Art Week 2018

THE OFFICIAL GUIDE

ARTMAP // ISSUE 27 FEB 2018 - AUG 2018

FEB 2018 - AUG 2018

ArtMap lists art galleries, art institutions and alternative art spaces across the UAE, complete with easy to use maps, events calendar, neighbourhood guides and stories by Dubai's creative community.

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‘I AM NOT A ROBOT’ March 21-23 | Fort Island, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

“Legend,” originally uploaded to Google Street View by Arthur Star. (Kyle Williams via Google Maps)

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It’s said that automation, more than any other factor, will fundamentally alter our lives. This brings about the ambient fear of automation. Where does this all leave the fate of the human? And what exactly are the machines saying about us behind our backs?

Bringing together artists, curators, novelists, futurists, architects and technologists, the 2018 Global Art Forum, focuses on the power, paranoia and potentials of automation.

Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum is presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and supported by Dubai Design District (d3).

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Experience Talent From UAE & GCC Artists In The Heart Of Old Dubai Under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, The eighth edition of SIKKA Art Fair, Dubai Art Season’s flagship initiative, will take place from 17-26 March, 2018 in Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood.

The contemporary, artist-led fair provides a platform for emerging UAE-based and GCC talents, in a vibrant 10-day programme featuring exciting exhibitions, art installations, workshops, film, and music.

In support of ‘Year of Zayed’, and in honour of the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the Founding Father of the UAE, #SIKKA18 represents an ideal platform for upholding the tolerance and co-existence he advocated through the arts. #SIKKA18 general info, workshop schedule, programme and transportation details via dubaiculture.gov.ae

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Ragamala Dance Company

Written in Water Ranee Ramaswamy and Aparna Ramaswamy, Co-Artistic Directors

SOUTH INDIAN DANCE / LIVE MUSIC / DIGITAL PROJECTION / SNAKES AND LADDERS Classical bharatanatyam meets digital projection with an exploration of the game Paramapadam (Snakes and Ladders), with live music that fuses maqam with Carnatic music. Woven throughout the choreography are large-scale projections of original paintings by Chennai-based visual artist Keshav and Minneapolis artist Nathan Christopher.

Wednesday & Thursday, Mar. 21 & 22 @ 8pm Middle East Premiere The Red Theater

Music composed and performed live by Amir elSaffar Co-commissioned by The Arts Center 18

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Table of Contents

CONTENTS THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO THE MARCH EVENTS OF DUBAI ART SEASON AND ART WEEK 2018

INTRODUCTION Dubai Art Season 22 Art Week 24 Highlights 26

Art Week Laura Egerton

DUBAI

Assistant Tima Radwan Designer Layan Attari Printer Nabeel Printing Press Strategic Partner

Cover artwork Nargess Hashemi, Untitled, 2017, courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Alserkal Avenue p.71 and Art Dubai booth E6

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AL FAHIDI HISTORICAL NEIGHBOURHOOD SIKKA Art Fair 31 Tashkeel at SIKKA 42 Mawaheb from Beautiful People 43 Majlis Gallery XVA Gallery AL QUOZ Total Arts The Courtyard Playhouse The Mine Create Hub Gallery Meem Gallery

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ALSERKAL AVENUE Galleries Night 53 Concrete 54 The Yard 56 Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair 58 Alserkal Programming and Pop-ups 58 1x1 Gallery 61 Art Jameel 62 Ayyam Gallery 64 Brownbook 65 Carbon 12 66 Custot Gallery Dubai 67 Elmarsa 68 el Seed Studio 69 Flipside DXB 69 FN Designs 70 Gallery Isabelle van

den Eynde Green Art Gallery Grey Noise Gulf Photo Plus iKonhouse INKED The JamJar Jean-Paul Najar Foundation La Galerie Nationale Lawrie Shabibi Leila Heller Gallery MB&F M.A.D. Gallery Salsali Private Museum Showcase Gallery SVENM The Third Line Selections Happy Studio Bakery CH-KA The Fridge The Junction Mirzam Chocolate Makers The Odd Piece Sima Performing Arts

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ART DUBAI

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DUDBAI DESIGN DISTRICT (d3) Dubai Design Week Urbn Commissions Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation Apical Reform Gallery Art Hub Citzen E Gallery East Wing Gallery Ward Sconci Art Gallery

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Sinyar Art Gallery Van Gogh Alive FBMI NAKKASH Zaha Hadid Architects Re: Urban Studio In5 Molecule The Lighthouse143 DIFC Art Nights Salvador Dali: The Memories Andakulova Gallery Ayyam Gallery Cuadro The Empty Quarter Opera Gallery Sotheby's TABARI ARTSPACE

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AROUND DUBAI ArtDXB

154 Academic City Al Ghurair University 155 Barsha Cabin 156 dusitD2 156 Downtown HIPA at Dubai Opera 157 Dubai Opera 158 Dubai Walls, City Walk 158 Apple Dubai Mall 159 Art Emaar 160 Emirates Towers Christie's 161 Jumeirah Khazzan x Cadillac 162 Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children 163 Etihad Museum 164 Comptoir 102 165

Dubai International Arts Centre, Gallery 76 166 Obegi Home 166 Pro Art Gallery 167 The Amanqi Edit 167 The Workshop 168 Mall of the Emirates DUCTAC 169 Media City American University in Dubai 170 JLT Swiss Art Gate UAE 171 Mirdif Medaf Studio 171 Nad Al Sheba Tashkeel 172 Oud Metha Antidote Art & Design at Alliance Franรงaise 173 Ismaili Centre 174 Palm Jumeirah ZeeArts 175 Ras Al Khor RiseDCH 175 ABU DHABI Louvre Abu Dhabi 178 ADMAF at Manarat Al Saadiyat 182 The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre 184 Al Jahlili Fort, Al Ain 185 The NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center 186 The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery 187 Warehouse421 188 Cinema Akil 189 Abu Dhabi Art Hub 190

Blank Canvas Community 190 Etihad Modern Art Gallery 191 Novus Gallery 191 Salwa Zeidan Gallery 192 Swiss Art Gate UAE 192 SHARJAH Sharjah Art Foundation March Meeting Sharjah Art Museum Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization Barjeel Art Foundation Maraya Art Centre 1971 Design Space The College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah Fikra Design Studio

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British Council

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EPILOGUE | Zooming out: Coming next in the Arab World 214 INDEX ORGANISATIONS

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VOICES I

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Information in this guide was correct at time of going to print and inclusion was at the discretion of Art Week.

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DUBAI ART SEASON

Introduction | Dubai Art Season

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Dubai Art Season, Dubai Culture’s flagship umbrella arts event, runs throughout March and April each year under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Matkoum, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors at Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture).

The two-month city-wide activation celebrates its fifth successful edition in 2018, with artistic and cultural events transforming the city with public art displays, outdoor art projects, interactive installations, live performances, workshops, panel discussions and exhibitions that bring art to Dubai’s doorstep in an unmatched celebration of talent, creativity, innovation and cultural diversity.

Dubai Art Season holds pride of place in the city’s busy cultural calendar, kicking off with the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature and featuring headline events including Art Week, which features SIKKA Art Fair and Art Dubai, among hundreds of other initiatives.

As Dubai Culture’s leading annual initiative, Dubai Art Season contributes significantly to achieving the Dubai Plan 2021 vision for a city of happy, creative and empowered people who proudly celebrate their cultural identities. The initiative also fulfils Dubai Culture’s mandate to strengthen the cultural and creative fabric of Dubai by nurturing and supporting both emerging and established local talent, promoting Emirate culture, celebrating the region’s flourishing artistic scene, and attracting international talent and visitors to consolidate Dubai’s position as a global hub for culture and creativity.

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Introduction | Art Week

ART WEEK

Love culture?

Look no further, Art Week is upon us.

Initiated by Art Dubai Group and supported

by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), Art Week is the region’s largest cultural festival taking place each March, happening for the 7th time in 2018.

Kicking off with the 8th edition of Sikka Art Fair in Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Dubai and the 11th March Meeting in Sharjah’s Arts Area on 17 March, Art Week runs until Art Dubai closes its doors on 24 March.

Within those 7 days you have the chance to get involved in over 500 different activities at over 140 venues, from film screenings and live performances to guided tours and panel discussions, practical workshops and curated, immersive experiences.

Art Dubai returns to Madinat Jumeirah for its 12th edition, with a staggering line-up of 105 galleries from 48 countries and a packed programme of talks, tours and artist-led events.

This guide takes you geographically from one main hub to another. Within Dubai you can find galleries in the historical area Al Fahidi, industrial Al Quoz, the business centre that is DIFC and hip d3, not forgetting one-off spaces in Downtown, Jumeirah, parks, cafés, the airport – so keep your eyes peeled!

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Introduction | Art Week

Art Dubai Commissions, Lana Fahmi, What Modernity, performance, Art Dubai 2017.

Courtesy Daniella Baptista

A trip to Abu Dhabi to visit the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi is essential as is the drive to Sharjah where Sharjah Art Foundation open no less than 6 solo exhibitions in their spaces and the Sharjah Art Museum.

Most events are family-friendly and open to everyone. Access to all venues listed in the guide is free of charge, unless stated otherwise – those with a valid student pass can gain free access to Art Dubai.

Make sure you visit our website, download our mobile app and follow our social media channels for updated information.

There really is no excuse not to get out there, be inspired and enjoy every minute.

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Introduction | Art Week Highlights

MARCH MEETING 184 Arts Area, Sharjah 09:30 - evening SIKKA ART FAIR OPENING 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 18:00 - 23:00

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ART WEEK HIGHLIGHTS

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE ARAB WORLD 81 American University of Dubai, Media City 18:00

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GALLERIES NIGHT ALSERKAL AVENUE 18:00 - 22:00

MARCH MEETING 184 Arts Area, Sharjah, 10:00 - evening SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 22:00

ART DUBAI MODERN SYMPOSIUM 38 Misk Lounge, Art Dubai Modern, Mina a’Salam 17:00 – 19:00 SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 22:00

DIFC ART NIGHTS 19:00 - 22:00

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FROM BARCELONA TO ABU DHABI, COCURATOR'S TOUR 202 Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, 18:00 – 19:00

MARCH MEETING 184 Arts Area, Sharjah 10:30 - evening

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SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 22:00 GCC AFTER DARK 110 Fort Island, Art Dubai 21:30 - 01:30

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Introduction | Art Week Highlights

LADIES DAY 24 Art Dubai, Including guided tours 13:00 - 16:00 SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 22:00 GLOBAL ART FORUM 96 Fort Island, Art Dubai 14:00 - 18:30

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ART DUBAI MODERN SYMPOSIUM 38 Misk Lounge, Art Dubai Modern, Mina a’Salam 16:00 – 20:00

SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 22:00 ART DUBAI MODERN SYMPOSIUM 38 Misk Lounge, Art Dubai Modern, Mina a’Salam 16:00 – 19:30 TOUR, KARIM NOURELDIN FOR JULIUS BAER 77 Art Dubai 16:00 - 16.30 TOUR, THE 10TH ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE 24 Art Dubai 16:30 - 17:00

GCC AFTER DARK 110 Fort Island, Art Dubai 21:30 - 01:30

GOOD MORNING GCC 91 Fort Island, Art Dubai 17:00 - 17:40

GLOBAL ART FORUM 96 Fort Island, Art Dubai 14:00 - 18:30

TOUR, PIAGET'S SUNLIGHT JOURNEY 77 Art Dubai 17:30 - 18:00

ART DUBAI Public Day 1 24 16:00 - 21:30

GCC AFTER DARK 110 Fort Island, Art Dubai 22:00 - 02:00

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ART DUBAI Public Day 2 24 14:00 - 21:30 SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 00:00 GLOBAL ART FORUM 96 Fort Island, Art Dubai 14:00 - 18:00 TOURS OF GALLERY HALLS 184 Art Dubai 16:00, 17:30, 19:00 TOUR, PIAGET'S SUNLIGHT JOURNEY 77 Art Dubai 16:00 - 16:30 TOUR, THE 10TH ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE 24 Art Dubai 16:30 - 17:00 TALK: POWERPLAY GALLERIST, COLLECTOR, CURATOR, ARTIST 38 Fort Island, Art Dubai 18:30 – 19:30

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GOOD MORNING GCC AND GCC AFTER DARK 184 Fort Island, Art Dubai 18:30 - 20:30 21:30 - 01:30

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Introduction | Art Week Highlights

ART DUBAI Public Day 3 24 14:00 - 21:30 SIKKA ART FAIR 202 Al Fahidi, Dubai 17:00 – 23:00 TOURS OF GALLERY HALLS 184 Art Dubai 14:00, 15:00, 16:00 TOUR, PIAGET'S SUNLIGHT JOURNEY 77 Art Dubai 16:00 - 16:30 RESIDENTS 2018 202 Round-table discussion, Fort Island, Art Dubai 16:00 – 18:00 OPEN HOUSE AND PORTFOLIO REVIEW SESSION 110 DIDI, Building 5, d3 14:00 - 16:00

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DUBAI

AL FAHIDI HISTORICAL NEIGHBOURHOOD The footprint of this neighbourhood first appeared in the 1690s, so it is a natural place to start when exploring the UAE. It it is now a protected heritage area and the new Al Seef project alongside allows for uninterrupted strolls along the Creek. Explore the web of pedestrian alleys called Sikka – hence the name for its annual festival – and find a treasure trove of creative delights.

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair

SIKKA ART FAIR

SIKKA Art Fair – Dubai Art Season’s flagship initiative – is held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors Office at Dubai Culture.

artist-led practices, initiatives and discourse, and includes live music, research initiatives, interactive gatherings and educational activities - all of which feature works by emerging Emirati, UAE and GCC-based artists.

The first annual initiative of its kind created to support and showcase Emirati and UAE and GCC based artists, SIKKA Art Fair also works to raise happiness and positive energy across all communities within Dubai. In 2018 SIKKA Art Fair celebrates its eighth edition from 17 – 26 March 2018 at Al Fahidi HistoricalNeighbourhood.

The SIKKA Art Fair is built around

The 2017 edition of the art fair saw more than 30,000 enthusiastic visitors included a hugely successful line-up of events, which garnered a remarkable turnout for its stimulating music, dance, plays, poetry recitals, improvisational performances and open-air cinema screenings featuring local and international talent.

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair

HOUSE 08 EVENT INFORMATION

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY Daily Workshops Oil and acrylic painting 18:00 - 19:30 Kids and adults

HOUSE 09

PARTICIPATING SIKKA HOUSES & TENANTS

SOCIAL HOUSE

BY ENABLE Exhibition showcasing over 1000 products by 75 special students from 17 special needs centres.

Daily Workshops: 16:00 – 16:30 Kids 17:30 – 18:00 Adults

17 - 26 March 2018 Location: SIKKA Art Fair, Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood, Bur Dubai

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Fair Timings: 17 March 2018 17:00 – 23:00 Opening Night 18 – 21 March 2018 1700 – 22:00 22 March 2018 17:00 – 23:00 23 March 2018 17:00 – 00:00 24 March 2018 17:00 – 23:00 25 March 2018 18:00 – 22:00 26 March 2018 (Closing Night) 18:00 – 23:00 +971 4 384 2008 Dubaiculture.gov.ae #SIKKA18

Amal Hospital: The work of a patient, mixed media THE POETRYHOOD

BY DUBAI POETICS Visual Art for Poetry – Installation & Activation Listening to Pure Poetry Installation Poem in a Bottle – Activation Sikka Artist - Ola Dajani / Mixed Media Book Hero Fully Booked

Stage Performances daily LOCO'MOTION Daily screenings To check updated workshop schedule and to register for workshops please visit sikka18.com 32

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SPECIAL EVENTS: 17 & 23 March 2018 13:00 onwards Spoken word performance by Farah Chamma and Jamil Adas 15 years +

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23 & 24 March 2018 Contemporary Hand Embroidery by Ola Dajani 17:00 -19:00 16+ ALSERKAL CULTURAL FOUNDATION SPECIAL EVENTS: Daily: 18:00 – 21:00 Made in UAE by Maitha Al Hashmi (Open Activity) Kids and Adults 17, 22– 24, 26, March 2018 Live Stencil Spray Painting & Calligraphy

by QIP (Open Activity) 18:00 onwards Crotching’ Art by “ le creazioni di Esseppi” 18:00 - 19:30 Kids and Adults

Architectural and Social History Study of the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood 18:45 - 20:15 Adults 18 March 2018 Smart@Art by Priyanka Berbata 16:00-18:00 Kids 18, 19, 20, 21, 25 and 26 March 2018: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Prof. Idris Mears 17:30-18:30 Kids and Adults 18 & 22 March 2018: Recycled Plastic Container

by Wafa Khazender 18:00-20:00 Kids 18 March 2018 The Spirit of Handcrafting by Hanin Hazeem and Arghavan Hatamabadi 18:00-20:00 18+ 20 March 2018 My Runway by Meaad Hassan Ismail Elturkmani 18:00-20:00 10+

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23 & 24 March 2018 Culture Diversity and Arabic Fashion Catwalk Event 17:30-20:30 Kids and Adults

21 March 2018 Horoof by Moza Ibrahim Bin Suliman and Ghaya Ahmed Abdullah 18:00-20:30 10-15 years old

19 March 2018 Digital and Analog mapping of (old) Dubai by André C. Meyerhans 16:00-18:30 10+

22 & 26 March 2018 Arabesque and Birds Watercolour Painting by Yolla Hanna 16:30-17:30 12+ 23 March 2018 Kids of Arabia by Anne Laure Roy 17:00-18:00 6+

22 March 2018 Writing Arabic Poems by Fatma Ahmed Al Noman 18:00-19:00 15+ 22 March 2018 The Role of Comic Books in the Middle East by Yasser Alizera and Zaid Adham 19:00-20:30 Adults

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22 March 2018 Pain and Passing by Poet Joel Hayward 17:15 - 18:50 Adults

Outdoor Activity: Bassam & Maysoon Climbing Men and It’s All Connected Chloe & Anne –Light box Knowledge and Human Development Authority Dubai Police Creatopia and Samsung Frame Digital Art Urban Sketchers Dubai: Livin Lattice and Kharbashat SIKKA ARTISTS: Christopher Benton (Installation), Shereen Shalhoub (Installation), Shereen Saifudeen / Patrick Lichty / Alan Thomas Mongey (Installation), Yousef Al Zaabi / Khalil Al Mansoori (Photography), Ahlam Al

19 March 2018: Colouring Photographs

by Jassim Rabie 16:00 onwards 20 March 2018 Pre-photography Setup by Jassim Rabie 16:00 21 March 2018 Calligraphy on Images

by Mahmoud Al Abadi & Mohammed Al Marzouqi 18:00 22 March 2018 Advanced Studio Photography

by Jassim Rabie 15:00

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Akaas Visual Art, Reflections Exhibition

EMIRATES FINE ARTS SOCIETY Workshops by Nasser Abdullah (chairman of Emirates Fine Arts Society) and 3 UAE artists 23 & 24 March 2018 (Arabic) 25 & 26 March 2018 (English) 18:00 – 21:00 DAR AL KHATT Workshop: 17 March 2018 18:00 – 20:00 Arabic Calligraphy with Abdul Fattah Adults

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25 March 2018 Circle/Talk for timing visit sikka18.com

ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY Daily workshops: Gypsum Carving and Woodcraft 18:00-19:30 Kids and Adults

SHEIKH MOHAMMED CENTRE FOR CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING Masjid Exhibition by Jessica Watson-Thorp Complimentary Mosque tours in conjunction with the exhibition

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Bannai (Photography), Hassan Bello / Chris Kapsaroff, Hamed Al Busta (Installation), Mariam Ketait (Installation), Anatoliy Kharkhurin (Photography), Francoise Palsterman (Interactive installation)

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair

SIKKA ARTISTS Hamda Al Falasi (Installation), Abdulla Bin Suqat (Video / Installation / Photography), Reem Saeed (Photography), Alia Al Joker (Installation), Nadine Noureldin Ezzat 35

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Dukkan Careem Icon Booth By Marta Lamovsek

SIKKA ARTISTS Badr Abbas (Painting), Ramy Abdulnour (Sculpture), Zayed University (Printmaking, Jomana Issmaiel (Mixed Media, The Confused Arab (Interactive installation – Sofiane Si Merabet P.41), Kamal Al Zoubi (Installation), Sharan Budhrani (Performance art / Painting)

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FATMA LOOTAH GALLERY Henna exhibition The Tree that connect women..

From East.. To West..

Audio-visual installation

by Maria Castagna

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ROOFTOP SOH: ART + BEAUTY Featuring an exhibition, live painting, workshops, chill zone, customization, and nail corner

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(Photography, p.41), Eman Al Hashemi (Mixed Media), Mukesh Shah (Installation, Najla alkhalifa (Phatography) Bdoor Al Sudairi (Installation)

SIKKA ARTISTS Ahmed Al Anzi (Installation), Mahmoud Dayoub (Painting), Rowdha Al Sayegh

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(Interactive installation), Hind Bin Demaithan (Heritage to Art)

SIKKA ARTISTS Raudha Al Ghurair / Bahar Al Bahar / Sawsan Al Bahar (Installation), Jumana Al Shaikh (Sculpture), Amna Al Blooshi (Painting), Fatma Fairooz / Mohammad Al Falasi (Painting), Patrick Lichty (Mixed Media), Lamya Al Shamsi (Painting)

Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair | House of Islamic Arts

HOUSE OF ISLAMIC ARTS HOUSE 42 with the long tradition of creating natural remedies from numerous Arabic plants, spices and flowers.

It aims to create a dialogue in nature; in between past-present, idealistic-realistic, seen–unseen.

ABOUT: The House of Islamic Arts will include exhibitions, workshops, live painting and a gift shop showcasing Islamic art and culture products. The house aims to highlight the principles of Islam such as unity, diversity, tolerance, perfection and continuity, all of which are reflected in the installations and art pieces. This will include Islamic Geometry

by Miaser Al Habori and Jaber Al Haddad, the Tawaaf Series by Siddiqa Juma which includes a VR experience celebrating diversity in Islam as well as Islamic patterns and calligraphy on ceramic tiles by the Alserkal ceramic division.

ARTISTS: Banu Colak, Digging through a Garden “Digging through a garden” is a modular, multi pieces, mixed media-textile artwork. It is inspired by an Islamic garden’s layout, natural Arabic medicines and healing recipes. It engages

Ajala Project and Siddiqa Juma, Tawaaf / Noor TAWAAF My faith doesn’t stand still. It is a solid core of my existence. It is by no means an unmoving anchor. It represents a journey to my own centre. It is no means finite. It feels like both a destination, and the starting point of a further journey.

The Tawaaf Series highlights the irresistible magnetism that pulls believers towards Mecca.

NOOR NOOR is the next stage in the evolution of her Tawaaf Series.

The purpose of this installation is to take the viewer into a more immersive and engaging experience of pilgrimage; marrying the concept of the geographical diversity of the Ummah with the process of tawaaf around the House of God, the Holy Kaabah.

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair | House of Islamic Arts

SPECIAL EVENTS: 17 March 2018 Qirtas 16:00-18:00 17 March 2018 Music of the Spheres

by Jaber Al Haddad 19:00-21:00 21 March 2018 Discovering Your Senses (Touch) 17:00-18:00 22 March 2018 Be a Superhero 17:30-18:00 23 March 2018 24 March 2018 Geometry in Islamic Art by Amin Tejpar 16:00- 17:30 Adults 24 March 2018 Looking Around 18:00-19:00 25 March 2018 Khashab Workshop 18:00-21:00 23 March 2018 Calligraphy

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17:00-19:00 SHEIKH MOHAMMED CENTRE FOR CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING Exhibition by Maryam al Farsi displaying traditional Arabic calligraphy themed on the Year of Zayed Sikka Café: A journey to 1950s Emirati traditional cafes Photo booth with UAE Traditional clothes Emirati calligrapher where guests will be able to get their names written in Arabic calligraphy Henna artist for visitors to have some traditional henna done Complimentary Emirati snacks and pastries, Arabic coffee and dates SAUDI HOUSE BY CULTURE FOCUSED TAMASHEE Photo Gallery Introduction / Artists:

Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Saudi House

SAUDI HOUSE HOUSE 53 ABOUT: The Saudi house curated

by Tamashee represents a journey of different forms of contemporary art in Saudi Arabia. The interior courtyard exhibits visible elements of Al-Qatt al-Asiri art which was recently recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage.

The journey begins by showing visitors that art has always been prevalent in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and proceeds into the different disciplines of art such as photography, portraits, weaving/ embroidery, sculptures, abstract portraits, miniature art, Islamic geometric art and calligraphy.

ARTISTS: Fatima Al Dawood (KSA) SPECIAL FEATURES Photo Gallery The photo gallery in this room will set the scene for the journey throughout the Saudi house.

Beginning with showing how art is not a new concept in Saudi Arabia and the Peninsula as a whole.

ARTISTS: Khlood Alkhaldi, Moath Alofi, Abdulrahman Aldgelbi Al-Qatt & Asiri Art Room This room will walk the visitor through the journey of Al-Qatt & Asiri Art ARTISTS: Ibraheem Alalmai

Female Portrait Room ARTISTS: Mudi Albednah The Stitching room ARTISTS: Mashail Faqeeh, Nojoud Alsudairi Mix Art ARTISTS: Fatima Al Dawood, Fatima Al Mohsen, Sara Alshobaili, Najoud Al Mushawih Hallway Introduction to plants and trees in the Arabian Peninsula The Hide Room 10 artists work on camel leather hide.

Male Abstract Portrait room ARTISTS: Mohanna Tayeb Miniature & Geometric Art Room ARTISTS: Muruj Alshatri, Butool Aljefri, Aeysha Enani The Khatt Room ARTISTS: Ayman Alhafith, Maha Al-Ghanmi, Maryam Abushal The Courtyard Live Activation Stencil for Coloring ARTISTS: Nouf Bin Shaieg External Walls ARTISTS: Maryam Abushal 39

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair

SPECIAL EVENTS: 17 March 2018 Qirtas 16:00-18:00 17 March 2018 Music of the Spheres

by Jaber Al Haddad 19:00-21:00 21 March 2018 Discovering Your Senses (Touch) 17:00-18:00 22 March 2018 Be a Superhero 17:30-18:00 23 March 2018 24 March 2018 Geometry in Islamic Art by Amin Tejpar 16:00- 17:30 Adults

ACTIVATED SIKKA COURTYARDS: COURTYARD A LOCO’MOTION Dubai Cinema + F&B

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COURTYARD B Main Stage + F&B COURTYARD C 17 March 2018 Art Therapy for Well-being

by Dr. Maryam Ketait 19:00 - 19:40 Kids and Adults Taradudad – The Power of Sonic Vibrations by Marko Zigon

Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Sikka Art Fair

20:00 - 21:30 Adults 18 March 2018 Nikon School Playing With Light, the Essentials on Light Painting with Cesar Parroco 18:00 – 19:00 Photowalk, 19:00 The Art of Beat - Multi Cultural Mix of Rhythms by Allan Poteon 19:00 – 20:00 Kids and Adults

19 March 2018 Fun Blind Folded Painting for Kids 19:00 – 20:00 Kids Blind Fold Art Therapy 20:00 –21:00 Adults 20 March 2018 Arabic Graffiti, Maryam Abushal of Culture-Focused Tamashee 18:00 – 20:00 Nikon School An Intro to Astro, How to Photograph Galaxies Far, Far Away with Sami Olabi 20:00 – 22:00 21 March 2018 Mother’s Day Workshop - Mama Paper Doll by Ola Dajani

17:00 – 20:00 Kids Portrait by Medaf Studio 18:00 – 19:00 Kids Nikon School We are the City, A Street Photography Session with Subodh Shetty 20:00 – 22:00 22 March 2018 Miniature Art on Clay Blocks, Muruj Alshatri of CultureFocused Tamashe 19:00 – 21:00 23 March 2018 Emirati Doll by Dubai Jiggy 17:00 – 20:00 Kids with Adult Supervision Embroidery, Mashail Faqeeh of Culture-Focused Tamashee 20:00 – 22:00 24 March 2018 Yadawei Pottery 17:00 – 20:00 Kids and Adults Acrylic Etching by Maitha Al Zaffin of Culture-Focused Tamashee 18:00 – 20:00

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25 March 2018 Pastel Painting by Ella Orencillo 18:00 – 20:00 Kids and Adults Nikon School Motion Pictures, DSLR Videography 101 with Pradeep Mohan 20:00 – 22:00 26 March 2018 Yadawei Pottery 18:00-19:00 Kids and Adults

OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT Mohammad AlOlama Dan Dan Installation

Mukesh shah – Neon Acrylic Installation (Behind XVA Hotel) Richard Ketley - Acrylic paint on sepia film (Between House 33 & 36 and between House 18 & 20) Flipside: Sound Installation (Between House 30 & 39 and backside of House 36) Zena Adhami – Nation Of... Installation ( Between House 12 & 16) Live Action Painting with Sharan Budhrani Courtyard A FWC crew, Graffiti, (Year of Zayed) To check updated workshop schedule and to register for workshops please visit sikka18.com

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A cultural photographer is an artist who dedicates his talent to his country, an artist who makes sure history is never forgotten. I believe the beautiful messages which are hidden in every colour of the UAE’s flag deserve to be artistically recorded and shown to the world, to give a fresh perspective on Emirati values.

ROWDHA AHMAD AL SAYEGH

Artist, Cultural Reflections, House 38

PERSPECTIVE

SOFIANE SI MERABET / THE CONFUSED ARAB

Artist, Hawa City, House 33 Between migration and travels, airports are emotionally charged spaces where Arabs are facing old fears, challenging current perceptions or starting new lives.

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Tashkeel

TASHKEEL HOUSE 10: OUT OF THE DARK Jalal Abuthina

18 March 2018 How to Use Your Analogue Camera

by Analog Photography UAE 18:30-21:30 15+

As a celebration of the UAE’s vibrant photographic community, Tashkeel is hosting Out of the Dark, an exhibition of photography selected through an open call that demonstrates the creative potentials of all things analogue, from processing to alternative forms of printing and developing.

TEXTURES OF THE CREEKSIDE Tashkeel presents an exhibition by members of the Dubai-based community collective Analogue Photography in the UAE. The curated exhibition of black and white analogue photographic work is the culmination of the group’s yearlong project Textures of the Creekside.

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22 March 2018 Smart Phone Photography

by Tashkeel 18:30-20:00 8-16 years old 23 & 24 March 2018 DIY Developing by Analog Photography UAE 17:30-20:30 15+ 25 March 2018 Smart Phone Photography

by Tashkeel 19:30-21:00 8-16 years old 26 March 2018 Photowalk by Analog Photography UAE 18:30-19:30 Kids and Adults EVENT INFORMATION 17 March – 31 March 2018 Location: Tashkeel al Fahidi, House 10, Al Fahidi Neighbourhood

Dubai: Al Fahidi Historicals Neighbourhood | Mawaheb

MAWAHEB FROM BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE HOUSE 11: HERE I AM Vincent Baur

between society and the determined ones who can often lack direction once they finish school. Artists can learn the principles of art using a variety of media under the direction of resident art teachers and assistant volunteers, regularly showing their artworks in local and international exhibitions.

EVENT INFORMATION

A collection of paintings by the Mawaheb artists about what inspires them in life and small figurines based on people with special needs that will be placed around the Al Fahidi district, some visible but most hidden creating a kind of treasure hunt for visitors to the area. Attached to the figures will be a short message inviting visitors to come to MAWAHEB and meet our talented artists.

17 – 23 March 2018 Location: House 11, Al Fahidi Neighbourhood Open: Sikka hours, Sunday to Friday, 09:00 – 19:00; Normal hours, Sundays to Thursdays, 09:00 –15:00 +971 4 352 8328 mawaheb-dubai.com @mawahebdubai

ABOUT: Mawaheb is the Arabic word for ‘talent’, an art studio for the determined ones aged 16 years and above. The concept behind Mawaheb is to bridge the gap

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | Majlis Gallery

MAJLIS GALLERY Karel Zijlstra, bronze sculpture

A CELEBRATION OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT

Majlis Gallery presents an exhibition of hot cast bronze sculpture by Karel Zijlstra. Since his childhood, Zijlstra has been intrigued by past inhabitants of this world. Over hundreds of thousands of years men and women developed from bestial creatures into spiritual human beings. Lack of specific knowledge made them believe in gods and miracles; life was explained and made bearable by storytelling. Zijlstra’s figures have a grace and presence that reminds us, in these days of instant communication, that our ancestors lived closer to the forces of the natural world and understood its complexities probably better than we do today. Zijlstra’s bronzes are modelled in wax and then cast in bronze using the lost wax method.

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ABOUT: The gallery’s vision is twofold: to bring international artists to Dubai, supporting their exploration and interpretation of the Middle East into visual forms and to represent locally based artists.

There is also an ever changing collection of three dimensional objects displayed alongside fine art, sculpture and artifacts in the five main rooms of the house. A Majlis is defined as a meeting place or common ground.

EVENT INFORMATION 17 March – 19 April 2018 Location: House 52 Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Bur Dubai Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 - 18:00 +971 4 353 6233 themajlisgallery.com @majlisgallery

Dubai: Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood | XVA Gallery

XVA GALLERY BETWEEN LANDS AND SEAS Dia Batal, Fragments of Being

what remains with us along those routes. The exhibition features drawing, collage and silkscreen on paper and sculpture in metal.

ABOUT: Established in 2003, XVA is one of the leading galleries in the Middle East that specialises in contemporary art from the Arab world, Iran and the Subcontinent.

EVENT INFORMATION

Between Lands and Seas is Dia Batal’s first solo exhibition in Dubai, featuring recent and never before seen artworks. In this exhibition Dia Batal explores notions of belonging, identity and what constitutes the meaning of home. Borrowing texts from poetry, literature, and narratives from her own family history, she investigates, using materials such as paper and metal, the meaning of home as an internal point of orientation.

The artworks also examine the significance of involuntary departures from a homeland, and

17 March – 18 April 2018 Location: House 15, Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Bur Dubai Open: Sundays to Saturdays, 10:00 – 18:00 +9714 3535383 xvagallery.com @xvagallery Opening Night: 17 March, 18:00 – 21:00

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Dubai: Al Fahidi Neighbourhood | XVA Gallery

AL QUOZ The warehouse district of the city, where you can find manufacturers of practically everything, first became an arts hub when the leafy Courtyard opened in 2000. The Courtyard remains a hip hangout with a theatre, galleries, boutiques, designer coffee shops, and farmers market. Across the road sits the resplendent Alserkal Avenue, which opened in 2016 and is now home to 16 contemporary art galleries and over 40 creative businesses.

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Dubai: Al Quoz

TOTAL ARTS Shideh Tami (Iran), Jeoffrey Mukasa (Uganda)

IRAN/AFRICA

Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions at Total Arts at the Courtyard entitled ‘Visual Dialogues’, Iran/Africa is curated

by Fereydoun Ave, a collector, artist and curator. It reflects on the modern and contemporary art scenes in Iran and Africa, allowing the images to communicate and create a dialogue which in its dynamic is not verbal or intellectual but atmospheric and poetical.

Artworks have been selected from Mr. Bakhtiar’s Dubai-based collection of Iranian and African art.

ABOUT: Total Arts is recognised as a pioneer on the Dubai arts scene, formed to allow for a creative platform at a time when

the scene was beginning to first grow. Since then it has established itself as an educational platform, raising awareness of both local and international artistic talent.

EVENT INFORMATION 17 March – April 2018 Open: Saturday to Thursday, 09:00 – 19:00 Location: The Courtyard building, entrances on Street 4B or 6, Al Quoz +971 4 347 5050 courtyard-uae.com/totalarts

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Dubai: Al Quoz | The Mine and The Courtyard Playhouse

THE MINE Yasuaki Onishi, Untitled, from the plate of presence series, 2016, Courtesy The Mine

FORMING INVISIBLE PHENOMENA

The Courtyard Playhouse opened in 2013 and is home to a vibrant community of theatre-lovers who come to learn, explore, volunteer, perform, make friends and be a part of something beautiful.

The Desert Monologues Acting Workshop: 17 March – 28 April 2018 Class # 1: 17 March – 28 April 2018, Saturdays 17:00 – 19:00

Forming Invisible Phenomena is a phrase that Japanese artist Yasuaki Onishi has engineered into a visual language of multiple graphite and aluminum paintings and a larger suspended sculpture, shown for the first time as part of Residents at Art Dubai 2018 (R5). The work takes its inspiration from Dubai, commenting on the production and waste cycle common to modern societies.

ABOUT: The Mine was originally founded in 2014 in Dubai as an interdisciplinary incubator.

It has since evolved into a nomadic art initiative.

EVENT INFORMATION themine.ae @the.mine

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THE COURTYARD PLAYHOUSE

Class # 2: 18 March – 28 April 2018 Sundays 19:30 – 21:30 Sunday Night Theatre: Jane Austen Unscripted 18 March 2018, 20:00 – 22:00 Monday Night Comedy: Racy Desis – Hinglish Impro Comedy 19 March 2018, 20:00 – 22:00 Wednesday Night Improv: Maestro 21 March 2018, 20:00 - 22:00 Improvised Kids’ Storytime: Little Dahlings 23 March 2018, 11:30 – 12:15 EVENT INFORMATION Location: The Courtyard building, Street 4B Al Quoz 1 +971 50 986 1761 courtyardplayhouse.com @courtyardplayhouse

Dubai: Al Quoz | Create Hub Gallery

CREATE HUB GALLERY IMAGE OF SELF Yosef Lule, Ethiopia

ABOUT: Vibrant, diverse and innovative, Create Hub Gallery promotes artists from around the world, with an emphasis on works by emerging African artists.

Through a dynamic programme of exhibitions and projects, Create Hub strives to present multisensory experiences from some of Africa’s most exciting artists, whilst drawing attention to the contemporary African art scene as one brimming with creative energy, new ideas, and world-class talent.

Africa is often referred to as a single entity or one country, despite the 54 different counties and myriad of vastly different people and cultures that inhabit the continent. The Create Hub series launches with an art exhibition of a number of Ethiopia’s most exciting contemporary artists. To kick off the series, Create Hub will be hosting a day to celebrate Ethiopia and its culture.

EVENT INFORMATION 18 March – 21 April 2018 Location: Al Quoz 3, 6th Street, Warehouse 4 Open: Saturdays, 10:00 – 18:00.

Other days by appointment only. +971 56 748 16 38 createhub.gallery @createhub.gallery

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Nahosenay Negussie, Yosef Lule, Henok Ayele, Brook Yeshitila , Dawit Tefera, Abiy Eshete.

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Dubai: Al Quoz | Meem Gallery

MEEM GALLERY Sohrab Sepehri, Untitled, 1959-63, Meem Gallery

SAQQAKHANEH

Saqqakhaneh is an exhibition of a rare collection of works

by Modern Iranian masters.

ARTISTS: Massoud Arabshahi, Faramarz Pilaram, Sohrab Sepehri, Sadegh,Tabrizi, Parviz Tanavoli, Hossein Zenderoudi.

Credited with the establishment of a modernist approach to a national artistic identity, the Saqqakhaneh movement was formed in the early 1960s. Realising an affinity between aspects of indigenous pre-Islamic and Islamic forms and modern Western art movements, this group of artists was able to reinterpret traditional modes such as calligraphy, miniature painting, textiles and architectural elements, resulting in 52

innovative artwork that embodied a uniquely Iranian character.

ABOUT: Meem Gallery runs an ambitious programme of solo and group exhibitions with a special focus on regional Modern Masters and innovative contemporary artists.

Art Dubai Booth C16 EVENT INFORMATION 13 March – 30 May 2018 Location: Umm Suqeim Street, Al Quoz, Dubai Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 18:00 +971 4 347 7883 meemartgallery.com @meemgallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue

ALSERKAL AVENUE

Established in 2007, Alserkal Avenue is the region’s foremost contemporary arts and culture neighbourhood. Home to 16 contemporary art galleries and over 40 creative businesses, Alserkal Avenue has cultivated a vibrant community of visual and performing arts organisations, designers, and artisanal spaces, becoming an essential platform for the development of art and culture in the UAE. 2017 saw the launch of Alserkal Residency—a platform for artistic experimentation and discursive exchange.

This year, Alserkal Avenue hosts an exhibition of emerging contemporary artists based in the UAE; open studios with its

current cycle of residents; in addition to a rich programme of talk, tours and workshops.

alserkalavenue.ae @alserkalavenue

GALLERIES NIGHT A coordinated evening of exhibitions, artist commissions and popup projects taking place across Alserkal Avenue. The contemporary art galleries within the Avenue will open their new exhibitions in a vibrant evening open to the public.

19 March 2018 18:00-22:00

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Concrete

CONCRETE Saba Qizilbash, courtesy artist, UAE Unlimited and Alserkal Programming

ISHARA: SIGNS, SYMBOLS AND SHARED LANGUAGES

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ARTISTS: Amna Al Dabbagh, Cheb Moha, Chndy, Dina Khorchid, Farah Al Qasimi, Flounder Lee, Nasir Nasrallah, Saba Qizilbash, Salem Al Mansoori, and Shaikha Al Ketbi alongside loaned works by guest artists Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian.

third languages that were used to aid communication between various groups or in situations where communication was difficult.

Curated by Karim Sultan, the concept of the exhibition is derived from a broad understanding of the meaning and use of language. In Arabic, Ishara, denotes ‘sign’—the most basic form of communication, and refers to the linguistic marks, gestures and indications, as well as commonly used signals that transcend language, like those used in traffic or urban spaces. The curatorial process for the exhibition has been thematically informed by the idea of ‘lingua franca’, which hints at constructed, second or

ABOUT: Concrete is a multidisciplinary, multi-purpose event venue in Alserkal Avenue designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas.

The exhibition is presented

by Alserkal Programming and UAE Art Unlimited.

EVENT INFORMATION 5 March – 1 April 2018 Location: Warehouse 55, Alserkal Avenue concrete.ae @concrete.ae

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Concrete Voices

KARIM SULTAN Curator, Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages

Mentorship and skill-sharing is an essential part of the development of individual artists as well as the growth of a wider scene. This is true anywhere, but it is vital here, where cultural producers belong to disparate networks or work independently, never far from the risk of isolation or lack of engagement with the surrounding context.

MENTORSHIP The UAE has always embraced and celebrated contemporary artists, and has worked to develop an arts ecosystem that allows them to thrive.

UAE Unlimited places a strong emphasis on the Arabic language, incorporating it into our exhibitions where possible, and we see in many Emirati artists that this fusion of language and culture can create extraordinary pieces of work.

SHOBHA PIA SHAMDSANI Executive Director, UAE Unlimited, and Art Advisor & Director, Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Collection of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | The Yard

THE YARD Hale Tenger, Under, 2018, work in-progress. Photo courtesy Green Art Gallery, Dubai, Galeri Nev, Istanbul and Alserkal Programming, Dubai

UNDER, 2018

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Hale Tenger’s first major commission in the UAE is a freestanding structure made from the same material of Alserkal Avenue’s existing buildings, that visitors are invited to enter. Under, 2018 originates from the artist’s memory of a fictional narrative that describes an ancient hunting ploy used by aristocrats. Nets were set in the woods much earlier than the hunting date, stretching low throughout the forest so that the birds became accustomed to living under the net, adapting by only flying low. Once the nets were removed the birds would no longer fly high, as if they had forgotten, thus becoming easy prey for the noble hunting parties. Currently, tens of millions of game birds are being bred at farms set in nature with nets, creating the same effects on these birds today, for bird hunting markets.

The physical and psychological experience of Hale Tenger’s installation touches on many aspects of human behaviour and systems of control, social as well as civic. This work expresses a feeling that is shared from Tenger’s home in Istanbul, to its site in Dubai, as well as across global contemporary societies. In order to re-align and/or change, the act of recognition, even the smallest shift in perspective, needs to take place. Hale Tenger’s installation asks, “How have we adapted to the conditions of our time?” and “If birds can forget to fly high in the sky, what have we humans forgotten?”

EVENT INFORMATION Location: The Yard, Alserkal Avenue Open: 19 – 31 March 2018 Curator: Mari Spirito Artist: Hale Tenger Commissioned by Alserkal Programming

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MARI SPIRITO Curator, Under, 2018, Founder, Protocinema

COMMUNITY

Public artworks are the voices in a community, bringing people together to have conversations and exchange ideas that are vital to well being. Just as it is essential for humans to have their voices heard, we need to listen to each other: art is an important vehicle for these exchanges. Public art is where we celebrate our victories, share our grievances, galvanise, question and support each other. An essential element in curating public art is that of time. It is about responding to what is happening at a certain point in history while we are living in it, as it unfolds on the ground, and being sensitive to that moment.

DAPHNE TARANTO and ANTHONY TINO Co-Founders and Directors, Fully Booked Art Book Fair

The interest and passion for independent publishing runs strong in Dubai and across the region. The art book fair's second edition is presented as part of the inaugural programme of the new Misk Art Institute. Alongside a wide range of international and local vendors, we present a special exhibition, Huroof/‫ فورح‬Graphic Design from the Middle East: Contemporary Explorations in Typography curated by Yusef Alahmad. This exhibition showcases a variety of strong designers and artists working in letterform and will set the stage for the art book fair. You'll be sure to find something that piques your interest at the fair, plus the creator him or herself behind the work!

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Alserkal Programming Pop-ups

ALSERKAL PROGRAMMING POP-UPS FULLY BOOKED ART BOOK FAIR

ABOUT: Fully Booked returns to Dubai Art Week as the only art book fair in the UAE, featuring an exhibition of Typography in Middle Eastern Graphic Design.

The fair serves as a platform to consider the medium of the artist book as a “multi-site”—a tactile, portable, and accessible form.

The intention of the fair is to foster meaningful cultural exchanges between regional and international artist publishers, as well as the cultural practitioners and visitors

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present in Dubai during Art Week.

Presented as part of the inaugural programme of the new Misk Art Institute.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 – 24 March 2018 Location: Warehouse i-82, Alserkal Avenue Open: Daily, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 50 556 9797 fullybooked.ae @fullybooked.ae

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Alserkal Programming Pop-ups

Kabir Ahmed Masum Chisty, performance from The Ground Beneath My Feet at Serendipity Arts Festival, 2017

RECLAMATION GROUND BY SERENDIPITY ARTS FESTIVAL

In December 2017, Serendipity Arts Festival proudly presented The Ground Beneath My Feet, an exhibition of contemporary performance art in Goa. The exhibition invited nine artists from around the world to present sitespecific works on a 229 feet barge docked on the Mandovi river. The Ground Beneath My Feet was a project dedicated to performance art curated by the HH Art Spaces and developed in collaboration with Serendipity Arts Foundation, HH Art Spaces, and Asia Art Archive in India.

Reclamation Ground brings together new iterations of four works of art that went into the making of the exhibition in Goa. This exhibition is a reconstruction of fragments from the barge invoking the precarious fragments of land surrounded by rising oceans and migrating populations.

Location: Pop-up in warehouse 59, Alserkal Avenue

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Alserkal Programming Pop-ups

ATHR GALLERY PRESENTS 1101: A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT

BY ABDULRAHMAN GAZZAZ

AUTHENTIC MARKS | SHAGHAF GROUP 2ND INTERNATIONAL MINIATURE PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION, 2018.

1101 is a participatory social experiment based around contemporary value systems in the art world.

Exhibition of Iranian and African Contemporary artworks from Bakhtiar Collection curated by Fereydoun Ave.

Authentic Marks is an international exhibition of fine art printmaking that will be open for all local, national and international artists.

Both professional and early career artists are encouraged to submit their original, hand-pulled artworks for this open themed art exhibition.

The goal of this exhibition is to showcase each artist’s originality through their work. With the freedom to choose the style, theme, technique and concept, artists all over the globe will continue to leave their ‘print’ in the creative world.

19-24 March 2018 Location: Pop-up in Warehouse 46, Alserkal Avenue

19-24 March 2018 Location: Pop-up in Nadi Al Quoz, Alserkal Avenue

19-24 March 2018 Location: Pop-up in Warehouse 61, Alserkal Avenue IRAN/AFRICA

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | 1X1 Art Gallery

1X1 ART GALLERY Vivek Vilasini, Recruiting Station, 2013

THE PROGRESSIVES The Progressive Artists’ Group, a collective of some of the most iconic modern artists of India, formed in 1947 in Bombay, challenging the conservative artistic establishments of their times.

ARTISTS: F. N. Souza, S. H. Raza, M. F. Husain, K. H. Ara, H. A. Gade, S. K. Bakre, Manishi Dey, Ram Kumar, Akbar Padamsee and Tyeb Mehta, Vasudeo S. Gaitonde, Krishen Khanna, Mohan Samant

BETWEEN ONE SHORE AND SEVERAL OTHERS

EXHIBITION DATES 20 March to 30 April 2018

EXHIBITION DATES 20 – 31 March 2018 M.F. Husain, Vision for Abu Dhabi Museum, 2008

A solo show by Vivek Vilasini, which is an enquiry into the transmigrations of concepts, their assimilation, internalisation, and the evolution of identities, an ongoing process embedded in everyday social practices.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Warehouse B10, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 1x1artgallery.com +971 4 341 1287 @1x1artgalleryuae

ABOUT: Celebrating two decades of presenting Indian Modern and Contemporary Art to the UAE, 1X1 Art Gallery is an important platform for both established and emerging artists.

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Art Jameel

ART JAMEEL Ala Younis, Plan for Greater Baghdad, 2015. Photo by Alessandra Chemollo, 2015. Courtesy la Biennale di Venezia

ALA YOUNIS: PLAN FOR FEMINIST GREATER BAGHDAD

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Art Jameel and Delfina Foundation collaborate to present a solo exhibition by Ala Younis held simultaneously in London and Dubai.

The exhibition includes a major new installation co-commissioned by the two organisations, Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad (2018), that builds on Younis’s 2015 work Plan for Greater Baghdad, which was included in the Central Exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale curated

by Okwui Enwezor, and is shown alongside the new commission in the exhibition, thanks to a loan by Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah.

Typical of Younis’s investigative practice, the work rearticulates archival material to bring about new narratives.

ABOUT: Art Jameel supports artists and creative communities.

Current initiatives include running heritage institutes and restoration programmes, plus a broad range of arts and educational initiatives for all ages. The organisation’s programmes foster the role of the arts in building open, connected communities; at a time of flux and dramatic societal shifts, this role is understood as more crucial than ever.

Winter 2018 will mark the opening of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai, one of the first contemporary arts institutions in the city.

EVENT INFORMATION 28 February – 14 April 2018 Location: Warehouse 48, The Yard, Alserkal Avenue Open: Mondays to Thursdays and Saturdays, 10:00 – 18:00; Sundays, by appointment only. artjameel.org @art_jameel

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ANTONIA CARVER Director, Art Jameel

We’ve pooled our knowledge of what already exists in the UAE and aim to add something new. The Jameel Arts Centre, opening later this year will feature a dynamic, rolling programme of curated exhibitions and initiatives, as much devoted to learning as viewing.

The Centre sits right on the Creek and in a way, that body of water is our inspiration: we’re looking to develop programmes that riff on the global nature of the UAE and its complex history of trade and exchange, and that reach out to the community at large.

EXCHANGE

ALA YOUNIS Artist

Heavily based on archives, found material and the stories of of the protagonists of a Saddam Hussein Gymnasium that was designed by Le Corbusier, Plan for Greater Baghdad looks into monuments' posterity and in utilising plans for Baghdad as an expression of power. The new edition, Plan (fem.) for Greater Baghdad, reproduces this history by tracing some of the women's interventions in these plans. The time and elements of my training in architecture after the Gulf War saw these movements transit in Amman, differentiating the times they lived in from the times we inherited.

INTERVENTION

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Ayyam Gallery

AYYAM GALLERY Jean Boghossian, Untitled, from Abstract calligraphy series, 2017

JEAN BOGHOSSIAN

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ABOUT: Founded in 2006, Ayyam Gallery is a leading arts organisation that manages the careers of diverse established and emerging artists. Ayyam Gallery has also contributed to recent efforts that document underrepresented facets of global art history.

Art Dubai Booth D10

EVENT INFORMATION Jean Boghossian’s first solo exhibition with Ayyam Gallery, highlights the artist’s multimedia paintings from his Abstract Calligraphy series. In these works, Boghossian applies fire and smoke to his canvases, using a wide array of brushes and torches as his tools. This process unique to the artist leaves behind patterns of perforation or as he describes it “poetry and construction through destruction”. Boghossian applies these techniques to various mediums, including canvas, paper, and paintings, to deliver universal and harmonious works.

19 March – 12 May 2018 Location: Warehouse 11, Alserkal Avenue Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10:00 -18:00; Saturdays, 12:0018:00 +971 4 3236242 ayyamgallery.com @AyyamGallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Brownbook

BROWNBOOK International Fair of Tripoli in Tripoli, Lebanon by Oscar Niemeyer, 1962 - 1977 © Philip Cheung

MUDUN URBAN CULTURES IN TRANSIT

Mudun Urban Cultures in Transit examines the evolution of contemporary urban culture in vibrant metropolises across the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) through architecture, places and the societies that inhabit them.

Featuring photographs, models and texts based on the ten years of research and documentation by Brownbook and Studio CE, this exhibition conveys the dynamic atmosphere of individual locales and the relationship of inhabitants to their spatial surroundings.

Mudun, Urban Cultures in Transit is an international exhibition by Brownbook and The Vitra Design Museum that has recently travelled to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 3 May 2018 Location: Unit 58, Alserkal Avenue Open: Daily, 10:00 – 18:00 brownbook.tv @brownbook

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Carbon 12

CARBON 12 Gil Heitor Cortesão, View with a Room, 2017

UMBRA

Umbra is the fourth solo show the Portuguese painter Gil Heitor Cortesão has had with Carbon 12. His eerie interior and exterior modernist architectural spaces feel abandoned but full of tension. By manipulating the surfaces of his paintings on plexiglass, Cortesão disrupts the scenes, denying the viewer any distance or perspective and creating a sense of unease.

ABOUT:Carbon 12 was established in 2008, initiating a comprehensive, firmly global, programme of institution-grade artists.

Internationally active, Carbon 12 continuously introduces and promotes established and emerging artists into the UAE contemporary art scene.

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EVENT INFORMATION 18 March – 1 May 2018 Location: Unit 37, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11.30 – 19.30 +971 4 340 6016 carbon12dubai.com @carbon12gallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Custot Gallery Dubai

CUSTOT GALLERY DUBAI Anish Kapoor, Water Pendant, Form I, Large, 2013. Courtesy of Louisa Guinness Gallery. Photo Credit: Richard Valencia.

ART AND JEWELLERY

Custot Gallery Dubai is delighted to present the first artists’ jewellery exhibition in the region. The show will also include paintings and sculptures from the artists, creating a dialogue between ‘miniature’ and ‘monumental’ works of art by some of the most important figures in 20th century and contemporary art.

ARTISTS:Ron Arad, Peter Blake, Alexander Calder, Enrico Castellani, Ian Davenport, Niki de Saint Phalle, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Barry Flanagan, Lucio Fontana, Anthony Gormley, Pouran Jinchi, Anish Kapoor, Nadim Karam, Jeff Koons, Pablo Picasso, Marc Quinn, Pablo Reinoso, Hervé van der Straeten, Sophia Vari and Bernar Venet.

ABOUT:Custot Gallery Dubai, founded by Stéphane Custot, opened in March 2016. The gallery showcases modern and contemporary artists.

Art Dubai Booth F8

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 2 June 2018 Location: Unit 84, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 346 8148 custotgallerydubai.ae @CustotDubai

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Elmarsa

ELMARSA UNKNOWN PROGRAM Ali Tnani, Unknown Program, 2017

contradictions in such narratives and opens a space for questioning the utopic vision of our hyperconnected contemporary age.

Elmarsa Dubai is pleased to present Tunisian artist Ali Tnani’s first solo exhibition of his multimedia works in the UAE. The exhibition is curated

by Marie Cantos & Aziza Harmel.

Through a multi-disciplinary practice of installation, drawing and photography, Tnani offers an examination of social issues in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Playing on notions of erasure in historical narrative, Tnani deploys the trace as a semiotic index, a sign for the remnant or a memory left behind by the act of erasure. An extension of his notion of “counter-spaces” that are simultaneously plastic and political, the trace is understood as a phantom of history. History itself must be recognised as something that has been written, is being written, and will be rewritten again in the future. The trace therefore exposes the inherent

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ABOUT: One of the most established galleries in the region, Elmarsa has been operating in Tunis since 1994 and opened their Dubai gallery in Alserkal Avenue in 2015. The gallery’s mission has always been to generate interest in Arab art from North Africa, specialising in both modern and contemporary practice.

Art Dubai Booths A14 and M6

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March -26 April 2018 Location: #C23, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 341 5806 info@galerielmarsa.com galerielmarsa.com @elmarsagallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | El Seed Studio and Flipside DXB

EL SEED STUDIO FLIPSIDE DXB

I eL Seed in his studio, Copyright Christina Dimitrova

ABOUT: El Seed Studio is the artist’s creative headquarters where he creates his artworks and plans his public art projects. At the heart of Alserkal Avenue you can discover the artist’s work, which includes sketches, canvases, sculptures, and works on paper.

You may even get a chance to meet the artist himself and get your individually signed book.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Unit 75, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 elseed.art @elseed

ABOUT: The only independent record shop in the United Arab Emirates, The Flip Side is primarily a hub for the local music scene, stocking labels like Ark to Ashes, Bedouin records, Boogie Box & Volt Music and hosting release parties, live music & talks, while also producing its own zine NO BUDGET. With an outwardlooking mentality, it connects the dots between underground music scenes from around the world from jazz, blues, funk and soul to hip-hop, indie, ambient, electronic and dance music.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Unit 71, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 12:00 – 21:00 +971 4 221 6830 flipsidedxb.com @flipsidedxb 69

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | FN Designs

FN DESIGNS FLOW Rashid Al Mulla

ABOUT: FN Designs is a multidisciplinary art and design studio based in Dubai, FN is the Arabic word for ‘the arts’.

Curiosity, creativity and aspirations sit at the heart of FN Designs diverse body of work. Conceptual and visual design, illustrations, photography, publications and clothing are the layers that our studio has to offer whilst applying pragmatic and creative solutions.

EVENT INFORMATION FN Designs presents FLOW by Rashid Al Mulla. In his new collection, Rashid Al Mulla explores the human emotion and the energy emitted from a person and how it affects others perceiving this energy.

Different people read different energies and no one can determine the way a person feels until this energy flowing from each person reach us. Therefore, in his collection, Rashid represent the energy emitted from a person with a flow of lines.

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Location: Warehouse 26, Alserkal Avenue Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 18:00 +971 4 379 0490 fanndesigns.com @FNdesigns

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde

GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE Haleh Redjaian, Untitled, 2018, 21 x 29.7 cm. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde

RHYTHM AND TRACE

Haleh Redjaian’s works on paper, textiles and site-specific wall installations are grounded in geometry, but she uses its rules to reshape and retrace the apparent order of angles and lines. Her compositions subtly belie their own errors and form what she calls a 'natural abstract language'. She will often base her drawings on a precise background, such as grid paper, and weave graphite into its rigid structures with rough shadings and free-radical lines.

ABOUT: After establishing B21 Gallery in 2006, one of the first contemporary art spaces in the UAE, Isabelle van den Eynde

launched her eponymous space in Dubai's Alserkal Avenue in 2010, representing a pluralistic roster of artists from the Middle East and North Africa.

Art Dubai Booth E6

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 3 May 2018 Location: Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 323 5052 ivde.net @GalleryIVDE

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Green Art Gallery

GREEN ART GALLERY Photo by Rachel Gruijters. Courtesy of Nazgol Ansarinia and Green Art Gallery Dubai.

DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS, BUYING WASTE

Through drawings, collages, sculptures, murals and works in textile, Iranian artist Nazgol Ansarinia draws a portrait of everyday life in her native Tehran, and of her own position within that context. She grows with a city that now counts almost 14 million residents and whose face is rapidly changing. As capitalism’s sway over contemporary Iranian society grows ever more pervasive, there is housing shortages, the real estate market booms, houses make way for towering new apartment buildings and shopping malls, which results in a vicious paradoxical cycle of construction and deconstruction.

ABOUT: Green Art Gallery has been active in the region for nearly four decades. Starting in the late 1980’s in Homs, Syria the gallery opened in Dubai in 1995 with

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a programme focused on Arab Modernism. Green Art Gallery relaunched in 2010 as a contemporary art space with a programme featuring a multi-generational mix of artists whose practices are rigourously researched, idea-led, and representative of our current moment.

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EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 3 May 2018 Location: Unit 28, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 - 19:00 +971 4 346 9305 gagallery.com @greenartgallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Grey Noise

GREY NOISE Tim Bruniges, Grey Noise, 2018. Image courtesy of the artist and Grey Noise.

LOSERS CLUB

ABOUT: GREY NOISE represents art practices with a focus towards contemporaneity and an emphasis on distinct, often experimental content. Not limiting itself to geographical representation, the gallery exhibits both emerging and established artists who demonstrate a defined conceptual premise in their oeuvre.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 31 July 2018 Location: Unit 24, Alserkal Avenue Open: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 11:00 – 19:00 +971 4 379 0764 greynoise.org @greynoisedxb

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Gulf Photo Plus

GULF PHOTO PLUS BEYOND HERE IS NOTHING Laura El-Tantawy, Cairo, Egypt, 2013

ambitious calendar of events, thought-provoking exhibitions and state-of-the-art printing facilities, GPP has long been established as the go-to place for both beginners and professionals to discover, enjoy, and learn more about photography.

SPECIAL EVENT 19 March 2018, 15:00 Artist Talk, Laura El-Tantawy at Fully Booked, Warehouse i-82, Alserkal Avenue 19 March 2018, 20:00, guided tour of the exhibition in GPP (See also p.144)

Beyond Here Is Nothing is both an exhibition and a publication by Egyptian-British photographer Laura El-Tantawy. A photographic meditation on the notion of home, an abstract place far away from the artist’s reach, this body of work navigates the boundaries of being – exploring the unsettling feeling of rootlessness, the mental burden of loneliness and the constant search for belonging in unfamiliar places.

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EVENT INFORMATION 6 February – 31 March 2018 Open: Sundays to Wednesdays 10:00 – 18:00; Thursdays and Saturdays, 10:00 – 17:00.

Closed on Fridays.

Location: Warehouse 36, Alserkal Avenue +971 4 380 8545 gulfphotoplus.com @gulfphotoplus

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | ikonhouse

IKONHOUSE LAURA BERGSOE: STORIES Laura Bergsøe, Signature Spike, 2017

ABOUT: ikonhouse is a design furniture gallery located in the heart of Dubai as part of Alserkal Avenue.

We represent brands and artists that share our passion for design, history, soul and craftsmanship.

All our pieces are full of great stories, and we like to tell them.

EVENT INFORMATION Laura Bergsøe is a Master Cabinetmaker working from her own workshop producing elegant one-offs from carefully selected pieces of wood. She was apprentice at Cabinetmakers Rud. Rasmussen, the most prestigious workshop in Denmark. Nature quietly gives up her secrets, revealing a history for us inside its trees. As a woodworker, it is essential for her that her work bears a humble reference to its origin; a respect for the material and its tactile presence, telling the story that makes us curious, excited, and seduced. Each table she creates holds The Signature Spike, a pure silver spike placed into the side of the piece, which can be removed to reveal its history.

6 December 2017 – 31 March 2018 Location: Unit 85, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 dubai@ikonhouse.com ikonhouse.ae @ikonhousedubai

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | INKED

INKED LA CASA AZUL

INKED in collaboration with the Berlin based design studio flora&faunavisions and Neumann & Müller Event Technology LLC present LA CASA AZUL, a pop-dinner series inspired by the artist Frida Kahlo.

The renowned Mexican artist is recognised for her indomitable spirit, her paintings juxtapose realism and fantasy, often representing her tempestuous emotions. Both joyful and dramatic, her works portray strength and female empowerment as well as melancholia and agony.

A multimedia installation will be on view to the public, with an immersive dinner experience at night.

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ABOUT: INKED is a creative expression in the presence of food: a space fully-fitted with equipment, aesthetic and expertise.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Unit #57, Alserkal Avenue (find the cactus) Open: viewing 19 – 24 March 2018, 12:00 – 18:00, dinners each night at 20:30 for 40 guests, tickets AED 485 per person, available online. +971 50 845 1359 inked.ae @inkeddubai

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | The Jam Jar

THE JAM JAR LIFE CYCLE 2 JANUARY – 31 MARCH 2018 A residency exploring the process of natural elements. Installations and sculptures are currently on display at the cloud, thejamjar, made by Elle Ford, residency artist at the jamjar.

THEJAMJAR'S DIY (DO-ITYOURSELF) ART SPACE thejamjar studio brings art alive in a relaxed environment, providing a platform to unleash creativity with an unlimited supply of paint and canvas’. The studio is equipped with easels, paints, art supplies and music, providing a complete creative experience.

OCCUPY: THE WINDOW PROJECT 6 FEBRUARY – 8 MARCH 2018 The fourth edition of OCCUPY will begin in conjunction with Photo Week at Alserkal Avenue. OCCUPY provides the opportunity for artists to take over thejamjar’s front window for a few months during the year on a rotating basis.

ABOUT: Thejamjar is a community arts space that supports artists and promotes the development of Dubai’s arts scene through its creative learning programme and community projects.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Unit 74 Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays, Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 10:00 – 19:00; Fridays 14:00 – 20:00 +971 4 341 7303 thejamjardubai.com @thejamjardubai

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Jean-Paul Najar Foundation

JEAN-PAUL NAJAR FOUNDATION Jene Highstein, The Sphere, Bords de Seine

JENE HIGHSTEIN: SPACE AND PLACE

Jene Highstein: Space and Place presents the artist’s seminal sculptures as well as works on paper from the 1970s - 1990s. A key figure of sculptural abstraction, Highstein used bronze, concrete, steel and wood to create primal and organic forms. His quasimanufactured sculptures create a dialogue between raw materials and biomorphism, stressing the importance of the object’s presence within a surrounding space and its impact on the viewer. The solidity of Highstein’s sculptures complement the delicacy of his works on paper.

His drawings of intense bone black pigment and Chinese ink function as maquettes for the sculptural forms and clearly map the evolution of his sculptural abstraction.

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ABOUT: Jean-Paul Najar Foundation is an ICOM registered museum of contemporary art that is home to a collection of European and American abstract art from the 1960s to today. JPNF is also the custodian of a remarkable archive tracing 40 years of artist-collector exchanges.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 30 June 2018 Location: Warehouse 45, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11:00 – 18:00 +971 4 258 7078 jpnajarfoundation.com @jpnfmuseum

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | La Galerie Nationale

LA GALERIE NATIONALE Tahar Ben Jelloun

CULTURAL CROSSROADS

La Galerie Nationale is pleased to announce its upcoming solo exhibition, featuring works on canvas by Tahar Ben Jelloun from Morocco, also a poet and novelist.

The exhibition Cultural Crossroads is Ben Jelloun’s first show in the Middle East. The exhibition is in partnership with the Institut de Monde Arabe, 2018 the official year of UAE-Franco relations.

ABOUT: La Galerie Nationale is a gallery specialised in original art furniture made by top designers from the 20th century.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 15 September 2018 Location: Unit 27, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11:00 – 19:00 +971 4 280 4652 galerie-nationale.com @lagalerienationale_dubai Exhibition opening, 19 March 2018, 18:00 – 21:00

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Lawrie Shabibi

LAWRIE SHABIBI STAR LINER Zak Ové, Earth, 2017. Courtesy Lawrie Shabibi and the artist.

ABOUT: Lawrie Shabibi is a contemporary art gallery housed in Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue. The gallery supports the long-term development of the careers of young international contemporary artists with a focus on those from the Middle East and North Africa. The gallery also organises art historical exhibitions working with an older generation of artists from the region.

Art Dubai Booth E10

Lawrie Shabibi presents Star Liner, a new show by British-Trinidadian artist Zak Ové. Central to Ové’s work is the notion of belonging which he brings into his work by reinterpreting lost culture and mythology. In his works, he pays tribute to both spiritual and artistic African and Trinidadian identities, which have been given new meanings through the Trinidadian carnival – a mode of resistance - and the cross-cultural dispersion of ideas. This is Ové’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.

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EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – June 2018 Location: Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 18:00 +971 4 346 9906 lawrieshabibi.com @LawrieShabibi

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Leila Heller Gallery

LEILA HELLER GALLERY Philip Taaffe, Damascene Panel, 2008

KENNY SCHARF Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist, Scharf best known for his fantastical, largescale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures.

His first first solo exhibition in the UAE is a reaction to what he perceives as our ‘increasingly outof-control situation’, depicted by the melting faces in his paintings.

PHILIP TAAFFE

Kenny Scharf, Melty Slop, 2017

His first exhibition in the Middle East, Taaffe’s richly complex and highly meditative large canvases are created by a masterful synthesis of processes and techniques such as silkscreen, stencils, collage and marbling.

ABOUT: Since its establishment over three decades ago, Leila Heller Gallery has gained worldwide recognition as a pioneer in promoting creative dialogue and exchange between international artists and currently represents a diverse roster of Western and Middle Eastern artists.

Art Dubai Booth A8 EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 31 August 2018 Location: Warehouse 87, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 321 6942 leilahellergallery.com @leilahellergallery

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | MB&F M.A.D. Gallery

MB&F M.A.D.GALLERY ARAB GOLDEN AGE V.2.0

MB&F M.A.D.Gallery presents the first solo exhibition in the Middle East of artists Omar Kabbani & Mohamed Kabbani, the Arabic calli-graffiti and mechanical art duo behind Ashekman. The period between the 8th and 13th centuries was the golden age of Arab civilisation with Arab inventors, scientists and philosophers paving the way for new discoveries that led to the evolution of human civilisation. Arab Golden Age V.2.0 pays tribute to this pivotal period in Arab history.

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ABOUT: The MB&F M.A.D.Gallery is a captivating universe of kinetic art where Horological Machines and Mechanical Art Devices reign supreme.

EVENT INFORMATION 12 December 2017 – 10 April 2018 Location: Warehouse H-81, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 -19:00 +971 4 330 7366 madgallery.ae @mbfmadgallery

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Salsali Private Museum

SALSALI PRIVATE MUSEUM Farideh Lashai, Dear, Dear! How Queer is Everything Today.

VIDEO

After the shows SCULPTURE and PHOTO, Salsali Private Museum presents VIDEO, a selection from Ramin Salsali’s video collection ARTISTS: Leila Pazooki, Niaz Azadikhah, Shoja Azari, Farideh Lashai, Anahita Razmi, Braco Demitrijevic, Hazem Harb and Larissa Sansour.

EVENT INFORMATION 15 March – 10 September 2018 Location: Unit 14, Alserkal Avenue Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 11:00 – 18:00; Saturdays, 13:00 – 17:00 +971 4 380 9600 salsalipm.com @SalsaliPrivateM

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Showcase Gallery

SHOWCASE GALLERY CHASING THE LIGHT

Showcase Gallery and Mestaria are pleased to present a new collection of work by Dubaibased artist Mike Arnold. Arnold returns to his architectural roots, selecting landmark buildings in Dubai and Abu Dhabi and capturing their inner spirit with a focus on reflective light. In this series of large-scale oil paintings, he is now sketching with his brush and embracing a more imperfect finish.

SPECIAL EVENT: 19 March 2018 Artist Talk: 19:00 – 21:00, UPPER GALLERY AFRICA IS NOT A COUNTRY 14 March – Ongoing Showcase Gallery presents six major artists from Kenya and

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Peter Ngugi, The White Moccasins

Mike Arnold, Creek (Study III, 2017

Zimbabwe; Ehoodi Kichapi, Helen Teede, Paul Onditi, Peter Ngugi, Richard Kimathi and Wycliffe Mundopa. Each artist plays a major role in the rising tide of art emerging from Africa.

ABOUT: Focusing on the old-new antithesis, the gallery juxtaposes rare antiques from the region with an arsenal of contemporary art.

EVENT INFORMATION 14 March – 21 April 2018 Location: Unit 35, Alserkal Avenue Open: Mondays to Sundays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 379 0940 showcaseuae.com @showcasedubai

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | SVENM

SVENM NEXUS

It's beginning to look like a new way of life, virtual reality. Real stuff to bump into, get round, think about, feels subversive almost.

Provoking a serious question about continuity in the arts, materiality and cultural production SVENM's new sculpture show is all about form, gravity and spatial practice.

A collaboration with Caoimhe Jane Reynolds (Royal Dublin Society Award nominee). Supported by The Wellness Company Technogym.

ABOUT: SVENM Architecture and Design opened H79 exhibition space in 2017 to provide access to unexpected connections in art, architecture, design. Provoking fresh

insight into the trans-disciplinary practice of making design today, hosting an informative public programme including exhibitions.

EVENT INFORMATION 17 March – 14 May 2018 Location: H79, Alserkal Avenue Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10.00 – 19: 00; Saturdays 10:00 – 15:00 +971 50 133 5636 svenm.com @svenm_h79

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | The Third Line

THE THIRD LINE CLOSE UP The Third Line presents Farhad Moshiri’s 4th solo exhibition at the gallery. Following the artist’s first US-based museum solo show at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh last year, the exhibition includes a new body of hand -embroidered works using Moshiri’s own photographs as subject matter.

19 March – 19 April 2018

Abbas Akhavan, If the first metaphor was animal, 2016. Photo by Guy L'Heureux, Courtesy of the artist and The Third Line.

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The domestic sphere, as a forked space between hospitality and hostility, has been an ongoing area of research in Abbas' work.

19 March – 19 April 2018 ABOUT: The Third Line represents contemporary Middle Eastern artists locally, regionally and internationally and hosts non-profit, alternative programmes to increase interest and dialogue in the region. The Third Line’s book wing Works on Paper publishes books by associated artists from the region.

Art Dubai Booth B7 EVENT INFORMATION Location: Warehouse 78 & 80 Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +9714 341 1367 thethirdline.com @thethirdlinedxb

The Third Line also presents recently by Abbas Akhavan.

Akhavan's practice ranges from site-specific ephemeral installations to drawing, video and performance.

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Selections

ALSERKAL PROGRAMMING POP-UP SELECTIONS: CULTURAL NARRATIVES

Drawing on centuries of tradition and know-how, artists from the Middle East have created works that reflect their rich culture and transcend regional boundaries. This new, extensive collection of artworks by established and emerging talents from the region provides a breathtaking visual map of the Middle Eastern art worlds, with unique works from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Tunis, Egypt, Palestine, UAE and Sudan. This first edition of Cultural Narratives shines the spotlight on the great artistic contributions of

the region, while transmitting the exceptional character of each country represented.

24 February – 24 March 2018 Location: Pop-up in Warehouse 61, Alserkal Avenue

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Other Creative Spaces in the Avenue

OTHER CREATIVE SPACES IN THE AVENUE THE HAPPY STUDIO: #WHATSYOURPOTION

BAKERY An early stage investor in growth markets with a focus on techenabled businesses, gathering great minds around strong investment opportunities in growth markets.

Powered by the Abraaj Group.

Location: Warehouse 83, Alserkal Avenue bakery.vc, @bakery.vc

Building on the success of the 2017 pop art community installation Life is a Party, The Happy Studio present another interactive installation entitled #whatsyourpotion. The exhibit urges viewers to discover their true selves by entering a magical bubble installation.

ABOUT: A pop art community space x design house and home of The Happy Box production, The Happy Studio promises sparkle and fun for everyone who visits.

17 – 31 March 2018 Location: Warehouse 73, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 09:00 – 19:00 thehappystudio.ae @thehappystudioofficial

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CHI-KA A kimono shop and art space, working with artists and organisations reflecting on the new wave of Japanese aesthetic.

Location: H69, Alserkal Avenue Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11:00 -19:00 +971 4 345 0000 chikaspace.com @chikaspace THE FRIDGE Established in 2007, The Fridge develops, manages and promotes over 3,000 performances annually.

Location: Warehouse 5 +971 4 347 7793 thefridgedubai.com @thefridge

Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | Other Creative Spaces in the Avenue

THE JUNCTION A space where local and regional theatre talent can thrive, where creators and performers can risk to be original, where collaboration and mutual development can occur, and where an appreciation for the arts can be cultivated within Dubai.

Location: Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue Open: Mondays – Saturdays, 10:00 – 17:00 +971 4 338 8525 thejunctiondubai.com @thejunctiondubai MIRZAM CHOCOLATE MAKERS Experience every aspect of chocolate making at this chocolate factory, from roasting to hand-wrapping each bar.

Event Information: Location: Unit 65, Al Serkal Avenue, Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 043791217 the-oddpiece.com @theoddpiece SIMA PERFORMING ARTS A studio and performance venue, home to Sima Dance Company, a pioneer in the exposure of contemporary dance in the UAE. Location: Warehouse 38 Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 10:00 – 22:00 +97143380012 simadancecompany.com @simaperformingarts

Location: Warehouse 70, Alserkal Avenue Open: Usually 10:00- 19:00, until 22:00 during Art Week. +971 4 333 5888 mirzam.com @mirzamchocolate THE ODD PIECE The Odd Piece specialises in carefully selected mid-century modern furniture, with a wider offering of antiques, contemporary pieces, sculptures and home accessories of exceptional design, craftsmanship and character.

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Dubai: Alserkal Avenue | MB&F M.A.D. Gallery

THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE 2018 WINNING ARTIST Lawrence Abu Hamdan SHORTLISTED ARTISTS Basma Alsharif Neil Beloufa Ali Cherri GUEST CURATOR Myriam Ben Salah ART DUBAI March 21-24, 2018 Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

artdubai.ae abraajgroupartprize.com @AbraajArtPrize facebook.com/AbraajArtPrize

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Dubai | Art Dubai

Rana Begum, No.695 Abraaj, 2016, Abraaj Group Art Prize at Art Dubai 2017

ART DUBAI

Sitting at the heart of Art Week is Art Dubai which celebrates its 12th edition this March.

A leading international art fair, Art Dubai aims to broaden the conversation on art outside of the traditional art centres. It does so by featuring galleries and artists presenting works from emerging art scenes, exhibited alongside, and matching the quality of, those from firmly established centres of the art world, making the fair a place of discovery from art from across the globe. Taking its distinct identity from a unique line-up of 105 galleries from 48 countries the fair mirrors the cosmopolitanism and energy of its hometown Dubai.

Art Dubai is a human-scale fair that acts as a meeting point for the international art world.

PUBLIC OPENING HOURS 21 MARCH 2018 13:00 – 16:00 (ladies only) 16:00 – 21:30 (invitation only) 22 MARCH 2018 16:00 – 21:30 (last entrance at 21:00) 23 MARCH 2018 14:00 – 21:30 (last entrance at 21:00) 24 MARCH 2018 12:00 – 18:30 (last entrance at 18:00)

Beyond the gallery halls, the fair once again hosts an extensive collateral programme including the 10th anniversary of The Abraaj Group Art Prize, the Global Art Forum 12 that takes on the theme of automation, and a series of 91

commissions including the artist collective GCC, which will welcome audiences to Good Morning GCC. In addition to its March programming, the fair continues to grow the cultural fabric of the city and the region with year round engagement including the art school Campus Art Dubai, an internship programme aimed at supporting the next generation of art practitioners and professionals, and Art Dubai Portraits, a film series casting light on MENASA artists and their practices.

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

Art Dubai is held in partnership with The Abraaj Group. The fair is sponsored by Julius Baer and Piaget, with Madinat Jumeirah as the home of the event. The Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is a strategic partner of Art Dubai and supports the fair’s year-round education programme.

Misk Art Institute is the exclusive partner of Art Dubai Modern.

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Art Dubai 2017, Courtesy of Photo Solutions

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TICKET OPTIONS DAY TICKET (valid one day, either 22, 23, 24 March 2018): 60 AED if purchased online, 90 AED if purchased onsite 3 DAY TICKET (valid all days, 22-24 March 2018): 100 AED if purchased online, 150 AED if purchased onsite All students visiting the fair enjoy free access upon showing a valid school / university ID during the public days of the fair.

Dubai | Art Dubai

Elif Uras, Venus Niche, 2016.

Courtesy the artist and Galerist

GALLERY HALLS

PUBLIC TOURS Free tours through the gallery halls are available to the public. Please sign up to take part each day on site at the Art Dubai Programming booth in Foyer 2, Madinat Jumeirah. This is also the meeting point for the tours.

Please ensure you arrive at the booth 10 minutes before the tour is due to depart.

23 MARCH 2018 16:00, 17:30, 19:00 24 MARCH 2018 14:00, 15:00, 16:00

CONTEMPORARY Art Dubai Contemporary is extraordinarily diverse. The 2018 fair will feature 78 galleries from 42 countries, from the world’s most influential galleries to dynamic young art spaces, including firsttime participants from Iceland, Ethiopia and Kazakhstan. Likewise, the artists range from emerging and upcoming practitioners from lesser-known art capitals to household names. The works they present cover all artistic media—including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, video, photography and performance.

Location: Gallery Halls 1 and 2, Madinat Jumeirah, Art Dubai

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Voices

MYRNA AYAD

Director, Art Dubai I believe back stories are fundamental and as with any great story, it starts with a little imagination and a question. Learning about an artist’s life and practice can most definitely happen at Art Dubai – either by asking the artist her/himself, the gallerist, curator or collector – all of these individuals will be present and can offer a 360-degree look and survey into an artist’s life.

IMAGINATION

PABLO DEL VAL

Artistic Director, Art Dubai

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When you walk through the newly launched Residents’ section, you will see Dubai. It’s very exciting not knowing the final results or what’s going to be in each booth, as the artworks are all produced here in the weeks leading up to the fair. The experience is about artists from across the world coming here and being part of local communities, learning what the Middle East and Gulf in particular is about and going home with a completely different perspective of what this is.

RESIDENTS

Cruzeiro Seixas, The Meeting, 1957. Courtesy Perve Galeria

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MODERN Art Dubai Modern is the world’s only platform that exhibits museum-quality Modern works from the MENASA region. For its 5th edition in 2018 Art Dubai Modern will present a record number of 16 galleries from 14 countries exhibiting works by 20th century masters. For the first time, Art Dubai Modern will offer the opportunity to see galleries present tightly curated collective exhibitions, in addition to solo and two-artist shows.

Accompanying Art Dubai Modern is an exhibition That Feverish Leap into the Fierceness of Life, curated

by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, supported by Misk Art Institute.

Misk Art Institute is the Exclusive Partner of Art Dubai Modern 2018

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Dubai | Art Dubai Modern Symposium

Art Dubai Modern Symposium, Day 1, 2017, Courtesy of Photo Solutions

ART DUBAI MODERN SYMPOSIUM

The annual Art Dubai Modern Symposium is a series of talks and presentations focused on the life, work and cultural impact of 20th century masters from the Middle East, South Asia and Africa.

Renowned curators, scholars and patrons will lead the sessions that delve into the styles, influences and practices of artists whose work contributes to the history of art produced in the 20th century.

Location: Gallery Hall 3, Art Dubai Modern, Mina A’ Salam

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MONDAY, 19 MARCH

Dubai | Art Dubai Modern Symposium

17:00 Welcome Note Myrna Ayad, Director, Art Dubai 17:15 - 18:00 Modernity in The Gulf This session will trace art practices in the Gulf from the 1970s through to the 1990s, looking at the lives, political and economic shifts and legacies of modernists from the Gulf.

Thuraya Al Baqsami, artist and writer, Kuwait, Eiman Elgibreen, Assistant Professor of Art History, College of Art and Design, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Noora Al Mualla, Curator of Modern Arab Art, Art Centres Manager, Sharjah Art Foundation, Mona Khazindar, Director of Palette for Cultural Projects and Art Publications. Moderated by Till Fellrath, Independent Curator and Academic, Cofounder of Art Reoriented

18:15 - 19:00 Talk & Launch of MoMA's Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents in association with the Misk Art Institute The eighth volume in The Museum of Modern Art’s Primary Documents series investigates modernism in the Arab world and is edited by art historians Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Dr. Nada Shabout. The selection of texts – many of which appear here for the first time in English – includes manifestos, essays, transcripts of roundtable discussions, diary entries, exhibition guest–book comments, letters, and more.

Dr. Sam Bardaouil, Independent Curator and Academic, Co-founder of Art Reoriented and Dr. Nada Shabout, Professor of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Initiative at the University of North Texas, USA, and member of Art Dubai Modern Advisory Committee These talks are supported by Misk Art Institute.

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WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH

Dubai | Art Dubai Modern Symposium

16:00 - 17:00 Africa: Modernity, Modernism and Contemporary Art African art: are its aesthetics ‘primitive’? Islamic?

Calligraphic? Ethnic? Tribal?

Are its makers African from the continent or from its Diasporas or both? What is the contemporary context of African art?

Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, artist, art historian and Curator of African art at Cleveland Museum of Art, Ayo Adeyinka, Founder, TAFETA, London. Moderated

by Catherine David, Deputy Director of the Musee National d’Art Moderne at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and member of Art Dubai Modern Advisory Committee.

17:00 - 18:00 Remembering The Magic: Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar is known as one of Egypt – and the Arab world’s – most important and influential artists. He joined the Higher School of Fine Arts in 1945 and met fellow artists Hamed Nada, Kamal Youssef and Samir Rafi, among others. They came to form a group that sought to identify

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Egyptian traditions and infuse art with folklore and popular culture in a mission to wash away Western influences.

Clare Davies, Assistant Curator, Middle East, North Africa and Turkey, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Tayseer El Gazzar, daughter of Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar and Director of the Al Gazzar Foundation, Sam Bardaouil, Independent Curator and Academic, Cofounder of Art Reoriented.

18:00 - 19:00 Rooted in Iraq: The Baghdad Modern Art Group Amidst a political climate that witnessed the nationalisation of Egypt’s Suez Canal, and the establishment of the Baath Party in Syria, came a Western-trained artist who felt compelled to safeguard contemporary Iraqi art: Jawad Saleem. Having studied in Europe, he returned to his native Iraq in 1940 and joined the Institute of Fine Art in Baghdad. Eleven years later, Saleem and his protégé, Shakir Hassan Al Said founded the Baghdad Modern Art

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has developed “a body of ideas useful to humanity”.

A painter, writer, curator and a pioneer of Minimalist sculpture in Britain, the Pakistani-born artist began his professional life as a civil engineer in Karachi. In 1987, he established and published Third Text to address institutional racism that many non-Western artists faced.

Hanaa Malallah, artist and associate professor at the Royal University for Women, Bahrain, Amin Alsaden, Teaching Fellow and PhD Candidate, Harvard University, Salwa Mikdadi, Associate Professor, Practice of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi.

Moderated by Nada Shabout, Professor of Art History and Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Initiative at the University of North Texas, USA, and member of Art Dubai Modern Advisory Committee This talk is supported by Misk Art Institute.

Rasheed Araeen, artist, Pakistan, and Nick Aikens, Curator, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

19:00 - 20:00 Up Close and Conceptual: Rasheed Araeen In his 60-year career, Rasheed Araeen recognises that he

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Group, an artistic platform that sought to modernise and reference the country’s heritage – including Assyrian, Babylonian and Abbasid influences – with a nod to Yihya Al Qasiti, the miniature painter. With Saleem’s untimely passing, Al Said, held the reins of the Group, that included intellectuals, writers and poets.

16:00 - 16:30 Who was Bahman Mohasses?

A painter, sculptor, translator, poet, writer and theatre director, Bahman Mohasses is largely recognised as an icon of Iranian modernism. After studies at the Academy of Arts in Rome, he returned to Tehran and became a central figure during the peak of the Iranian capital’s flourishing cultural arena. Fascinated by the human body, animals and nature, his works were also inspired by mythology, Surrealism and Cubism.

Vali Mahlouji, independent curator, founder of the non99

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profit platform Archaeology of the Final Decade and member of Art Dubai Modern Advisory Committee 16:30 - 17:00 Homage to Abdallah Benanteur A founding member of the Ecole de Tunis, Jallel Ben Abdallah was indeed a prolific artist, producing about 80,000 works in his 70-year career.

Ridha Moumni, Curator and Cultural Adviser, Rambourg Foundation, Tunis 17:30 - 18:30 Who Was Ali Jabri?

An aristocrat hailing from an old Aleppo family, Ali Jabri was born in Jerusalem, raised in Egypt and educated between Stanford University in California, where he studied architecture, and Bristol University, graduating with a degree in English literature.

He returned to Egypt, infatuated with its history, Islamic architecture, people and streets, and finally settled in Amman in the 1980s, where his work took on more political and social themes, laced with satire and sarcasm.

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Suha Lallas, Founder, Wadi Finan Gallery, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Founder, Barjeel Art Foundation, Rula Atalla Ghandour, art patron, co-founder of the Ali Jabri Human Heritage Foundation.

Moderated by Vali Mahlouji, independent curator and member of Art Dubai Modern Advisory Committee 18:30 - 19:30 The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Mighty Souza Francis Newton Souza co-founded the Progressive Artists Group that sought to promote Avant-garde art in India. Souza’s work was highly charged, often violent and sensual, and in his six-decade career, it would be fair to say that his seminal paintings are of Christ as well as the nudes.

No doubt, he is among India’s most celebrated artists.

Savita Apte, art historian specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art.

Moderated by Mahnaz Fancy, Senior Programme Officer, Sharjah Architecture Triennial.

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Members of the Contemporary Art Group, c. 1948.

Courtesy Al Masar Gallery for Contemporary Art Cairo

ART DUBAI MODERN EXHIBITION

THAT FEVERISH LEAP INTO THE FIERCENESS OF LIFE, CURATED BY SAM BARDAOUIL AND TILL FELLRATH This non-selling collateral exhibition is presented by Art Dubai Modern and is supported by Misk Art Institute.

“If we fail to fulfill ourselves through art, as through all other realms of thought, we won’t be able to make that feverish leap into the fierceness of life.”

modernist art movements across the Arab world between the 1940s and 1980s. A close look at five particular schools in Casablanca, Cairo, Riyadh, Khartoum, and Baghdad reveals the diversity of the intellectual and formal approaches by these artistic groups.

Location: Art Dubai Modern, Mina A’ Salam

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Farshad Farzankia, Atlas #2, 2017.

Courtesy The Artist and Galerie Kornfeld

RESIDENTS

Art Dubai 2018 inaugurates a new gallery section – Residents – that welcomes spaces whose artists will complete a residency in the UAE with work created during this period exhibited at the fair. Residents 2018 will feature 11 artists from around the world. The programme aims to support artists by providing a platform to develop their practice and create new work inspired and influenced by their stay in the UAE during a 4-8 week residency.

SPECIAL EVENT 24 MARCH 2018, 16:00 – 18:00 RESIDENTS 2018: Creative Processes and Bonding Experiences in the UAE Round-Table Discussion Speakers: Rekha Setpal, Head of Programmes and Partnerships at in5; Faisal Al Hassan, Public Programmes Manager at Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation (Warehouse421); Tamsin Wildy, Studio Manager at Tashkeel, and Residents 2018 artists, hosted by Pablo del Val, Artistic Director, Art Dubai Location: Global Art Forum Tent, Fort Island, Art Dubai

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POONAM JAIN Artist

PLATFORM

Residencies provide a platform for artists to meet the experts, to experiment, explore and contextualise their existing practice, giving them the chance to step away from their comfort zones.

Exhibiting with 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai, Art Dubai Residents, R9 ZOHRA OPOKU Artist

ENERGIES

Residencies create an environment that nurtures an artist just ‘to be’. It is not just about the temporary experience of being on a residency, memories and energies are carried on a long time after one is completed.

Exhibiting with Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle, Art Dubai Residents, R4

IABADIOU PIKO Artist Residencies are a place to learn about yourself and to explore other cultures.

They also give you new friends and opportunities to make new connections and develop your career step by step.

Exhibiting with Orbital Dago, Bandung, Art Dubai Residents, R1

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Ahaad Alamoudi and Rashed al Shashai, artists featured in Reframe Saudi

REFRAME SAUDI A VIRTUAL REALITY FILM

Misk Art Institute present an exclusive preview of Reframe Saudi, an artist-point-of-view Virtual Reality film that tells the story of a changing nation from the vantage of a new generation of contemporary artists. Framed within the intimate studio spaces of artists from across the Kingdom, the film is a unique portrait of Saudi Arabia as it navigates the currents of social transformation.

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Reframe Saudi is directed by Matteo Lonardi and produced

by CULTURUNNERS. This regional preview of Reframe Saudi at Art Dubai pre-empts the international launch of the final film at the World VRForum in June 2018.

Location: In-between Foyer 1 and Foyer 2, Art Dubai

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Documenting and highlighting long-standing cultural movements is as important to us as instigating and supporting new work – it provides the foundations for growth, it demonstrates how strong and asserted this moment is. The excited fervency felt through social change galvanises the artists and their work – it translates to greater institutional foundations and frameworks. It is as if these parts of our burgeoning cultural and social infrastructure are being shaped by and to an artist’s way of thinking – it’s incredibly exciting.

AHMED MATER Director, Misk Art Institute and Artist

GROWTH

SAM BARDAOUIL and TILL FELLRATH Curators and CoFounders, Art Reorientated

Curators are facilitators of artistic creation and presentation. While it is often the curator who attracts attention, the centre stage should always be given to the artists. Artists from the so-called MENASA region are striving to be recognised for their individual practice, much more than their collective geographic origin – just like artists from any other part of the world. It is very important to support artists in this endeavour, as well as to strengthen the institutions that work with them, so that their contributions can be fully recognised within the global artistic discourse. #Curators on the run

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Earshot exhibition view, Portikus, Frankfurt/Main, 2016, Photo: Helena Schlichting, Courtesy Portikus, Frankfurt/Main and Maureen Paley, London

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10TH EDITION OF THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE ABOUT: The Abraaj Group Art Prize provides notable contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia the opportunity to actualise their dream project, and offers curators from across the globe the recognition of designing an exhibition at Art Dubai, the world’s most globalised art fair. Unique in its format, the Prize awards both an artist and curator through their proposal only, rather than a completed work. The winning artist receives a $100,000 commission to fabricate the winning proposed art piece, which will be revealed at an unveiling ceremony at Art Dubai in March 2018. The Prize has elevated participating artists and

curators to the next level in their career, and continues to add value to their practice through loaning and exhibiting the winning artwork from each year at museums, biennials and shows all over the world, as part of The Abraaj Group Art Prize Collection.

The 2018 exhibition Of Other Places is curated by Myriam Ben Salah. New work by winning artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan will be presented alongside works by shortlisted artists Ali Cherri, Neil Beloufa and Basma Alsharif.

Free Public Tours 21 – 22 March 2018 17:00 – 17:30 23 March 2018 16:30 – 17:00 Meet in the AGAP exhibition space, Art Dubai

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PRIZE

The Gulf now has a thriving cultural landscape full of talented artists, wonderful galleries, and sophisticated institutions and programming. Artist voices are important. They contribute to social change and progress. The Prize offers generous production support that gives artists the ability to push their practice in new and exciting ways and provides essential opportunities to the most talented artists from the region.

DANA FAROUKI Chair, The Abraaj Group Art Prize

CONTEXT

MYRIAM BEN SALAH Guest Curator, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2018

The role of a curator is important in the way it creates mediation between artists and the public. Contemporary art is often seen as a complex discipline that's not easily accessible. However artists today deal with the same problematics as everyone: politics, science fiction, the environment.

By the narrative he creates, the curator puts the artwork into context and enhances its meaning and impact.

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PIAGET’S SUNLIGHT JOURNEY For their third showcase at Art Dubai, Piaget presents their latest High Jewelry and Watchmaking collection: Sunlight Journey. Inspired by the scenic beauty of the Amalfi Coast, the collection is an escapade punctuated by joyful effervescence and dazzling radiance.

In collaboration with The Cultural Office of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Piaget reveals Summer Muse by Emirati artist Jawaher Alkhayyal, inspired by Maison Piaget’s Sunny Side of Life high jewelry collection. Summer Muse embodies the glamorous lifestyle of the Piaget woman and the inspiring, radiant aura she boosts around her.

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Tours: 21 March 2018, 14:30 – 15:00 22 March 2018, 17:30 – 18:00 23 March 2018, 16:00 – 16:30 24 March 2018, 14:30 – 15:00 Meet in the Piaget exhibition space, Art Dubai

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JAWAHER AL KHAYYAL

Designer, Sunny Side of Life, Piaget Working with Maison Piaget has enlightened my thought process and approach to designing so I can explore the breadth of my creativity when working for different clients and diverse projects.

As an interior designer, I was able to create an installation that bridges art and interior design.

The experience was truly a turning point for me.

CREATIVITY

KARIM NOURELDIN

Artist, Comissioned by Julius Baer

I have always been interested in abstract art as it stands at the beginning of any human culture and can be found in historic artefacts, architectures, textiles and pottery.

Abstract art has always had a meaning, be it through its connection with spiritual representation, joy, play or rhythm, harmony or order, artistic ideas or researching new forms. It can be everything and I believe it’s universal and timeless. Maybe my artwork can communicate this and more, since every visitor is free to judge, guess and to understand.

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Karim Noureldin. Des, 2018 (Studio shot), Courtesy: von Bartha / Bernhard Knaus Fine Art / RIBOT arte contemporanea, Photography: Ariel Huber

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FROM PEN TO THREAD: KARIM NOURELDIN’S IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION FOR JULIUS BAER

Tours: 21 March 2018, 15:00 – 15:30 22 March 2018, 16:00 – 16:30

This exhibition commissioned

by Julius Baer features two large, site-specific textile installations based on drawings made by Swiss-Egyptian artist Karim Noureldin and produced in India. Widely recognised and exhibited internationally, Noureldin’s installation continues his investigation into geometric abstractions.

Since 2010 Noureldin’s work has been part of the Julius Baer Art Collection, a corporate collection of over 5,000 works of contemporary art focused on artists born or based in Switzerland.

Swiss-Egyptian artist Karim Noureldin will be in conversation with Barbara Staubli, Curator, Julius Baer Corporate Art Collection and Myrna Ayad, Director, Art Dubai on the artist’s investigation into geometric abstractions and his sitespecific installations based on his drawings, commissioned by Julius Baer for the Fair. Having exhibited internationally, his work has been acquired by the Julius Baer Art Collection since 2010.

TALK:

22 March 2018 17:30 – 18:30 Access: RSVP Online Location: Julius Baer Lounge, Fort Island, Art Dubai

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POWERPLAY: GALLERIST, COLLECTOR, CURATOR, ARTIST WHO IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL? The traditional cultural validation path is in shambles while at no time in history there was as much vested interest in the arts.

Consider only a few decades ago, when auctions were for the few, no contemporary artwork had ever been sold for more than a million dollars and art historians called the shots when it came to creating meaning and influence. The shifts are rapid, the roles are changing fast. What better place to talk about the art market than at Art Dubai, positioning itself in a region which has become the focus of some of these major transformations and challenges the art world as a whole is facing today. In conversation

with Dr. Thomas Girst, Global Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW Group, is curator and cofounder of Art Reoriented, Dr. Sam Bardaouil; Director of Experimenter Gallery Priyanka Raja and artist Chafa Ghaddar.

23 March 2018 18:30 - 19:30 Location: Julius Baer Lounge, Fort Island, Art Dubai Access: RSVP online

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DR. THOMAS GIRST Global Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW Group

Established artists are precisely this: established. They have the funds, the time, the recognition.

All factors which emerging artists might very well be lacking. This is where we come in, with half a century of experience, with hundreds of cultural initiatives worldwide, with a network and know-how. We have no vested interest in the arts.

What we do we want to do right. Art is meant to last yet it is fragile. It needs to breathe and be freed of any restraints in order to thrive.

INITIATIVES

Created with the desire and compassion to use art as a social enterprise vehicle, 81 Designs is dedicated to empowering female refugee artisans. We provide them with a platform to utilise their skills and improve their living conditions. My daughter Nadine and I are grateful to the artists who have given their trust to be able to continue our mission.

NESRINE EL TIBI MAALOUF Co-founder, 81 Designs

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EMPOWERING

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81 DESIGNS ABOUT: 81 Designs is a UAE-based social enterprise co-founded by Nesrine El-Tibi Maalouf and Nadine Y Maalouf in 2015. It comprises a group of skilled women artisans that are Palestinian refugees living in South Lebanon.

Location: Foundation booth, Foyer 2, opposite Gallery Hall 2, Madinat Arena, Art Dubai 81designsme.com @81designsme SPECIAL EVENT

81 Designs collaborates with Hassan Hajjaj, an internationally known contemporary artist who merges the realms of fine art and popular culture. His works, recreated by Palestinian women refugees in traditional tatreez (cross stitch), will be presented at the 12th edition of Art Dubai.

Hajjaj had selected 14 pieces from his collection titled Graffix from the Souk, where he playfully applied new technology to redefine the imagery that pervaded nostalgia from his childhood.

The Julius Baer lounge will be transformed into an art space featuring Hassan’s signature style, and will be a venue for a talk hosted

by Nadine and Hassan. During the presentation, a film created by Ted Beagles will also be shown.

Location: Julius Baer lounge, Fort Island, Art Dubai 21 March 2018, 18:30 Access: RSVP Online

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Good Morning GCC, 2017, Courtesy of the Artists

THE ROOM

The Room is an immersive, large-scale interactive installation that takes place at the Fair each year. This year, The Room will represent an extended TV studio for the daytime talk programme, GOOD MORNING GCC ‫ريخلا حابص‬ ‫يج‬. ‫يس‬. ‫س‬, which uses the tropes of daytime talk shows commonly featured on TV stations across the Arab world alongside a reference to Nam June Paik’s Good Morning Mr. Orwell, Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party, Chris Burden’s commercials and other artists who have used television’s potential to communicate to a wide audience.

Celebrity wedding singer and TV chef Sulaiman Al Qassar, an icon of food and performance, will launch the programme

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with a performative cooking demonstration on a stage design reflecting a behind-the-scenes backstage aesthetic which will be the anchor for a series of daily TV segments, performances, and parties over the course of the fair Location: Fort Island, Art Dubai GCC AFTER DARK GCC’s TV studio set on Fort Island will serve as the background for a series of after-hours parties, featuring a line-up of internationally renowned DJ’s.

GCC Portrait, 2017, Courtesy of the Artists

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20 March 2018 21:30 Style Segment, Telfar Clemens 21:30 – 23:30 Asmara 23:30 – 01:30 Venus X 21 MARCH 2018 19:00 – 20:00 Book Club Segment, GCC Book Launch (Access: VIP Invitation) 20:00 – 21:30 Cooking Segment: Suliman Al Qassar (Access: VIP Invitation) 21:30 – 01:30 DJ Hosh

23 MARCH 2018 18:30 – 19:30 BEAUTY SEGMENT: Arabia Felix, Mohammad Dashti 19:30 – 20:30 STYLE SEGMENT: Mohammad Diego 21:30 – 1:30 Total Freedom 24 MARCH 2018 15:00 –15:30 WELLBEING SEGMENT: Ministry of Happiness 15:30 – 16:00 HOLISTIC BODY WORKS SEGMENT: Anfal Al Qaisi Location: The Room, Fort Island, Art Dubai

22 MARCH 2018 17: 00 – 17:20 LIFESTYLE SEGMENT: Sarah Abu Abdullah 17:20 – 17:40 ENVIRONMENTAL SEGMENT: Sarah Al Ateeqi 22:00 – 00:00 Abdullah 00:00 – 02:00 TELFAR

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SMLAP Workshop, Art Dubai 2017, Courtesy of Art Dubai and Photo Solutions

SHEIKHA MANAL LITTLE ARTISTS PROGRAM

SHEIKHA MANAL LITTLE ARTISTS PROGRAM: HEALING GARDEN The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program is 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, and wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE. The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program was launched by The Cultural Office of Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in partnership with Art Dubai in 2013. Featuring artist-led workshops, tours and other projects, the programme provides access to skills and ideas for UAE-based 116

children and teenagers aged 5-17 with the long-term aim of encouraging young people to get involved and excel in the arts.

In its sixth year, the programme included the commissioning of Japanese-Australian artist, Hiromi Tango. Healing Garden is an interactive installation that invites children to participate in creating a nurturing environment based on local plants and flowers. With the iconic Date Palm as the focal point of the garden, Healing Garden explores the many ways that local plants and flowers can contribute to well being. The workshops and immersive installation will provide hands-on opportunities for children to create and explore the space that gives energy through the interplay of light, colours, textures and

SMLAP Discovery Tour, Art Dubai 2017, Courtesy of Art Dubai and Photo Solutions

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23 March 2018 14:00 – 15:00, Workshop A1 for public (Registration required) 16:00 – 17:00, Workshop A2 for public (Registration required) 18:00 – 19:30, Workshop B for public (Drop-in) 24 March 2018 12:00 – 13:00, Workshop A1 for public (Registration required) 14:00 – 15:00, Workshop A2 for public (Registration required) 16:00 – 17:30, Workshop B for public (Drop-in) DISCOVERY TOURS

shapes. As part of the art-making process, participants consider their own experiences and how different gestures such as sorting or wrapping can transform thoughts, feelings and memories.

WORKSHOPS 22 March 2018 14:00 – 15:00, Workshop A1 for public (Registration required) 16:00 – 17:00, Workshop A2 for public (Registration required) 18:00 – 19:30, Workshop B f or public (Drop-in)

The Discovery Tours also return in 2018, Led by UAE-based and international artists, specially designed for children between the ages of 5 to 17, the tailor-made tours enable young people to discover the key pieces around the fair, with the works brought alive via thematic activity maps and the storytelling of the guides.

22 March 2018 16:30 – 17:15, Discovery Tour 1 (5-7 years) (Registration required) 17:30 – 18:15, Discovery Tour 2 (5-7 years) (Drop-in) 17:30 – 18:15, Discovery Tour 3 (8-12 years) (Drop-in) 18:30 – 19:15, Discovery tour 4 (13-17 years) (Registration required) 117

SMLAP Discovery Tour, Art Dubai 2015, Courtesy of Art Dubai and Photo Solutions

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23 March 2018 14:00 – 14:45, Discovery Tour 1 (5-7 years) (Registration required) 15:00 – 15:45, Discovery Tour 2 (8-12 years) (Drop-in) 16:00 – 16:45, Discovery Tour 3 (5-7 years) (Drop-in) 16:45 – 17:30, Discovery Tour 4 (8-12 years) (Registration required) 17:45 – 18:30, Discovery Tour 5 (13-17 years) (Registration required)

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24 March 2018 12:00 – 12:45, Discovery Tour 1 (5-7 years) (Registration required) 13:00 – 13:45, Discovery Tour 2 (8-12 years) (Registration required) 14:00 – 14:45, Discovery Tour 3 (5-7 years) (Drop-in) 15:00 – 15:45, Discovery Tour 4 (5-7 years) (Drop-in) 16:00 – 16:45, Discovery Tour 5 (8-12 years) (Registration required) 17:00 – 17:45, Discovery Tour 6 (13-17 years) (Registration required)

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HIROMI TANGO

Artist, Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program Children and youth are at such a critical point in their social and emotional development and creative projects like Healing Garden are a great opportunity to encourage them to explore their feelings and express themselves. As an artist, I am committed to generating healing conversations through art and find that projects with young people are among the most rewarding.

EMOTIONAL SHUMON BASAR

Commissioner, The Global Art Forum 2018 I AM NOT A ROBOT? is a synthesis of the last three editions of the Forum, which focused on technology, the future and trade, respectively.

Automation is ever present in more aspects of our personal and work lives. What does this mean for us as humans when we are allowing machines to take over?

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Quicksand Man, originally uploaded to Google Street View by Danka Lochowicz. (Kyle Williams via Google Maps)

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Entitled I Am Not A Robot, the current edition of the Forum will explore the highly topical theme of automation – as well as the opportunities and trepidations brought along with it.

21 March 2018: 14:00 – 18:30 22 March 2018: 14:00 – 18:30 23 March 2018: 14:00 – 18:00 Location: Global Art Forum, Fort Island, Art Dubai The Global Art Forum is an annual, transdisciplinary summit, based in Dubai, which combines original thinking and contemporary themes in an intimate, live environment.

Since 2007, the Forum has been a key part of Art Dubai’s extensive cultural programming. It has brought together over 400 global minds from pop culture to renowned academia: artists, curators, museum directors, filmmakers, novelists, historians, philosophers, technologists, entrepreneurs, musicians and performers, dialogue with one another across disciplines, reporting from every part of the world, painting a truly 21st century portrait of how the globalised world thinks.

Open to the Public The opening session of the Global Art Forum 2018 was held 14 February 14 2018 at Dubai Design District (d3), introducing some of the key themes of ‘I Am Not A Robot’, in a series of talks, presentations and discussions with Shumon Basar, Noah Raford, Marlies Wirth and acclaimed artist/writer James Bridle.

The Forum continues at Art Dubai for its acclaimed three-day marathon, exploring the impacts of automation, Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in work, creativity, design, economics, politics and art. Some of the pressing questions posed are: “Is there a Non-Western model of AI?”, “Will the blockchain build a new Internet?”, “What makes

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us human in an increasingly non-human world?”, and “What are machines saying about us behind our backs?”

In addition to lectures, conversations and discussions, there will be performances and a rich film-screening programme by Cinema Akil.

The 2018 iteration of the Global Art Forum is organized by Commissioner Shumon Basar, with Chief Operating Officer and Futurist-in-Chief of the Dubai Future Foundation Noah Raford, and Curator of Digital Culture & Design Collection at the MAK, Vienna, Marlies Wirth, as Co-Directors.

Art Dubai’s Global Art Forum is presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and supported by Dubai Design District (d3).

WEDNESDAY, 21 MARCH

GLOBAL ART FORUM SCHEDULE Welcome & Introduction 14:00 - 14:15 Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar and Co-Directors Noah Raford and Marlies Wirth I AM AI 14:15 – 14:45 Media Theorist Paul Feigelfeld I AM NOT WESTERN AI: ANIMALS, ALIENS, AND ALTERNATE PHILOSOPHIES OF MIND 14:45 – 15:45 Assistant Professor, Academy of Media Arts Cologne Mi You, National Technology Officer Microsoft China Ltd. Qing Wei, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Autonomous University of Barcelona Jordi Vallverdú, hosted by Noah Raford AM I STILL EMPLOYED: JOBS, JOYS, AND WHAT DO YOU DO 15:45 – 16:15 Head of Research, Dubai Future Foundation Jessica Bland with Shumon Basar

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I AM AWESOME, ANNOYING AND AWFUL: AI IN EVERYDAY LIFE, 2050 16:30 – 17:00 Product and Interaction Designer Simone Rebaudengo with Noah Raford I AM A HYPERSTITION 17:00 – 17:30 Artist, Writer and Trend Forecaster Emily Segal

THURSDAY, 22 MARCH

I AM A HUMAN ARTIST: PART 1 17:30 – 18:30 Artists Rokni, Ramin Haerizadeh & Hesam Rahmanian, Yuri Pattison and Ania Soliman, hosted by Writer Melissa Gronlund

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I AM/NOT A ROBOT 10:00 – 12:30 Workshop by artists Isabel Lewis and Asad Raza Welcome & Introduction 14:00 – 14:15 Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar and Co-Directors Noah Raford and Marlies Wirth

I AM A HUMAN ARTIST: PART 2 14:15 – 15:15 Artist and ‘Private Ear’ Lawrence Abu Hamdan with Artists Katja Novitskova and Pamela Rosenkranz, hosted by CTO Serpentine Galleries London and Initiator unMonastery Ben Vickers IS IT DJINN: GHOSTS, MACHINES, MUSIC 15:15 – 15:45 Music Producer and Artist Fatima Al Qadiri and Shumon Basar I AM HUMAN: CAN YOU PROVE IT? 15:45 – 16:45 Artist and Architect Alessandro Bava with Designer Simone Niquille and Artist and Writer Patricia Reed, hosted by Marlies Wirth REPORT FROM THE SERPENTINE MARATHON 2017 16:45 – 17:00 Artistic Director Serpentine Galleries London Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers

I AM DISTRIBUTED: AT THE FRONTEIRS OF THE BLOCKCHAIN 17:00 – 18:00 Theorist Jaya Klara Brekke with Architect and Musician Martti Kalliala, hosted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Ben Vickers

SCREENINGS AND CONVERSATIONS CINEMA AKIL PRESENTS “CONSIDER THE ROBOT & ‘OTHER’ STATES OF FUTURENESS”, 15:00 – 18:00 LAST DAYS OF THE MAN OF TOMORROW, 15:00 – 15:30 Director Fadi Baki

I AM/NOT A ROBOT 18:00 – 18:30 Performance by Artist and Dancer Isabel Lewis and Artist Asad Raza

PUMZI, 15:30 – 16:00 Director Wanuri Kahiu PUMZI Q&A, 16:00 – 16:30 Wanuri Kahiu and Writer and Curator Özge Calafato

Welcome & Introduction 14:00 – 14:05 Global Art Forum Commissioner Shumon Basar and Co-Directors Noah Raford and Marlies Wirth AM I A SAD ROBOT: THE CLINIC OF AI 14:05 – 14:45 Global Art Forum Philosopher and Writer Aaron Schuster

FREE LUNCH SOCIETY, 16:30 –18:00pm Director Christian Tod

Zombie Hand, originally uploaded to Google Street View by Adalberto Menardi. (Kyle Williams via Google Maps)

FRIDAY, 23 MARCH

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Dubai | Art Dubai | Ithara Art Prize

Ayman Zedani, Uthen, 2016. Courtesy the artist.

ITHRA ART PRIZE

Launched in 2017, the Prize is awarded to emerging Saudi talent in contemporary art and was introduced by the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture as a means to fund, promote and offer Saudi artists a global platform.

Sharjah-based, Saudi Arabian artist Ayman Zedani is the winner of the first edition of the prize. Over 80 proposals were received and the winner was chosen by a selection committee made up of Saudi as well as international experts, including members of the Center and Art Dubai. As part of a collaboration

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between Ithra and Art Dubai, Zedani’s work will be unveiled at Art Dubai 2018, and subsequently join Ithra’s prestigious permanent collection.

Location: Foundation booth, Foyer 2, Art Dubai

Voices

FATHIMA MOHIUDDIN Artist, The Domino

I’m interested in the little pockets of magic in public space, in unexpected interaction, in how street art can create places out of spaces and shake up a monotonous, routine day. How it resonates and provokes everyone, not just those who consciously walk into galleries. Art is more than an object that we buy and display. It’s a thing we do, which we bring into the world that has a power we may not necessarily be able to explain, but can’t deny either.

MAGIC

RUBEN SANCHEZ Artist, Tashkeel

Tashkeel has not only provided the tools during the decade since its launch, but also the ideas. They have created a community based on creativity and have spread their love for the arts through workshops, talks, events and exhibitions. All artists, emerging and established, local and international, have found in Tashkeel a window to work and show their work and be recognised in the region, always with affection and respect.

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Dubai: d3

Abwab Pavilion, Exterior, Dubai Design Week 2017

ABOUT D3

Dubai Design District, (d3), a member of Dubai Holding, is a destination dedicated to design.

Created to provide a home to the region’s growing number of designers, creatives and artists, d3 has fast become the hub for inspiration and innovation. d3 is committed to providing a platform for local, regional and international creatives. As a district, d3 is already home to over 30 public art and design installations, including three pieces from the much lauded Urban Commissions project which celebrates design talent from across the UAE. d3 has also commissioned a number of specific art works and design pieces, including installations by regional artists Myne & Yours

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which can be found in the car park entrances within the Design Quarter; The Eye which saw the collaborative efforts of two creative partners combine to produce a piece inspired by the eye of a storm; as well as a unique sculpture called MyDubai which was developed by AR Gallery, a d3 creative partner, and is now one the most instagrammed art projects within the district. d3 is also a destination for visitors who can discover an authentic shopping and dining experience with unique lifestyle boutiques, fashion ateliers, art galleries, design workshops and home grown restaurant concepts. dubaidesigndistrict.com @d3dubai

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Dubai Design Week

COMING NEXT

Flow Bowl Vases, Tavolo Zero

DUBAI DESIGN WEEK

Dubai Design Week, taking place for the fourth time this November, has quickly become a must-visit festival for creatives of all types; from seasoned design professionals to families with children looking to get their hands dirty!

With a line-up of over 200 events, Dubai Design Week provides an opportunity to be inspired and to discover local talent, designers from across the region as well as international brands.

Covering architecture, product, furniture, interior and graphic design, the six-day festival includes a range of exhibitions, talks and interactive experiences, much of which is staged at Dubai Design District (d3) which acts as the event’s hub venue.

The line-up includes the region’s most important design trade show, Downtown Design accompanied by the new curated event Downtown Editions as well as insights on the future through the Global Grad Show alongside Abwab, the leading showcase for Middle East design.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Across Dubai, with the hub at Dubai Design District (d3) 12-17 November 2018 dubaidesignweek.ae downtowndesign.com @dubaidesignweek @downtowndesignd @globalgradshow

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Dubai: d3 | Urban Commissions

Urban Commissions

URBAN COMMISSIONS

Dubai is synonymous with water, the shoreline that extends along the length of the city, the Dubai Creek, the mammoth Dubai Water Canal project, the Dubai Fountains, resulting in the theme for Urban Commissions 4.0; water feature.

The annual competition is an initiative by Dubai Design Week, Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) and Dubai Design District (d3) presenting an opportunity for designers living in the UAE to produce an urban furniture product with a budget of AED 50,000 to be unveiled at Dubai Design Week and installed permanently in d3.

With over 100 submissions, the nine shortlisted designers are: Abdullah Ibrahim, Chourouk Elhajj, Noor Alshawa, Anumta Akber, Davide Antonante, Gaser Mohamed & Andrea Simeoni, Hussain Aljabi, Idil Kantarci, Khalid Al-Tamimi, Marcus Farr, Suha Al-Salamain Urban Commissions to date has seen three successful projects manufactured and placed at d3: 1.0: Seating – IDO Bench

by Anna Szonyi 2.0: Shelter – Biked3

by Hinjal Kumar 3.0: Communal Table MuTable by SuperFutureDesign* #Urban Commissions

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Voices

Dubai Design Week acts as an annual occasion to encourage unique instances of collaboration, exchange and moments that will remain in our memories. The city of Dubai is courageous; its creatives are motivated to reflect the city’s ambition and competitions such as Urban Commissions and the Audi Innovation Award can propel designers forward. Dubai is the city where design careers are made.

RAWAN KASHKOUSH Head of Programming, Dubai Design Week

MEMORIES WILLIAM KNIGHT

Director, Dubai Design Week Dubai is a natural meeting place for the international design community and is the creative capital of the region. The UAE, more than anywhere else in the world, embraces the opportunity of the future, and how to make things better. Designers here are committed to this and the potential of getting things done. There is a growing confidence, developing talent-pool, stronger infrastructure and interest in design from the UAE too: it’s an exciting time.

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MOHAMMAD SAEED AL SHEHHI CEO, d3

TALENT SASS BROWN Founding Dean, DIDI

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We take pride in continually supporting creative platforms such as Art Dubai that highlight emerging local and regional talent side by side with more established artists making their creative efforts accessible. Our commitment to fostering new forms of expression, bringing international talent together under one umbrella and paving the way forward with our special blend of imaginative entrepreneurs, retail business, education and social activity allows Dubai Design District to evolve like no other.

DIDI wants the UAE to think about design as a means of changing the world, design as a creative problem-solving tool and to consider sustainable design. The UAE has made its mark in the Visual Arts, Fine Arts and Fashion Design sectors and now, the launch of DIDI will give designers in the UAE a platform to stand out in the global design world and across multiple design industries.

SUSTAINABLE

Dubai: d3 | Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI)

DUBAI INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND INNOVATION (DIDI)

ABOUT: Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation (DIDI) has been established to address the growing need for talented designers and innovators in the UAE and beyond.

DIDI offers the first integrated BDes of its kind in the region.

Students can map their own educational journey by exploring two concentrations from a possible four: Product Design, Multimedia Design, Fashion Design and Strategic Design Management.

DIDI prepares students to effectively respond to a rapidly changing world with transferable skills that are cross disciplinary and problem solving by design.

SPECIAL EVENT Open house and portfolio review session with Sass Brown This is an open house where — Students are invited to come and meet the DIDI team and learn about future design careers.

— Exhibition by local designers — Design portfolio review sessions for students who are interested in applying to design schools such as DIDI.

EVENT INFORMATION 24 March 2018 Location: Building 5, Ground Floor, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: 14:00 – 16:00 +971 4 568 3911 didi.ac.ae @dididxb 131

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Apical Reform Gallery

APICAL REFORM GALLERY

ABOUT: Since 2011, Apical Reform has nurtured curiosity and innovation, from designing collectable furniture to bespoke design-art pieces, innovation and technology are their foundations.

SONUSLEXICA Iceberg-shaped, the wooden installation marks Apical’s exploratory journey into sound wave technology. Capturing the many nationalities from the UAE, a group recorded the following string of words in their dialect: Peace, Diversity, Harmony, Happiness, Growth and Respect, transformed into 3D. Location: Dubai Design District (d3), Building 3 lobby, Ground Floor MYDUBAI CITY SIGN In January 2014 Shaikh Hamdan Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, launched the social media hashtag #MyDubai, inviting the Emirate's

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residents and visitors to write the social media biography of the city.

Location: Dubai Design District (d3), public landscape area MELT Supported by Swarovski.

Part machine, part glacier, Melt seeks to redress the imbalance between nature and rampant industrialisation. The history of the Industrial revolution and its present incarnation is reflected in a series of levers and gears.

Location: Dubai Design District (d3), Building 2 lobby, Ground Floor

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Ground floor, Building 6, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11:00 – 19:00 +971 4 244 0100 info@argallery.ae @apicalreform

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Art Hub

ART HUB Armen Adilkhanyan, Cocktail

I'M NOT AFRAID TO FLY

Gala Art Gallery, a leading art gallery from Armenia presents a series of exhibitions featuring 21 exceptional Armenian artists at Art Hub Gallery Dubai. Their third and final exhibition displays the mixed media on Plexiglas works

by Arev Petrosyan, a leading abstract decorative painter.

ABOUT: Gala Art Gallery specialises in original paintings and sculpture by historically significant Armenian artists from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Art Hub Gallery Dubai is an exhibition space for the community where proactive ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can come together. A place for

the development and collection of artworks inspired by UAE culture, Art Hub Gallery Dubai is a place of experience and inspiration, where art reflects life through the collections, exhibitions, and programmes.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Art Hub Gallery, Building 2, Dubai Design District (d3) 7 – 26 March 2018 Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00; Fridays, 15:00 – 20:00 gala@gala-artgallery.am arthubdubai@outlook.com +971 55 1667919 +971 55 3026401 133

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Citizen E Art Gallery

CITIZEN E ART GALLERY Jalal Luqman, Fingerprint Man

DANCING EAST

Citizen E Art Gallery in d3 present a solo exhibition of new and old imposing sculptures and paintings

by Emirati Artist Jalal Luqman, featuring a selection of artworks recognised and previously unseen, spanning the artist’s career.

ABOUT: Citizen E Art Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition and promotion of contemporary art in all its forms, presenting work by new and established artists from around the world.

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EVENT INFORMATION 5 March – 5 April 2018 Location: No. A108, First Floor, Building 6, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10:00 - 19:00. Open Saturday and Friday during Art Week. +971 4 457 2380 citizene.net @citizeneartgallery

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | East Wing Gallery

EAST WING GALLERY Ahmad Malek

HABIBI FUNK: A CELEBRATION OF FUNK, SOUL, PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC FROM THE ARAB WORLD

In collaboration with Dubai Design District (d3) East Wing with German DJ and musicologist of rare vinyl Jannis Stürz, present a celebration of the record label Habibi Funk. Shining a light on older music from the Arab world from rare photographs, biographies, memorabilia, films and live performance, the musical gems have been collected from record stores from around the world to retrieve and preserve long lost funk recordings from the Middle East. The aim of the exhibition is to reconnect both young and old audiences to the music by developing a series of compilations featuring eclectic selections of the greatest Arab icons from the 1960’s through the 80’s, including some performances that were never released before, believed to be musical legends.

ABOUT: Since 2012 East Wing has been developing a platform of evocative photographic projects that trigger curiosity through innovative practice; enlightening audiences, challenging existing viewpoints and raising discourse on subjects that effect the global community at large. Balancing beauty and information, East Wing provides connections and alternative insights into subjects that matter.

EVENT INFORMATION 21 March – 21 May 2018 Location: Ground Floor, Building 2, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Daily, 10:00 – 20:00 +971 50 5533879 east-wing.org @eastwingphoto

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Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Gallery Ward

GALLERY WARD Ahmed Kassim, Goddesses and monsters, 2017

MEDLEY VOL.2

Medley Vol.2 continues to celebrate cultures and creativity through showcasing a collection of diverse works by some of the region’s most prominent contemporary artists. Although the artists, subjects, media and styles in this exhibition are diverse and eclectic, they are all linked in identifying today’s aesthetic. The exhibition hopes to provide viewers with a deeper understanding and a more relevant dialogue around Arab contemporary art.

ARTISTS: Marwa Adel, Ahmed Kassim, Hazem Harb, Hazem El Mestikawy, Ahmed AlKut, Saeed Badr, Ehab ElLabban, Rana Bishara, Sherif Waheed, and Raof Haj ABOUT: Gallery Ward aims to continuously present and promote contemporary art and design

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from around the world through curated exhibitions and projects, as essential agents in shaping the art scene in the Arab World and the dialogue surrounding it.

Founded in Cairo in 2010, Gallery Ward aims to provide a focus on the contemporary Egyptian art scene by introducing and showcasing works by some of the most dynamic Egyptian artists living and working in Egypt and abroad today.

EVENT INFORMATION 14 March – 13 May 2018 Location: Unit R08, Building 4, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 11:00 – 19:00 galleryward.com @gallerywarddxb

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Sconci Art Gallery and Sinyar Gallery

SCONCI ART GALLERY

SINYAR GALLERY

Luca Valentini

Abdul Rahim Salem

HERO ADDICTED

Hero Addicted is a solo presentation of portraits by Luca Valentini. His bold pop art collages of celebrities combine influences of street art, comic books and german expressionism, merging the hero and antihero, where good and evil are mixed and confused.

ABOUT: Activities of Sconci Art Gallery in the art world began in 1977 in Rome. Now the main branch is in d3, Dubai where we have over 800 artworks in our collection.

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March – 16 April 2018 Location: 107 – 108, 1st floor, Building 8, d3 Open: Sundays to Wednesdays, 11:00 – 18:00; Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays only by appointment +971 55 75 27 504 sconcigallery.com @sconci_gallery

THE PIONEERING COLLECTABLES

ARTISTS: Abdul Qader Al Rais, Salma Al Marri, Anbar Walid, Abdul Rahim Salem, Dr. Suheil Baddor ABOUT: Deeply rooted in the Emirati culture, nothing else can communicate the real meaning of teamwork more than the name (SINYAR). For centuries, before oil, captains who lead pearl diving voyages opted to venture on the high seas in groups for safety, collaboration, shared knowledge and experience. This is the tradition of SINYAR, the word that Emiratis still use to describe successful teamwork.

EVENT INFORMATION 17 – 24 March 2018 Location: Office 509A, Building 7, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 09:00 – 18:00 +971 4 557 3000 sinyargallery.com 137

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Grande Exhibitions

GRANDE EXHIBITIONS VAN GOGH ALIVE – THE EXPERIENCE

Grande Exhibitions and 6IX Degrees Entertainment present Van Gogh Alive – The Experience, a multisensory exhibition event to entertain the whole family. From start to finish visitors are surrounded by a powerful and vibrant symphony of light, colour and sound that compels them to leave the world behind and immerse themselves in what has been called an ‘unforgettable’ multisensory experience. Van Gogh's masterpieces come to life as visitors experience the sensation of walking right into his paintings - a feeling that is simultaneously enchanting, entertaining and educational.

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ABOUT: Grande Exhibitions specialises in the creation, design, production and touring of large international travelling exhibition experiences and permanent exhibition projects which have broad cultural appeal.

EVENT INFORMATION 11 March – 23 April 2018 Location: Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Daily, 09:00 – 22:00 grandeexhibitions.com @vangoghliveuae

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | FBMI and NAKKASH

FBMI

NAKKASH

You & I Collection, FMBI X Nada Debs

THE UNIT

ABOUT: The Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Initiative (FBMI) is a unique social enterprise that harnesses the traditional skills of the Afghan people to produce hand-knotted carpets, embroidered furniture and traditional handicraft at fair market wages in Afghanistan.

FBMI products are then marketed and sold internationally through the Initiative’s retail arm Zuleya to help fund the provision of its education, healthcare and employment initiatives.

EVENT INFORMATION Open throughout Art Week and onwards Location: R-01, Building 2, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: 10:00- 22:00 +971 4 388 1103 fbmi.ae @fbmi_uae

NAKKASH is proud to announce THE UNIT, a pop-up shop. It represents yet another step in making exquisite design more accessible. Providing young design enthusiasts with the opportunity to own internationally renowned pieces of furniture, The UNIT hosts a series of activations that include specialist talks, live music, and exciting competitions.

ABOUT: Established in 1983, NAKKASH has been at the forefront of interior design in the region for over three decades.

EVENT INFORMATION 25 February – 24 March 2018 Location: R-01, Building 5, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 551 1714 info@nakkashgallery.net nakkashgallery.com @nakkashgallery 139

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Zaha Hadid Architects

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS vision redefined architecture for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe.

ZHA Office & Gallery continues the practice’s longstanding commitment to the region and acts as a focal point to connect with clients while also featuring a space to host a programme of exhibitions and collaborations.

The current exhibits include a display of 3D-printed models, as well as a timeline of ZHA projects, ranging from early paintings and competition entries to ongoing developments. Furniture pieces

by ZHD as well as selected homeware items from the ZH Collection are also on display.

ABOUT: Zaha Hadid Architects was founded in 1979 and is a global leader in pioneering research and design investigation. Hadid’s

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With 30 years’ experience in the Middle East and North Africa, ZHA is working with visionary clients throughout the region on many transformational projects. ZHA’s portfolio also includes cultural, academic, sporting and infrastructure projects across six continents.

EVENT INFORMATION 18 – 22 March 2018 Location: Unit 503, Building 8, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: 18 – 20 March, 09:00 – 21:00; 21 & 22 March, 09:00 – 18:00 +971 4 442 9105 zaha-hadid.com

Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | RE: Urban Studio and in5

RE: URBAN STUDIO

IN5

RE: CREATIVES MEETUP

Re: Urban Studio launches its meet up group. The session will be curated around topics related to design(ers) needs and challenges.

The meet up will push everyone to contribute, to learn, and create productive relationships, running for three days during Art Week, thereafter running once a month.

ABOUT: Re: Urban Studio is a design specific membership based co-working space at d3.

ABOUT: in5 is an enabling platform for entrepreneurs and startups, fostering innovation and helping new ideas reach the marketplace launched by Tecom Group. in5 is hosting artists participating in the Art Dubai Residents, see p102

EVENT INFORMATION EVENT INFORMATION Location: 107B, Building 7, Dubai Design District (d3) 19 – 21 March 2018 Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 18:00 – 20:00 +971 4 240 6961 re-urbanstudio.com @reurbanstudio

Location: hai d3, Dubai Design District (d3) +971 4 451 1555 infive.ae @in5dubai

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Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | Molecule X EMERGEAST

MOLECULE X EMERGEAST METAPHORIC FACES Zaina El Said

Molecule x EMERGEAST presents Metaphoric Faces, a solo exhibition

by Zaina El Said, which explores images from the past that are recreated digitally in a funky/ pop-art mode. The series aspires to expose the unseen exuberance and power of the people in the region, metaphors or symbols of past and present civilisations.

ABOUT: Molecule was created with the clear vision of building a space where creators meet and makers eat. An exciting restaurant built for the Dubai Design District (d3), Molecule has been created with a series of collaborations that showcase the creativity and ingenuity of creators and makers from around the region.

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March – 16 June 2018 Location: Building 6, Dubai Design District (d3) Open: Daily, 11:00 – 02:00 +971 4 245 4700 molecule.restaurant @moleculedxb

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Dubai: d3, Art Exhibitions | The Lighthouse

THE LIGHTHOUSE Arab World and Tea with Nefertiti: The Making of the Artwork by the Artist, the Museum, & the Public.

DJ JOHN HANLIDIS Daily, 14 – 24 March 2018 The Lighthouse resident DJ John Hanlidis (Athens/Dubai/Mykonos) is hosting daily live sets during Art Week from 14 – 24 March 2018.

Setting the mood for lunch, aperitivo and dinner, John will be spinning the best in classic house, nu-disco and indie dance for the d3 crowds.

SAM BARDAOUIL & TILL FELLRATH 23 March 2018, 10:00 Art and Shakshouka! Join The Lighthouse’s popular breakfast roundtable discussions. Hosted by The Lighthouse Founder Hashem Montasser, the discussion will see guests through a Q&A session and a book signing of their publications Art et Liberté: Rupture, War, & Surrealism in Egypt (1938 - 1948), Summer Autumn Winter & Spring: Conversations with Artists from the

ABOUT: The Lighthouse (TLH) is a concept store and restaurant located in d3. TLH aims to define a contemporary design aesthetic in the Middle East. As a physical space, it features a curated environment that showcases gifting merchandise that has been carefully handpicked by the TLH team and reflects its values of functionality, timelessness and minimalism.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Building 6, Dubai Design District (d3) Restaurant Hours: Sundays to Wednesdays, 08:00 – 22:30; Thursdays and Fridays, 08:00 – 23:30; Saturdays, 08:00 – 17:45 Store & Bar Hours: Sundays to Wednesdays, 08:00 – 00:00; Thursdays and Fridays, 08:00 – 01:00; Saturdays, 08:00 – 19:00 +971 4 422 6024 thelighthouse.ae @thelighthouse_ae

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Dubai: DIFC | Art Nights

DIFC ART NIGHTS AT GATE VILLAGE BRIDGING THE GAP: 19 MARCH 19:00 – 22:00

Featuring a unique fusion of art, culture and entertainment, DIFC Art Nights will transport you into a world of creativity and inspiration, presenting work by emerging and established artists from around the world, as well as offering visitors the chance to participate in creative activities. DIFC’s Gate Village art galleries will also open new art collections in line with the event.

POP-UPS INCLUDE: Gulf Photo Plus presents a collection of photographs printed on large fabric panels by Laura El-Tantawy The AJALA Project artworks by: Chris Kapsaroff, Ludmila Panenkova, Mariska Nell, Minisha Bhardwaj, Shadab Khan, Shrutika Gosavi, Silas Adeoye, Victor Sitali

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PROART Gallery: Jamal Habroush Al Suwaidi NEDA, FBMI, MIRZAM, Diaa Allam and Odintri International Emerging Artist Award – Rebiaa – Sandra Fadayel, Azam Zadeghi, Sara Japanwalla, Hissa Al Zarouni Vintage Cars by DIFC, Dubai Culture is Cultural Partner of the event XVA Gallery presents Aliel Art Meets Jewellery, Hussein Al Mohasen and Omid Hallaj

Dubai: DIFC | Salvador Dali: The Memories

SALVADOR DALI: THE MEMORIES

This is the first solo exhibition of the enigmatic Spanish genius Salvador Dalí in the region. The exhibition presents 160 original photographs, lithographs and paintings from worldwide private collections. The star of the exhibition is a rare oil painting A Shower of Jasmine (1954) that was exhibited twice: first time in 1954 in New York at Carstairs Gallery, and second in 1998 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil at the National Museum. The painting has since remained in a private collection.

Photographs of Dalí taken by his close friend Robert Descharnes show the Spanish icon, painter and visionary intimately working

with his tools in the process of making what is now the most acknowledged art in the world.

In addition to the painting, photographs and lithographs, the exhibition reveals an interactive wall that transports visitors back to the time of the master.

EVENT INFORMATION 11 February – 22 April 2018 Location: Precinct building 4, Conference Centre, DIFC Open: 13:00 – 22:00 salvadordali.ae

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Dubai: DIFC | Andakulova Gallery

ANDAKULOVA GALLERY ARCHAIC’S ECHO Yuristanbek Shygaev, Manas, 1998

artists and to make art accessible to growing audiences in the UAE and cultivate the dialogue between Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a diverse educational programme and collaborates on several regional projects such as the Tashkent Biennale.

EVENT INFORMATION

Yuristanbek Shygaev is an iconic figure of Kyrgyzstan’s contemporary art scene. The exhibition includes colourful, monumental scrolls that demonstrate not only the quick hand and poetic soul of the ancient nomad, but also the amazing craftsmanship of the artist-experimenter who created his own encyclopaedia of semi-abstract signs.

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7 March – 7 July 2018 Location: Unit 18, P4 level, Damac Park Towers, DIFC Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 385 9897 andakulova.com @andakulovagallery

Dubai: DIFC | Ayyam Gallery

AYYAM GALLERY Safwan Dahoul, Dream 170, 2017

SAFWAN DAHOUL

The exhibition will showcase a selection of Safwan Dahoul’s newest works where he continues to explore the physical and psychological effects of alienation, solitude, and longing that punctuate the human experience at various stages in life.

ABOUT: Founded in 2006, Ayyam Gallery is a leading arts organisation that manages the careers of diverse established and emerging artists. Ayyam Gallery has also contributed to recent efforts that document underrepresented facets of global art history.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 30 April 2018 Location: Podium Level, Building 3, DIFC Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 12:00 – 22:00 +971 4 4392395 ayyamgallery.com @ayyamgallery

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Dubai: DIFC | Cuadro Gallery

CUADRO GALLERY Mohmmed Ibrahim, Khorfakkan II, 2002, Sharjah Art Foundation Collection

MOHAMMED AHMED IBRAHIM

Cuadro Gallery presents a solo exhibition of new work by Emirati artist Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim.

The artist’s works shed light on the contemporary disconnect from nature and reveal a fascination with the prehistoric. Increased urbanisation in the UAE gives the banal materials he uses in his sculptures a transformative impact, making them appear lofty, rarefied and organic, as though they were natural forms that he has illuminated, rather than created. Indiscernible, they carry vague impressions of recognisable objects – bird feeders, fishing traps, totemic monuments, even limbs.

ABOUT: Cuadro’s curated exhibitions provide audiences with an opportunity to experience different approaches and styles of art.

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Cuadro’s Education Programme consists of lectures, workshops and panel discussions and the Residency at Cuadro offers a select group of artist’s studio space in the UAE.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Podium Level, Building 10, Gate Village, DIFC Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 20:00, Saturdays, 12:00 – 18:00 +971 4 425 0400 cuadroart.com @cuadroart

Dubai: DIFC | The Empty Quarter

THE EMPTY QUARTER YEAR OF ZAYED

Across the UAE, the year 2018 is dedicated to Sheikh Zayed Father of the Nation, Ruler and Friend. Ancient photographs from Magnum photographer Bruno Barbey – together with other collections – show how the UAE has transformed from a desert landscape into a thriving, vibrant nation. The exhibition and photographs are a testimonial to Sheikh Zayed and form part of the identity of the UAE. His Highness dramatically reshaped the land, industries, economy and tourism with his forward thinking, pioneering views.

ABOUT: The Empty Quarter is a gallery devoted exclusively to fine art photography, serving a rapidly growing circle of artists and photo enthusiasts. The gallery works with young emerging and international renowned established photographers.

EVENT INFORMATION Opens 19 March 2018 Location: Podium Level, Building 2, Gate Village, DIFC Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 19:00 +971 4 323 1210 theemptyquarter.com

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Dubai: DIFC | Opera Gallery

OPERA GALLERY Manolo Valdes, Retrato

MANOLO VALDES

Opera Gallery Dubai is proud to present a solo exhibition by world-renowned Spanish artist, Manolo Valdes to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Opera Gallery Dubai.

It is Manolo Valdes’s first exhibition in the Middle East with more than 25 of his works on display.

ABOUT: Founded by Gilles Dyan in Paris in 1994 and now internationally established with outlets in Dubai, Paris, London, Geneva, Monaco, New York, Miami, Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul, Opera Gallery is one of the leading dealers in modern and contemporary American, European and Asian art.

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EVENT INFORMATION 15 March – 14 April 2018 Location: Podium level, Building 3, Gate Village, DIFC Open: Sundays to Wednesdays 10:00 – 22:00; Thursdays, 10:0000:00; Fridays, 14:00 -21:00; Saturdays, 11:00 - 21:00 +971 4 323 0909 operagallery.com @operagallery

Dubai: DIFC | Sotheby's

Bahman Mohasses, Il Minotauro fa Paura alla Gente per Bene, 1966

SOTHEBY'S team of experts in Dubai offer local residents weekly complimentary valuations of their gems and jewels.

The valuations take place every Tuesday from 13:00 – 17:00.

Sotheby’s season in Dubai this March is launching with eclectic highlights from their auctions across the globe – ranging from myriad rare and historical objects from the Islamic world and exquisite Orientalist paintings to cuttingedge Modern and Contemporary canvases by the most soughtafter Middle Eastern artists.

Highlights to be unveiled include a rare painting by icon of Iranian modernism Bahman Mohasses and ornate Indian jewellery.

ABOUT: Sotheby’s Dubai gallery space and office officially opened in March 2017. Located in the Dubai International Financial Centre, it presents an expanded programme of year-round events, including selling and non-selling exhibitions, events and talks, reflecting the spectrum of Sotheby's international sales and extensive client services. Sotheby’s

SPECIAL EVENT 21 March 2018 13:00 – 14:30 Light lunch and talk by Dr Hauman Sarshar on the Art of Collecting

EVENT INFORMATION 20 – 24 March 2018 Location: Unit 1, Level B2, Gate Village Building 3, DIFC, Dubai Open: 10:00 – 20:00 dubai@sothebys.com sothebys.com @sothebys

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Dubai: DIFC | Tabari Artspace

TABARI ARTSPACE Khaled Zaki, Work from Resurrection series, 2017

KHALED ZAKI: RESURRECTION

Tabari Artspace presents a series of nine new sculptures by Khaled Zaki, a major pioneer of modernist sculpture in Egypt. These marble works explore the relationship between form and material in the context of geopolitical unrest in the Middle Eastern region and reflect Zaki’s aspirations for a brighter, more hopeful future. Inspired by the fragments of buildings and shrapnel littering the streets in the aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 and the Egyptian protests of 2013 as well as the ongoing unsettlement across Egypt, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, the artist attempts to symbolically rebuild crumbled societies; to restore order and shape a better future.

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ABOUT: Tabari Artspace, formerly Artspace Dubai, has been a pioneer in establishing a contemporary art scene in Dubai since it was founded in 2003. The gallery represents and champions a range of established artists and is dedicated to the global promotion of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 March – 25 April 2018 Location: The Gate Village Building, Level 2, DIFC Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 09:00 – 21:00 + 971 4 323 0820 tabariartspace.com @tabari_artspace

AROUND DUBAI As Dubai expands, new pockets of creativity open up across the city. Universities, performing art spaces such as Dubai Opera, parks, hotels and cafes all play a part in Art Week. Jumeirah, Downtown and Barsha are all worth an explore, The Etihad Museum, Tashkeel and the Ismaili Centre in particular offer special exhibitions that are open to the public this Art Week.

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Dubai: Art DXB

Halim Al Karim, Eternal Boat, DXB Terminal 3

ART DXB

ABOUT: Using the world’s number one international airport as a canvas, artDXB is an ongoing initiative from Dubai Airports, which brings inspiring artworks to Dubai International’s 90 million annual passengers.

The current collection includes an entire corridor in Terminal 3 adorned with specially commissioned artworks from the Domino Agency (see page 125) and Mawaheb, a Dubai-based art studio for people of determination (see page 43).

Elsewhere the airport features two striking sculptures by Emirati artist Jamal Habroush Al Suwaidi – My Dallah in Terminal 3 and LoveRed in Terminal 1 – as well as the Eternal Boat by Halim Al Karim in Terminal 3. The latest addition is 154

an exhibition by Emirati artists at Terminal 3’s Al Majlis VIP facility, in association with Dubai Culture.

Passengers and art lovers can keep track of upcoming artDXB installations by following Dubai Airports on social media or reading the monthly art features in the brand-new airport magazine, Time Out DXB.

EVENT INFORMATION connectblog.dubaiairports.ae Facebook: @DubaiInternationalDXB Instagram/Twitter: @DubaiAirports

Dubai: Academic City | Al Ghurair University

AL GHURAIR UNIVERSITY TOWARDS DUBAI 2020 – ARCHITECTURE IN A TRANSIENT CITY The workshop goal was to find appropriate solutions to reconnect the fragments of the city’s fabric, solving the contradictions generated by the current urban sprawl caused by the rapid and uncontrolled recent growth. Curated by Tiziano Aglieri Rinella and Ruben Garcia Rubio.

Dubai’s skyline today offers a wide panorama of architectural works, from hi-scale landscape interventions to small size projects, designed by the most renowned world-famous architects. Those projects are radically transforming the urban landscape.

The exhibition shows a selection of projects designed during the International Workshop of Architectural Design Towards Dubai 2020: Architecture in a Transient City, held at Dubai Design District (d3) 03-11 November 2017 organised by Al Ghurair University in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and Sapienza University of Rome. Students of architecture and interior design from several European universities worked together with local students of the Bachelor in Architecture of Al Ghurair University, to foster a shared design vision.

ABOUT: Al Ghurair University (AGU) aims to excel as a premier university in the Gulf and provide affordable, high quality education to the men and women from diversified nationalities by offering programmes at undergraduate and graduate levels.

EVENT INFORMATION 18 – 24 March 2018 Location: Al Ghurair University, Dubai International Academic City Open: 09:00 – 20:00 +971 4 420 0223 +971 52 972 9104 agu.ac.ae

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Dubai: Barsha | Cabin and dusitD2

CABIN WINTER

THE ART PROGRAMME: DUSITD2 ZEINAB ALHASHEMI

C a b i n is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by Rami Farook & Jonathan Gent.

ABOUT: C a b i n is an artist’s studio and restaurant serving a seasonal, ingredient driven menu. We specialise in food, art and supplies.

EVENT INFORMATION 15 February – 20 March 2018 Location: 15 Maisan Towers, Tower 1, Al Barsha south Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 08:00 – 17:00; Fridays and Saturdays, 09:00 – 18:00 +971 4 244 7291 cabindubai.com @cabindubai

The hotel’s art programme is a collaboration of exclusive pieces from Emirati artist Zeinab Alhashemi and pays tribute to symbol of the dhow sail. Alhashemi was inspired by the first fictional work of Emirati literature ever published in the UAE, Shahinda by H.E. Rashid Abdulla Al Noaimi.

ABOUT: The interior is an inspirational canvas, home to a carefully curated art programme, one of the first of its kind and scale in the UAE. EVENT INFORMATION Location: Barsha Heights, Sheikh Zayed Road, near Internet City Metro Station Open: 09:00 – 23:00 +971 4 567 2222 dusit.com/dusitd2/Dubai @dusitd2dubai

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Dubai: Downtown Dubai | HIPA

HIPA

Under the patronage of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai, HIPA will host an exclusive evening celebrating the finest photography at the Seventh Season Awards Ceremony, themed ‘The Moment’.

The Awards will feature a unique interpretation wherein the visual and surrounding elements spontaneously come together at the perfect time, expressing the essence of the situation, allowing you to live and re-live ‘the moment’ through photography.

Along with the main theme, other categories that will be awarded

include: Portfolio (story-telling), General (colour and black & white) and Time-lapse (video).

HIPA will also present three special awards and these are the Photography Appreciation Award, the Photography Content Creator Award Emerging Person/ Organisation in Photography Award.

EVENT INFORMATION 12 March 2018, 17:30 - 21:00 Location: Dubai Opera, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Downtown Dubai 800 4472 www.hipa.ae @hipaae

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Dubai: Downtown Dubai | Dubai Opera and Dubai Walls

DUBAI OPERA

DUBAI WALLS

RAG N BONE

Rag’n’Bone Man, AKA Rory Graham, released his debut album Human in February 2017 to mass critical acclaim, the album was immediately certified gold and platinum just 3 weeks later having spent 2 consecutive weeks at the number 1 spot in the UK charts. Directed by Jasper Hope.

ABOUT: Dubai Opera passionately embraces its role as the creative heart of the city, producing and hosting the finest, most authentic, and engaging performing arts experiences from Dubai and the world.

EVENT INFORMATION 23 March 2018, 21:00 Location: The Opera District, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, Downtown Dubai +971 4 440 8888 dubaiopera.com @dubaiopera 158

Dubai Walls is a ground-breaking street art initiative by Meraas. The initiative provides an attractive platform for global admirers of street art and is designed to attract visitors to the region throughout the year. Dubai Walls is designed to transform public spaces into permanent street art exhibitions that align with Dubai’s modern landscape, and is an opportunity for visitors and residents to enjoy the beautiful artistic creations.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: City Walk, Jumeirah Open: Daily, 24 hours +971 4 317 3999 (City Walk) dubaiwalls.com @dubaiwalls

Dubai: Downtown Dubai | Apple Dubai Mall

APPLE DUBAI MALL TODAY AT APPLE

Discover inspiring programmes happening every day at Apple.

Today at Apple is a creative learning platform that brings together the world’s most talented artists, designers, photographers, musicians, developers and entrepreneurs to inspire and educate a wide community, taking creative practices further through technology. 19 MARCH 2018, 19:30 Photo Lab X Aqib Anwar, Shifting lights. Shifting Narrative 20 March 2018, 19:30 Photo Lab X Caleb Arias + GPP Capturing Personalities

21 March 2018, 19:30 Photo Lab X Ali Chaaban and Rayyan Nawawi, Nostalgic Memories and Exploring Identities 22 March 2018, 19:30 Live Art X Satwa300 Creating GIFS 23 March 2018, 20:00 Music Lab

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Apple Dubai Mall Booking: Apple.com/today Contact information: lmobied@apple.com

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Dubai: Downtown Dubai | Art Emaar

ART EMAAR Emmanuelle Moureaux , 100 Colors no.3

WAVE-FIELD

100 COLORS Conceived by French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux, 100 Colors is an installation of more than 10,000 pieces of hand-dyed fabric displaying the full colour spectrum. Hung across 1 km, it creates an uplifting, positive energy at the heart of Downtown Dubai.

Location: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard

Wave-Field is an installation of 16 illuminated kinetic see-saws. As people interact with them, the seesaws generate a unique sensory landscape of light and sound.

Created by Canadian-based Lateral Office and CS Design, they will be on display at the waterfront promenade of The Dubai Mall for three months.

Location: Dubai Fountain Promenade ABOUT: ART EMAAR, curated by Studio Romer, aims to bring new immersive experiences to Emaar’s master-planned developments, engaging the public through arts and culture programmes including public art commissions and temporary exhibitions.

SKYWARD Suspended from the apex of the Souk Atrium, Skyward is Jason Hackenwerth’s most recent creation.

The 18-metre spiral turns freely, it was hand-sculpted on site using nearly 20,000 latex balloons.

Location: Souk Atrium, The Dubai Mall

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EVENT INFORMATION Open: From 24 February 2018 Sundays to Saturdays, all-day artemaar.com

Dubai: Emirates Towers | Christie's

CHRISTIE'S Fahrelnissa Zeid, Budapest, The Express between Budapest and Istanbul

launched in Dubai in 2006, located in the Dubai International Financial Centre. Christie’s Dubai organises bi-annual sales of Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art and Important Watches, that take place at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel in March and October.

DUBAI: POST WAR AND CONTEMPORARY ART 22 March 2018, 19:00 In their 13th year of sales in the Middle East, Christie's Dubai presents its annual sale during Dubai’s Art Week with works by Iranian, Turkish, Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi and Palestinian artists. Highlights from the auction include works by Mahmoud Said, Fahrelnissa Zeid, Farhad Moshiri, Huguette Caland, and Timo Nasseri.

A personalised, rare Patek Philippe Reference watch once owned by King Farouk of Egypt is a highlight of Christie’s Important Watches sale.

ABOUT: Founded in 1766, Christie’s is the leading international auction house, selling multi-category artworks, furniture, photographs, watches and jewellery across twelve sale sites globally. Christie’s

IMPORTANT WATCHES: INCLUDING CONTEMPORARY WRISTWATCHES FROM AN IMPORTANT SWISS COLLECTION 23 March 2018, 17:00 PUBLIC VIEWING IN DUBAI 19 March 2018, 19:00 - 22:00 20 March 2018, 10:00 - 20:00 21 March 2018, 10:00 - 20:00 22 March 2018, 10:00 - 13:30

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Godolphin Ballroom, Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, Sheikh Zayed Road +971 4 425 5647 christies.com

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Dubai: Jumeirah | Khazzan X Cadillac

KHAZZAN X CADILLAC entertainment. With a library, park, gallery, and café, the dynamic space looks to empower the community through social, cultural, economic, and environmental engagement.

Al Khazzan Park is an urban refuge where one can escape the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy being surrounded by nature. Dubai’s only solar-driven park, there is a community space, cafe, and a new flower and botanics shop by Pico & Pico.

During Art Week, the space will hold a pop up magazine shop by Brownbook, an urban guide to the Middle East & Africa where one will find back issues and visual memories, that will surprise with its rich 10-year history. The space will be curated by Pico & Pico.

ABOUT: Khazzan x Cadillac works as a platform to encourage a diverse and active cultural community through intellectual exploration and

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SPECIAL EVENT Chill out music session under the tree – expect some Japanese synth pop, Jazz, soul, bossanova, funk, and international music.

24 March 2018 16:00 – 20:00

EVENT INFORMATION 20 – 24 March 2018 Location: Khazzan x Cadillac at Al Khazzan Park Open: Café: Daily, 08:00 – 17:30; Flower shop: Daily, 08:00 – 20:00 khazzan.ae @khazzandubai

Dubai: Jumeirah | Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children

AL JALILA CULTURAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN Eman Al Hashemi

BEDAYAAT

Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children’s Painting, Pottery and Sculpture Departments have welcomed hundreds of curious and talented children as well as artists seeking new experiences and art forms over the years. The exhibition Bedayaat, which is Arabic for ‘Beginnings’, showcases artworks created by employing various techniques in pottery such as hand building, throwing the wheel, mould making and casting as well as different mediums in drawing and painting such as mixed media selfportraits, acrylic on canvas portraits and contour dynamic line sketches and graphic drawings. These pieces range from artworks made by professional potters and visual artists to children at the Centre who tried the delightful experience of pottery for the first time, hence the title of this exhibition.

ABOUT: Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children’s Mission is to develop future leaders by providing a cultural stage dedicated to enriching the lives of children. It does this through wide-ranging cultural learning and artistic programmes based on experience, participation and free choice. The Centre provide structured art training in painting and drawing, pottery and sculpture, printmaking, fashion design, theatre, music, multimedia and more.

EVENT INFORMATION 17 – 24 March 2018 Location: Al Jalila Gallery and the Pottery Gallery, Al Jalila Cultural Centre for Children, Al Wasl Road, Um Suqeim 3 Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 09:00 – 20:00 +971 4 316 9999 ajccc.ae @ajccuae

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Dubai: Jumeirah | Etihad Museum

ETIHAD (UNION) MUSEUM PROTECTORS OF THE NATION: SACRIFICE AND GIVING with the Ministry of Defense, the General Command of the Armed Forces, the Military History Museum and the National Archives.

Under the management of Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Etihad Museum presents an exhibition celebrating the UAE’s Armed Forces. The exhibition charts the formation of the nation’s military, whose history parallels the unification of the UAE and the nation’s evolution ever since. It also explores the many skills required of a modern armed force, as well as the most essential ingredient — the men and women who are willing to dedicate themselves to a life serving their country and others.

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ABOUT: The Etihad Museum exhibits the story of the nation’s development from pre-union to more recent times. Its aim is to become a cultural beacon to educate the UAE’s citizens, residents and visitors about the country’s modern history - including the rapid pace of development that has taken place and its grand achievements along the way.

EVENT INFORMATION Open: Daily, 10:00 – 20:00 Location: 2nd December Street, Jumeirah 1 +971 4 5155771 etihadmuseum.dubaiculture.ae @etihadmuseumae Entrance fee for adults 25 years and older: 25AED, students 5 – 24 years: 10AED

Dubai: Jumeirah | Comptoir 102

COMPTOIR 102 FRANCK DORAT

Comptoir 102 presents an exhibition of Franck Dorat’s wire sculpture.

Fascinated by Alexander Calder's mobiles, Dorat decided to use technology to embody his dreams.

Continuing on from his drawings, Dorat made his first sculptures in wire by mixing ink, painting and digital images. His imaginary is bursting with humour and originality.

We discover the talent of this accomplished graphic designer who knows, like no other, how to play on the weightlessness and elegance of a wire tamed with patience.

ABOUT: Comptoir 102 is an award winning lifestyle concept store and creative hub in a charming stand-alone villa located in the heart of the city. The space has been conceived as a home, with

its kitchen, lounge, garden and terrace, combining fashion, homeware and organic café and restaurant. Select brands, one-ofa-kind pieces, limited edition artist collaborations and trunk shows hosted by designers themselves create the soulful spirit Comptoir 102 most notably embodies.

EVENT INFORMATION 19 – 25 March 2018 Location: 102 Beach Road, Jumeirah 1 Open: Daily, 08:30- 21:00 +971 4 385 4555 comptoir102.com @comptoir102

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Dubai: Jumeirah | Dubai International Art Centre: Gallery 76 and Obegi Home

DUBAI OBEGI HOME INTERNATIONAL ART CENTRE: GALLERY 76 CONNECTIONS

Artists will explore and question the important significance of ‘connections’, past or present, potentially leading to a fascinating world of the unusual and the unexpected.

ABOUT: Dubai International Art Centre is the oldest public art centre in the UAE and occupies a special place in the history of Dubai's thriving art scene.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Street 75B, Villa 27, Jumeirah 1 Opening times: Saturdays to Wednesdays, 09:00 – 21:00; Thursdays 09:00 – 16:00 +971 4 344 4398 artdubai.com @DIACArtCentre

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ABOUT: Founded in Beirut in 1973, Obegi Home is a distinctively refined interior destination, that enhances your lifestyle by creating a bespoke atmosphere. During Art week Obegi Home showcase Ceccotti Collezioni- 7 state-of-theart furniture pieces and a painting exhibition, Contemporary Art from the Middle East, Private Collection.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Jumeirah Beach Road, Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 20:00 +971 4 394 8161 dubai@obegihome.com obegihome.com @obegihome

Dubai: Jumeirah | Pro Art Gallery and The Amanqi Edit

PRO ART GALLERY

Marwa Hashim, illustration

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

THE AMANQI EDIT

Pro Art Gallery presents a group photography group exhibition.

ARTISTS: Sebastiao Salgado, Peter Beard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, Gerard Paire, Andreas Gursky, Cedric Delsaux, Murat Germen, Amr Fekry, Paul Seux.

ABOUT: PROART Gallery offers works from leading figures in the contemporary global art market.

EVENT INFORMATION 7 – 30 March 2018 Location: Palm Strip Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road, Jumeirah 1, opposite Jumeirah Grand Mosque Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 21:00; Fridays, 13:00 – 20:00 +971 4 345 0900 proartuae.com

The Amanqi Edit Pop-up II celebrates contemporary fashion displaying works by 10 designers from across the globe. The Amanqi Edit is collaborating with regional illustrator Marwa Hashim to create three exclusively illustrated design t-shirts, which will be available for sale during the pop-up.

ABOUT: The Amanqi Edit is a digital media platform dedicated to curating the best of fashion, beauty and culture with a particular focus on designers in the GCC region, especially Dubai.

EVENT INFORMATION 22 -24 March 2018 Society Cafe, 30 10B Street, Jumeirah 1 Open: 11:00 – 21:00 +44 7397 310 282

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Dubai: Jumeirah | The Workshop

THE WORKSHOP #STEALINGSADNESS

#StealingSadness is the second solo exhibition of artist Majd Krudieh at The Workshop. On display will be a new collection of the Fasaeen, cartoonish characters and The Very Scary Butterfly Gang.

The current political situation in the Arab world has produced a new and different type of daily life and social patterns, different surroundings and atmospheres; a situation that is constantly and rapidly changing, therefore different types of expression and responses are being represented in a new type of literature and art. Majd Kurdieh’s work is an important example of this.

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ABOUT: The Workshop is a place to create, collaborate and showcase, a multi-concept space that offers unique experiences and an array of objects for all occasions.

EVENT INFORMATION 13 March – 16 April 2018 Location: Villa 45, St. 23B, opposite Box Park, Al Wasl Rd, Jumeirah 2 Open: Daily, 10:00 – 20:00 +971 4 341 2595 fann@theworkshopdubai.com @fann_a_porter

Dubai: Mall of the Emirates | DUCTAC

DUBAI COMMUNITY THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE (DUCTAC)

THE WORKS 2018 KIDS’ THEATRE WORKS 16 and 17 March 2018, 17:30 Acting and Musical Theatre performance Ages: 3+ PT.JASRAJ & PT.HARI PRASAD CHAURASIA EMIRATES NBD CLASSICS 23 March 2018, 20:00 Classical Music Concert in Hindi Ages: 3+ ABOUT: Dubai Community Theatre & Arts Centre (DUCTAC) aims to contribute to the creative and cultural development of Dubai by presenting a huge variety of events and participatory activities spanning almost every

creative genre for Dubai’s many multi-national communities and visitors alike. The Theatre & Arts Centre is the first modern, non-profit, cross-community creative centre in the Gulf.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Centrepoint Theatre, Second Level, Mall of the Emirates, Al Barsha +971 4 341 4777 ductac.org @ductac

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Dubai: Media City | American University in Dubai (AUD)

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI (AUD) Leila Alaoui, from The Moroccans series.

Courtesy of Fondation Leila Alaoui

PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE ARAB WORLD

Since its invention in mid-19th century Europe, photography quickly spread throughout the Arab world with studios being set up in all the cultural capitals, from Istanbul to Beirut and Cairo.

Currently photography is one of the most important art forms in the Arab world, with artists such as Youssef Nabil, Hassan Hajjaj, Larissa Sansour and the late Leila Alaoui becoming well known throughout the art world.

Founded in 2015, Tribe: Photography and New Media from the Arab World has become the first photography magazine to cover the Arab World.

This exhibition of photographs has been selected from early issues of Tribe magazine featuring major Arab photographers.

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ABOUT: The Visual Communication Programme at AUD trains aspiring artists and designers in the UAE so that they can join the advertising, art, and design industries. Students graduate from the programme with a strong knowledge base and skill sets suited for roles within these creative realms. Students are also taught an appreciation of personal expression as well as the responsibilities of proper communication within a growing multicultural society.

SPECIAL EVENT 18 March 2018, 18:00 Exhibition opening and release of the latest spring 2018 issue of Tribe with a presentation by Mubarik Jafery.

EVENT INFORMATION 18 –25 March 2018 Location: Rotunda Gallery, American University in Dubai

Dubai: JLT and Mirdif | Swiss Art Gate and Medaf Studio

SWISS ART GATE UAE

MEDAF STUDIO

FLAMBOYANT IMPRESSIONS

Swiss Art Gate presents an exhibition of photographer Andreas Denstorf, who transforms each image into a pop-art style with flashy colours and inventive compositions.

ABOUT: Swiss Art Gate UAE is a UAE-based company that initiates, fosters and organises art exhibitions and cultural and educational projects in the United Arab Emirates by international artists, concentrating on the works and performances by Swiss and Arab artists.

EVENT INFORMATION

ABOUT: Medaf Creative Studio + Art Spaces aims to ignite the curiosity and creativity of the innovators of tomorrow through multi-disciplinary art practices targeted to build and develop the skill set of children and adults. Medaf offers a one-of-a-kind expression room to create unique masterpieces without the worry of ruining the walls and/or the floor.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Uptown Mirdif Mall Open: Daily, 10:00 – 22:00 medafstudio.com @medafstudio

Until 30 June 2018 Location: Swiss Tower, JLT, Cluster Y Open: Daily, 09:00 – 19:00 +971 50 225 1783

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Dubai: Nad Al Sheba | Tashkeel

TASHKEEL 10 YEARS LATER

Tashkeel celebrates a decade of art and design practice with a milestone exhibition of commissions by 16 leading practitioners from the UAE and beyond whose own development has been integral to its story. 10 Years Later is accompanied by talks, tours and workshops and sees the launch of Reference Point: A History of Tashkeel & UAE Art, a major Tashkeel publication that explores the growth of Tashkeel and the changing face of the UAE arts sector since 2008.

ARTISTS: Afshan Daneshvar, Ammar Al Attar, Areej Kaoud, Azza Al Qubaisi, eL seed, Hamdan Buti Al Shamsi, Hind bin Demaithan, Maitha Demithan, Majid Al Yousif, Manal Al Dowayan, Mark Pilkington, myneandyours, Nasir Nasrullah, Ruben Sanchez, Wissam Shawkat, Zuleika Penniman.

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ABOUT: Established in Dubai in 2008 by Lateefa bint Maktoum, Tashkeel seeks to provide a nurturing environment for the growth of contemporary art and design practice rooted in the UAE. Tashkeel is hosting artists participating in the Art Dubai Residents, see p102

EVENT INFORMATION 13 March – 26 April 2018 Location: Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba 1 Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 09:00 – 22:00 +971 4 336 3313 tashkeel.org @tashkeel

Dubai: Oud Metha | Antidote Art & Design at Alliance Francaise

ANTIDOTE ART & DESIGN AT ALLIANCE FRANCAISE Alice Mann

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS AWARD

The IWPA Award is a photography award organised by the International Women Photographers Association and Antidote Art and Design, in collaboration with Alliance Française Dubai and MyArtSpy and Canon Middle East (CME) as the official sponsor. This year IWPA received more submissions from the Middle East North Africa region due to the support from the Canon ME. It is the only exhibition of its kind in the region focusing only on women photographers, both professional and amateur, and providing a platform for them to exhibit their work to a larger audience.

EVENT INFORMATION 8 March – 30 March 2018 Location: La Galerie, Alliance Francaise Dubai, 18 Street, Oud Metha Open: Sundays to Wednesdays, 09:00– 20:00; Thursdays & Saturdays, 09:00 – 17:00 +971 4 335 8712 antidotedxb.com afdubai.org @iwpa_photo

SPECIAL EVENT: 8 March 2018, 18:00, Panel discussion, 19:30 Opening

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Dubai: Oud Metha | Ismaili Centre

ISMAILI CENTRE copyright ©Jessica Fulford-Dobson, Skate Girls of Kabul series

SKATE GIRLS OF KABUL

The Ismaili Centre presents Skate Girls of Kabul, a photography exhibition by the award-winning British photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson. Spending six weeks in Afghanistan during 2013 and 2014, she documented young girls participating in a unique programme organised by Skateistan, an award-winning international non-profit organisation founded in Kabul, which empowers children and youth through skateboarding and education in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa.

The exhibition at the Ismaili Centre Dubai is in collaboration with the Aga Khan Museum Toronto, Canada.

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EVENT INFORMATION 22 March – 25 March 2018 Location: Street 11A, Plot no.

31-117, Near Al Nasr Sports Club, Oud Metha, Bur Dubai Open: 10:00 – 17:00 +971 4 336 5566 the.ismaili/ismailicentres/Dubai @theismaili

Dubai: Palm Jumeirah and Ras Al Khor | ZeeArts and Rise DCH

ZEEARTS

RISE DCH

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ART EXHIBITION: PRESS FOR PROGRESS

ZeeArts celebrates Women’s International Day on 22 March 2018 with an exhibition of 100 artworks by 100 women artists from 100 countries, under the theme Press For Progress.

ABOUT: ZeeArts is an artist activist platform with an objective to connect artists, art enthusiasts and art connoisseurs to create, inspire and educate the community and to celebrate the arts.

EVENT INFORMATION 23 – 29 March 2018 Location: Grand Gallery, Arabian Court, One & Only Royal Mirage Hotel Open: Daily, 10:00 – 22:00 zeearts.net @zeearts

ABOUT: Rise is a free family focused community festival located along the banks of the up and coming Dubai Creek Harbour by Emaar.

With the Dubai skyline providing a spectacular backdrop, the venue draws photographers and artists from far and wide for arts and crafts workshops, live entertainment, movies, unique food options and retail shops for all ages.

EVENT INFORMATION 23 – 24 March 2018 Location: Dubai Creek Harbour Opens: 12:00 – 00:00 Visit risedch.com for weekly schedules @rise.dch

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The Louvre Abu Dhabi has captured global attention since it opened last November and has three exhibitions open during Art Week. Also unmissable on Saadiyat Island are the two exhibitions organised

by ADMAF at Manarat Al Saadiyat and activities at NYU Abu Dhabi, as well as events at Warehouse421 and galleries around town.

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Abu Dhabi | Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi

Louvre Abu Dhabi, Photography by Mohamed Somji

LOUVRE ABU DHABI

Louvre Abu Dhabi is a universal museum on Saadiyat Island that exhibits art and artefacts from ancient times to the present day.

Designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, the museum contains 12 chapters in the galleries, special exhibition spaces, a Children’s Museum, auditorium, restaurants, retail and a research centre.

Surrounded by the sea, the buildings are connected by waterfront promenades beneath the museum’s stunning dome. The museum has developed a rich collection of works originating from throughout

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human history and around the world, brought together to highlight universal themes and influences. To date, Louvre Abu Dhabi has acquired more than 600 artworks, exhibited alongside 300 works on loan from 13 leading French institutions.

Louvre Abu Dhabi was born out of a unique intergovernmental agreement between the governments of Abu Dhabi and France in 2007. As part of the agreement, Louvre Abu Dhabi has access to expertise and training from 17 French partner institutions, as well as loans from

Photography by Erik and Petra Hesmerg

Abu Dhabi | Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi

13 leading French museums for 10 years, and will benefit from special exhibitions organised by these institutions for 15 years.

FROM ONE LOUVRE TO ANOTHER 21 December 2017 - 7 April 2018 The inaugural special exhibition, From One Louvre to Another traces the history of musée du Louvre in Paris in the 18th century. Divided into three sections, the exhibition studies the royal collections at Versailles under King Louis XIV; the residency of the Academy and Salons in the Louvre, converted

into a palace for artists; and the creation of the musée du Louvre.

The exhibition is curated by JeanLuc Martinez, President-Director, musée du Louvre, and Juliette Trey, Curator, Prints and Drawings Department, musée du Louvre.

CO-LAB: CONTEMPORARY ART AND SAVOIRFAIRE 21 December 2017 – 25 March 2018 Four UAE-based artists worked with four premium historical French manufacturers, carefully paired based on shared inspirations and complementary techniques.

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Photography by Greg Garay

Abu Dhabi | Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi

The Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres welcomed Talin Hazbar to work on ceramics, the Manufacture de Beauvais opened up its art of weaving to Khalid Shafar, the Haute Verrerie d’art de Saint-Just collaborated with Zeinab Alhashemi and the MTX Broderie Architecturale studios teamed up with Vikram Divecha.

The process, initiated throughout an exchange programme, paired artistic research with the high standards of historical French craftsmanship.

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Co-Lab is part of the Emirati-French Cultural Programme: Dialogue with Louvre Abu Dhabi initiative established by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi and France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Institut français. Curated by Alia Lootah, Assistant Curator, Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi | Louvre Museum Abu Dhabi

The Befu Theatre Company

A TREE AND A BOY (PUPPET SHOW) 15 – 17 March 2018 The Befu Theatre Company (Korea) presents a puppet show in the museum’s auditorium, especially aimed at children and families.

The show will tell the story of a tree and a boy as they go through the natural phases of life.

GLOBES: VISIONS OF THE WORLD 23 March – 2 June 2018 The exhibition explores the representation of the world from antiquity to the present day through a collection of important globes. The Greeks produced the first globes in the 4th century BCE. Between the 8th and 15th centuries Muslim astronomers were at the forefront of astronomic research and created exquisite globes and astrolabes. 125 celestial globes from the Islamic world remain in existence today, with the oldest dating from the 11th century. Globes: Visions of the World is curated by Catherin Hofmann, Chief Curator at Bibliothèque Nationale de France and François Nawrocki, Chief Curator at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: The Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi Open: Saturdays, Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10:00 – 20:00 and Thursdays and Fridays 10:00 – 22:00 +971 600 56 55 66 louvreabudhabi.ae @louvreabudhabi

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Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi Festival Presented by ADMAF

ABU DHABI FESTIVAL PRESENTED BY ADMAF SPECIAL EVENT 17 March 2018 18:00 –19:00 From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi: The End of the Journey – Final Co-Curator’s Tour with Nasser Abdullah (Chairman, Emirates Fine Arts Society).

Gallery A, Manarat Al Saadiyat An exhibition showcasing highlights from the MACBA collection in dialogue with artworks by 20 Emirati artists.

A place for ideas and emotions, a place to be and to share, where life could be more livable. The point of departure is what defines us as humans: who we are, how we grow up, how we perceive the world.

The exhibition focuses on our common rules of life in our cities and the way in which we relate to our natural environment.

Organised by the Abu Dhabi Festival. Lead by MACBA’s Director, Ferran Barenblit, and in partnership with co-curator Nasser Abdullah, Chairman of the Emirates Fine Arts Society.

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Farah Al Qasimi, It's Not Easy Being Seen 2, 2016

Juan Muñoz, The Nature Of Visual Illusion, 1994

FROM BARCELONA TO ABU DHABI: WORKS FROM THE MACBA ART COLLECTION IN DIALOGUE WITH THE EMIRATES

EVENT INFORMATION 2 February – 17 March 2018 Location: Gallery A, Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi Open: Daily, 09:00 – 20:00 +971 2 657 5800

Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi Festival Presented by ADMAF

Andi Halil, Two Dimension, 2006

10 YEARS OF EMIRATES PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION EVENT INFORMATION

The exhibition hosts a selection of the winning works and the best entries from the past ten years of the competition under the theme Ten. Over the years, the Emirates Photography Competition has developed the photography community in the UAE whilst receiving entries from all over the world under the auspices of the International Federation of Photographic Art (FIAP), the American Photography Association, the International Association of Photographers (IAP) and the Union of Arab Photographers (UAP).

Hui Ling Fan, Can't Help It, 2013

27 November 2017 – 31 March 2018 Location: Manarat Al Saadiyat, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi Open: Daily, 09:00 – 20:00 +971 2 657 5800

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Abu Dhabi | The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre

THE SHEIKH ZAYED GRAND MOSQUE CENTRE HAJJ: MEMORIES OF A JOURNEY Holy Qur'an copied in China in 30 volumes

A diverse programme of workshops and talks has also been designed to accompany the exhibition, engaging a broad spectrum of ages with a view to showcasing and fostering the development of the arts.

Under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre, in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism, Abu Dhabi, has organised a historic exhibition in celebration of the Centre's 10th Anniversary. The Hajj: Memories of a Journey exhibition celebrates the rich legacy of the spiritual journey to the Sacred House of God in Mecca, through the display of more than 182 artefacts on loan from a range of institutions, as well as donations of personal Hajj memorabilia.

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ABOUT: The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre’s vision and mission were created from the cultural and national values preserved and nurtured by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (may God rest his soul). These cultural values are still deeply-rooted in the consciousness of the people and are an extension of the national identity inspired by the teachings of the Nation’s religion.

EVENT INFORMATION 10 September 2017 – 19 March 2018 Location: Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi Open: Sundays to Thursdays, 09:00 – 21:00; Fridays, 16:00 – 21:00 +971 2 419 1919 www.szgmc.ae @szgmc_ae

Abu Dhabi | Al Jahili fort, Al Ain

AL JAHILI FORT, AL AIN THE TRUCIAL SCOUTS: LIFE AND TIMES EXHIBITION

The exhibition celebrates the lesser-known humanitarian work of the brigade in the 1950s and 1960s and the active role they played in UAE history and heritage.

The Trucial Scouts is the nucleus from which the UAE Armed Forces was developed. Telling the story and history of Al Ain. Al Jahili Fort stands proud as a historic monument and symbol of the UAE. The exhibition is organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi in cooperation with the G. H. Q. Armed Forces and the Museum & Military History Center.

ABOUT: The picturesque Al Jahili Fort is one of the UAE’s most historic buildings, set in beautifully landscaped garden. The former headquarters of the Oman Trucial Scouts, the force that protected the mountain passes and kept intertribal peace, it also served as a residence for the local governor.

EVENT INFORMATION 1 November 2017 – 28 April 2018 Location: Al Jahili Fort, Al Mutawaa area, near Al Jahili Park, Al Ain Open: Tuesdays to Sundays, 09:00 – 17:00; Fridays, 15:00 – 17:00 + 971 3 711 8311

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Abu Dhabi | The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi

THE ARTS CENTER AT NYU ABU DHABI WRITTEN IN WATER

Conceived and choreographed by the Co-Artistic Directors of the Ragamala Dance Company, Ranee and Aparna Ramaswamy, Written in Water is an exploration of the Indian board game Paramapadam and the 12th century Sufi poem The Conference of the Birds.

Classical south Indian dance meets digital projection with an exploration of the game Snakes and Ladders. Woven throughout the choreography are large-scale projections of original paintings

by Chennai-based visual artist Keshav and Minneapolis artist Nathan Christopher. Composer Amir ElSaffar leads a musical ensemble with a distinct alchemy of Iraqi, jazz, and Carnatic instruments. Cocommissioned by The Arts Center.

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ABOUT: The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi strives to be a beacon on the international arts landscape, firmly rooted in the region but with a global reach, embedded in the university and welcoming the community to productions of music, theatre, dance, film, poetry and interdisciplinary performances that defy definition.

EVENT INFORMATION 21 – 22 March 2018, 20:00 Location: NYU Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi +971 2 628 4000 nyuad-artscenter.org @nyuadartscenter

Abu Dhabi | The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

THE NYU ABU DHABI ART GALLERY Design by DAAR, Concrete Tent. Photo: Anna Sara

PERMANENT TEMPORARINESS

Permanent Temporariness is a midcareer retrospective of the artist duo Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. The duo are co-directors of DAAR, an architectural studio and artistic residency, and founders of Campus in Camps, an experimental educational programme. Their practice moves between art, architecture and pedagogy, often operating outside the typical art exhibition venue format. Large-scale installations are displayed both inside the Art Gallery and outdoors around the NYU Abu Dhabi campus.

ABOUT:The NYUAD Art Gallery is located at the main entrance to NYUAD’s Saadiyat Campus. It is an academic museum-gallery that presents curated exhibitions

of art and material culture across historical and contemporary topics, with a special emphasis on subjects of both regional concern and international significance. The current exhibition programme centres on three themes: landscape and the built environment, Islamic art and culture and art in global dialogue.

EVENT INFORMATION 24 February - 19 June 2018 Location: The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi Open: Mondays to Saturdays, 12:00 - 20:00 +971 2 628 8000 nyuad-artgallery.org @nyuadartgallery

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Abu Dhabi | Warehouse421

WAREHOUSE421 Transformations: The Emirati National House, 2016.

Image courtesy National Pavilion UAE.

UNTOLD STORIES RETOLD: RECENT EXHIBITIONS FROM THE UAE'S NATIONAL PAVILION AT THE VENICE BIENNALE

For the first time in the UAE, two exhibitions recently unveiled by the UAE at the Venice Biennale are presented in Abu Dhabi: —

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Transformations: The Emirati National House, curated by Dr. Yasser Elsheshtawy, the UAE’s National Exhibition from the Venice Biennale’s 15th International Architecture Exhibition, 2016 Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play, curated by Hammad Nasar, the UAE’s National Exhibition from the Venice Biennale’s 57th International Art Exhibition, 2017

Visitors to Warehouse421 are invited to learn about UAE’s participation in the Venice Biennale through a behind-the-scenes view into the making of a national exhibition.

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ABOUT: Warehouse421is a hub for creativity and an active participant in Abu Dhabi’s creative ecosystem, dedicated to supporting learning, making, exhibition and commercial activity relevant to the local and regional creative industries. Since November 2015, Warehouse421 has hosted 11 exhibitions and showcased more than 200 local and regional artists and designers, providing a place for creatives to formally and informally convene.

Warehouse421 is hosting artists participating in the Art Dubai Residents, see p102

EVENT INFORMATION 7 March – 24 June 2018 Location: Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi Open: Tuesdays – Sundays, 10:00- 20:00 warehouse421.ae @warehouse421

Abu Dhabi | WareHouse421

CINEMA AKIL X WAREHOUSE421 still from Taste of Cement, provided by Cinema Akil

VULNERABLE: ARAB SENSITIVITY IN FOCUS

This year Warehouse421 delves deeper into the nuances in and around contemporary Arab cinema. Spanning Beirut to Tunis to the Gulf, this season is about pulling from the margins, by highlighting the films which explore and express the vast physical, emotional and sociopolitical nuances present in contemporary Arab life.

GHAFA (2017) Directed by Aisha Alzaabi TASTE OF CEMENT (2017) Directed by Ziad Kalthoum

ABOUT:Cinema Akil is an independent cinema platform that brings quality films from across the world to audiences in the UAE. By showcasing directors and films from across the decades, Cinema Akil aims to create awareness and interest in film and the cinematic arts.

EVENT INFORMATION 21 March 2018, 19:30 Location: Warehouse421, Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi +971 58 524 6362 cinemaakil.com @cinemaakil

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Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi Art Hub and Blank Canvas Community

ABU DHABI ART HUB

THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN

BLANK CANVAS COMMUNITY EXPRESSION SESSIONS X

Expression Sessions are monthly events that feature communal art, live music, spoken word and delicious food. Expression Sessions X explores the theme ‘dream states’.

In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March and Mother’s Day on 21 March, Art Hub acknowledges the beauty of women with 20 participating international artists.

ABOUT: Blank Canvas is a communal art initiative which holds space for people to express themselves individually and collectively, aiming to restore communities by creating a platform for creative self-expression.

ABOUT: Art Hub is a gathering place for visual artists and lovers of art, focused on emerging and established visual artists from across the world.

EVENT INFORMATION 6 – 23 March 2018 Location: Art Hub Gallery, Level 1 The Mall World Trade Center, Khalifa bin Zayed the 1st Street, Abu Dhabi Open: Saturdays to Sundays, 10:00 – 22:00 Tel: +971 2 551 5005 Mob: +971 555509640 arthub@live.com www.adah.ae

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EVENT INFORMATION 24 March 2018, 16:00 – 19:00 Location: Ethereal, Fotouh Al Khair Mall, Abu Dhabi Entry Fee: Dhs 150 on entry (includes your meal and all your painting tools and materials) Registration is required as numbers are limited. +971 50 717 3946 @blankcanvas.community

Abu Dhabi | Etihad Modern Art Gallery and Novus Art Gallery

NOVUS ART GALLERY

LANGUAGE OF COLOURS

Areej Rajab, Untitled II, 2016

Taqwa Al Naqbi, The Circle of Six Dresses, 2016

ETIHAD MODERN ART GALLERY

In celebration of International Women’s Day 2018, Etihad Modern Art Gallery has chosen to showcase emerging women artists who represent a new artistic identity emerging in the Gulf.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: Maisoon Al Saleh, Taqwa Al Naqbi, Maitha Al Muhairy, Amira Al Awadhi, Fatima Ghazi Al Mohsen, Mona Haddad, Alaa Al Qedra

The exhibition is designed as a celebration and presentation of the motifs associated with the Middle Eastern culture.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS:Ahmad Moualla, Areej Rajab, Aya Elfallah, Derrick Santini, eL Seed, Fabio Pellicano, Heba Abed, John Torreano, Mark Hill, Patrizia Polese, Richard Orlinski, Wissam Shawkat, Zhuang Hong Yi

EVENT INFORMATION

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12 March – 30 April 2018 Location: Al Bateen Area, Villa 15, Al Huwelat St. Abu Dhabi Open: Saturdays to Thursdays 10:00 - 22:00 +971 2 621 0145 etihadmodernart.com @etihadmodernart

Location: Showroom 101, The Galleria, Al Mariyah Island, Abu Dhabi Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 - 20:00, and Fridays 12:00 - 00:00 +971 2 6 777 917 novusartgallery.com @novusartgallery

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Abu Dhabi | Swiss Art Gate UAE and Salwa Zeidan Gallery

SWISS ART GATE UAE

SALWA ZEIDAN GALLERY

Bernardi Nieves

To commemorate the inauguration of the space, the gallery hosts an exhibition featuring Fatima Al Mazrouie’s new collection - a tribute to The Year of Zayed. The show will feature seven new pieces, composed of mixed media and collages which tell the story of the nation that Sheikh Zayed created.

ABOUT: Salwa Zeidan Gallery was established in 1994 in Abu Dhabi and specialises in contemporary art, representing both wellestablished and emerging artists from all around the globe.

A two-artist presentation of paintings by Bernardi Nieves which depict equestrian forms, and Daniela Carletti’s nature paintings.

PORTRAITS OF FAME Mixed media artworks from Fabian Edelstam’s travels around the world with portraits of various celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson, Audrey Hepburn and Mick Jagger.

EVENT INFORMATION Until 31 July 2018 Location: Mezzaluna, Emirates Palace, West Corniche Road, Abu Dhabi Open: Daily, 12:30 – 19:00 +971 50 225 1783 swissartgateuae.com

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Fatima Al Mazrouie, The Man who Built a Nation series, 2017

EQUUS & FOLIUM

EVENT INFORMATION 11 March – 11 April 2018 Location: Capital Grand Hilton, Airport Road, Abu Dhabi +971 2 666 9656 info@salwazeidangallery.com

Abu Dhabi | Swiss Art Gate Voices UAE

NASSER ABDULLAH

Chairman, Emirates Fine Arts Society and Co-curator of From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi

DIVERSITY

This exhibition sheds light on an intellectual dialogue between historically valuable collections and local artworks and artists, clearly demonstrating the diversity of artistic currents and knowledge sources that inspire artists, regardless of time or place. Human civilisations are intricately interconnected throughout eras, across continents, pushing humanity ever forward to reach our current moment of openness and unparalleled advancement. This is something that cannot be claimed by any country or civilisation, it is the culmination of our shared humanity, which is as old as time.

BANA KATTAN

Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and Co-Curator of Permanent Temporariness Permanent Temporariness connects our physical world (geographically and architecturally) to both historical and current events, as Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti’s works embrace such topics as modern geopolitics and the plight of refugees. The Art Gallery strives to present shows that are both locally relevant and internationally significant, and this subject matter is particularly resonant now.

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Sharjah Art Museum’s Spring programme launches this Art Week with 6 major exhibitions and the March Meeting. Elsewhere in the Emirate a must-visit is the Maraya Arts Centre at Qanat Al Qasba for Barjeel Art Foundation’s final exhibition in their space and the newly opened Fikra Design Studio.

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Gathering of Sharjah Biennial 11 attendees, 2013.

Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation.

SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION

Sharjah Art Foundation brings a broad range of contemporary art and cultural programmes to the communities of Sharjah, the UAE and the region. It creates opportunities for artists and artistic production through core initiatives that include the Sharjah Biennial, the annual March Meeting, residencies, production grants, commissions, exhibitions,

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research, publications and its growing collection. Education and public programmes focus on building recognition of the central role art can play in the life of a community by promoting public learning and a participatory approach to art. All events are free and open to the public.

Sharjah: Arts Area | March Meeting

MARCH MEETING An annual convening of local and international artists, curators, scholars and other arts practitioners, who explore topical issues in contemporary art through a programme of talks and performances.

17 MARCH 2018

This year’s edition, Active Forms, will address issues of resistance through the consideration of organising as a primary act and condition for artistic and cultural production. MM 2018 will propose ways to reassess notions of agency and authorship through the lens of art, writing, film, music, performance and architecture.

09:30 Registration Dar Al Nadwa, Calligraphy Square 10:00 Welcome remarks 10:30 Introduction by Sharjah Art Foundation 13:45 This is not a programme Institutional Practice: Sharmini Pereira (Founder and Director, Raking Leaves),

Sally Mizrachi (Co-founder, lugar a dudas), Abir Saksouk (Architect, Public Works), Alper Turan (Co-founder, DAS Art Project). Moderator: Zeynep Öz (curator).

12:30 Our current dwelling is fire: When air fuels the contours of practice Rheim Alkadhi (artist) 12:45 What if the wind refuses to carry our words?

Lecture performance by Paribartana Mohanty (artist) 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Terms of order Artist practices and community formation: Zineb Sedira (artist), Naeem Mohaiemen (artist), Dale Harding (artist), Marwa Arsanios (artist).

Moderator: Tarek Abou El Fetouh (curator) 16:15 Coffee break 16:30 Artist’s talk Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim (artist) in conversation with Noora Al Mualla (Curator of Modern Arab Art, Sharjah Art Foundation)

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17:00 On mud, dams and (r)esistance Presentation: Ali Cherri (artist), followed by a film screening of the film Flood in Ba’ath country (2003), directed by Omar Amiralay (filmmaker).

19:30 Private Dinner

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21:30 The Song of Roland: The Arabic version (2017) Performance: Wael Shawky (artist) 10:00 Projections Cinema and moving image: Butheina Kazim (Co-founder, Cinema Akil), Hania Mroué (Founder and Director, Metropolis Art Cinema), Yaminay Chaudhri (artist and Co-founder, Tentative Collective), Filipa Ramos (Cocurator, Vdrome). Moderator: Maha Maamoun (artist).

11:45 Bidayyat Presentation: Mohammad Ali Atassi (Director, Bidayyat) 12:00 Artist’s talk Manthia Diawara (University Professor and Director of the Institute of African American Affairs, New York University)

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in conversation with Salah Hassan (Goldwin Smith Professor and Director, Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University) 14:30 Conversations Reem Shilleh & Mohanad Yaqubi (Co-founders, Subversive Film) and John Akomfrah (artist and filmmaker). Moderator: Ala Younis (artist and curator).

15:30 Artist’s talk Ahmed Mater (artist) in conversation with Eungie Joo (Curator of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art).

16:15 Coffee break 16:30 Vertigo of a sunset Performance: Mario Santanilla (artist) 16:45 You send me Futurisms: Martine Syms (artist), Larissa Sansour (artist), Monira Al Qadiri (artist). Moderator: Ayesha Hameed (artist and Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College).

20:30 Naham – Songs of light and weight Performance: Neo Muyanga (composer and musician)

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10:30 Artist’s talk Rasheed Araeen (artist) on journals Black Phoenix and Third Text in conversation with Saira Ansari (Researcher, Sharjah Art Foundation) 11:15 Dance Under Cover of a Fictional Rhythm Lecture performance: Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Researcher and Curator, Aleppo.eu) 11:45 Conversations Sarnath Banerjee (artist, writer and graphic novelist) and Deepak Unnikrishnan (writer). Moderator: Uzma Rizvi (Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Pratt Institute) 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Hold Everything Dear Performance: Hajra Waheed (artist)

16:15 Coffee break 16:30 Structural matters Architecture and urban practices:Manuel de Rivero (Cofounder, Supersudaca), Mona El Mousfy (Founder and Managing Director, SpaceContinuum), Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Co-founder, Atelier Bow-Wow). Moderator: Hoor Al Qasimi (Director, Sharjah Art Foundation).

20:30 Tsohle – A revolting mass Performance: Neo Muyanga (composer and musician)

EVENT INFORMATION 17 - 19 March 2018 Location: Gallery 1, Al Mureijah Square, Art Area, Sharjah Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah sharjahart.org @sharjahart

14:45 Before, beyond, beneath Infrastructural material and medium: Saba Innab (architect and artist), Antonio Vega Macotela (artist), Shilpa Gupta (artist). Moderator: Aram Moshayedi (Curator, Hammer Museum).

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Raedah Saadeh, Vacuum, 2007.

Commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation

ACTIVE FORMS: SELECTIONS FROM SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION COLLECTION

In addition to the programme of talks, panel discussions and performances, the 2018 edition of March Meeting will include an exhibition of works from the Sharjah Art Foundation Collection, expanding on the meetings key ideas.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS: John Akomfrah, Basma Alsharif, Halil Altindere, Bahar Behbahani, Hazem Harb, Gulnara Kasmalieva and Muratbek Djumaliev, Almagul Menlibayeva, Naeem Mohaiemen and Raeda Saadeh.

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EVENT INFORMATION 16 March—16 June 2018 Location: Part of March Meeting 2018, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Square, Gallery 6, Arts Square, The Old Sharjah Planetarium, Sharjah Open: Saturdays to Thursdays 09:00 – 21:00; Fridays 16:00 – 21:00 +971 6 568 5050 sharjahart.org @sharjahart

Sharjah: Arts Area | Sharjah Art Foundation

Anna Boghiguian, A Play to Play, 2013. Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery. Photo: Renato Ghiazza

ANNA BOGHIGUIAN

The retrospective presents six large bodies of Boghiguian’s work: her multimedia installations The Salt Traders, A Play to Play (based on the works of the poet Tagore), Unfinished Symphony, the drawing series ‘Cavafy’ a large selection of illustrated notebooks and a recreation of the artist’s studio in Cairo. Characterised by bold colours and saturated compositions, Boghiguian’s paintings and sculptures combine materials like wax, wood and paint with cut-outs and collage. Her work also comprises photography, text, sound and site-specific installations that derive from her observations of social conflicts.

Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

Organised by Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino in conjunction with Sharjah Art Foundation.

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March – 16 June 2018 Location: Bait Al Serkal, Arts Square, Al Shuwaiheen, Sharjah Opening hours as per p.200

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Latif Al- Ani, Pipe construction for the Darbandikhan water pipeline project, Iraq, 1961. From the artist’s collection.

LATIF AL-ANI: THROUGH THE LENS 1953-1979

The exhibition traces the progression of the photographer’s life in Iraq and throughout his travels, spanning over three decades from the 1950s to the 1970s. Born in 1932 in Baghdad, Al Ani learned photography early in life and trained at the studio of a local photographer.

As an adult, he joined the Arabiclanguage magazine Ahl Al Naft (People of Oil), a photography unit that was part of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), where he worked between 1954 and 1960. He founded the photography department at the Iraqi Ministry of Culture in 1960 and went on to head the official Iraqi News Agency. Al Ani stopped making work in the 1980s with the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War. 202

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March – 16 June 2018 Location: Gallery 4, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Opening hours as per p.200

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Mohammed Ibrahim, Primodial, 1988.

Sharjah Art Foundation Collection

MOHAMMED AHMED IBRAHIM

Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, the exhibition presents over three decades of the Emirati artist’s practice, which includes paintings, drawings, sculpture and installations. Documentation of the artist’s vast explorations into land art is also displayed. His practice has been inspired by a lifelong relationship with the environment of Khorfakkan, with the Gulf of Oman on one side and the Hajar Mountains on the other. This survey will also trace the aesthetic and conceptual concerns that run throughout his practice, such as his use of permutations and his interest in the demise of nature that accompanies urban development.

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March – 16 June 2018 Location: Gallery 3, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Opening hours as per p.200

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Zineb Sedira, Sugar Routes II, 2013. © Zineb Sedira. Courtesy the artist and the galleries: The Third Line, Dubai and Plutschow Gallery, Zürich

ZINEB SEDIRA: AIR AFFAIRS AND MARITIME NONSENSE

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For over 17 years, Zineb Sedira’s has explored notions of family, tradition, oral history, migration and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge, often through a personal lens. Although these concerns have recently become the focus of wider public attention, the artist has long underscored the enduring existence of these issues in her work. Gender, language, national identity and modernity are also key notions explored by the artist. The exhibition features a number of Sedira’s wellknown works, rarely seen videos and recent sculpture and installation.

Also part of the exhibition are three new commissions: Sunken Stories, Air Affairs and Laughter in Hell.

EVENT INFORMATION 16 March—16 June 2018 Location: Gallery 1 & 2 & 5, Sharjah Art Foundation, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah Opening hours as per p.200

Sharjah: Arts Area | Sharjah Art Museum

SHARJAH ART MUSEUM Mona Saudi, Growth, 2002, Jordanian jade (with white marble base), Sharjah Art Foundation Collection

MONA SAUDI: POETRY AND FORM

In collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Sharjah Art Museum presents a survey of work by Mona Saudi. The show include works from the mid-1960s till today, encompassing a large selection of the stone sculptures for which she is best known as well as paintings, drawings and other works on paper inspired by the works of the poets Mahmoud Darwish and Adonis. The exhibition will highlight Saudi’s exploration of the intertwined relationship between natural material and modern form.

In many of her works notions of growth, fertility and the body are

explored through her introduction of compositional movement to conventional geometric shapes.

A substantial presentation of the artist’s sculptures will provide rare insight into the evolution of Saudi’s aesthetic and intellectual journey, which is particularly evident in her work with different types and colours of stone, including white marble, pink limestone, green marble and black diorite, all sourced from the greater region.

EXHIBITION DATES 7 March – 7 June 2018

EVENT INFORMATION 28 February – 2 June 2018 Location: Sharjah Art Museum Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 08:00 – 20:00, Fridays 16:00 – 20:00 +97165688222 sharjahmuseums.ae @sharjahmuseums

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Sharjah: Arts Area | Sharjah Art Museum and Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization

SHARJAH MUSEUM SHARJAH ART ISLAMIC MUSEUM (CONT.) OF CIVILIZATION FRAGRANCES OF THE FOREST Salah Elmur

AND PHOTOS

BEYOND THE LETTER: MODERN ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE ISLAMIC ARTS MUSEUM MALAYSIA

In collaboration with Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, the exhibition at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization presents innovative artworks inspired by the contemporary and the modern approach to Arabic calligraphy by artists from different countries.

An exhibition by Salah Al Mur about his childhood memories and upbringing in his home in Sudan.

The exhibition is divided into three sections: Studio Kamal, the Jungle and Aromatic Smells. Each painting has a story linked to an event or a particular memory, The images mix with his observations,impressions and visions of people and the world around him.

EXHIBITION DATES 28 February – 2 June 2018

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ABOUT: The Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization holds thousands of rare and important Islamic artifacts. Visitors can learn about aspects of Islamic faith, science, discoveries and culture, and cherish the beauty of Islamic art.

EVENT INFORMATION 28 March – 23 June 2018 Location: Al-Majjarah area, Sharjah Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 8:00 – 20:00; Fridays, 16:00 – 20:00 +971 6 565 5455

Sharjah | Sharjah Art Foundation | March Meeting Voices

MANDY MERZABAN

Curator, Barjeel Art Foundation

Courtesy Barjeel Art Foundation and Capital D Studio

The process of seeking out Paul Guiragossian's paintings locally allowed us to see how widely collected his works are regionally, and in particular how well represented they are in the UAE. As we studied archival material, we realised how highly regarded he was by his contemporaries, and how his work resonated with theirs. The exhibition illustrates a wider conversation that this incredible generation of artists and cultural producers were having, an oeuvre that was sustained, distinct, and very human.

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Sharjah: Al Khan Area | Barjeel Art Foundation

BARJEEL ART FOUNDATION PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN: TESTIMONIES OF EXISTENCE Paul Guiragossian, La Lampe, 1979, Barjeel Art Foundation.

exhibition explores key moments in the artist’s practice during this period and Guiragossian’s pivotal position in the history of modernism in the Arab world.

Guest curated by Maisa Al Qassimi with Mandy Merzaban as curatorial advisor, the exhibition is held in collaboration with the Paul Guiragossian Foundation and its president Manuella Guiragossian, daughter of the late artist. Marking the 25th anniversary of his death in 1993, Testimonies of Existence features works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection and other prominent private collections within the UAE from the 1960s to the early 1990s interspersed with elements drawn from the foundation’s archive that document his life and prolific career. The 208

ABOUT: Barjeel Art Foundation, an independent collecting philanthropic institution based in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, was established by Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi in 2010 to manage, preserve, and exhibit an extensive collection of modern & contemporary Arab art. Since then, Barjeel has curated and mounted over twenty exhibitions of exhibitions locally, regionally, and internationally, with the guiding principle to contribute to a greater understanding of the living and dynamic art history of the Arab world and its diaspora.

EVENT INFORMATION 24 February – 28 April 2018 Location: Level Two, Maraya Art Centre, Al Qasba, Sharjah Open: Saturdays to Thursdays, 10:00 – 22:00; Fridays, 16:00 – 22:00 + 971 6 556 6555 barjeelartfoundation.org @BarjeelArt

Sharjah: Al Khan Area | Maraya Art Centre

MARAYA ART CENTRE Timo Nasseri, Installation View

TIMO NASSERI: ALL THE LETTERS IN ALL THE STARS

Maraya Art Centre in collaboration with Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival presents Timo Nasseri’s first solo show in the UAE. Its starting point is the artist’s take on the story of Ibn Muqla, a 10th century calligrapher who claimed to have found four missing letters in the Arabic language. The works are a combination of new and older pieces, which highlight the different mediums of his practice while putting them all into a larger conversation between fragmentation and order, in the pursuit of the infinite.

ABOUT: 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.

EVENT INFORMATION 14 December 2017 – 5 April 2018 Location: Level Three, Block E, Al Qasba, Sharjah Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 10:00 – 22:00, Fridays 16:00 – 22:00 +971 6 55 66 555 maraya.ae @marayaartcentre

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Sharjah: Al Khan Area | 1971 - Design Space

1971 - DESIGN SPACE REMADE ABOUT 1971 is a multi-functional design space dedicated to all forms of contemporary design ranging from graphic, furniture to interior as well as interactive design and new technologies. Through a mixture of curated exhibitions and public programmes 1971 aims to become a regional and international design hub in the UAE working in close proximity with local designers, architects, schools and universities.

EVENT INFORMATION

1971 Design Space in collaboration with L&B Gallery introduces Remade, an exhibition that proposes to create a dialogue between two designers of one-off objects: PICHIGLAS STUDIO (the Spanish designer Alfonso de la Fuente) and YOMUTO (Barcelona artist Xavi Muñoz and the Italian designer Federico Tosco). The works stem from concepts such as recycling, memories and making everyday objects go beyond their functional life to become thoughtful and exclusive compositions.

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17 March – 30 June 2018 Location: Sharjah, The Flag Island Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 10:00- 22:00, Fridays, 16:00 22:00 +971 6 528 4644 1971design.ae @1971designspace

Sharjah | The College of Fine Arts and Design, University of Sharjah

THE COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN, UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH Brian Gonzales

CONTEMPORARY VISIONS

While the concept of contemporary art and design has become familiar over the past several decades, the very meaning of the word ‘contemporary’ has simultaneously been rendered quite banal. So contemporary art and design, yes, but contemporary to what? In this show, we hope to explore the very idea of the contemporary by exhibiting new works of practicing artists and designers based in the UAE.

EVENT INFORMATION Annual Faculty Exhibition 11 – 22 March 2018 Location: Rewaq Gallery, College of Fine Arts & Design, University of Sharjah Open: Saturdays – Thursdays, 10:00 - 17:00 +971 6 505 7855 sharjah.ac.ae/en/academics/ Colleges/fa/Pages/default.aspx

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Sharjah: Fikra

FIKRA DESIGNER-IN-RESIDENCE OPEN STUDIO

Fikra will showcase work by its first designers-in-residence: Adnan Arif from Sharjah, UAE and Kevin Zweerink from Virginia, USA. Delving into design research, the exhibition presents the evolution of their topics of investigation and experimental processes. Presentation around the trans–urban landscape between Dubai and Sharjah from a pedestrian experience will be Kevin’s focus, whereas Adnan’s interest is in seeking out future narratives and design proposals from exploring old Dubai.

SPECIAL EVENT Fikra Designer-InResidence Open Studio 18 March 2018, 09:00 – 15:00; 24 March 2018, 12:00 – 18:00

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ABOUT Fikra is a global and award-winning multi-disciplinary design organisation that acts as a catalyst for sharing knowledge and encourages an investigative and research-based approach to design.

Today Fikra boasts a co-working space/campus, a gallery, a library, a cafe in addition to a design shop.

It also hosts thematic exhibitions, workshops, book-reading sessions, poetry nights, in addition to portfolio critiques and talks.

EVENT INFORMATION Location: Fikra Campus, Al Wahda Street, GIBCA Building 2nd floor, Sharjah +971 6 533 3371 info@fikradesigns.com @fikradesigns

British Council

The Sultan's Elephant, Royal de Luxe, 2006. Produced by Artichoke in London. Photo by Sophie Laslett

THE BRITISH COUNCIL ART IN THE PUBLIC REALM TALK AND INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

A chance to hear from Artichoke, the UK’s leading producer of public art, on the role and significance of public art and design SPEAKERS: Helen Marriage and Kate Harvey of Artichoke 25 MARCH 2018 11:00 – 13:00 University of Middlesex Knowledge Village 27 MARCH 2018 12.30 -14.30 Dubai Design and Fashion Council, d3

COMING NEXT

28 MARCH 2018 10:00 – 12:00 Fikra Design Studio Sharjah 18:30 – 20: 30 Warehouse421 Abu Dhabi ABOUT: The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. Founded in 1934, the British Council are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter and a UK public body. britishcouncil.ae @britishcounciluae

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ZOOMING OUT: COMING NEXT IN THE ARAB WORLD For its third participation at the Venice Architectural Biennale (26 May – 25 November 2018) the UAE presents a pavilion entitled Lifescapes Beyond Bigness curated

by Dr Khaled Alawadi, Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Institute. Following Lest We Forget in 2014, which gave a voice to personal memories and The Emirati National House in 2016, this year’s exhibition continues a focus away from the mega-development projects that dominate news stories about the UAE to offer insight into the quotidian rhythms of different places, both urban and rural. Further representation from the Arab world will come from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which will participate for the first time at the architecture biennale, coming amongst a number of major announcements in recent months of ambitious new cultural projects.

Elsewhere, Cristiano Luchetti, a professor from the American University of Sharjah has been named curator of the Egyptian Pavilion.

Misk Art Institute, a new cultural organisation established under the Misk Foundation, is backing a number of initiatives this Art Week, including Art Dubai Modern and Fully Booked Art Book Fair, Alserkal Avenue. “I believe in what artists can do when they collaborate with institutions,” asserts Dr. Ahmed Mater, Director of Misk Art Institute. “Our intention is to be a

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Children walking in a traditionally designed community behind the confines of bigness.

Image courtesy National Pavilion UAE – la Biennale di Venezia

grassroots community shaped for and by artists. This means we are responsive to the artist-directed currents that have been coursing through Saudi Arabia for many years.” Mater has been instrumental in furthering the careers of Saudi artists internationally for well over a decade, his current position will allow his ideas to have even more reach. As part of Saudi Vision 2030

the institute will roll out a number of significant initiatives this year, including an Arab Arts Festival in New York in October, a ‘Create and Inspire’ exchange programme in California and a collaboration as lead supporters of MoMA's seminal publication Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, a publication focused on modernism in Arab art which will have its

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Hayy Creative Hub-Central Courtyard top viewcommissioned by Art Jameel and designed by ibda design

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regional launch at Art Dubai on 19 March 2018 (see p.97). The Institute’s headquarters in Riyadh is planned to open in 2020, with Michele De Lucchi of aMDL, Skene Catling de la Pena and Factum Arte declared as its architects.

Visitors to the fifth edition of 21,39 Jeddah Arts (7 February – 5 May 2018), Refusing to be Still, curated by Tate Modern’s Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, had the added excitement of visiting Ahmed Mater’s solo exhibition Drum Roll, Please, at King Abdullah Economic City.

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agenda for Art Jameel who recently launched Hayy: Creative Hub. Being built by ibda design and opening in Jeddah in 2019, it follows the Jameel Arts Centre Dubai opening later this year. “No doubt most cities aim to nurture artistic neighbourhoods,” Art Jameel’s Director Antonia Carver remarks. “There couldn’t be a better time for this in Jeddah – there seems to be to be a great thirst, particularly from young people, for a cultural ‘home from home’”.

Another burgeoning scene is developing at the opposite extremity of the Arab world – Marrakech. The international launch of the Museum

of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (Macaal) coincided with the first edition of the African art fair 1:54 that took place on African soil this February 2018. It followed the opening of Musée Yves Saint Laurent in 2017 and balances cultural institutions in the continent after Cape Town’s Zeitz Mocaa, which also opened in 2017. Macaal’s mission is to promote African contemporary art and it is home to the collection of the Lazraq family.

It opened with a group photography show Africa is No Island (27 February – 24 August 2018).

The Levant has traditionally been the heart of the Arab art world and despite political turmoil it is still home to a number of institutions which support artistic practice and host important exhibitions.

Amman’s Dar Al Funun celebrates its 30th anniversary with a series of exhibitions inspired by a poem

by Mahmoud Darwish, Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light (First exhibition: 13 February – 17 May, Second: 3 July – 4 October, Third: 23 October - 24 January 2019).

With work by regional heavyweights such as Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas, Hassan Khan and Akram Zaatari alongside emerging artists, the series illustrates that the organisation still lives

From the INAASH archive, Palestinian Museum

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up to its name, to be a home for artists. Beirut remains a critical centre for contemporary art in the region. Key exhibitions this spring include Knots’n Dust: Francis Alÿs at the Beirut Art Center (31 January – 3 May 2018), Fahrelnissa Zeid (the critically acclaimed retrospective that ran at Tate Modern in 2017) at the Sursock Museum (27 April – 1 October 2018) and The Sci-Fi Triology, Larissa Sansour at Dar El-Nimer for Arts and Culture (11 April – 6 June 2018).

“The Palestinian Museum seeks to engage with subjects and materials that are paradigmatic and important in Palestine,” says Rachel Dedman, curator of Labour of Love: New Approaches to Palestinian Embroidery (18 March – 25 August 2018). The museum finally opened 217

Children playing soccer on sandy street outside the boundaries of bigness. Image courtesy National Pavilion UAE – la Biennale di Venezia

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its doors in Birzeit in 2016, after over 20 years of planning but has so far only arranged one major exhibition of note, JERUSALEM LIVES, curated by Reem Fadda.

Dedman’s exhibition is the product of four years of research, applying the topic of embroidery to explore wider issues of gender, labour, commodity and class.

Returning to Venice, as the art world always does – the theme for this year’s Architectural Biennale is Freespace - the curators Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara

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describing it as, “the sense of humanity at the core of any architectural agenda”. The Saudi Pavilion explores the concept. “Free space invites opportunity, redesign can activate the inherent potential of the spaces in between”, reads a statement from Misk Art Institute on the Saudi Pavillion which is curated

by Jawaher Al Sudairy with the title ‫ ب ام‬/ Spaces in Between. Perhaps no better definition of the somewhat sprawling, ever captivating art scene in the Arab world.

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Index | Organisations

INDEX: ORGANISATIONS #

1971 DESIGN SPACE Sharjah

210 1X1 ART GALLERY Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

185 AL JALILA CULTURAL CENTRE FOR CHILDREN Jumeirah, Dubai

61, 102

163

81 DESIGNS

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE

Art Dubai, Dubai

Oud Metha, Dubai

THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART PRIZE

AL QUOZ

106,107

48-89

ADMAF

ALSERKAL AVENUE

A

112,113

Art Dubai, Dubai

Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi

182-5, 193 AJALA PROJECT 35, 144 AL FAHIDI NEIGHBOURHOOD 30-47 AL GHURAIR UNIVERSITY

Academic City, Dubai

155

220

AL JAHILI FORT

Al Ain

173 Dubai

Dubai

53-89 ALSERKAL PROGRAMMING POPUPS

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

54, 58, 87 THE AMANQI EDIT,

Jumeirah, Dubai

167

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI

Media City, Dubai

170 ANDAKULOVA GALLERY DIFC, Dubai

146 ANTIDOTE AT ALLIANCE FRANCAISE

Oud Metha, Dubai

173 APICAL REFORM GALLERY

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

132, 126 APPLE DUBAI MALL

Downtown, Dubai

159 ART DUBAI Dubai

91-124 ART EMAAR

Downtown, Dubai

160

ART HUB

Abu Dhabi

B

Index | Organisations

190 ART HUB

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

ART JAMEEL

ARTDXB,

207, 208

CITIZEN E GALLERY

C

134 COMPTOIR 102

Jumeirah, Dubai

165 CONCRETE

65, 162

54, 55

CABIN

THE COURTYARD PLAYHOUSE

Barsha, Dubai

156

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

The Courtyard, Al Quoz, Dubai

CARBON 12

50

66, 93

CREATE HUB GALLERY

CHI-KA

51

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

64, 93

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

AYYAM GALLERY

88

DIFC, Dubai

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

BROWNBOOK

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

ARTICHOKE 213

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

CINEMA AKIL 189, 123

BRITISH COUNCIL 213

154, 125

AYYAM GALLERY

BARJEEL ART FOUNDATION

190

Dubai Airport, Dubai

60, 93

161

Abu Dhabi

62

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

88

BLANK CANVAS COMMUNITY

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

CHRISTIE'S

Emirates Towers, Dubai

Sharjah

133

ATHR GALLERY, ALSERKAL PROGRAMMING POPUPS

BAKERY

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

Al Quoz, Dubai

CUADRO

DIFC, Dubai

148

147, 93

221

CUSTOT GALLERY DUBAI

DUBAI JIGGY

EMERGEAST

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

67, 93

40

142

DIFC ART NIGHTS

DUBAI OPERA

144

158

DUBAI CULTURE 22, 31-41, 45, 91-123, 164

DUBAI WALLS

EMIRATES PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION, ADMAF

DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT (d3)

DUCTAC

126-143

169

DUBAI DESIGN WEEK

DUSITD2

Dubai

Dubai

127, 129 DUBAI INSTITUTE OF DESIGN AND INNOVATION (DIDI)

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

130-1 DUBAI INTERNATIONAL ART CENTRE: GALLERY 76

Jumeirah, Dubai

166 222

Downtown, Dubai

Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi

City Walk, Dubai

158

183 THE EMPTY QUARTER

Mall of the Emirates, Dubai

DIFC, Dubai

149

Barsha, Dubai

ETIHAD MODERN ART GALLERY

156

Abu Dhabi

EAST WING

191

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

ETIHAD MUSEUM

135

Jumeirah, Dubai

164

EL SEED STUDIO

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

69 ELMARSA

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

68, 93, 95

F

DIFC, Dubai

Molecule, Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

E

D

Index | Organisations

FBMI

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

129, 144 FIKRA

Sharjah

212

Index | Organisations

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

69

136

FN DESIGNS

GLOBAL ART FORUM

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

70

Art Dubai, Dubai

119-123

THE FRIDGE,

GRANDE EXHIBITIONS

88

138

FULLY BOOKED DUBAI ART BOOK FAIR

GREEN ART GALLERY

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

58 GALA ART GALLERY

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

72, 93 GREY NOISE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

73

133

GULF PHOTO PLUS

GALLERIES NIGHT

74, 144

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

53 GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

HAPPY STUDIO

H

G

GALLERY WARD

HIPA AT DUBAI OPERA

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai,

Downtown, Dubai

157

I

FLIPSIDE DXB

IKONHOUSE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

75 IN5

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

141, 102 INKED

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

76 INTERNATIONAL EMERGING ARTIST AWARD DIFC Art Nights, DIFC, Dubai

144 ISMAILI CENTRE Oud Metha, Dubai

174 ITHRA ART PRIZE Art Dubai, Dubai

124

88

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

71, 93 223

Index | Organisations

J

JAMJAR

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

77

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

JEAN-PAUL NAJAR FOUNDATION

THE LIGHTHOUSE

78

143

JULIUS BAER KARIM NOURELDIN

LOUVRE ABU DHABI

109,110

178-81

THE JUNCTION

MAJLIS GALLERY

Art Dubai, Dubai

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

89

K

KHAZZAN X CADILLAC Dubai

162

L

LA GALERIE NATIONALE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

80, 93 Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Abu Dhabi

M

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

43, 154 MB&F M.A.D. GALLERY

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

82 MEDAF STUDIO Mirdif, Dubai

171

46

Al Quoz, Dubai

MANARAT AL SAADIYAT Abu Dhabi

182, 183 MARAYA ART CENTRE Sharjah

209, 210

LAWRIE SHABIBI

MARCH MEETING

80, 93

MAWAHEB FROM BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

79 Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

224

LEILA HELLER GALLERY

MEEM GALLERY 52 THE MINE 50, 102 MIRZAM CHOCOLATE MAKERS

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

89, 144

Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah

MISK ART INSTITUTE

197-200

58, 95, 97, 99, 101, 104, 105

Art Dubai, Dubai

Index | Organisations

MOLECULE

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

142

N

NAKKASH

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

139 NOVUS GALLERY Abu Dhabi

191 THE NYU ABU DHABI ART GALLERY Abu Dhabi

187, 193

OPERA GALLERY

DIFC, Dubai

150

Art Dubai, Dubai

113-5

S

96-100, 105

SALSALI PRIVATE MUSEUM Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

PIAGET

83

108, 109

SALVADOR DALI: THE MEMORIES

Art Dubai, Dubai

P

Art Dubai, Dubai

THE ROOM

THE ODD PIECE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai 89

PRO ART GALLERY

Jumeirah, Dubai

144, 167 RE: URBAN STUDIO

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

141

R

MODERN SYMPOSIUM

RESIDENTS

Art Dubai, Dubai

DIFC, Dubai

145 SALWA ZEIDAN GALLERY Abu Dhabi

192 SCONCI ART GALLERY

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

137

THE NYU ABU DHABI ARTS CENTER

50, 61, 102, 103, 141, 172

SELECTIONS

186

RISE DCH

Ras Al Khor, Dubai

87

Abu Dhabi

O

OBEGI HOME

Jumeirah, Dubai

166

175

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

SERENDIPITY ARTS FESTIVAL Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

59

225

Index | Organisations

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

60

84

SHARJAH 194-212

SIKKA ART FAIR

31

196-205

SIMA PERFORMING ARTS

SHARJAH ART MUSEUM Sharjah

205, 206 SHARJAH MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION Sharjah

206

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

89 SINYAR GALLERY

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

137 SOCIETY CAFÉ

Jumeirah, Dubai

167 SHEIKHA MANAL LITTLE ARTISTS PROGRAM

SOTHEBY’S

116-119

SVENM

Art Dubai, Dubai

THE SHEIKH ZAYED GRAND MOSQUE CENTRE Abu Dhabi

184

Abu Dhabi

192 SWISS ART GATE UAE

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

SHARJAH ART FOUNDATION Sharjah

SWISS ART GATE UAE

SHOWCASE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

DIFC, Dubai

151 Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

85

Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai

171

T

SHAGHAF GROUP

TABARI ARTSPACE DIFC, Dubai

152 TASHKEEL AT SIKKA

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

42 TASHKEEL

Nad Al Sheba, Dubai

172, 102 THE THIRD LINE Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

86, 93 TOTAL ARTS

The Courtyard, Al Quoz, Dubai

49

Index | Organisations

170

U

UAE ART UNLIMITED 54, 55 UAE NATIONAL PAVILION

W

168

X

American University in Dubai, Media City, Dubai

THE WORKSHOP

Jumeirah, Dubai

XVA GALLERY

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

47, 144 THE YARD

Y

TRIBE

Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz, Dubai

56

188

ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH, COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS & DESIGN

Sharjah

211 URBAN COMMISSIONS

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Z

Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi

Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

140 ZAYED UNIVERSITY

Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Dubai

36 ZEEARTS

VAN GOGH ALIVE

175

V

128 Dubai Design District (d3), Dubai

Palm Jumeirah, Dubai

138 WAREHOUSE421 Abu Dhabi

102

227

Index | Voices

INDEX: VOICES NASSER ABDULLAH 182, 193

Chairman, Emirates Fine Arts Society and Co-curator of From Barcelona to Abu Dhabi

ROWDHA AHMAD ALSAYEGH 36, 43

Artist, SIKKA Art Fair

MYRNA AYAD 94, 91-124

Director, Art Dubai

SAM BARDAOUIL 105, 143

Independent Curator and Academic, Co-founder of Art Reoriented

SHUMON BASAR 119-123

Commissioner, The Global Art Forum 2018

SASS BROWN 130-131

Founding Dean, DIDI

ANTONIA CARVER 62, 63

Director, Art Jameel

DANA FAROUKI 106-107

Chair, The Abraaj Group Art Prize

228

TILL FELLRATH 105, 143

Independent Curator and Academic, Co-founder of Art Reoriented

DR. THOMAS GIRST 111-112

Global Head of Cultural Engagement, BMW Group

POONAM JAIN 102-103

Artist, Art Dubai Residents, Booth R9

JAWAHER AL KHAYYAL 108-109 Designer, Sunny Side of Life, Piaget

RAWAN KASHKOUSH 127, 129

Head of Programming, Dubai Design Week

BANA KATTAN 187, 193

Curator at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and Co-Curator of Permanent Temporariness

WILLIAM KNIGHT 127, 129 Director, Dubai Design Week

NESRINE EL TIBI MAALOUF 112-113

Co-founder, 81 Designs

AHMED MATER 105

Director, Misk Art Institute and Artist

SOFIANE SI MERABET / THE CONFUSED ARAB 36, 43 Artist, SIKKA Art Fair

MANDY MERZABAN 207-208 Curator, Barjeel Art Foundation

FATHIMA MOHIUDDIN 125, 157 Artist, The Domino

KARIM NOURELDIN 109-110 Artist, Comissioned

by Julius Baer

ZOHRA OPOKU 102, 103

Artist, Art Dubai Residents, Booth R4

IABADIOU PIKO 102, 103

Artist, Art Dubai Residents, Booth R1

Index | Voices

MYRIAM BEN SALAH 106, 107

Guest Curator, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2018

RUBEN SANCHEZ 125, 172 Artist, Tashkeel

SHOBHA PIA SHAMDSANI 54, 55 Executive Director, UAE Unlimited, Art Advisor & Director, Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art Collection of H.H. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan

DAPHNE TARANTO 58, 57

Co-Founder and Director, Fully Booked Art Book Fair, Alserkal Avenue

ANTHONY TINO 57, 58

Co-Founder and Director, Fully Booked Art Book Fair, Alserkal Avenue

PABLO DEL VAL 94, 91-124

Artistic Director, Art Dubai

ALA YOUNIS 62, 63

Artist, Art Jameel

MOHAMMAD SAEED AL SHEHHI 126, 130 CEO, d3

MARI SPIRITO 56, 57

Curator, Under, 2018, Founder, Protocinema

KARIM SULTAN 54, 55

Curator, Ishara: Signs, Symbols and Shared Languages

HIROMI TANGO 116-119

Artist, Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program

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CONTEMPORARY: Ab-Anbar, Tehran · Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa / London · Agial Art Gallery, Beirut · Aicon Gallery, New York · Artside Gallery, Seoul · Artwin Gallery, Moscow · Aspan Gallery, Almaty · Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Pueblo Garzón · ATHR, Jeddah · Ayyam Gallery, Dubai / Beirut · bäckerstrasse4, Vienna · Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid · Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York / Aspen · Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo · Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney · Canvas Gallery, Karachi · Carbon 12, Dubai · Galleria Continua, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / La Habana · Custot Gallery, Dubai · Dastan’s Basement, Tehran · Elmarsa, Tunis / Dubai · Espacio Valverde, Madrid · Experimenter, Kolkata · Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai · Galerie Imane Farès, Paris · Saskia Fernando Gallery, Colombo · Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis / London · Galerist, Istanbul · Gallery 1957, Accra · Gazelli Art House, Baku / London · Green Art Gallery, Dubai · Grosvenor Gallery, London · Gypsum Gallery, Cairo · Hafez, Jeddah · Leila Heller Gallery, New York / Dubai · Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London · i8 Gallery, Reykjavik · Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore · Inda Gallery, Budapest · Kalfayan Galleries, Athens / Thessaloniki · Galerie Dorothea van der Koelen, Mainz / Venice · Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna · Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai · Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris / New York · John Martin Gallery, London · Meem Gallery, Dubai · Galerie Mitterrand, Paris · Victoria Miro, London/ Venice · Mohsen Gallery, Tehran · Galleria Franco Noero, Turin · Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco · Officine dell’Immagine, Milan · Gallery One, Ramallah · Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo / Singapore / Shanghai · Pace Art + Technology, Menlo Park · Giorgio Persano, Turin · Plutschow Gallery, Zurich · Galerie Polaris, Paris · Project ArtBeat, Tbilisi · Katharina Maria Raab, Berlin · Revolver Galería, Lima / Buenos Aires · Rosenfeld Porcini, London · Sanat Gallery, Karachi · SANATORIUM, Istanbul · Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg / Beirut · Sophia Contemporary, London · Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart · TAFETA, London · Galerie Tanit, Munich / Beirut · TEMPLON, Paris / Brussels · The Third Line, Dubai · Vermelho, Sao Paulo · VOICE Gallery, Marrakech · x-ist, Istanbul · Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah · Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg · Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul / Berlin MODERN: Agial Art Gallery, Beirut · Akara Art, Mumbai · Albareh Art Gallery, Manama · Aria Gallery, Tehran · Le Violon Bleu, Tunis · DAG, New Delhi / Mumbai / New York · Elmarsa, Tunis / Dubai · Grosvenor Gallery, London · Hafez Gallery, Jeddah · Karim Francis Gallery, Cairo · Mark Hachem, New York / Paris / Beirut · Gallery One, Ramallah · Perve Galeria, Lisbon · Sanchit Art, New Delhi · Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo · Wadi Finan Art Gallery, Amman RESIDENTS: 1x1 Art Gallery, Dubai [Poonam Jain] · Erti Gallery, Tbilisi [Tato Akhalkatsishvili] · Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Seattle [Zohra Opoku] · Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin [Farshad Farzankia] · Lakum Artspace, Riyadh [Faris Alosaimi] · The Mine, Dubai [Yasuaki Onishi] · Öktem&Aykut, Istanbul [Jennifer İpekel] · Orbital Dago, Bandung [Iabadiou Piko] · ROBERTO PARADISE, San Juan [José Lerma] · The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius [Kristina Alisauskaite] · Tyburn Gallery, London [Victor Ehikhamenor]

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