltd and The White Boutique.

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‘In formal terms, Art Dubai Cinema's programme was as varied as regional artists' practices. Some works echo Sansour's concerns with material culture, often inseperable from contemporary politics, while others are engaged with a pop culture aesthetic uninterested in regional politics.’ The Daily Star, Lebanon, March 22, 2016

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FILM Art Dubai Cinema is an artist-focused film and video programme. The fair includes a cinema space each March, featuring unique, often rarely-seen screenings curated by the Art Dubai team, working with participating artists and galleries.

Art Dubai Cinema 2016 included evening screenings of new films presented by artists Adel Abidin (Michael, 2015), Ashim Ahluwalia with Akbar Padamsee (Events in a Cloud Chamber, 2016) and Youssef Nabil (I Saved My Belly Dancer, 2015). Introductions were moderated by Murtaza Vali, critic, curator and editor, Mahnaz Fancy, Editor, Canvas and Butheina Kazim, Co-founder and Managing Director of Cinema Akil.

Cinema Saturday was a day-long rolling programme of artists’ films that marked Art Dubai 2016’s closing day. The selection was programmed with Art Dubai 2016’s participating galleries, and included films by Bashar Alhroub, Heba Y. Amin, Aikaterini Gegisian, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh, Orkhan Huseynov, Khaled

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Jarrar, Resmi Al Kafaji, Nicene Kossentini, Søren Lind, Jen Liu, Nasim Nasr, Reynier Leyva Novo, Hesam Rahmanian, Anahita Razmi, Larissa Sansour, Rania Tabbara, Richard T Walker.

Art Dubai Cinema runs alongside Moving Images, a partnership between Dubai International Film Festival, Sharjah Art Foundation and Art Dubai, dedicated to artists’ films and filmmakers’ art in the Arab world.

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RADIO In 2016, Art Dubai Radio invited Safina Radio Project to take over the airwaves.

Commissioned by Alserkal Avenue and directed by Anabelle de Gersigny, Safina Radio Project is an itinerant online broadcasting platform, each edition acting as a roving stage for conversation and performance alongside contemporary art events.

Safina Radio Project adopts radio as a format for exploring concepts that tie into aesthetic, social, cultural and political undercurrents of the proposed art events it collaborates with.

Content varies with each iteration, combining conversations, performative pieces and audio projects aimed at interrogating artistic practices, building on a broad spectrum of artists, writers and musicians.

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For Art Dubai 2016, Safina Radio Project included a series of podcasts from the 2016 Dhaka Art Summit. The series explored common grounds within historical contexts, providing a cross section of origins. By responding to the practices, curatorial premises and work on show from the 2015 Venice Biennale, the podcast brought focus to collective experiences and investigated how we locate ourselves and mediate human and historic commonality. For fair visitors Art Dubai streamed the content at a dedicated space at the fair in Foyer 2.

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‘The schizophrenia of such emotions, and how they manifest through both individual and collective action was underscored this year at a particularly electrifying Abraaj Group Art Prize exhibition, Syntax and Society, curated by M HKA’s Nav Haq.’ Ocula, United Kingdom, April 5, 2016 ‘Not to be missed is the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 exhibition, “Syntax and Society,” guest-curated by Nav Haq, featuring artistduo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.’

Art Asia Pacific, Hong Kong, March 16, 2016 ‘The powerfully intriguing installation by Basir Mahmood’s titled ‘Missing Letters’ captures the eye’ ArtReport, United States, March 17, 2016

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‘Of the three shortlisted artists, the work of Dina Danish is possessed of the mostconsistently amusing, and quietly surprising, imagination…The work that has the most satisfying societal-embracing breadth is that of Basir Mahmoud. Such cogent expressions of the transience of social relations are rare.’

The Daily Star, Lebanon, March 23, 2016 “Art Dubai’s critical success is largely linked to its connections to the private sector, most prominently with the Abraaj Group, a leading investment group”

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The Abraaj Group Art Prize is the largest and most significant arts prize in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, and the only arts prize of its kind that awards artists based on a proposal, rather than a completed work. Artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia are invited to submit proposals for a major new commission— a dream project—to be produced through a $100,000 award and revealed as part of a group exhibition at the fair.

Now in its eighth year, the number of works that form The Abraaj Group Art Collection has grown to 28. Commissions by MENASA artists participating in the Prize have been exhibited across five continents, 11 biennales, 31 institutions and 25 countries, including the Sharjah Biennial 11, the Biennale of Sydney, 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: to bolster the region’s arts ecosystem and reward artistic development.

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The 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize Exhibition, ‘Syntax and Society’, conceived by guest curator Nav Haq, featured a new video installation by the winners of the 2016 prize, Palestinian artist-duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, which was exhibited for the first time alongside significant works by the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2016 shortlisted artists: Dina Danish, Mahmoud Khaled and Basir Mahmood.

The jury for The Abraaj Group Art Prize comprises leaders in the field of visual arts including: Defne Ayas, Director and Curator, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art; Antonia Carver, Director, Art Dubai; Omar Kholeif, Curator, Whitechapel Gallery; Fayeeza Naqvi, Founding Trustee and Chair, Aman Foundation; Hans Ulrich Obrist, Codirector of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at Serpentine Galleries; Sandhini Poddar, Art Historian and Adjunct Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Frederic Sicre, Managing Director, The Abraaj Group. artdubai.ae/abraaj-group-art-prize

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Nav Haq is Curator at MuHKA—Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. He was previously Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Curator at Gasworks, London. Haq has developed the new IN SITU series of monographic exhibitions at MuHKA, which invites artists to create a substantial body of new work. He has also curated numerous solo exhibitions with artists such as Hassan Khan, Cosima von Bonin, Imogen Stidworthy, Shilpa Gupta, Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin and Kerry Tribe. Group exhibitions have included ‘Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction’ (2012); ‘Museum Show’ (2011); and ‘Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie: Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art’, co-curated with Tirdad Zolghadr (2006-09). In 2014 he co-curated the major group exhibition ‘Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics’ at MuHKA. Haq's writings have been published extensively and he is on the editorial board of the web platform L’Internationale Online. In 2012 he was a recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.

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SYNTAX AND SOCIETY ‘Syntax and Society’ considered how and why artists communicate through symbolic structures in society through their work.

Particularly, the exhibition responded to the structure and meaning of language and the role it plays in philosophy, culture and socio-political systems. The diverse aesthetic practices of the artists, which are often poetic, sometimes humorous and always political, actively employed such modes of deconstruction, bringing to the front the appropriation, codification and instrumentalization of language.

In Only The Beloved Keeps Our Secrets, the winning artist duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme examine how modern day technologies, particularly the Internet, can enable a continued existence for those who have been deceased. Found material from a variety of sources, including images, texts and testimonies, are collaged together within the video installation to complete the final piece.

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Dina Danish’s 2016 Prize works included Big Red out of the Box (2013), a comical, larger than life-sized packet of chewing gum, and a multi-media installation based around a surreal script, Stop Sun, Continue Sun! (2010-14). Basir Mahmood’s installation Missing Letters (2015) consists of a pile of ashes of undelivered letters from Lahore’s dead letter office alongside a video installation Lunda Bazaar (2015).

Mahmoud Khaled’s Painter on a Study Trip, a series of 2014 works, in various media, uses Alexandria’s Antoniadis Garden as a base to contemplate several facets of artistic practice.

The exhibition was accompanied by a pair of catalogues, which took the form of a separate monograph of the Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s oeuvre; and a second volume, Syntax and Society, an introduction to the works of the three shortlisted artists, illuminated with an introduction by Haq with probing essays on the artists’ work.

The catalogues were published in collaboration with the international art publishing house Sternberg and distributed globally.

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Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (b.1983) work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. They have exhibited and performed internationally in many biennials and museums; and they founded the sound and image performance group Tashweesh.

They were fellows at Akademie der Kunste der Welt in Cologne in 2013; and recipients of the Sharjah Biennial Prize in 2015.

Egyptian artist Dina Danish studied at the American University in Cairo, and she later received her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. She took part in artist residencies including the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam; Spinola Banna in Italy; PiST/// in Istanbul and A.i.R. Dubai. Her work has been internationally shown in museums and Institutions across the world.

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Mahmoud Khaled received a B.F.A in Painting from Alexandria University in 2004. He completed the inaugural year of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan, Beirut in 2012. He is currently represented by Gypsum Gallery in Cairo, and lives and works between Cairo and Trondheim, Norway. His work has been widely exhibited globally.

Basir Mahmood studied in Lahore and received a yearlong fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2011.

His work has been widely shown at places including: Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Sharjah Biennial 11 (2013); and at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2015). He is represented by Grey Noise Gallery, Dubai.

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‘At 10 minutes long, Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets is effortlessly watchable, in spite of some agonising content; a poetic piece about the power and fragility of rituals and of life itself.’

The Telegraph, United Kingdom, March 18, 2016 ‘The tear-jerking video, titled Only the Beloved Keeps Our Secrets, is part-poem, part-lament about the land that raised them.

The layered imagery is fused together with a haunting soundtrack.’

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‘Every year, the Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program is oversubscribed because it is the perfect way for kids to get involved in the art fair.’

The National, UAE, March 20, 2016 ‘Give your child a paintbrush and let them flourish as British-based Polly Brannan, of Mobile Variety Club fame, introduces art like they’ve never seen it before. Youngsters will have the chance to build their own productions and performances, bringing their inspiration to life.’

Time Out Dubai, UAE, March, 2016 ‘Art Dubai is also the ideal family day. With world-class art for mums and dads, the kids can also be entertained with the Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program. This is designed for children and teenagers aged five to 17, aimed at encouraging young people to get involved in the arts.’

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‫"وأكدت منى بن كيل مديرة املكتب الثقايف لسمو الشيخة‬ ‫منال بنت محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم‪ ،‬أن املشاركة يف آرت‬ ‫دبي من خالل برنامج الشيخة منال للرسامني الصغار أدت‬ ‫لزيادة عدد األطفال املوهوبني املشاركني يف الربنامج‪ ،‬كما‬ ‫ً‬ ‫أيضا يف زيادة عدد ورش العمل املهتمة‬ ‫أن ذلك انعكس‬ ‫بالتعليم الفني لألطفال‪ ،‬وهو أمر يصب يف اهتمام سمو‬ ‫الشيخة منال بنت محمد‪ ،‬واهتمامها بضرورة تعليم‬ ‫األطفال وتشجيعهم ليربزوا إبداعاتهم التي من املفرتض‬ ‫أن تكتشف يف سن مبكرة‪ ،‬كما أن سموها ملتزمة بدعم‬ ‫هذه الربامج ولديها إيمان راسخ بمسؤوليتنا الدائمة يف‬ ‫إشراك املزيد من األطفال يف الفعاليات التي ترفع من‬ ‫قدراتهم‪" .‬‬ ‫الخليج‪ ،‬دبي‪ 9 ،‬مارس ‪2016‬‬

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INTRODUCTION Education has been at the heart of Art Dubai since its launch in 2007; the fair now has the largest education programming of any international fair worldwide, providing opportunities for children through to students, graduates, collectors and enthusiasts. Campus Art Dubai, the fair’s flagship community school, had its fourth iteration in 2015-16, and offered an intensive Core course as well as lectures and workshops for the community.

Each year in March, Art Dubai features artist-led children’s workshops and tours; a dedicated programme and guides for students; the young professionals’ Forum Fellows; a community volunteer programme; plus a through-year intensive internship programme.

The fair featured two discussion programmes: Terrace Talks and the critically-acclaimed Global Art Forum.

The fair’s educational and community programming is run in partnership with the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and is supported by Dubai Design District (d3).

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The 2016 fair attracted a particularly high level of attendance from universities and colleges, welcoming more than 1000 UAE and GCC-based students on specially organised visits and guided tours. artdubai.ae/education

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THE SHEIKHA MANAL LITTLE ARTSITS PROGRAM The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program was launched at Art Dubai in 2013. Featuring artist-led workshops, tours, and other projects, the program provides access to skills and ideas for UAE-based children and teenagers aged 5-17 with the long-term aim to encourage young people to get involved and excel in the arts. The program is a collaboration between Art Dubai and the Cultural Office of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.

The 2016 Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program included the commissioning of London-based artist Polly Brannan, whose practice focuses on human interaction within transient spaces.

Children and families were invited to participate in the Mobile Variety Club at Art Dubai 2016. Led by Brannan, the program featured sets, props and visuals created by the participating children and families for various performances including songs, comedy, poetry, puppet shows, quizzes and demonstrations.

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Brannan was joined by a group of UAE-based apprentice artists and designers looking to specialise in children’s art education: Alia Lootah, Asmaa El Afifi, Maryam Saffarini, Isabella Toledo and Zahia Abdul.

In its fourth year, the program continued to grow and included the artist-led ‘Artists in Schools Initiative’, giving exclusive opportunities to selected schools to experience the workshops on their campuses.

2016 also featured the return of Discovery Tours (ages 5-7, 8-12, and 13-17), led by UAEbased and international artists, including Melissa Paul, Sara Masinaei and Saif Mhaisen. These tours enable young people to discover the fair, with the works brought alive through thematic activity maps and storytelling guides. artdubai.ae/children-teens

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Polly Brannan is Education Curator at the Liverpool Biennial. She is an artist and educator who has produced projects at Frieze Art Fair, Lisbon Experimenta Festival and Nottingham Contemporary, amongst others. She was a Collaborations Curator at Studio Voltaire from 2006-9, and Education Curator at Serpentine Gallery from 2011-13. She is co-founder of the network Avant Gardening, and was a member of the collective Public Works from 2005-2011.

The children’s programme catered to over 500 ‘young artists’ and was held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of UAE Gender Balance Council, President of Dubai Women Establishment, wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs. The programme forms part of the activity of The Cultural Office.

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CAMPUS ART DUBAI Campus Art Dubai is a school for artists, curators, writers and cultural producers based in the UAE. The programme consists of a Community programme of talks and seminars, currently with 550 members, plus a selective, intensive Core course, running over six months, for 13 artists, writers and curators.

Campus Art Dubai is free to attend, run in partnership with the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), and supported by Dubai Design District (d3).

Campus Art Dubai has been developed in part to foster informal education and critical practice in the UAE. The programme provides a setting within which participants pursuing art practice, curatorial work and critical writing engage with peers, as well as experts in their fields, through group critiques, workshops, visiting lectures, and one-on-one mentorship.

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Campus Art Dubai Community is a membership programme—free and open to all—for all interested arts enthusiasts in the UAE. Members gain access to monthly talks and thematic workshops, led by local and international experts. Programmes included a ‘How to Look’ series of workshops, giving enthusiasts insight into artist’s works and exhibitions, plus film screenings and artists’ and curators’ talks. CAD Community is led this year by a cast of visiting academics, critics, curators and artists including Anna Arutyunova, Rania Matar, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim and CAMP. Campus Art Dubai Core 2015/16 was led by writer/curator Murtaza Vali and anthropologist Uzma Z. Rizvi, alongside resident tutor Lantian Xie. This year’s programme focused on the theme ‘Turbulent Waters / Shifting Sands’. Visiting tutors comprised of a local and international cast of artists, filmmakers, architects, writers, and anthropologists including Shaina Anand, Todd Reisz and Deepak Unnikrishnan.

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The Participants selected for the 2015-16 Campus Art Dubai Core class were Nabila Nabi, Rahel Aima, Anoushka Anand, Layan Attari, Noor Al-Dabbagh, Vikram Divecha, Reem Falaknaz, Zahra Jewanjee, Sophiya Khwaja, Sara Masinaei, Saba Qizibash, Maisoon Al Saleh and Karim Sultan.

Campus Art Dubai Core began in October 2015 and ended in March 2016, culminating at Art Dubai with a group project. The Core class produced a collaborative project, Universal Post, featuring fictitious countries, complete with postal stamps and currencies. The project was supported by Maraya Art Centre.

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In a survey of 2015-16 CAD Core participants, 100% of responders agreed that programmes like Campus Art Dubai are needed in the UAE and 100% felt that they had met fellow participants or visiting tutors who they expect to work and collaborate with in the future.

Responders also felt that Campus Art Dubai was useful because it helped them develop their practice and ideas through monthly lectures, readings, discussions and critiques.

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PARTICIPANTS FEEDBACK “Extremely important to keep Campus Art Dubai going - getting people to grapple with important cultural/historical issues, with their surroundings - was a wonderful opportunity to speak with an intelligent and engaging group of individuals and to push myself to think more deeply about what we are all doing.”

"The strengths are the discussions and the reading, since the readings across CAD are related and a longer thread of discussions and ideas surface. CAD is giving voice to the UAE art scene.”

“I absolutely loved Murtaza Vali and Uzma Rizvi, and have been recommending the program due to them.”

“The lead tutors Murtaza Vali and Uzma Rizvi were incredibly knowledgeable, great feedback and understanding of the subjects we explored.”

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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME Since Art Dubai’s Internship Programme was initiated in September 2007, over 600 students and recent graduates from 40 nationalities and 20 educational institutions have participated. The fair’s interns have gone on to find further opportunities and permanent placements within Art Dubai and its partner organisations. One third of the interns have been UAE nationals, and the remaining came from countries from across the Arab world and elsewhere. Internships are typically intensive three-month placements during which participants work under a particular department of the organisation. Art Dubai’s 2015-15 interns were: Sally Alhamad, Redha Al Bachari, Nada Bokhowa, Samuel Borja, Ryndon Marc Buragay, Lorena C. Condes, Ishrat Hakim, Sana Haroun, Jessica Harrison, Fidan Huseyni, Megan McCann, Farah El-Rafei, Lujaine Rezk, Kamila Rangoonwala, Arfa Saad and Iqbal Shamz. artdubai.ae/internships

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STUDENT VISITS In 2016, the fair welcomed a record 1,000 students from the UAE to its grounds, on specially organised tours, offering classes the opportunity to learn first-hand about the region’s latest contemporary artworks, modern masters and up-andcoming artspaces. Accompanying students’ tours were bespoke Art Dubai Education Guides, offering valuable information in a digestible way to engage the next generation of artists and academics.

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STUDENT VISIT FEEDBACK “Thanks again for inviting us to Art Dubai 2016, and for the great event more generally!

We really enjoyed our visit, and definitely would be interested in attending again next year. I can only imagine the huge amount of work that went into that, and huge kudos to you for the fabulous outcome! Well done!”

“The most warm-hearted thanks from us all for the opportunity to attend Art Dubai! All of our students, and we chaperones as well, were deeply impressed and invigorated by the exhibition. Hope to see you again next year.”

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VOLUNTEER PROGRAMME In 2016, Art Dubai launched a new Volunteers Programme, inviting members of the community to apply to be part of a structured initiative; 123 UAE-based enthusiasts got involved in and supported all aspects of the fair while gaining valuable experience in its programmes first-hand.

Our volunteers gained experience in various roles across three gallery halls, Art Dubai Projects, the Global Art Forum, VIP and Guest Relations, the children’s and education programmes, and fair and event management. artdubai.ae/volunteer

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VOLUNTEER FEEDBACK “It was a lifetime experience and I'm truly grateful for being part of this outstanding event.”

“I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank each and every member of Art Dubai who worked hard to achieve this great success in Art Dubai 2016. Being a volunteer is such a prestigious event allowed me to know more enthusiastic people who share the same interests with me. Keep the good spirit up and see you next year.”

“It was a truly learning experience, I enjoyed every aspect of it.”

“I enjoyed so much being part of your team of volunteers for the VIP visits.

It was such an enjoyable experience and I am delighted to have had this opportunity so thank you for that. I was also fortunate to have worked with a great group of volunteers. Please keep me in mind for next year.”

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FORUM FELLOWS Each year, Forum Fellows brings together a select group of exceptional young curators and writers working in the Middle East. In the long-term, this rigorous programme, led by writer and curator Tirdad Zolghadr, aims to develop an alumni group of dynamic practitioners who exchange ideas and promote best practises.

For 2016, Art Dubai invited the artist/ writer/musician Hassan Khan to develop a programme focusing on art criticism in Arabic.

“One of the biggest challenges that has faced art scenes throughout the region over the past two decades has been the lack of strong, exciting, relevant, rigorous, and critical writing about visual art in Arabic,” Hassan Khan says. “…I [raised] two of the most basic, yet absolutely crucial, questions: ‘Whom do we imagine we are writing for?’ And, maybe most importantly: ‘Why?’” Following a competitive open call, five fellows were selected from an exceptionally strong pool of applicants to take part in week-long

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series of intensive closed workshops onsite at Art Dubai. The Forum Fellows alumni network has grown to 31, with past participants often going on to collaborate on projects and produce significant work across the region.

Fellows selected for the 2015 programme were: Ahmed Naji, Nour El Safoury, Ismail Fayed, Toleen Touq and Ahmad Zatari.

Julius Baer was the exclusive supporter of Art Dubai’s 2016 Forum Fellows programme. artdubai.ae/forum-fellows

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Hassan Khan is an artist, musician and writer.

He was the Fall 2014 guest professor at the Staedelschule, Frankfurt and the curator of the 2015 edition of the Paul Klee Zentrum Summer Academy. Khan lives and works in Cairo, Egypt.

Ismail Fayed is a writer and researcher based in Cairo. He has been writing and researching contemporary artistic practices in the Arab world since 2007. He is currently the associate editor of the publication Arab Art in the Twentieth Century: Primary Documents, to be published by MoMA in 2017.

Ahmed Naji is a writer and journalist based in Cairo. Working since 2003 in culture journalism, his work has been published in DW, Akhbar Al-Adab, Mhwln and other regional newspapers and online publications. He also published two novels titled Rogers and Using Life, which will be published in English this year by University of Texas Press.

Nour El Safoury is a freelance arts and culture writer based in Cairo. Recently, she collaborated with Mada Masr to start “FestBeat,” a roving blog that takes the reader into the exciting world of contemporary moving images. Nour holds a masters degree in Film Studies with a focus on film and philosophy from King’s College London; and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.

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Toleen Touq is an independent cultural operator based in Amman, Jordan. She is the co-initiator of the cross-disciplinary platform The River Has Two Banks, which operates between Jordan and Palestine, as well as the Founding Director of Spring Sessions, a communal arts residency and education programme in Amman. Her work has been published in Ibraaz, Manifesta Journal, A Prior, Review and other publications.

Ahmad Zatari is a writer, journalist and editor.

He co-founded ma3azef.com, the first Arabic– language music criticism website, and was its editor for 4 years. Currently, Ahmad is the Cultural Program Director at Darat al Funun, for which he has penned several catalogue and book essays for. He published his first novel in 2014.

Tirdad Zolghadr is a curator and writer.

Curatorial work includes a number of discreet durational projects and several biennial settings; including the upcoming 5th Riwaq Biennale in Palestine. In a teaching capacity Zolghadr is affiliated with the Dutch Art Institute and the International Academy of Art in Ramallah, among other institutions. The working title of his third novel is Headbanger.

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89PLUS Art Dubai 2016 featured the conclusion of a two-year partnership with 89plus, the long-term, international, multi-platform research project co-founded by Simon Castets and Hans Ulrich Obrist, which investigates the generation of innovators born in or after 1989.

During the 2015 89plus Dubai workshop discussions, one of the consistent topics that arose was the relationship between the virtual self and the physical self—specifically, the disparity between how one reacts emotionally to online interactions versus those that are face to face.

Led by artists Sarah Abu Abdallah and Abdullah Al-Mutairi, the 89plus Dubai 2016 project aimed to examine this relationship with the digital sphere. The artists invited Gulf-based artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, musicians, designers and technologists born in and after 1989 to submit voice notes, texts and recordings discussing the differences between their virtual selves versus their

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physical selves and the ways they interact with—and react to—the world around them. Then, UAE-based performers recited these narratives on camera in a monologue format; the recordings played out in a project space at the fair.

89plus Dubai is supported by Dubai Design District (d3).

We are grateful to the British Council for their additional support for 89plus Dubai 2016. artdubai.ae/89plus

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“The curated brain of the fair, during which artists of various disciplines, curators and other well-spoken thinking folk gather to discuss the ideas circulating around contemporary art.”

The Daily Star, Lebanon, March 18, 2016 ‘A highlight was the conversation between Tunisian calligraffiti artist eL Seed, about his newest project in Cairo, with Museum of Modern Art director Glenn Lowry. Titled Perception, the project had eL Seed and his team embedded within the city’s Zaraeeb Coptic community’ The National, UAE, March 20, 2016 ‘This is my favourite part of Art Dubai and the main reason I attend the fair.’

The Culturist, UAE, January 6, 2016 ‘This tenth edition of the Forum – which began simultaneously in London and Dubai in January 2016 and continued at Art Dubai – gave compelling voice to the way artists, technologists and historians have imagined and are shaping the future.’

Wallpaper*, United Kingdom, March 23, 2016

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‘Ever-poetic offerings at the Global Art Forum’ Ocula, United Kingdom, April 5, 2016 'The forum has come to be recognised as a hub of ideas that has helped to fuel the development of the contemporary art scene in the Gulf…The GAF sessions make for riveting listening…[and are] an ideas factory' The Financial Times, United Kingdom, March 12, 2016 ‫"يذكر أن منتدى الفن العاملي هو أكرب مؤتمر سنوي للفنون‬ ‫ تم استهالل نشاطات دورة هذا العام خالل شهر‬.‫يف آسيا‬ )d3( ‫يناير من خالل جلسات فنيّة يف حي دبي للتصميم‬ "‫ومعهد الفنون املعاصرة يف لندن‬ 2016 ‫ فرباير‬17 ،‫ دبي‬،‫إيالف‬ ‘The maverick Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli took part in the first debate, jousting verbally with the Italian curator Germano Celant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the codirector of London’s Serpentine Galleries, over how artists bolster their practice by looking to history.’

The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom, March 18, 2016

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Unique in its approach to what a conference— and specifically an arts conference—should look like today, the Global Art Forum has for the last decade featured dynamic live talks, panels and performances guided by a curated theme that features a diverse leading line-up of participants, including artists, curators, musicians, strategists, thinkers and writers.

The annual conference—the largest of its kind in Asia—aims to expand the contemporary dialogue surrounding art and its environs, drawing connections that encompass all disciplines and fields within the wider context of the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The Forum convened the most compelling minds from across and above the world—from science fiction writers to economists—to explore the ways in which artists, writers, technologists, historians, musicians and thinkers have imagined—and are shaping— the future. Titled 'The Future Was', the Forum was conceived by Shumon Basar as Commissioner, with Amal Khalaf and Uzma Z. Rizvi as Co-directors, working with the Art Dubai team. The Forum took place in Dubai at Dubai Design District (d3) and made its

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London debut at the ICA in January 2016, and continued at its home at Art Dubai, March 16-19, 2016.

With capacity crowds at sessions in Dubai and London in January and a record 2,000 attendees at the talks at Art Dubai in March, the tenth edition of the Global Art Forum was the most popular, to date.

On January 9, the first session of the 2016 Global Art Forum, Shumon Basar remarked, ‘Anniversaries are modern navigation instruments against the accumulation of time.

To paraphrase the historian Eric Hobsbawm, anniversaries protest against forgetting. They organise human history into short bursts of collective memory. On this, our tenth anniversary, we didn’t want to be guilty of nostalgia, because too much of it, and you’re blinded to the possibilities of the present. You cancel the future by remembering the past too piously. But the future does have a past.’

The 21st century continues to measure new modernities—from Mumbai to Tehran to Dubai and beyond—with skyscrapers, satellites and space races, even as new futures are

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imagined, invented and rejected. The Forum asked what else might the word “future” mean, and why does it resist ever being fully understood?

The programme included presentations and discussions, plus the commissioning of new performances and films by artist including Christine Sun Kim, Sophia Al Maria, Monira Al Qadiri, Yasmina Reggad and WTD. A series of ‘Postcards from the Future’ by Mishaal Al Gergawi, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi and Noah Raford and others interjected the five days of talks.

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The Global Art Forum was launched by Art Dubai at its inaugural fair in 2007. In 2016, it was presented by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and supported

by Dubai Design District (d3). The January sessions in London were held in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA).

The Financial Times was the international media partner of the Global Art Forum in 2016. artdubai.ae/global-art-forum

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SELECTED GLOBAL ART FORUM SESSIONS DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE WAS SPACE To commemorate the golden jubilee of the founding of the United Arab Emirates in 2021, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai will be launching a probe to Mars. The Red Planet probe, named Al Amal (Hope), is the first space programme ever launched by an Arab state and marks a milestone in the nation’s history. As part of Global Art Forum 10, the team behind the Mars probe discussed the hold ‘space’ has over our imaginations, globally, and the way that space travel is associated with national ambition.

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi (UAE commentator and Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation), Sarah Amiri (Deputy Project Manager for Science & Science Lead, Emirates Mars Mission, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre), Ibrahim Hamza Al Qasimi (Head of Strategic Research, Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology) and Saeed Al Gergawi (Strategic Researcher, Mohammad Bin Rashid Space Centre)

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PRESENTATION: THE FUTURE WAS SPACE It was 1957 when Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviet Union and after 3 months in orbit, the satellite fell back to earth. It was, however, quickly followed by Vangaurd 1 in 1958, launched by the US, which continues to be the oldest material in space. There is a history with material traces that remain as space junk in the universe, floating, orbiting, transforming the ways in which we see the Milky Way. Space is a cultural landscape within which the many relationships between orbital debris, terrestrial launch sites and politics can be traced and understood. What does an archaeology of space even look like?

Alice Gorman (Senior Lecturer, Department of Archeology, Flinders University)

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PERFORMANCE: THE FUTURE WAS SPACE IS THE PLACE Musician and composer André Vida on Afrofuturist space-traveler Sun Ra via the vibrations, thoughts and music of the 22nd century as made humanly audible today: what Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen refers to as, "doing skillfully wrong... the key to all spiritual things."

André Vida (Musician, Composer)

DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE WAS THE PAST Museums have always been programmed to protect the past, but do they also guard the future? Germano Celant and Francesco Vezzoli talked to Hans Ulrich Obrist and Shumon Basar about intrepid interpretations of art history, the anti-nostalgia imperative and ways of protesting against forgetting.

Germano Celant (Director, Fondazione Prada), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes, Serpentine Galleries) Francesco Vezzoli (Artist) and Shumon Basar (Global Art Forum 10 Commissioner)

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CONVERSATION: THE FUTURE WAS THE FUTURE The word ‘future’ appears sometime in the 15th century.

At a point in the 20th century, the future was definitely going to be better for us all. Then it got much, much worse, and arguably, today, it’s just the stuff around us, indistinguishable from the present. Hito Steyerl told Shumon Basar about the cultural and political dreams of the future that failed us, and those that might continue to fuel us into whatever happens to happen next.

Hito Steyerl (Filmmaker and writer) and Shumon Basar

PERFORMANCE: THE FUTURE WAS TWO SEMICIRCLES (AWAY FROM THE FACE) How do you sign the concept of the Future? Christine Sun Kim presented work developed in relation to the different shades of the sound and meaning of the future, breaking down rigid definitions by piecing together a tangle of overlapping languages and systems, including American Sign Language (ASL), which is similar to sound in its intrinsic spatiality. Do futures have personalities? Can futures get further away, altered or moved by the space that we give them?

Christine Sun Kim (Sound Artist)

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DISCUSSION: THE FUTURE WAS SCI-FI Our imaginations and dreams are steeped in our language, geography and history. Each of these categories are the most unstable, yet most expansive, in our angst-ridden teen years. In this panel discussion, with Noura Al Noman and Mohammad Al Hammadi, young adult sci-fi authors who have excelled at giving voice to the next generation, discussed with Amal Khalaf & Uzma Z. Rizvi the ways in which writing for Emiriati youth has shaped their own understandings of global politics and how a new imagining of ‘here’ might take shape and happen.

Mohammad Al Hammadi (Writer), Noura Al Noman (Writer for Children & Young Adults) with Amal Khalaf and Uzma Z. Rizvi

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CONVERSATION: 'PERCEPTION' Society has a tendency to judge its own paradigm, creating misconceptions that divide communities.

Misunderstanding escalates and leads to social segregation, and ultimately, conflicts. In a new scope of work, eL Seed explored the topic of ‘perception’ by questioning the level of judgment and misconception society can unconsciously have upon a community based on their differences.

Glenn D. Lowry (Director, the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA), eL Seed (Artist)

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PRESENTATION: THE FUTURE WAS DUBAI In 1972, George Candilis, a collaborator of Le Corbusier, created a masterplan for Dubai, a year after the formation of the UAE. How much did proposals such as ‘Dubai Tower’ and the Deira corniche follow Le Corbusier’s maxim, with ‘the materials of city planning being: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy’? From the modernist ideals of John Harris to the work of Greek architect Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis, who also planned the cities of Detroit and Islamabad, Rashid Bin Shabib presented a visual history of the implied, unrealised and jettisoned ambitions of Dubai’s masterplans.

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PRESENTATION: THE FUTURE WAS SMART Audience members joined speculative architect Liam Young and an all-seeing smart city operating system as they took a tour in a driverless taxi through a network of software systems, autonomous infrastructures, ghost architectures, anomalies, glitches, and sprites, searching for the wilds beyond the machine. This performance was an audio-visual expedition to a city found somewhere between the present and the predicted, the real and the imagined, stitched together from fragments of real landscapes and designed urban fictions.

Liam Young (Architect and Co-Founder, Tomorrows Thoughts Today and Unknown Fields)

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DIRECTORS' BIOGRAPHIES CO-DIRECTORS: Amal Khalaf is an artist, researcher and curator. She is the Projects Curator at the Serpentine Galleries and has been working on the Edgware Road Project since its inception in 2009. She is currently Commissioning Editor of Projects for online platform, Ibraaz and a founding member of artist collective GCC, as well as a trustee of the Crossway Foundation. @amalandaplan

Uzma Z. Rizvi is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Brooklyn and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of International Studies at the American University of Sharjah. Recent publications include ‘Crafting Resonance: Empathy and Belonging in Ancient Rajasthan’ (2015), ‘Decolonizing Archaeology: On the Global Heritage of Epistemic Laziness’ (2015) and World Archaeological Congress Research Handbook on Postcolonial Archaeology (2010). @UzmaZRizvi

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COMMISSIONER: Shumon Basar was Director of Global Art Forum 6, Commissioner of Global Art Forum 7 and 8 and Director-at-Large of Global Art Forum 9. Co-author with Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist of The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, he is also a founding member of the Fondazione Prada’s 'Thought Council'. @shumonbasar

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CONTRIBUTORS: Sarah Amiri is currently the Deputy Project Manager and Science Lead of the Emirates Mars Mission (Hope); she is also the manager of the Space Science Section at the Mohamed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC). In 2015 Amiri was selected as one of 50 young scientists by the World Economic Forum for her contribution to the development efforts in the fields of Science, Technology and Engineering. @SaraAmiri1

Elie Ayache is a former option market-maker on MATIF (1987-1990) and LIFFE (1990-1995). He is the co-founder (1999) and currently the CEO of ITO 33, a derivatives technology company. He is the author of The Blank Swan (Wiley 2010) and The Medium of Contingency (Palgrave 2015).

Lauren Beukes is an award-winning South African novelist who also writes screenplays, TV shows, comics and journalism. Her novels, including Zoo City, Broken Monsters and The Shining Girls have been translated into 26 languages. @laurenbeukes

Adrienne Maree Brown is the Co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements.

She is a writer, social justice facilitator, healer, doula and pleasure activist living in Detroit. @adriennemaree

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Antonia Carver is Director of Art Dubai. Based in the UAE since 2001, she has written extensively; was an editor and projects director at Bidoun (2004-2010); and on the programming committees for the Dubai and Edinburgh film festivals. @antcarver

Germano Celant is the Artistic and Scientific Superintendent at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Celant is the author of more than one hundred publications, including both books and catalogues and has curated hundreds of exhibitions in the most prominent international museums and institutions worldwide. He has been a contributing editor of ArtForum since 1977 and a contributing editor of Interview since 1991.

Mishaal Al Gergawi is a writer, director of the Delma Institute and co-founder of Cinema Akil. Mishaal lives in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. @algergawi

Saeed Al Gergawi is a member of the Emirates Mars Mission’s Strategic Planning Team. He is also part of the research team at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre which acts as the science and technology consultants for the space centre and the government.

Saeed is a columnist and often discusses concepts and ideas of futurology, technology, science and space. @Saeed_algergawi

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John Gerrard is an artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland and Vienna. He is best known for his commitment to large scale works that take form, of real-time computer simulations. These frequently refer to structures of power and networks of energy that have made possible the expansion of human endeavor in the past century. His recent solo presentations include Solar Reserve, installed at Lincoln Centre in association with the Public Art Fund in 2014. @jegerrard

Alice Gorman is a space archaeologist who studies the human material record in Earth orbit and throughout the solar system. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Space Industry Association of Australia.

Her work has twice been selected for The Best Australian Science Writing anthology. She tweets as @drspacejunk and blogs at Space Age Archaeology. @drspacejunk

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige are lebanese filmmakers and artists, producing cinematic and visual artwork that intertwine. They have directed multi awarded documentaries and fiction films such as Khiam 2000-2007, A Perfect Day, I Want to See and The Lebanese Rocket Society. Their latest art project focusses on Internet Scams.

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Mohammad Al Hammadi is a writer whose work encompasses science fiction, drama and paranormal crime subjects. His published works include The Last Day, Professor Mcaydey’s Notes, Bongani the Healer and A Murder at the Capital’s Suburbs. Al Hammadi was the recipient of the first place prize of the Emirates Novel Award 2014-2015. His most recent work The Search for the Sun’s Kingdom competed in the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel.

Hasan Hujairi (born 1982) is a composer, sound artist, and researcher who lives and works between Seoul (South Korea) and Manama (Bahrain). His works explore his interest in historiography, maritime cultures, technology, and the dissemination of knowledge. @hujairi

Christine Sun Kim uses the medium of sound through technology, performance, and drawing to investigate her relationship with sound and spoken languages. Selected exhibitions and performances have been held at: Sound Live Tokyo, Tokyo; White Space, Beijing (solo); Carroll/ Fletcher, London (solo); nyMusikk, Oslo; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Kim was awarded TED and MIT Media Lab Fellowships. @chrisunkim

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Glenn D. Lowry became the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art in 1995. A strong advocate of contemporary art, Lowry leads a staff of 750 and directs an active program of exhibitions, acquisitions, and publications. His publications include: Contemporary Art and Islamic Culture (2009); and The Museum of Modern Art in This Century (2009).

Sohrab Mahdavi is a writer and translator. Since 2000s, when he edited a web magazine, tehranavenue.com, he has been working by and at large with visual artists. He is currently dedicating most of his time to Nafas NGO, an environmental organisation growing out of the hopeless situation that a Tehrani is facing in a city drugged by smog and mugged by wealth.

Sophia Al Maria is an artist and writer. In 2015 she was a fellow at the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and her book The Girl Who Fell to Earth was published in Arabic translation. She is currently working on her first solo show in North America for the Whitney Museum curated by Christopher Lew. @SophiaAlMaria

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Noura Al Noman was born in Sharjah, the cultural capital of the UAE, Noura Al Noman began writing at 45 years of age. She wrote the Award winning “Ajwan”, one of a handful of science fictions novels in the Arab world.

Book two, “Mandaan” was launched in January 2014, and she is working on the third book in the series.

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968, Zurich, Switzerland) is Co-Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London.

Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 250 shows. @HUObrist

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist based in Amsterdam, born in Senegal and educated in Japan.

Her work tackles questions around gender identity, the materiality of oil, and the receding aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East region. She is also a founding member of the artist collective GCC. @moniraism

Ibrahim Hamza Al Qasimi leads the education and media outreach programme at the Mohammad Bin Rashid Space Centre. Al Qasimi was assigned as the Project Manager of Nayif-1 the UAE's first CubeSat mission in 2014. In 2014, he became Head of Strategic Research at MBRSC. @Ialqasimi

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Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi President and Director of the Sharjah Art Foundation, is a practicing artist who received her BFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2002), a Diploma in Painting from the Royal Academy of Arts (2005) and an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art, London (2008). In 2003 she was appointed curator of Sharjah Biennial 6 and has continued as the Biennial’s Director since that time. @HoorAlq

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is a commentator on political, social and economic issues in the Middle East. His columns appear in Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Independent and the Guardian. Al Qassemi is an MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow and the founder of Barjeel Art Foundation in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. @SultanAlQassemi

Noah Raford is the COO of the Dubai Museum of the Future. In addition to developing the research agenda and creative direction for the Museum, his team also identifies emerging opportunities, develops strategic partnerships, and prototypes future initiatives. He is also a techno DJ. @nraford

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Nada Raza is from Karachi and researches art from South Asia at Tate Modern in London. Raza was guest curator Abraaj Group Art Prize (2014) and her past lives include Iniva, Green Cardamom, and projects in the UAE and Pakistan. Her curatorial project for the Dhaka Art Summit, The Missing One, flirts with the convergence of futurism, sci-fi, dystopia and enchantment via works of art made between 1922 and the present. @Tate

Yasmina Reggad is an independent curator and writer based between London and Athens. She holds an MA in Middle Ages History from the Sorbonne University and is presently Programme Curator at aria (artist residency in algiers). She is the curator of Art Dubai Projects Commissions and A.i.R Dubai 2016.

Reggad is curating The Unbearable likeness, a solo show

by Abdelkader Benchamma at IVDE gallery opening on 14th March 6, 2016. @YasReggad

João Ribas is Senior Curator and Deputy Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto.

He was previously Curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center and of The Drawing Center, New York. Ribas is the winner of four consecutive AICA Exhibition Awards (2008-11) and of an Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010). His recent publication, In the Holocene, is published by Sternberg Press, 2015. @serralves_twit

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eL Seed is an artist whose work incorporates elements of graffiti and traditional Arabic calligraphy. His art has been shown in exhibitions in Paris, Berlin, São Paulo, Chicago, Dubai, and on the walls of many cities including Paris, Melbourne, London, and New York. eL Seed is a recent TED fellow and was also the first artist from the Arab world to collaborate on a product for Louis Vuitton. @elseedart

Ahmed Bin Shabib and Rashid Bin Shabib are both urbanists and are the founders of Cultural Engineering— an institution that has tasked itself over the last 10 years with advancing the urban identity of the contemporary gulf in Dubai. Cultural Engineering was nominated for the Agha Khan awards for architecture in 2010. Both Ahmed & Rashid hold degrees from the University of Oxford in urbanism. @AhmedbinShabib @rashidshabib

Anna Della Subin is an essayist and a contributing editor at Bidoun. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Times, The White Review, Harper’s and Tank, among other places. Her e-book Not Dead But Sleeping is published by Triple Canopy in January 2016. @annadella

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Hito Steyerl is a German filmmaker, writer and artist.

Her contemporary work, which includes films, essays and lectures, explore issues of media technology and globalization with a focus on the proliferation of image migration and image politics. Her latest solo exhibitions include Bank, Shanghai 2015; KOW gallery, Berlin; Artists Space, New York; ICA, London and the 2015 Venice Biennale German Pavilion. @HitoSteyerl

Murtaza Vali is a critic, curator, editor and Visiting Instructor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA. He most recently curated ‘Geometries of Difference: New Approaches to Ornament and Abstraction’ at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz and ‘Accented’ at the Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah. @murtazavali

Francesco Vezzoli is one of the most successful Italian contemporary artists in the world. His works have been selected for the Venice Biennale (four times), the Whitney Biennial and PERFORMA. He had solo shows, among others, at: NewMuseum, Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, Tate Modern, Fondazione Prada, MOCA (LA), QMA (Doha).

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André Vida is a composer, lyricist and saxophonist based in Berlin. Vida collaborated with Anri Sala in the making of "To Each His Own In Bridges" premiered at The Havana Biennial and Frieze Sculpture Gardenin 2015. His saxophonic work includes collaborations with Anthony Braxton, Elton John, Cecil Taylor and many others.

WTD is an independent publication that uses narratives, conversations and visual essays to reflect on the built environment of the present-day Middle East. These temporary parameters represent an attempt to initiate a discourse that highlights architecture, urban thought processes and their relationship to the societies in which they are created. Promoting wishful thinking and cynical critique since 2012. @WTDMag

Liam Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today, a group who explore the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms and co runs the ‘Unknown Fields Division’, a nomadic studio that travels on expeditions behind the scenes of the modern city. @liam_young

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Tirdad Zolghadr is a curator and writer. Curatorial work includes a number of discreet durational projects and several biennial settings; including the upcoming 5th Riwaq Biennale in Palestine.

In a teaching capacity Zolghadr is affiliated with the Dutch Art Institute and the International Academy of Art in Ramallah, among other institutions.

The working title of his third novel is Headbanger.

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Art Dubai’s extensive talks programme also includes Terrace Talks, a series of conversations that explores the relationships and support networks between artists, curators and patrons.

In 2016, the talks took in, among other topics, the launch of the Lahore Biennale, the legacy of artist Farideh Lashai, the BASMOCA virtual museum and the themes explored by the 2016 Abraaj Group Art Prize. Featured speakers included Basma Al Sulaiman, Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, Germano Celant, Omar Kholeif and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

The third ArtNow Award was awarded to one of the most important representatives of Pakistan’s art scene, Imran Qureshi, whose works have been exhibited around the world including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan and the 53rd Venice Biennial.

These talks were held on the terrace of The Abraaj Group Lounge and were open to Patrons Circle members, Collectors Circle members and by invitation only.

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TERRACE TALKS HIGHLIGHTS Focus Pakistan: The inaugural Lahore Biennale Qudsia Rahim, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Lahore Biennial Foundation and Amna Tirmizi Naqvi, Director and Co-Founder of the AAN Collection, announced the curator and programme for the inaugural biennale, followed by a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Lahore Biennale curator, artist Rashid Rana. The discussion explored the significance of the biennale for Lahore as a city, and Pakistan as a nation with a burgeoning art scene; and the desire for diverse modes of engagement within Lahore within a distinct curatorial vision.

Amna Tirmizi Naqvi contributes to Pakistani visual arts through her philanthropic initiatives for the AAN Foundation, her support for the Gandhara Art Space, and as a collector for the AAN Collection. She is a trustee of the world's largest collection of Pakistani modern and contemporary art, and has supported over twenty-five art publications and almost fifty exhibitions globally.

Qudsia Rahim is a glass sculptor who studied and taught at Alfred University, USA and National College of the Arts (NCA), Lahore. She serves as the curator of the NCA Gallery, and is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Lahore Biennale Foundation. Rahim has always sought to bridge the gap between art and social responsibility.

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Presentation of the ArtNow Lifetime Achievement Award The Lahore Biennale discussion was followed by the presentation of the ArtNow Lifetime Award which honours Pakistani individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the arts. ArtNow founder Fawzia Naqvi presented the 2016 award to one of the most important representatives of Pakistan’s art scene today, Imran Qureshi.

Fawzia Naqvi is CEO of Al Nissa Communications and Editor in Chief of Pakistan’s online contemporary art magazine ArtNow. She is Honorary CEO and Trustee of the Foundation of Museum of Modern Art (FOMMA), Karachi; and Board Member of the Murree Museum Artists Residency.

Imran Qureshi’s works have been exhibited around the world including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan. In 2009, his work was seen at the 53rd Venice Biennial; and in 2013, he was named Deutsche Bank ‘Artist of the Year’. Qureshi lives in Lahore where he teaches at the National College of Art.

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Curating Farideh Lashai Germano Celant, Director of Fondazione Prada and Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, discussed with writer Sohrab Mahdavi the exhibitions they curated on the work of the late Farideh Lashai at Tehran Contemporary Art Museum and at Sharjah Art Foundation, respectively, by taking in the challenges, opportunities and urgency of making exhibitions a seminal generation of artists from the Middle East and beyond.

Germano Celant is the Artistic and Scientific Superintendent at Fondazione Prada in Milan. Celant isthe author of over a hundred publications, including both books and catalogues.

He has curated hundreds of exhibitions in the most prominent museums and institutions worldwide. He has been a contributing editor of ArtForum since 1977, and Interview since 1991.

Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, is a practicing artist andcurator. In 2002, she was appointed curator of Sharjah Biennial and has continued as the Biennial’s Director since. An active member of several international Advisory Boards, she curated the 2015 National Pavilion United Arab Emirates at the Venice Biennale.

Sohrab Mahdavi is a writer and translator. Since the 2000s when he edited a web magazine, tehranavenue.com, he's been working by and at large with visual artists. He is currently dedicating most of his time to Nafas NGO, an environmental organisation growing out of the hopeless situation that a Tehrani is facing in a city drugged by smog and mugged wealth.

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BASMOCA: A Virtual Museum for a Global Public This conversation between Museum of Contemporary Art (BASMOCA) founder Basma Al Sulaiman and writer Myrna Ayad discussed the launch of BASMOCA with its inaugural show, which will be curated by L’Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris. Central to the talk was the question of how an unlimited global audience can begin to experience this unique virtual private museum.

Myrna Ayad is a Dubai-based arts writer, editor and consultant. She regularly contributes to artist monographs, exhibition catalogues and foreign art publications including The New York Times and Artforum. She was editor of Canvas between 2007-15; Contemporary Kingdom: The Saudi Art Scene Now (Canvas Central, 2014); and Art Scene UAE: Visual Arts Practices in the Emirates (forthcoming, 2016).

Basma Al Sulaiman is a Saudi art patron and the founder of BASMOCA. She is also one of the founding members of the Saudi Art Council, and Jeddah Sculpture Park. In 2011, she launched BASCOMA, the first virtual museum to present an actual private collection to a limitless global audience of visitors.

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The Abraaj Group Art Prize: ‘Now, a conversation about cultural production in the MENASA region…’

The Abraaj Group Art Prize Chair Dana Farouki, 2016 Prize curator Nav Haq and jury members Hans Ulrich Obrist and Omar Kholeif discussed the Abraaj Group Art Prize over the years alongside Art Dubai's tenth anniversary. Questions explored included: what are the opportunities and challenges that exist in the region for artists? How are works viewed and understood locally and internationally?

The Abraaj Group Art Prize: ‘Syntax and Society’ 2016 Prize curator Nav Haq discussed the 2016 exhibition and commissioned work with winning artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, taking in how the diverse group of Abraaj Group Art Prize winners and short-listed artists Dina Danish, Basir Mahmood and Mahmoud Khaled looked to dismantle structures of language and systems to question cultural normalisation.

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Dana Farouki is a Palestinian-American independent curator and collector of international contemporary art. Farouki was the first member of the Guggenheim Museum Abu Dhabi curatorial staff, serving as Assistant Curator until June 2010.

She acquired a M.A. in History and Theory of the Art Museum at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2005.

Omar Kholeif is a curator, writer and editor. He is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and a professor in Visual Arts and Art History at the University of Chicago. Previously, he was Curator at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and Senior Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse and HOME, Manchester.

Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the MusÊe d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his first show World Soup (The Kitchen Show) in 1991 he has curated more than 250 shows.

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RCA SECRET DUBAI Back by popular demand, the London Royal College of Art’s innovative exhibition and sale RCA Secret Dubai returned to Art Dubai and was held in partnership in 2016 with Alserkal Avenue. The sale of 1,000 original postcard-sized artworks took place across these two locations during Art Week, from March 14-19 2016.

The original artworks—created by regionally and internationally acclaimed artists alongside RCA alumni—were donated to support RCA scholarships helping students at formative stages in their academic careers; and also to support RCA in offering courses to students in Dubai. A total of 334,500 AED was raised through the sale of the anonymous postcards; only after purchase was the artist’s identity revealed to the buyer.

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Joining the stellar roster of past contributors to RCA Secret Dubai—which includes David Hockney, Christopher Baily, Zaha Hadid, eL Seed, Stella McCartney and Yinka Shonibare—were acclaimed regional artists Hassan Hajaj, Nja Mahdaoui, Farouk Hosny, Ebtisam AbdulAziz and Nadim Kufi. RCA Secret Dubai also received contributions from further afield from international artists and fashion designers including Zandra Rhodes, David Bailey, Nick Park, Karl Holmqvist, Sir Peter Blake, Alison Wilding, and Susan Hefuna.

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PIAGET: AUDACITY AND CREATIVITY SINCE 1874 At Art Dubai 2016, Piaget, the Swiss luxury watchmakers and jewellers, presented the exhibition ‘Piaget: Audaicity and Creativity sine 1874’ – a specially curated collection of extraordinary pieces from both its patrimony and new creations, including key pieces from the 1960s and 1970s from private collections from the Middle East and North Africa.

Rare masterpieces from Piaget’s patrimony collection were displayed for the first time; among them were watches that used to belong to iconic personalities such as Alain Delon, Elizabeth Taylor, Jackie Kennedy and Andy Warhol. Regionally-owned, vintage creations from the mid-20th century onwards showcased the brand’s historic ties in the region: the family-owned pieces were sourced and collected over the course of a year, specially presented alongside their stories.

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COLLATERAL EVENTS Book launch: Phantom Limb by Diana Al-Hadid Artist Diana Al-Hadid discussed her work with Maya Allison, Chief Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery celebrating the major new Skira Publishing NYUAD monograph. Diana Al-Hadid has had 22 solo shows in the last 10 years, and this was her first solo show in the Arab world. Essays by Sara Raza, Reindert Falkenburg and Alistair Rider. A People’s Biennale: A conversation with KochiMuziris Biennale co-founders Artists and co-founders of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Bose Krishnamachari and Riyas Komu, spoke about the Kochi Biennale Foundation, the past two editions of Kochi-Muziris Biennale and the upcoming third edition curated by renowned artist Sudarshan Shetty. They also discussed the Foundation's outreach programmes like Students' Biennale, Artists' Cinema, residency programmes, Let's Talk series, and its future projects.

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Artist Panel Talk: Al Haraka Baraka: In Movement There is Blessing The discussion was moderated by Kevin Jones with the curator of Al Haraka Baraka Dr. Alexandra MacGilp and artists Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim, Ammar Al Attar, Khalid Mezaina and Zeinab Al Hashemi. This project was a collaboration by Unlimited Arab Exploration, the platform of HH Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan with Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah.

Book Launch: Matter Matters by Nadia Kaabi-Linke Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi, President of the Sharjah Art Foundation, was in discussion with Nadia KaabiLinke on the occasion of the launch of her first monograph, Matter Matters. The book, edited by Timo Kaabi-Linke with texts by Kim Conaty, Lorenzo Fusi, Justine Ludwig, Elaine Ng, Sharmini Pereira, Hoor Al Qasimi, and Falko Schmieder precedes the inclusion of the artist’s Abraaj Group Art Prize ‘Flying Carpets’ in a major Guggenheim exhibition in April.

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Book Launch: The Complete Works

by Ali Akbhar Sadeghi The Complete Works celebrates Ali Akbar Sadeghi's influence as a key figure in Iranian modern and contemporary art. Presented in three books and edited by founder of ABprojects, Ali Bakhtiari, The Life Book, The Love Book and The Lost Book look at the artist's many practices from the 1960's to present day.

Book Launch: Her Majesty? by Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian were in conversation with Daniel Baumann, Director of the Kunsthalle Zürich and Patrick Frey of Editions Patrick Frey about Her Majesty?, a limited edition facsimile about the extraordinary life of Queen Elizabeth II. The trio completely overhauled the XL coffee table book, which was published by Taschen Verlag in 2012 to mark the 60th anniversary of the world’s most famous monarch’s reign.

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Presentation: The Prince Claus Fund PhotoBox: Support Emerging Photographers Worldwide The Prince Claus Fund PhotoBox presented a limited edition collection by renowned photographers who are Prince Claus laureates and partners: Yto Barrada, Akram Zaatari, Rena Effendi, Maya Goded, Van Leo, Santu Mofokeng, Zanele Muholi and Dayanita Singh.

A crucial part of the Fund's remit, proceeds of the event went on to support young photographers working in difficult circumstances.

Book Signing: Embodying: A book project by Cristiana de Marchi and Hassan Sharif Sharjah Art Foundation launched Embodying, a book project by Cristiana de Marchi and Hassan Sharif published by the Sharjah Art Foundation. In this stunning union of visual art and literature, photographic documentation of renowned Emirati artist Hassan Sharif's performances from the years 1982 to 1984 are accompanied by poems written by Italian-Lebanese author Cristiana de Marchi. With the corpus of these performances viewed only by small circles of relatives and friends in the United Arab Emirates or in London, Embodying revealed them to an extended audience for the first time.

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Art Dubai 2016 was held in partnership with The Abraaj Group and was sponsored by Julius Baer and Piaget. Madinat Jumeirah is home to the event.

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority is a strategic partner of Art Dubai and, along with Dubai Design District (d3), supports the fair’s year-round education programme.

Mashreq Private Banking was the exclusive partner of Art Dubai Modern 2016.

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THE ABRAAJ GROUP The Abraaj Group is a leading private equity investor, purpose-built for operating in the growth markets of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Turkey. Through its Stakeholder and Strategic Partnerships programs, the Group supports art and innovation, entrepreneurship and the next generation, aiming to have a deep rooted and sustainable impact across growth markets.

The Abraaj Group Art Prize was founded in 2008 and is now in its eighth edition. The aim of the prize is to empower potential and give often under-represented contemporary artists the resources to further develop their talent.

Following the application and jury process, four artists are shortlisted for the prize and one (of the four) artists awarded the $100,000 commission. The three shortlisted artists receive a cash prize and are represented in a group exhibition at Art Dubai (March 1619, 2016) through previous works, which are selected by the Guest Curator in liaison with the artist. The prize reflects Abraaj’s own investment philosophy, which is to take viable businesses with great potential, and create

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regional and global champions. To date, the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 works were presented at Art Dubai and then gone on loan to exhibitions at Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Sharjah Biennale 11, Sharjah, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, 18th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, V&A, London, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Glasgow, 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, New Museum, New York. abraaj.com

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JULIUS BAER Julius Baer is the leading Swiss private banking group, with a focus on servicing and advising sophisticated private clients and a premium brand in global wealth management. Julius Baer’s total client assets amounted to CHF 385 billion at the end of 2015, including CHF 300 billion of assets under management.

Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd., the renowned Swiss private bank which celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2015, is the principal operating company of Julius Baer Group Ltd., whose shares are listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ticker symbol: BAER) and are included in the Swiss Market Index (SMI), comprising the 20 largest and most liquid Swiss stocks.

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Julius Baer employs a staff of over 5,000, including more than 1,200 relationship managers, and is present in over 25 countries and more than 50 locations. Headquartered in Zurich, we have offices in key locations including Dubai, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Lugano, Monaco, Montevideo, Moscow, Mumbai, Singapore and Tokyo. Our client-centric approach, our objective advice based on a unique open product platform, our very strong financial base and our entrepreneurial management culture make us the international reference in private banking. juliusbaer.com

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PIAGET Rich of 140 years of history, Piaget’s supremacy in ultra-thin mechanical movements has earned the brand a special place among the great Swiss watchmakers. But Piaget was also a style: a marriage of gold and an explosion of color, new shapes, precious gems, and dials made of hard stones. Carried along on the wave of extraordinary creativity driven by Yves G. Piaget, the brand’s jewelry collection grew in a original direction with a resolute emphasis on color.

The ever-bold brand, innovated by offering jewels in motion, extravagant Haute Joaillerie collections, and incredible watches to become today one of the world's most prestigious watchmaker-jewelers. piaget.com

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MADINAT JUMEIRAH Set on a private beach, Madinat Jumeirah resort is an authentic recreation of ancient Arabia, capturing the natural beauty of the region. Madinat Jumeirah features two grand boutique hotels, Jumeirah Al Qasr and Jumeirah Mina A’Salam, accommodation in 29 traditional summer houses in Jumeirah Dar Al Masyaf, conference and banqueting facilities including two grand ballrooms, a 1000-seat amphitheatre and the region’s only dedicated entertainment centre and multi-purpose venue, Madinat Arena. The facilities are interconnected by 3km of waterways and landscaped gardens. The resort also provides extensive leisure and health facilities including Talise Spa and Talise Fitness, as well as Souk Madinat Jumeirah, a traditional retail and dining experience with 90 boutiques and restaurants showcasing the best of Arabia, including nightlife destination Pacha Ibiza Dubai. jumeirah.com

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DUBAI CULTURE AND ARTS AUTHORITY The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) was launched on March 8, 2008

by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President & Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. Dubai Culture plays a critical part in achieving the vision of the Dubai Strategic Plan 2021 of establishing the city as vibrant, global Arabian metropolis that shapes culture and arts in the region and the world.

The organisation has announced several initiatives that strengthen the historic and modern cultural fabric of Dubai. These include: The Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of the Arts Awards: The first of its kind initiative in the Arab world honouring individuals and organisations who have made financial or in kind contributions through sustained support to visual arts, performing arts, literature and film in the region; Dubai Art Season: The city’s premier umbrella arts initiatives which encompasses of Art Week (Art Dubai, Design Days Dubai, and SIKKA Art Fair), Middle East Film &

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Comic Con, to highlight the Emirate’s growing creative landscape within the international circuit; SIKKA Art Fair: An annual art fair aimed at promoting Emirati and local artists in the UAE; and Dubai Festival for Youth Theatre: An annual festival that celebrates and fosters the art of theatre in the UAE. dubaiculture.gov.ae

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DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT (d3) Dubai Design District, better known as d3, is a home for the region’s growing community of creative thinkers. It plays a key element in Dubai’s vision to transform into an innovationled economy, and it aims to engage, inspire and enable emerging talent, as well as providing a platform to showcase Arab creativity to a larger, global audience.

As a dedicated creative destination, d3 answers a growing need for the regional design industry, ensuring that this important sector is able to develop and thrive. It provides businesses, entrepreneurs and creatives from across the design value chain with an ideally located, purpose built and sustainable ecosystem, which leverages technology to integrate ‘smart’ solutions throughout the development. d3 is the newest of TECOM Group’s communities, with 11 buildings making up the core of the site already delivered and being handed over to tenants. To support its many

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creative partners, d3 offers individuals and businesses the choice of operating either as a free zone entity or as an on-shore business, each with its own merits.

By 2018, d3 will feature a one million square foot Creative Community, which will act as the site’s cultural epicentre, inspiring emerging designers and artists, and attracting tourists to the area. By 2019, d3 will also boast a bustling Waterfront, a 1.8km esplanade running alongside the Dubai Creek, with international and design-led hotels, boutique retail concept stores and an outdoor events space, as well as a host of hospitality and leisure facilities.

All of these various elements have been carefully designed to ensure that the creative thinkers using and visiting d3 every day have an energised and culture rich environment where they can coexist. dubaidesigndistrict.com

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MASHREQ PRIVATE BANKING Mashreq Private Banking, the second oldest bank in UAE and the largest private sector bank in the Middle East was founded in 1967.

The bank has established itself as a leader in corporate banking, consumer banking and wealth management and continues to play a pioneering role in the evolution and advancement of the Regional banking industry.

Mashreq has been actively growing its extensive network in UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Egypt in addition to its presence in Europe, USA, Africa, and the Far East.

Mashreq’s traditions and values also extend to its Private Banking arm offering clients safety, delivery, consistency, confidentiality and above all continuity. The Private Bank covers a large client base from the region and the rest of the world extending a deep suite of solutions and services that include red carpet banking, investments, financing and wealth structuring.

Mashreq’s Private Banking is committed to its client’s diversified needs and with the growing interest in art, client’s have traditionally

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purchased art for passionate as well as a variety of other personal reasons. We believe we can play an important role in ensuring that our investors’ views on art are understood, preserved and embraced whilst channeled and rationalized suitably.

The Private Banking business has established its presence among clients and industry peers by participating to a wide range of events and summits, for example the Global Gift Gala during the Dubai International Film Festival and through sponsoring Art Dubai Modern in 2016. mashreqprivatebank.com

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FAIR SPONSORS MASERATI Maserati is an Italian luxury car manufacturer which was established on December 1, 1914, in Bologna, Italy, by its founder Alfieri Maserati and his brothers.

Their passion and talent contributed to the company DNA: innovation, excellence, and challenge, which are reflected in the brand’s claim ‘The absolute opposite of ordinary’. Today, the company’s headquarters and main production location are in Modena, Italy. A second stateof-the-art production location, based on the highest quality standards of the World Class Manufacturing (WCM) concept, was inaugurated in Grugliasco, near Turin, Italy, in 2013. Maserati has been owned by the Italian car giant Fiat S.p.A.—now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles—since 1993.

Its emblem, the trident, was inspired by the fountain on the Piazza del Nettuno in the centre of Bologna. It is a symbol that ties together the brothers, their hometown, and the artistry and craftsmanship for which Bologna and Emilia-Romagna are known.

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Through major investments into product development, production facilities as well as its worldwide dealer network, Maserati has hit a turning point.

In addition to the successful GranTurismo and GranCabrio ranges, the latest generation of Maserati’s flagship sedan, the Quattroporte, and the new sports executive sedan, the Ghibli, provide the cornerstones to the brand’s strategy of producing some 75,000 units annually and gaining a significantly strengthened presence in the global luxury car market.

Maserati was the Official Car Partner of Art Dubai 2016, providing collectors and special guests a courtesy VIP shuttle service. maserati.com

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ABSOLUT ELYX Absolut was the first spirit brand to forge genuinely close ties with art and artists. Absolut has been active in the art world since 1985, when it invited Andy Warhol to create the first in a series of iconic advertisements inspired by the Absolut bottle. Since then, Absolut has collaborated with more than 550 artists on over 850 commissioned projects. Today, Absolut supports acclaimed artists, art writers and institutions in their efforts to present new works, stimulate ideas, bring people together and broaden access to creativity.

Absolut Elyx is the ultimate luxury expression of Absolut. This luxury brand is produced using only winter wheat harvested in one single state located in the region of SkĂĽne in southern Sweden. Absolut Elyx is actually made from over 50% water and its liquid touches copper in every single step of the production process to produce its distinctive liquid. Absolut Elyx stands for integrity and authenticity in a world of bling and excess. It is all about being who you say you are.

There is a cultural shift towards substance and style over excess, and Absolut Elyx is pleased to be at the forefront of this trend, enabling and celebrating acts of integrity everywhere with a dash of playfulness and fun.

The Wedding Project was supported by Absolut Elyx. absolutelyx.com

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PROGRAMME SUPPORTERS DELFINA FOUNDATION Founded in 2007, Delfina Foundation creates opportunities for emerging and established artists, curators and writers to reflect on what they do, position their practice within relevant global discourse, create career-defining research and commissions, and network with colleagues. The Foundation forges international collaborations that extend beyond their geographical remit of MENA in order to build shared platforms to present and discuss common practices and themes.

The Wedding Project is the latest iteration of Delfina Foundation’s popular Politics of Food dinner performances. For the last two years, Delfina Foundation’s Politics of Food programme has brought together leading artists, celebrity chefs and scientists to explore food as a medium for understanding complex histories and questioning current issues, from globalisation to waste. The notion of cooking and eating as performative acts has been an underlying aspect of the programme. The Politics of Food has engaged over 70 artists, activists, anthropologists, agronomists, chefs, curators, scientists and writers from 32 countries, reaching an audience of more than 45,000 people to date. delfinafoundation.com 238

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ALSERKAL AVENUE Alserkal Avenue is the region’s foremost arts and culture neighbourhood located in Al Quoz, Dubai. Since it was established in 2007, Alserkal Avenue has grown to become an essential platform for the development of homegrown artistic and cultural initiatives, supporting a vibrant community of contemporary art galleries and alternative art spaces, together with design, media and industrial studios. In 2015 Alserkal Avenue began introducing its own homegrown programme as an arts organization, dedicated to encouraging new ideas, open dialogue and a more diverse and rich eco-system for art in the region. In 2016 Alserkal Avenue will see the launch its project space as well as art, design and creative concepts. alserkalavenue.ae

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THE BRITISH COUNCIL The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. We are a Royal Charter charity, established as the UK’s international organisation for educational opportunities and cultural relations.

Our 7000 staff in over 100 countries work with thousands of professionals and policy makers and millions of young people every year through English, arts, education and society programmes. We have been in the Gulf for 60 years and in the UAE our arts work stretches across visual arts, literature, theatre, architecture, design, fashion and the creative economy.

We create networks that foster collaboration and share knowledge for the long term benefit of individuals and communities where we work.

The British Council has kindly supported the appearance of UK-based speakers at the 2016 Forum and a research trip for British curators to Art Week 2016, along with additional support for 89plus 2016. britishcouncil.ae

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MARAYA ART CENTRE Established in 2006, Maraya Art Centre is a threestorey non-profit creative space located in Sharjah, UAE. Since its inception, Maraya has offered the public an innovative exhibitions programme, showcasing the work of leading Middle Eastern and international artists.

The centre also boasts multi-media facilities, a video archive, an art library and a regular public programme of workshops and events designed by its in-house team and guest curators. Outside of the main building, Maraya also has several public park art sites within its local vicinity that feature interactive projects and sculptures.

In 2016, the Campus Art Dubai Core 4.0 project wasproduced with support from Maraya Art Centre. maraya.ae

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IBDA DESIGN The design of the gallery halls is advised by Ibda Design, an architecture, urban and interior design practice based in Dubai, led by architects Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto.

Ibda Design is an international Architecture, Urban and Interior Design practice based in Dubai with collaboration offices in Beirut and Tokyo. The firm was founded by Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto. Ibda Design has a multi-disciplinary approach to design, addressing the social, nvironmental, economic and technological aspects of each project in order to tailor a highly specific concept to the given context. Ibda Design develops projects of varying scale and program, approaching each in a unique manner, with the ultimate aim of delivering a distinctive and high quality design.

Ibda in arabic means [start]. ibdadesign.com

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THE PRINCE CLAUS FUND FOR CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT Based on the principle that culture is a basic need, the Prince Claus Fund’s mission is to actively seek cultural collaborations founded on equality and trust with partners of excellence in spaces where resources and opportunities for cultural expression, creative production and research are limited and cultural heritage is threatened. The Prince Claus Fund is based in Amsterdam and operates in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean.

Marker 2016 was supported by the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. princeclausfund.org

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THE WHITE BOUTIQUE The White Boutique is a family-owned events, floral design and catering company. We have been offering bespoke event concepts, imaginative floral designs, and catering solutions since 2010. At the core of what we do is simply our passion for creating artistic spaces and exceptional floral arrangements, whilst focusing on an extraordinary customer experience for all our clients.

In 2016, The White Boutique helped to support The Wedding Project. thewhitebtq.com

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ROI LAND INVESTMENTS LTD ROI LAND INVESTMENTS LTD is a US listed global property investment company.

ROI’s core business is land development with current investments in the United States, Canada and Dubai, UAE. It specializes in high quality diversified commercial and mixed use developments that are free of zoning/planning restrictions. ROI then obtains the necessary development permits, outsources the development of the infrastructure to one of its global construction partners and profits handsomely from the sale of the subdivided land units to known large regional developers. In addition and opportunistically, ROI pursues construction projects and asset management.

ROI has an exclusive business model which is based on the combination of a niche real estate strategy with innovative financing to create a unique synergy.

In 2016, ROI helped to support The Wedding Project. roilandinvestments.com

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PARTICIPATING ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS Basel Abbas Zahia Abdul Alaa Abdullatif Bani Abidi Adel Abidin Ziad Abillama Ruanne Abou-Rahme Marina Abramović Sarah Abu Abdallah Etel Adnan Asmaa El Afifi Maliheh Afnan Ashim Ahluwalia Shumon Ahmed Nader Ahriman Rahel Aima Haig Aivazian Zeinab Al Hashemi Hala Alabdalla Nevin Aladağ Rashad Alakbarov Rita Alaoui Nikita Alexeev Bashar Alhroub Kristina Alisauskaite Maya Allison Miriam Obaid AlMheiri Elena Alonso Ahmed Alsoudani Doa Aly Sarah Amiri Frank Ammerlaan Poklong Anading Anoushka Anand Shaina Anand Andeel Joël Andrianomearisoa Minam Apang Zura Apkhazashvili Kamrooz Aram Ammar Al Attar Layan Attari Kader Attia Vartan Avakian Dana Awartani Elie Ayache Myrna Ayad Nadia Ayari Abdul-Halik Azeez Jaber Al Azmeh Said Baalbaki Ayman Baalbaki Alpin Arda Bağcık Ismail Mohammed Al Bahar Khaled Barakeh Rathin Barman Yto Barrada Mark Barretto Shumon Basar Anachar Basbous Alfred Basbous

Tairone Bastien Taysir Batniji Daniel Baumann Ramazan Bayrakoğlu Whitney Bedford Rana Begum Taha Belal Lauren Beukes Michael Biberstein Biggs and Collings Zsolt Bodoni Anna Boghiguian Zoulikha Bouabdellah Miguel Branco Polly Brannan Adrienne Maree Brown Bernhard Buhmann Ringo Bunoan Daniel Buren Fahd Burki Yousef Bushehri Astha Butail André Butzer Hera Büyüktaşçıyan Huguette Caland Johanna Calle Camp Simon Castets Alice Cattaneo Loris Cecchini Germano Celant The Centre for Genomic Gastronomy Aaron Cezar Roberto Chabet Nidhal Chamekh Chaouki Chamoun Ali Cherri Nikhil Chopra Saloua Raouda Choucair Chaouki Choukini Abdur Rahman Chughtai Francesco Clemente Gil Heitor Cortesão Sunoj D Noor Al-Dabbagh Iftikhar Dadi Elizabeth Dadi Andrew Dadson Elena Damiani Dina Danish Khawla Darwish Tammy David Catherine David Shezad Dawood Ayman Yossri Daydban Agathe de Bailliencourt Anabelle de Gersigny Ale de la Puente Cristiana de Marchi

David Diao Vikram Divecha Jason Dodge Atul Dodiya Manal Al Dowayan Anita Dube Tara Al Dughaither Zhivago Duncan Muhanna Durra Adip Dutta Christian Eisenberger Mehran Elminia Shady Elnoshokaty Emin Mete Erdogan Jed Escueta Jenifer Evans Extrastruggle Reem Falaknaz Alia Farid Dana Farouki Farhad Farzaliyev Moustafa Fathi Parnian Ferdossi Kate Fowle Aziz Al Fraih Michel Francois Patrick Frey Carlos Garaicoa Farida El Gazzar Aikaterini Gegisian Daniele Genadry Saeed Al Gergawi Mishaal Al Gergawi John Gerrard Mohammad Hossein Gholamzadeh Laure Ghorayeb Abdulnasser Ghorem Tarek Al Ghoussein Simryn Gill Luis Gispert Mehlli Gobhai Alexander Gorlizki Alice Gorman Franz Graf Dor Guez Ingo Günther Shilpa Gupta Selma Gürbüz Pascal Hachem Diana Al Hadid Joana Hadjithomas Ramin Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Rokni Haerizadeh Samia Halaby Wafa'a Halawi Dirk Haltenhof Mohammed Ali Al Hammadi Jane Hammond Markus Hanakam

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Khalil Waqas Khan Idris Khan Hassan Khan Nathalie Khayat Radhika Khimji Omar Kholeif Kristine Khouri Joumana El Zein Khoury Sophiya Khwaja Christine Sun Kim Joanna Kirk Olga Kisseleva Tarik Kiswanson Imi Knoebel Manami Koike Riyas Komu Abdoulaye Konate Taisia Korotkova Nicène Kossentini Angelika Krinzinger Bose Krishnamachari Czar Kristoff Olya Kroytor Nandita Kumar Gabriel Kuri Yayoi Kusama Gonzalo Lebrija Timothy Hyunsoo Lee Daniel Lergon Ulrike Lienbacher Candice Lin Søren Lind Jen Liu Maria Loizidou Alia Lootah Glenn Lowry Atef Maatallah Dr. Alexandra MacGilp William Mackrell WTD Magazine Basim Magdy Sohrab Mahdavi Basir Mahmoud Aida Mahmudova Taus Makhacheva Nalini Malani Jawad Al Malhi Mana Malluh Prageeth Manohansa Sophia Al Maria Brunhilde Maritz Oliver Marsden Marwan Mona Marzouk Sara Masinaei Rania Matar Moza Almatrooshi Meitha Al Mazrooei Chittrovanu Mazumdar

Jonathan Meese Samanta Batra Mehta Thameaur Mejri Yassine Mekhnache Almagul Menlibayeva Hind Mezaina Khalid Mezaina Saif Mhaisen Joan Miró Samar Mogharbel Naeem Mohaiemen Nasreen Mohamedi Batool Mohammad Amin Montazeri Rui Moreira François Morellet Mounirah Mosly Rabih Mroué Geoffrey Mukasa Abdullah Al Mutairi Yusif Al Mutairi Pushpamala N. Nabila Nabi Youssef Nabil Nima Zaare Nahandi Nabil Nahas Ahmed Naji Arif Naqvi Fayeeza Naqvi Fawzia Naqvi Amna Naqvi David Nash Nasim Nasr Moataz Nasr Timo Nasseri Bahareh Navabi Wawi Navarozza Iván Navarro Ahmed Nawar Yamini Nayar Noura Al Noman Reynier Leyva Novo Katherine Nunez Hans Ulrich Obrist Shinji Ohmaki Nnenna Okore Jayson Oliveria Hans Op de Beeck Meret Oppenheim Bernd Oppl Ahmet Oran Abdullah Al Othman Lydia Ourahmane Zak Ové J Pacena Prabhakar Pachpute Maia Cruz Palileo Murat Palta Nina Papaconstantinou Melissa Paul Tassos Pavlopoulos Rajni Perera

Saskia Pintelon Michelangelo Pistoletto Jaume Plensa Pors & Rao Sreshta Rit Premnath Sarker Protick George Pusenkoff Ilya Pusenkoff Monira Al Qadiri Ibrahim Hamza Al Qasimi Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Saba Qizibash Xu Qu Imran Qureshi Walid Raad Noah Raford Sahej Rahal Sara Rahbar Qudsia Rahim Hesam Rahmanian Ruanne Abou-Rahme Younés Rahmoun Raha Raissnia Koka Ramishvili Jessica Rankin Hamed Rashtian Nada Raza Anahita Razmi Marwan Rechmaoui Ravinder Reddy Julius Redillas Haleh Redjaian Alke Reeh Yasmina Reggad Todd Reisz Majid Al Remaihi Anil Revri João Ribas Uzma Z. Rizvi Issay Rodriguez Rafaël Rozendaal Kambiz Sabri Ali Akbar Sadeghi Syed Sadequain Maryam Saffarini Nour Yasser El Safoury Prem Sahib Shakir Hassan Al Said Ibrahim El Salahi Maisoon Al Saleh Dania Al Saleh Nasser Al Salem Sharmila Samant Faisal Samra Saud Al Sanad Larissa Sansour Hrair Sarkissian

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Gigi Scaria Eva Schlegel Daniel Kojo Schrade Roswitha Schuller eL Seed Julien Segard Noura Seif Massinissa Selmani Avishek Sen Mithu Sen Rashid Bin Shabib Ahmed Bin Shabib Nada Shabout Mamamli Shafahi Musfira Shaffi Seher Shah Shirana Shahbazi Thamotharampillai Shanaathanan Hassan Sharif Conrad Shawcross Shaweesh Wael Shawky Anwar Jalal Shemza Sudarshan Shetty Jin-Hua Shi Chiharu Shiota Amer Shomali Fredric Sicre Bisi Silva Walid Siti Khaled Ben Slimane Praneet Soi Mounira Al Solh Hanusha Somasundram Giuseppe Stampone Hito Steyerl Anna Della Subin Lee Sugiandi Mariam Suhail Basma Al Sulaiman Adeela Suleman Karim Sultan Ayesha Sultana Abdullah M.I. Syed Risham Syed Rania Tabbara Nobuaki Takekawa Maria Taniguchi Alfred Tarazi Benjamin Tavakol Shirin Partovi Tavakolian Pascale Marthine Tayou Parul Thacker Chandraguptha Thenuwara Imants Tillers Danila Tkachenko Barthélémy Toguo

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Isballea E Toledo Toleen Touq Julie Tremblay Panos Tsagaris Janaina Tschäpe Gavin Turk Yahia Turki Hédi Turki UBIK Priyantha Udagedara Deepak Unnikrishnan Marianna Uutinen Hossein Valamanesh Angela Valamanesh Murtaza Vali Jannis Varelas Avinash Veeraraghavan Francesco Vezzoli Gail Vicente Andre Vida Maryathevathas Vijitharan Tanya Villanueva Jorinde Voigt Jan Voss Martin Walde Richard T Walker

Mark Wallinger Saddek Wasil Jagath Weerasinghe Ai Weiwei Tamsin Wildy Maryam Wissam Lantian Xie Heba Y. Amin José Yaque Raed Yassin Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck Yeesookyung Daisuke Yokota Liam Young Akram Zaatari Ali Zanjani Samia Taktak Zaru Ahmad Mustafa Al Zatari Antonella Zazzera Agustina Zegers Ralf Ziervogel Thomas Zipp Tirdad Zolghadr

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ART DUBAI TEAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS Rajesh Pareek, Chairman of the Board Benedict Floyd, CEO, Art Dubai Group Savita Apte Saleh Al Akrabi Ali Al Shabibi DIRECTOR Antonia Carver FAIR MANAGEMENT Muhammad Akram, Senior Finance Manager Benedetta Ghione, Senior Fair Manager Camilla Mosse, Assistant Fair Manager Sana Rizvi, Manager, Events & Volunteer Programme Kathleen Rey, Assistant Manager, Finance Iqbal Shamz, Fair Assistant Fidan Huseyni, Volunteer Programme Assistant EXHIBITOR RELATIONS Pablo del Val, Director, Exhibitor Relations Lea Chikhani, Manager, Exhibitor Relations Megan McCann, Exhibitions Coordinator Farah El-Rafei, Exhibitions Assistant OUTREACH AND VISITOR RELATIONS Lela Csáky, Director, VIP Relations Inhye Kim, Manager, VIP Programmes Amina Debbiche, Manager, Patrons Circle Lara Hussein, CRM Manager Leo Barrameda, Assistant Manager, Travel & Hotels Kamila Rangoonwala, Assistant, VIP Relations Ryndon Marc Buragay, CRM Assistant Lorena Condes, CRM Assistant Mana Mobargha, Art Dubai Ambassador, Iran Farah Siddiqui, Art Dubai Ambassador, India PARTNERSHIPS Laurène Perra, Assistant Director, Partnerships Jessica Harrison, Assistant, Partnerships

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