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“Unsettled Objects” is on view 1 at The Flying Saucer in Sharjah INTERVIEW from 12 March to June. Keeper of the past, in the present, for the future: an interview with Rayyane Tabet Page 20

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3 MARCH MEETING Zain Mahjoub MM 3.1 March Meeting 2021: Zain’s diverse experience spans “Unravelling the present” Page 30 Map V the commercial and not-for- profit arts and culture sector 3.2 Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah in the , having worked as a producer, project E01 A Century in Flux: Highlights from the manager, and researcher. She Barjeel Art Foundation, Page 37 Map S03 is currently Assistant Director E02 Baya Mahieddine: Lasting Impressions, of VIP Relations at Art Dubai, Sharjah Art Museum Page 37 Map S03 and was previously Director of E03 Desert Cast, 1971 Design Space Page 37 Map S01 Ayyam Gallery, a commercial E04 Homebound: A Journey in Photography gallery in Dubai, and held Virtual tour exhibition, viewable several positions at Sharjah on the Sharjah Art Museum website Page 38 Map @ Art Foundation, where she E05 Modern and Contemporary Arab worked as a curatorial assistant Art Collection, Sharjah Art Museum Page 38 Map S03 for the Sharjah Biennial and E06 Nujoom Alghanem: Malamih – Faces, looked after the Foundation’s Phantoms and Expressions, collection. Zain also worked Maraya Art Centre Page 38 Map S01 with AEA Consulting on E07 Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite Corpse, a project producing a Sharjah Art Foundation Page 38 Map S03 development plan and strategy E08 Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11, for an arts sector in Saudi Sharjah Art Foundation Page 39 Map S03 Arabia. Zain holds a Bachelor E09 Unsettled Objects, The Flying Saucer Page 39 Map X of Science in Economics from E10 Zarina Bhimji: Black Pocket, City University London. She Sharjah Art Foundation Page 40 Map S03 periodically contributes essays, interviews, and articles to several publications. 12 Index Index 13

4 5.2 Hotels in Sharjah ART IN SHARJAH H01 Al Faya Lodge Page 50 Map X 4.1 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah H02 Kingfisher Lodge Page 50 Map X H03 Mysk Al Badayer Retreat Page 51 Map X A01 1971 Design Space Page 41 Map S01 H04 Novotel Sharjah Expo Centre Page 51 Map X A02 Africa Hall Sharjah Page 41 Map X H05 Pullman Sharjah Page 51 Map X A03 Al Hamriyah Studios Page 41 Map X H06 Royal Tulip 72 Hotel Page 51 Map S01 A04 Bait Al Naboodah Page 41 Map X H07 Sheraton Sharjah Beach Resort & Spa Page 51 Map X A05 Buhais Geology Park Page 44 Map X H08 The Act Page 51 Map S01 A06 Emirates Fine Arts Society Page 44 Map S03 H09 The Chedi Al Bait Page 51 Map X A07 House of Wisdom Page 44 Map X H10 The Oberoi Beach Resort, Al Zorah Page 51 Map X A08 Maraya Art Centre Page 45 Map S01 A09 Rain Room Page 45 Map X 6 A10 Sharjah Art Foundation Page 45 Map S03 YOUR COMPASS IN DUBAI A11 Sharjah Art Museum Page 46 Map S03 A12 Sharjah Calligraphy Museum Page 46 Map S03 Your Compass in Dubai Page 59 A13 Sharjah Heritage Museum Page 46 Map S02 7 A14 Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization Page 47 Map S03 DUBAI ART WEEK A15 Sharjah National Theatre Page 47 Map S02 A16 The Flying Saucer Page 47 Map X AD 7.1 Art Dubai Page 62 Map D06 A17 Wasit Wetland Centre Page 47 Map X 7.2 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 5 LEISURE IN SHARJAH E01 200 Meters, Cinema Akil Page 62 Map D03 E02 5th Year Anniversary Group Show, 5.1 Restaurants in Sharjah Custot Gallery Page 62 Map D03 E03 A Memory of Places, Fann Á Porter Page 63 Map X R01 Al Sheraa Page 49 Map S01 E04 Age of You, Jameel Arts Centre Page 63 Map X R02 Beit Setti Page 49 Map S01 E05 Amba Sayal-Bennett: A Track to Bare, R03 Black Salt Page 49 Map X viewable on Carbon 12 website Page 64 Map @ R04 Fen Café and Restaurant Page 49 Map S02 E06 Alymamah Rashed, Tabari Artspace Page 64 Map D06 R05 Fen Café and Restaurant @06 Mall Page 49 Map X E07 Another Round, Cinema Akil Page 64 Map D03 R06 Gazebo Page 49 Map S01 E08 Artist’s Garden: Sunoj D and Namrata Neog, R07 Jones The Grocer Sharjah Page 49 Map S01 Jameel Arts Centre Page 65 Map X R08 Levantine Page 49 Map S01 E09 Asma M’Naouar: Horizons, Elmarsa Gallery Page 65 Map D03 R09 Najmat Lahour Page 50 Map X E10 Cahrbel-joseph H. Boutros: The Work and R10 Not a space Page 50 Map X Its Periphery, Grey Noise Page 65 Map D03 R11 Ratios Coffee Page 50 Map X E11 Deus ex femina, Akka Project Page 65 Map X R12 Shababeek Page 50 Map S01 E12 Farhad Ahrarnia: The Lacemaker, R13 Ushna Maza Page 50 Map S01 Lawrie Shabibi Page 66 Map D03 R14 Zahr El Laymoun Page 50 Map S01 E13 Growing Like a Tree, Ishara Art Foundation Page 66 Map D03 14 Index Index 15

E14 Hamdan Buti Al Shamsi: kn-bkhair, M04 Etihad Museum Page 76 Map X Tashkeel Page 66 Map X M05 Ishara Art Foundation Page 76 Map D03 E15 Hassan Khan: Composition for a Public Park, M06 Jameel Arts Centre Page 76 Map X Jameel Arts Centre Page 67 Map X M07 The Farjam Foundation Page 77 Map D06 E16 Héloïse Bariol Ceramics: Pastels, M08 Women’s Museum Page 77 Map X Comptoir102 Page 67 Map D05 E17 Hiwa K: Do You Remember What 8.2 Art and Community Spaces in Dubai You Are Burning?, Jameel Arts Centre Page 67 Map X E18 Huma Shoaib: Silent Confabulations, A01 A4 Space Page 77 Map D03 XVA Gallery Page 67 Map D07 A02 Cinema Akil Page 77 Map D03 E19 March Workshops at thejamjar, thejamjar Page 68 Map D03 A03 eL Seed Studio Page 78 Map D03 E20 Monika Grabuschnigg: Razed in Isolation, A04 FN Designs Page 78 Map D03 Carbon 12 Page 68 Map D03 A05 Foundry Page 78 Map D04 E21 Nabil Anani: In Pursuit of Utopia, A06 Gulf Photo Plus Page 78 Map D03 Zawyeh Gallery Page 68 Map D03 A07 Intersect by Lexus – Dubai Page 79 Map D04 E22 Phantasmagoria’s Illumination A08 Kave Page 79 Map D03 in Disenchantment, 1×1 Art Gallery Page 68 Map D03 A09 Sima Performing Arts Page 79 Map D03 E23 Richard Ketley: Insiders, XVA Gallery Page 70 Map D07 A10 Tashkeel Page 79 Map X E24 Sacha Jafri: 18 Year Retrospective, A11 Tashkeel Al Fahidi Page 80 Map D07 Leila Heller Gallery Page 70 Map D03 A12 Techarc Page 80 Map D03 E25 Sacha Jafri: Journey to Humanity, A13 The Arts Club Dubai Page 80 Map D04 Leila Heller Gallery Page 70 Map D03 A14 The Cave DXB Page 80 Map D05 E26 Samah Shihadi and Michael Halak: A15 The Fridge Page 80 Map D03 Terra (Un)firma, Tabari Artspace Page 71 Map D06 A16 The Junction Page 81 Map D03 E27 Saule Suleimenova: Plastic.The Last Hero A17 thejamjar Page 81 Map D03 of the Great Steppe, Andakulova Gallery Page 71 Map D04 A18 Yadawei Page 81 Map X E28 Seher Shah: When Words Disappear Into Trees, Green Art Gallery Page 71 Map D03 8.3 Galleries in Dubai E29 Tanya Habjouqa: The Sacred Space Oddity, Gulf Photo Plus Page 71 Map D03 G01 1×1 Art Gallery Page 81 Map D03 E30 Wetland Research Lab, National Pavilion G02 Akka Project Page 82 Map X UAE – la Biennale di Venezia, G03 Andakulova Gallery Page 82 Map D04 UAE National Pavilion, Alserkal Avenue Page 72 Map D03 G04 Ayyam Gallery Page 82 Map D03 G05 Carbon 12 Page 83 Map D03 8 G06 Custot Gallery Page 83 Map D03 ART IN DUBAI G07 Elmarsa Gallery Page 83 Map D03 G08 Fann Á Porter Page 84 Map X 8.1 Museums and Art Institutions in Dubai G09 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Page 84 Map D03 G10 Green Art Gallery Page 84 Map D03 M01 Museum Page 73 Map X G11 Grey Noise Page 84 Map D03 M02 Alserkal Arts Foundation Page 73 Map D03 G12 Lawrie Shabibi Page 85 Map D03 M03 Concrete Page 73 Map D03 G13 Leila Heller Gallery Page 85 Map D03 16 Index Index 17

G14 Meem Gallery Page 85 Map D02 H01 Address Sky View Page 92 Map D04 G15 Tabari Artspace Page 86 Map D06 H02 Al Seef Heritage Hotel Dubai Page 92 Map X G16 The Third Line Page 86 Map D03 H03 Bulgari Hotel Page 92 Map X G17 XVA Gallery Page 86 Map D07 H04 FORM Hotel Dubai Page 93 Map X G18 Zawyeh Gallery Page 88 Map D03 H05 Four Seasons DIFC Page 93 Map D06 H06 La Ville Hotel & Suites City Walk Dubai Page 93 Map X 9 H07 Madinat Page 93 Map D02 LEISURE IN DUBAI H08 Mandarin Oriental Dubai Page 93 Map X H09 ME Dubai by Melia Page 93 Map D04 9.1 Restaurants in Dubai H10 Nikki Beach Resort & Spa Dubai Page 93 Map X H11 One & Only Royal Mirage Page 93 Map D01 R01 3 Fils Page 89 Map X H12 Park Hyatt Dubai Page 93 Map X R02 Akiba Dori Page 89 Map D05 H13 Rove Downtown Page 93 Map D04 R03 Amazonico Page 89 Map D04 H14 Vida Hotel Downtown Page 93 Map D04 R04 BB Social Dining Page 89 Map D04 H15 XVA Page 94 Map D07 R05 Cassette Page 89 Map X R06 Ce La Vi Page 89 Map D04 10 R07 Comptoir 102 Page 89 Map X YOUR COMPASS IN ABU DHABI R08 Coya Dubai Page 90 Map X R09 Flamingo Room by Tashas Page 90 Map D02 Your Compass in Abu Dhabi Page 103 R10 Gaia Page 90 Map D06 R11 Grapeskin Grape Bar and Kitchen Page 90 Map X 11 R12 Il Borro Tuscan Bistro Page 90 Map D02 ART IN ABU DHABI R13 Indochine Page 90 Map D04 R14 Inked Page 90 Map D03 11.1 Exhibitions and Events in Abu Dhabi R15 Kulture House Dubai Page 90 Map X R16 Maisan 15 Page 91 Map X E01 100/100: Hundred Best Arabic Posters, R17 Masti Page 91 Map X Warehouse421 Page 104 Map A03 R18 Nammos Page 91 Map X E02 Abstraction and Calligraphy: Towards R19 Reif Japanese Kushiyaki Page 91 Map X a Universal Language, Page 104 Map A01 R20 Socialista Dubai Page 91 Map D06 E03 Hyphenated Spaces: R21 The Artisan Page 91 Map D04 “The Cup and The Saucer” Reinterpreted, R22 The Galliard Page 91 Map D04 viewable on Warehouse421 website Page 104 Map @ R23 The Grey Page 91 Map X E04 Mina Zayed: Reflections on Past Futures, R24 The Lighthouse Page 92 Map D05 Warehouse421 Page 104 Map A03 R25 The Maine Page 92 Map D01 E05 not in, of, along, or relating to a line, R26 Wild & the Moon Page 92 Map D03 viewable on the NYU Abu Dhabi R27 YUi Page 92 Map D05 Art Gallery website Page 106 Map @ R28 Zuma Dubai Page 92 Map D04 E06 Stephanie Comilang: Float, Warehouse421 Page 106 Map A03 E07 Where do we go from here, 9.2 Hotels in Dubai Salwa Zeidan Gallery Page 106 Map X 18 Index Index 19

11.2 Museums, Art Institutions, Independent R17 No. FiftySeven Boutique Café Page 114 Map X Art Spaces and Galleries in Abu Dhabi R18 Nolu’s Page 115 Map X R19 Oak Room Page 115 Map X A01 101 Page 107 Map @ R20 Parker’s Page 115 Map X A02 Palace Museum Page 107 Map X R21 Saadiyat Beach Club Page 115 Map X A03 Bait 15 Page 107 Map X R22 Salama’s Page 115 Map X A04 Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi Page 107 Map X R23 Sanderson’s Page 115 Map X A05 Etihad Modern Art Gallery Page 108 Map A05 R24 Tamba Page 115 Map X A06 Page 108 Map X R25 Ushna Abu Dhabi Page 115 Map A06 A07 Louvre Abu Dhabi Page 108 Map A01 R26 Villa Toscana Page 116 Map A04 A08 Manarat Al Saadiyat Page 108 Map A01 A09 N2N Gallery Page 108 Map A04 12.2 Hotels in Abu Dhabi A10 NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Page 109 Map A02 A11 NYUAD Arts Center Page 109 Map A02 H01 Anantara Hotel and Resort, A12 Qasr Al Hosn Page 109 Map X Eastern Mangroves Page 116 Map X A13 Qasr Al Muwaiji Page 110 Map X H02 Emirates Palace Page 116 Map A04 A14 Salwa Zeidan Gallery Page 110 Map A02 H03 Fairmont Bab Al Bahr Page 116 Map A06 A15 The Youth Hub Page 112 Map A03 H04 Four Seasons Hotel – Page 116 Map A03 A16 UAE Unlimited Page 112 Map @ H05 Intercontinental Hotel Page 116 Map A04 A17 Warehouse421 Page 112 Map A03 H06 Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel and Villas Page 116 Map A02 H07 Pearl Rotana Capital Centre Page 116 Map X 12 H08 Rosewood Abu Dhabi Page 116 Map A03 LEISURE IN ABU DHABI H09 Shangri-La Qaryat Al Beri Page 116 Map A06 H10 St Regis Saadiyat Island Page 117 Map A02 12.1 Restaurants in Abu Dhabi H11 The Abu Dhabi Edition Page 117 Map X H12 The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal Page 117 Map A06 R01 Alba Terrace Page 113 Map X H13 W Abu Dhabi – Page 117 Map X R02 Bonna Annee Page 113 Map A03 R03 Butcher & Still Page 113 Map A03 13 R04 Café 302 Page 113 Map A03 AGENDA R05 Café Arabia Page 113 Map X R06 Café Milano Page 113 Map A03 February – April 2021 Page 118 R07 Café Renard Page 113 Map X R08 Cipriani Page 113 Map X R09 Fishmarket Page 114 Map A04 R10 Flavors Grill Page 114 Map A03 R11 Foodshed Page 114 Map X R12 Fouquet’s Abu Dhabi Page 114 Map A01 R13 Karak Babu Page 114 Map X R14 Local Page 114 Map X R15 Market Kitchen Page 114 Map A03 R16 Meylas Page 114 Map X 20 Artist Interview: Rayyane Tabet 1 21 KEEPER OF THE PAST, IN THE PRESENT, FOR THE FUTURE: AN INTERVIEW WITH RAYYANE TABET

Carla Ingrasciotta: “Exquisite Corpse” is your first in-depth presentation in the UAE region. Could you tell us about the exhibition? What will you be presenting and what is the show’s main focus?

Rayyane Tabet: “Exquisite Corpse” brings together newly commissioned and reconceived works from “FRAGMENTS” (2016 – ongoing), my most ambitious project to date. Drawing on personal insight and historical records to stage encounters between audiences and matters of geopolitical consequence, this show explores an archaeological excavation led by German diplomat Baron Max von Oppenheim in Tell Halaf, northeast Syria, at the turn of the twentieth century. My great-grandfather Faek Borkhoche worked as von Oppenheim’s secretary for six months in 1929, a few years after Western powers had carved up the region. Following this familial connection, I have developed works that engage with family heirlooms and archaeological artefacts through accidents of history – across time, generations and continents. Taken together, this project intimates the wide- ranging fallout of an era that looms large over current discussions Rayyane Tabet © Douglas Friedman of cultural appropriation, museological practice and freedom of movement. On display will be five large scale installations Born in 1983, Achkout, Lebanon, he lives and works between spread across three of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s galleries. San Francisco, US and , Lebanon. He holds a BArch from Cooper Union, New York (2008), and an MFA from the University C.I.: When was your first encounter with Sharjah Art Foundation of California, San Diego (2012). Solo shows include “Arabesque”, and curator Ryan Inouye? Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York (2020); “Alien Property”, MET, New York (2019); “Encounters”, Parasol unit R.T.: I have had a long-term engagement with the Sharjah Art foundation for contemporary art, London (2019); “Forgotten Foundation for over a decade. My work was included in Sharjah Kingdoms”, Louvre Museum, Paris (2019); “FRAGMENTS”, Biennials 10, 12 and 13, I took part in a few editions of the March Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes (2019). Among Meeting and the Foundation co-funded the publication of my his group shows: the 6th Yokohama Triennale, Japan (2020); exhibition catalogue “FRAGMENTS”. As for Ryan Inouye, we Lahore Biennale (2020). He is the recipient of the Robert worked together on my participation in the 2nd New Museum Rauschenberg Residency in 2021. Triennial in 2012 and Sharjah Biennial 12 in 2015. Since then, we have been in constant contact and in 2018 we began a conversation about working on a show in Sharjah.

C.I.: Your practice often deals with anthropology, which you use 22 Artist Interview: Rayyane Tabet to investigate socio-political events. When did you first approach these themes and how have they developed over time?

R.T.: My work is an extension of my training in architecture and sculpture. With each project, I follow the paths and acquire the tools necessary for its realisation. Since 2016, and because of my involvement in the “FRAGMENTS” series, I have learned a lot from spending time with archeologists and conservators who work in encyclopedic museums. That being said, I don’t think my practice deals with anthropology per se, rather, it deals with the material remains of human interventions and the ways in which these remains are able to write an alternative history of the world.

C.I.: As you may already know, My Art Guides has recently published the book “A Room with a View”, a collection of 20 letters from international artists who shared their experience of lockdown during Pandemic. We’d also like to know about your experience of lockdown? Where and how was it spent?

R.T.: I have been in San Francisco since March 13, 2020; the longest time I have spent in one place. I am taking this experience the only way I can: one day at a time.

C.I.: The pandemic has helped us to better understand the transient nature of our lives, how have you reacted to this? What role do you think the artist plays in this ever-evolving situation?

R.T.: I have spent a good deal of my life thinking about the past and projecting into the future. The pandemic has taught me to think in, about, through and for the present. Artists are record keepers of the past in the present for the future. 24 Sharjah Al Qasba 25

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Al Arouba St 28 2 Your Compass in Sharjah 29 YOUR COMPASS IN SHARJAH the Sharjah Art Museum (ID A11, Page 46) hosting the collection of the Barjeel Foundation, and Emirates Fine Art Society (ID A06, Page 44), the oldest art institution in the country established in 1980. The museums of Sharjah are gently integrated into the context Recognised by UNESCO as the cultural capital of the Arab world, of the historic surroundings, and combine contemporary art Sharjah is the third largest and third most populous city in the with the flair of the neighbourhood’s traditional lifestyle. Along UAE, together with the two neighbour emirates forming the Dubai- with its temporary exhibitions and events, in December 2020, Sharjah- metropolitan area. Having played a key role in the Sharjah Art Foundation reopened Otobong Nkanga’s permanent development of the country, Sharjah is now the most conservative installation, “Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard of the seven emirates, which practically means a stricter dress Chisel from the Past” (2019), originally commissioned for Sharjah code required for visitors in the public areas, and alcohol not Biennial 14. Further ahead from the Sharjah Museum of Islamic being permitted, even in hotels. However, staying in Sharjah Civilization (ID A14 , Page 47), and adjacent to the Al Majarrah Park is offers a unique cultural experience, with its rich heritage – 16 the building hosting a permanent immersive installation by artist museums, of which the Sharjah Art Museum (ID A11, Page 46) on its collective Random International, the Rain Room (ID A09 , Page 45). own hosts a collection of more than 500 masterpieces –, stunning Sharjah Art Foundation is hosting the March Meeting (ID MM , Page archeological sites, and tranquil desert gateways. The main cultural 30) this year on March 12-21, while the 15th edition of Sharjah attractions such as the Sharjah Art Foundation (ID A10, Page 45) and Biennial: “Thinking Historically in the Present” is due to open in its Al Mureijah Art Spaces, are located in the Heritage Arts Area. 2022 and inaugurates the group show “Unsettled Objects” at The Further from the historical sites and closer to Sharjah International Flying Saucer (ID A16 , Page 47), the Foundation’s newly restored Airport, the University City of Sharjah is becoming the new lifestyle architectural landmark. destination for young Emiratis, along with being the strongest educational base for art and design in the country, including the newly opened cultural centre and library, House of Wisdom (ID A07, Page 44).

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Al Qasba is a cultural, business, and entertainment landmark, including pedestrian bridges across the Al Qasba canal as well as boats to take visitors onto the adjoining Khalid and Al Khan lagoons. The area is home to the Maraya Art Centre (ID A08, Page 45), a number of restaurants, the neighbouring Al Majaz Waterfront, and the Flag Island with 1971 Design Space (ID A01, Page 41).

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The Heritage and Arts area of Sharjah is split into two by the modernist Bank Street featuring murals of contemporary artists, and the Al Hisn Fort in its centre. Sharjah Art Foundation (ID A10, Page 45) spaces take up the vast majority of the area, along with 30 3 March Meeting 31 SHARJAH Reflecting on the critical work Francesco Federico Cerru- of alternative platforms and ti); Lucrezia Cippitelli (scholar, artistic experimentation en- curator); Iftikhar Dadi (Associ- abled by the emergence of the ate Professor, History of Art and 3.1 MARCH MEETING 2021: ent. This edition of Sharjah Art contemporary art biennial, SB15 Director, South Program, “UNRAVELLING THE PRESENT” Foundation’s annual convening uniquely embraces Enwezor’s Cornell University); Catherine of art professionals brings to- insistence on the art exhibition David (Deputy Director, Na- Date 12 – 21 March 2021 gether former Sharjah Biennial as an important vehicle for en- tional Museum of Modern Art, Organised by Sharjah Art curators, artistic directors and gaging with history, politics and ); Manthia Foundation artists as well as art historians society and how these domains Diawara (Professor, NYU, and Web sharjahart.org and art critics to examine the shape our global present. SB15 filmmaker); Bongiwe Dhlomo– Type Online talks and on-site per- role, place and impact of the will be realised by Hoor Al Qa- Mautloa (artist, curator); Anita formances Sharjah Biennial in the region simi as curator in conjunction Dube (artist, curator); Ehab Admission Free, with registration and the global contemporary art with the SB15 Working Group Ellaban (Director, Center of Arts Address MM Virtual Platform and scene at large. MM 2021 also and Advisory Committee. Cairo); Reem Fadda (Director, Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah explores the evolution of the Abu Dhabi Cultural Founda- Id MM Map V Sharjah Biennial, focusing on its Speakers and participants tion); Coco Fusco (artist, writer disruption of traditional modes Tarek Abou El Fetouh (cu- and Professor, Cooper Union Featuring an extended 10-day of curating and displaying art rator); Thuraya Al Baqsa- School of Art); Thembinkosi online programme, Sharjah Art by activating non-institutional mi (artist, writer); Mona Al Goniwe (Assistant Professor of Foundation’s March Meeting spaces, moving to non-geo- Khaja (artist); Hisham Al Art History, Rhodes Universi- 2021 (MM) returns from 12 to graphic models of representa- Madhloum (Chairman, Shar- ty); Hou Hanru (Artistic Director, 21 March 2021. Usually organ- tion as well as the development jah Arts Collection); Noora Al MAXXI); Yuko Hasegawa (Artis- ised as a three-day convening of a year-round programme Mualla (Director of Learning and tic director, Museum of Con- of artists, curators and art enabled by the establishment of Research, Sharjah Art Founda- temporary Art Tokyo and Pro- practitioners to explore critical the Sharjah Art Foundation. tion); Hoor Al Qasimi (President fessor, Tokyo University of the issues in contemporary art, this and Director, Sharjah Art Foun- Arts); Salah M Hassan (Director, edition of March Meeting takes MM 2021 is an integral part of dation); John Akomfrah (artist, The Africa Institute, Sharjah place over 10 days, serving as the framework for Sharjah Bi- filmmaker); Yousif Aydabi (Cul- and Goldwin Smith Professor, the launch of the 15th edition of ennial 15: “Thinking Historically tural Advisor, Sheikh Dr Sultan Cornell University); Eungie Sharjah Biennial: “Thinking His- in the Present” that were laid Al Qasimi Centre); Sammy Ba- Joo (Curator of Contemporary torically in the Present” (SB15), out by the late Okwui Enwezor loji (visual artist and Co-found- Art, San Francisco Museum of which is due to open in 2022. (1963–2019) in spring 2018 and er of the Lubumbashi Bien- Art); Geeta Kapur (art critic, cu- that he continued to develop nale); Ute Meta Bauer (Founding rator); (ar- MM 2021 examines the past until his untimely passing. Director, NTU Centre for Con- tist); Omar Kholeif (Director of thirty years of Sharjah Biennial, Building on Okwui Enwezor’s temporary Art Singapore and Collections and Senior Curator, as an initiative and a model for remarkable and transformative Professor, School of Art, Design Sharjah Art Foundation); Vasif dealing with the disruptive pow- contributions to contemporary and Media, NTU); Zarina Bhim- Kortun (curator); Adrian La- er of artistic monolingualism art, Sharjah Biennial 15 (SB15) ji (artist); Carolyn Christov-Ba- houd (Dean, School of Architec- and as a horizon for developing will serve as a platform for the kargiev (Director, Castello di ture, Lon- another theoretical space for exploration of Enwezor’s cura- Rivoli Museum of Contemporary don, Co-chair, Rights of Future thinking historically in the pres- torial and intellectual legacy. Art and Director, Fondazione Generations Working Group and 32 March Meeting March Meeting 33

Curator, first Sharjah Architec- Ashkal Alwan); Françoise Ver- Qasimi (President and Director, When 8:10pm – 9:10pm ture Triennial); Peter Lewis (cu- gès (author, public educator, Sharjah Art Foundation), Mo- What Breakout session rator); Arshiya Lokhandwala (art decolonial feminist); Octavio hammed Kazem (artist), Peter Venue Al Mureijah Square historian, curator and Founder, Zaya (Executive Director, Cuban Lewis (curator), Jack Persekian ID MM08 MAP S03 Lakeeren Art Gallery); Margarita Art Foundation); and Tirdad Zol- (Director, Al Ma’mal Founda- Gonzalez Lorente (Vice Director, ghadr (Associate Curator, KW tion), Suha Shoman (Founder Sunday, March 14 13th edition of Havana Bien- Institute for Contemporary Art and Chair, Darat Al Funun, The When 5pm – 6pm nial and Curator, International and Artistic Director, Sommer- Khalid Shoman Foundation) What Keynote 2: Signs and Trans- Contemporary Art, National akademie Paul Klee). Moderator/Respondent: Tarek missions: Decolonising the Ar- Museum of Fine Arts, Hava- Abou El Fetouh (curator) chitecture Exhibition na); Amina Menia (artist); Gabi Programme Venue MM virtual platform Adrian Lahoud (Dean, School Ngcobo (curator, educator); Friday, March 12 ID MM04 MAP @ of Architecture, Royal College Otobong Nkanga (artist); Chika When 4pm of Art London, Co-chair, Rights Okeke-Agulu (Professor and What Spring 2021 exhibitions When 8:30pm – 10pm of Future Generations Working Director of Graduate Studies, opening What Film screening Group and Curator, first Sharjah Department of Art & Archaeol- Venue Sharjah Art Foundation Venue Mirage City Cinema, Architecture Triennial) ogy, Princeton University); Jack ID MM01 MAP S03 Al Mureijah Venue MM virtual platform Persekian (Director, Al Ma’amal ID MM05 MAP S03 ID MM09 MAP @ Foundation); Qudsia Rahim (Ex- When 5pm – 5:15pm ecutive Director, Lahore Bien- What Introduction Hoor Al Qasimi Saturday, March 13 When 6:10pm – 8:10pm nale Foundation and Director, Venue Sharjah Art Foundation When 5pm – 6pm What Panel 1: Art and the Civic Lahore Biennale); Enrique ID MM02 MAP S03 What Keynote 1: Dismantling the Imagination. Zarina Bhimji (art- Rivera (Director, Biennial of Master’s House with Françoise ist), Geeta Kapur (art critic, cu- Media Arts of Santiago); Nada When 5:15pm – 7:15pm Verges rator), Ming Tiampo (Professor, Shabout (Professor, Art History What Roundtable 1: Sharjah Bi- Venue MM virtual platform Art History, Institute for Com- and Coordinator, Contemporary ennial in Retrospect. Thuraya ID MM06 MAP @ parative Studies in Literature, Arab and Muslim Cultural Stud- Al-Baqsami (artist, writer), Art and Culture, Carleton Uni- ies Initiative, University of North Mona Al Khaja (artist), Hisham When 6:10pm – 8:10pm versity and Co-Director, Centre Texas); Suha Shoman (Founder Al Madhloum (Chairman, Shar- What Roundtable 3: Sharjah for Transnational Cultural Anal- and Chair, Darat Al Funun, jah Arts Collection), Dr Yousif Biennial in Retrospect. John ysis). Moderator/Respondent: The Khalid Shoman Founda- Aydabi (Cultural Advisor, Sheikh Akomfrah (artist, filmmaker), Salah M. Hassan (Director, tion); Aisha Stoby (curator/ Dr Sultan Al Qasimi Centre) Eungie Joo (Curator of Con- The Africa Institute, Sharjah researcher); Alia Swastika (cu- Moderator/Respondent: Noora temporary Art, San Francisco and Goldwin Smith Professor, rator); John Tain (Head of Re- Al Mualla (Director of Learn- Museum of Modern Art), Omar Cornell University) search, Asia Art Archive); Ming ing and Research, Sharjah Art Kholeif (Director of Collections Venue MM virtual platform Tiampo (Professor, Art History, Foundation) and Senior Curator, Sharjah Art ID MM10 MAP @ Institute for Comparative Venue MM virtual platform Foundation), Amina Menia (art- Studies in Literature, Art and ID MM03 MAP @ ist), Otobong Nkanga (artist). Monday, March 15 Culture, Carleton University and Moderator/Respondent: Aisha When 5pm – 7pm Co-Director, Centre for Transna- When 7:20pm – 9:20pm Stoby (curator/researcher) What Panel 2: Sharjah Biennials in tional Cultural Analysis); Chris- What Roundtable 2: Sharjah Bi- Venue MM virtual platform a Regional Context. Anita Dube tine Tohmé (Founding Director, ennial in Retrospect. Hoor Al ID MM07 MAP @ (artist, curator), Reem Fadda 34 March Meeting March Meeting 35

(Director, Abu Dhabi Cultural What Breakout session School of Art, Design and Friday, March 19 Foundation), Yuko Hasegawa Venue Al Mureijah Square Media, NTU) When 6pm – 7pm (Artistic Director, Museum of ID M14 MAP S03 Venue MM virtual platform What Keynote 4: On Restitution Contemporary Art Tokyo and ID MM16 MAP @ and the Art Industry. Chika Professor, Tokyo University of Wednesday, March 17 Okeke-Agulu (Professor and Di- the Arts), Alia Swastika (curator) When 5pm – 7pm Thursday, March 18 rector of Graduate Studies, De- Moderator/Respondent: Arshi- What Roundtable 4: Biennials and When 5pm – 7pm partment of Art & Archaeology, ya Lokhandwala (art historian, Postcoloniality. Thembinkosi What Panel 4: The Biennial Nation. Princeton University) curator and Founder, Lakeeren Goniwe (Assistant Professor of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Venue MM virtual platform Art Gallery) Art History, Rhodes University), (Director, Castello di Rivoli ID MM20 MAP @ Venue MM virtual platform Margarita Gonzalez Lorente Museum of Contemporary ID MM11 MAP@ (Vice Director, 13th edition of Art and Director, Fondazione When 7pm – 8pm Havana Biennial and Curator, Francesco Federico Cerruti), What Performances by Tarek When 7:10pm – 9:10 pm International Contemporary Art, Catherine David (Deputy Atoui and collaborating art- What Panel 2: Sharjah Biennials National Museum of Fine Arts, Director, National Museum of ists-in-residence from his on- in a Regional Context. Ehab Havana), Hou Hanru (Artistic Modern Art, Centre Pompidou), going exhibition “Cycles in 11”. Ellaban (Director, Center of Arts, Director, MAXXI). Moderator/Re- Bongiwe Dhlomo-Mautloa Venue Al Mureijah Square Cairo), Vasif Kortun (curator), spondent: Iftikhar Dadi (Associ- (artist, curator), Gabi Ngcobo ID MM21 MAP S03 Qudsia Rahim (Executive Direc- ate Professor, History of Art and (curator, educator), Octavio tor, Lahore Biennale Foundation Director, Program, Zaya (Executive Director, Cuban When 7:10pm – 7:40 pm and Director, Lahore Biennale), Cornell University) Art Foundation). Moderator/ What MM open call respondent Nada Shabout (Professor, Art Venue MM virtual platform Respondent: Coco Fusco (artist, presentation: Lost Horizons History and Coordinator, Con- ID MM15 MAP @ writer and Professor, Cooper by Murtaza Vali temporary Arab and Muslim Cul- Union School of Art). Venue MM virtual platform tural Studies Initiative, Univer- When 7:10pm – 9:10 pm Venue MM virtual platform ID MM22 MAP @ sity of North Texas). Moderator/ What Panel 3: Curating in the Age ID MM17 MAP @ Respondent: John Tain (Head of of Crises: Sammy Baloji (visual When 7:50pm – 8:20 pm Research, Asia Art Archive) artist and co-founder of the Lu- When 7:10pm – 7:40pm What MM open call respondent Venue MM virtual platform bumbashi Biennale) and Lucre- What MM open call respondent presentation: To Avoid or To ID MM12 MAP @ zia Cippitelli (scholar, curator), presentation: The Biennials in Embrace by Wided Khadraoui Enrique Rivera (Director, Bien- by Sadia Kamran Venue MM virtual platform Tuesday, March 16 nial of Media Arts of Santiago), Venue MM virtual platform ID MM23 MAP @ When 6pm – 7:30pm Christine Tohme (Founding ID MM18 MAP @ What Keynote 3: Fanon and Glis- Director, Ashkal Alwan), Tirdad When 8:30pm – 9:30pm sant: On De-Opacification and Zolghadr (Associate Curator, When 7:50pm – 8:10pm What Breakout session the Right to Opacity. Manthia KW Institute for Contempo- What MM open call respondent Venue Al Mureijah Square Diawara (Professor, NYU, and rary Art and Artistic Director, presentation: Karachi Biennial ID MM24 MAP S03 filmmaker) Sommerakademie Paul Klee). 2019 Censorship and Curatori- Venue MM virtual platform Moderator/Respondent: Ute al Responsibilities by Samina When 8:30pm – 10pm ID MM13 MAP @ Meta Bauer (Founding Director, Iqbal What Film screening NTU Centre for Contemporary Venue MM virtual platform Venue Mirage City Cinema, When 7:30pm – 8:30 pm Art Singapore and Professor, ID MM19 MAP @ Al Mureijah Square 36 March Meeting Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah 37

ID MM25 MAP S03 When 8:30pm –9pm What Online talk for Rayyane in collaboration by Sharjah What MM open call respondent Tabet exhibition TBC Art Museum and Sharjah Saturday, March 20 presentation: Art Biennials and Venue MM virtual platform Art Foundation this year is When 5pm – 7pm the Mediterranean Conundrum ID MM35 MAP @ dedicated to the Algerian artist What Round table 5: Global by Chiara Vartuccia Baya Mahieddine. The artist Modernism/New Scholarship. Venue MM virtual platform 3.2 EXHIBITIONS AND was born in 1931 and passed Elizabeth Giorgis (Associate ID MM30 MAP@ EVENTS IN SHARJAH away in 1998. She had her first Professor, University of Addis solo exhibition at 16 years old Ababa), Alex Dika Saggerman Sunday, March 21 A Century in Flux: Highlights in Paris. (Assistant Professor, Rutgers When 5pm –5:30pm from the Barjeel Art Foundation University), Sadia Shirazi What MM open call respond- Date May 12, 2018 – May 30, 2023 Desert Cast (Cornell University and Whitney ent presentation: Redefining Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri Date Nov 07, 2020 – Mar 27, 2021 Independent Study Program) Art Institutions Role by Silke 4pm – 8pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 9pm; Fri Moderator/Respondent: Iftikhar Schmickl Venue Sharjah Art Museum 2pm – 9pm Dadi (Associate Professor, Venue MM virtual platform Web sharjahmuseums.ae Special event Mar 17, 12pm - 1pm, History of Art and Director, ID MM31 MAP @ Address Corniche street, Arts Area Virtual talk, Designers and South Asia Program, Cornell ID E01 Map S03 guest writers of the publication University) When 5:40pm – 6:10pm This exhibition features a selec- in conversation Venue MM virtual platform What MM open call respondent tion of artworks by Arab artists Artists Jassim AlNashm, Kawther ID MM26 MAP @ presentation: The World in from one of the largest and Alsaffar, Ricardas Blazukas Which We Find Ourselves by most diverse private collections Venue 1971 Design Space When 7pm – 8pm Grace Aneiza of art in the Arab world. The Web 1971design.ae What Performances by Tarek Venue MM virtual platform show reflects the collector Sul- Address The Flag Island, Al Atoui and collaborating art- ID MM32 MAP @ tan Sooud Al Qassemi’s interest Flag Square and Khorfakkan ists-in-residence from his on- in the ways that Arab artists Flag Square, Al Badayer going exhibition “Cycles in 11”. When 6:20pm – 6:50pm have responded to historical Retreat, Venue Al Mureijah Square What MM open call respondent events and to their correspond- ID E03 Map S01 ID MM27 MAP S03 presentation: Thinking Pres- ing impact on human life over This exhibition presents some ently with History at the Eth- the course of a tumultuous cen- of the original pieces of the When 7:10pm – 7:40pm nographic Museum by Sarah tury. The exhibition is on view at series which showed at Abwab What MM open call respondent Johnson Sharjah Art Museum and online. during Dubai Design Week 2018 presentation: Srinagar Biennial Venue MM virtual platform at the City Pavilion, the by Melissa Carison ID MM33 MAP @ Baya Mahieddine: Lasting Im- developed pieces commissioned Venue MM virtual platform pressions by 1971 – Design Space and ID MM28 MAP @ When 7pm – 7:30pm Date Feb 24 – Jul 31, 2021 a visual story of the process. What MM open call respondent Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri The trio invited the UAE- When 7:50pm –8:20pm presentation: Against Art Histo- 4pm – 8pm based designer Talin Hazbar What MM open call respondent ry by Sadia Shirazi Venue Sharjah Art Museum to express her interpretation presentation: On the Verge of Venue MM virtual platform Web sharjahmuseums.ae of Desert Cast by investigating Now by Sabrina Moura ID MM34 MAP @ Address Corniche street, Arts Area the architecture of the United Venue MM virtual platform ID E02 Map S03 Arab Emirates through her ID MM29 MAP @ When 7:45pm – 9pm The annual exhibition organised research 38 Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah 39

Homebound: A Journey Nujoom Alghanem: insight and historical records to exhibition, a series of live per- in Photography Virtual tour Malamih – Faces, Phantoms stage encounters between au- formances by Atoui and a series exhibition and Expressions diences and matters of geopo- of guest collaborators will take Date Mar 23, 2020 – Dec 31, 2021 Date Feb 22 – Aug 31, 2021 litical consequence, the body of place. At the same time, SAF Venue viewable on the Sharjah Art Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; work explores an archaeological offers residency opportunities Museum website Fri 2pm – 7pm excavation led by German diplo- to musicians, composers, and Curator Salah M. Hassan Venue Maraya Art Centre mat Baron Max von Oppenheim artists who are invited to devel- Web sharjahmuseums.ae Curator Nina Heydemann in Tell Halaf, northeast Syria, op or produce new work. Edu- Address Corniche street, Arts Area Web maraya.art at the turn of the twentieth cational activities will be held in ID E04 Map @ Address Al Taawun Road, Al Qasba century. The exhibition’s venue a temporary sound lab in Shar- The exhibition features a ID E06 Map S01 is Gallery 1, 2 & 3, Al Mureijah jah’s east coast city of . first part curated by Salah M. The exhibition explores Nujoom Square. Hassan, to investigate Aida Alghanem’s artistic production, Unsettled Objects Muluneh’s path as artist and in particular her new series Tarek Atoui: Cycles in 11 Date Mar 12 – Jun 15, 2021 photojournalist. The second named “Faces”. This deals Date Sep 19, 2020 – Apr 10, 2021 Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; part, curated by the artist with the artist’s notion of the Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; Fri Fri 4pm – 9pm herself, reflects on her journey human face and its expressions 4pm – 9pm Artists Lothar Baumgarten, Yük- as a founder and director of through intense and bright- Venue Sharjah Art Foundation sel Arslan, Dawoud Bey, Huma Addis FotoFest (AFF) which she ly-coloured portraits. Alghanem Web sharjahart.org Bhabha, Huguette Caland, Lu- established in 2010 in Addis started working on this body of Address Al Shuwaiheen, Arts Area baina Himid, Tala Madani, Lionel Ababa, Ethiopia. The exhibition work in 2016 with different ma- ID E08 Map S03 Wendt, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye is on view online. terials such as jute, canvas, and Taking place at Bait Al Serkal Venue The Flying Saucer digital renderings. Arts Square, the exhibition Curator Omar Kholeif Modern and Contemporary Arab explores experimental and inno- Web sharjahart.org Art Collection Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite vative musical forms offering its Address Corner of Sheikh Zahed Date Jan 01 – Dec 31, 2021 Corpse audience the chance to discover St., Al Wahda St., and Sheikh Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Date Mar 12 – Jun 15, 2021 the field of instrument-making, Humaid Bin Saqr Al Qasimi St., Fri 4pm – 8pm Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; compositional structure, and Dasman Venue Sharjah Art Museum Fri 4pm – 9pm musical collaboration. The pro- ID E09 Map X Web sharjahmuseums.ae Venue Sharjah Art Foundation ject is the result of the artist’s The exhibition features a wide Address Corniche street, Arts Area Curator Ryan Inouye 11 years of research dedicated range of contemporary art- ID E05 Map S03 Web sharjahart.org to different methods of listen- works, including notable new The exhibition collects pieces Address Al Shuwaiheen, Arts Area ing, composing and performing. acquisitions from the Sharjah by modern and contemporary ID E07 Map S03 As a result, the artist’s col- Art Foundation Collection. Arab artists, including The exhibition brings togeth- lective project WITHIN, which Hosted in The Flying Saucer, Abdulqader Al Rais, Louay er newly commissioned and grew out of years of work with the Foundation’s newly restored Kayali, Bashir Sinwar, Faiq reconceived presentations from Deaf culture, functions as a tool architectural landmark, the Hassan, Mohammed Yusuf “Fragments” (2016–ongoing), to investigate how deafness artworks on display explore the and Ismail Fatah Al-Turk and the artist’s most ambitious can influence the way sound hidden stories behind art and its more. The exhibition is open at project to date, and marks its performance, space, and in- history. It proposes a reauthor- Sharjah Art Museum and online first in-depth presentation in strumentation are understood. ing of the history of art, contex- at my.matterport.com the region. Drawing on personal During the whole duration of the tualising it from a South/South 40 Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah 4 41 ART IN SHARJAH and East/East perspective while offering an alternative view that shifts the axis of this history to a more inclusive, intergenera- tional and transcultural one. 4.1 MUSEUMS AND ART Institute and as a meeting place INSTITUTIONS IN SHARJAH for the larger community of Zarina Bhimji: Black Pocket Sharjah and the UAE. Date Oct 02, 2020 – Apr 10, 2021 1971 Design Space Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; Fri Exhibition Desert Cast (Nov 07, Al Hamriyah Studios 4pm – 9pm 2020 – Mar 27, 2021) Admission Free Venue Sharjah Art Foundation Exhibition info 37 Established 2017 Curator Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi Open Sat – Thu 10am – 9pm; Phone +971 6 568 5050 Web sharjahart.org Fri 2pm – 9pm Web sharjahart.org Address Al Shuwaiheen, Arts Area Admission Free Address Al Hamriyah ID E10 Map S03 Director Nina Heydemann ID A03 Map X This major survey features a Established 2015 Inaugurated in 2017 by the number of the artist’s seminal Phone +971 6 528 4644 Sharjah Art Foundation, works in film, photography and Web 1971design.ae the Al Hamriyah Studios are installation, which taken to- Address Flag Pole, The Flag Island an off-site venue located gether, provide space to think ID A01 Map S01 on the Sharjah coast and in the unnamed and value forms A multi-functional design space close proximity to Ajman, of knowledge that are deeply founded in 1971 dedicated Umm Al Quwain and Ras Al cultural and emotional. In her to exhibition, display and Khaimah, created to extend the practice, the artist aims to draw discussion on all forms of Foundation’s outreach activities attention to issues such as the contemporary design ranging to different local communities rise of anti-immigration sen- from graphic, furniture to in the northern Emirates. The timent in Britain of the 1970s, interior as well as interactive studios include a 2510.8 m2 the expulsion of South Asians design and new technologies. community space, hubs of from post-liberation Uganda, social interaction occupying the deployment of racial clas- Africa Hall Sharjah the 761.8 m2 courtyard, a large sification in the maintenance Admission Free multi-functional room and a of British colonial rule and the Director Salah M. Hassan pantry space with its large Indian Ocean trade routes that Established 2018 communal table. The courtyard have long connected cultures Phone +971 6 511 2444 will host public events, and continents. The exhibition Web theafricainstitute.org including outdoor cinema takes place at Galleries 4, 5 & 6 Address Africa Hall, Al Manakh screenings and performances. Al Mureijah Art Spaces. ID A02 Map X The newly rebuilt Sharjah Bait Al Naboodah Africa Hall is a venue hosting Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; conferences, lectures, film Fri 4pm – 8pm screenings and stage plays Admission Ticket related to activities of the Africa Phone +971(6) 5681738 OVR: Pioneers March 24 – 27, 2021 artbasel.com/ovr 44 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah 45

Web sharjahmuseums.ae Al Shuwaiheen Maraya Art Centre Art Foundation Collection and Address Al Mareija, Heart Of ID A06 Map S03 Exhibition Nujoom Alghanem: the first of a series of artist- Sharjah The Emirates Fine Arts Society Malamih – Faces, Phantoms designed permanent spaces. ID A04 Map X is a non-profit association of and Expressions (Feb 22 – Aug This site-specific installation, Built in 1845, Bait Al Naboodah art professionals in the United 31, 2021) designed by collective Random is set around a sun-drenched Arab Emirates. The Society Exhibition info 38 International, uses 2,500 litres courtyard with walls made of cares for Emirates fine arts by Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; of self-cleaning recycled water, coral, combining elements from supporting local artists and Fri 2pm – 7pm which is controlled through local design and culture. Now a young talents and promotes art Admission Free a system of networked 3D museum, the building was one education and art appreciation Director Nina Heydemann tracking cameras. of Sharjah’s largest houses and among the public by organising Established 2010 is a prime example of a grand exhibitions as well as holding Phone +971 6 55 66 555 Sharjah Art Foundation coastal home. workshops, lectures and Web maraya.art Exhibitions Rayyane Tabet: training courses in fine art Address Al Taawun Road, Al Qasba Exquisite Corpse (Mar 12 – Jun Buhais Geology Park and photography. ID A08 Map S01 15, 2021), Tarek Atoui: Cycles Open Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu 9am – A non-profit art space and in 11 (Sep 19, 2020 – Apr 10, 7:30pm; Fri 2pm – 7:30pm; Sat House of Wisdom cultural platform located at 2021), Zarina Bhimji: Black 11am – 7:30pm Open Mon – Sun 9am – 10pm Al Qasba, Sharjah. Maraya Pocket (Oct 02, 2020 – Apr 10, Admission Ticket Admission Free Art Centre is an initiative 2021) Established 2020 Established 2019 by the Sharjah Investment Exhibition info 38, 39, 40 Phone +971 6 8012100 Phone +971 6 594 0000 and Development Authority Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; Address Buhais Geology Park, Web houseofwisdom.ae (Shurooq), with the purpose Fri 4pm – 9pm Unnamed road Address Al Juraina 1 of promoting young artists Admission Free, online advanced ID A05 Map X ID A07 Map X from both the Arab region booking is mandatory Designed by Hopkins Architects, The House of Wisdom is and the international art Director Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi the Park lies approximately 50 Sharjah’s new iconic cultural scene. Officially launched in Established 2009 kilometres south-east of the hub. Designed by Foster March 2010, the Centre is one Phone +971 6 568 5050 city of Sharjah in a region of + Partners, the House of of the U.A.E.’s most significant Web sharjahart.org exceptional prehistoric and Wisdom extends over 12,000 venues for contemporary Address Al Shuwaiheen, Arts Area geological significance. The square metres, this smartly visual arts. ID A10 Map S03 site features an abundance designed centre is a model Sharjah Art Foundation is of marine fossils from over 65 for future libraries that blend Rain Room an advocate, catalyst and million years ago, spectacular traditional and digital sources Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; producer of contemporary art. mountain ranges and ancient of knowledge, interactive Fri 4pm – 11pm Through the Sharjah Biennial, burial sites from the Stone, learning, and contemporary Admission Ticket the annual March Meeting, Bronze and Iron Ages. schooling. It hosts a 105,000- Established 2018 year-round exhibitions, film book library with indoor and Phone +971 6 561 0095 and music programmes, Emirates Fine Arts Society garden reading areas. It has Web rainroom.sharjahart.org education and community Established 1980 seven specially designed pods Address Al Majarrah outreach programmes, grants, Phone +971 6 568 4488 for students and businesses ID A09 Map X residencies, commissions Web artsuae.ae to hold meetings and Opened in May 2018, Rain and publications, the Address Arts Square, Arts Area discussions. Room is part of the Sharjah foundation encourages a 46 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah 47 shared understanding of the Established 2002 Sharjah Museum of Islamic Exhibition info 39 transformational role of art. Phone +971 6 569 4561 Civilization Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; Web sharjahmuseums.ae Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri 4pm – 9pm Sharjah Art Museum Address Calligraphy Square, Fri 4pm – 8pm Admission Free, prior reservation Exhibitions A Century in Heart of Sharjah Admission Ticket recommended Flux: Highlights from the ID A12 Map S03 Director Manal Ataya Established 2012 Barjeel Art Foundation, The museum offers a Established 2008 Phone +971 6 544 4113 Baya Mahieddine: Lasting comprehensive overview Phone +971 6565 5455 Web sharjahart.org Impressions, Homebound: of the evolution of Arabic Web sharjahmuseums.ae Address Corner of Sheikh Zahed A Journey in Photography calligraphy over the years, Address Al Majara Area, St., Al Wahda St., and Sheikh Virtual tour exhibition, Modern through fascinating Corniche Street Humaid Bin Saqr Al Qasimi and Contemporary Arab Art masterpieces and distinctive ID A14 Map S03 St., Dasman Collection paintings by local and The museum – housed in a ID A16 Map X Exhibition info 37, 38, 37, 38 international artists and former souq – hosts more Constructed in the mid-1970s, Open Sat – Thu 8am –8pm; calligraphers. The museum than five thousand exquisite the Sharjah Art Foundation Fri 4pm –8pm also hosts a varied exhibition Islamic artifacts from all over acquired the building in 2012, Admission Free programme to raise public the Islamic World, arranged to turn it into an exhibition Director Manal Ataya awareness of the importance according to themes over venue. After some renovation Established 1997 of preserving this legacy. seven spacious galleries and works began in 2018, the Phone +971(6) 568 8222 display areas. new Flying Saucer reopened Web sharjahmuseums.ae Sharjah Heritage Museum on September 26, 2020. The Address Corniche street, Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Sharjah National Theatre building is now a multi-purpose Arts Area Fri 4pm – 8pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 12am cultural hub for the community, ID A11 Map S03 Admission Ticket Established 1978 hosting a varied cultural and The Sharjah Art Museum, Director Manal Ataya Phone +971 6 568 6600 exhibition programme. one of the main institutions in Phone +971 6 568 0006 Web heartofsharjah.ae/sharjah- the Art Area, was inaugurated Web sharjahmuseums.aee national-theatre Wasit Wetland Centre during the 3rd Sharjah Inter- Address Al Mareija, Heart of Address Al Mareija Al Marija Street Open Sun, Mon, Wed, Thu 9am – national Arts Biennial in April Sharjah ID A15 Map S02 6:30pm; Fri 2:30pm – 6:30pm; 1997. The museum offers ID A13 Map S02 Founded in 1978, the Sat 11am – 6:30pm a comprehensive insight The museum investigates Sharjah National Theatre Admission Ticket into the history of the region the different environments promotes artistic and cultural Established 2015 through its art collections and where Emirati people used to awareness through plays, Phone +971 6 5226646 temporary exhibitions, work- live in the past, also reflected providing constructive criticism Web epaashj.ae shops, and other cultural in their varied habits, lifestyles, and directing public opinion, as Address Sheikh Salem Bin Sultan initiatives. and crafts. The museum’s well as addressing social issues Al Qasimi St collection highlights the dis- in a manner easily understood ID A17 Map X Sharjah Calligraphy Museum tinctive traits of the Emirati by the viewers. Part of a much larger initiative Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; people, their important by Sharjah’s Environment Fri 4pm – 8pm celebrations and ceremonies, The Flying Saucer and Protected Areas Agency Admission Ticket and their knowledge of Exhibition Unsettled Objects to clean up and rehabilitate Director Manal Ataya science in the past. (Mar 12 – Jun 15, 2021) this ancient chain of wetlands 48 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah 5 49 LEISURE IN SHARJAH along the coast, the Wasit Wetland Centre aims to supply information and education about this unique environment and to encourage 5.1 RESTAURANTS IN ID R04 Map S02 its preservation. The reserve SHARJAH supports a wide range of Fen Café and Restaurant wetland wildlife, providing Al Sheraa @06 Mall food, nesting and shelter Taste Italian Taste Coffee and food opportunities. 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10th St Dubai is the most populated Emirate in the UAE, and one of the biggest global hubs for travel and trade. Here, galleries started to appear in the mid-90s, and over the last decade, many of them Al Kabeer St Dubai Al Souk Al Ras Rd Municipality have established their presence at major international art fairs. Art Museum 22nd Rd Dubai offers a unique platform for both regional and international galleries to present their works in context of the Middle East, North Baniyas Rd Al Abra St Africa and South Asia (MENASA) region. Every year in March, the fair attracts a great number of collectors and art professionals from Deira Old Souq Station all over the world, strengthening the cultural scene of the region. All year long, the main attractions for art lovers include Alserkal Av- enue in the industrial area of Al Quoz, which is home to the region’s Baniyas Rd top art galleries, Dubai International Financial Centre - DIFC with its glitzy Art Nights juxtaposed with the Emirate’s fine dining scene, Dubai Design District’s (d3) growing design community. Strategi- cally located in the developing area close to the new Al Maktoum International Airport (DWC), and in proximity to , one of the Architectural Heritage Department Al Seef St largest ports in the world, is the Expo 2020 Dubai site. Visitors can already experience the three thematic pavilions: Terra - Sustaina- A11 E23 E18 bility, Alif - Mobility, and Mission Possible - Opportunity, featuring Al Fahidi Grand Masjid Historical G17 artworks by Emirati artists. The main event and the National Pavil- District Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural ions are scheduled to open in October 2021. H15 Understanding

Ali Bin Abi Taleb St DUBAI MARINA, THE PALM JUMEIRAH, MADINAT JUMEIRAH MAP D01 – D02 Usually referred as “New Dubai”, Dubai Marina is a residential area Al Fahidi St with the highest concentration of , as well as a number 3rd St of cafés and restaurants at the Residence Walk, Al Fahidi St 74th St and the open-air shopping mall The Beach that hosts one of An- thony Howe’s popular kinetic wind sculptures (another one can be Al Souq Al Kabeer found at Cove Beach on the adjacent Bluewaters Island). The man- made island Palm Jumeirah is mainly residential and features a number of luxury hotels and restaurants. Close to the iconic Burj Al 37 D St Arab is the huge and luxury hotel complex Madinat Jumeirah ID Page Al Satwa Rd ( H07, 93). 50 B St 60 Your Compass in Dubai Your Compass in Dubai 61

MADINAT JUMEIRAH, AL QUOZ a co-working space, and a podcast room. Mohammed Bin Rashid MAP D02 – D03 Boulevard continues with Al Mustaqbal (The Future) Street, lead- ing to the Gate Village of the Dubai International Financial Centre Jumeirah is a residential area of low-rise buildings near the sea; (DIFC) — a pedestrian neighbourhood (occupied largely by bankers) mostly consisting of private villas, small designer boutiques and that is home to non-profit art space Farjam Foundation (ID M07, Page cafes, the area is known for its open beaches. Divided into three 77), and a number of commercial art galleries, also spanning into parts (Jumeirah 1, 2, and 3) it starts from the old Port Rashid near the expanded Gate Avenue mall. The iconic Gate Building at Dubai the Creek, through another lifestyle beach mall La Mer, and con- International Financial Centre (DIFC), this year is the home of the tinues for almost 20 kilometres to the . On the other 14th edition of Art Dubai (ID AD, Page 62), which runs for an extended side of the city’s main artery, the Sheikh Zayed Road, cutting-edge periox of six days, from March 29 to April 3, 2021.The Dubai outpost contemporary art has found a home in the industrial area of Al Quoz. of London’s members-only The Arts Club (ID A13, Page 80) recently The major concentration of leading regional galleries, independent opened here at Norman Foster’s ICD Brookfield Place tower. A few art spaces, and private museums are found here in Alserkal Avenue, kilometres along the Financial Centre Road is the Dubai Design a cluster of architect-designed warehouses spread across 500,000 District (d3), a development combining creative offices for design, square feet, including Grey Noise (ID G11, Page 84), Carbon 12 (ID G05, fashion, and art, where one can find a number of public installations Page 83), Lawrie Shabibi (ID G12, Page 85), Isabelle Van Den Eynde by UAE-based artists and designers, as well as a few commercial (ID G09, Page 84), Leila Heller Gallery (ID G13, Page 85), The Third Line art galleries. Down the Al Ain Road in , is Tashkeel (ID G16, Page 86), Green Art Gallery (ID G10, Page 84), non-profit Ishara (ID A10, Page 79) — a community and exhibition space with artist stu- Art Foundation (ID M05, Page 76), Alserkal Arts Foundation’s Resi- dios. Further 15 minutes drive away from the city brings you to the dency Space (ID M02, Page 73) and the OMA-designed Concrete green residential area of Al Barari — here, as part of the thoughtful- (ID M03, Page 73). This year, the Alserkal Avenue Art Week runs March ly designed COA Canvas development, is Nasab, a creative commu- 22 – 27, 2021, inaugurating its exhibitions with the Galleries Night nity space. on March 22nd. Across Street 6 is The Courtyard, a small art centre with cafes and shops, and further on Street 8 (First Al Khail Street) BUR DUBAI, CREEK, DEIRA is a warehouse compound hosting the Akka Project gallery (ID G02, MAP D07 Page 82), the artist Mohamed Kazem’s studio, along with some pho- tography and design spaces. This is an old part of Dubai, considered the centre of the city a few decades back, split naturally by the Creek into Bur Dubai and DOWNTOWN DUBAI, DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT, DIFC Deira. The Al Fahidi Fort, the oldest building in Dubai built in 1787, MAP D04 – D05 – D06 currently houses the Dubai Museum, which illustrates the history of the city. The traditional wind tower houses of the Al Fahidi Neigh- The Burj Khalifa and are the main landmarks of bourhood (previously known as Bastakiya) host Sikka Art Fair – an Downtown Dubai, with the area around the Mohammed Bin Rashid annual showcase of Emirati and Dubai-based artists and a series of Boulevard populated by a number of boutique hotels and restau- workshops and live performances. Having postponed its 2020 edi- rants. Located here, the Dubai Opera district features the out- tion, the 2021 dates are yet to be announced. The neighbourhood is door installations by Iranian artist Sahand Hesamian, UAE-based also home to XVA Gallery (ID G17, Page 86) and XVA Art Hotel (ID H15, French-Tunisian calligraffiti artist eL Seed (ID A03, Page 78). Other Page 94). The historical Al Shindagha Museum (ID M01, Page 73) is lo- public art commissions on the Boulevard are culminating with Fer- cated nearby, as well as the new lifestyle development Al Seef host- nando Botero’s “Horse” sculpture at the courtyard of the Palace ing antique shops and casual cafés overlooking the Creek. Situated Hotel, and Richard Hudson’s “Love Me” in front of The Dubai Mall on the Jaddaf Waterfront is the Jameel Arts Centre (ID M06, Page 76), fountains. The newest addition to the neighbourhood is Foundry an independent institution dedicated to exhibiting contemporary Downtown (ID A05, Page 78) that hosts pop-up gallery exhibitions, art, and featuring the Sculpture Park installations. 62 7 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 63 DUBAI ART WEEK For its fifth year anniversary, Open Sat – Wed 10am – 6pm; Custot Gallery Dubai presents Thu, Fri 12pm – 8pm a group exhibition with modern Artists Agnieszka Kurant, Ama- and contemporary European, lia Ulman, Amnesia Scanner, 7.1 ART DUBAI 2021 200 Meters American and Asian artists. The Ana Nicolaescu, Ania Soliman, Date Mar 12 – Mar 25, 2021 show brings together a curated Anna Uddenberg, Anne Imhof, Date March 29 – April 3, 2021 Venue Cinema Akil selection of paintings, sculp- Asad Raza, Barry Doupé, Bogosi Artistic Director Pablo del Val Phone +971 04 223 1139 tures and photographs. Sekhukhuni, Cao Fei, Carsten International Director Chloe Vaitsou Web cinemaakil.com Höller, Cecile B. Evans, Chen Regional Director Hala Khayat Address Warehouse 68, Alserkal A Memory of Places Zhou, Christine Sun Kim, Craig Web artdubai.ae Avenue, Al Quoz Date Mar 15 – Apr 15, 2021 Green, Dominique Gonzalez-Fo- Venue Gate Building at Dubai ID E01 Map D03 Open Mon – Sat 9am – 9pm erster, Emmanuel Iduma, Farah International Financial Centre This year’s Spring Programme Special event Mar 15, 7pm, Al Qasimi, Fatima Al Qadiri, (DIFC) at Cinema Akil features a series Opening GCC Collective, Goshka Macu- ID AD Map D06 of award-winning films. From Artists Mohamed Abdel-Moneim, ga, Heman Chong, Ian Cheng, March 12 – 25, 2021, “200 Me- Mohamed Abou Elwafa, Mo- Isabel Lewis, Jarvis Cocker, For this year, Art Dubai takes ters” is to be screened, directed hamed Banawy, Mostafa Sleem, Jenna Sutela, Johannes Paul place for an extended period by Amin Nayfeh. It’s the story Mhanny Yaoud Raether, John Menick, Jürgen of six days, under the iconic of a father’s fight for reuniting Venue Fann Á Porter Klauke, Koo Jeong-A, Lawrence Gate Building at Dubai Interna- with his son, living only 200 me- Phone +971 55 136 9454 Abu Hamdan, Liam Gillick, Liam tional Financial Centre (DIFC), tres apart but separated Web fannaporter.comabout Young, Lorraine O’Grady, Lucy a purpose-built venue housing by a wall. Address Villa 45 - St 23b, off Al Raven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, around 45 galleries. Having Wasl road opposite DomeBox Michael Stipe, Miles Gertler, considered international travel 5th Year Anniversary Park, Jumeirah 2 Miranda July, Momus, NVIDIA restrictions, the fair features Group Show ID E03 Map X Research, Pamela Rosenk- an additional Remote Partici- Date 22 March – June 06, 2021 In collaboration with Cai- ranz, Pan Daijing, Paul Mpagi pation Programme that enables Open Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Sat ro-based Azad Gallery, the exhi- Sepuya, Peter Saville & Yoso galleries to virtually present 10am – 7pm bition includes selected pieces Mouri, Philippe Parreno, Pierre their physical exhibitions Artists Etel Adnan, Alice Ander- by a group of six Egyptian Huyghe, Precious Okoyomon, and allows visitors in Dubai son, Ali Banisadr, Fernando Bo- artists. The ambiguous relation- Rachel Rose, Raja’a Khalid, to experience artworks in tero, Nick Brandt, Chu Teh-Chun, ship between place and memory Samuel Fosso, Sara Cwynar, person. Ian Davenport, Peter Halley, is explored by each. Through Satoshi Fujiwara, Simon Denny, Richard Hoglund, Umberto Mar- the analysis of the artworks, Sissel Tolaas, Sophia Al-Maria, For further information iani, Jedd Novatt, Marc Quinn, one will find that the search for Stéphanie Saadé, Stephanie and details on the fair’s Bernar Venet, Fabienne Verdier, identity serves as an underlying Comilang, Suzanne Treister, participating galleries, Arnaud Rivieren, Pablo Reinoso, theme, tying together the works Tabita Rezaire, Thomas Dozol, programme and activities, Kusama Yayoi, Sophia Vari of this group that shares a col- Thomas Hirschhorn, Trevor please check the fair’s Venue Custot Gallery lective experience of Egypt over Paglen, Urs Lüthi, Victoria Sin, website artdubai.ae Web custotgallerydubai.ae the past two decades. Vocal Synthesis, Wang Haiyang, Address Unit 84, Alserkal Avenue, Yaeji, Yazan Khalili, Yu Honglei, 7.2 EXHIBITIONS AND Street 6A, Al Quoz 1 Age of You Yuri Pattison, Nabla Yahya EVENTS IN DUBAI ID E02 Map D03 Date Jan 29 – Aug 14, 2021 Venue Jameel Arts Centre 64 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 65

Curators Shumon Basar, Douglas Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm friends, all working in teaching, front of her visual language. Coupland, Hans Ulrich Obrist Venue Tabari Artspace facing an audacious experiment. Phone +971 4 873 9800 Phone +971 4 323 0820 Cahrbel-joseph H. Boutros: Web jameelartscentre.org Web tabariartspace.com Artist’s Garden: Sunoj D The Work and Its Periphery Address Jameel Arts Centre, Address Bld. 3, level 2, Gate and Namrata Neog Date Mar 22 – May 08, 2021 Jaddaf Waterfront Village, DIFC Date Oct 17, 2020 – Jan 01, 2022 Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm ID E04 Map X ID E06 Map D06 Open Sat – Wed 10am – 6pm; Thu, Venue Grey Noise Including over 70 contributions, Visual artist Alymamah Fri 12pm – 8pm Phone +971 4 379 0764 the exhibition investigates Rashed’s surrealist paintings Venue Jameel Arts Centre Web greynoise.org the most valuable asset of the investigate the discourse of her Phone +971 4 873 9800 Address Warehouse 24, Alserkal modern age, the individual as a own body as a Muslima Cyborg Web jameelartscentre.org Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 set of online behaviours and en- of the post-internet generation, Address Jameel Arts Centre, Jadd- ID E10 Map D03 riched data sets. Works in film, fluctuating between the East af Waterfront Charbel-joseph H. Boutros is a fashion, sculpture, computing, and the West. Referencing late ID E08 Map X Lebanese artist living and work- and installation, express differ- Algerian modernist pioneer Sunoj D and Namrata Neog’s ing between Beirut, Paris. In ent features of the self, from the Baya Mahieddine’s idiosyn- intervention “Desert is a Forest” his work invisibility is charged individual’s interior world to the cratic form of autobiographical is the third Artist’s Garden com- with intimate, geographical and perception of the crowd. portraiture, her art negotiates mission at the Jameel Arts Cen- historical layers, finding poetic her female subjectivity, regional tre. The two studied UAE’s natu- lines that extend beyond the Amba Sayal-Bennett: A Track folklore and the every day banal ral landscape to investigate the realm of existing speculations to Bare objects that Rashed encounters complex relationships between and realities. Being born amidst Date Mar 6 – 20, 2021 as well as the rapid social shifts plants, minerals, humans, and the Lebanese conflict, his art is Venue viewable on Carbon 12 that she has witnessed such as animals in this ecosystem. not engaged in an explicit politi- website the rapid industrialisation of the cal and historical reflection, but Phone +971 4 340 6016 Gulf region. Asma M’Naouar: Horizons is more accurately haunted by Web carbon12.art Date Mar 22 – May 08, 2021 the said political and historical ID E05 Map @ Another Round Open Mon – Thu 10am – 7pm; reflection. 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Héloïse Bariol Ceramics: Pastels over ten years of his practice, from a diverse range of sources Date Mar 29 – April 29, 2021 including a new interactive and media – the internet, Hamdan Buti Al Shamsi: Open Daily 8am – 10pm large-scale commission and the printed or painted material, kn-bkhair Special event Mar 28, 11am – 1pm, outdoor installation “One Room and composed with embroidery, Date Mar 09 – Apr 01, 2021 Opening cocktail Apartment”, originally commis- painted metalwork and groom- Open Sat – Thu 10am – 10pm Venue Comptoir102 sioned for Documenta 14. Hiwa ing items – the exhibition gives Venue Tashkeel Phone +971 4 385 4555 K’s research investigates dis- new insight into this Shiraz Curator Hind Bin Demaithan Web comptoir102.com placement, belonging, and re- (Iran) and Sheffield (UK) based Al Qemzi Address 102 Beach Road, Jumeira 1 silience, inspired by the artist’s artist’s intriguing eclectic Phone +971 4 336 3313 ID E16 Map D05 personal experience. practice. 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A contempo- and reconstructed into new nar- “PASTELS” rary accent is given by the use ratives, the evidence of search- HÉLOÏSE BARIOL of fluorescent colours. ing for an epistemology in a contemporary world in which March Workshops at thejamjar our physical desires and guiding Date Mar 01 – Mar 31, 2021 beliefs are directed and dictat- Open Mon – Sun 10am – 7pm ed by malign algorithms. Venue thejamjar Phone +971 4 341 7303 Nabil Anani: In Pursuit Web thejamjardubai.com of Utopia Address Unit H74, Alserkal Date Jan 20 – Apr 29, 2021 Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm ID E19 Map D03 Venue Zawyeh Gallery thejamjar in Dubai presents Phone +971 58 5925667 a series of on-site workshops Web zawyeh.net dedicated to people of all ages, Address Warehouse 27, Alserkal focusing on different media, art Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 techniques, and theories. 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Phone +971 4 340 60 16 Web carbon12.art Phantasmagoria’s Illumination Opening cocktail: Sunday, March 28, 2021, 11am Address Warehouse 37, Alserkal in Disenchantment Exhibition: 29 March – 29April, 2021 Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Date Mar 22 – May 31, 2021 Location: Comptoir102 | 102 Beach Road | Jumeira 1 ID E20 Map D03 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Open daily: 8:00 - 22:00 Grabuschnigg focuses on the Artists Anita Dube, Chitravanu +971 4 385 4555 | www.comptoir102.com | [email protected] feeling of acceleration in an Mazumdar, Mithu Sen, Sheba 70 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 71

Chachi, Sushanta Mandal his home environment. Through during Covid-19 (Feb-Oct 2020). Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Venue 1×1 Art Gallery his work Richard is optimistic Having worked 20 hours a day, Venue Andakulova Gallery Curator Arshiya Lokhandwala about the world’s future whilst for a seven-month period, using Phone +971 4 385 9897 Phone +971 4 341 1287 narrating the beauty in the iso- 1400 gallons of paint and over a Web andakulova.com Web 1x1artgallery.com lation of lockdown. thousand brushes, Jafri now of- Address Unit 18, P4 level, Damac Address Unit 10, Alserkal Avenue, ficially holds the Guinness World park towers, DIFC Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Sacha Jafri: 18 Year Records title for the ‘Largest Art ID E27 Map D04 ID E22 Map D03 Retrospective Canvas’ in the world. The exhibition features works The exhibition borrows its title Date Jan 21 – May 30, 2021 by Saule Suleimenova, a visual from Walter Benjamin’s seminal Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Samah Shihadi and Michael artist working across different work the “Arcades Project”, Venue Leila Heller Gallery Halak: Terra (Un)firma techniques such as painting which refers to the 18th century Phone +971 4 321 6942 Date Feb 16 – Mar 15, 2021 on photography, wax on paper, rear-projected light display— Web leilahellergallery.com Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm and, over the last five years, famously known as the magic Address Warehouse 86/87, Venue Tabari Artspace plastic bag collages. 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Land”, which take the artist’s Date Mar 22 – May 29, 2021 personal narratives and feminist Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Richard Ketley: Insiders Sacha Jafri: Journey to outlook as a starting point from Venue Green Art Gallery Date Feb 18 – Mar 16, 2021 Humanity which to explore issues faced by Phone +971 4 346 9305 Open Mon – Sun 10am – 6pm Date Jan 21 – May 30, 2021 women, across cultures, in the Web gagallery.com Venue XVA Gallery Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm contemporary moment. 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The works featured in and landscape through her ex- Through Insiders, XVA shares ID E25 Map D03 the show depict scenes of flora perience of art and architecture. the experience and responses Jafri’s record-breaking paint- and herbs such as olives and She works across different me- to the Lockdown of Richard Ket- ing, “The Journey of Humanity’”, thyme which prevail as a symbol dia such as drawing, printmak- ley, a sometime resident of Du- scales over 17,000 square feet of Palestinian identity but also ing, and sculpture. bai and regular exhibitor at the and was created in the Ballroom speak to the universal viewer. gallery. Lockdown caught Rich- at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, Tanya Habjouqa: The Sacred ard in Johannesburg, where he which was converted into the Saule Suleimenova: Plastic.The Space Oddity was forced to close his studio largest art studio in the world, Last Hero of the Great Steppe Date Mar 22 – May 30, 2021 and to refocus his practice on for a period of seven months Date Mar 09 – Sep 09, 2021 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm 72 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 8 73 ART IN DUBAI Special event Mar 15, 4 – 9pm, their ongoing research project Opening at Wetland Research Lab. The Venue Gulf Photo Plus two proposed a sustainable Phone +971 4 380 8545 solution to fight the CO2 emis- Web gulfphotoplus.com sions derived from the produc- 8.1 MUSEUMS AND ART The Alserkal Arts Foundation Address Warehouse 36, Alserkal tion of traditional cement. INSTITUTIONS IN DUBAI supports socially engaged, Avenue, Al Quoz 1, Street 17 multi-disciplinary practices ID E29 Map D03 Al Shindagha Museum and facilitates cross-cultural “The Sacred Space Oddity” is an Open Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun exchange through its four elegiac meditation on the inter- 10am – 8pm; Tue 10am – 7pm core initiatives: public art action of the physical and psy- Admission Ticket commissions, residencies, chological space encompassed Established 2019 research grants, and in the loaded, often effacing, Phone +971 45155100 educational programmes. phrase ‘Holy Land’. Challenging Web alshindagha.dubaiculture. The Residency programme both reductive media narratives gov.ae focuses on research-based and and the simplifying mytholo- Address Shindagha area, socially-engaged practices. gies that emerge in conflict, Bur Dubai Spring 2021 residents: Wilf the work engages a diverse ID M01 Map X Speller and Young Girl Reading cast of characters, modulating The mission of The Shindagha Group, Dorota Gaweda and between realist and surrealist Museum is to foster the Egle Kulbokaite. aesthetics deployed against the knowledge of Emirati culture. backdrop of everyday occur- The museum collects, houses, Concrete rences in the lives of Palestini- preserves, researches, and Established 2017 ans and Israelis. interprets Emirati cultural Web alserkalavenue.ae heritage to put together Address Alserkal Avenue, Wetland Research Lab, National thought-provoking exhibitions Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Pavilion UAE – la Biennale di and events for UAE residents, ID M03 Map D03 Venezia ex-pats and visitors alike. Opened in 2017, Concrete is a Date Feb 01 – Mar 31, 2021 The museum also features multi-purpose space created Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm a dynamic public learning to host museum-grade exhi- Artists Wael Al Awar, Kenichi programme as well as bitions and experience-driven Teramoto educational activities. events. Located in Alserkal Venue UAE National Pavilion, Avenue, Concrete was designed Alserkal Avenue Alserkal Arts Foundation by the Office for Metropolitan Web alserkalavenue.ae Founder Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Architecture – OMA, founded by Address Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz Alserkal Pritzker Prize-winning architect ID E30 Map D03 Established 2017 Rem Koolhaas. 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Etihad Museum patron and entrepreneur Smita pendent space dedicated to Phone +971 4 234 2342 Open Mon – Sun 10am –8pm Prabhakar in partnership with promoting contemporary art Web womenmuseumuae.com Admission Ticket Alserkal Avenue, the Ishara Art through an innovative cultur- Address , Gold Souq, Director Abdulla Binmassam Foundation is the first non-prof- al programme and activities Near, Al Khor St Established 2017 it institution in the United Arab addressed to the community. ID M08 Map X Phone +971 4 515 5100 Emirates dedicated to art and Aimed to be a leading contem- The museum was founded by Web etihadmuseum.dubaiculture. artists from South Asia. With porary art institution for the Emirati based professor Ra- gov.ae an expansive definition of the UAE, the Middle East and South fia Obaid Ghubash in order to Address Jumeira St. Cross of 2nd region, which includes the dias- Asia region and beyond, the preserve the history of women December St. pora and overlapping histories centre hosts solo and group in the UAE and to break down ID M04 Map X of the region around , Pa- exhibitions, commissions and stereotypes and reveal the ex- Through interactive exhibits kistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka projects drawn both from the traordinary role that UAE wom- and learning programmes, and Nepal the foundation brings Art Jameel collection and exter- en have played in defining their the museum tells the story of new and established practices nal collaborations. culture and shaping their soci- the Union’s creation from the to Dubai’s diverse local and in- ety. It serves as a comprehen- perspective of the country’s ternational audiences. Through The Farjam Foundation sive account of UAE women’s leaders. The experience also monographic presentations, Open Sun – Thu 10am – 8pm lifestyle and philosophy over the aims to educate visitors about group exhibitions, new commis- Admission Free years, which mirrors the story of the nation’s constitution, in par- sions and touring exhibitions, Director Marjan Farjam the nation. ticular the rights, privileges and Ishara develops new dialogues Established 2008 responsibilities that it bestows and explores regional intercon- Phone +971 4 323 0303 8.2 ART AND COMMUNITY upon the people of the UAE. The nections. Web farjamcollection.org SPACES IN DUBAI museum collection includes ob- Address Bld. 4, Podium Level, jects and documents relating to Jameel Arts Centre Gate Village, DIFC A4 Space the events of the formation Exhibitions Age of You, Artist’s ID M07 Map D06 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm of the UAE nation. Garden: Sunoj D and Namrata The Farjam Foundation fosters Director Vilma Jurkute Neog, Hassan Khan: Composi- a dialogue between East and Established 2014 Ishara Art Foundation tion for a Public Park, Hiwa K: West through various cultural Phone +971 50 556 9797 Exhibition Growing Like a Tree Do You Remember What You Are initiatives. Featuring Islamic Web alserkalavenue.ae (Jan 20 – May 20, 2021) Burning? and pre-Islamic art, Contem- Address Warehouse 4, Alserkal Exhibition info 66 Exhibition info 63, 65, 67, 67 porary Middle-Eastern art and Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Open Sat – Wed 10am – 6pm; International Modern and Con- ID A01 Map D03 Admission Free Thu, Fri 12pm – 8pm temporary Art, the Collection A4 by Alserkal Avenue is a mul- Founder Smita Prabhakar Admission Free embodies the fusion of cultures ti-disciplinary space dedicated Established 2019 Director Antonia Carver and traditions between East to the creative community. The Phone +971 4 223 3001 Established 2018 and West. workspace fosters ideas and Web ishara.org Phone +971 4 873 9800 encourages the young creatives Address Warehouse 3, Alserkal Web jameelartscentre.org Women’s Museum of Dubai to meet, collaborate Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Address Jameel Arts Centre, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm and incubate their projects. ID M05 Map D03 Jaddaf Waterfront Admission Ticket Inaugurated in March 2019 ID M06 Map X Founder Rafia Obaid Ghubash Cinema Akil and founded by collector, art Jameel Arts Centre is an inde- Established 2012 Events 200 Meters (Mar 12 – Mar 78 Art and Community Spaces in Dubai Art and Community Spaces in Dubai 79

25, 2021), Another Round (Mar within Dubai, through innovative Gulf Photo Plus (GPP) Sima Performing Arts 26 – Apr 10, 2021) and collaborative events. FN is a photography organisation Open Sat – Thu 10am – 10pm Exhibition info 62, 64 Designs also hosts art related whose aim is to nurture and de- Director Alaa Krimed Established 2014 events that offers patrons and velop the photography commu- Phone +971 557036809 Phone +971 04 223 1139 art lovers from across the Unit- nity in the UAE and within the Web simaarts.com Web cinemaakil.com ed Arab Emirates an opportunity region by offering workshops, Address Warehouse 38, Alserkal Address Warehouse 68, Alserkal to see local artists at work and seminars, and events that en- Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 become acquainted with them courage learning and skill de- ID A09 Map D03 ID A02 Map D03 on a personal and interactive velopment. An innovative warehouse stu- Cinema Akil is an independent level. dio and performance space. It cinema platform bringing to Intersect by Lexus – Dubai operates as a dance workroom Dubai quality films from around Foundry Open Sun – Thu 8am – 6pm; holding a dance development the world. Showcasing directors Open Sun – Mon 10am – 10pm Fri 12:30pm – 3:30pm programme for dancers at all and filmmakers across various Established 2020 Phone +97143 55 9524 levels. It stages theatrical pro- decades, geographies and gen- Phone +971 4 367 3696 Web intersectbylexus.ae ductions produced in-house res, Cinema Akil hopes to create Web facebook.com/foundrydubai Address Gate Village 7, DIFC or in collaboration with other awareness and interest in the Crescent, ID A07 Map D04 brands and clients. Sima Per- seventh art. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid A multi-award-winning venue forming Arts is home to Sima Blvd, Downtown Dubai specially conceived for different Dance Company, a pioneer in eL Seed Studio ID A05 Map D04 needs. Its international loca- the exposure of contemporary Open by appointment Located in Downtown Dubai, tions in Tokyo, Dubai and New dance in the UAE. Phone +971 55 773 7626 Foundry is a new cultural and York offer unrivalled cultural Web alserkalavenue.ae co-working space, hosting a and culinary experiences. The Tashkeel Address Warehouse 75, Alserkal comprehensive programme venue is also the setting for Exhibition Hamdan Buti Al Sham- Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 of art exhibitions, workshops, events such as fashion shows, si: kn-bkhair (Mar 09 – Apr 01, ID A03 Map D03 readings and talks. The location product launches and talks cov- 2021) Set in the heart of Alserkal also includes a library, a pod- ering current topics. Exhibition info 66 Avenue, the studio shows the cast room, a cafe and gallery Open Sat – Thu 10am – 10pm amazing and intricate cal- spaces. Kave Director Sheikha Lateefa Bint ligraphic work of French artist Open Sun, Tue, Wed, Thu 11am – Maktoum eL Seed (1981). Gulf Photo Plus 8pm; Fri, Sat 9am – 6pm Established 2008 Exhibition Tanya Habjouqa: Phone +971 (0) 55 102 4469 Phone +971 4 336 3313 FN Designs The Sacred Space Oddity Web thestoryofthings.com Web tashkeel.org Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm (Mar 22 – May 30, 2021) Address Warehouse 20, Alserkal Address Nadd Al Sheba 1 Established 2009 Exhibition info 71 Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 ID A10 Map X Phone +97 14 37 90 490 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm ID A08 Map D03 A contemporary art organisation Web alserkalavenue.ae Director Mohamed Somji Kave is a community and mul- based in Dubai that facilitates Address Warehouse 26, Alserkal Phone +971 4 380 8545 ti-disciplinary space offering art and design practice through Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Web gulfphotoplus.com a variety of activities such studio facilities, artists’ resi- ID A04 Map D03 Address Warehouse 36, Alserkal as workshops, talking circles dencies, exhibitions, events and FN Designs creates a de- Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 and home decors styling professional as well as recrea- sign-centric social community ID A06 Map D03 classes. tional workshops. 80 Art and Community Spaces in Dubai Art and Community Spaces in Dubai / Galleries in Dubai 81

Tashkeel Al Fahidi field Place, Al Mustaqbal, DIFC The Fridge is an innovator in space that supports artists and Open Sat – Thu 10am – 10pm ID A13 Map D04 its field and the award-winning promotes the development of Director Sheikha Lateefa Bint The international branch of the production team create original Dubai’s arts scene through its Maktoum iconic private club in London bespoke shows for theatres, creative learning programme Established 2008 is the first of its kind in the festivals, nightclubs and exhibi- and community projects. It is a Phone +971 4 336 3313 middle east. Its rich cultural tions as well as conceiving and base for artistic creativity with Web tashkeel.org programme is tailor-made to its staging its own productions. a public DIY painting studio and Address House 10, Al Fahidi His- members with weekly events, events venue offering an active torical Neighbourhood, Bur such as debates, artist studio The Junction calendar featuring visual arts, Dubai visits, panel discussions, live Open Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm film, performance and music. ID A11 Map D07 music, and more. The club also Directors Arjun Burman, Gautam Tashkeel Al Fahidi is a branch of hosts a permanent collection Goenka, Rashmi Kotriwala Yadawei Tashkeel, and takes the form of and temporary exhibitions to Established 2015 Open Mon – Wed 10am –9pm; a well-equipped communal stu- support the artistic landscape Phone +971 4 338 8525 Thu – Sat 10am – 6pm dio, catering for artists working of the region. Web thejunctiondubai.com Phone +971 4 379 1312 across a wide range of visual Address Warehouse 72, Alserkal Web yadawei.net media. The Cave DXB Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Address Yadawei Studio, First Al Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm ID A16 Map D03 Khail Street, Al Quoz Techarc Phone +971 58 693 5040 The Junction was conceived of ID A18 Map X Open Mon – Sun 10am – 10pm Web facebook.com/Thecavedxb/ and built as a space where local Yadawei is an open-access Established 2017 Address Building 5 d3 and regional theatre talent can studio and gallery dedicated to Phone +971 50 359 8787 ID A14 Map D05 thrive, where creators and per- pottery and ceramic art. As part Web techarcdubai.com A studio and creative space formers can risk to be original, of developing and supporting Address Warehouse 25, Alserkal for Dubai-based artists from where collaboration and mutual our community of artists, it Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 different countries, The Cave development can occur, and regularly offers classes, one-off ID A12 Map D03 DXB is owned by the Brazilian where an appreciation for the workshops, artists talks, events An open space where students, street artist Tarsila Schubert. arts can be cultivated within and exhibitions. innovators, artists, entrepre- The location works as a shared Dubai’s theatre audiences. neurs, and all interested in the space for creatives, with several 8.3 GALLERIES IN DUBAI art of creation can engage with artists studios available, thejamjar one another, share and learn but also as an artist-run gallery Event March Workshops at the- 1×1 Art Gallery from each other’s experiences, and offers services of consul- jamjar (Mar 01 – Mar 31, 2021) Exhibition Phantasmagoria’s Il- and embark on expeditions in tancy in the field. Exhibition info 68 lumination in Disenchantment this new world of making. Open Mon – Sun 10am – 7pm (Mar 22 – May 31, 2021) The Fridge Director Hetal Pawani Exhibition info 68 The Arts Club Dubai Owner/Director Shelley Frost Established 2005 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Open Access reserved to mem- Established 2007 Phone +971 4 341 7303 Represented artists Abir Karmakar, bers only Phone +971 4 347 7793 Web thejamjardubai.com Alaa Edris, Bari Kumar, Benitha Established 2020 Web thefridgedubai.com Address Warehouse 74, Alserkal Perciyal, Joze Biju, Birender Phone +971 4 3 506 506 Address Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Kumar Yadav, Chittrovanu Web theartsclub.ae Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 ID A17 Map D03 Mazumdar, Cristiana de Marchi, Address The Arts Club, ICD Brook- ID A15 Map D03 Thejamjar is a community arts Faiza Butt, Ravinder Reddy, 82 Galleries in Dubai Galleries in Dubai 83

Ghulam Mohammad, Jagannath Andakulova Gallery Director Maymanah Farhat Enrico Castellani, Tony Cragg, Panda, Judy Blum Reddy, Exhibition Saule Suleimenova: Established 2008 Ian Davenport, Barry Flanagan, Justin Ponmany, Kambiz Sabri, Plastic.The Last Hero of the Phone +971 4 323 6242 Peter Halley, Richard Höglund, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Kourosh Great Steppe (Mar 09 – Sep 09, Web ayyamgallery.com Sheila Hicks, Robert Indiana, Golnari, K. M. Madhusudhanan, 2021) Address Warehouse 11, Alserkal Koo Jeong-A, Umberto Mariani, Mithu Sen, Muzzumil Ruheel, Exhibition info 71 Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Joan Miró, Jedd Novatt, Pablo Nirode Mazumdar, Jain Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm ID G04 Map D03 Picasso, Marc Quinn, Pablo Re- Poonam, Pushpamala N, Rina Represented artists Alexander inoso, Tomás Saraceno, Pierre Banerjee, Sachin Bonde, Shibu Barkovsky, Almagul Menli- Carbon 12 Soulages, Frank Stella, Chu Natesan, Simrin Mehra Agarwal, bayeva, Andrey Krikis, Askhat Exhibitions Amba Sayal-Bennett: Teh-Chun Sonia Mehra Chawla, Sunil Akhmediyarov, Bakhodir Jalal, A Track to Bare (Mar 6 – 20, Director Stéphane Custot Gawde, Vivek Vilasini, Wardha Bakhyt Bubicanova, Bobur Is- 2021), Monika Grabuschnigg: Established 2016 Shabbir moilov, GaBo Kussainovs, Jamol Razed in Isolation (Mar 22 – May Phone +971 (0) 4 346 8148 Director Malini Gulrajani Usmanov, Javlon Umarbekov, 10, 2021) Web custotgallerydubai.ae Established 1996 Max Penson, Murad Karabaev, Exhibition info 64, 68 Address Warehouse 84, Alserkal Phone +971 4 341 1287 Nikolay Shin, Rimma Gaglo- Open Sat – Thu 11:30am – 7pm Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Web 1x1artgallery.com eva, Said Atabekov, Sanjar Represented artists Olaf Breuning, ID G06 Map D03 Address Warehouse 10, Alserkal Djabbarov, Saule Suleimeno- Bernhard Buhmann, André Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 va, Timur D’Vatz, Timur Ernst Butzer, Gil Heitor Cortesão, Elmarsa Gallery ID G01 Map D03 Akhmedov, Vera Nechaeva, Vy- Monika Grabuschnigg, Amir Exhibition Asma M’Naouar: Hori- acheslav (Yura) Useinov, Dilyara Khojasteh, Philip Mueller, Sara zons (Mar 22 – May 08, 2021) Akka Project Kaipova, Shakhnoz Abdullaeva Rahbar, Anahita Razmi, Amba Exhibition info 65 Exhibition Deus ex femina Director Natalya Andakulova Sayal-Bennett, Sarah Almehairi, Open Mon – Thu 10am – 7pm; (Mar 10 – Apr 10, 2021) Established 2013 Michael Sailstorfer, Ziervogel Sat 10am – 6pm Exhibition info 65 Phone +971 4 385 9897 Directors Nadine Knotzer, Represented artists Abdulaziz Ash- Open By appointment only Web andakulova.com Kourosh Nouri our, Ali Tnani, Asma Mnaouar, Represented artists Filipe Address Unit 18, P4 level, Damac Established 2008 Atef Maatallah, Emna Masmou- Branquinho, Gonçalo Mabunda, park towers, DIFC Phone +971 (0)4 340 60 16 di, Farah Khelil, Feryel Lakhdar, Jimmy Kitheka, Nwaneri Kelechi ID G03 Map D04 Web carbon12.art Gouîder Triki, Halim Karabibene, Charles, Linda Hollier, Margaret Address Warehouse 37, Alserkal Khaled Ben Slimane, Lamia Naji, Ngigi, Mohamed (Mo) Amin, Ayyam Gallery Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Meriem Bouderbala, Mohamed Moira Forjaz , Nahosenay Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm ID G05 Map D03 Rachdi, Mouna Karray, Mourad Negussie, Peteros Ndunde, Represented artists Sadik Kwaish Salem, Nabil Saouabi, Nja Rodrigo Mabunda, Teddy Alfraji, Sama Alshaibi, Asaad Custot Gallery Mahdaoui, Omar Bey, Rachid Mitchener, Vincent Osemwegie, Arabi, Athier, Tammam Azzam, Exhibition 5th Year Anniversary Koraichi, Samir Triki, Slimen Workneh Bezu Mohammad Bozorgi, Safwan Group Show (Mar 22 – June 06, Elkamel, Thameur Mejri Director Lidija Khachatourian Dahoul, eL Seed, Samia Halaby, 2021) Directors Moncef Msakni, Lilia Phone +971 56748 1638 Rula Halawani, Thaier Helal, Exhibition info 62 Ben Salah Web akkaproject.com Elias Izoli, Abdul Karim Majdal Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7 pm Established 1994 Address Warehouse 8, First Al Al-Beik, Mouteea Murad, Afshin Represented artists Etel Adnan, Al- Phone +971 4 3415806 Khail Street, Al Quoz 1 Pirhashemi, Kais Salman, ice Anderson, Fernando Botero, Web galerielmarsa.com ID G02 Map X Faisal Samra Nick Brandt, Alexander Calder, Address Warehouse 23, Alserkal 84 Galleries in Dubai Galleries in Dubai 85

Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 ID G09 Map D03 Phone +971 4 379 0764 Grimanesa Amorós, Shoja ID G07 Map D03 Web greynoise.org Azari, Melis Buyruk, Arthur Green Art Gallery Address Warehouse 24, Alserkal Carter, Gordon Cheung, Tarik Fann Á Porter Exhibition Seher Shah: When Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Currimbhoy, Wim Delvoye, Reza Exhibition A Memory of Places Words Disappear Into Trees ID G11 Map D03 Derakshani, Richard Fishman, (Mar 15 – Apr 15, 2021) (Mar 22 – May 29, 2021) Mia Fonssagrives Solow, Valerie Exhibition info 63 Exhibition info 71 Lawrie Shabibi Hammond, Shahzah Hassan Open Mon – Sat 9am – 9pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Exhibition Farhad Ahrarnia: The Ghazi, Rachel Lee Hovnanian, Represented artists Fadi Attoura, Represented artists Afra Al Dhaheri, Lacemaker (Jan 20 – Mar 04, Richard Hudson, Ran Hwang, Houssam Ballan , Juri Morioka , Nazgol Ansarinia, Kamrooz 2021) Y.Z. Kami, Naeemeh Kazemi, Majd Kurdieh , Nidal Khaddour, Aram, Jaber Al Azmeh, Ales- Exhibition info 66 Nancy Lorenz, Aref Montazeri, Omar Najjar, Barry Iverson, sandro Balteo-Yazbeck, Hera Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Nick Moss, Steven Naifeh, Leila Othman Moussa, Rana Raouda, Buyuktaşçiyan, Chaouki Chou- Represented artists Hamra Abbas, Pazooki, Francesca Pasquali, Walid Ebeid kini, Shadi Habib Allah, Maryam Maliheh Afnan, Farhad Ahrar- Bahar Sabzevari, Marwan Sah- Established 2006 Hoseini, Ana Mazzei, Seher nia, Shaikha Al Mazrou, Mounir marani, Soraya Sharghi, Sudar- Phone +971 55 136 9454 Shah, Hale Tenger Fatmi, Asad Faulwell, Mohamed shan Shetty, Mitra Tabrizian, Web fannaporter.com Director Yasmin Atassi Ahmed Ibrahim, Yazan Khalili, Iké Udé, Firooz Zahedi, Arman Address Villa 45 - St 23b, off Al Established 1995 Mohamed Melehi, Mona Saudi, in Collaboration with the Arman Wasl road opposite Dome/Box Phone +971 4 346 9305 Driss Ouadahi, Shahpour Pouy- Marital Trust and Corice Arman Park, Jumeirah 2 Web gagallery.com an, Nathaniel Rackowe, Larissa Trustee, The Estate of Marcos ID G08 Map X Address Warehouse 28, Alserkal Sansour, Zak Ove, Ishmael Ran- Grigorian, The Estate of Farideh Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 dall-Weeks Lashai. Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde ID G10 Map D03 Directors William Lawrie, Asmaa Directors Alexander Heller, Leila Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Al-Shabibi Heller Represented artists Manal AlDo- Grey Noise Established 2011 Established 2015 wayan, :mentalKLINIK, Latif Al Exhibition Cahrbel-joseph H. Phone +971 4 346 9906 Phone +971 4 321 6942 Ani, Abdelkader Benchamma, Boutros: The Work and Its Pe- Web lawrieshabibi.com Web leilahellergallery.com Vikram Divecha, Bita Fayya- riphery (Mar 22 – May 08, 2021) Address Warehouse 21, Alserkal Address Warehouse 86/87, Alser- zi, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Exhibition info 65 Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 kal Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Haerizadeh, Nargess Hashemi, Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm ID G12 Map D03 ID G13 Map D03 Mohammed Kazem, Ahmad Represented artists Caline Aoun, Amin Nazar, Hesam Rahmanian, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Leila Heller Gallery Meem Gallery Haleh Redjaian, , Fahd Burki, Joana Escoval, Exhibitions Sacha Jafri: 18 Year Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Hoda Tawakol, Raed Yassin, Shreyas Karle, Mehreen Mur- Retrospective (Jan 21 – May Represented artists Armen Agop, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haer- taza, Fazal Rizvi, The Estate of 30, 2021), Sacha Jafri: Journey Dia Al-Azzawi, Kamal Boullata, izadeh and Hesam Rahmanian Lala Rukh, Stéphanie Saadé, to Humanity (Jan 21 – May 30, Zhivago Duncan, Jeffar Khaldi, Director Isabelle van den Eynde Mariam Suhail, Iqra Tanveer, 2021) Abbas Kiarostami, Faisel Laibi Established 2006 Hossein Valamanesh, Michael Exhibition info 70, 70 Sahi, Mahmoud Obaidi, Parviz Phone +971 4 323 5052 John Whelan, Lantian Xie Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Tanavoli, Mohammed Kanoo Web ivde.net Directors Umer Butt, Hetal Represented artists Zeinab Al Director Charles Pocock Address Warehouse 17, Alserkal Pawani, Rehan B.Shah Hashei, Ayad Alkadhi, Hashel Established 2007 Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 Established 2008 Al Lamki, Abdul Qader Al Rais, Phone +971 4 347 7883 86 Galleries in Dubai

Web meemartgallery.com Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gar- Address Umm Suqeim Road, gash, Monir Shahroudy Farman- Al Quoz 1 farmaian, Nima Nabavi, Pouran ID G14 Map D02 Jinchi, Rana Begum, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sara Naim, Shirin Tabari Artspace Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, So- Exhibitions Alymamah Rashed phia Al Maria, Tarek Al-Ghous- (Mar 16 – Apr 16, 2021), Samah sein, Yasiin Bey, Youssef Nabil, Shihadi and Michael Halak: Zineb Sedira Terra (Un)firma (Feb 16 – Mar Directors Sunny Rahbar, Claudia 15, 2021) Cellini, Omar Ghobash Exhibition info 64, 71 Established 2005 Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm Phone +971 4 341 1367 Represented artists Hazem Harb, Web thethirdline.com Ahmed Askalany, Nasser Al Address Warehouse 78/ 80, Alser- Aswadi, Alfred Basbous, naqsh kal Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 collective, Lulwah Al homoud, ID G16 Map D03 Mohammed Joha, Hussein Madi, Maitha Abdalla, Michael XVA Gallery Halak, Mohamed Abla, Kevork Exhibitions Huma Shoaib: Silent Mourad, Peyman Shaafi, Zakar- Confabulations (Mar 17 – Apr ia Ramhani, Alymamah Rashed, 15, 2021), Richard Ketley: Insid- Samah Shihadi, Adel El Siwi, Ta- ers (Feb 18 – Mar 16, 2021) greed Darghouth, Khaled Zaki Exhibition info 67, 70 Directors Maliha Tabari, Sossy Open Mon – Sun 10am – 6pm Dikijian Represented artists Meera Alhame- Established 2003 li, Barbara Wildenboer, Celina Phone +971 4 323 0820 Teague, Elizabeth Dorazio, Web tabariartspace.com Pom Mullan, Dia Batal, Halim Address Bld. 3, level 2, Gate Vil- Al Karim, Tariq Dajani, Mona lage, DIFC Saudi, Michael R. Arnold, Tor ID G15 Map D06 Seidel, Samira Abbassy, Nelda Gilliam, Azad Nanakeli, Alikhaan The Third Line Abdollahi, Mahmoud Hamadani, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Colleen Quigley, Arezu, Halona Represented artists Abbas Akha- Hilbertz, Jakob Roepke, Gaz- van, Anuar Khalifi, Ala Ebtekar, mend Kalemi, Mukesh Shah, Amir H. Fallah, Farah Al Qasimi, Al Braithwaite, Naz Shahrokh, Farhad Moshiri, Fouad Elkoury, Imran Channa, Richard Ket- Hassan Hajjaj, Hayv Kahraman, ley, Wissam Shawkat, Simeen Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas Farhat, Miriam Humer, Katia Al & Khalil Joreige, Jordan Nassar, Tal, Sarvnaz Farsian, Hussein 88 Galleries in Dubai 9 89 LEISURE IN DUBAI Al-Mohasen, Yoshihiko Tsut- Address Warehouse 27, Alserkal sumi, Behnoosh Feiz, Saba Ma- Avenue, Street 17, Al Quoz 1 soumian, Jonathan Gent, Akim ID G18 Map D03 Monet, Morteza Zahedi Director Mona Hauser 9.1 RESTAURANTS Thu – Sat 12pm – 12am Established 2003 IN DUBAI Phone +971 4 407 4444 Phone +971 4 3535383 Web thisisbb.com Web xvagallery.com 3 Fils Address Gate Village 08 Address Al Fahidi Neighborhood, Type Restaurant ID R04 Map D04 Bur Dubai, 312th Road Taste Modern Asian ID G17 Map D07 Open Mon – Sun 12pm – 11:30pm Cassette Phone +971 4333 4003 Type Bistrot Zawyeh Gallery Web 3fils.com Taste French and international Exhibition Nabil Anani: In Pursuit Address Shop 02, Jumeirah Fish- cuisine of Utopia (Jan 20 – Apr 29, 2021) ing Harbour 1 Open Mon – Sun 8am – 6pm Exhibition info 68 ID R01 Map X Phone +971 4 349 1966 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Web cassette.ae Represented artists Maisara Ba- Akiba Dori Address The Courtyard, 4B Street, roud, Fadi Batrice, Ola Zaitoun, Type Restaurant & Pizzera Al Quoz Rawan Khalilieh, Monther Taste Japanese street food and ID R05 Map X Jawabreh, Yazan Abu Salameh, Tokyo Neapolitan Pizza Asma Ghanem, Osama Said, Open Mon – Sun 12pm – 12am Ce La Vi Sliman Mansour, Nabil Anani, Phone +971 4 770 7949 Type Restaurant & SkyBar Khaled Hourani, Tayseer Bar- Web akibadori.com Taste Contemporary Asian akat, Hosni Radwan, Rana Sa- Address Building 8, Dubai Design Open Mon – Sun 12pm – 2pm, mara, Fouad Agbaria, Kareem District 6pm – 1am Dabbah, Mahdi Baraghithi, ID R02 Map D05 Phone +971 4 582 6111 Wafa Hourani, Ruba Salameh, Web celavi.com Vera Tamari, Bashar Khalaf, Amazonico Address Level 54, Address Sky Isam Bader, Sana Bishara, Jack Type Restaurant View Hotel, Sheikh Mohammed Persekian, Bashar Alhroub, Taste Fusion bin Rashid Blvd, Tower 2 Nasser Soumi, Shafik Radwan, Open Sat – Tue 12pm – 2am; Wed ID R06 Map D04 Asad Azi, Aissa Deebi, Karim – Fri 12pm – 3am Abu Shakra, Samah Shihadi, Phone +971 4 5713999 Comptoir 102 Shada Safadi, Ibrahim Al Mo- Web amazonicorestaurant.com Type Concept store & café zain, Mohamed Abusal, Moham- Address DIFC Pavilion Taste Healthy/Vegan mad Khalil, Sager Al Qatil, Rafat ID R03 Map D04 Open Mon – Sun 8am – 10pm Asad, Durar Bacri Phone +971 4 385 4555 Director Ziad Anani BB Social Dining Web comptoir102.com Established 2020 Type Social Dining Address 102, Beach Rd., Jumei- Phone +971 58 5925667 Taste Eastern cuisine rah 1 Web zawyeh.net Open Sun – Wed 12pm – 10:30pm; ID R07 Map X 90 Restaurants in Dubai Restaurants in Dubai 91

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Sheikh Zayed Bridge The capital of the UAE and the seat of the President, Abu Dhabi is Al Shahama Rd the second most populous of the seven emirates. The city’s first museum, the was built in 1969, and the Emirate has been expanding its cultural repertoire in recent years by establishing major museums designed by some of the world’s most Maqta Bridge Abu Dhabi - Al Ain Rd celebrated architects.

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11.1 EXHIBITIONS AND Miró, Lee Ufan, André Masson EVENTS IN ABU DHABI or Jackson Pollock, alongside contemporary works and mon- 100/100: Hundred Best Arabic umental calligraffiti made by Posters artists responding to Eastern Date Feb 06 – May 16, 2021 traditions. The presentation Open Tue – Sun 10am – 8pm explores masterworks from the Admission Free, advanced booking Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim is encouraged Abu Dhabi and others, many Venue Warehouse421 shown here for the very first Web warehouse421.ae time. Address Mina Zayed, Street Samrayr Hyphenated Spaces: “The Cup and ID E01 Map A03 The Saucer” Reinterpreted The exhibition brings together Date Dec 15, 2020 – Mar 30, 2021 winning entries from a biennial Artist Hashel Al Lamki competition that celebrates Venue viewable on Warehouse421 the work of talented graphic website designers from across the Arab Curators Mingu Cho, Jeffrey Liu, world. This year, Warehouse421 Ju Hee Noh, Christopher Pohn- will highlight one winning dorff, Sherry Wu poster by showcasing a bill- Web warehouse421.ae board-sized print on the front ID E03 Map @ facade. The curators of the virtual ex- hibition “Hyphenated Spaces” Abstraction and Calligraphy: present alternative ways of Towards a Universal Language looking at six different sub- Date Feb 17 – Jun 12, 2021 themes of artist Hashel Al Lam- Open Tue – Sun 10am – 6:30pm ki’s solo-exhibition, “The Cup Admission Ticket, advanced book- and The Saucer”, by selecting ing is mandatory thirty-four artworks by artists Venue Louvre Abu Dhabi representing various geogra- Web louvreabudhabi.ae phies, periods, and styles. Address Saadiyat Cultural District ID E02 Map A01 Mina Zayed: Reflections The exhibition showcases on Past Futures modern masters’ works by Date Feb 06 – Jun 13, 2021 Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Joan Open Tue – Sun 10am – 8pm 106 Exhibitions and Events in Abu Dhabi Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi 107

Admission Free, advanced booking visible both the restrictions and Artists Meriem Bouderbela, Hus- Al Ain Palace Museum is encouraged the freedoms of digital culture, sain Sharif, Rabee Kiwan, Ser- Open Sat – Thu 9am – 4pm; Artists Aisha AlNoaimi, Augus- and explore how identities and wan Baran, Chaled Res, Shiblee Fri 2pm – 4:30pm tine Paredes, Catherine Donald- histories are created, trans- Munir, Omar Zeidan, Kourosh Admission Free son, Fatema Al Fardan, Lateefa formed, or invented through our Salehi, Salwa Zeidan, Moham- Established 1998 Almazrooei, Lena Kassicieh, relationship with technology. med Al Shammarey, Ahmad Far- Phone +971 3 711 8388 Lara Rudar, Mansour Al-Heera, id, Seungwoo Hwang, Saurab Web visiitabudhabi.ae Mazna Almazrouei, Maryam Al Stephanie Comilang: Float Narrang, Shahzad Hassan Ghazi Address Al Jahili area, Hessa bint Huraiz, Sandra Zarneshan Date Feb 06 – Mar 21, 2021 Venue Salwa Zeidan Gallery Mohamed Street next to Al Ain Venue Warehouse421 Open Tue – Sun 10am – 8pm Web salwazeidangallery.com Oasis Web warehouse421.ae Admission Free, advanced booking Address Business center, Milleni- ID A02 Map X Address Mina Zayed, Street is encouraged um Capital Gate, Sheik Rached Built in 1937 as the palace of Samrayr Venue Warehouse421 Al Maktoom Street the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan ID E04 Map A03 Curator Murtaza Vali ID E07 Map X Al Nahyan and opened in 1998 The exhibition investigates on Web warehouse421.ae Covid 19 has created lots of as a museum, the Al Ain Palace how Mina Zayed’s urban plan Address Mina Zayed, Street changes to our lives, it has Museum pays homage to the reflects the role it played as Samrayr pushed us to change many of heritage of Sheikh Zayed. the principle trading gateway ID E06 Map A03 our everyday habits. The artists for Abu Dhabi through works “Float” presents two recent on display respond to the chal- Bait 15 by 11 artists. The area was films by Berlin-based Stephanie lenges they have had to under- Open By appointment instrumental in the Capital’s Comilang that narrate the lives take and express whats going Admission Free growth, and the development of overseas Filipino workers, on in their life through their Web bait15.com of its culture, both material and complicating documentary recent works. The exhibition is Address Al Zafaranah, House 15 anthropological. forms with references to sci- also available online. ID A03 Map X ence fiction. The show follows Founded in 2017 by Afra Al not in, of, along, or relating to a line “The Stonebreakers” in the four 11.2 MUSEUMS, ART INSTI- Dhaheri, Hashel Al Lamki, and Date Jan 20 – Jul 10, 2021 part series “Substructures: TUTIONS, INDEPENDENT ART Maitha Abdalla, Bait 15 is an Artists Addie Wagenknecht, Cao Excavating the Everyday”, a SPACES AND GALLERIES artist run studio and exhibition Fei, Eva and Franco Mattes, Lee series, curated by Murtaza Vali, IN ABU DHABI space in Abu Dhabi. Bait 15 was Blalock, Maryam Al Hamra, mi- investigating some of the infra- conceived as both a studio cha cárdenas, Ramin Haeriza- structures that shape the spac- 101 space and an artist run gallery. deh, , Hesam es, contours and rhythms of Established 2020 On Sepetmber 2020 artist Zu- Rahmanian, Sophia Al-Maria, Gulf urbanism, revealing forms Web instagram.com/engage.101/ hoor Al Sayegh joined Bait15 as Zach Blas and networks so embedded ID A01 Map @ a new member. Venue viewable on the NYU Abu within the Khaleeji quotidian 101 is a new quarterly online Dhabi Art Gallery website that they are commonly over- sale model involving emerging Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi Curators Heather Dewey-Hag- looked. and mid-career artists excluded Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri borg, Maya Allison from commercial galleries’ rep- 2pm – 7pm Web nyuad-artgallery.org Where do we go from here resentation. It aims to discard Phone +971 2 657 6348 ID E05 Map @ Date Mar 18 – Apr 28, 2021 the traditional art ecosystem, Web culturalfoundation.ae In this virtual exhibition, nine Open By appointment to build a more ethical and sus- Address Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al artists and art collectives make Admission Free tainable alternative. Maktoum Street, Al Hosn 108 Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi 109

ID A04 Map X were first discovered. Useinov, Igor Shipilin, Alexander internationally established Cultural Foundation was cre- Tyunkin, Maria Chepeleva, Olga artists, curators, and scholars ated by the late Sheik Zayed in Louvre Abu Dhabi Grigorieva-Klimova, Katerina at its main space. Its auxiliary 1981 and reopened in 2018 as Exhibition Abstraction and Callig- Spirtus, Andrey Dudchenko, venue, the Project Space, is an the home of contemporary cul- raphy: Towards a Universal Lan- Oleksiy Lytvynenko, Kateryna exhibition laboratory for the ture and cultural exchange. guage (Feb 17 – Jun 12, 2021) Kosyanenko, Olesya Dzhuraye- university community, and for Exhibition info 104 va, Nikolai Dudchenko, Oksana emerging artists and curators. Etihad Modern Art Gallery Open Tue – Sun 10am – 6.30pm Stratiychuk, Andrew Levitsky, Situated within NYU Abu Dha- Open Sun, Tue, Thu 11am – 6pm Admission E-ticket to book in ad- Grigoriy Sokirinskiy, Oleksandr bi, the community of which Represented artists Abdul Qader vance Kuzmin, Klim Stepanov, Andrey hails from over 115 countries, Al Rais, Khulood Al Jabri, Tala Established 2016 Bludov, Elena Molchanova, The Art Gallery organizes free Hammoud Atrouni Phone +971 600 56 5566 Mykola Zhuravel, Nina public programmes and guided Phone +971 2 621 0145 Web louvreabudhabi.ae Murashkina tours in conjunction with its Web etihadmodernart.com Address Saadiyat Cultural District Director Natalya Muzaleva groundbreaking exhibitions. Address Al Bateen Area Villa 15, ID A07 Map A01 Established 2013 It also produces scholarly Al Huwelat Street (Behind Al The first universal museum Phone +971 50 728 3778 publications, which are a core Bateen Mall) in the Arab world. Born of an Web n2nartgallery.com part of its curatorial frame and ID A05 Map A05 agreement between the govern- Address Al Ain Tower, Al Khalidi- reflect its academic mission. Etihad Modern Art Gallery is a ments of Abu Dhabi and France, yah (entrance through Costa Collectively, with the Gallery’s multi-purpose art space and the Louvre Abu Dhabi displays Coffee) Reading Room, these welcom- cafè fostering the promotion, art, manuscripts and objects of ID A09 Map A04 ing, intimate spaces open up the discussion and the growing historical, cultural and sociolog- artistic opportunities and initi- appreciation of the burgeoning ical significance. NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery ate regional and international Emirati art scene. Exhibition not in, of, along, or dialogue. Manarat Al Saadiyat relating to a line (Jan 20 – Jul Hili Archaeological Park Open Mon – Sun 9am – 8pm 10, 2021) NYUAD Arts Center Open Mon – Sun 9:30am – 6:30pm Phone +971 2 6575 937 Exhibition info 106 Phone +971 02 6286868 Phone +971 2 666 4442 Web manaratalsaadiyat.ae Admission Free Web nyuad-artscenter.org Address Mohammed Bin Khalifa Address Saadiyat Cultural District Director Maya Allison Address New York University Abu St, Al Ain ID A08 Map A01 Established 2014 Dhabi, Saadiyat Island ID A06 Map X Set in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Phone +971 2628 8000 ID A11 Map A02 Located only 10 kilometres cultural hub of Saadiyat Is- Web nyuad-artgallery.org The NYUAD Arts Center is an outside Al Ain (on the road to land, Manarat Al Saadiyat is a Address Saadiyat Island internationally renowned Dubai), the Hili Archaeological multi-purpose venue offering ID A10 Map A02 performing arts center that Gardens comprises ancient temporary exhibitions, cultural The NYUAD Art Gallery is the presents student, faculty, and monuments of Al Ain. Most of activities, a garden area and Gulf’s first and only university community productions along- the monuments are of the Umm a restaurant. gallery with a programme of side distinguished professional an-Nar period which dates from scholarly and experimental artists from around the world. about 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE N2N Gallery museum exhibitions. The pro- and is named after the island Open Sun – Thu 10am – 10pm gramme seeks to map new Qasr Al Hosn near Abu Dhabi on which re- Represented artists Petro Lebed- territories and ideas through Open Sat – Thu 10am –9pm; mains of this important culture inets, Petro Bevza, Ramazan presenting exhibitions by Fri 2pm –10pm 110 Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi

Admission Ticket tions of the , in Established 2018 particular of Sheikh Khalifa who Phone +971 2 6976 400 was born here in 1948. The fort Web qasralhosn.ae was also an oasis in the desert Address Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed and a place for rule for the com- Al Maktoum Street, Al Hosn munity. The recently restored ID A12 Map X architectural site now provides Opened to the public in the public with the narrations 2018, Qasr Al Hosn is the oldest of historical events related to it and most significant building and the lives of its inhabitants. in Abu Dhabi, holding the city’s first permanent structure: the Salwa Zeidan Gallery watchtower. Built around the Exhibition Where do we go from 1790’s, the commanding struc- here (Mar 18 – Apr 28, 2021) ture overlooked the costal trade Exhibition info 106 routes and protected the grow- Open Sun – Thu 10am – 7pm, ing settlement established on Sat 11am – 5pm the island. Qasr Al Hosn is now a Admission By appointment museum displaying of artifacts Represented artists Abdul Qader Al and archival materials dating Rais, Adonis, Ahmed Farid, Mo- back to as far as 6000 BC. Qasr hammed Al Shammarey, Arman Al Hosn visiting experience Stepanian, Chaled Res, Connie includes the House of Artisans Noyes, Daifallah, Fatema Al and the Cultural Foundation., Mazrouie, Hassan Sharif, Hus- which was created by the late sain Sharif, Jamal Abdul Rahim, Sheik Zayed in 1981 and reo- Kamaran Tahir, Kourosh Salehi, pened in 2018 as the home of Marc Guiragossian, Meriem contemporary culture and cul- Bourdebala, Mohammed Abou tural exchange. El Naga, Omar Zeidan, Rabee Kiwan, Racha Bennett, Rahul Qasr Al Muwaiji Dutta, Hrh Reem Al Faisal, Reza Open Tue – Thu, Sat 9am – 7pm; Derakshani, Rima Amyouni, Fri 3pm – 7pm Rose Husseiny, Salwa Zeidan, Phone +971 3 767 4444 Saurabh Narang, Serwan Baran, Web qasralmuwaiji.ae Seungwoo Hwang, Shahzad Address Khalifa Bin Zayed St, Hassan Ghazi, Shiblee Muneer Al Ain Director Salwa Zeidan ID A13 Map X Established 1994 Qasr Al Muwaiji is part of the Phone +971 50 398 8319 Cultural Site of Al Ain. The UN- Web salwazeidangallery.com ESCO World Heritage Site func- Address Business center, Milleni- tioned as a home to genera- um Capital Gate, Sheik Rached 112 Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi 12 113 LEISURE IN ABU DHABI Al Maktoom Street overall cultural landscape in ID A14 Map A02 the Emirates.

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What MM open call respondent When 8:30pm – 10pm What MM open call respondent Venue MM virtual platform presentation: Karachi Biennial What Film screening presentation: Art Biennials and Info 36 2019 Censorship and Curatorial Venue Mirage City Cinema, the Mediterranean Conundrum Responsibilities by Samina Al Mureijah Square by Chiara Vartuccia March Meeting Iqbal Info 35 Venue MM virtual platform When 7:45pm – 9pm Venue MM virtual platform Info 36 What Online talk for Rayyane Info 35 SATURDAY 20TH, MARCH Tabet exhibition TBC 2021 SUNDAY 21ST, MARCH 2021 Venue MM virtual platform FRIDAY 19TH, MARCH 2021 Info 36 March Meeting March Meeting March Meeting When 5pm – 7pm When 5pm – 5:30pm MONDAY 22ND, MARCH 2021 When 6pm – 7pm What Roundtable 5: Global What MM open call respondent What Keynote 4: On Restitution Modernism/New Scholarship presentation: Redefining Galleries Night and the Art Industry Venue MM virtual platform Art Institutions Role by Silke When 4pm – 9pm Venue MM virtual platform Info 36 Schmickl What Exhibitions opening Info 35 Venue MM virtual platform Venue Alserkal Avenue March Meeting Info 36 March Meeting When 7pm – 8pm SUNDAY 28TH, MARCH 2021 When 7pm – 8pm What Performances by Tarek March Meeting What Performances by Tarek Atoui and collaborating artists- When 5:40pm – 6:10pm Héloïse Bariol Ceramics: Pastels Atoui and collaborating in-residence What MM open call respondent When 11am – 1pm artists-in-residence Venue Al Mureijah Square presentation: The World in What Opening Venue Al Mureijah Square Info 36 Which We Find Ourselves by Venue Comptoir102 Info 35 Grace Aneiza Info 67 March Meeting Venue MM virtual platform March Meeting When 7:10pm – 7:40pm Info 36 When 7:10pm – 7:40 pm What MM open call respondent What MM open call respondent presentation: Srinagar Biennial March Meeting presentation: Lost Horizons by by Melissa Carison When 6:20pm – 6:50pm Murtaza Vali Venue MM virtual platform What MM open call respondent Venue MM virtual platform Info 36 presentation: Thinking Info 35 Presently with History at the March Meeting Ethnographic Museum by Sarah March Meeting When 7:50pm – 8:20pm Johnson When 7:50pm – 8:20 pm What MM open call respondent Venue MM virtual platform What MM open call respondent presentation: On the Verge of Info 36 presentation: To Avoid or To Now by Sabrina Moura Embrace by Wided Khadraoui Venue MM virtual platform March Meeting Venue MM virtual platform Info 36 When 7pm – 7:30pm Info 35 What MM open call respondent March Meeting presentation: Against Art March Meeting When 8:30pm –9pm History by Sadia Shirazi 122 Notes Notes 123 124 Notes Notes 125 126 Notes Notes 127 ﻓﻌﺎﻟﻴﺔ رأس اﻟﺨﻴﻤﺔ اﻟﺜﻘﺎﻓﻴﺔ ﻟﻬﺬا اﻟﻌﺎم Ras Al Khaimah’s cultural event of the year

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