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art dubai programme

ART DUBAI Review 2014
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19-22.3.2014
ART DUBAI
MARCH 19-22, 2014
DUBAI
strategic Partner
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Art Dubai is held under the
patronage of His Highness
Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, VicePresident and Prime Minister
of the United Arab Emirates,
Ruler of Dubai
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)2014 ‫مارس‬/‫ آذار‬22-18( »‫دبي‬
‫«تشكل فعاليات «آرت‬
ّ
‫ملتقى كبيرا لجدل الثقافات واألفكار والفنون بصورة ال‬
‫تشبه تظاهرة فنية أخرى في العالم فقد جمعت هذه النسخة‬
‫دبي» مئات الصحافيين والفنانين وأصحاب‬
‫الثامنة من «آرت‬
ّ
‫الصاالت الفنية وجامعي التحف ورجال األعمال والشركات‬
‫الكبرى والناشطين والمعترضين والمتفرجين والباعة‬
‫والمشترين (والعابرين بداعي الفضول) في بوتقة واحدة‬
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‫ثقافيا‬
‫جسورا بين عوالم مختلفة‬
‫ومدت‬
‫غنية تنبض بالحياة‬
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ً ‫في خلطة مذهلة ال يمكن للصحافي أو الكاتب العابر ّأي‬
‫اما‬
».‫قليلة استيعابها بسهولة‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬31 ،‫ المملكة المتحدة‬،»‫«القدس العربي‬
“Art Dubai (March 18-22) formulates a
significant meeting point for the debate
of cultures, ideas and arts in a way that is
distinctly different from any other artsgathering in the world; Art Dubai’s eighth
edition brought together hundreds of
journalists, artists, gallerists, collectors,
businessmen, huge corporations, activists,
objectors, viewers, sellers, buyers and passersby out of curiosity in one single rich and vivid
melting pot that drew connections between
entirely different cultural realms in a stunning
blend which a journalist or a few-days-passingwriter could not easily absorb.”
Al Quds Al Arabi, United Kingdom, March 31, 2014
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“While many art fairs offer experiences so
similar that they all seem to blend into one,
Art Dubai has developed a strong identity: it’s
anchored in the UAE and the region at large and
embraces the international. No small feat.”
Artnet, United States, March 19, 2014
“As art fairs go, it is the most intellectually
stimulating because the combination of art and
thinkers is different from any you find in the
West. You see and hear something new.”
The Art Newspaper, United Kingdom,
March 20, 2014
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“Seit ihrer Erstausgabe 2007 ist sie immer reifer
und kraftvoller und origineller geworden, hat
kontinuierlich an Qualität zugelegt. Die Art
Dubai war schon immer mehr als eine reine
Kunstmesse: ein Spiegel der Verhältnisse.”
“Since its inception in 2007, Art Dubai has
consistently gained power, maturity and
originality. It has continually gained quality. Art
Dubai has always been more than an art fair, it’s
a reflection of current affairs.”
Die Welt, Germany, March 22, 2014
“As Dubai has grown – its airlines now fly to 239
destinations and its ports handled 13.6 million
standard shipping containers last year – people
in the business of culture also see it increasingly
as a go-to meeting point between Africa, Asia
and other parts of the Middle East.”
The Wall Street Journal, United States
March 19, 2014
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“Tight, fine-tuned curatorial and educational
scope is at the core of Art Dubai’s mantra. In
many respects, labeling it as an art fair may
be limiting as the array of new and returning
activities lend the fair the positioning as a
festival for visual arts.”
Canvas, UAE, March/April 2014
“À quoi reconnaît-on la maturité d’Art Dubai ? À
sa capacité à se dérober aux clichés.”
“How do we recognise the maturity of Art
Dubai? Through its ability to avoid clichés.”
Le Quotidien de l'Art, France, March 2014
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CONTENTS
18 Introduction
..Art Dubai 2014
..Art Week
26 Galleries
..Contemporary
..Modern
..Marker
47 Committees
..Honorary Board of Patrons
..Board of Patrons
..Curatorial Advisory Board
57 Visitors
..Visitor Profile
..Attendance by Region
62 VIP Programme
..Museum Groups
74 Marketing and Outreach
..Design
..Press
..Press Attendance
..Broadcast and Newswire
Media
..Press Coverage
..Marketing
..Social Media
..Outreach
102 Art Dubai Programme
..Art Dubai Projects
..A.i.R Dubai
..Art Dubai Cinema
..Art Dubai Radio
124 The Abraaj Group Art Prize
132 Art Dubai Education
..Children’s Art Programmes
..Campus Art Dubai
..Internship Programme
..Forum Fellows
154 Global Art Forum
..Sessions
..Contributors
170 Terrace Talks
178 Partners
206 Participating Artists and Speakers
214 Art Dubai Team
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‫«ولكن يجب القول إن «آرت دبي» تحول من فعالية فنية مختصة‬
‫ حيث تتحول المدينة كلها وتدب فيها‬،‫إلى حالة ثقافية خاصة‬
‫ ولن يحتاج المرء إلى الذهاب إلى أبعد من قاعات‬،‫حيوية خاصة‬
‫ فالقاعات المشاركة‬.‫العرض في جميرا للوقوف على تلك الحالة‬
‫والشرفات والممرات وكل األركان حول المعرض تشهد مناقشات‬
‫وأحاديث تشمل كل مناحي الحياة مما يحول المعرض إلى مناسبة‬
‫اجتماعية من الدرجة األولى للكثيرين الذين يحرصون على الحضور‬
‫ وأيضا لرؤية بعض األسماء الالمعة‬،‫للقاء المعارف واألصدقاء‬
».‫في عالم الفنون‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬19 ،‫ المملكة المتحدة‬،»‫«الشرق األوسط‬
“It must be said that Art Dubai has shifted from
being an arts-oriented event into a unique cultural
phenomenon, where an entire city is transformed
and revived with unique dynamism; one will never
need anything beyond visiting the gallery halls at
Madinat Jumeirah to comprehend that situation.
Participating galleries, terraces, corridors, balconies
and each and every corner at the show are extremely
alive with discussions and interviews covering all
walks of life, turning the fair into a first-class social
event for many who are keen to come and meet
acquaintances and friends, and also to see some
celebrities in the world of the arts.”
Asharq Al Awsat, United Kingdom, March 19, 2014
“En plein essor, la plus grande foire d'art contemporain
du monde arabe mise à la fois sur les valeurs sûres et
les découvertes.”
Le Figaro, France, March 20, 2014
“In full bloom, the largest contemporary art fair in
the Arab world features blue chip as well as new
discoveries.”
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ART DUBAI 2014
Art Dubai would not be possible without the
support of its partners; in particular, we would
like to thank The Abraaj Group, the Jumeirah
Group, Cartier and Emaar. Our extensive yearround educational programming is run in
partnership with the Dubai Culture and Arts
Authority; and we welcomed Mashreq Private
Banking as sponsor of Art Dubai Modern.
Art Dubai 2014 was the largest and most
global edition of the fair to date: we welcomed
85 galleries and artspaces from 34 countries
to the fair, presenting booth exhibitions across
three distinct gallery programmes. Together,
the galleries featured the work of more than
500 artists from every corner of the world.
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the Contemporary and Marker gallery
programmes and provided a unique, curated,
and enthusiastically-received outing for masters
from the Middle East and South Asia.
70 museum groups and more than 400
curators and museum representatives
attended the fair, confirming Art Dubai’s role
as the meeting point in the Middle East and
South Asia, and the global fair of choice for
the art world.
The Jumeirah Patrons Preview on March 18
and the fair’s Opening on March 19 attracted
capacity crowds—and the buzz continued
all-week-long, with over 25,000 visitors
taking in the gallery halls, talks programmes,
artists’ projects and a packed schedule of
family events, educational initiatives, tours,
presentations and launches.
Art Dubai now has the most extensive notfor-profit programme of any fair, worldwide.
Our role as a ‘fair of discovery’ is exemplified
by Marker, the curated, themed section of
artspaces, which, in 2014, focused on the
Caucasus and Central Asia. The Global Art
Forum, the most innovative and significant of
talks programmes, runs over five days in two
cities, with more than 40 contributors. The
dynamic programming and distinct curatorial
stance of Art Dubai Projects, Film and Radio
highlight the work of upcoming artists from
the region and beyond.
The fair also saw its highest-ever levels of
attendance from universities and colleges,
welcoming more than 500 UAE and GCC-based
students on specially organised tours.
Art Dubai 2014 included the launch of a third
gallery hall (Art Dubai Modern), to complement
Art Dubai both illustrates and acts as a
catalyst in the ever-growing and deepening
international interest in the arts scenes of the
Middle East; the fair is now recognised as the
crucial cultural hub linking Africa, the Arab
world and Asia.
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85 galleries from 34
countries, showing
over 500 artists
70 international
museum groups,
participating in
bespoke, Gulf-wide
programmes
25,000 visitors,
including 400
museum directors
and institutional
representatives
Global Art Forum:
5 days of talks,
presentations and
exhibitions in Doha
and Dubai, featuring
40 contributors
Art Dubai Projects:
12 new site-specific
projects and
commissioned
performances
Education: 1,000
children taking part
in workshops at
the fair, while 500
students participated
through organised
tours
Campus Art Dubai: a
year-round art school
for 200 graduates
and enthusiasts
450 press attend Art
Dubai, including 70
hosted journalists
from 27 countries
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It is in the UAE, home to over 200
nationalities, that the art world as a globalised
phenomenon is most valid. Dubai has been
a trading post and meeting point for South
Asia, Iran, the Arab world and Africa for
hundreds of years. Sharjah, with its major
biennial, is established as a place of heritage
and art production, and Doha and Abu Dhabi
host major museums. Over the past decade,
Dubai has become the region’s commercial art
centre—home to over 40 galleries—and a city
for the exchange and production of ideas, of
entrepreneurship, of debate.
In 2007, when Art Dubai was founded, the
prevailing rhetoric was one of exchange
between East and West. Now, more than
a decade after 9/11, the zeitgeist has taken
a palpable shift towards more nuanced
relationships built along trade routes and webs
of communication; Dubai has emerged as a
global hub and a gateway to both east and
west Asia, not only for business and travel, but
also in terms of contemporary art and culture.
At Art Dubai we find ourselves increasingly
invested in the complex weave that connects
the East with the East and the South with the
South—providing a point of connection for all
those institutions and individuals in Europe and
America who are seeking to engage with an art
world that is resolutely global.
We pride ourselves on placing outreach and
collaboration at the heart of the fair, working
in partnership with institutions across the UAE
year-round.
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“[Art Dubai’s] multiple faces are what make it
interesting. The fact that it is spawning an arts
scene throughout the city shows it is growing
roots. And it already has the ingredients to
ensure people keep coming…The spirit of the
fair is taking over the city. Performers entertain
at Galleries Night in Al Quoz, the industrial
zone behind Dubai’s main thoroughfare, and
around the financial centre; Christie’s auctions
artworks at the Emirates Towers hotel; I learn
Arabic Kufic stencilling in the artisanal Bastakiya
neighbourhood; Najla Said performs at a
Palestinian culture week near Meydan racetrack;
Van Cleef & Arpels holds jewellery workshops at
the Design Days fair; crowds flock to attend Art
Dubai’s Global Art Forum discussions.”
The Financial Times, United Kingdom,
March 20, 2014
“The fair has in many ways acted as a catalyst
in boosting activity and interest in the local art
scene overall, with parts of the city now given
over to regular art walks and other art-centric
events."
South China Morning Post, Hong Kong,
March 16, 2014
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ART week
With the aim of promoting the cultural
activities of the region to both residents and
visitors, Art Week is an umbrella initiative
bringing together the UAE’s arts and culturecentred happenings in the month of March.
From fairs Art Dubai, Design Days Dubai and
SIKKA to exhibitions at Alserkal Avenue and
pop-up projects around the country, Art Week
involves cultural programmes from across the
UAE, highlighting galleries, institutions and
artists. As a focal point of the region’s cultural
calendar, Art Week helps sustain and develop
the region’s arts industry by actively building
audiences and patrons.
With a print run of 25,000 copies, the Art
Week Guide promotes the arts and culture
scenes of the UAE and, in 2014, contained
information on more than one hundred
cultural events.
Art Dubai and other events during Art Week
sit within the wider Art Season,
an initiative by Dubai Culture and Arts
Authority to highlight the city’s growing
creative landscape.
artdubai.ae/art-week
Galleries
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‫«حققت الدورة الثامنة من معرض «آرت دبي» التي أقيمت خالل‬
‫ والتي‬،‫ مارس في مدينة الجميرا وميناء السالم‬22 – 19 ‫الفترة من‬
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ً
ً
‫قياسيا‬
‫نجاحا‬
،‫بلدا‬
34 ‫ فنان من‬500‫ صالة عرض و‬85 ‫شارك فيها‬
ً
‫واسعا على صعيد الزوار المحليين‬
‫وإقباال‬
،‫على صعيد المبيعات‬
ً
‫ومن الخارج الذين كانوا يلتقطون صور األعمال التي تروق لهم‬
».‫ليرسلوها عبر وسائل االتصال المجتمعية إلى األصدقاء‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬23 ،‫ اإلمارات العربية المتحدة‬،»‫«البيان‬
“The eighth edition of Art Dubai (March 19-22),
which was held in Madinat Jumeirah and Mina Al
Salam, witnessed the participation of 85 galleries
and 500 artists from 34 countries achieved
phenomenal success in terms of sales. The fair was
oversubscribed by local and international audiences
who never stopped taking photos of their favourite
works and sharing it with friends on social media.”
Al Bayan, UAE, March 23, 2014
‫ ساهم بشكل كبير في‬،2007 ‫«منذ انطالقة «آرت دبي» في العام‬
ً
‫جاذبا إليها أبرز غاليريات‬
،‫إعطاء هوية ثقافية جديدة لإلمارة الخليجية‬
ً
ً
‫مساهما في إنعاش‬
،‫قيمة وثمينة‬
‫مستضيفا‬
،‫العالم‬
ً
ّ ‫أعماال فنية‬
».‫سوق اللوحة‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬23 ،‫ المملكة المتحدة‬،»‫«الحياة‬
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INTRODUCTION
Art Dubai is an international fair with
its roots in the Middle East and South
Asia. Known as a particularly global
and innovative event, 2014 saw the fair
expand to include three distinct gallery
programmes: Contemporary, at its most
diverse yet, and featuring both established
galleries and upcoming artspaces; Marker,
which this year focused on the Caucasus
and Central Asia; and the inaugural Art
Dubai Modern, dedicated to masters from
the Middle East and South Asia
who proved influential through the
twentieth century.
Over half the visitors who attended
this year’s fair feel that the selection of
galleries presented is what differentiates
Art Dubai from other fairs, with over
90% reporting high satisfaction with the
quality, as well as the geographic diversity,
of the galleries showcased in 2014.*
“Since its inception in 2007, Art Dubai has contributed
significantly to formulating a new cultural identity
for this Gulf emirate, attracting the world’s leading
galleries, hosting valuable works of art and becoming
a major factor in reviving the art market.”
Al Hayat, United Kingdom, March 23, 2014
artdubai.ae/galleries
*According to a survey of 845 visitors that attended the fair in 2014
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‫ محاكاة الفن العالمي بآليات اإلبداع في فضاءات‬... »‫««آرت دبي‬
»‫أعماال فنية لمشاهير الفنانين والصاالت الفنية‬
‫عميقة تضم‬
ً
2014 ‫ مارس‬30 ،‫ ُعمان‬،»‫«الوطن‬
“Art Dubai … a simulation of international art
through mechanisms of creativity at thoughtful
spaces that included works of renowned artists and
galleries.”
Al Watan, Oman, March 30, 2014
“Art fairs are always about selling art, but a fair such
as Art Dubai also reflects the more unstable and
evolving nature of an emerging art scene: the fair’s
role in drawing attention to the Emirate’s small but
growing circuit of commercial galleries and nonprofits
can’t be underestimated, and the presence of the fair
as focal point for the scene is significant.”
ArtReview, United Kingdom, March 2014
“Signe que la Foire plaît: 90% des exposants,
présents l’an dernier, ont postulé de nouveau
cette année. C’est le cas de nombreuses galeries
françaises.”
Les Echos, France, March 21, 2014
“As proof of Art Dubai’s success: 90% of the
exhibiting galleries from last year have reapplied
again. This is the case of many returning galleries
from France.”
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Contemporary
ȄȄ313 Art Project Seoul
ȄȄAgial Art Gallery Beirut
ȄȄSabrina Amrani Gallery Madrid
ȄȄArt Factum Gallery Beirut
ȄȄL’Atelier 21 Casablanca
ȄȄAthr Gallery Jeddah
ȄȄAyyam Gallery Dubai/London/Beirut/Jeddah/Damascus
ȄȄBaró Galeria São Paulo
ȄȄBolsa de Arte Porto Alegre/São Paulo
ȄȄThe Breeder Athens/Monte Carlo
ȄȄLaura Bulian Gallery Milan
ȄȄCarbon 12 Dubai
ȄȄCarroll / Fletcher London
ȄȄChatterjee & Lal Mumbai
ȄȄChemould Prescott Road Mumbai
ȄȄGalleria Continua San Gimignano/Beijing/Le Moulin
ȄȄPilar Corrias London
ȄȄCRG Gallery New York
ȄȄGalerie Chantal Crousel Paris
ȄȄD Gallerie Jakarta
ȄȄElmarsa Tunis/Dubai
ȄȄGallery Etemad Dubai/Tehran
ȄȄExperimenter Kolkata
ȄȄGallery Isabelle van den Eynde Dubai
ȄȄGalerie Imane Farès Paris
ȄȄSelma Feriani London/Tunis
ȄȄGalleria Marie-Laure Fleisch Rome
ȄȄGAGPROJECTS Adelaide/Berlin
ȄȄGalerist Istanbul
ȄȄGiacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea Rome
ȄȄGladstone Gallery New York/Brussels
ȄȄMarian Goodman Gallery New York/Paris/London
ȄȄAlexander Gray Associates New York
ȄȄGreen Art Gallery Dubai
ȄȄGrey Noise Dubai
ȄȄHales Gallery London
ȄȄLeila Heller Gallery New York
ȄȄKashya Hildebrand Gallery London/Zurich
ȄȄGalerie Hussenot Paris
ȄȄIn Situ / Fabienne Leclerc Paris
ȄȄRose Issa Projects London
ȄȄGalerie Jaeger Bucher Paris
ȄȄGalerie Rodolphe Janssen Brussels
ȄȄKalfayan Galleries Athens/Thessaloniki
ȄȄGalerie Krinzinger Vienna
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ȄȄLombard Freid Gallery New York
ȄȄLumen Travo Amsterdam
ȄȄGalerie Greta Meert Brussels
ȄȄVictoria Miro London
ȄȄMarisa Newman Projects New York
ȄȄGalleria Franco Noero Turin
ȄȄGallery Wendi Norris San Francisco
ȄȄGalerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Brussels
ȄȄOmenka Gallery Lagos
ȄȄOta Fine Arts Tokyo/Singapore
ȄȄParadise Row London
ȄȄPechersky Gallery Moscow
ȄȄPi Artworks Istanbul/London
ȄȄGalerie Polaris Paris
ȄȄTyler Rollins Fine Art New York
ȄȄSchleicher/Lange Berlin
ȄȄSfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg/Beirut
ȄȄGallery SKE Bangalore/New Delhi
ȄȄTashkeel Dubai
ȄȄTasveer New Delhi/Bangalore
ȄȄGalerie Daniel Templon Paris/Brussels
ȄȄThe Third Line Dubai
ȄȄGalerie Tanja Wagner Berlin
ȄȄYavuz Fine Art Singapore
MODERN
ȄȄAgial Art Gallery Beirut
ȄȄAicon Gallery New York/London
ȄȄAlbareh Art Gal Manama
ȄȄArtChowk, Karachi
ȄȄElmarsa Tunis/Dubai
ȄȄKarim Francis Cairo
ȄȄGrosvenor Gallery London
ȄȄJhaveri Contemporary Mumbai
ȄȄLawrie Shabibi Dubai
ȄȄGalerie Janine Rubeiz Beirut
ȄȄShirin Gallery Tehran/New York
MARKER
ȄȄArt East Bishkek
ȄȄAsia Art+ Almaty
ȄȄNorth Caucasus Branch of the National Centre for
Contemporary Art (NCCA) Vladikavkaz
ȄȄPopiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project Tbilisi
ȄȄYARAT Contemporary Art Space Baku
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viable alternative to the dilutions of seeing
».‫إلى مسرح بصري يضج بالحركة‬
the same thing everywhere… The fair is
2014 ‫ مارس‬20 ،‫ لبنان‬،»‫«السفير‬
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CONTEMPORARY
In 2014, Art Dubai Contemporary was
extraordinarily diverse; the halls featured
70 galleries from 28 countries, from the
world’s most influential galleries to dynamic
young artspaces. Likewise the artists ranged
from emerging and upcoming practitioners
from lesser-known art capitals to household
names. The works they presented covered all
artistic media–including painting, drawing,
sculpture, installation, video, photography
and performance.
Always aiming to foreground quality and a
curatorial approach, Art Dubai has a close
relationship with its galleries: the artists
they represent, and the works they select,
reconfirm year-on-year the fair’s role as a site
of discovery.
artdubai.ae/contemporary
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‫«وبدا العرض كأنه تحية خاصة لهؤالء الرواد وفرصة جميلة‬
‫للجمهور لمطالعة أعمال اختفت عن األنظار لفترة في قاعات‬
‫ من العروض المنفردة مثل‬..‫المتاحف أو المجموعات الخاصة‬
‫ إلى‬،»‫العرض البديع للفنانة باية من خالل غاليري «المرسى‬
‫ وآدم‬،‫عروض لفنانين عمالقة مثل مقبول فدا حسين من الهند‬
‫ وصوال إلى ناصر اليوسف وراشد آل خليفة من‬،‫حنين من مصر‬
».‫البحرين‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬23 ،‫ المملكة المتحدة‬،»‫«الشرق األوسط‬
“Art Dubai Modern looked like a tribute to modern
masters and offered audience a great opportunity
to see works that disappeared from museums or
private collections for a while. There were some
solo exhibitions such as Baya’s wonderful show by
Galerie El Marsa (Tunisia); India’s great master MF
Husain was present as well as Egypt’s Adam Henein;
Nasser Al Yousif and Rashid Al Khalifa
from Bahrain.”
Asharq Al Awsat, United Kingdom, March 24, 2014
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Modern
In 2014, Art Dubai launched a new gallery
programme devoted to modern art from the
Middle East and South Asia. The inaugural
Art Dubai Modern included 11 galleries, each of
which presented a solo or two-person show,
featuring work by modern masters.
Galleries were asked to submit proposals for
booth exhibitions by artists whose work has
proven highly influential during the twentieth
century and on later generations of artists.
These proposals were reviewed by an advisory
board, made up of curators and historians with
a particular interest in modernist practices of
the Middle East and Asia.
Art Dubai Modern 2014 was advised by Savita
Apte, an art historian specialising in modern
and contemporary South Asian art and chair of
The Abraaj Group Art Prize; Catherine David, a
renowned curator with an extensive experience
in the Middle East, whose exhibitions include
dOCUMENTA X; Kristine Khouri, a researcher
and a writer based in Beirut and co-founder of
the History of Arab Modernities in the Visual
Arts Study Group; and Nada Shabout, an art
historian specialising in modern Arab and Iraqi
art, and curator, among other exhibitions, of
‘Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art’, at Mathaf:
Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar (2010).
Art Dubai Modern also featured a special
presentation of early works by Emirati artist
Abdulkader Al Rais in collaboration with Hunar
Gallery, Dubai.
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“Art
Dubai‫نسخته‬
is definitely
a mostly
regional
‫ وهي‬،‫الثامنة‬
‫خطوة مهمة في‬
»‫دبي‬
‫«آرت‬
‫«يشهد‬
ّ
art fair‫القرن‬
that
both
to regional
and
‫العشرين‬
‫من‬caters
‫للفن الحديث‬
‫مخصص‬
‫قسم جديد‬
‫استحداث‬
‫التي‬
‫الحداثة‬
‫لربط‬
‫أساسية‬
‫الخطوة‬
‫هذه‬
.»‫«مودرن‬
‫اسم‬
‫تحت‬
international collectors—and, in fact, strong
‫المعاصرة‬
‫بالفنون‬
،‫األوسط وجنوب آسيا‬
‫في الشرق‬
regional,
idiosyncratic
fairs might
be‫شهدناها‬
a
.‫فن حديث‬
‫يبين هذا الربط تأثر المعاصر بما سبقه من‬
.‫اليوم‬
ّ
ّ
viable alternative to the dilutions of seeing
‫ جرى تأليف لجنة تقييم فني لإلشراف على برنامج‬،‫ومن أجل ذلك‬
the same thing everywhere… The fair is
».‫هذه السنة‬
not‫مارس‬
only19
an،‫لبنان‬
information
2014
،»‫ «األخبار‬platform but also
a seismograph for the state of art, politics,
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eighth edition,
Dubai’s
significant
step
anditsdiscourse
in theArtregion
alike.
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inaugurating
a
new
programme
entitled
Art
Art Agenda, United States, March 2013
Dubai Modern and dedicated to modern art from the
twentieth century. It is undoubtedly an elemental
“In
six years Art Dubai has established itself
step to connect modernity in the Middle East and
as the
leading
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art. Andthe
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a curatorial
committee
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Modern
content
this year.”
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Art Week
in the
Emirate.
This
Alyear’s
Akhbar,
Lebanon,
March
19,
2014
edition, which runs March 2013, is
surrounded by a plethora of events, projects
and
new design
“As
theexhibitions—plus
fair travels throughaDubai,
it’s alsofair,
travelling
Design
Days
Dubai.
Ahead
the
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back
in time.
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year, as
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that
thepack
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own six-day
Global
Forum,14
East
is maturing,
Art Dubai
is Art
showcasing
modern
painters alongside
its usual
contemporary
a programme
of debates,
discussions
and
section.
The
galleries
include
works
by
MF
Husain,
talks that will host some 40 contributors.
known as India’s Picasso, and Nabil Nahas from
The fair itself this year will field some 72
Lebanon.”
galleries from across the world, while in
The Financial Times, United Kingdom, March 20, 2014
Sculpture on the Beach, 11 large-scale works
range along the seashore.”
March 2013
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“Ja, seit der Premiere fahre ich immer dorthin. Für
mich ist diese Messe unglaublich wichtig, weil ich
hier Künstler aus Indien, Pakistan, dem Mittleren
Osten, Ägypten treffe. Jedem Kunstinteressierten
empfehle ich einen Besuch. Diesmal hat mich
besonders Rasheed Araeen begeistert, dessen Werk
gerade wiederentdeckt wird.”
“Yes, I visit [Art Dubai] all the time, since its
inception. For me, this fair is unbelievably
important because there I get to meet artists
from India, Pakistan, the Middle East and Egypt. I
recommend it to anyone who is interested in art.
This edition I was particularly impressed by Rasheed
Araeen whose works are being rediscovered.”
Die Zeit (Q&A with Hans Ulrich Obrist), Germany,
May 2014
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“Throughout the fair, the two regions and their art
scenes proved so varied as to qualify for separate
iterations of Marker. But as curatorial debuts
go, Slavs and Tatars’ Marker was undoubtedly
impressive, and what’s more, a highlight of Art Dubai
2014. The artworks on view introduced aesthetically
innovative and critically insightful art scenes, which
will continue to rise in prominence as institutions
mature and artists expand their engagement with the
commercial art world.”
Blouin Art Info, United States, March 31, 2014
“From thorny politics to the many strands of coexisting ethnicities and languages, the art aims to
present Central Asia and the Caucasus as more than
just remote lands on a spinning globe.”
Al Arabiya, Pan Arab, March 17, 2014
"If we are talking about discovery, then what can
be a better example than the Marker section where
the famous art collective in their first curatorial
outing focused on Caucasus and Central Asia, a
region remaining obscure despite its pluralism
and complexity. Visitors were surprised to find art
galleries from places like Tblisi and Baku in the
section designed like a tea salon or a traditional
chaikhaneh."
The Hindu, India, April 5, 2014
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Marker
Marker is Art Dubai’s curated programme of
galleries and artspaces, which focuses each
year on a particular theme or geography. This
section aims to exemplify the fair's role as a
site of discovery and cross-cultural exchange,
and is a feature of Art Dubai’s extensive notfor-profit programming.
In 2014, Marker turned its focus to Central
Asia and the Caucasus. Curated by the
artists Slavs and Tatars, this themed series
of exhibitions and educational initiatives
included gallery booth exhibitions, talks,
research projects and commissioned
artists’ projects.
Slavs and Tatars worked with each space and
their artists to present existing and new work
that together forms a collective exhibition
through a ‘regime of portraiture’, including
faces, places and traces from mid-twentiethcentury painting to contemporary drawings
and sculptures.
At the fair, Marker took the form of a
chaikhaneh or Eurasian (tea) salon, to activate
each work as a point of departure, to tell
larger stories touching upon questions of
faith, language, landscape; and importantly,
how these notions are ritualised, interiorised,
and hybridised beyond the often brittle
politics of identity.
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‫«ترافقت تظاهرة «مؤشر» هذا العام مع أحداث اوكرانيا مما‬
ً
ً
‫ديناميكيا كونها مخصصة لفنون اواسط آسيا‬
‫طابعا‬
‫أعطاها‬
‫ بحيث أعطت حيوية كبيرة لقضايا تداخل‬،‫ومنطقة القوقاز‬
‫السياسي والجغرافي والتاريخي بالفني في منطقة كانت‬
‫خاضعة لإلطار السياسي والفني السوفييتي قبل ان تهب عليها‬
‫ استثارتني أفكار المجموعة التي مثلها شريفي‬... ‫رياح التغيير‬
‫مثل اعتبارها ان اإلسالم ازدهر في الحواشي واألطراف أكثر من‬
‫ وأن هبوب الحداثة المتأخر عليه بعد اختالطاته بالشامانية‬،‫المراكز‬
‫والهندوسية وغيرها من األديان فتح المجال للتعبير اإلشكالي‬
».‫الفني عن الهوية وقضايا إشكالية عديدة أخرى‬
“Marker this year coincided with the Ukraine
crisis—something that charged the Central Asia/
Caucasus-oriented programme with a dynamic
trait which, in turn, revived issues of intersection
between politics, geography, history and arts in a
region that was under the Soviet reign politically
and artistically before the wind of change blew up
… I was excited by Slavs and Tatars ideas about
Islam and how it did flourish at the borders more
than the centres and the way recent modern
commingling with Hinduism, Shamanism and other
religions opened the doors for a more problematic
artistic expression of identity and many other
critical issues.”
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MARKER EDUCATION PROGRAMME
Marker also featured an extended education
programme, which included a research booth,
daily talks and tours, and opportunities for
upcoming curators to research and gain
experience in this field. Marker’s education
partner was Caspian Arts Foundation.
The programme included the opportunity for
an upcoming curator to further their research
and network within Central Asia and the
Caucasus. Almaty-based curator Yekaterina
Serebryanaya was selected after an open
call for the position of Assistant Curator, and
worked closely with Slavs and Tatars, the
participating artspaces and the Art Dubai
team to produce Marker 2014.
MARKER PUBLISHING PROGRAMME
2014 also marked a new collaboration
between Marker and onestar press, the
renowned Paris-based artist book publisher.
onestar published books by emerging and
established artists from Central Asia and
the Caucasus invited by Slavs and Tatars
including Reza Hazare, Taus Makhacheva,
Sophia Tabatadze, Armen Eloyan and Astral
Nomads.
Curator of Marker 2014, Slavs and Tatars,
is a collective with solo exhibitions at major
museums—MoMA, Secession (2012), REDCAT
(2013), Kunsthalle Zurich, Dallas Museum of
Art (2014)—as well as group exhibitions across
the Middle East, North America and Europe.
They have published six books, including a
translation of the legendary Azeri political
satire Molla Nasreddin (2011, JRP-Ringier).
Slavs and Tatars are represented by The Third
Line, Dubai; Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin;
and Raster, Warsaw.
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COMMITTEES
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‫ أثبت «آرت دبي» خالل سنوات قليلة أنّ ه المعرض‬،‫ي منازع‬
ّ ‫«بال أ‬
،‫ ذلك يعود إلى عناصر عدة‬.‫الفنّ ي األبرز في المنطقة العربية‬
‫ وتزايد عدد صاالت‬،‫منها إقامة المعرض برعاية ودعم رسميين‬
‫العرض المشاركة كل سنة من مختلف أنحاء العالم العربي‬
‫ ال بل انتظار موعده‬،‫ وتوافد عدد كبير من جامعي التحف‬،‫والعالم‬
ً
».‫بدءا من اليوم‬
.‫كل سنة القتناء األعمال الجديدة‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬19 ،‫ لبنان‬،»‫«األخبار‬
“Indisputably, Art Dubai, just in few years, proved
to be the leading art fair in the region. Many factors
formulated that reality: it is held under official
patronage and support; the increase of participating
galleries from the Arab world and internationally
every year; and the increasing number of collectors
who always save the date for collecting
new works.”
Al-Akhbar, Lebanon, March 19, 2014
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Art Dubai is held under the patronage of His
Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al
Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister
of the United Arab Emirates, Ruler of Dubai.
Art Dubai Ladies Preview is held under the
patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal
bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
President of Dubai Women Establishment,
Wife of His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE.
Art Dubai is hosted by a country with
an unrivalled reputation for hospitality,
and is privileged to have the support of a
passionate, collegiate Board of Patrons,
which in 2014 was chaired by His Excellency
Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan,
Minister of Culture, Youth and Community
Development.
Our Board of Patrons–based across the globe,
but with a particular interest in supporting
the arts in the Middle East and Asia–take on
a crucial ambassadorial and advisory role for
Art Dubai.
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2014 CHAIRMAN, ART
DUBAI BOARD OF PATRONS
HE Sheikh Nahayan
Mubarak Al Nahayan
Minister of Culture, Youth and
Community Development
HONORARY BOARD OF
PATRONS
Saeb Eigner patron, author
(Art of the Middle East:
Modern and Contemporary
Art of the Arab World and
Iran (Merrell, 2010)); Founder/
Chairman, Lonworld;
Governor, London Business
School; Chairman, Dubai
Financial Services Authority
(DFSA); London
Arif Naqvi patron, collector;
Founder/CEO, Abraaj Capital;
Board of Directors, Endeavor;
Board of Trustees, Aman
Foundation; Member, Young
Presidents' Organization /
WEF Arab Business Council
/ EMPEA Advisory Council
/ IMD Foundation Board;
Board Member, Pakistan
Human Development Fund
(PHDF) / King Abdullah II
Award for Youth Innovation
and Achievement / Dubai
Government Education
Endowment Fund / United
Nations Global Compact; Dubai
HE Zaki Nusseibeh Cultural
Advisor, UAE Ministry of
Presidential Affairs; Deputy
Chairman, Abu Dhabi Culture
and Heritage Authority
(ADACH); Advisory Board,
Middle East Centre London
School of Economics / SOAS;
Board Member, Paris-Sorbonne
University Abu Dhabi / National
Center for Documentation
& Research / Emirates
National School; President,
Alliance Française Abu Dhabi
/ Abu Dhabi Classical Concert
Committee / UAE chapter of
the International 'Friends of
Richard Wagner' society; CoFounder, Abu Dhabi Classics
Programme / Al Ain Music
Festival; Abu Dhabi
HE Abdul Rahman
Mohammed bin Nasser Al
Owais UAE Minister of Health;
Chairman of the Board of
Directors of Dubai Culture and
Arts Authority
HE Sheikh Hassan bin
Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani
patron, collector; ViceChairman, Qatar Museums
Authority; Founder, Mathaf:
Arab Museum of Modern Art;
Doha
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Board of Patrons
Mohammed Afkhami collector;
Director, UBS Warburg;
Managing Partner, MA Partners
DMCC; Founding Member,
British Museum’s Middle East
and North Africa Art Acquisition
Committee; Dubai
Yasmin Teymour Alireza
patron, collector; London
Faiza Meyassar Alireza patron,
collector; Chairman, Al Madad
Foundation; London
Paula Al Askari patron,
collector; Abu Dhabi
Maria Baibakova curator;
Founder/Director/Chief Curator,
Baibakov Art Projects (BAP);
Moscow/Boston
Kito De Boer collector; Director
– Middle East, McKinsey &
Company; Dubai
Dr Farhad Farjam patron;
Founder, The Farjam Collection;
Chairman/CEO, Farbro Group;
founder/Chairman, Hafiz
Foundation; Dubai
Dr Shayma Nawaf Fawwaz
collector; Vice President
– Healthcare, Mubadala
Development Company; Abu
Dhabi
Fatima Al-Mazrui Ghobash
patron, collector; Co-founder of
S*uce; Dubai
HE Omar Ghobash patron; CoFounder, The Third Line Gallery;
ex-Deputy CEO, Emirates
Foundation; Founding Donor/
Board Member, Arab Fund for
Arts & Culture (AFAC); Board
Member, Khatt Foundation;
Sponsor, Saif Ghobash–Banipal
Prize; UAE Ambassador to
Russia and Ukraine; Moscow
Muna Al Gurg patron,
columnist; Director – Retail,
Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group
(ESAG); Chairwoman, Young
Arab Leaders; Board of
Directors, Easa Saleh Al Gurg
Charity Foundation; Dubai
Dr Lamees Hamdan collector;
Commissioner, UAE Pavilion,
Venice Biennale, 2009-13; Board
Member, Dubai Culture and
Arts Authority (DCAA) / Dubai
Women Establishment (DWE);
Fund Curator, Daman Middle
East Art Fund; Founder, Shiffa;
Dubai
Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi
patron; Founder/Director, Royal
Society of Fine Arts of Jordan /
Jordan National Gallery of Fine
Arts; former Jordan Ambassador
to Italy; Amman
Tariq Al Jaidah patron, collector;
Managing Director, Al Jaidah
Brothers; Member, Middle
East Committee, Guggenheim
Museum; Founder/Managing
Director, Katara Art Center; Doha
Dr Serra Kirdar patron, collector;
Director, Muthabara Foundation;
Founding Member, New Leaders
Group, Institute for International
Education (IIE); Founder/
Director, Initiative for Innovative
Teaching (INTEACH); Founder,
Oxford's Middle East Centre;
Chair/Founder, Copia Luxury
Management; Life Fellow, St.
Antonys College, University of
Oxford; Dubai
Georges Makhoul patron,
collector; former President –
MENA, Morgan Stanley; Dubai
Fatima Maleki patron, collector;
Donor/Committee Member,
American Patrons of Tate; London
Lisa Mamounas collector;
Founder, Culinary Insiders;
Member, The Junior Associates –
MoMA; New York
Patricia Millns artist; Advisory
Board Member, American
University of Dubai (AUD) /
Sovereign Art Foundation /
Contemporary Practices Journal;
Member, Emirates Fine Art
Society; Honorary Member,
Oman Fine Art Society; Dubai
Yola Noujaim patron, collector;
Senior Architect, ynzdesign;
Board of Advisors, Design Days
Dubai; Beirut/Paris
Lekha Poddar patron, collector;
President/Co-Founder, Devi Art
Foundation; Founder, Carma;
Patron/Founder, Textile Arts of
India; New Delhi
Lulu Al Sabah writer, collector,
curator; Co-Founder/Partner,
JAMM; Kuwait
Sheikha Paula Al Sabah patron;
Board Member, Serpentine
Gallery; Kuwait
Ramin Salsali collector;
Founder, Salsali Private Museum
(SPM); Awardee, Patron of the
Arts, UAE, 2010-12; Dubai
Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal
patron, collector; Developer,
Alserkal Avenue Arts District;
Dubai
Ahmed bin Shabib
entrepreneur; Co-Founder/CoDirector, Brownbook Magazine /
The Archive / Shelter; Dubai
Rashid bin Shabib
entrepreneur; Co-Founder/CoDirector, Brownbook Magazine
/ The Archive / Shelter; Dubai
Bashar Al Shroogi patron,
collector, curator; Founder/
CEO, Cuadro Fine Art Gallery;
Dubai
Abir Dajani Tuqan author,
collector; London
Sharaf Ahmed Zaki Yamani
collector; Director, Windlesham
Advisors LTD; Member,
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage
Foundation / The Yamani
Cultural and Charitable
Foundation; London
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PATRONS ADVISORY
BOARD 2014
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CURATORIAL ADVISORY
BOARD
Dana Farouki patron, collector;
Committee Member, Abraaj
Capital Art Prize; Trustee, MoMA
PS1 / Creative Time; Dubai/New
York
Maya Rasamny collector;
patron, Tate Gallery; Co-Chair,
Tate's Middle East North
Africa Acquisitions Committee
(MENAAC); London
Negar Azimi curator, writer;
Senior Editor, Bidoun Magazine;
Member, Arab Image Foundation
(FAI); Board of Directors, Artists’
Space; New York
Ali Yussef Khadra collector,
publisher; Founder, Mixed Media
Publishing / Canvas / Canvas TV;
Regional Consultant, Christie’s;
Member, Tate’s Middle East
North Africa Acquisitions
Committee (MENAAC);
Committee Member, Prix Pictet
/ V&A’s Jameel Prize / Parasol
Future Unit / Magic of Persia
Contemporary Art Prize; Dubai
Alia Al-Senussi patron; VIP
Relations Manager – Middle
East, Art Basel Miami Beach;
Director, Albion Gallery, 200509; Ambassador, Tate Young
Patrons, 2008; Member,
Tate’s Middle East North
(MENAAC); Committee Member
– Future Contemporaries Group,
Serpentine Gallery; Chair, Tate
Young Patrons / Aiglon College
Charitable Trust, 2009-10;
Co-Chair, Parasol Future Unit;
London
Aaron Cezar curator; Founding
Director, Delfina Foundation;
London
Fayeeza Naqvi collector;
Founding Trustee, Aman
Foundation / Aangan Trust;
Founding Director, Saharay
Welfare Organisation; Dubai
Dina Nasser-Khadivi
patron, curator; Founder, DNK
Art Consulting; International
Consultant, Christie’s; Member,
Tate - Middle East North
(MENAAC) / Caspian Arts
Foundation Committee / Yarat
Contemporary Art Organisation
Advisory Board; Geneva/London
Smita Prabhakar collector;
Dubai
Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
patron, collector, columnist
and commentator; Founder/
Chairman, Meem Gallery;
Founder/Director, Barjeel Art
Foundation; Sharjah
Abdullah AlTurki collector,
curator; Co-Chair, Parasol Future
Unit; Member, Saudi Art Council
/ Tate - Middle East North
(MENAAC) / Serpentine Gallery
Future Contemporary Group;
London/Riyadh
Rami Farook curator, publisher;
Founder/Director, Traffic,
Satellite / The State; Dubai
Vasif Kortun curator, writer;
Director - Research and
Programmes, SALT; Board
Member, International
Committee of the International
Council of Museums (ICOM),
Museums and Collections of
Modern Art (CIMAM), 2010-13;
Curator, UAE Pavilion, Venice
Biennale, 2011; Founding
Director, Platform Garanti
Contemporary Art Center /
Project 4L, Istanbul Museum of
Contemporary Art / Museum
of the Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College; Istanbul
Lateefa bint Maktoum artist,
curator; Founder/Director,
Tashkeel; Dubai
Salwa Mikdadi curator, art
historian; Co-Founder/ExDirector, Cultural and Visual Arts
Resource/ICWA; Co-Founder,
Association of Modern and
Contemporary Art of the Arab
world, Iran and Turkey (AMCA);
Abu Dhabi
Jessica Morgan curator, writer;
The Daskalopoulos Curator,
International Art, Tate; Curator Contemporary Art, Tate Modern;
Committee, Abraaj Capital Art
Prize; London
Elaine W Ng editor, publisher,
curator; Editor/Publisher,
ArtAsiaPacific (AAP) magazine;
Programme Advisor - Exhibition
Studies and Art Curatorship MA,
Hong Kong Art School; Hong
Kong/New York
Hans Ulrich Obrist curator,
critic, art historian; Co-Director
- Exhibitions and Programmes,
Director - International Projects,
Serpentine Gallery; Curator,
Museum in Progress, Vienna,
1993-2000 / Musée d'Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
2000-06 ; Contributing Editor,
Abitare Magazine, Artforum,
Paradis Magazine and 032c
Magazine; London
Jack Persekian curator;
Founder/Director, Anadiel
Gallery / Al-Ma’mal Foundation
for Contemporary Art / XEIN
Productions; Founder/Head
Curator, The Jerusalem Show;
Head Curator, The Palestinian
Museum; Artistic Director/
Head Curator, Sharjah Biennial
2004-09; Director, Sharjah Art
Foundation 2009-11; Jerusalem
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‫تحول «آرت دبي» إلى نهر ال يمكن السباحة‬
ّ ،‫«مع سنته الثامنة‬
‫مثب ًتا معادلة جديدة توازي بين الثقافة‬
‫مرتين‬
‫في مياهه نفسها‬
ّ
‫ صورة المدينة‬،‫ بطريقة استثنائية‬،‫ومحو ًال‬
‫النخبوية والجماهيرية‬
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‫التي تستضيفه الى مركز فنّ ي كبير وجسر بين ثقافات العالم ال‬
».‫يمكن مضاهاته‬
“Metaphorically, Art Dubai has the permanent flow
and livelihood of a river. A perfect balance between
the mainstream and heterodox, Art Dubai turns the
city of Dubai into an unparalleled epicentre of art,
and bridge between the world’s cultures.”
“Art Dubaï, [..] est un moment unique où les
collectionneurs internationaux, curieux de découvrir
de jeunes artistes de la région, croisent des expatriés
en mal de culture, et des responsables de musées en
quête de nouveaux amis et visiteurs.”
“Art Dubai is a unique moment where international
collectors, eager to discover the region’s new talents,
come across culture-thirsty expats, as well as arts
professionals and museum directors coming to
investigate new territories and networks.”
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VISITOR PROFILE
ATTENDANCE BY REGION
TOTAL ATTENDANCE: 25,500
15%
4%
16%
14%
2%
14%
5%
26%
56%
7%
19%
4%
18%
Private Collector
Arts Enthusiast
Curator / Professional associated with a
museum or art institution
UAE
Buys occasionally but wouldnt describe
MIDDLE EAST
themselves as regular collectors
EUROPE
ART DEALER / GALLERIST / ART ADVISOR
REST OF ASIA
ARTIST
AMERICAS
Writer / Member of Media
AFRICA
According to a survey of 845
visitors that attended the
fair in 2014, 95% felt the fair
was either good or excellent,
with 86% saying they would
be very or extremely likely to
attend the next edition.
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VIP programme
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‫«ولقد أصبح معرض فنون دبي من العالمات البارزة على الخارطة‬
‫الدولية لمعارض الفنون التشكيلية بالرغم من مرور سبعة أعوام‬
‫ ولدول مجلس التعاون الخليجي وعشاق‬.‫فقط على افتتاحه‬
‫الفن واالبداع التشكيلي في العالم العربي االعتزاز بهذا الحدث‬
‫الثقافي الذي أصبح احتفالية فنية بارزة تنافس العروض الكبرى‬
‫في كل من ميالنو وباريس وطوكيو كما يشهد بذلك نقاد الفنون‬
».‫وخبراء التحف والمقتنيات الدولية‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬11 ،‫ البحرين‬،»‫«أخبار الخليج‬
“Says Venetia Porter, curator of Middle Eastern art
at the British Museum…‘There’s such an energy here.
It’s an art fair, but so much more. It’s where people
meet, learn: it’s a concentrated moment’. Porter’s
enthusiasm is echoed by Guggenheim director
Richard Armstrong when we meet at a hall dedicated
to Central Asian art, curated by art collective Slavs
and Tatars, which Armstrong describes as ‘fantastic’.
‘The fair is sufficiently complex,’ Armstrong says. ‘For
western visitors in particular, there’s a tremendous
amount of new information. The fair gives me access
to high-quality dealers and art that I wouldn’t have
time to see otherwise.’”
The Financial Times, United Kingdom, March 20, 2014
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Since 2007, Art Dubai has built up an
unparalleled reputation for hosting and
developing tours that facilitate networking and
shed light on the arts scenes of the regions,
with over half of the guests who attended this
year, and completed a survey conducted after
the fair, stating that the VIP Programme is
what sets Art Dubai apart from other fairs.
Guests are invited to join two tiers of VIP
Programming–from three to ten days, and
spanning the Gulf region–while Art Dubai’s
specialist International Relations team also
develops bespoke programmes for particular
groups and associations. We also welcome
guests to a series of year-round talks and
events, held in the UAE and in different cities
across the world.
The Collectors Circle is an invitation-only
association, developed specifically for
collectors and arts professionals. This exclusive
programme provides high-level, personalised
access to the arts scenes of the Gulf and
facilitates connections with collectors, artists
and curators of the Middle East and Asia.
The VIP Programme also welcomes arts
enthusiasts and younger collectors; events
each March include the Jumeirah Patrons
Preview, the night that celebrates the opening
of Art Dubai in style, at the fair’s home at
Madinat Jumeirah.
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Our Collectors Circle and VIP programmes
include:
.. invitations to private views and opening
nights of major gallery and museum
exhibitions across the Gulf
.. exclusive access to specialised talks
by world-renowned collectors and arts
professionals
.. visits to Gulf-based collectors’ homes and
tours of private collections
.. invitations to lunches, dinners and other
social occasions, bringing together unique
groups of artists, collectors and arts
professionals with sponsors, financiers,
ministers and other decision-makers
Selected Collectors’ Circle and VIP Programme
events in 2014:
.. two days in Doha, with tours led by leading
curators and museum directors of the
Museum of Islamic Art and collateral
exhibitions, plus a dinner hosted by the
Qatar Museums Authority
.. first access to Art Dubai and an exclusive
preview of the gallery halls and artists’
projects, plus an invitation to The Abraaj
Group Lounge and preview of the 2014
Abraaj Group Art Prize hosted by CEO Arif
Naqvi
.. lunch at the Sharjah Art Foundation
hosted by HE Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi,
president and director of the Sharjah Art
Foundation and newly appointed curator of
the UAE Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2015
.. private tour of the Barjeel Foundation, led
by collector and columnist Sultan Sooud Al
Qassemi, and curator-led tours of Maraya
Art Centre
.. tour of Al Ain, hosted by renowned
culturalist and presidential advisor HE Zaki
Nusseibeh
.. tour of Masdar Institute of Science and
Technology—the world’s first graduate level
research-orientated university dedicated to
issues of sustainability—by Foster + Partners
.. specialised preview of Design Days Dubai—
Asia’s first design fair—led by fair director
Cyril Zammit
.. invitations to private dinners and parties,
including special evenings hosted by the
Alserkal family, Farhad Bakhtiar (in honour
of Reza Aramesh), Aida Mahmudova
(founder of YARAT Contemporary Art Space)
and the Samawi family
.. architectural tour of Dubai by locally-based
architect Richard Wagner
.. exclusive visits to collectors’ homes
including the private collections of Sultan
Sooud Al Qassemi, Jane and Kito de Boer and
Walid Kamhawi
.. artists’ studio visits including renowned
Emirati artists Abdelkader Al Rais, Hassan
Sharif and Mohammed Kazem, as well as
guided tours of Dubai’s gallery districts
.. the exclusive Art Dubai Ladies Lunch hosted
by Cartier
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MUSEUM GROUPS
Art Dubai specialises in collaborating
with the world’s major museums, arts
institutions and associations to organise
bespoke tours for curators and patrons.
Taking in key exhibitions and events, and
incorporating visits to artists’ studios, plus
special talks and presentations, the Gulfwide tours typically include Doha, Dubai,
Sharjah and Abu Dhabi, and feature the
unrivalled, personal hospitality of Gulfbased patrons, artists and cultural leaders.
In 2014, Art Dubai hosted over 400 leading
museum directors and institutional
curators, plus over 70 museum groups–
more than any other art fair, worldwide.
artdubai.ae/vip-programme
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KEY INSTITUTIONAL GUESTS
..Aga Khan Museum Canada
..Association pour la Diffusion Internationale de l'Art Français France
..Agence France-Muséums - Louvre Abu Dhabi France
..Andy Warhol Society Slovakia
..Arab World Institute France
..Architectural Association School of Architecture United Kingdom
..Arts Council England United Kingdom
..Asia Art Archive Hong Kong
..Asia Society India Centre in Mumbai India
..Association of Yale Alumni United States
..Carnegie Museum of Art United States
..Caspian Arts Foundation United Kingdom
..Centre Pompidou France
..Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Australia
..Davis Museum at Wellesley College United States
..Delfina Foundation United Kingdom
..Emdash Foundation United Kingdom
..Fondation Cartier France
..Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo Spain
..Guerlain Foundation France
..Guggenheim Museum United States
..Hammer Museum United States
..Harvard Alumni Association United States
..Haus der Kunst Germany
..Henry Gallery Association United States
..Hinterland Austria
..Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Turkey
..Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts Jordan
..Kandinsky Foundation Russia
..Kunsthalle Basel Switzerland
..La Fugue France
.L'association
.
des Amis du CAPC musée d'art contemporain de
Bordeaux France
..Leal Rios Foundation Portugal
..Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) United States
..Ludwig Museum Hungary
..M+ Museum Hong Kong
..Mansouria Foundation Saudi Arabia
..Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art Qatar
..Multimedia Art Museum Moscow Russia
..Musée National d'Art Moderne France
..Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma (MACRO) Italy
..Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes Belgium
..Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) United States
..Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai China
..Museum of Fine Arts Houston United States
..Museum of Islamic Art Qatar
..Museum of Modern Art Antwerp Belgium
..Museum of Old and New Art Australia
..Museum of the Americas United States
..Museum Villa Stuck Germany
..National Museum of Decorative Arts France
..Orientalist Museum Qatar
..Palais de Tokyo France
..Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art United Kingdom
..Qatar Foundation Qatar
..Qatar Museums Authority Qatar
..Royal Academy United Kingdom
..SAHA Association Turkey
..Sala 1 centro internazionale d'arte contemporanea Italy
..Samdani Foundation Bangladesh
..Schwartz Foundation Australia
..Sharjah Art Foundation United Arab Emirates
..Société des Amis du Musée national d'art modern France
..Sotheby's Institute of Art United States
..Tate Modern United Kingdom
..Tate Young Patrons United Kingdom
..The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture Lebanon
..The Art Institute of Chicago United States
..The British Museum United Kingdom
..The Manchester Museums United Kingdom
..The Metropolitan Museum of Art United States
..The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) United States
..The New Museum United States
..The Olbricht Collection Germany
..The Serpentine Gallery United Kingdom
..The University of Hong Kong Museum Society Hong Kong
..Victoria & Albert Museum United Kingdom
..Whitechapel United Kingdom
..Whitney Museum United States
..YinChuan Museum of Contemporary Art China
..Zurich Art Museum Switzerland
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MARKETING AND OUTREACH
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DESIGN
Art Dubai takes a particularly innovative
approach to its branding. Each year, we work
with guest artists to build a photographic and
design campaign around our bilingual logo and
identity, developed by Kemistry Design.
The 2014 campaign is based on a collection of
various images from previous editions of Art
Dubai. Through a unique play of silhouettes,
shadows, angles and colours, this series of
imagery formed a web of interlacing stories
that reflected a visual narrative of the fair’s
journey and experience. The 2014 visual identity
appears throughout Art Dubai’s advertising
campaign and marketing collateral, revealing
an imaginative interplay of perception and
relationships between visitors, artworks,
galleries and so on.
Art Dubai’s gallery halls design was advised by
Ibda Design, an international architecture, urban
and interior design practice based in Dubai with
collaboration offices in Beirut and Tokyo.
The Absolut Art Bar at this year’s fair was
conceptualised and devised by Dubai-based art
and designer collective Caravan. Titled ‘A Grain
of Sand’, Caravan reflected on the surrounding
environment, creating a desert landscape from
recycled corrugated cardboard and other paper
materials, which flowed into one another,
making organic, nature inspired shapes.
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Press
Art Dubai 2014 featured a particularly strong
turnout by and support from the media, with
the highest-ever recorded attendance at the fair
press conference. Over 400 journalists, writers
and art critics, from the UAE and around the
world, attended the eighth edition of the fair.
Art Dubai also hosted an in-depth press trip
that included 65 key international media
representatives; their bespoke programme
covered the UAE, taking in Design Days Dubai,
Galleries Nights in the industrial quarter
of Al Quoz and at Gate Village in the Dubai
International Financial Centre, Sikka and
exhibitions in Sharjah, including at the Sharjah
Art Foundation, Maraya Art Centre and Barjeel
Art Foundation.
Art Dubai and its various programmes, across
its three gallery halls–Contemporary, Modern
and Marker–as well as the fair’s not-for-profit
programming including Art Dubai Projects,
the Global Art Forum, Art Dubai Film and The
Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program were all
previewed, covered and reviewed in over 900
articles between April 2013 and April 2014.
Art Dubai's in-house PR team collaborated
with three PR agencies to maximise its global
outreach to media:
.. ASDAA’ Burson-Marsteller
UAE, GCC and Lebanon
.. John Varoli PR
Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus
.. Victoria Cheung Communications
China, Taiwan and Hong Kong
artdubai.ae/media
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KEY PRESS ATTENDANCE
.Agence
.
France Presse TV France
.Ahram
.
Online Egypt
.Ahram
.
Gate Egypt
.Ajam
.
Media Collective Online
.Akhbar
.
Al Khaleej Bahrain
.Al
. Akhbar Lebanon
.AFP
.
France
.Annahar
.
Lebanon
.Arab
.
News Saudi Arabia
.Al
. Arabiya Saudi Arabia
.Art
. & Collection Taiwan
.Art
. Agenda United States
.Art
. Bank China
.Art
. Chronika Russia
.Artnet
.
USA
.The
.
Art Newspaper United Kingdom
.Art
. Papers United States
.Art
. Review United Kingdom
.Art
. Unlimited Magazine Turkey
.Art+Auction
.
United States
.ArtAsiaPacific
.
Hong Kong
.ArtEconomy24
.
Italy
.ARTFORUM
.
United States
.ARTINFO
.
United States
.ARTINFO
.
India
.Asharq
.
Al Awsat Pan Arab
.ATV
.
Azerbaijian
.Australian
.
Art Collector Australia
.Al
. Bayan UAE
.BBC
.
United Kingdom
.Bloomberg
.
News United States
.Brownbook
.
UAE
.The
.
Calvert Journal United Kingdom
.CANS
.
Magazine Taiwan
.Canvas
.
UAE
.CNN
.
United States
.Contemporary
.
& Germany
.The
.
Daily Star Lebanon
.DAMn
.
Belgium
.Deutschlandradio
.
Germany
.Die
. Presse Austria
.Die
. Welt Germany
.Die
. Zeit Germany
.Dubai
.
One UAE
.Dubai
.
TV UAE
.Emarat
.
Al Youm UAE
.Emirates
.
24/7 UAE
.Euronews
.
Pan Europe
.Les
. Echos France
.The
.
Economic Observer China
.Le
. Figaro France
.The
.
Financial Times United Kingdom
.France
.
24 France
.Frankfurter
.
Allgemeine Zeitung Germany
.The
.
Guardian United Kingdom
.The
.
Guardian Nigeria
.Gulf
.
News UAE
.Handelsblatt
.
Germany
.Harper’s
.
Bazaar Art China
.Harper’s
.
Bazaar Art UAE
.hART
.
Belgium
.Al
. Hayat Pan Arab
.The
.
Hindu India
.Hindustan
.
Times India
.Hong
.
Kong Economic Times Hong Kong
.The
.
Huffington Post United States
.Hyperallergic
.
United States
.IBRAAZ
.
United Kingdom
.Al
. Ittihad UAE
.The
.
Jakarta Globe Indonesia
.Al
. Jazirah Saudi Arabia
.Le
. Journal des Arts France
.Al
. Khaleej UAE
.Khaleej
.
Times UAE
.Kommersant
.
Russia
.Kommersant
.
FM Russia
.Kunstforum
.
Germany
.Leap
.
China
.Al
. Madina Saudi Arabia
.Mashallah
.
News Lebanon
.MBC
.
Pan Arab
.Le
. Monde France
.Monocle
.
United States
.Mousse
.
Italy
.Al
. Mustaqbal Lebanon
.The
.
National UAE
.The
.
New York Times United States
.Novosti
.
Kazakhstan
.Nukta
.
Art Pakistan
.Ocula
.
United Kingdom
.L’Officiel
.
Art France
.El
. Paris Spain
.Al
. Quds Al Arabi Pan Arab
.Le
. Quotidien de l’Art France
.Al
. Rai Jordan
.Al
. Rai Kuwait
.Al
. Roeya UAE
.Roads
.
and Kingdoms Spain / United States
.Assafir
.
Lebanon
.Sama
.
Dubai UAE
.South
.
China Morning Post Hong Kong
.Voice
.
of Russia Russia
.Ria
. Novosti Ukraine
.Al
. Watan Kuwait
.Al
. Watan UAE
.The
.
Washington Post United States
.Al
. Yaum Saudi Arabia
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Recherchez sur Les Echos
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CONNEXION
NEWS
FRANCE
INTERNATIONAL
INDUSTRIE - SERVICES
26%
BOURSE
INDUSTRIE-SERVICES
TECH
PATRIMOINE
MÉDIAS
BUSINESS
FINANCE-MARCHÉS
TV
ART & LIF
RÉGIONS
IDÉES
PRINT AND WEB READERSHIP
The combined reader circulation and online
unique visits for media that covered Art Dubai
2014 is 15.6 million.*
PRESS COVERAGE
A total of 917 feature articles and broadcasts
from around the world covered Art Dubai 2014,
with a breakdown of 506 international and 411
from the Arab world.
3%
INSCRIPTION
SERVICES DISTRIBUTION
ACTUALITÉS
SERVICES DISTRIBUTION
En huit ans, la Foire Art Dubaï a
conquis ses lettres de noblesse
sur le marché
24%
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16%
20%
Art Dubaï, qui ferme ses portes dimanche, a réuni 85 galeries
de 34 pays représentés. La Foire présente des œuvres plus
ambitieuses et pèse une quarantaine de millions de dollars.
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EUROPE
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REST OF ASIA
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AND THE CAUCASUS
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MARKETING
BROADCAST REACH
Art Dubai 2014 was featured on several
television broadcast and radio channels
including Euronews–the most watched
channel in Europe–Bloomberg, and France 24.
The combined global reach of broadcast and
radio channels that covered Art Dubai
reaches over 1.007 billion households around
the world.
ART DUBAI WEBSITE
Art Dubai’s website features comprehensive
information about the fair’s programmes,
individual pages for participating galleries,
as well as an extensive photo gallery. It is
updated regularly, and constitutes an easily
accessible source of information for the fair.
Voice of Russia
Available in 160 countries
38 languages
109 million listeners
ART DUBAI NEWSLETTER
An e-newsletter is sent out every month,
announcing news and upcoming events,
to Art Dubai’s database of over 35,000
contacts–from collectors, patrons and
museum directors to artists, journalists and
art enthusiasts.
CNN
Reaches 200+ million households
Hotel rooms in over 200 countries
EURONEWS
Reaches 400 million households
13 different languages
Most watched channel in Europe
FRANCE 24
3 different languages
CCTV
artdubai.ae
E-FLUX AND ART AGENDA
ANNOUNCEMENTS
E-flux and Art Agenda announcements
are news digests, part of an international
network, which reaches more than 90,000
visual art professionals. Between April 2013
and 2014, Art Dubai made 6 announcements
promoting the various programmes of its
eighth edition using this service.
RADIO
Along with regular slots on Dubai Eye 103.8FM
and an appearance on the ‘Business Breakfast
Show’, Art Dubai is also featured through a
weekly programme titled ‘Book of Lee’ hosted
by Art Dubai’s Lee Xie highlighting art-related
events, initiatives and news from the region
and beyond.
Dubai Eye serves an audience of more than
91,000 listeners across the UAE.
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MEDIA PARTNERSHIPS
Art Dubai partnered with 78 different media—
print, online and broadcast—to promote
the eighth edition of the fair through an
extensive international advertising campaign.
The campaign ran from June 2013 to March
2014, and featured over 120 advertisement
placements.
ADVERTISING
Art Dubai’s outreach spans advertising in
online and print publications of specialised
art press including Artforum and The Art
Newspaper, through to public outreach
campaigns. The latter included a partnership
with Emirates Neon Group featuring
outdoor billboards around the city as well
as advertising on 300 Roads and Transport
Authority (RTA) Public Dubai Taxis.
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KEY MEDIA PARTNERS
.Agenda
.
Culturel Lebanon
.Ahram
.
Online Egypt
.The
.
Art Newspaper United Kingdom
.ArtAsiaPacific
.
Hong Kong
.Artnet
.
United States
.Artpress
.
France
.Art
. South Africa South Africa
.Bidoun
.
United States
.Broadsheet
.
Australia
.Brownbook
.
UAE
.Canvas
.
UAE
.The
.
Carton Lebanon
.Depart
.
Bangladesh
.Elephant
.
Holland
.Harper’s
.
Bazaar Art UAE
.The
.
International New York Times United States*
.Kalamon
.
Lebanon
.Kaleidoscope
.
Italy
.Motherland
.
India
.Mousse
.
Italy
.Portal
.
9 Lebanon
.Sleek
.
Germany
.T
. Qatar Qatar
.THAT
.
Turkey
The aggregate reader circulation of
Media Partners is 4.2 million
*The International New York Times (INYT) was the 2014
International Media Partner of Global Art Forum. Printed
worldwide in 38 sites, INYT has a circulation of 242,073 and is
sold in more than 160 countries. The partnership with the Forum
consisted of a range of advertising pages in both regional and
international editions of the newspaper and its magazines.
The total social media following of
Media Partners is 24.4 million
The total number of website visits
of Media Partners is more than
12.9 million
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SOCIAL MEDIA
ART DUBAI BLOG
The Art Dubai Blog is a platform that shares and promotes
exhibitions, projects, new work and ideas from the Middle
East, South Asia and beyond. It is updated on a regular basis
and features reviews, interviews, photo essays, artists’
projects, studio visits, diaries and more. Special series include
a focus on Ramadan each year, in which we invite members
of the global Art Dubai network to contribute images and
texts, reflecting on the holy month in their corner of the world.
Taking a playful and behind the-scenes approach, each week
the blog also invites a guest to create a Mixtape of favourite
tunes that inspire or contribute to their working life.
Contributors to the blog have included: writers Oscar
Guardiola-Rivera and Marisa Mazria Katz; photographers
Amanda Vincelli and Hind Mezaina; designer and photographer
Katrin Greiling; cultural historian Shiva Balaghi; Caspian
Arts Foundation founder Nina Mahdavi; author Guy
Mannes-Abbott; artists Huma Mulji, Rayyane Tabet,
Hind Bin Demaithan, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Emeka Ogboh,
Hrair Sarkissian, Vartan Avakian, Raja’a Khalid, Marlon de
Azambuja; presenter/producer Fari Bradley; curators Bisi Silva,
Nav Haq, Nat Muller, and Alia Swastika; designers Dina Khalifé,
Mobius Design, Zena Adhami and many more.
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Twitter Followers
FOLLOWERS: 45,898
TWEETS: 6,523
Facebook Fans
FANS: 57,514 FROM 45 COUNTRIES
5%
12%
21%
33%
20%
1%
3%
26%
31%
11%
3%
28%
Figures accurate
at time of print,
April 2014
ART DUBAI 57,514
REGIONAL
Abu Dhabi Art
Contemporary Istanbul India Art Fair
Beirut Art Fair
15,381
11,866
6,021
3,077
INTERNATIONAL
Art Basel (BASEL, HONG KONG, MIAMI)
FIAC
The Armory Show
Frieze London
Frieze New York
266,410
44,140
21,322
20,181
19,591
UAE
MIDDLE EAST
EUROPE
REST OF ASIA
6%
ART DUBAI
45,898
REGIONAL
Contemporary Istanbul
Abu Dhabi Art
Beirut Art Fair
11,900
4,604
1,765
INTERNATIONAL
Art Basel (BASEL, HONG KONG, MIAMI) Frieze London
The Armory Show
Frieze New York
FIAC
119,000
81,000
39,300
22,500
17,700
AMERICAS
AFRICA
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AUSTRALIA
twitter.com/artdubai
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OUTREACH
Year-round, our Board of Patrons and other
friends and colleagues host private dinners
and events, bringing together like-minded
patrons, sponsors, gallerists and artists, both
in the Gulf and across the world.
Art Dubai organises events to promote
the fair and its collateral events to various
audiences, from media to galleries, art
collectors and patrons. In 2013-14, these
events included:
.. Art Dubai Patrons’ and Friends’ Breakfast
Reception at The Villandry, London, Oct 2013
.. Young Collectors’ and Art Patrons’
Reception at The Arts Club, London, Jan 2014
.. Art Dubai UAE Press Briefing (for over 40
key print, online, TV and radio journalists),
Dubai, Jan 2014
.. Collectors Circle Sundowners at Comptoir
102, Dubai, Feb 2013
.. Art Dubai 2013 Preview Presentation for
the American Women’s Association at the
Westin Hotel, Dubai, Feb 2013
.. Art Dubai 2014 Preview Presentation during
Jeddah Art Week, Jeddah, Feb 2014
.. Art Dubai 2014 Global Art Forum Press
Briefing in Doha (for 30 journalists and art
professionals), Doha, Feb 2014
In addition to our international PR events,
Art Dubai was represented by members of its
team at major international art and culture
events throughout the year:
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Art Brussels Brussels, Apr 2013
Homeworks Beirut, Apr 2013
Art Basel Hong Kong Hong Kong, May 2013
Art Athina Athens, May 2013
Venice Biennale Venice, Jun 2013
Art Miami Basel Basel, Jun 2013
Auckland Art Fair Auckland, Aug 2013
Art International Istanbul Sep 2013
Istanbul Biennial Istanbul, 2013
Art Moscow Moscow, Sep 2013
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Moscow, Sep 2013
Frieze London, Oct 2013
FIAC Paris, Oct 2013
KIAF Seoul, Oct 2013
1:54 London, Oct 2013
Art Basel, Miami Beach Miami, Dec 2013
Biennale Jogja Jogja, Dec 2013
Art Stage Singapore Singapore, Jan 2014
Dhaka Art Summit Dhaka Feb 2014
Jeddah Art Week Jeddah, Feb 2014
March Meeting Sharjah, Mar 2014
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ART DUBAI PROGRAMME
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‫العالمي‬
‫ ما كان لهذه التظاهرة أن تتوفر على هذا الطابع‬،‫«بداية‬
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ّ
‫محلية قابلة‬
‫الفريد لوال تموضعها مثل جزيرة عالمية ضمن بيئة‬
‫ وفي اآلن نفسه توظيف كل ذلك الستيعاب‬،‫الستيعاب اآلخر‬
ً
ً
».‫وإبداعا‬
‫تأثيرا‬
‫فنون الخليج العربي وامكانياتها المتزايدة‬
“First of all, such a phenomenal event wouldn’t
have had a unique international identity unless it is
situated, as a global island, in a local environment
which is capable of accepting the other and, at
the same time, willing to invest in and accept arts
from the Arab Gulf with their growing capacities in
creativity and influence.”
‫أعماال‬
‫«وتعتبر هذه الدورة األكثر عالمية حتى اآلن الستضافتها‬
ً
‫ ما سمح للمتلقي التعرف‬،‫ فنان من حول العالم‬500 ‫ألكثر من‬
‫ وساعد في تقارب‬،‫ ومناهج فنية متعددة‬،‫على تجارب جديدة‬
».‫الثقافات والحضارات‬
“This year’s edition of Art Dubai is the most global
to date; it hosted works of more than 500 artists
from all around the world giving audience the
opportunity to get to know new experiences and
several art disciplines, plus bridging cultures and
civilisations.”
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“The Art Dubai team seems to make the most
of every opportunity that a commercial fair in
a burgeoning art scene can provide, building a
non-profit programme that stretches from newly
commissioned works in incubus stages to a series
of public talks, radio station, book launches and
performances.”
Fat Nancy’s New Diet (Blog), March 25, 2014
‫«ولقد أصبح معرض فنون دبي من العالمات البارزة على الخارطة‬
‫الدولية لمعارض الفنون التشكيلية بالرغم من مرور سبعة أعوام‬
‫ ولدول مجلس التعاون الخليجي وعشاق‬.‫فقط على افتتاحه‬
‫الفن واالبداع التشكيلي في العالم العربي االعتزاز بهذا الحدث‬
‫الثقافي الذي أصبح احتفالية فنية بارزة تنافس العروض الكبرى‬
‫في كل من ميالنو وباريس وطوكيو كما يشهد بذلك نقاد‬
».‫الفنون وخبراء التحف والمقتنيات الدولية‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬11 ،‫ البحرين‬، »‫«أخبار الخليج‬
“Although Art Dubai has just turned 8, it has become
a milestone on the international art fairs map.
GCC and Arab world visual arts enthusiasts have
the right to pride themselves with this exceptional
festivity of arts that competes other big shows in
Milan, Tokyo and Paris as admitted by critics and
international experts in art collection.”
Akhbar Al Kaleej, Bahrain, March 11, 2014
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Art Dubai has the strongest not-for-profit
programme of any art fair, worldwide. Our
educational initiatives, artists’ projects and
talks programmes aim to:
..Nurture and develop the local arts scene,
providing UAE-based galleries and artists
with an international platform
..Give opportunities to young people in the
Gulf to get involved and build their careers in
the arts
..Enable upcoming artists from across the
Middle East and Asia to produce original
projects, supporting their careers and
enhancing their practice
..Develop a culture of debate and the sharing
of knowledge, skills and expertise through
educational initiatives and innovative talks
programmes
..Reflect on the global economic and cultural
shift taking place towards the East, drawing
on Dubai’s unique position at the centre of
East-East, South-South dialogue
artdubai.ae/programme
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“As always, diversity is the mark of this slate
of projects.”
The Daily Star, Lebanon, March 21, 2014
“It’s only fitting that artworks play to the
stereotype of the city. Yet the fair itself is telling
another, lesser-known story. Dubai is becoming a
place that welcomes artists like Sunoj, funded by
the fair, to create.”
March 20, 2014
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ART DUBAI PROJECTS
Art Dubai Projects invites upcoming and
established artists, predominantly from Asia
and the Middle East, to create new works at
the fair. Artists are encouraged to engage
audiences and interact with the fair, its
economy and format, embracing the theatrical
nature of the event.
The programme illustrates the role that
an art fair can play in the local community:
this year’s programme was extraordinarily
collaborative, featuring partnerships with
foundations and institutions including Al
Barari, Alserkal Avenue Arts District, Art
Salon, the British Council, Delfina Foundation,
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and
Tashkeel, while the A.i.R Dubai residency
programme brought in new voices to the arts
scene and facilitated the exchange of ideas,
technique and experience.
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.. Allows leading curators and gallerists to discover new work
by upcoming artists from the region
.. Provides international and Emirati artists with opportunities
for exchange–of skills, expertise and ideas–in the context of
the UAE
.. Supports and nurtures artists from the Middle East and Asia
through residencies and commissions, and in the production
of new work–essential for their career development
.. Presents new, dynamic and themed artists’ projects and
performances to a global audience of arts professionals,
critics and enthusiasts through the platform of Art Dubai
.. Encourages the participation and development of local
audiences through interactive, participatory projects
.. Pushes the boundaries of what an art fair can be, positioning
Art Dubai as the most innovative of arts events – grounded
in the Gulf, yet of global significance
Artists commissioned to create new works for Art Dubai
Projects 2014 ranged from: UAE pioneer Najat Makki to
upcoming Emirati artists Maitha Demithan, Sara Al Haddad
and Maryam Al Qassimi; India-based artist Sunoj D and
collective Clark House Initiative; as well as artists from the
region and beyond including Nadia Ayari, Youmna Chlala,
Shuruq Harb, Amina Menia, Mounira Al Solh and Hajra
Waheed. The artists worked with UAE/New York-based
curator Fawz Kabra to develop their projects.
artdubai.ae/art-dubai-projects
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ً
ً
‫ديناميكيا هو اجتماع عوامل‬
‫حدثا‬
‫«وما جعل من هذه الظاهرة‬
‫تتلخص فيها‬
ّ
‫عديدة أهمها انه نشأ وتواصل مع بيئة ثقافية‬
ً
‫عموما بحيث استطاع خلق‬
‫خصائص المدينة والخليج العربي‬
‫بيئة تحتية واسعة من مراكز فنية وثقافية وصاالت عرض‬
‫تشكيل وسينما ومسرح ومتاحف ترفدها طبقة وسطى متعلمة‬
‫ واستطاعت ادارة التظاهرة تلمس اشكاليات ثقافية‬،‫وغنية‬
‫سرة جغرافية‬
ّ ‫حول المكان الى‬
ّ ‫وفنية وتفاعلت معها بذكاء مما‬
‫ الهند وايران والعراق‬:‫تتوازن وتتنافس فيها حواضر آسيا الكبرى‬
‫وسوريا مع بلدان المعسكر السوفييتي السابق وحواضر الغرب‬
‫حرك المركزية الغربية عن مكانها وحفز‬
ّ ‫ مما‬،‫وافريقيا وامريكا‬
‫ في عمل‬،‫حراكات مماثلة في الدوحة وابو ظبي والرياض وجدة‬
‫ي يغير بهدوء وحكمة القوالب الثقافية الراسخة بقوة الجذب‬
ّ ‫ثور‬
‫ وهي مقاربة عربية جديدة‬،‫ي ال بالمدافع والطائرات‬
ّ ‫الحضار‬
».‫لتطوير الثقافة بمعناها العميق‬
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“And what makes this event dynamic is a mixture
of factors; predominantly, the fact that it arose from
and communicated with a cultural environment that
generally sums up the city’s and the Arabian Gulf’s
characteristics. Art Dubai was able to create around
itself a large infrastructure of art and cultural
centres, galleries, cinemas, theatres and museums
always attended by rich educated middle class
audience. Astutely, organisers succeeded in grasping
and interacting with cultural and artistic issues
which have turned the space into a geographic hub
for larger Asia centres (India, Iran, Iraq and Syria)
to balance and compete with post-Soviet states
and centres of the West and Africa. As a result, the
western centralism was shifted from its place and
similar activities are now starting to take place in
Doha, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah implying a
revolutionary action that will wisely and gently
change the rigid cultural models using the power of
civilizational attraction rather than canons and jet
fighters; the new Arabic approach to develop culture
in deepest sense.”
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The critically-acclaimed, interactive programme featured:
.. Selfie Booth, WC - an asymmetrical sculpture set in the public
bathrooms at the fair that doubled as an armature for New
York-based Tunisian artist Nadia Ayari’s fresco paintings.
The piece interfered with the fait-accomplis of contemporary
modes of art consumption while celebrating their focus on
‘thing-ness’, prompting audiences to take ‘selfies’ in front of
her installation.
.. The Desire Path - New York-based Lebanese artist Youmna
Chlala’s garden that welcomed visitors on their arrival to
the fair, was an intervention into the movement and flow
of bodies at Art Dubai. The installation reactivated the site
by inserting an untamed path to be negotiated both at the
threshold and throughout the fair; the basic act of walking
reimagined through intuition, impulse and calculation.
.. The Kinematic Modern - located at Art Dubai Modern, a
fictional narration via installation of Mumbai-based collective
Clark House Initiative's study of modernism through Indian
Modernist and Contemporary art and Cinema, working with
artist Justin Ponmany to make visual links between various
Indian Modernists.
.. Zero to the right - a sound project which commented on
the various paradigms of money, trade and commerce that
permeate Dubai’s social structure, in the context of artist
Sunoj D’s region, Kerala, where the economy and social
status is driven by its many migrants to the Middle East
and the money they make there. The artist converted his
production budget into Dirhams and Indian Rupees vocalising
numbers individually and creating a meditative quality to the
acts of both reciting and listening to these numbers.
.. Live Portraiture - a live scanning booth by Emirati artist
Maitha Demithan who invited visitors and participants of
Art Dubai to enter the space and volunteer parts of their
body (face, hand, foot) to be scanned. Collected images
were stitched together to form a singular portrait of the fair
audience, absorbing the individual’s distinctive character as
the consumer is consumed.
.. therefore; thereafter - a site-specific installation by Emirati
artist Sara Al Haddad that intervened with the architecture
of a stairwell and was motivated by notions of material
value, time and memory. The work was created using balls
of plastic yarn to transform the space, leaving behind the
aftermath of the repetitive and durational act of crochet.
.. Postulant Angels: The Unofficial Catalogue of Paul Klee
- an intervention within the Art Dubai Catalogue and the
Art Dubai Modern foyer by Palestinian artist Shuruq Harb,
which unveiled a series of paintings and drawings, along
with correspondences, documents and requests for the
authentication of potential works by Paul Klee, one of the
early masters of Modern Art. This year marked an important
shift at Art Dubai with the inclusion of Art Dubai Modern
and comes at a time where the influence of Modern Art
and its history in the region is something that is still being
investigated, historicised, contested and re-written.
.. A Story of Currency - an installation by Emirati artist Dr
Najat Makki that drew on the histories of antique coins found
in the Gulf region; at once, a currency, a form of cultural
identity and a means of communications, reaffirming power
through symbol and portraiture. Makki further expanded
on these histories through her paintings, influenced by the
narratives behind these various antique currencies.
.. The Crying Stone - a tribute by Algerian artist Amina Menia
to a traveling stone, extracted in Marseilles, crossing by
boat to Algiers to be used for construction of social housing,
and continuing through to Dubai. A pretext for rethinking
the global contemporary world and the speed at which
we live, this self-reflecting stone was a symbol for the
building common destinies as it breathed in and reflected
various realities, continuously shaped by time as it provoked
questions of economy, communication, migration and work.
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.. Re:purpose - the grandiose bakhour sculptures at Madinat
Jumeirah which were ‘activated’ by Emirati artist Maryam
Al Qassimi as a performative gesture intended to recognise
the absurdity and artifice in the branding of culture and
return function back to arbitrary objects, turned decorative
sculpture, deemed as cultural icons.
.. Clogged - an installation, interaction and performance
by Syrian artist Mounira Al Solh that prompted Art Dubai
visitors to borrow the typical Syrian bath clog in exchange for
their art fair shoes. Through a reversal of the gaze, the work,
the clog, functioned as a mediator, as a detail in a political
Syrian crisis, a low witness, stuck to the ground, and as an
audible performance, the wearer click-clacking against the
ground as they roam the fair.
.. CHARACTER 1: IN THE ROUGH - a performance that took
place each night of the fair on an abra in the middle of the
Madinat Jumeirah lake. Using light, shadow and found
objects, Montreal-based Hajra Waheed’s floating lantern
narrated another chapter in the artist’s ongoing body of work
Sea Change that stitches back a story on the missing and the
missed, glimpsing into the fragments of ourselves we leave
behind, and the offerings we make to all those along the way.
An MA graduate of Bard College, Art Dubai Projects 2014
curator Fawz Kabra is a writer and curator currently living in
New York. Fawz previously curated public programmes at the
Cultural District, Abu Dhabi (2011), and co-curated the ongoing
project Brief Histories, Sharjah (2011), and worked for WS: Paul
McCarthy at the Park Avenue Armory, New York (2013). She is
an editorial correspondent for Ibraaz.
Art Dubai Projects 2014 was supported by Alserkal Avenue Arts
District and Art Salon.
Art Dubai 2014 Projects artist Youmna Chlala’s installation was
supported by Al Barari.
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A.I.R DUBAI
For the last three years, Art Dubai has
partnered with Delfina Foundation, Dubai
Culture and Arts Authority and Tashkeel on
Artists-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai, an annual
residency programme which gives Emirati
and international artists and curators the
opportunity to be based in Al Fahidi Historical
Neighbourhood (formerly known as Al
Bastakiya), in Dubai.
Through an open call for Emirati artists and a
nomination process for international artists,
the three-month residency, designed for
artists and a guest curator, culminates in an
Open Studios exhibition, held parallel to SIKKA
Art Fair, an artist-led fair run by Dubai Culture,
as well as projects at Art Dubai each March.
A.i.R Dubai supports artists by providing
a platform to develop their practice and
create new work, while facilitating exchange
between the artists, the local communities,
and the broader cultural landscape.
Furthermore, the curator-in-residence
position gives an upcoming practitioner the
opportunity to write, research and cultivate
ideas for future projects that engage with the
regional artistic sphere. The programme also
aims to nurture and encourage intercultural
dialogue through contemporary art.
A.i.R Dubai 2014 featured five artists from
across the Middle East and Asia: Nadia
Ayari, Sunoj D, Maitha Demithan, Sara
Al Haddad and Maryam Al Qassimi, who
worked alongside curator-in-residence İpek
Ulusoy Akgül.
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FILM
Art Dubai Film is a programme of video and
film by and about artists. Besides video
artworks shown in the gallery booths, the
fair’s long-term commitment to showing
artists' video and film has included the ‘Art
Park’, curated by Bidoun Projects, and ‘The
Hatch’, a stairwell screen showing artists’ film
and video in curated, thematic programmes.
In 2014, the fair programme included
a cinema space at the fair featuring
films, plus a screening in Sharjah Mirage
City Cinema.
The film programme included:
.. Middle East premiere of Towards the Possible Film (2014)
- set on the beaches of Sidi Ifni in Morocco, London-based
artist Shezad Dawood’s film saw a tribal group savagely
attack blue-skinned astronauts who arrive on earth from
space; formally enacting and contextually engaging with
anthropological concepts of indigenousness and the politics
of language and translation through the prismatic genre of
science fiction.
.. A Space of Celebration (2009) – against the backdrop
of a Summer ‘wedding season’, Russian artist Taus
Makhacheva’s film highlighted a new culture of
celebration, through which, the architecture, execution and
organisation of a wedding event itself, embodies a “secular”
interpretation of traditions today.
.. The Stuart Hall Project (2013) - a lyrical archive-based
documentary, by John Akomfrah, as seen through the life
of one of Europe’s foremost radical intellectuals, Professor
Stuart Hall. Narrated by Hall from public interviews and
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broadcasts he made over sixty years on TV and radio,
Akomfrah opened up multiple doors and chapters of
international history for closer inspection, creating an
impressionistic journey through time and space refracted
through Hall’s life and ideas.
Film screenings were accompanied by an evening of
conversation between Dawood and writer and critic
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, as well as a conversation between
Makhacheva and Ibraaz managing editor Stephanie Bailey.
MOVING IMAGES
‘Moving Images’, a new partnership between Dubai
International Film Festival, Sharjah Art Foundation and
Art Dubai, dedicated to artists’ films and filmmakers’ art,
was launched in 2013. Exploring the intersection between
art and film, ‘Moving Images’ aims to increase access to,
and the understanding of, artists’ films; support artists and
filmmakers from the Arab world through new opportunities;
and debate existing and future models for funding and
distribution through the UAE and beyond.
The programme marks the first such initiative in the Arab
world and began with a discussion in December, part of Dubai
Film Market’s talks programme, involving speakers from
across the worlds of art and film. The partnership continued
throughout the year, with screenings in Dubai and Sharjah,
including at the Art Dubai Cinema during the fair in March.
Shezad Dawood's and John Akomfrah's presence at Art Dubai
was kindly supported by the British Council.
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RADIO
Falgoosh Radio returned to Art Dubai in
2014. Curated and programmed by UK-based
sound artists Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver,
this dynamic project invited fair visitors to
observe the (normally hidden) process of
radio production, and listen-in live at the fair.
Elsewhere and anywhere, listeners could tune
in to a continual schedule of interviews and
discussions with fair participants, plus sound
works and fringe DJ sets commissioned by Six
Pillars especially for this year’s fair.
Building on the experience of the 2013
project, Falgoosh Radio 2014 moved towards
a self-generative model, with peer-to-peer
interviews and discussions. Fair participants
invited to take part included: artists James
Clar, Shezad Dawood, Abdulnasser Gharem,
Samia Halaby, Waqas Khan, Lucien Samaha
and Slavs and Tatars; gallerists Robert Goff,
Rose Issa, Asmaa Al Shabibi; LACMA curator
Linda Komaroff and Maraya Arts Centre’s
Dana Al Sadek; as well as Art Dubai interns
and Global Art Forum speakers through
highlights from the 2014 sessions.
Fari Bradley's and Chris Weaver's presence at Art Dubai was
kindly supported by the British Council.
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THE ABRAAJ GROUP
ART PRIZE
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،‫«وتم اختيار الفائزين من قبل لجنة من الخبراء والفنيين‬
‫ إذ تحول الفنانون‬،‫بناء على مقترحات العمل المكتوبة‬
‫الى كتّ اب يفتحون أفق المخيلة من خالل الكالم وليس‬
‫ فيالمسون‬،‫ ويعبرون عن أعمالهم من دون وسائط‬،‫التنفيذ‬
‫] ويبدو المعرض‬...[ ‫المستقبل من خالل هذا العمل‬
‫ فيتغلغل في‬،‫كأنه يدخل في حالة من العبث مع الذاكرة‬
‫الماضي وكل ما يحمله االنسان من آثار قد تتركها األشياء‬
».‫حمال على حياته وممارسته اآلنية‬
ً
2014 ‫ مارس‬20 ،‫ اإلمارات العربية المتحدة‬,»‫«اإلمارات اليوم‬
“Winners were selected by a committee of
art experts on the basis of submitted written
proposals; a mechanism that has turned artists
into writers conquering horizons of imagination
[…] which in turn were manifested in an
exhibition that seems to reflect on the dialectic
relation with memory and dig into the past
which carries all traces of what things left in
man’s life and temporary practices.”
Emarat El Youm, UAE, March 20, 2014
“A mutable thing since its inception six years
ago, the prize has always been lucrative. With
each artist receiving $100,000 to realize a piece,
[The Abraaj Group Art Prize] has afforded
emerging artists an chance to create more
ambitious work than usually possible in a region
where both state support and private patronage
of the arts are rare as hens’ teeth.”
Daily Star, Lebanon, March 2014
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The Abraaj Group Art Prize is the leading
award for artists based in the Middle East,
North Africa, and South Asia (MENASA)
region. Now in its sixth year, the prize
awards artists annually on the basis of
proposals rather than completed works or
previous exhibitions. The number of works
that have been created and go on to form
The Abraaj Group Art Collection has now
grown to 26.
Since its inception, the prize has evolved
considerably and the works are increasingly
exhibited in major international biennials—
including the Sharjah Biennial 11 and the
Biennale of Sydney—and world-class
museums—such as the Victoria and Albert
Museum, London and the Smithsonian
Museum of Asian Art, Washington D.C.
The prize reflects The Abraaj Group’s wider
investment philosophy, which is to take
viable businesses with great potential, and
create regional and global champions.
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The 2014 Abraaj Group Art Prize winners
were: Abbas Akhavan, Kamrooz Aram,
Bouchra Khalili, Basim Magdy and Anup
Mathew Thomas. Their works were exhibited
at Art Dubai in an exhibition entitled ‘Garden
and Spring’, conceived by guest curator Nada
Raza who worked closely with the artists as
their projects evolved.
The exhibition was accompanied
by an innovative digital publication
(gardenandspring.com), designed by
Michael Salu and featuring original
texts by authors Nadeem Aslam, Githa
Hariharan, Pankaj Mishra, Ruth Padel and
Wiam El-Tamami, who were commissioned
to respond to the artists' project proposals,
their ideas and work.
The Selection Committee for The Abraaj
Group Art Prize comprises Antonia Carver,
Director, Art Dubai; Dana Farouki, Patron;
Glenn Lowry, Director, the Museum of
Modern Art; Salwa Mikdadi, art historian
and curator; Jessica Morgan, Daskalopoulos
Curator, International Art, Tate; Julia
Peyton-Jones, Co-Director, The Serpentine
Gallery; and Fayeeza Naqvi, Patron.
artdubai.ae/abraaj-group-art-prize
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.. Study for a Hanging Garden - an installation of
flowers, stems, leaves and roots, sculpted and cast in
bronze, and displayed in groupings, which rested on the
ground. Taking Abbas Akhavan’s ongoing interest in
plant and animal species, the work referenced ancient
mythological gardens, recent political climates, plant
taxonomy and fragile contemporary ecologies; exploring
the paradox inherent in attempts to permanently fix
and control forms of life despite the inevitable shifts in
power and transience of time and memory.
.. Ancient Though Modern: A Collection of Uncertain
Objects, Part 1 - a wall installation that consisted of
various elements of paintings, ceramics and collage by
Kamrooz Aram. The objects were exhibited in a manner
that evoked the displays in popular museums such as
the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, taking
what the artist referred to as “cultural nostalgia” as
a subject, and investigating how museums, and the
objects displayed within them, serve a longing for our
mythical pasts and claims of origin.
.. Garden Conversation – a film by Berlin-based Moroccan
artist Bouchra Khalili that restaged a mythical encounter
between two renegade heroes, seeking wisdom for our
time. Looking back to January 1959, when Ernesto ‘Che’
Guevara met the exiled hero of the Rif War (1921-26),
Abdelkarim Al Khattabi in Cairo, Khalili’s film blurred
historic fact and poetic fiction to hypothesize what the
ghosts of Guevara and Khattabi would speak of were
they to meet today.
.. The Dent – starting with shiny rooftops and ending with
the seemingly insignificant demise of the last circus
elephant, a film by Basim Magdy that loosely weaved
linked events and irrational occurrences to reflect upon
collective failure and hopefulness. Shot between Paris,
Brussels, Quebec, Basel, Madeira, Prague and Venice,
among other locations, Magdy constructed a narrative
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through gestures and indirect affiliations between
layers of sound, image and text to respond to the
absurdity of the little details that manifest into our
reality.
.. Nurses – a group of portraits capturing women of
Keralan origin employed in hospitals and care facilities
around the world by Indian artist Anup Mathew Thomas.
Through carefully staged portraiture, the work formed
part of a larger body of work referencing Thomas’ native
Kerala, where nurses are the single largest group of
professional female migrants and where the economy
is largely dependent on foreign remittances. Displayed
in a grid, the images merged to form a patchwork
background from which the individuals emerge, a visual
record of the possible variations within contemporary
migratory patterns.
The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014 curator,
Nada Raza, is from Karachi, and currently
works in London where she is assistant
curator at Tate Modern focusing on South
Asia. Raza holds an MA in Critical Writing
and Curatorial Practice from the Chelsea
College of Art and has previously worked
with Iniva and Green Cardamom in London,
where she contributed to curatorial
projects including 'Lines of Control'
(Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell
University 2012) and 'Social Fabric' (Iniva,
2012). Raza writes regularly for regional
and international publications.
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“All the major fairs, not surprisingly, say that they
cater for this [student] demographic. … Art Dubai,
for instance, has implemented ambitious schemes
for students. ‘A career in the arts is a relatively new
concept here, and we find that many of our interns
or students bring their families to the fair in order to
demonstrate to them the viability of the arts industry
and the fact that it is strongly supported by the ruling
families of the UAE,’ says Antonia Carver, director of
Art Dubai. Students have gained free entry to the Gulf
event since it began in 2007. At this year’s edition, in
March, education packs provided details of key artists
and movements for students and lecturers.”
The Financial Times, United Kingdom, May 2014
“From competitions like the Abraaj Group Art Prize,
to workshops like the Sheikha Manal little artist
programme, there truly is something for everyone
to see! [...] Hopefully with more initiatives like Art
Dubai, an abundance of geniuses will continue to
be discovered. They too will get their chance to tell
their stories to the world.”
Sara Japanwalla Blog, March 23, 2014
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Education has been at the heart of Art Dubai
since its launch in 2007; the fair now has the
largest education programming of any such
event worldwide, providing opportunities
for children through to students, graduates,
collectors and enthusiasts.
Art Dubai Education includes Campus Art
Dubai, Forum Fellows, artist-led children’s
programmes, artists’ talks and the critically
acclaimed Global Art Forum. Our educational
programming is run in partnership with
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.
The 2014 fair attracted a high level of
attendance from universities and colleges,
welcoming more than 500 UAE and GCCbased students on specially organized tours.
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‫ ويعمل على جذب‬،‫«يستهدف المعرض كل من له عالقة بالفن‬
‫عدة من خالل استضافته فنانين إماراتيين‬
ّ ‫الحضور المحلي بطرق‬
،‫] ومن المبادرات الالفتة في هذا اإلطار‬...[ ،‫ومواهب شابة‬
‫«برنامج الشيخة منال للرسامين الصغار» في رعاية الشيخة‬
‫ والذي يتضمن جوالت‬،‫منال بنت محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم‬
‫ ويخاطب الشريحة العمرية‬،‫استكشافية في قاعات المعرض‬
‫ تحت إشراف فنانين من‬،‫ اضافة إلى ورش عمل‬،‫ سنة‬14-3 ‫بين‬
».‫مختلف أنحاء العالم واإلمارات‬
“Art Dubai targets everything that is related to art
and works on engaging local audience in many ways
through hosting emerging Emirati talents […] one of
the remarkable initiatives in this context is Sheikha
Manal Little Artist Program which was held under the
patronage of HRH Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed
Al Maktoum and comprised a set of artist-conceived
projects for children aged 3-14, workshops by Emirati
and international artists, Discovery Tours of the
gallery halls.”
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THE SHEIKHA MANAL LITTLE
ARTISTS PROGRAM
The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program
was launched at Art Dubai 2013. Featuring
artist-led workshops, tours and other
projects, the programme provides access to
skills and ideas for UAE-based children and
teenagers aged 5-16–with the long-term aim
to encourage young people to get involved
and excel in the arts.
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This year also featured the return of
Discovery Tours (for ages 8-16) led by artists,
including Athier Moussawi, Rania Jishi
and Sara Naim. These tours enabled young
people to discover all aspects of the fair, with
the works brought alive via a series of maps
and the story-telling of the guides.
In 2014 the programme expanded, and
featured Australia-based artist Dylan
Martorell, who works in drawing, installation
and sound, and who, for Art Dubai, devised
and led a set of dynamic and innovative
workshops (for ages 5-12) that involved young
artists creating sounds from drawings and
instruments from upcycled materials. Emirati
artists Reem Falaknaz and Khawla Darwish
assisted the workshops and took part in a
special workshop with Martorell for UAEbased artists interested in developing their
skills in both sound art and children’s
art education.
Born in Scotland in 1971, Dylan Martorell lives
and works in Melbourne, Australia. Transience,
improvisation and collaboration form the
basis of his music-based art practice. Housed
within the conceptual framework of a musical
diaspora, his work is drawn to ways in which
music travels through space and is affected
by changes in geography, climate, culture and
materials, and can become an agent for crosscultural reciprocation.
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The children's programme catered to 1,000
young artists and was held under the
patronage and guidance of Her Highness
Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women
Establishment, Wife of His Highness Sheikh
Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs
UAE, and forms part of the activity of The
Cultural Office.
In April 2014, Art Dubai and The Cultural
Office signed a three-year Memorandum of
Understanding with a view to strengthen
the cooperation and to establish upcoming
special programmes and initiatives between
the two organisations, with the aim of
supporting the development of young
emerging artists in the UAE.
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“'It’s amazing to have a space to be creative in,
especially to be surrounded by other artists – that
helps us develop,' says Rania Jishi, a painter and
conceptual artist.”
The National, UAE, October 28, 2013
“Art Dubai opened its popular Campus Art Dubai
doors to a wider membership in October, and is
providing an ongoing flow of programs such as
talks, screenings and debates throughout the year.”
ArtAsiaPacific, Hong Kong, March 2014
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CAMPUS ART DUBAI
Campus Art Dubai is a school for artists,
curators, writers, cultural producers and art
workers based in the UAE. The course is
taught and led by a local and international
cast of academics, critics, curators and artists.
Meetings occur over weekends and feature
seminars, workshops, critiques and one-onone mentorship. The course provides a space
for critical thinking and the exchange of ideas
and skills, with participants encouraged to
collaborate, debate and challenge.
The programme consists of a six-month Core
class for a small group of participants as well
as a much larger Membership programme,
in addition to year-round seminars and talks
open to the public.
Campus Art Dubai 2.0 began in October
2013 and ended in March 2014, culminating
at Art Dubai with the launch of a limited
edition book of “recipes” contributed by the
16 participants of the Core class. The school’s
second iteration looked at ‘Mediation’ and
was led by Tirdad Zolghadr; other tutors
included Umer Butt, Aaron Cezar, Scott
Fitzgerald, Salwa Mikdadi, Uzma Rizvi, Oraib
Toukan and Murtaza Vali.
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The participants of Campus Art Dubai 2.0’s Core
programme were: İpek Ulusoy Akgül, Vikram
Divecha, Ignacio Gomez, Sara Al Haddad, Wael
Hattar, Alicia Hughes, Ferwa Ibrahim, Sheikha
Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum, Hasnat Mehmood,
Raja’a Khalid, Maryam Al Qassimi, Zarmina Raf,
Faysal Tabbara, Sarah Turner, Suheyla Takesh
and UBIK.
This year’s Membership programme saw over 200
participants engaging in a series of talks, seminars
and workshops on various topics including an
emphasis on regional Art History, the intersection
between art and film–through a partnership with
Dubai International Film Festival–as well as sessions
focused on the development of artist portfolios and
writing skills, with access to key figures in the local,
regional and international art scenes.
Additionally, Core participants Raja'a Khalid
and Suheyla Takesh were both awarded special
fellowships and stipends as part of a collaborative
effort between Campus Art Dubai and the New York
University Abu Dhabi FIND programme.
Campus Art Dubai is part of Art Dubai’s educational
programming and is held in partnership with Dubai
Culture and Arts Authority, and is supported by
d3 Dubai Design District. In 2013-14, the school
was generously hosted by a number of UAE-based
spaces and art institutions including A4 Space in
Alserkal Avenue Arts District, Satellite, thejamjar,
Tashkeel, Sharjah Art Foundation, and Dubai
International Film Festival.
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In a survey of participants, 100% of
responders agreed that programmes
like Campus Art Dubai are needed in the
UAE, and felt that they had met fellow
participants or visiting tutors who they
expect to work or collaborate with in
the future. 80% felt that Campus Art
Dubai was most useful in developing
their ideas and practices, and 90% of
responders said they would apply again
to be considered for participation in
later iterations of Campus Art Dubai.
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PARTICIPANT FEEDBACK*
“CAD did in fact, for the first time in my 22
years here in Dubai, make me feel that a sense
of community was actually possible in this city
and maybe even sustainable.”
“The program definitely is crucial in its attempt
to create a discourse in the region.”
“I think that CAD is a great concept for the
region. It enlightened me to other artists and
workers in Dubai and allowed me to enter in to
dialogue with other artists/makers.”
“Campus Art Dubai is good at connecting the
art community, it's a great place to meet likeminded people, share ideas, and create lasting
friendships/collaborations. Visiting tutors
have a lot to offer.”
“I thought it was a great opportunity to do
some intensive thinking and sharing of work
and ideas on the weekend, in a place such as
Dubai where there isn't otherwise much of an
opportunity to do so.”
*From a survey of Campus Art Dubai participants conducted in
April 2014
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INTERNSHIP PROGRAMME
Since Art Dubai’s Internship Programme
was initiated in September 2007, over 400
students and recent graduates from 40
nationalities and 18 educational institutions
have participated in the scheme and gone on
to find further work experience opportunities
and permanent placements within Art Dubai
and its partner organisations.
One third of the interns have been
Emirati and the remaining came from
countries from across the Arab world and
beyond. Internships are typically intensive
three-month placements during which
participants engage in a particular area of
the organisation. In addition, Art Dubai
works with around 60 temporary interns and
volunteers each year at the fair itself.
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“What makes Art Dubai more engaging than your
average art fair is the evident pressure to create
situations that might shape the emerging art world
around it, both critically and institutionally. So a
major component of the fair is its hosting of the
Global Art Forum, which this year presented a
three-day public talks programme (having started
with two days in Doha the weekend before), and
which co-ordinates a networking vehicle for artists
and curators, the ‘forum fellows’ meetings.”
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FORUM FELLOWS
The Forum Fellows programme brings
together a select group of exceptional young
curators, writers and translators every year
at Art Dubai. In the long-term, this intense
programme aims to develop an alumni group
of dynamic practitioners who exchange ideas
and experience, and promote best practice.
In 2014, the fellowship programme focused
on curating and was led by writer and curator
Tirdad Zolghadr. Fellows were funded and
supported throughout the week of the fair
and took part in daily 3 hour workshops,
attended Global Art Forum sessions, as well
as other events on the VIP Programme, and
took the opportunity to network during the
fair and via its various programmes.
Fellows selected for the 2014 programme
were: Amanda Abi Khalil; Azar
Mahmoudian; Yasmina Reggad; Yara
Saqfalhait and Ania Szremski.
Forum Fellows 2014 was supported by the Arab Fund for Arts
and Culture (AFAC).
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This year’s Forum Fellows endeavoured to formulate criteria,
definitions and discourses pertaining to contemporary art
curating. Curators take pride in the idea that their profession
defies clear categorisation. And yet a certain number
of historical developments, professional narratives and
institutional prerogatives do point toward a surprisingly clear
set of curatorial specificities. Our group discerned these traits
and also aimed to understand why they are so arduously
dissimulated. At the same time, the session attempted to
account for conditions the fellows face as curators within
their own respective contexts.
.. Amanda Abi Khalil is a curator based in Beirut where she
teaches and works as a public art consultant. She studied
sociology and anthropology of art, graduating with an MA
in Curating Art for Public Spaces. She has worked with
several art institutions and was the curator of The HANGAR
in Beirut.
.. Azar Mahmoudian is an independent curator and critic
based in Tehran. She received her MA in Contemporary
Art Theory from Goldsmiths where she was awarded the
Chevening Scholarship in 2008. Mahmoudian has worked
with Iranian Art publications and co-runs a Tehran-based
project space that prefers to remain under the radar.
.. Yasmina Reggad holds an MA in History from the Sorbonne
University. She is an independent curator and writer based
in London, and works between London, Paris and Algeria.
Reggad is the Programme Curator at aria (artist residency in
algiers) and is the Curatorial and Artists Liaison at Delfina
Foundation, UK.
.. Yara Saqfalhait is an architect and researcher based in
Ramallah. Her practice explores using space and spatial
practices as research tools. Her essay Open Space in a City
Terrified of the Void was nominated during the Berkeley
architectural essay competition in 2011. She currently works
at The Palestinian Museum.
.. Ania Szremski is Chief Curator at Townhouse in Cairo,
Egypt, and an editor and culture writer for Mada Masr.
Szremski was awarded a Fulbright grant in 2011 for research
on Sadat-era Egyptian cultural policy and has a dual MA
in art history, theory and criticism and arts policy from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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GLOBAL ART FORUM
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“[Global Art Forum] is a more substantial
undertaking than the usual talks-programme
window-dressing that has become routine
at art fairs. The GAF’s programme this year,
under the title ‘Meanwhile...History’ was an
eclectic and often illuminating assembly of
presentations and panel discussions on various
aspects of the history of the Arab peninsula,
from the nineteenth-century pearl farming
trade to the history of modernist architecture
in Kuwait.”
“The fair's emphasis and investment in the
Global Art Forum is a perfect example: the
people we've met in Dubai during the fair the
past couple years, from UN policy thinkers to
writers, dentists to artists, are a testament to
the discursive energy that can result directly or
indirectly from a fair."
The Huffington Post (Q&A with Slavs and Tatars),
United States, March 2014
“I've said this before and will say it again, the
Global Art Forum is my favourite part of Art
[…] At the press conference, Shumon Basar,
Global Art Forum commissioner, said this
which made me laugh and explains why I love
the Global Art Forum, “It’s not a conference,
it’s not TED 'x,' ‘y’ or ‘z’. It’s not a wedding
speech, you won’t see any wedding furniture,
although people have been known to fall in
love during the Global Art Forum.”
The Culturist, UAE, March 18, 2014
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‫«أما الجانب األكثر لفتا لالنتباه في دورة المنتدى هذا‬
‫العام فهي المعلومات النادرة التي يتلقاها الجمهور ألول‬
‫ والتي تجعل من المنتدى ندوة ثرية ال تسعى فقط‬،‫مرة‬
‫ بل إلنتاج تلك‬،‫الستكشاف الجوانب المعرفية المختلفة‬
».‫المعرفة بطريقة أو بأخرى‬
2014 ‫ أبريل‬8 ،‫ المملكة المتحدة‬،»‫«الشرق األوسط‬
“Remarkably at this year’s edition of Global Art
Forum was the uncommon information shared
with audience for the first time; something that
transformed the forum into a rich symposium
that doesn’t only aim to explore different
cognitive realms but also regenerates that
cognition in a way or another.”
Asharq Al Awsat, United Kingdom, April 8, 2014
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Featuring commissioned projects and
research, as well as live talks guided by
a curated theme, the Global Art Forum
brings together a diverse line-up of more
than 40 participants, including artists,
curators, musicians, strategists, thinkers
and writers; an array of regional and
international voices from the worlds of
literature, politics, publishing and art.
Having become a major, collaborative
event in the art world calendar, the Forum
is illustrative of Art Dubai’s propensity for
encouraging debate.
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In 2014, the eighth edition of the Global Art Forum was codirected by curator-translator Omar Berrada and artist Ala
Younis, and commissioned by writer Shumon Basar. The
title ‘Meanwhile...History’ was conceived by Qatari artist
Sophia Al-Maria. Following on from 2013’s ‘It Means This’,
which assembled a lexicon of words, acronyms and phrases
to navigate reality, the Forum was an imagined timeline
of turning points in the past; significant decades, years or
days that shifted an understanding of the world—but that
remained forgotten, erased or lost in history’s blind spots.
Every presentation was a point on this timeline, a journey
through known and unknown histories, reflecting on the
philosophy and fiction of making history matter. How it’s
framed or claimed, constructed or destroyed. What is the
“...” in time and narrative?
The Forum also included a range of commissioned projects:
‘video postcards’; the Forum Forum, a space for screenings
and informal social sculpture; and the Forum Fellows, a
fellowship programme for young curators, writers and
translators.
In 2014, the Forum began at Katara Art Center in Doha
(March 15-16), before continuing at Art Dubai (March 19-21).
The Forum was presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts
Authority, and was held in partnership with the Office of
Strategic Cultural Relations at Qatar Museums Authority
through their Years of Culture annual initiative.
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KEY GLOBAL ART FORUM SESSIONS
.. 1971-79: The Short Seventies (UAE) - professors Todd Reisz
and Adina Hempel interviewed urban planner and architect
Anastase Emmanuel, and President of Al Moosa Enterprises
and CEO of megaproject Falconcity of Wonders, Salem Al
Moosa on the relationship between nation building and the
architecture in the United Arab Emirates from 1971-1979.
.. Meanwhile…Meanwhile: Lapses in Time and Narrative John Akomfrah, artist, filmmaker and writer, translator, writer
and co-director of Dar al-Ma’mun Omar Berrada and writer
Marina Warner discussed how a writer or a filmmaker skip
forward or flash back, and how do they account for history's
gaps, elisions, and return.
.. 778AH: Ibn Khaldun’s ‘The Muqadimmah’ - hosted by
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, artist and writer of Raqs Media
Collective, professors Jocelyne Dakhlia and Justin Stearns
delved into the history of Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah,
touching upon its intellectual legacies, its lessons on
historiography and its influence on subsequent historians
around the world.
.. Crisis: The End of Pearling in the Gulf - looking at the
Gulf economic strife which ensued after the development
of the first artificially cultured pearl, Hubert Bari, Director
of the Pearl and Jewellery Museum (Doha), Sheyma Buali,
journalist and researcher, and Rolf Killius, Curator, Oral and
Musical Cultures at the British Library (Qatar Foundation
Partnership), discussed the implications framed within a
Qatari context, while Fulbright scholar Butheina Kazim and
Abu Dhabi-based historian Frauke Heard-Bey looked to the
impact felt in the UAE during this period.
.. 1955-2055: A dOCUMENTA Century - a discussion passing
through a 100 years of dOCUMENTA between ex- and
future Directors, Okwui Enwezor, Catherine David and Adam
Szymzyck, chaired by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Over its subsequent
six decades, dOCUMENTA shifted focus to contemporary
Western art and then expanded its geographic horizons,
some might say, mirroring the globalization of the world, to
become the era-defining event it is today.
.. 1971-79: The Short Seventies (World) - host Oscar GuardiolaRivera took Marina Fokidis, independent curator-writer, and
Tirdad Zolghadr, writer and curator, on a tour of the “short
seventies” in the world. Stopping through Greece, Chile
and Iran, the short seventies panel dealt with moments
“Wikipedia” failed to remember.
.. 1942-1982: Kuwait’s Experiments and the Confidence
Interval - assistant professor Farah Al-Nakib, researcher and
writer Kristine Khouri, artist and curator Ala Younis and writer
and director Sulayman Al Bassam discussed the peak of the
“Confidence Interval” in Kuwait in the 1970s. Circulism, Andy
Warhol, Kenzo Tange, Hassan Fathy and the Dramatic Arts
are a few of its most notable contours.
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GLOBAL ART FORUM PROJECTS AND
COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Sarah Abu Abdallah studies Digital and Media in Rhode
Island. Her recent participations include Migrating Forms in
NYC, the Serpentine Galleries 89plus Marathon in London,
the 11th Sharjah Biennial 2013 and Rhizoma in the 55th
Venice biennale 2013.
Annabel Daou was born in Beirut and lives in New York.
Her upcoming solo-exhibition opens at Galerie Tanja
Wagner, Berlin (May, 2014). Recent projects include:
Marking Language, The Drawing Room, London (2013) and
Fortune, MoMA PS1 (2013). Daou co-founded dBfoundation
(dbfoundation.org) and S2A (s2anyc.com), a subterranean
platform for the arts.
Raja’a Khalid received her MFA in Fine Art from Cornell
University in 2013, where she also received the Cornell
Council for the Arts grant in 2012. She has participated in
group and solo shows in New York and Dubai. Her work can
be seen on minorshistories.org.
Hind Mezaina is a photographer and culture writer from
Dubai. Her blog theculturist.com covers cultural news,
events, reviews and information in the UAE and beyond with an emphasis on film, music, photography and travel.
Her writing has been featured in The National, Harper's
Bazaar Art Arabia, Vision and Oasis.
artdubai.ae/global-art-forum/2014/
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GLOBAL ART FORUM SPEAKERS
.. Rahel Aima is a writer currently based in Dubai and editor of
THE STATE.
.. John Akomfrah is an artist, filmmaker, writer and co-founding
member of the Black Audio Film Collective (1982). His
internationally acclaimed work explores cultural identity, art
and post colonialism. Akomfrah’s recent film, The Unfinished
Conversation references the research of theorist and sociologist
Stuart Hall and is currently on show at the Tate.
.. Shiva Balaghi is a cultural historian, who teaches History and
Art History at Brown University. She has published widely
on Iranian visual culture from the late Qajar era through the
contemporary period. Her books include Picturing Iran: Art,
Society and Revolution (co-edited), Saddam Hussein, and
Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East (co-edited).
.. Hubert Bari has been in Doha for 10 years involved in various
museum projects. He was a lecturer for 25 years at the Natural
History Museum, Paris, and specialized in mineralogy and
exhibitions. His field of expertise is the history of jewellery, and
he has written a book entitled "PEARLS" for the pearl exhibition
he curated at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha in 2010.
.. Sulayman Al Bassam is a writer, director and founder of Zaoum
Theatre in London in 1996 and SABAB Theatre, the company’s
Arabic arm in 2002 with dramaturge and partner Georgina Van
Welie. His work, both politically charged and experimental in
form, explores contemporary themes of conflict, identity and
culture between the Arab world and the West.
.. Sheyma Buali is a London-based independent culture journalist,
essayist and researcher. She is a regular contributor to Asharq
AlAwsat, Ibraaz and Little White Lies, among others. Previously,
she worked for 10 years in a range of roles in TV, film and
documentary production in Boston, Los Angeles and her native
Bahrain.
.. Jocelyne Dakhlia is a historian based in Paris where she serves
as Director at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Her research focuses on Islam’s role in European history and is
featured in publications discussing language, political models
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and cultural boundaries in Europe and the Mediterranean.
.. Catherine David is an art historian whose research focused on
contemporary art from the Middle East. She served as a curator
for the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Galerie Nationale du
Jeu de Paume. David was the Artistic Director for dOCUMENTA
X in Kassel and the Director of the Witte de With Center of
Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
.. Anastase Emmanuel is an architect and town planner, offering
independent consultancy for international projects from
Athens and London. He lived and worked for over 20 years in
the UAE, having been chief town planner of Dubai Municipality
and founding member of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority’s
development initiatives, including Saadiyat Island and its
Cultural District.
.. Okwui Enwezor is a scholar, curator, and writer. He is currently
the Director of Haus der Kunst in Munich. Enwezor served
in several leading biennials and international exhibitions
including dOCUMENTA 11 in Kassel (1998-2002). He was recently
appointed Director of the Visual Arts Sector of the 56th Biennale
di Venezia.
.. Solange O Farkas is the founder of Associação Cultural
Videobrasil and curator-general of the 18th Contemporary Art
Festival Sesc_Videobrasil. She was the director and curator-inchief at the Bahia Art Museum from 2007 to 2010, and a guest
curator at the biennials of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and
Cerveira (Portugal) in 2011.
.. Marina Fokidis is an independent curator and writer. She is
the founder and artistic director of Kunsthalle Athena and
SOUTH as a State of Mind, an arts and culture publication.
She co-curated the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial (2011) and was
the commissioner and curator of the Greek Pavilion at the 51st
Biennale di Venezia (2013).
.. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is a writer, philosopher and art critic
based in London where he serves as the Assistant Dean of
Birkbeck's School of Law. His publications include award-winning
What if Latin America Ruled the World? and Story of a Death
Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973
which was selected by The Observer as book of the year in 2013.
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.. Frauke Heard-Bey is a historian and political scientist, who
specialises in social and political developments of the Gulf.
She worked for 39 years at the Centre for Documentation
and Research in Abu Dhabi. Her research resulted in several
publications including From Trucial States to United Arab Emirates.
.. Adina Hempel is an Architect and Assistant Professor at Zayed
University's College of Arts and Creative Enterprises in Dubai. She
was appointed as Head of Research for the National Pavilion of
the UAE at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014. Adina received
her MA from Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
.. Butheina Kazim recently completed her Fulbright scholarship in
Media Culture and Communication in New York University, New
York. She is a regular commentator on issues of media, culture
and communication with articles published on Al Jazeera English,
Gulf News and Jadaliyya. Kazim is an active member of various
organisations and independent initiatives that promote prosocial and humanitarian activity.
.. Kristine Khouri is an independent researcher and writer based
in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work focuses on modern art history in
the Arab world, with an emphasis on institutional and exhibition
history and networks. Khouri also frequently collaborates with
artists as a researcher.
.. Masha Kirasirova is an Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow
at New York University Abu Dhabi. She has a Ph.D. from New
York University in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and
History. Her research focuses on exchanges between the Soviet
Eurasia and the Middle East.
.. Rolf Killius is an exhibition curator, ethnomusicologist, sound
recordist, film producer/editor and radio journalist. He works in
exhibition curating, film production/editing, academic research,
music and sound production, and the delivery of music, dance
and other arts events especially related to the Arabian Gulf
and South Asia. Presently he is the Curator of Oral and Musical
Cultures at the British Library in London.
.. Ahmad Makia is a writer currently researching Ajami politics and
editor of THE STATE.
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.. Sophia Al-Maria is a Qatari-American writer. Her book The Girl
Who Fell to Earth (HarperCollins US) was published in 2012 and
she is currently working on a film called Beretta. The Sheraton,
Doha is her mothership.
.. HE Salem Al Moosa is the incumbent CEO of the UAE real estate
mega-project "Falconcity of Wonders", and has previously held
the offices of Chairman of the Federal Committee for Travel
agents in the UAE, Federation of Chambers of Commerce
and Industries, and Dubai Board of Travel Agents. An avid
businessman, H.E. Salem Al Moosa has participated in several
international conferences as a member of the Board of Directors
of the UAE Contractors Association, in addition to being an
honorary member of the American Business Council of Dubai,
and member of the USA National Geographic Society.
.. Farah Al-Nakib is Assistant Professor of History at the American
University of Kuwait, and holds a PhD from the School of Oriental
and African Studies in London. Her research and publications
focus on the urban history of Kuwait City before and after oil,
including current urban trends in the 21st century Gulf.
.. Hans Ulrich Obrist is Co-director of the Serpentine Gallery,
London. Prior to this, he was the Curator of the Musée d’Art
Moderne de la Ville, Paris. Since his first show “World Soup” (The
Kitchen Show) in 1991, he has curated more than 250 shows.
.. Hisham Qaddumi is President of the Arab Architects and The
HQA Group. During the 1970s and 80s he served as the Planning
and Development Advisor at the Diwan Emiri as well as Director
of the Diwans Technical Office in Qatar, which was responsible
for the development of the major projects during that period.
.. Todd Reisz is an architect, researcher, and writer currently
focusing on the cities of the Gulf region, from historical and
contemporary perspectives. He is the editor of Al Manakh 2: Gulf
Continued, which analyses the recent developments of cities
in the Gulf. He teaches urban studies courses at Yale University
School of Architecture.
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.. Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an artist and writer with the Raqs
Media Collective, based in Delhi. The Raqs Collective's work
takes the form of installations, video, photography, image-text
collages, on- and off-line media objects, performances and
encounters. They cross contemporary art practice with curation,
historical and philosophical speculation, research and theory.
.. Justin Stearns teaches classes on pre-modern Middle Eastern
History, the relationship between science and religion, and alAndalus at New York University Abu Dhabi. His first book dealt
with the concept of contagion in Muslim and Christian thought,
and he is currently writing a book on the natural sciences in
Morocco in the seventeenth century.
.. Adam Szymczyk is the Director and Chief Curator of Kunsthalle
Basel. In 2008 he co-curated with Elena Filipovic the 5th Berlin
Biennial for Contemporary Art under the title ‘When Things Cast
No Shadow’. In 2013, he was appointed as the Artistic Director of
dOCUMENTA 14, to take place in 2017.
.. Michael C Vazquez writes and talks about food, art, music,
religion, and magazines. Senior editor of Bidoun: Art and
Culture from the Middle East and former editor of Transition:
An International Review, he is currently guest curator for the
Politics of Food residency at the Delfina Foundation, London.
.. Marina Warner is a writer and historian on the subjects of myth,
folk narrative and art. She teaches Creative Writing at New York
University Abu Dhabi and Literature, Film and Theatre Studies
at the University of Essex. Her recent book Stranger Magic:
Charmed States and the Arabian Nights received the Sheikh
Zayed Book Award in 2013.
.. Tirdad Zolghadr is a writer and curator. The working title of his
third novel is Headbanger.
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Art Dubai’s extensive talks programme also
includes Terrace Talks, an intimate series of
conversations that explore the relationships
and support networks between artists, curators
and patrons.
In 2014, Terrace Talks focused on two arts
scenes in particular: a stellar panel that
highlighted the legacy of Pakistan’s modernist
artists, through the eyes of two of today’s
best-known practitioners, while two talks
were devoted to the arts scenes of Central
Asia and the Caucasus. Art Dubai was also
delighted to partner with the forthcoming
Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, hosting a
special conversation between the museum’s
first director Henry Kim and Sultan Sooud
Al Qassemi, founder of Sharjah’s Barjeel
Foundation and one of the UAE’s foremost
experts on modern and contemporary Arab art.
These talks were held on the terrace of
The Abraaj Group Lounge and were open
to Collectors Circle and VIP guests and by
invitation only.
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TERRACE TALKS SPEAKERS
.. Nurjahan Akhlaq is an artist and filmmaker, currently visiting
faculty at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, Pakistan.
She studied Cinema at Concordia University, Montreal, and
completed her Masters in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London
.. Dina Baitassova is an independent curator and founder of
IADA (International Art Development Association), a nonprofit organisation for contemporary art. IADA supports and
represents artists from Kazakhstan and Europe in culturecrossing art projects. Dina curated various projects including
ONE STEP/PE FORWARD, exhibition of contemporary artists
from Kazakhstan, during the 55th Venice Biennale. She
collaborates with different art institutions, museums and art
and design magazines. Dina graduated in Arts and Design from
Sorbonne University in Paris.
.. Aida Mahmudova is an artist and Founding Director of
YARAT Contemporary Art Space. She graduated in 2006 from
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. In 2011, Aida
Mahmudova founded YARAT, a non-governmental organisation
that promotes contemporary art and helps to foster cultural
dialogue between Azerbaijan and other countries.
.. Dina Nasser-Khadivi is an independent curator and consultant,
specialising in contemporary art from the Middle East, Iran and
selected areas of the Caucasus. She has supported numerous
awareness-raising initiatives relating to her field of expertise
including talks at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and
the V&A Museum in London and curated the exhibition Love
Me, Love Me Not of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its
neighbours at the 55th Venice Biennale.
.. Suad Garayeva is a curator and specialist on Contemporary Art
from Russia and CIS at Sotheby’s, London. She is a consultant
for Yarat Contemporary Art Organisation and their 55th Venice
Biennale Pavilion Love Me, Love Me Not, and coordinated the
Azerbaijan Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011. She also
curated the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the GRID: International Photo
Festival in Amsterdam in 2012 and 2014.
.. Sultan Al Qassemi is a UAE-based commentator on Arab
Affairs writing for numerous local and international publications
including The National, Gulf News, New York Times, The Financial
Times, Foreign Policy, Open Democracy, The Independent and
The Guardian. Al Qassemi received a Master’s Degree with
distinction in Global Banking and Finance from the European
Business School in 2004.
.. Henry S. Kim is the Director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum
in Toronto, a museum devoted to the arts of the Islamic world,
opening in 2014. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, he was a
curator and lecturer at Oxford, and directed the redevelopment
of the Ashmolean Museum.
.. Rashid Rana’s practice relies on various modes including
painting, stainless steel sculptures, video installations and
photo mosaics. He is currently the Head of the Fine Art
Department and one of the founding faculty members of the
School of Visual Arts at the Beaconhouse National University.
Rana’s work was recently featured in Mohatta Palace Museum,
Karachi, 2013 and New Art Exchange, Nottingham, 2012.
.. Nina Mahdavi is the founder of Caspian Arts Foundation.
She supports art and education for young students from the
Middle Eastern and Greater Middle Eastern region, as well as
education amongst deprived children. Through her foundation,
she has awarded several scholarships and organised educational
programmes for students within the region.
.. Bashar Al-Shroogi is the Director of Cuadro Gallery, one of the
Middle East’s premier contemporary art venues. He founded
Cuadro as a not-for-profit in 2007. In addition to curated
exhibitions, Cuadro maintains a robust artist residency, delivers a
range of education programmes, workshops and publishes
.. art books.
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.. Shahzia Sikander was the first artist from the Miniature
Painting Department at the National College of Arts (1987-1991)
to challenge the medium’s technical and aesthetic framework.
Her pioneering work led to her meteoric rise internationally in
the mid and late nineties, fostering international interest in
exhibiting the work of other miniature painters from Pakistan.
.. Yuliya Sorokina is an artist, curator, lecturer and writer based in
Almaty, Kazakhstan. Curating the Central Asian Pavilion at the
52nd Venice Biennale, Sorokina has brought the work of artists
from the relatively new countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and
Uzbekistan to wider attention. Sorokina is a chairperson of the
board of Asia Art+ Public Foundation since 1999. Currently she is
working on Astral Nomads - Digital Archive/Resource of Central
Asian Contemporary Art astralnomads.net.
.. Joanna Warsza is a researcher and curator in the fields of
visual, performing arts and architecture. In 2013 she curated
‘Kamikaze Loggia’ at the Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice
Biennale and currently she is Head of the Public Program at
Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg, curated by Kasper König, where
she concentrates on the post-Soviet sphere. Joanna lives and
works in Berlin and Warsaw.
.. Simone Wille is an art historian and writer whose research
examines modern and contemporary art from South Asia, the
Middle East, and their diasporas from the late 19th century to
the present. Her upcoming book Modern Art in Pakistan: History,
Tradition, Place will be published with Routledge this spring.
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Art Dubai 2014 was held in
partnership with The Abraaj Group
and was sponsored by Cartier and
Emaar. Madinat Jumeirah is home
to the event.
The Dubai Culture and Arts
Authority is a strategic partner of
Art Dubai, and supports the fair’s
year-round education programme.
Art Dubai Modern 2014 was
sponsored by Mashreq
Private Banking.
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THE ABRAAJ GROUP
Founded in 2002, The Abraaj Group is a
leading investor operating in the growth
markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the
Middle East. Through its Sustainability and
Stakeholder Engagement Track, the company
values social investing, thought leadership and
value creation as key catalysts for sustainable
development and inclusive growth across
communities.
Art Dubai is held in partnership with The Abraaj
Group who, in 2009, founded The Abraaj Group
Art Prize, revealed in a special exhibition at Art
Dubai each year, and host The Abraaj Group
Lounge for collectors and special guests.
2014 marked the seventh year of partnership
between Art Dubai and The Abraaj Group,
who have been lauded for their role as a
key supporter of the arts in the UAE and
internationally, alongside other major
philanthropic activities.
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“Déjà sa huitième édition! La jeune Foire d’art
contemporain Art Dubaï a l’âge de raison et cela se
sent. Elle a un positionnement bien à elle – avec un
tropisme particulier vers l’Afrique, l’Asie, et le MoyenOrient –, une taille conviviale (85 galeries), une offre
diversifiée (34 pays représentés), un programme VIP
attractif, des sponsors prestigieux comme le joaillier
Cartier ou, entre autres, le constructeur automobile
Maserati.”
“Already in its eighth edition...the young
contemporary art fair is in its prime and it shows!
Art Dubai has grown into its own particular
positioning, focusing on Africa, Asia and the Middle
East, a human-friendly size and a diverse roster
(with 85 galleries from 34 countries), an attractive
VIP programme and prestigious sponsors including
Cartier and Maserati among others.”
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)‫«واطلع سموه (الشيخ حمدان بن محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم‬
‫على مجموعة المجوهرات الراقية التي تضم نحو ثمانين قطعة‬
‫فريدة تربط بين الجمال والفن اإلبداعي وتدمج ما بين مصادر‬
‫اإللهام التقليدية التي تعتمد عليها (دار كارتييه) الفرنسية‬
».‫وتنوعها العالمي المميز‬
2014 ‫ مارس‬18 ،‫ اإلمارات العربية المتحدة‬،»‫«وام‬
“HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid
Al Maktoum visited the Cartier exhibition which
included around 80 unique jewelry pieces that blend
beauty and creative art and combine traditional
inspirations of Cartier with the current international
diversity it represents.”
WAM, UAE, March 18, 2014
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CARTIER
Founded in 1847 in Paris, Cartier stands as one
of the world’s most esteemed and respected
companies in the luxury goods industry. Today,
the Maison is renowned worldwide for its high
jewellery creations and watches, perfumes and
prestige accessories–symbols of craftsmanship
and elegance, quality and excellence.
Following the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain’s first exhibition at Art Dubai
2011, the “King of Jewellers” joined Art Dubai
as a main sponsor in 2012 and each year has
presented unique high jewellery creations in
tandem with a guest artist. In 2014, Cartier and
the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
presented Maman Isek Mabo Bendele by Bodys
Isek Kingelez in a special exhibition titled
‘L’Odyssée de Cartier-Parcours d’un style’. As
an installation, Maman Isek Mabo Bendele
distorted the line between reality and fantasy,
engaging its audience in a splendour unique
to both Bodys Isek Kingelez’s work and the
Maison Cartier.
cartier.com
EMAAR
Emaar Properties PJSC, listed on
the Dubai Financial Market, is a
global property developer with a
significant presence in the Middle
East, North Africa and Asia. A
provider of premium lifestyles
through its world-class portfolio
of integrated communities,
the company also has proven
competencies in shopping malls
and retail, and hospitality and
leisure. Burj Khalifa, the world's
tallest building, and The Dubai
Mall, the world’s largest shopping
and entertainment destination,
are among Emaar’s trophy
developments.
emaar.com
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MADINAT JUMEIRAH
The Madinat Jumeirah consists of two grand
boutique hotels, courtyard summerhouses, a
traditional souk, the Talise Wellness Spa and
the region’s leading centre. The concept is
one of ‘old Arabia’ in a luxurious context. This
combination of authentic Arabian themes has
created a destination of unique qualities and
outstanding beauty.
The Madinat Jumeirah has been the home of Art
Dubai since its beginning in 2007 and hosts the
Jumeirah Patrons Preview; the largest cultural
gathering in the region and a highlight of
Dubai’s social calendar.
jumeirah.com/madinat-jumeirah-dubai
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DUBAI CULTURE AND
ARTS AUTHORITY
The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority is
dedicated to strengthening the Emirate’s
heritage, culture and arts. Launched in 2008,
by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin
Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and
Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai
Culture plays a critical part in establishing the
city as a vibrant, global Arabian metropolis,
shaping culture and arts in the region and
beyond. Dubai Culture organises several
initiatives including Sikka Art Fair, Dubai
Festival for Youth Theatre and the Sheikh
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons
of the Arts Awards.
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MASHREQ PRIVATE BANKING
For more than forty years, Mashreq has been
opening up financial opportunities. Today,
they are the largest private sector bank in
the UAE—a solid institution with clients
from the region and the rest of the world.
These traditions and values extend to Private
Banking offering clients safety, consistency,
responsiveness and confidentiality, and above
all else, continuity.
Mashreq Private Banking sponsored Art Dubai
Modern 2014 and hosted The Mashreq Private
Banking Lounge.
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MASERATI
Established in 1914, Maserati is an Italian luxury car
manufacturer founded by Alfieri Maserati and his brothers,
in Bologna, Italy. Their passion and talent contributed to
the company DNA: innovation, excellence and challenge;
which are reflected in the brand’s claim “The absolute
opposite of ordinary”. The company's headquarters and
main production facility are located in Modena, Italy, with a
second state-of-the-art facility in Grugliasco, near Turin. Its
emblem, the trident, was inspired by the fountain on the
Piazza del Nettuno in the center of Bologna. It is a symbol
that ties together the brothers, their hometown, and the
artistry and craftsmanship for which Bologna and EmiliaRomagna are known.
PROGRAMME PARTNERS
Maserati was the Official Car Partner of Art Dubai 2014,
providing collectors and special guests a courtesy VIP
shuttle service.
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ALSERKAL AVENUE ARTS DISTRICT
Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, is a prominent Arts District within
the industrial quarter of the city, which houses over
twenty contemporary art galleries and alternative arts
and community spaces. Currently doubling in size in 2014
with a 14 million USD expansion project, supported by the
Alserkal family, the Avenue will welcome a wide spectrum
of creative businesses that will further transform the
cultural landscape of Dubai.
Art Dubai Projects 2014 was supported by Alserkal Avenue
Arts District.
ARAB FUND FOR ARTS AND CULTURE
The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) is an
independent regional initiative that offers financial and
professional support to emerging and established artists
from the Arab region and to cultural institutions engaged
in supporting the contemporary Arab art and culture
scene. Founded in 2007, AFAC is active in 18 Arab countries
and opens annual calls for Literature, Performing Arts,
Visual Arts, Cinema, Music and RTR (Research/Training/
Regional Events), as well as special programmes that
support Creative Writing, Documentary Filmmaking
and Documentary Photography. AFAC encourages
sustainability in the arts and culture sector through public
and private investments, and though entrepreneurial
business practices.
Forum Fellows 2014 was supported by the Arab Fund for
Arts and Culture.
maserati.com
arabculturefund.org
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ART SALON
Art Salon is an exclusive members-only programme for
like-minded art collectors and patrons of the arts, based
in the Gulf. Meeting regularly in Dubai for social and
educational events, Art Salon also travels internationally
giving its members access to a unique global art
programme. Founded by Art Dubai, Art Salon identifies
and encourages communication between individuals and
groups engaged with art across the Middle East.
Art Dubai Projects 2014 was supported by members of
Art Salon.
BRITISH COUNCIL
The British Council creates international opportunities for
the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust
between them worldwide. A Royal Charter charity, the
British Council was established as the UK’s international
organisation for educational opportunities and cultural
relations. Their 7,000 staff, in over 100 countries, work
with thousands of professionals and policy makers and
millions of young people every year through English, arts,
education and society programmes.
Art Dubai Film and Radio in 2014, including the presence
of John Akomfrah, Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver, was
supported by The British Council.
britishcouncil.org
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CASPIAN ARTS FOUNDATION
Caspian Arts Foundation is a not-for-profit arts and
education organisation founded in 2011,
recognising the need and importance for supporting
students and aspiring artists from the Middle East
and North Africa in furthering their education in the arts
with their affiliate partner, University of the Arts London.
Through awarding scholarships, students are able to
further develop their artistic skill and realise their true
potential through education, practice and self-expression.
Caspian Arts Foundation was the education partner for
Marker 2014.
caspianartsfoundation.com
THE CULTURAL OFFICE OF HER HIGHNESS SHEIKHA
MANAL BINT MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM
The Cultural Office of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was established in
early 2013 to serve as the official platform to develop
and activate substantial art movements as milestones
within the region. Many existing art related projects
have now been directly placed under the cultural office,
including The Sheikha Manal Young Artist Award and The
Sheikha Manal Art Exchange Program, and a many more
future planned programmes will help raise the profile of
the pool of talents existing in the region. The Cultural
Office combines the best art practices and concepts from
around the world and tailors it to respect and preserve
the legacy and culture in the Arab world for International
recognition.
The 2014 Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program was held
under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai
Women Establishment, Wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin
Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Presidential Affairs UAE, and forms part of the activity of
The Cultural Office.
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D3 DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT
Dubai Design District, better known as d3, is dedicated to
fostering the growth of the Emirate’s design, fashion and
luxury industry. It offers businesses, entrepreneurs and
individuals a creative community that will be at the very
heart of the region’s design scene.
d3 is the newest of TECOM Investments’ business parks–
with 10 buildings currently under construction. Once
complete, d3 will be a purpose built environment catering
to the full value chain of the design, fashion and luxury
industry–and all with the vision of creating a world class
creative community that engages, nurtures and promotes
local, regional and global design talent.
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EMIRATES NEON GROUP
Since 1976, Emirates Neon Group (ENG) has delivered
a huge range of tailored signage projects, from small
internal signage to large shop fronts and custom digital
signage and media for Outdoor Advertising. Across the
Middle East, ENG creates, installs and maintains media
solutions, such as traffic signs, digital printing, billboards,
signage and retail advertising, backed up by a full range
of services from brand consultancy through to web
design.
Emirates Neon Group was the official advertising partner
of Art Dubai 2014.
engworldwide.com
d3’s facilities will include everything from cuttingedge design institutes to residential, hospitality, retail
and office space. The District will be characterised by
distinct public areas, unique street furniture and shaded
walkways. The development will include a Creek-side
esplanade with international and boutique hotels, a popup shop area, amphitheatre and a convention centre.
Campus Art Dubai 2014 was supported by d3 Dubai
Design District.
dubaidesigndistrict.com
ESBD
ES Bankers (Dubai) Limited is a fully licensed bank,
incorporated in September 2007 in Dubai’s DIFC and
is majority owned by Espírito Santo Financial Group. It
provides quality and tailored banking services to High Net
Worth individuals, corporates, professional counterparties
and qualified investors from its base in Dubai. The Bank’s
client base is global, with a strong and growing bias for
entrepreneurs and business leaders in Emerging Markets.
It offers a solid platform of products and services that
includes discretionary asset management, investment
advisory services and securities trading. It also operates
an “open architecture” that allows it to offer clients a
solid range of investment products from several third
party providers. In addition the Bank offers advisory
services on corporate finance and trade finance activities
seeking to leverage the expertise and offering of the
Group.
Marker 2014 was supported by ESBD.
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IBRAAZ / KAMEL LAZAAR FOUNDATION
Initiated by the Kamel Lazaar Foundation, Ibraaz is the
leading on-line forum for visual culture in North Africa
and the Middle East. It publishes a bi-annual Platform
and monthly rolling content, in both written and video
format. The Kamel Lazaar Foundation provides a forum
for dialogue about visual culture across North Africa
and the Middle East. Through research and publishing
initiatives, support for exhibitions, artists, conferences,
educational seminars and the development of its
collection, the Foundation is dedicated to promoting
creative thought leadership in the visual arts.
Ibraaz/Kamel Lazaar Foundation was the Online Partner
for the Global Art Forum 2014.
ibraaz.org
kamellazaarfoundation.org
JOHN JONES
Established in the 1960’s, John Jones is a bespoke framing
company based in London. Family-owned and familyrun, these master-framers have grown to encompass a
team of 90 craftspeople and designers whose services
include museum-quality art materials, printing, fine
art installation, artwork conservation and collection
management.
In 2012, Art Dubai launched the annual prize, The John
Jones Art on Paper Award, in collaboration with John
Jones, The award aims to recognise the potential for
excellence and innovation for works made on paper, and
provide further opportunities for artists working in this
medium. The prize is open to any artist exhibiting with
a gallery at Art Dubai, regardless of age, nationality and
gender. The winning artist is also awarded a cash prize of
Dhs30,000, and has their work acquired for the John Jones
Contemporary Art Collection in London.
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The winner of the 2014 John Jones Work on Paper Award
was Younès Rahmoun, represented by Galerie Imane
Farès. Judges of the 2014 award were artist Shezad
Dawood, art historian and curator Salwa Mikdadi, and
writer and curator Hammad Nasar.
johnjones.co.uk
KING ABDULAZIZ CENTER FOR WORLD CULTURE
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture is a Saudi
Aramco initiative located in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia,
that seeks to support the country’s continuous efforts
towards social and intellectual progress, with a particular
interest in creative cultural development. Scheduled to
open in 2015 the centre will house a world-class library,
archives, a lifelong learning platform, youth enrichment
and innovation programmes, a four-gallery museum and
children’s museum, a wide variety of permanent and
visiting exhibits, live events and multimedia venues,
along with cafes, gift shops, and much more, designed to
both inspire and entertain.
King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture was an
Institutional Partner of Art Dubai 2014.
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QATAR MUSEUMS AUTHORITY
Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) connects the museums,
cultural institutions and heritage sites in Qatar and
creates the conditions for them to thrive and flourish.
It centralises resources and provides a comprehensive
organisation for the development of museums and
cultural projects, with a long-term ambition of creating a
strong and sustainable cultural infrastructure for Qatar.
Under the patronage of His Highness the Emir, Sheikh
Tamim bin Hamid Al-Thani, and led by its Chairperson, Her
Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al
Thani, QMA is consolidating Qatar’s efforts to become a
vibrant centre for the arts, culture and education, in the
Middle East and beyond.
Since its foundation in 2005, QMA has overseen the
development of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) and
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. Future projects
include the Al Zubarah World Heritage Site Visitor Centre
opening in 2013 and the launch of the highly anticipated
National Museum of Qatar in 2016.
Global Art Forum 2014 was held in partnership with the
Office of Strategic Cultural Relations at Qatar Museums
Authority through their Years of Culture annual initiative.
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ROTHSCHILD
Rothschild provides strategic, M&A, wealth management
and fundraising advice and services to governments,
companies and individuals worldwide. They are a global
financial advisory group, which is family-controlled
and independent, and have been at the centre of the
world’s financial markets for more than 200 years.
From Rothschild’s historical roots in Europe, the Group
has developed a unique global footprint with full-scale
advisory businesses across the world including locally
staffed offices in China, Brazil, India, the United States of
America, the Middle East and Asia Pacific.
Rothschild includes four main arms - Global Financial
Advisory, Wealth Management and Trust, Merchant
Banking and Institutional Asset Management - as well
as specialist financial businesses.
Rothschild was a Corporate Patron of Art Dubai 2014.
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ABSOLUT
The first spirit brand to forge genuinely close ties with art
and artists, Absolut has been active in the art world since
1985, when it invited Andy Warhol to create the first in a
series of iconic advertisements inspired by the Absolut
bottle. Since then, Absolut has collaborated with more
than 500 artists on over 800 commissioned projects.
Today, Absolut supports acclaimed artists, art writers,
and institutions in their efforts to present new works,
stimulate ideas, bring people together, and broaden
access to creativity.
In 2014, Art Dubai featured The Absolut Art Bar, hosted
by Absolut.
absolut.com
ART DUBAI 2014 PARTICIPATING
ARTISTS AND SPEAKERS
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.. Basel Abbas
.. Hamed Abdalla
.. Amanda Abi Khalil
.. Yuri Abisalov
.. Ruanne Abou-Rahme
.. Marina Abramović
.. Sarah Abu Abdallah
.. Ibrahim Abumsmar
.. Carla Accardi
.. Etel Adnan
.. Shahriar Ahmadi
.. Shiva Ahmadi
.. Mohsen Ahmadvand
.. Morteza Ahmadvand
.. Askhat Ahmediyarov
.. Farhad Ahrarnia
.. Nader Ahriman
.. Rahel Aima
.. Raja Aissa
.. Haig Aivazian
.. Haluk Akakce
.. İpek Ulusoy Akgul
.. Abbas Akhavan
.. Zahoor ul Akhlaq
.. Ahmed Akhlaque
.. John Akomfrah
.. Rasim Aksan
.. Ricardo Alcaide
.. Yorgo Alexopoulous
.. Shadi Habib Allah
.. Jennifer Allora
.. Jowhara Alsaud
.. Sama Alshaibi
.. Ahmed Alsoudani
.. Jude Anogwih
.. Nazgol Ansarinia
.. Ziad Antar
.. Rasheed Araeen
.. Kamrooz Aram
.. Reza Aramesh
.. Siah Armajani
.. Abdulaziz Ashour
.. Nadeem Aslam
.. Majed Aslam
.. Said Atabekov
.. Athier
.. Kader Attia
.. Tonico Lemos Auad
.. Vartan Avakian
.. Dana Awartani
.. Nadia Ayari
.. Marlon de Azambuja
.. Mustapha Azeroual
.. Oussama Baalbaki
.. Ayman Baalbaki
.. Ali Bakhtiari
.. Lara Baladi
.. Shiva Balaghi
.. John Baldessari
.. Barry X Ball
.. Rina Banerjee
.. Hubert Bari
.. Alexander Barkovskiy
.. Matthew Barney
.. Yto Barrada
.. Kelly Barrie
.. Robert Barry
.. Shumon Basar
.. Michel Basbous
.. Sulayman Al Bassam
.. Taysir Batniji
.. Baya
.. Mohamed El Baz
.. José Bechara
.. Gottfried Bechtold
.. Hans Op de Beeck
.. Ammar Al Beik
.. Valérie Belin
.. Fouad Bellamine
.. Amina Benbouchta
.. Abdelkader Benchamma
.. Hicham Benohoud
.. Omar Berrada
.. Walead Beshty
.. Huma Bhabha
.. Michael Biberstein
.. Emmanouil Bitsakis
.. Zsolt Bodoni
.. Anna Boghiguian
.. Eugeny Boikov
.. Zoulikha Bouabdellah
.. Frank Bowling
.. Fari Bradley
.. Miguel Branco
.. Sebastiaan Bremer
.. Olaf Breuning
.. Val Britton
.. Koen van den Broek
.. Pablo Bronstein
.. Sheyma Buali
.. Bakhyt Bubikanova
.. Heidi Bucher
.. Bernhard Buhmann
.. Tom Burr
.. André Butzer
.. Huguette Caland
.. Johanna Calle
.. Guillermo Calzadilla
.. Luis Camnitzer
.. CAMP
.. Saint Clair Cemin
.. Rui Chafes
.. Marcos Chaves
.. Saad Ben Cheffaj
.. Ali Cherri
.. Gordon Cheung
.. Youmna Chlala
.. Ay Tjoe Christine
.. Tiffany Chung
.. James Clar
.. Clark House Initiative
.. Andy Coolquitt
.. Sean Cordeiro
.. Chris Cornish
.. Gil Heitor Cortesao
.. Tony Cragg
.. Abraham Cruzvillegas
.. Sunoj D
.. Andrew Dadson
.. Safwan Dahoul
.. Teymur Daimi
.. Jocelyne Dakhlia
.. Elena Damiani
.. Annabel Daou
.. Tagreed Darghouth
.. Catherine David
.. Shezad Dawood
.. Graham Day
.. Ayman Yossri
.. Daydban
.. Richard Deacon
.. Edith Dekyndt
.. Hanieh Delecroix
.. Maitha Demithan
.. Damien Deroubaix
.. Zhang Ding
.. Mark Dion
.. Vikram Divecha
.. M Djumaliev
.. Muratbek Djumaliev
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.. Tomory Dodge
.. Antonis Donef
.. Ingar Dragset
.. Yuriy Dvinyaninov
.. Michael Elmgreen
.. Wiam El-Tamami
.. Anastase Emmanuel
.. Okwui Enwezor
.. Galaqtion Eristari
.. Ali Omar Ermes
.. Safaa Erruas
.. Lalla Essaydi
.. Inka Essenhigh
.. Roe Ethridge
.. Kirsten Everberg
.. Omar Fakhoury
.. Simeen Farhat
.. Francisco Faria
.. Solange Farkas
.. Monir Farmanfarmaian
.. Mounir Fatmi
.. Lara Favaretto
.. Basmah Felemban
.. Chris Fennell
.. Ana Teresa Fernandez
.. Marina Fokidis
.. Parastou Forouhar
.. Yang Fudong
.. Inci Furni
.. Franziska Furter
.. Meschac Gaba
.. Kamila Gabdulina
.. Cyprien Gaillard
.. Aslan Gaisumov
.. Zoi Gaitanidou
.. Hsar Gassiyev
.. Kendell Geers
.. Malek Gnaoui
.. Ignacio Gomez
.. Franz Graf
.. Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
.. Maimouna Guerresi
.. Sherin Guirguis
.. Shilpa Gupta
.. Subodh Gupta
.. Pascal Hachem
.. Sara Al Haddad
.. Joana Hadjithomas
.. Rokni Haerizadeh
.. Ramin Haerizadeh
.. Hassan Hajjaj
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.. Samia Halaby
.. Rula Halawani
.. Nermine Hammam
.. Harmony Hammond
.. Mark Handforth
.. Huseyn Haqverdiyev
.. Hazem Harb
.. Shuruq Harb
.. Githa Hariharan
.. Keith Haring
.. Ali Hasanov
.. Zarina Hashmi
.. Ariel Hassan
.. Mona Hatoum
.. Wael Hattar
.. Reza Hazare
.. Claire Healy
.. Frauke Heard-Bey
.. Susan Hefuna
.. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
.. Adina Hempel
.. Adam Henein
.. Mishka Henner
.. Secundino Hernández
.. Behruz Heshmat
.. Alistair Hicks
.. Nir Hod
.. Rebecca Horn
.. Rachel Lee Hovnanian
.. Alicia Hughes
.. Musaed Al Hulis
.. M.F. Husain
.. Orkhan Huseynov
.. Fabrice Hyber
.. Natela Iankoshvili
.. Ferwa Ibrahim
.. Idil Ilkin
.. Claudia Jaguaribe
.. Ulan Japarov
.. Khaled Jarrar
.. Yang Jiechang
.. Rania Jishi
.. Youngjin Jo
.. Lamia Joreige
.. Khalil Joreige
.. Alimjan Jorobaev
.. Donald Judd
.. Isaac Julien
.. Fawz Kabra
.. Karlo Kacharava
.. Zhanna Kadyrova
.. Hayv Kahraman
.. Jitish Kallat
.. Amar Kanwar
.. Anish Kapoor
.. Murad Karabaev
.. Nadim Karam
.. Halim Al Karim
.. Mouna Karray
.. Tomoko Kashiki
.. Gulnara Kasmalieva
.. G Kasmalieva
.. Mireille Kassar
.. Mohammed Kazem
.. Butheina Kazim
.. Ali Kazim
.. William Kentridge
.. Raja’a Khalid
.. Aisha Khalid
.. Rashid Al Khalifa
.. Bouchra Khalili
.. Naiza Khan
.. Hassan Khan
.. Waqas Khan
.. Idris Khan
.. Giorgi Khaniashvili
.. Stanislav Kharin
.. Majida Khattari
.. Farah Khelil
.. Bharti Kher
.. Kristine Khouri
.. Abbas Kiarostami
.. Rolf Killius
.. Atta Kim
.. Heryun Kim
.. Masha Kirasirova
.. Juz Kitson
.. Galina Konopatskaya
.. Valery Koshlyakov
.. Angelika Krinzinger
.. Ananda Kuhn
.. Barney Kulok
.. Gabriel Kuri
.. Yayoi Kusama
.. Jim Lambie
.. Shirley Paes Leme
.. Sol Lewitt
.. André Lichtenberg
.. Atelier van Lieshout
.. Christian Lock
.. Hew Locke
.. Maria Loizidou
.. Tala Madani
.. Basim Madgy
.. Elisabetta Di Maggio
.. Azar Mahmoudian
.. Taus Makhacheva
.. Ahmed Makia
.. Dr. Najat Makki
.. Evgeny Makshakov
.. Sheikha Wafa Hasher Al Maktoum
.. Maha Malluh
.. Jumana Manna
.. Robert Mapplethorpe
.. Sophia Al Maria
.. Dylan Martorell
.. MARWAN
.. Sergey Maslov
.. Adam McEwen
.. Hasnat Mehmood
.. Julie Mehretu
.. Amina Menia
.. Marisa Merz
.. Annette Messager
.. Hind Mezaina
.. Pankaj Mishra
.. Ardeshir Mohasses
.. Mehrdad Mohebali
.. Manfred Mohr
.. Rui Moreira
.. Sabine Moritz
.. Farhad Moshiri
.. Jean-Luc Moulène
.. Sam Moyer
.. Rabih Mroué
.. Alyssa Pheobus Mumtaz
.. Murad Khan Mumtaz
.. Youssef Nabil
.. Nabil Nahas
.. Michael Najjar
.. Farah Al Nakib
.. Saken Narinov
.. Timo Nasseri
.. Ivan Navarro
.. Elizabeth Neel
.. Rashaad Newsome
.. Otobong Nkanga
.. Mujahidin Nurrahman
.. Hans Ulrich Obrist
.. Nnenna Okore
.. Donna Ong
.. Bernd Oppl
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.. Gabriel Orozco
.. Damian Ortega
.. Yazid Oulab
.. Aga Ousseinov
.. Serkan Ozkaya
.. Giovanni Ozzola
.. Ruth Padel
.. Seza Paker
.. Nina Papaconstantinou
.. Jorge Pardo
.. Leila Pazooki
.. Giuseppe Penone
.. Gianni Piacentino
.. Sopheap Pich
.. Diogo Pimentao
.. Michelangelo Pistoletto
.. Lado Pochkhua
.. Teresa Poester
.. Tom Price
.. Tobias Putrih
.. Hisham Qaddumi
.. Maryam Al Qassimi
.. Walid Raad
.. Zarmina Rafi
.. Sara Rahbar
.. Younès Rahmoun
.. Abdulkader Al Rais
.. Michael Rakowitz
.. Zakaria Ramhani
.. Rashid Rana
.. Navin Rawanchaikul
.. Marat Raymkulov
.. Nada Raza
.. Anahita Razmi
.. Marwan Rechmaoui
.. Yasmina Reggad
.. Todd Reisz
.. Sam Reveles
.. Gerhard Richter
.. Steve Roden
.. Adrian Villar Rojas
.. Ugo Rondinone
.. Valeriy Ruppel
.. Keyvan Saber
.. Syed Sacramon
.. Syed Sadequain
.. Altai Sadikhzade
.. Michael Sailstorfer
.. Tahir Salahov
.. Nasser Al Salem
.. Mourad Salem
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.. Sara Salman
.. Lucien Samaha
.. Ruben Sanchez
.. Yara Saqfalhait
.. Sarkis
.. Hrair Sarkissian
.. Matt Saunders
.. Hanns Schimansky
.. Eva Schlegel
.. Zineb Sedira
.. El Seed
.. Nino Sekhniashvili
.. Shuddhabrata Sengupta
.. Hadieh Shafie
.. Seher Shah
.. Hassan Sharif
.. Conrad Shawcross
.. Wael Shawky
.. Anwar Jalal Shemza
.. Sudarshan Shetty
.. Susumu Shingu
.. José Maria Sicilia
.. Shahzia Sikander
.. Slavs and Tatars
.. Aleksi Soselia
.. Justin Stearns
.. Thomas Struth
.. Mariam Suhail
.. Arslan Sukan
.. Kote Sulaberidze
.. Ania Szremski
.. Adam Szymczyk
.. Faysal Tabbarah
.. Rayyane Tabet
.. Caroline Tabet
.. Gala Tabidze
.. Suheyla Takesh
.. Prilla Tania
.. Ali Emir Tapan
.. Alfred Tarazi
.. Pascale Marthine Tayou
.. Tchif
.. Diana Thater
.. Anup Mathew Thomas
.. Wolfgang Tillmans
.. Gert and Uwe Tobias
.. Rosemarie Trockel
.. Georgy Tryakhin-Bukharov
.. Panos Tsagaris
.. Wato Tsereteli
.. Ruslan Tsrimov
.. Kenji Tsuruta
.. Gavin Turk
.. Sarah Turner
.. Richard Tuttle
.. UBIK
.. Alexander Ugay
.. Elif Uras
.. Vyacheslav Usenov
.. Hossein Valamanesh
.. Joana Vasconcelos
.. Michael C Vazquez
.. Avinash Veeraraghavan
.. Xavier Veilhan
.. Fabienne Verdier
.. Carlos Vergara
.. Pieter Vermeersch
.. Francesco Vezzoli
.. Jorinde Voigt
.. Viktor Vorobyev
.. Yelena Vorobyeva
.. Hajra Waheed
.. Paul Wallach
.. Marina Warner
.. Saddek Wasil
.. Chris Weaver
.. Michael John Whelan
.. Nelson Wilbert
.. Kehinde Wiley
.. Jane Wilson
.. Louise Wilson
.. Nil Yalter
.. Yamou
.. Haegue Yang
.. Raed Yassin
.. Yeesookyung
.. Ala Younis
.. Nasser Al Yousif
.. Mahardhika Yudha
.. Geynur Yunus
.. Akram Zaatari
.. Ramtin Zad
.. Roula El Zein
.. Chen Zhen
.. Tirdad Zolghadr
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“Art Dubai 2014 was ecstatic and electrifying,
together with all its side programs (in particular the
Global Art Forum) and the newly inaugurated Dubai
Modern section, consolidating itself into a global fair
attracting more and more international galleries.
The team of Art Dubai...is always helpful and
creative, ready to provide solutions on the spot and
that said, impossible to deny the spectacular growth
of the fair in the past two editions.”
Artsy, United States, March 2014
213
214
ART DUBAI TEAM
FAIR DIRECTOR
Antonia Carver
FAIR MANAGEMENT
Natasha Carella, Fair Manager
Muhammad Akram,
Accountant
Patricia Tueller,
Fair Coordinator
Camilla Mosse,
Fair Coordinator
Laurène Perra,
Sponsor Relations
EXHIBITOR RELATIONS
Zain Masud, Assistant Fair
Director
Bettina Klein, Exhibitor
Relations Manager
Aric Reviere, Exhibitor
Relations Assistant
Yekaterina Serebryanaya,
Marker Assistant Curator
COLLECTOR AND VIP
RELATIONS
Lela Csáky, Director,
International and VIP
Relations
Victoria Gandit Lelandais,
Manager, Collectors Circle &
Art Salon
Inhye Kim, VIP Relations
Assistant
Roland Carella,
Fair Coordinator
Sarah Gage, Fair Coordinator
Amila Tissera,
Travel Coordinator
GLOBAL ART FORUM
Uns Kattan, Global Art Forum
Coordinator
Miriam Butti, Global Art
Forum Assistant
ART DUBAI PROJECTS
Fawz Kabra, Projects Curator
Beya Othmani, Projects
Assistant
COMMUNICATIONS
Mayssa Jaroudi, Press and
Marketing Manager
Muhanad Ali, Regional Press
Manager
Farah Al Sharief, Press and
Digital Media Coordinator
THE ABRAAJ GROUP ART
PRIZE
Nida Ghouse, The Abraaj
Group Art Prize Coordinator
CAMPUS ART DUBAI
Lee Xie, Campus Art Dubai
Coordinator
Geraldine Lee, Campus Art
Dubai Assistant
ART WEEK
Karen Simon, Special Projects
Coordinator
FAIR DESIGN
Hani Charaf
Tulip Hazbar
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ART DUBAI FAIR LLC BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
Rajesh Pareek, Chairman
Benedict Floyd, CEO
Savita Apte
Saleh Al Akrabi
Ali Al Shabibi
ART DUBAI
1901, Floor 19, Index Tower
DIFC
PO Box 72645
Dubai, UAE
T +971 4 384 2000
[email protected]
216
DUBAI INTERNTIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRE
Art Dubai is run as a joint venture
between Art Dubai Fair LLC and the Dubai
International Financial Centre (DIFC).
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is
an onshore financial centre that provides a
supportive and secure platform for financial
institutions to develop their businesses.
Located in a 110-acre financial district,
DIFC has all the elements found in the
world’s most successful financial industry
ecosystem: an independent regulator, an
independent judicial system with a commonlaw framework, a global financial exchange,
inspiring architecture, suppose services and a
vibrant business community. This, combined
with Dubai’s world-renowned lifestyle,
education, healthcare and transportation,
make DIFC the perfect base to take
advantage of the region’s rapidly growing
demand for financial services.
217
SUPPORTING A STRONG ARTS SCENE
DIFC supports a strong place for art in the
community, not only because there are
multiple commercially associated links
between art and finance, but also because DIFC
believes that art can stimulate news ideas and
new perspectives in business. Not only does
DIFC serve as home to one of Dubai’s most
well-known gallery communities, but it also
places works of art in public spaces across the
financial district to complement the Centre’s
beautiful architecture.
Ultimately, DIFC’s support for a strong
arts scene has helped establish Dubai as a
regional and international centre for arts and
culture, with galleries based in DIFC offering
an eclectic mix of contemporary art from
across the world.
artdubai.ae/difc
ArtDubai.AE
strategic Partner

art dubai programme

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