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Basel is the perfect place to embark on a fascinating > With the free BaselCard you benefi t from journey through of art. An exceptional density a 50 % discount on admission to museums of museums, the world’s most important art fair and (incl. special exhibitions) a lively urban art scene make a compact city of culture with an appeal that reaches well beyond Europe. BASEL.COM My Art Guide Dubai, Sharjah, Lightbox Publishing This guide is divided into three In Dubai the art week kicks off Abu Dhabi sections, taking you on a journey with the usual Alserkal Avenue Publishers from the first port of call, which Galleries Night and the DIFC Art Editorial Committee Matteo Bartoli is the Sharjah Biennial opening Night on March 18, where in the Nina Heydemann (Director of Mara Sartore on March 7, then onto Dubai 2 main cultural districts of the the Maraya Art Centre and the where Art Dubai opens on March city, galleries and art spaces 1971 - Design Space), Shobha Global Pr and Sales 18, and then finally to Abu Dhabi are open till late to present their Pia Shamdsani (Executive Ilaria Malagutti where a visit to the Louvre is al- new shows. In Alserkal don’t Director UAE Unlimited), Lana Carlotta Santini ways worth ones while. miss the newly opened Ishara Art Shamma (Senior Manager, Lara Morrell Foundation, presenting the show Public Programmes at Art This year the Editorial Commit- “Altered Inheritances: Home Jameel) Web and App Developer tee Nina Heydemann (Direc- is a Foreign Place” with Shilpa Andrea Serrani tor of Maraya Art Centre and Gupta and Zarina; the group Guest Artist 1971-Design Space), Shobha show “Fabric(ated) Fractures” Nujoom Alghanem For advertising please write to Pia Shamdsani (Executive Di- at Concrete; “Personal Revolu- [email protected] rector of UAE Unlimited) and tions” a warehouse takeover by Lana Shamma (Senior Manag- the Atassi Foundation and the My Art Guides Lightbox Group HQ er, Public Programmes at Art group show originating from the Cannaregio 3527 Jameel) has selected the best Alserkal Residency, “Rhodiola” Editor-in-Chief 30121 Venice, Italy art spaces and events in town at Warehouse 90. On March 20 Mara Sartore T +39 041 2411265 and provided us with essential under the direction of Pablo del www.lightboxgroup.net tips for our leisure chapter. Val, Art Dubai open its doors to Deputy Editor Our guest artist for this edition present the largest exhibition of Claudia Malfitano For other enquiries is the Emirati poet and film contemporary and modern art [email protected] maker Nujoom Alghanem, who from the region. This year the fair Deputy Editor Online Magazine will represent the UAE for the presents the new section called Carla Ingrasciotta For more info check out 58th Venice Biennale and has Bawwaba (meaning “gateway” our website myartguides.com answered our questions on the in ); new exciting commis- Graphic Designers or download our App from local art scene and her Venetian sions, talks and the anticipated Matteo Pitassi iTunes and Google Play endeavour. Global Art Forum, titled “School Camilla Rigo Langé is a Factory?”. To make the most from your Translations and Proof Readings stay in the UAE, I suggest you This is only a hint of the many Lara Morrell start in Sharjah where from events, I suggest you build your March 7 the Biennial offers own itinerary using the My Art a dense programme of talks Guides tools via our website or and exhibitions under the title app for iOS and our brand new “Leaving the Echo Chamber”, app for Android, or simply by curated by Zoe Butt, Omar flipping through the pages of © Lightbox. All rights reserved. Printed in Abu Dhabi, UAE Kholeif, Claire Tancons. Also this guide. Reproduction in whole or in part without by United Printing and equally unmissable is the March written permission is strictly prohibited. Publishing Meeting and the exhibition Enjoy the art season, All credits, information, times, prices are accurate at time of going to press. “Tashweesh: Material Noise” at Lightbox cannot be held responsible for the Maraya Art Center, in collab- Mara Sartore any change after February 15, 2019 oration with U.A.E. Unlimited. Editor-in-Chief 10 How to Use the Guide Useful Numbers 11

HOW TO USE museums for each area of Key to ID Symbols Phone +971 4 814 1111 THE GUIDE interest. SB Sharjah Biennial Web dubaiairports.ae MM March Meeting “My Art Guide Dubai, Sharjah 7 Art Dubai AD Art Dubai Sharjah International SHJ and Abu Dhabi 2019” is divided A description of Art Dubai and F Other Fairs Phone +971 6 558 1111 into 13 parts giving a complete its sectors, and a focus on the E Exhibitions and Events Web sharjahairport.ae overview of the Dubai, Sharjah other satellite fairs in Dubai. All M Museums and Art and Abu Dhabi art scene and the major art exhibitions and Institutions in Dubai Abu Dhabi International Airport related events taking place events. C Art amd Community Phone +971 2 505 5555 during the Sharjah Biennial and Spaces Web abudhabiairport.ae Art Dubai. 8 Art in Dubai G Galleries in Dubai A selection of art spaces in A Museums, Art Institutions, Taxi 1 When Tradition Meets Dubai, active all year round, and Independent Art Spaces Dubai and Sharjah Taxi are Modernity: An Interview with artists to keep an eye on. and Galleries in Sharjah centralised systems with several Nujoom Alghanem and Abu Dhabi franchises working under the 9 Leisure in Dubai R Restaurants same fare plan and recognised 2 Your Compass in Sharjah A selection of the best H Hotels by different coloured roofs. An Sharjah’s Art districts with restaurants, and hotels in Dubai. additional charge will be added the most important events, Map References to your bill once you cross the landmarks, galleries, and 10 Your Compass in Abu Dhabi Map S01 – S03: Sharjah Dubai–Sharjah border. museums for each area of Abu Dhabi’s Art districts with the Map S01: Al Qasba interest. most important events, landmarks, Map S02 – S03: Heritage Area Dubai Taxi Corporation galleries, and museums for each Map D01 – D07: Dubai Phone +971 4 208 0808 3 Sharjah Biennial area of interest. Map D03: Alserkal Avenue Sharjah Taxi A description of the March Map D05: Design District Dubai Phone 600 525252 Meeting programme with 11 Art in Abu Dhabi Map D04 – D06: DIFC Web dubai-taxi.com, shjtaxi.ae detailed info. All the major art All the major art exhibitions and Map A01 – A06: Abu Dhabi exhibitions and events. events in March and a selection Map A01 – A02: Use the Abu Dhabi Taxi App of art spaces in Abu Dhabi, Map A03: Al Mina / Al Zahiyah for iOS and Android or dial 600 4 Art in Sharjah active all year round. Map A04 – A05: Al Ras Al Akhdar / 535353 A selection of art spaces in Al Bateen Phone +971 2 4173888 Sharjah, active all year round. 12 Leisure in Abu Dhabi Map A06: Khor al Maqta’a A selection of the best Map X: Outside map area Emergencies 5 Leisure in Sharjah restaurants and hotels in Abu Map V: Various Locations Police A selection of the best Dhabi. Phone 999 (emergency) restaurants, and hotels in USEFUL NUMBERS Sharjah. 13 Agenda Ambulance A day-by-day, hour-by-hour Airports Phone 998 6 Your Compass in Dubai calendar of openings, Dubai International DXB Dubai’s Art districts with performances, special events Phone +971 4 224 5555 Fire the most important events, taking place in Dubai, Sharjah Web dubaiairports.ae Phone 997 landmarks, galleries, and and Abu Dhabi. Al Maktoum International DWC 12 Editorial Committee Editorial Committee 13

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Art of Quotation. Forms and UAE-based artists. Themes of the Art Quote, 1990- Shamdsani has been the 2010”, examines inter-pictorial platform’s Executive Director referentiality of contemporary since its inception in 2015, and artworks. Previously, she has overseen the successful worked as an exhibition development and realisation manager for the Deutsche Bank of four exhibitions under its Art Collection in Frankfurt/Main, auspices. She continues to work . Dr. Nina Heydemann closely with HH Sheikh Zayed studied Art History and Cultural bin Sultan to put into effect Lana Shamma Sciences at the University the organisation’s mission, Senior Manager, Public Dr. Nina Heydemann of Leipzig, the Università Ca’ and to widen its scope. As the Programmes at Art Jameel Director of Maraya Art Centre Foscari Venice and Venice art advisor to HH Sh Zayed bin and 1971 - Design Space International University, Italy. Sultan, she carries complete Lana’s focus is on the She was awarded scholarships directing responsibility over development of programmes Dr. Nina Heydemann is currently from the University of Leipzig, all aspects of his private and partnerships that engage the director of the Maraya Art the German Academic Exchange collection. In this capacity, she a broad public, often outside of Centre and the 1971 - Design Service (DAAD) and the has collaborated with HH Sh the gallery setting, including Space in Sharjah, United Arab German Academic Scholarship Zayed bin Sultan in building an Art Jameel Commissions. Emirates. Established in 2010, Foundation (Studienstiftung des extensive collection of modern Previously, Lana worked in the Maraya Art Centre is a deutschen Volkes). and contemporary art from the management and outreach at non-profit art space that is Middle East and South Asia. Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation also home to the Maraya Video Shamdasani’s experience in Publishing and the Doha Tribeca Archive and the Maraya Art the visual arts has also often Film Festival. With a Masters in Park. The 1971 - Design Space, translated into an engagement Public Diplomacy, her Fulbright launched in Sharjah in 2015, is a with large-scale sumptuous Grant led her to research film non-profit platform for local as interior design projects in partnerships between Jordan well as international designers Abu Dhabi, where she worked and the USA. and houses the 1971 -Design closely with artisan painters, Store. Before her appointment, craftsmen, and engineers at Dr. Nina Heydemann worked various stages of the design and as the Senior Manager – Visual Shobha Pia Shamdsani construction process. Arts heading the Department Executive Director of UAE With experience in , of Visual Arts at the Abu Dhabi Unlimited Singapore, and Abu Dhabi, Music and Arts Foundation Shamdsani’s art and culture (ADMAF) in Abu Dhabi from Art Advisor to His Highness interests have been shaped by 2014-2018. She received her Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin a very diverse set of influences. PhD degree in Art History Khalifa Al Nahyan, Shobha Pia She remains connected to the from the University of Leipzig, Shamdsani is also the co- international art community Germany, and the University founder of UAE Unlimited through a continual engagement College London (UCL), United – a satellite art platform that with biennials and art fairs on Kingdom. Her dissertation “The supports emerging Emirati and the global stage. 14 Index Index 15

1 A06 Sharjah Art Foundation Page 42 Map S03 INTERVIEW A07 Sharjah Art Museum Page 42 Map S03 A08 Sharjah Calligraphy Museum Page 42 Map S03 When Tradition Meets Modernity: An Interview with A09 Sharjah Heritage Museum Page 43 Map S02 Nujoom Alghanem Page 20 A10 Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization Page 43 Map S03 A11 Sharjah National Theatre Page 43 Map S02 2 YOUR COMPASS IN SHARJAH 5 LEISURE IN SHARJAH Your Compass in Sharjah Page 28 5.1 Restaurants in Sharjah 3 SHARJAH BIENNIAL R01 Al Rawi Page 44 Map S01 R02 Beit Setti Page 44 Map S01 SB 3.1 Sharjah Biennal 14 Page 29 Map S02 R03 ButterCup by Zo’s Kitchen Page 44 Map S02 R04 Emirgan Sütiş Page 44 Map S01 MM 3.2 March Meeting Page 30 Map S02 R05 Fen Café and Restaurant Page 44 Map S02 R06 Jones The Grocer Page 44 Map S01 3.3 Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah R07 Levantine Page 44 Map S01 R08 Rossovivo Page 44 Map S01 E01 A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel R09 Shababeek Page 44 Map S01 Art Foundation, Sharjah Art Museum Page 38 Map S03 R10 Ushna Maza Page 45 Map S01 E02 Crossroads: Cultural Exchange between the R11 Zahr El Laymoun Page 45 Map S01 Islamic Civilisation, Europe and Beyond, R12 Zaroob Sharjah Page 45 Map S01 Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization Page 38 Map S03 E03 Geo. Earth and its Materiality in the Ceramics 5.2 Hotels in Sharjah of Michael Rice, 1971-Design Space Page 40 Map S01 E04 Muna Al Khajah: Harmony. Aesthetics of H01 Al Bait Hotel Page 45 Map S02 Ornamentation in Emirati Heritage, H02 Al Faya Lodge Page 45 Map X Sharjah Heritage Museum Page 40 Map S02 H03 Copthorne Hotel Sharjah Page 45 Map S01 E05 Tashweesh: Material Noise, Maraya Art Centre Page 40 Map S01 H04 Hilton Sharjah Page 45 Map S01 H05 Hotel Holiday International Page 45 Map S01 4 H06 Kingfisher Lodge Page 45 Map X ART IN SHARJAH H07 Radisson Blu Resort – SHJ Page 46 Map X H08 Royal Tulip 72 Hotel Page 46 Map S01 4.1 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah H09 Sheraton Sharjah Beach Resort & Spa Page 46 Map X H10 The Act Page 46 Map S01 A01 1971-Design Space Page 41 Map S01 A02 Africa Hall Sharjah Page 41 Map X 6 A03 Al Hamriyah Studios Page 41 Map X YOUR COMPASS IN DUBAI A04 Emirates Fine Arts Society Page 41 Map S03 A05 Maraya Art Centre Page 42 Map S01 Your Compass in Dubai Page 57 16 Index Index 17

7 E21 Moataz Nasr: The Mountain, Meem Gallery Page 78 Map D02 ART DUBAI E22 Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Lawrie Shabibi Page 78 Map D03 E23 Personal Revolutions, Atassi Foundation @ AD 7.1 Art Dubai Page 60 Map D02 Warehouse 60 Page 80 Map D03 E24 Philip Mueller. Tibe Now: Free Drinks, Boots and 7.2 Other Fairs Tickets to the Apocalypse, Salsali Private Museum Page 80 Map D03 E25 Play, Tashkeel Page 80 Map X F01 Fully Booked Dubai 2019 Page 70 Map D03 E26 Rana Begum: Perception and Reflection, F02 Sikka Art Fair 2019 Page 71 Map D07 The Third Line Page 81 Map D03 F03 World Art Dubai 2019 Page 71 Map D04 E27 Rhodiola, Nadi - Warehouse 90 Page 81 Map D03 E28 Richard Nonas: Enough’s Enough, Jean-Paul 7.3 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai Najar Foundation Page 81 Map D03 E29 Sadik Alfraji: The River That Was in the South, E01 Almagul Menlibayeva: Genius Loci Central Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz Page 81 Map D03 Asia, Andakulova Gallery Page 71 Map D04 E30 Samira Abbassy: A Night Sea Journey. Imran E02 Alserkal Avenue Galleries Night Page 71 Map D03 Channa: Badshahnama, XVA Gallery Page 82 Map D07 E03 Alserkal Avenue Guest Projects Page 71 Map D03 E31 Shaikha Al Mazrou, Jameel Arts Centre Page 82 Map X E04 Altered Inheritances: Home is a Foreign Place, E32 Stéphanie Saadé: The Encounter of the First Ishara Art Foundation @ Warehouse 3 Page 72 Map D03 and Last Particles of Dust, Grey Noise Page 82 Map D03 E05 Art to Z, Akka Project Page 72 Map X E33 Tagreed Darghouth: Strange Fruits, Tabari E06 Artist’s Rooms, Jameel Arts Centre Page 72 Map X Artspace Page 82 Map D06 E07 Baya Mahieddine, Elmarsa Page 74 Map D03 E08 Bernhard Buhmann: The Chaser, the Ambusher 8 and the Fickle, Carbon 12 Page 74 Map D03 ART IN DUBAI E09 Chiharu Shiota: Departure, Jameel Arts Centre Page 74 Map X E10 Clémentine De Chabaneix and Helle Mardahl: 8.1 Museums and Art Institutions in Dubai Shapes Of Wonderland, Comptoir 102 Page 74 Map X E11 Contrary Life: A Botanical Light Garden M01 Alserkal Residency Page 86 Map D03 Devoted to Trees, Jameel Arts Centre Page 74 Map X M02 Ishara Art Foundation Page 86 Map D03 E12 Creative Diversity, Majlis Gallery Page 76 Map D07 M03 Jameel Arts Centre Page 86 Map X E13 Crude: Oil as Archive, Infrastructure and M04 Jean-Paul Najar Foundation Page 86 Map D03 Technology, Jameel Arts Centre Page 76 Map X M05 Salsali Private Museum Page 87 Map D03 E14 DIFC Art Nights 2019, Gate Village at DIFC Page 76 Map D06 M06 The Farjam Foundation Page 87 Map D06 E15 Fabric(ated) Fractures, Concrete Page 77 Map D03 E16 Hassan Sharif: Blue, Gallery Isabelle van 8.2 Art and Community Spaces in Dubai den Eynde Page 77 Map D03 E17 Heitham Adjina: Architecture of Being, C01 A4 Space Page 87 Map D03 Showcase Gallery Page 77 Map D03 C02 Cinema Akil Page 87 Map D03 E18 Hussain AlMoosawi: Facade to Facade, C03 eL Seed Studio Page 88 Map D03 Gulf Photo Plus Page 77 Map D03 C04 FN Designs Page 88 Map D03 E19 Johan Creten: True Love, Leila Heller Gallery Page 78 Map D03 C05 Gulf Photo Plus Page 88 Map D03 E20 Kamrooz Aram, Green Art Gallery Page 78 Map D03 C06 Nadi Al Quoz - Warehouse 90 Page 88 Map D03 18 Index Index 19

C07 Satellite Page 88 Map D03 R01 3 Fils Page 100 Map X C08 Tashkeel Page 88 Map X R02 Akiba Dori Page 100 Map D05 C09 Tashkeel Al Fahidi Page 90 Map D07 R03 Al Nafoorah Page 100 Map D04 C10 Tech Arc Page 90 Map D03 R04 Asado Page 100 Map D04 C11 The Fridge Page 90 Map D03 R05 At.mosphere Page 100 Map D04 C12 The Junction Page 90 Map D03 R06 Coya Dubai Page 100 Map X C13 Thejamjar Page 91 Map D03 R07 Flamingo Room by Tashas Page 100 Map D02 R08 Gaia Page 100 Map D06 8.3 Galleries in Dubai R09 Maisan 15 Page 101 Map X R10 Ninive Page 101 Map D06 G01 1×1 Art Gallery Page 91 Map D03 R11 Roberto’s Page 101 Map D06 G02 Akka Project Page 91 Map X R12 Socialista Dubai Page 101 Map D06 G03 Andakulova Gallery Page 91 Map D04 R13 The Green Room Page 101 Map X G04 AR Gallery Page 92 Map D05 R14 The Lighthouse Page 101 Map D05 G05 Art Hub Gallery Dubai Page 92 Map D05 G06 Art Sawa Page 92 Map D06 9.2 Hotels in Dubai G07 Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz Page 92 Map D03 G08 Carbon 12 Page 92 Map D03 H01 Form Hotel Page 101 Map X G09 Custot Gallery Page 93 Map D03 H02 Four Seasons DIFC Page 101 Map D06 G10 East Wing Page 93 Map D05 H03 Page 101 Map D01 G11 Elmarsa Page 93 Map D03 H04 Al Naseem Page 102 Map D02 G12 Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Page 94 Map D03 H05 La Ville Hotel & Suites City Walk Dubai Page 102 Map X G13 Gallery Ward Page 94 Map D05 H06 Page 102 Map D02 G14 Green Art Gallery Page 94 Map D03 H07 One & Only Royal Mirage Page 102 Map D01 G15 Grey Noise Page 94 Map D03 H08 Sofitel Dubai The Palm Resort & Spa Page 102 Map D01 G16 La Galerie Nationale Page 95 Map D03 H09 The Ritz-Carlton DIFC Page 102 Map D06 G17 Lawrie Shabibi Page 95 Map D03 H10 Vida Hotel Downtown Page 102 Map D04 G18 Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai Page 95 Map D03 H11 W Dubai Page 102 Map X G19 Majlis Gallery Page 95 Map D07 H12 XVA Page 102 Map D07 G20 Meem Gallery Page 96 Map D02 G21 Mojo Gallery Page 96 Map D03 10 G22 Showcase Gallery Page 96 Map D03 YOUR COMPASS IN ABU DHABI G23 Sinyar Gallery Page 97 Map D05 G24 Tabari Artspace Page 97 Map D06 Your Compass in Abu Dhabi Page 110 G25 The Empty Quarter Page 97 Map D06 G26 The Third Line Page 98 Map D03 11 G27 XVA Gallery Page 98 Map D07 ART IN ABU DHABI

9 11.1 Exhibitions and Events in Abu Dhabi LEISURE IN DUBAI E01 Abdul Qader Al Rais: 50 Years of Art, 9.1 Restaurants in Dubai Manarat Al Saadiyat Page 111 Map A01 20 Index Index 21

E02 Distant Prospects – European Landscape R07 Camacho Page 116 Map X Paintings from Liechtenstein. The Princely R08 Fishmarket Page 116 Map A04 Collections, Manarat Al Saadiyat Page 111 Map A01 R09 Loca Page 117 Map A03 E03 Nomadic Traces: Journeys of Arabian Scripts, R10 Market Kitchen Page 117 Map A03 Warehouse421 Page 111 Map A03 R11 Saadiyat Beach Club Page 117 Map X E04 Rembrandt, Vermeer and the Dutch Golden R12 Safina Page 117 Map X Age: Masterpieces from the Leiden Collection R13 So Cho Page 117 Map A06 and the Musée du Louvre, Page 111 Map A01 R14 Tashas Page 117 Map A05 E05 Zimoun, NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Page 112 Map A02 R15 Tori No Su Page 117 Map A04 R16 Trader Vic’s Page 117 Map A03 11.2 Museums, Art Institutions, Independent R17 Ushna Abu Dhabi Page 117 Map A06 Art Spaces and Galleries in Abu Dhabi R18 Villa Toscana Page 117 Map A04

A01 Abu Dhabi Art Hub Page 112 Map X 12.2 Hotels in Abu Dhabi A02 Palace Museum Page 112 Map X A03 Bait 15 Page 112 Map X H01 Anantara Hotel and Resort, Eastern Mangroves Page 118 Map X A04 Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi Page 112 Map X H02 Bab Al Qasr Page 118 Map A04 A05 Etihad Modern Art Gallery Page 113 Map A05 H03 Emirates Palace Page 118 Map A04 A06 Page 113 Map A01 H04 Fairmont Bab Al Bahr Hotel Page 118 Map A06 A07 Hili Archaeological Park Page 113 Map X H05 Intercontinental Hotel Page 118 Map A04 A08 Louvre Abu Dhabi Page 113 Map A01 H06 Jumeirah Etihad Towers Page 118 Map A04 A09 Manarat Al Saadiyat Page 113 Map A01 H07 Park Hyatt Abu Dhabi Hotel And Villas Page 118 Map A02 A10 N2N Gallery Page 114 Map A04 H08 Pearl Rotana Capital Centre Page 118 Map X A11 NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Page 114 Map A02 H09 Rosewood Abu Dhabi Page 118 Map A03 A12 NYUAD Art Center Page 114 Map A02 H10 Royal M Hotel and Resort Page 119 Map X A13 Qasr Al Hosn Page 114 Map X H11 Shangri-La Qaryat Al Beri Page 119 Map A06 A14 Qasr Al Muwaiji Page 114 Map X H12 Sofitel Abu Dhabi Corniche Page 119 Map A03 A15 Salwa Zeidan Gallery Page 115 Map A02 H13 St Regis Saadiyat Island Page 119 Map A02 A16 Warehouse421 Page 115 Map A03 H14 The Abu Dhabi Edition Page 119 Map X A17 Page 115 Map X H15 The Ritz-Carlton Abu Dhabi, Grand Canal Page 119 Map A06 H16 The St. Regis Abu Dhabi Page 119 Map A04 12 H17 Traders Hotel, Qaryat Al Beri Page 119 Map A06 LEISURE IN ABU DHABI 13 12.1 Restaurants in Abu Dhabi AGENDA

R01 Alba Terrace Page 116 Map X Agenda of events Page 120 R02 Buddha Bar Beach Abu Dhabi Page 116 Map A02 R03 Butcher & Still Page 116 Map A03 R04 Café Arabia Page 116 Map X R05 Café Blanc Page 116 Map X R06 Café Milano Page 116 Map A03 22 Artist Interview 1 23 WHEN TRADITION MEETS MODERNITY: AN INTERVIEW WITH NUJOOM ALGHANEM

Claudia Malfitano: Your work as a poet and as a film director is deeply connected to your Emirati roots and womanhood is a recurring theme. Can you tell us a bit more about your practice and your creative process? Where does it all begin?

Nujoom Alghanem: My creative practice began when I was young. I read and drew a lot which eventually led me to writing. I started with the classical form and my Arabic teachers recognised that I had potential and encouraged me. Then I started experimenting with different poetic styles. In the late seventies and early eighties, I dabbled in Nabati (vernacular poetry in the Arabian Peninsula) because it was very popular, and when you’re young, you want to fit in and be accepted. I also tried the Arabic metric poetry style for the same reason. Of course, the literary tide of the Arab modern movement was recognised in our region and helped us get connect with what was going on in Egypt, , Iraq, Syria and North Africa by then. The Eighties was an eye opening period for me, I found myself drawn to free verse form. I was mostly influenced by European, American and Latin American modern poets, artists, © Courtesy National Pavilion UAE, La Biennale di Venezia and philosophers. This changed my whole perspective about poetry and eventually influenced my personal choices. NUJOOM ALGHANEM My poetry is interconnected with my work as a filmmaker and Nujoom Alghanem is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, artist. I consider literary resources – poetry, novels or drama and artist born in Dubai. She has directed and – really great sources of inspiration, but the most important produced several short art and fiction films in one is people. People greatly inspire me: their world, stories, addition to feature documentaries. She is also a frustrations, confusion, sadness, happiness, pain, passion. film, media and cultural consultant to educational and professional institutes and organizations in CM: You will represent the UAE at the upcoming Venice Art Biennale; the UAE. Her work was previously featured at the what does this mean to you? What do you think of the Biennale’s National Pavilion UAE in the 2017 group exhibition theme: “May You Live in Interesting Times”? “Rock, Paper, Scissors: Positions in Play”. Recent films include “Sharp Tools” (2017), “Honey, Rain and NA: I am truly excited and honoured to be representing the UAE Dust” (2016), “Nearby Sky” (2014), “Sound of the in collaboration with curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Sea” (2014), ”Amal” (2011). Other documentary films following my first participation in 2017. The National Pavilion include Hamama (2010), Between Two Banks (1999), and UAE tells our story on a global stage to the international arts Al Mureed (2008). In 2019 Alghanem will represent community, and carries our values of fostering understanding the UAE at the 58th Venice Art Biennale. and promoting cultural dialogue. 24 Artist Interview Artist Interview 25

The theme of the Biennale underscores my practice within CM: My Art Guides likes to recommend to its readers unique the context of a rapidly transforming society. The interesting places to visit in each destination, not necessarily connected passage of time is deeply embedded in my work as an artist to contemporary art. In your opinion, what are the absolutely where I am always trying to resolve the tension between the unmissable places, landmarks and spots in Dubai? And could you traditional and the modern. However, I consider myself quite recommend something that shouldn’t be missed during Art Week? drawn to the now and the city, and our contemporary world. NA: Dubai as a whole is very seductive and captivating. With CM: You were born and raised in Dubai. What is your relationship all the expansion and sophistication, I always go back to the with this city and its fast pace and ever-changing nature? How beach, a spot in the Jumeirah area that keeps calling me and do you feel the local traditions are coping with this super-fast inspiring me. Another place is the Dubai Public Library, which is modernisation? located in Khor Dubai – ’s shores on the Bur Deira’s side. It used to be the main cultural hub for many activities NA: As a child, I remember sitting on the rooftop of my including lectures and poetry readings besides its basic grandparents’ house in after school, watching huge function as a place for reading and borrowing books. I consider ships sail slowly, silently down the Creek, which made me it one of the earliest literary and cultural initiatives in Dubai. always think of traveling and exploring other lands. Today, Dubai is a very busy city. It has different faces and paces; fast and hectic during the day, dynamic and loud at night, beautiful but noisy, light sometimes, grimy other times, elusive but welcoming, playful yet tough, sophisticated but easy to know, strange yet friendly, hard even though it has a tender heart. It’s the city where I was born and where I learned how to love and wait for things to take shape so I would understand them better. The city has grown up along with me. Although I think I know it, it overwhelms me sometimes. I am grateful, however, to have grown up in Dubai, which is a fantastic city and my love for it underlies all my work.

CM: What is your perspective on the city’s art scene?

NA: The art scene in Dubai is diverse and thriving, and after many years of development, it has matured greatly and it would be interesting to see what the next years will bring; I think the milestones of the past few years, such as Louvre Abu Dhabi and Art Jameel have been a testament to that. Artists from across the region and the world are coming here to find inspiration, participate in dialogue and discover their creative voices. At the same time as these artists are exploring here today, I am pleased to see that there is an increasing recognition of the history and tradition of Emirati contemporary art, and of the ways in which our leading artistic figures, such as Hassan Sharif, have influenced and shaped UAE art today. 26 Sharjah Al Qasba 27

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Corniche St Heart of Sharjah SB41 SB42 SB43 CornicheSharjah St Art Institute SB38 SB39 SB40 MM SB35 SB36 SB37 E04 Al Shuwaihean SB19 SB20 Sharjah Heritage SB31 SB33 SB34 A09 Museum SB17 SB18 SB28 SB29 SB30 SB SB01 SB32 SB25 SB26 SB27 SB04 SB22 SB23 SB24 Hisn Ave Sharjah Theater for Al Arouba St A11 Sharjah National the Performing Arts Theatre R05 Al Marija St Sharjah Institute of Mirage City Theatrical Arts Hisn Ave Cinema A08 Al Ghuwair Al Hisn Fort Al Mareija Museum

Sharjah Caligraphy Museum Bani Shaibah Sharjah Animal Mosque Market

Al Marija St Sharjah Heritage Museum Abu Saeed Rolla Square Alkhudari Mosque Al Mareija Park

Al Arouba St

Al Arouba St 30 2 3 31 YOUR COMPASS IN SHARJAH BIENNIAL SHARJAH

Sharjah is the third largest and third most populous city in the 3.1 SHARJAH BIENNIAL 14 phies. Most tangibly, the “echo United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman chamber” is the space wherein metropolitan area. It is located along the southern coast of the Leaving the Echo Chamber sound hits and reverberates, on the Arabian Peninsula, with an approximate area Date Mar 7 – Jun 10, 2019 where memory and imagination of 235 km² and has a population of over 1.4 million (2015). The way Organised by Sharjah Art Founda- echo across surface, across from Dubai to Sharjah might seem long and complicated due to the tion (SAF) space and across time. traffic, even though the distance from DIFC to Al Qasba in Sharjah Curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, “Leaving the Echo Chamber” is in fact the same distance as to . Once you get there Claire Tancons does not propose a “how to you will find all the main cultural institutions, the Biennial and the Web sharjahart.org leave” this context, but rather March Meeting in two areas: the Al Qasba and the Heritage Area. Address Sharjah Art Foundation seeks to put into conversation ID SB Map S02 a series of provocations on AL QASBA how one might renegotiate the MAP S01 Preview Agenda shape, form and function of Mar 7, 10am – 12pm, Official this chamber in order to move Al Qasba is a cultural, business, and entertainment landmark; its opening of Sharjah Biennial 14 towards a multiplying of the unique architectural design includes pedestrian bridges across the (SB14) by His Highness Sheikh echoes within, such vibrations canal and boats to take visitors onto the adjoining Khalid and Al Dr Sultan bin Mohammed Al representing the vast forms of Khan lagoons. The area is home to the Maraya Art Centre (ID A05, Qasimi, Member of the Federal human production—its rituals, Page 42), and the Maraya Art Park. Supreme Council of the United beliefs and customs. Arab Emirates, Ruler of Sharjah, The fourteenth edition of Shar- HERITAGE AREA at Al Mureijah Square jah Biennial begs the viewer to MAP S02 – S03 consider a number of concerns. In popular culture, the “echo What does it mean to demand The Heritage and Arts areas of Sharjah split into two with the chamber” is a moniker for cir- alternate images at a time when renowned Bank Street and the old fort of Al Hisn. The area cuitous news media and their news is spoon-fed to us by a comprises the majority of art spaces in town: you will find here the attendant feeds, which are rein- monopoly of sources? How do Emirates Fine Art Society (ID A04, Page 41), the Sharjah Museum of forced by a closed network con- we expand our narratives by Islamic Civilization (ID A10, Page 43), and the Sharjah Art Museum (ID trolled and governed by private acknowledging what has been A07, Page 42). Here the Sharjah Heritage Museum (ID A09, Page 43) and sources, governments and cor- hidden or removed? How can the Sharjah Art Foundation (ID A06, Page 42) are gently integrated into porations. It is also a metaphor we reflect on our own culturally the context of historic buildings and combine contemporary art with for the historical dominance located histories in an era when the flair of the neighbourhood’s traditional lifestyle. Adjacent the of capital and the cultural, so- so many individuals have been Al Majarrah park, you can find a permanent immersive installation cial and political systems that forced to believe that they must by Random International collective, the Rain Room, where you are dictate its access, production surrender their own agency invited to walk through a downpour of continuous rain without and distribution—this “capital” to the mainstream forces that getting wet. The heritage area is where the Sharjah Biennial (ID SB, wooing (and thus privileging) exist and govern our world? Page 29) is spread with its shows and installations, and where the particular images, languages, The echo chamber could be March Meeting (ID MM, Page 30) takes place from March 9 to 11. skills, histories and geogra- construed as a modern-day Far- 32 Sharjah Biennial 14 Sharjah Biennial 14 33 aday cage—an enclosure that involuntary patterns of discov- and insidiously controlled by au- mercury in and out of our hands, covers conductive material and ery, conquest, witness and exile thoritarianism, a chamber that flowing into an abyss, a space of prevents the transmission of across land and sea. However, betrays us when we blindly par- chaos—but also toward a new signals. At Sharjah Biennial 14, the human journey surround- ticipate in its algorithmic realm, portal, a space of possibility. Re- artists are given the agency to ing the movement of these which pursues quantity instead ality and history have been aug- tell stories that echo in different tools—its cause and effects, of meaning. “Journey Beyond mented by the realm of the virtu- ways, thus creating new surfac- its feedback, its ‘echo’—clam- the Arrow” seeks to illuminate al. This process encourages us to es for a multiplicity of chambers ors for collective sense amidst the necessity of exchange and look back with a critical eye at the that reveal numerous and mul- textbooks of little historical diversity across the globe and history of material cultures as we tifaceted means of connecting, truth, online archives that are throughout human history. think we know them. With all this surviving and sustaining a col- questionably fabricated and in mind, how do we slow down lective humanity. governmentally surveilled, and Making New Time and “experience” the experience? bureaucracies of academic sys- Curator Omar Kholeif How do we make “new time”? Journey Beyond the Arrow tems of research and rigor that Artists Lawrence Abu Hamdan, This exhibition is a provocation. Curator Zoe Butt struggle to keep up with the Cory Arcangel, Marwa Arsanios, It seeks to show how materi- Artists 31st Century Museum of pace of change in their assumed Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck, al culture can be reimagined Contemporary Spirit, Khadim ‘D’isciplines.In this exhibition, Semiha Berksoy, Candice Breitz, through the lenses of artists Ali, Antariksa, Shiraz Bayjoo, artists reveal the intergenera- Huguette Caland, Ian Cheng, whose political agency, activism Adriana Bustos, Kawayan de tional impact of a range of phys- Shezad Dawood, Stan Douglas, and astute observations en- Guia, Rohini Devasher, Léuli ical and psychological ‘tools’, Lubaina Himid, Alfredo Jaar, courage us to extend the limits Eshrāghi, Gudskul, Anawana of how the representations and Ann Veronica Janssens, Barbara of our beliefs. It considers how Haloba, Ho Tzu Nyen, Roslish- meanings of these tools have Kasten, Astrid Klein, Marwan, economies have formed around am Ismail (Ise), Meiro Koizumi, shifted as a consequence of Otobong Nkanga and Emeka technological culture, how Jompet Kuswidananto, Lee colonial exploitation, social and Ogboh, Bruno Pacheco, Heather narrative is created and decon- Mingwei, Nalini Malani, Neo religious conflict or ideological Phillipson, Jon Rafman, Michael structed, and how these forces Muyanga, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, extremism. With their own dis- Rakowitz, Pamela Rosenkranz, of change enable a reconstitu- Ahmad Fuad Osman, Phan Thảo tinctive approaches, the artists Hrair Sarkissian, Anwar Jalal tion, or indeed a restitution, of Nguyên, Qiu Zhijie, Lisa Reiha- assembled here investigate the Shemza, Kemang Wa Lehulere, a history lost or even unknown. na, Mark Salvatus, Ampannee historical context of the “bow”, Munem Wasif, Akram Zaatari Drifting in and out of hegemo- Satoh, T. Shanaathanan, Kidlat which reveals the “arrow” of nies and entrenched structures Tahimik, Lantian Xie, Xu Zhen humanity’s echo—an echo of Ours is an age of constant speed; of power, here the sensorial and the diversity of all our activity in we barely have a moment to the bodily intertwine, becoming “Journey Beyond the Arrow” relation to language, memory, breathe. Time is the irreversible, archaeological sediments in offers deeper context to the belief, ritual, and cultural and indefinite and continued pro- the landscape of Sharjah and movement of humanity and the social practice. The artists’ im- cess of existing in the world. Yet imploring viewers to consider tools that have enabled or hin- aginative retelling of our planet technological, social and political their complicity in a world that dered its survival. From spiritual opens us up to what has been change has altered the means is forever slipping away. ritual to cultural custom, tech- overlooked or lost in the echo by which we relate to images, nological process to rule of chamber—a chamber that is objects and the concept of his- Look for Me All Around You law, all such practices employ economically intertwined yet tory itself. Spatial and temporal Curator Claire Tancons objects and actions that con- governmentally divided, often orders have shifted with the Artists Allora & Calzadilla, Caline tinually move in voluntary and culturally stymied by tradition advent of a reality that moves like Aoun, Leo Asemota, Aline Ba- 34 Sharjah Biennial 14 / March Meeting March Meeting 35 iana, Hannah Black and Ebba diasporisation as an aporetic Thursday, March 7 sional performance by Mohau Fransén Waldhör, Mohamed phenomenon of the contem- When 10am – 12pm Modisakeng Bourouissa, Jace Clayton, Chris- porary, encompassing human, What Official opening of Sharjah Venue from Kalba beach to Kalba topher Cozier, Annie Dorsen, semantic and material forms of Biennial 14 (SB14) by His High- Ice Factory Torkwase Dyson, Alaa Edris, displacement. As a contrapuntal ness Sheikh Dr Sultan bin Mo- ID SB05 Map X Alia Farid, Peter Friedl, Meschac proposal that may not fully be hammed Al Qasimi, Member of Gaba, Nikolaus Gansterer, Eisa registered in the realm of the the of When 12:30pm – 1:30pm Jocson, Isabel Lewis, Matthew retinal embedded in hegemonic the United Arab Emirates, Ruler What Imminent movement, Talks Lutz-Kinoy, Hacklander/Hatam, structures of looking, learning of Sharjah with Yarimar Bonilla, Fabian Vil- Laura Lima, Ulrik López, Carlos and feeling, “Look for Me All Venue Al Mureijah Square legas and Michael Marder Martiel, Suchitra Mattai, Mohau Around You” manifests in a ID SB01 Map S02 Venue Kalba Ice Factory Modisakeng, New Orleans Airlift, state of emergence under con- ID SB06 Map X Tracey Rose, Wael Shawky, Cae- ditions of performance. It revels When 2pm – 2:30pm cilia Tripp, Wu Tsang in displaced artefacts, coded What tagatanu’u Performance by When 1:45pm – 2:15pm languages, sonic disturbances, Léuli Eshrāghi What The Land of Zanj, Performance “Look for Me All Around You” transient presences, light flash- Venue Al Hamriyah Studios by Mohau Modisakeng is an open platform of migrant es and shadow imprints, reveal- ID SB02 Map X Venue Kalba Ice Factory images and fugitive forms. Com- ing the immiscible historical ID SB07 Map X posed of multiple scores drawn flows and comparable contem- When 3pm – 3:20pm from the many scales of Sharjah porary constituents of both the What house of MAKEdbA Perfor- When 2pm – 3:15pm as city, emirate and peninsular Arabian peninsula and the Amer- mance by Neo Muyanga What Installation activations, territory, these after-images ican continents and insular ter- Venue Al Hamriyah Studios Sympoiesis Observatory, Site and after-forms circumnavigate ritories as results of human and ID SB03 Map X activation by Nikolaus Gansterer global history, meeting through natural resource extraction and What Untitled (Juice, inwardness, the confluence of the Gulfs of exploitation. An always already When 10:30pm – 12:30am natures), Hosted occasion, Isa- Mexico and Oman and the At- othered time-space discontinu- What Perfumed Nightmare (1977), bel Lewis, Colin Hacklander and lantic and Indian Oceans in a um, “Look for Me All Around You” Film screening by Kidlat Tahimik Matthew Lutz-Kinoy call-and-response between the bears witness to the imperilment Venue Mirage City Cinema, Al ID SB08 Map X Americas and the Emirates. of the contemporary within the Mureijah Square Par for the diasporic course, the atomised space between “me” ID SB04 Map S02 When 3:15pm – 3:50pm migratory journey, the heretic and “you”. What is being “looked What I Belong to the Distance, pilgrimage, “Look for Me All for” is not what is being “looked Friday, March 8 Performance, Dark Adaptive Around You” takes as a point at”—if only it could be seen. Sharjah Biennial 14 offsite: Kal- (Torkwase Dyson with Zachary of departure political activist ba and Umm Al Quwain. March Fabri and Andres L. Hernandez) and pan-African leader Marcus 3.2 MARCH MEETING 2019 Meeting 2019: Look for Me All Venue Kalba Ice Factory Mosiah Garvey Jr’s (1887–1940) Around You. Performance pro- ID SB09 Map X unrelenting address to “Look for March Meeting gramme curated by Claire Tan- me in the whirlwind or a storm, Date Mar 9 – 11, 2019 cons, speakers series led by Die- When 4:30pm – 5pm look for me all around you…” Organised by Sharjah Art Foundation go del Valle, Terremoto magazine What Blida / Joinville, Installation (1925). The platform attests to Web sharjahart.org by Mohammed Bourouissa the alternatively dispossessive Address Arts Square, Sharjah When 11:15am – 12:15pm Venue Kalba Kindergarten and repossessive disposition of Id MM Map S02 What The Land of Zanj, Proces- ID SB10 Map X 36 March Meeting March Meeting 37

When 6:30pm – 8:30pm When 1:45pm – 2:45pm When 9:30pm – 10:30pm gender. Relay Anis Chouchene What The Trans-National, Per- What Patakí 1921, Performance by What Any Way the Wind Blows, -> Lisa Reihana -> Neo formance, site activation, New Ulrik López Performance by Tracey Rose Muyanga, moderated by Zoe Orleans Airlift Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Venue Sharjah Ladies Club, Al Butt Venue Site of abandoned airplane Square Qulaayaa Venue Sharjah Institute for in Umm Al Quwain ID SB16 Map S03 ID SB21 Map X Theatrical Arts ID SB11 Map X ID SB24 Map S02 When 2:45pm – 3:45pm Sunday, March 10 Saturday, March 9 What Défilé de Perruques March Meeting 2019: Journey When 2pm – 2:20pm March Meeting 2019: Look for Architectures Émirats Arabes Beyond the Arrow—From the What The palimpsest of historical Me All Around You. Performance Unis, Processional performance, Multiple, in Process, with Flex- memory-on the misnomer of the programme curated by Claire Meschac Gaba ibility and Adaptation. Led by ‘origin’. Reading by Shubigi Rao Tancons, speakers series led Venue Majlis Sheikh Mohamed, Zoe Butt with Lee Weng Choy Venue Sharjah Institute for by Diego del Valle, Terremoto Arts Square Theatrical Arts magazine ID SB17 Map S02 When 9:15am – 10am ID SB25 Map S02 What Registration When 9:15am – 10am When 4:30pm – 5pm Venue Sharjah Institute for Theat- When 2:30pm – 3pm What Registration What No prey, no pay, Presence, rical Arts What On militancy, truth and the Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Special guest TBA (part of Peter shifting of normalising violence. Square Friedl’s installation) When 10am – 10:20am Conversation with Khadim Ali ID SB12 Map S03 Venue Gallery 1, Al Mureijah What An introduction on time and and Meiro Koizumi with Lee Square clocks and time zones—how Weng Choy When 9:45am – 9:50am ID SB18 Map S02 the mapping of time instructs Venue Sharjah Institute for What Welcome remarks, Hoor Al mobility: how a commitment Theatrical Arts Qasimi When 5pm – 7pm to time can never be quite fin- ID SB26 Map S02 Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts What To pay and repair?, Talks ished; Introduction Lee Weng Square with Felwine Sarr, Alexandre Choy (co-convenor) When 3pm – 3:15pm ID SB13 Map S03 Kazerouni, Imani Brown and Venue Sharjah Institute for Theat- What Performance, Fazil H Philippe Rahm; Discussion with rical Arts Mousavi (part of Khadim Ali’s When 10am – 11am Claire Tancons and Diego Del ID SB22 Map S02 project Flowers of Evil) What Sabor a Lágrimas, Perfor- Valle Venue Sharjah Institute for mance by Carlos Martiel Venue Al Mureijah Square When 10:30am – 11:30am Theatrical Arts Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts ID SB19 Map S02 What On kapwa, bathala na!, and ID SB27 Map S02 Square the art of never finishing. Con- ID SB14 Map S03 When 8:15pm – 9:15pm versation with performance When 3:20pm – 3:40pm What The Filipino Superwoman Kidlat Tahimik with Zoe Butt What On movement and When 11:15am – 12:30pm Band, Performance by Eisa Venue Sharjah Institute for Theat- the potential of thinking What Evocation of inheritance, Jocson rical Arts diasporically. Reading by Léuli Talk with Adrienne Edwards Venue Al Hamdan bin Mousa ID SB23 Map S02 Eshrāghi Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Courtyard, Al Mureijah Square Venue Sharjah Institute for Square ID SB20 Map S02 When 11:40am – 12:30pm Theatrical Arts ID SB15 Map S03 What On relation—beyond fixed ID SB28 Map S02 GEO Exhibition Art Guide Advert Artwork trim | 110mm (w) x 166mm (h) Artwork bleed | 120mm (w) x 176mm (h) Artwork colour | CMYK

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When 4:15pm – 5:15pm When 10:15am – 10:30am What On counter memory and the What A poem, a context or a doubling of its recall. Conversation dream. Welcome remarks by with Ho Tzu Nyen and Tuan An- Omar Kholeif drew Nguyen with Lee Weng Choy Venue Sharjah Institute for Venue Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts Theatrical Arts ID SB34 Map S02 ID SB29 Map S02 When 10:30am – 12pm When 5:15pm – 5:30pm What Africa is not a country; the What Performance, Tuan Andrew Middle East is not a continent. Nguyen and Serigne Ousmane Venue Sharjah Institute for Mbacke Noreyni Seck Theatrical Arts Venue Sharjah Institute for ID SB35 Map S02 Theatrical Arts ID SB30 Map S02 When 10:30am – 11am What Otobong Nkanga and Koyo When 5:30pm – 6:30pm Kouoh in conversation What Moderated discussion with Venue Sharjah Institute for all speakers, Lee Weng Choy Theatrical Arts and Zoe Butt ID SB36 Map S02 Venue Sharjah Institute for Theat- rical Arts When 11am – 11:30am : ID SB31 Map S02 What Hannah Feldman and Akram Zaatari in conversation Earth and its Materiality When 9:30pm – 12:15am Venue Sharjah Institute for in the Ceramics of Michael Rice What Balikbayan #1: Memories of Theatrical Arts Overdevelopment Redux (1980–). ID SB37 Map S02 23.2.2019 - 10.8.2019 Film screening by Kidlat Tahimik Venue Mirage City Cinema, Al When 11:30am – 12pm 1971 - Design Space Mureijah Square What Roundtable with Otobong The Flag Island ID SB32 Map S02 Nkanga, Koyo Kouoh, Hannah Feldman and Akram Zaatari. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Monday, March 11 Moderated by Sofia Victorino Venue March Meeting 2019: Create Dan- Sharjah Institute for 1971design.ae gerously. Led by Omar Kholeif Theatrical Arts ID SB38 Map S02 supported by When 9:30am – 10:15am What Registration When 12pm – 1pm Venue Sharjah Institute for What A recent history. Keynote by Theatrical Arts Tarek El-Ariss Id SB33 Map S02 Venue Sharjah Institute for Tashweesh Exhibition Art Guide Advert Artwork trim | 110mm (w) x 166mm (h) Artwork bleed | 120mm (w) x 176mm (h) Artwork colour | CMYK

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Theatrical Arts 3.3 EXHIBITIONS AND ID SB39 Map S02 EVENTS IN SHARJAH

When 2:30pm – 4pm A Century in Flux: Highlights What What does it mean to make from the Barjeel Art Foundation new time? Panel with Aram Date May 12, 2018 onword Moshayedi, Zoe Butt, Koray Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri Duman, Todd Reisz and Reem 4pm – 8pm Fadda, Moderated by Sarah Venue Sharjah Art Museum Perks Web sharjahmuseums.ae Venue Sharjah Institute for Address Conrniche st, Arts Area Theatrical Arts ID E01 Map S03 ID SB40 Map S02 “A Century in Flux: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation” When 4:20pm – 4:40pm is a long-term show featuring A GROUP EXHIBITION OF COMMISSIONED WORKS What A manifesto. Reading by works from one of the most BY: MONA AYYASH, AYESHA HADHIR, RAWDHA AL Douglas Coupland significant private collections of Venue Sharjah Institute for art in the Arab world, reflecting KETBI, HASHEL AL LAMKI, ZARA MAHMOOD, Theatrical Arts the interest of collector Sultan AND TOR SEIDEL. WITH A NEW INSTALLATION BY ID Map SB41 S02 Sooud Al Qassemi in the ways GUEST ARTIST NUJOOM AL GHANEM. local art has reacted to histori- When 4:40pm – 5pm cal events of the last century. What A summoning. Reading by CURATED BY LAURA METZLER Yasmine El Rashidi Crossroads: Cultural Exchange Venue Sharjah Institute for between the Islamic Civilisation, Theatrical Arts Europe and Beyond 2 MARCH - 25 MAY, 2019 ID SB42 Map S02 Date Nov 15, 2018 – Apr 27, 2019 Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri MARAYA ART CENTRE When 5pm – 6pm 4pm – 8pm What The imagination in the Venue Sharjah Museum of Islamic AL QASBA, SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES thought of Ibn Al Arabi. Closing Civilization keynote by Fatima Al Qasimi Web sharjahmuseums.ae Venue Sharjah Institute for Address Al Majara Area, Corniche St ﺑﺎﻟﺘﻌﺎون ﻣﻊ ﺑﺪﻋﻢ ﻣﻦ ﺑﺘﻜﻠﻴﻒ ﻣﻦ ID Map Theatrical Arts E02 S03 commissioned by supported by in collaboration with ID SB43 Map S02 The exhibition investigates the influence of the constant flow When 6:30pm – 6:50pm of people, ideas, technology and What house of MAKEdbA. art along ancient trade routes Performance by Neo Muyanga on the contempory world. The Venue Al Hamriyah Studios show is the result of the collab- ID Map SB44 X oration between Sharjah Mu- uaeunlimited.org maraya.art seums Authority (SMA) and the 42 Exhibitions and Events in Sharjah 4 43 ART IN SHARJAH Museum of Islamic Art in templation and appreciation of (MIAB). ornamentations inspired by the Emirati culture. Geo. Earth and its Materiality in the Ceramics of Michael Rice Tashweesh: Material Noise 4.1 MUSEUMS AND ART Al Hamriyah Studios Date Feb 23 – Aug 10, 2019 Date Mar 2 – May 25, 2019 INSTITUTIONS IN SHARJAH Exhibition March Meeting; Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri Sharjah Biennial 14 4pm – 7pm 4pm – 7pm 1971-Design Space Exhibition info 30 Venue 1971-Design Space Venue Maraya Art Centre Exhibition Geo. Earth and its Established 2017 Web 1971design.ae Web maraya.ae Materiality in the Ceramics of Address Al Hamriyah Address Flag Pole, The Flag Island Address Al Taawun Road, Al Qasba Michael Rice (Feb 23 – Aug 10, ID A03 Map X ID E03 Map S01 ID E05 Map S01 2019) Al Hamriyah Studios are an 1971-Design Space showcases Maraya presents in collabora- Exhibition info 40 off-site venue located on the the first institutional solo exhi- tion with U.A.E. Unlimited, the Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri Sharjah coast and in close bition of the Irish, U.A.E.- based annual exhibition showcasing 4pm – 7pm proximity to Ajman, Umm Al Ceramicist Michael Rice. Ad- the work of emerging UAE- Director Dr. Nina Heydeman Quwain and Ras Al Khaimah, dressing the materiality of the based artists. “Tashweesh: Ma- Established 2015 created to extend the Sharjah Art earth and experimenting with terial Noise” – curated by Laura Phone +971 6 528 4644 Foundation’s outreach activities light for the first time, Michael Metzler – looks at everyday Web 1971design.ae to different local communities Rice is exhibiting newly created material culture. Keeping in line Address Flag Pole, The Flag Island in the northern Emirates. The works based on porcelain and with the unique format of men- ID A01 Map S01 studios include a community emphasising their translucency torship that U.A.E. Unlimited A multi-functional design space space, hubs of social interaction, through light. has adopted since its inception founded in 2015 dedicated a large multi-functional room in 2015, Dubai-based Emirati to exhibition display and and a pantry space with its large Muna Al Khajah: Harmony. artist Nujoom Alghanem has discussion of all forms of communal table. Aesthetics of Ornamentation in been selected as the guest art- contemporary design ranging Emirati Heritage ist and and has developed new from graphic, furniture to Emirates Fine Arts Society Date Jan 16 – Aug 16, 2019 artworks for the exhibition. Par- interior as well as interactive Established 1980 Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri ticipating artists: Mona Ayyash design and new technologies. Phone +971 6 568 4488 4pm – 8pm (Palestine – UAE), Ayesha Web artsuae.ae Venue Sharjah Heritage Museum Hadhir (UAE), Rawdha Al Ketbi Africa Hall Sharjah Address Arts Square, Arts Area Al Web sharjahmuseums.ae (UAE), Zara Mahmood (Pakistan Established 2018 Shuwaiheen Address Al Burj St; Bait Al Naboo- – UAE), Hashel Al Lamki (UAE), Address Post Office Roundabout ID A04 Map S03 dah Al Gharb and Tor Seidel (Germany - UAE). ID A02 Map X A non-profit association of ID E04 Map S02 The new rebuilt Sharjah art professional in the United The show features a selection Africa Hall is a venue hosting Arab Emirates. The mission of of the artist’s work inspired by conferences, lectures, film the Society is to care for the ornamentation in Emirati her- screenings and stage plays Emirates fine arts by supporting itage. It aims to highlight the related to activities of the Africa local artists and young talents beautiful details and preserve Institute and as a meeting place and to promote art education the Emirati authentic heritage. for the larger community of and art appreciation among the The exhibition encourages con- Sharjah and the UAE. public by organising exhibitions 44 Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah Museums and Art Institutions in Sharjah 45 as well as holding workshops, international partners, Admission Ticket Sharjah Museum of Islamic lectures and training courses in the foundation creates Director Manal Ataya Civilization the fine arts and photography. opportunities for artists and Established 2002 Exhibition Crossroads: Cultural artistic production through Phone +971 6 569 4561 Exchange between the Islamic Maraya Art Centre its core initiatives that Web sharjahmuseums.ae Civilisation, Europe and Beyond Exhibition Tashweesh: Material include the Sharjah Biennial, Address Hamad Al Midfaa (Nov 15, 2018 – Apr 27, 2019) Noise (Mar 2 – May 25, 2019) the annual March Meeting, building, Sharjah Heritage Area Exhibition info 38 Exhibition info 40 residencies, production grants, ID A08 Map S03 Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri commissions, exhibitions, Located in the house of Hamad 4pm – 8pm 4pm – 7pm research, publications and a Al Midfaa in the Sharjah Admission Ticket Director Dr. Nina Heydemann growing collection. Heritage Area (Heart of Director Manal Ataya Established 2010 Sharjah), the museum offers Established 2008 Phone +971 6 55 66 555 Sharjah Art Museum an overview of the evolution Phone +971 6 565 5455 Web maraya.ae Exhibition A Century in Flux: of Arabic calligraphy over Web sharjahmuseums.ae Address Al Taawun Road, Al Qasba Highlights from the Barjeel the years, through beautiful Address Al Majara Area, Corniche St ID A05 Map S01 Art Foundation (May 12, 2018 portraits depicting stunning ID A10 Map S03 A non-profit art space and onword) calligraphic texts, letters and The museum – housed in a cultural platform, the Maraya Exhibition info 38 shapes. former souq – hosts more than Art Centre is an initiative Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri five thousand exquisite Islamic supported by the Sharjah 4pm – 8pm Sharjah Heritage Museum artifacts from all over the Islamic Investment and Development Admission Free Exhibition Muna Al Khajah: World, arranged according to Authority (Shurooq), with the Director Manal Ataya Harmony. Aesthetics of themes over seven spacious purpose of promoting young Established 1997 Ornamentation in Emirati galleries and display areas. artists from both the Arab Phone +971 6 568 8222 Heritage (Jan 16 – Aug 16, 2019) region and the international Web sharjahmuseums.ae Exhibition info 40 Sharjah National Theatre art scene. Officially launched Address Corniche street, Arts Area Open Sat – Thu 8am – 8pm; Fri Established 1978 in March 2010, it is one of the ID A07 Map S03 4pm – 8pm Phone +971 6 568 6600 UAE’s most spectacular venues One of the main institutions Admission Ticket Web heartofsharjah.ae for contemporary visual arts. in the Art Area, the museum Director Manal Ataya Address Al Mareija Al Marija Street was inaugurated during the Phone +971 6 568 0006 ID A11 Map S02 Sharjah Art Foundation 3rd Sharjah International Web sharjahmuseums.ae Founded in 1978, the Exhibition Sharjah Biennial 14 Arts Biennial in April 1997. Address Al Burj Street; Bait Al Sharjah National Theatre Exhibition info 29 The museum, one of the main Naboodah Al Gharb promotes artistic and cultural Open Sat – Thu 9am – 9pm; Fri landmarks with a total area of ID A09 Map S02 awareness through meaningful 4pm – 9pm 111,000m², includes collections The museum is dedicated to plays, providing constructive Director Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi donated by H.H. Shaikh Dr. highlighting Sharjah’s heritage criticism and directing public Established 2009 Sultan bin Mohammad Al and the rich culture of Emirati opinion, as well as addressing Phone +971 6 568 5050 Qasimi, the Supreme Council people and Sharjah residents social issues in a manner easily Web sharjahart.org Member and Ruler of Sharjah. over the decades. It also understood by the viewers. 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My Art Guide UAE 2019 Dubai Art Season 2019: Take a making Dubai a globalised walk on the art side meeting point for art, culture and creativity. If you are an art Dubai Culture & Arts Authority enthusiast, an aspiring creative, (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s or simply visiting the Emirate, dedicated entity for culture, the activities held during the arts, heritage and literature two months of Dubai Art Season welcomes you to the sixth are experiences which should edition of Dubai Art Season. not be missed. Held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa Dubai Culture bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice Chairman of Dubai Culture, the Dubai Art Season runs from 1st March until 30th April, 2019.

This year’s calendar features an array of new initiatives along with a colourful and captivating tapestry of events, activities, exhibitions and art fairs across the city, with a new tagline “Take a Walk on the Art Side”. Dubai Art Season transforms the city into a hive of artistic activities in a celebration of a vivid spectrum of creative mediums. It kicks off with the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, and leading onto various key events including SIKKA Art Fair which is organised by Dubai Culture, Art Dubai, DIFC Art Nights, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Awards (HIPA), and L’Ecole Van Cleef & Arpels, and culminates with the 10th edition of the Dubai International Arabic Calligraphy Exhibition.

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10th St Dubai is the second largest Emirate in the UAE after the capital Abu Dhabi. Here galleries started to appear in the mid-90s and have proved to be a commercial success; over the last few years many Al Kabeer St Al Ras Rd Dubai Al Souk Municipality of them have established their presence at major international art Museum 22nd Rd fairs. Art Dubai offers a unique platform for both regional and inter- national galleries to present their works in the context of increasing Baniyas Rd Al Abra St interest in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA). Every year in March the city attracts a great number of collectors Deira Old Souq Station and art professionals from all over the world, driving the cultural scene of the region, the main attraction being the Alserkal Avenue district, the region’s foremost arts hub. Baniyas Rd DUBAI MARINA, THE PALM JUMEIRAH, MADINAT JUMEIRAH MAP D01 – D02

Usually called “New Dubai”, Dubai Marina is a residential area with Architectural Heritage Department Al Seef St the highest concentration of skyscrapers, as well as a number of cafés and restaurants at the JBR Walk in– famous for its heavy traf- fic of cruising supercars. An open-air “The Beach” Al Fahidi E30 Grand Bur Dubai Masjid Historical G27 hosts a number of public art commissions involving locally based District Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural artists in association with Dubai Culture Visible from the beach, the H12 F02 Understanding man-made island of Palm Jumeirah does not offer much of a cultural C09 Ali Bin Abi Taleb St experience, but has a number of luxury hotels and restaurants with E12 G19 outstanding views of the city. Close to the iconic is the home of the Art Dubai fair (ID AD, Page 60) — the Madinat Jumeirah (ID H06, Page 102) hotel complex. Al Fahidi St 3rd St MADINAT JUMEIRAH, AL QUOZ Al Fahidi St 74th St MAP D02 – D03

Al Souq Al Kabeer Jumeirah is a residential area of low-rise buildings near the sea; mostly consisting of private villas, the area is known for its open beaches; divided into three parts (Jumeirah 1, 2 and 3) it starts from 37 D St the old Port Rashid near the Creek and continues almost 20 km

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50 B St to the Burj Al Arab. A few minutes drive from the Mall of the Emir- ates, cutting-edge contemporary art has found a home in the in- dustrial area of Al Quoz. The major concentration of leading regional galleries, independent art spaces and private museums are found 60 Your Compass in Dubai here in Alserkal Avenue, a cluster of architect-designed warehous- es spread across 500,000 square feet, hosting Grey Noise (ID G15, Page 94), Carbon 12 (ID G08, Page 92), Lawrie Shabibi (ID G17, Page 95), Isabelle Van Den Eynde (ID G12, Page 94), Salsali Private Museum (ID M05, Page 87), the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation (ID M04, Page 86), Leila Heller Gallery (ID G18, Page 95), The Third Line (ID G26, Page 98), Con- crete (ID E15, Page 77) and Nadi Al Quoz - Warehouse 90 (ID C06, Page 88) and the newly opened Ishara Art Foundation (ID M02, Page 86).

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Downtown includes Burj Khalifa and as its main landmarks: the area features Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard with its great number of boutique hotels and restaurants and the

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Mohammed Bin Rashid Boulevard continues with Al ART DUBAI CONTEMPORARY Sa’ada St. (312th Rd.) which leads to the Gate Village of the Dubai ADDIS FINE ART, Addis Ababa · AGIAL ART, · AICON ART, New York · AKAR PRAKAR, Kolkata / New Delhi · ANDERSEN’S, Copenhagen · ASPAN, Almaty · PIERO ATCHUGARRY, Pueblo Garzón / Miami · ATHR, Jeddah · ATISS International Financial Centre (DIFC) — a pedestrian neighbourhood DAKAR, Dakar · AYYAM, Dubai · CARBON 12, Dubai · GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / occupied by bankers and a cluster for art spaces such as the Farjam Havana · CUSTOT, Dubai · DASTAN’S BASEMENT, Tehran · ERTI, Tbilisi · EXPERIMENTER, Kolkata · ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE, Dubai · GAZELLI ART HOUSE, Baku / London · GREEN ART GALLERY, Dubai · GROSVENOR, London · HAFEZ, Foundation (ID M06, Page 87), the Empty Quarter (ID G25, Page 97), Art Jeddah · LEILA HELLER, Dubai / New York · KRISTIN HJELLEGJERDE, London / Berlin · IN SITU-FABIENNE LECLERC, ID Page ID Page · MICHAEL JANSSEN, Berlin · DR. DOROTHEA VAN DER KOELEN, Mainz / Venice · KORNFELD, Berlin · KRINZINGER, Sawa ( G06, 92), Tabari Artspace ( G24, 97), and glitzy Vienna · ANNA LAUDEL, Istanbul · LAWRIE SHABIBI, Dubai · CHRISTIAN LETHERT, Cologne · MAM, Douala · MEEM, Dubai · restaurants popular during the quarterly Art Nights at Gate Village VICTORIA MIRO, London / Venice · FRANCO NOERO, Turin · OFFICINE DELL’IMMAGINE, Milan · ORBITAL DAGO, Bandung · OTA FINE ARTS, Shangai / Singapore / Tokyo · GIORGIO PERSANO, Turin · PRIMO MARELLA, Milan / Lugano · PROJECT ID Page ( E14, 76). A few kilometres along the Financial Centre Road is ARTBEAT, Tbilisi · RONCHINI, London · THE ROOSTER, Vilnius · ROSENFELD PORCINI, London · SANATORIUM, Istanbul · the new development combining creative offices for design, fashion SEISMASUNO, Madrid · SFEIR-SEMLER, Beirut / Hamburg · SMAC, Johannesburg / Cape Town / Stellenbosch · FILOMENA SOARES, · SPRÜTH MAGERS, Berlin / London / Los Angeles · WALTER STORMS, Munich · TORE SUESSBIER, Berlin · and art — the Dubai Design District (D3) where you’ll find AR Gallery TEMPLON, Paris / · THE THIRD LINE, Dubai · VOICE, Marrakech · WADI FINAN, Amman · ZAWYEH, Ramallah · (ID G04, Page 92), Gallery Ward (ID G13, Page 94), Art Hub Gallery (ID G05, ZIDOUN-BOSSUYT, Luxembourg · ZILBERMAN, Istanbul / Berlin Page 92) and East Wing (ID G10, Page 93). BAWWABA · Curated by Élise Atangana 856G, Mandaue City – Kristoffer Ardeña · AICON CONTEMPORARY, New York – Adeela Suleman · ANNE-SARAH BÉNICHOU, Paris – Chourouk Hriech · CANVAS, Karachi – Hamra Abbas · GUZO ART PROJECTS, Addis Ababa – Wanja BUR DUBAI, CREEK, DEIRA Kimani · GYPSUM, Cairo – Gözde İlkin · EMMANUEL HERVÉ, Paris – Sérgio Sister · JHAVERI CONTEMPORARY, Mumbai – Shezad Dawood · PERVE GALERIA, Lisbon – José Chambel · VERMELHO, São Paulo – Marcelo Moscheta MAP D07 RESIDENTS · Curated by Fernanda Brenner & Munira Al Sayegh A GENTIL CARIOCA, – Laura Lima · PIERO ATCHUGARRY, Pueblo Garzón / Miami – Verónica Vázquez · An old part of Dubai and formerly the only area occupied by the city, BARRO, Buenos Aires – Nicanor Aráoz · RUTH BENZACAR, Buenos Aires – Luciana Lamothe · CASA TRIÂNGULO, São Paulo – Rodolpho Parigi · GALLERIA CONTINUA, San Gimignano / Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana – José Manuel Mesías · the road signs in the Emirate traditionally point to Bur Dubai and INSTITUTO DE VISIÓN, Bogotá – Mazenett Quiroga · MENDES WOOD DM, São Paulo / Brussels / New York – Luiz Roque · Deira, split naturally by Dubai Creek, when they indicate Dubai. The GALERIA PILAR, São Paulo – Flora Rebollo · REVOLVER, Lima / Buenos Aires – Jerry B. Martin · SERVANDO, Havana – Luis Enrique López-Chávez · LUISA STRINA, São Paulo – Alexandre da Cunha main highlight of Bur Dubai is the Al Fahidi Historical Neighbour- ART DUBAI MODERN hood (previously known as Bastakiya); during the Art Season these DAG, New Delhi / Mumbai / New York · DHOOMIMAL GALLERY, New Delhi · ELMARSA GALLERY, / Dubai · little houses with wind towers host the Sikka Art Fair (ID F02, Page GROSVENOR GALLERY, London · MARK HACHEM, Beirut / Paris / New York · HAFEZ GALLERY, Jeddah · GALLERY ONE, Ramallah · , Lisbon · , New Delhi · , London · , Cairo 71) — an annual showcase of Emirati and Dubai-based artists and PERVE GALERIA SANCHIT ART TAFETA UBUNTU ART GALLERY a series of workshops and live performances. The oldest galleries in Dubai — Majlis (ID G19, Page 95), visionary XVA Gallery (ID G27, Page 98) and XVA Art Hotel (ID H12, Page 102) and the residence space of Tash- keel (ID C09, Page 90) — are all in the neighbourhood. 62 7 Art Dubai 63 ART DUBAI • Michael Janssen Gallery, • Zawyeh Gallery, Ramallah Berlin • Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, • Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Luxembourg Koelen, Mainz / Venice • Zilberman Gallery, Istanbul/ 7.1 ART DUBAI 2019 (Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde), • Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin Berlin Ursula Krinzinger (Galerie Krin- • Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Date Mar 20 – 23, 2019 zinger), Glenn Scott Wright (Vic- • Anna Laudel, Istanbul Art Dubai Modern Open Mar 20, 1pm – 4pm, ladies toria Miro), Andrée Sfeir-Semler • Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai Modern presents museum- preview; Mar 21, 2pm – 9:30pm; (Sfeir-Semler Gallery) • Galerie Christian Lethert, quality works by masters from Mar 22, 12pm – 9:30pm; Mar 23, Cologne the Middle East, South Asia 12pm – 6:30pm • Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa • Galerie Mam, Douala and Africa, whose work has Artistic Director Pablo del Val • Agial Art Gallery, Beirut • Meem Gallery, Dubai been influential throughout International Director Chloe Vaitsou • Aicon Art, NY • Victoria Miro, London/Venice the 20th century. Overseen Admission Day ticket 60AED on- • Akar Prakar, Kolkata/New • Galleria Franco Noero, Turin by a committee of leading line, 90AED onsite; 3 Day ticket Delhi • Officine Dell’Immagine, Milan academics and curators— 100AED online, 150AED onsite • Andersen’s, Copenhagen • Orbital Dago, Bandung Dr.Iftikhar Dadi, Catherine Web artdubai.ae • Aspan Gallery, Almaty • Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai / David, Vali Mahlouji and Dr.Nada Venue Madinat Jumeirah • Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Singapore / Tokyo Shabout—the section presents Address Al Sufouh Road, Umm Pueblo Garzón/Miami • Giorgio Persano, Turin galleries with solo and collective Suqeim, Exit 39 (Interchange 4) • Athr, Jeddah • Primo Marella, Milan/Lugano exhibits. from Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai • Galerie Atiss Dakar, Dakar • Project ArtBeat, Tbilisi ID AD Map D02 • Ayyam Gallery, Dubai • Ronchini Gallery, London • Dag, New Delhi/Mumbai/NY • Carbon 12, Dubai • The Rooster Gallery, Vilnius • Dhoomimal Gallery, New Delhi Preview Agenda • Galleria Continua, San • Rosenfeld Porcini, London • Elmarsa Gallery, Tunis/Dubai • Mar 19: 3pm – 7pm, Art Gimignano/Beijing/Les • Sanatorium, Istanbul • Grosvenor Gallery, London Dubai Patrons Circle preview Moulins/Havana • Galería Seismasuno, Madrid • Mark Hachem, Beirut/Paris/ • Mar 19: 7pm – 9:30pm, • Custot Gallery Dubai, Dubai • Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / NY Jumeirah Patrons preview • Dastan’s Basement, Tehran Hamburg • Hafez Gallery, Jeddah • Mar 20: 1pm – 4pm, Ladies • Erti Gallery, Tbilisi • Smac Gallery, Johannesburg / • Gallery One, Ramallah Preview • Experimenter, Kolkata Cape Town / Stellenbosch • Perve Galeria, Lisbon • Gallery Isabelle van den • Galeria Filomena Soares, • Sanchit Art, New Delhi Art Dubai Contemporary Eynde, Dubai Lisbon • Tafeta, London Art Dubai Contemporary galleries • Gazelli Art House, Baku/ • Sprüth Magers, Berlin / • Ubuntu Art Gallery, Cairo range from the established to the London London / Los Angeles emerging. Audiences can discov- • Green Art Gallery, Dubai • Walter Storms Galerie, Residents er artists from galleries spanning • Grosvenor Gallery, London Munich Art Dubai 2019 features the sec- across the world, including the • Hafez Gallery, Jeddah • Galerie Tore Suessbier, Berlin ond edition of Residents, dedi- largest exhibition of contem- • Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai/NY • Galerie Templon, Paris / cated to solo presentations from porary art from the region. Art • Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Brussels invited galleries whose artists will Dubai Contemporary’s selection London / Berlin • The Third Line, Dubai take part in a 4-8 week residency committee includes the following • In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc, • Voice Gallery, Marrakech in the UAE. This year Residents gallerists: Isabelle van den Eynde Paris • Wadi Finan Art Gallery, Amman focuses on Latin America. The 64 Art Dubai Art Dubai 65 programme encourages artists Gallery Casa Triângulo, São Paulo works by artists from, based Gallery Vermelho, São Paulo to immerse themselves in the Artist Rodolpho Parigi (, in, and/or focused on projects Artist Marcelo Moscheta (Brazil, local art scene and create a body 1977) about Latin America, the Middle 1976) of work which merges their dis- East, Africa and Central and tinct artistic practice with their Gallery Continua, San Gimignano South Asia. Curated by French- Bawwaba Talks surroundings. Brazilian Fernanda /Beijing / Les Moulins / Havana Cameroonian Élise Atangana. When Mar 20, 6pm – 7pm Brenner, Founder and Artistic Artist José Manuel Mesías, What Arts Patronage in the Global Director of São Paulo-based con- (Cuba, 1990) Gallery 856G, Mandaue City South, by invitation only temporary art space Pivô and one Artist Kristoffer Ardeña Who Ahmad Abu Ghazaleh (Pres- of the most influential curators Gallery Instituto de Visión, Bogotá (Philippines, 1976) ident, Mohammad and Mahera in Latin America, co-curates the Artists Mazenett Quiroga, Lina Abu Ghazaleh Foundation, expanded Residents section of Mazenett (Colombia, 1989); Gallery Aicon Contemporary, NY Jordan), Tarana Sawhney (Chair- the fair. Emirati curator Munira Al David Quiroga (Colombia, 1984) Artist Adeela Suleman (Pakistan, person, CII Task Force on Art Sayegh co-curates the expanded 1970) and Culture and Advisory Board Residents section of the fair with Gallery Mendes Wood DM, São Member, Foundation of Indian Emirati curator Munira Al Sayegh, Paulo/Brussels/NY Gallery Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Contemporary Art, India), and a well-established name in the Artist Luiz Roque (Brazil, 1979) Paris Michael Xufu Huang (Co-found- UAE art scene. Al Sayegh also Artist Chourouk Hriech (, er, M Woods Museum, China) works with the Campus Art Dubai Gallery Pilar, São Paulo 1977) Where Julius Baer Lounge 7.0 cohort. Artist Flora Rebollo (Brazil, 1983) Gallery Canvas, Karachi When Mar 21, 6pm – 7pm Special Event Mar 22, 6:30pm – Gallery Revolver, Lima / Buenos Artist Hamra Abbas (, What Mobilities and Imagined 7:30pm, Resident Talks at Art Aires 1976) Utopias in the Global South Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam Artist Jerry B. Martin (Colombia, Who Ziba Ardalan (Founder/Di- 1976) Gallery Guzo Art Projects, Addis rector of Parasol Unit, London), Gallery A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Ababa Élise Atangana (curator of the Janeiro Gallery Servando, Havana Artist Wanja Kimani (Kenya, Bawwaba section), Chourouk Artist Laura Lima (Brazil, 1971) Artist Luis Enrique López-Chávez 1986) Hriech (participating Bawwaba (Cuba, 1988) artist and Julius Baer commis- Gallery Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Gallery Gypsum, Cairo sioned artist), and Residents Garzón/Miami Gallery Luisa Strina, São Paulo Artist Gözde İlkin (Turkey, 1981) curators Fernanda Brenner and Artist Verónica Vázquez, Artist Alexandre da Cunha Munira Al Sayegh. (Uruguay, 1970) (Brazil, 1969) Gallery Emmanuel Hervé, Paris Where Julius Baer Lounge Artist Sérgio Sister (Brazil, 1948) Gallery Barro, Buenos Aires Bawwaba Art Dubai Commissions Artist Nicanor Aráoz (Argentina, Bawwaba (meaning “gateway” Gallery Jhaveri Contemporary, As part of the fair’s extensive not- 1981) in Arabic) is a new section of Mumbai for-profit programme, Art Dubai the fair that features 10 solo Artist Shezad Dawood (UK, 1974) Commissions gives regional and Gallery Ruth Benzacar Galeria de presentations, showcasing international artists the oppor- Arte, Buenos Aires works created within the last Gallery Perve, Lisbon tunity to develop site-specific Artist Luciana Lamothe, year or conceived specifically Artist José Chambel (São Tomé & works for the grounds of the far. (Argentina, 1975) for the fair. Bawwaba features Príncipe, 1969) In 2019 Art Dubai has commis- 66 Art Dubai sioned renowned Brazilian artist And will we need humans to teach collective Opavivará! to create humans anymore, anyway? an interactive, site-specific work When Mar 20, 4pm - 4:15pm for the heart of the fair on Fort What Welcome and introduction Island. Opavivará! ’s installation, Who Global Art Forum Commis- entitled “Solaroca”, consists of sioner Shumon Basar with a beach-like environment under Co-Directors Victoria Camblin the shade of an “oca” (a Brazilian and Fawz Kabra indigenous house) and combine a typical Brazilian beach-setting When Mar 20, 4:15pm - 4:35pm with shisha stations. This mix What Preface. The Bauhaus of Brazilian and Middle Eastern School (Part I): Where in the elements serves as the backdrop World Is the Bauhaus? for visitors to mingle and invite an Who Curator and Artistic Director intercultural dialogue. of bauhaus imaginista Marion OUR PERSONAL FINANCIAL Schmidt von Osten ADVICE BEGINS WITH ONE QUESTION: Global Art Forum - “School is a Factory?” When Mar 20, 4:35pm – 4:55pm Global Art Forum is an annual, What Discussion. The Bauhaus WHAT MATTERS transdisciplinary summit, based School (Part II): (What) Are We in Dubai, which combines orig- Still Learning? TO YOU? Who inal thinking and contemporary Independent Researcher and juliusbaer.com themes in an intimate, live envi- Curator Maud Houssais and ronment. Global Art Forum 2019 Curator and Artistic Director tackles the urgent challenges and of bauhaus imaginista Marion opportunities facing education Schmidt von Osten. Hosted by today. Entitled “School is a Fac- Global Art Forum Co-Director tory?” and programmed by editor/ Victoria Camblin writer Victoria Camblin and cura- tor/writer Fawz Kabra, the forum When Mar 20, 4:55pm – 5:20pm follows on from the previous What Lecture. What Is “Laborato- edition’s theme of automation rium”? to asks: What should education Who Researcher, Art Critic, Editor prioritise in the coming decade? and Curator Barbara Vander- How should humans be taught in linden the age of accelerated mechani- sation? Is the notion of ‘learning When Mar 20, 5:20pm – 5:45pm for life’ just an opportunistic What Dialogue. Your Research Is tagline? Will higher education Showing! escape the ghetto of elitism? Do Who Founder and Artistic Director past experiments in education of Pivô and Independent Cura- have something to teach today? tor Fernanda Brenner and Re-

Life-EN_MyArtGuides-110x166-11022019.indd 1 11.02.19 15:24 68 Art Dubai searcher, Art Critic, Editor and What Discussion. School Is the Curator Barbara Vanderlinden Commons? Who Designer Amir Berbić, Initia- When Mar 20, 5:45pm – 6pm tors of Campus in Camps Sandi What Break Hilal and Alessandro Petti and Independent Curator, Editor and When Mar 20, 6pm – 6:30pm Writer Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. What Video lecture. School Is A Hosted by Global Art Forum Laboratory: R&D At The Insti- Co-Director Fawz Kabra tuion Who Curator, Writer and Consult- When Mar 21, 5:45pm – 6pm ant Victoria Ivanova What Break

When Mar 20, 6:30pm – 7:30pm When Mar 21, 6pm – 6:20pm What Discussion. School Is The What Presentation. From Ras Al Establishment Khaimah To , a Decade of Who Director of Art Jameel An- Learning Design tonia Carver and Director of Who Co-Founders of Bon Educa- The Showroom London Elvira tion and Bon for Work Anna and Dyangani Ose. Hosted by Cura- Chris Batchelder tor of SculptureCenter Sohrab Mohebbi When Mar 21, 6:20pm – 6:40pm What Discussion. Artificial In- When Mar 20, 7:30pm – 8pm telligence, Real Education? A What Lecture. Schools And Fac- Taxonomy tories Who Innovation Leader of GEMS Who Associate Curator of KW Ber- Education Rohan Roberts lin Tirdad Zolghadr When Mar 21, 6:40pm – 7pm When Mar 21, 4pm – 4:15pm What Discussion What Welcome and introduction Who Co-Founders of Bon Educa- Who Global Art Forum Commis- tion and Bon for Work Anna and sioner Shumon Basar with Chris Batchelder and Innovation Co-Directors Victoria Camblin Leader of GEMS Education Ro- and Fawz Kabra han Roberts. Hosted by Global Art Forum Co-Directors Victoria When Mar 21, 4:15pm – 4:45pm Camblin and Fawz Kabra What Double Act. Swamp Is a School? When Mar 21, 7pm – 8pm Who Artists and Educators Nome- What Discussion. Learning from da and Gediminas Urbonas Machine Learning When Mar 21, 4:45pm – 5:45pm Who Artist Cécile B. Evans and 70 Art Dubai Art Dubai 71

Co-Founder of Mirai Christine kind in the UAE; the intensive discovery tours for children and created by Ken Done, one of the Nasserghodsi. Hosted by Global six-month seminar and residen- teenagers, created especially most significant painters on the Art Forum Commissioner Shu- cy programme provides Emirati for the fair by international and Australian continent. In his sig- mon Basar and UAE-based artists with the UAE-based artists. Its 2019 edi- nature lively colours and brush opportunity to develop their tion is lead by American artist strokes he reflects the vitality of Art Dubai Modern Symposium practices under the mentorship Sally Curcio under the theme his homeland. Alongside the car Modern Symposium is a series of of world renowned tutors and to of “Creating New Worlds” and is an exhibition in miniature form talks and presentations focused showcase their work during Art invites children to explore city- of all Art Car commissions allow- on the life, work and cultural Week. Following the educational scapes and re-imagine urban ing guests to discover the herit- impact of 20th century masters part of the programme, artists landscapes through the use of age and history of the BMW Art from the Middle East, South Asia participate in a 2-month res- miniatures and prototypes. Car project which, since 1975, and Africa. Renowned curators, idency, during which they re- has involved renowned artists scholars and patrons lead the ceive support to transform and UAE Now including Alexander Calder, Da- sessions that delve into the develop their initial research Curated by Munira Al Sayegh, vid Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, styles, influences and practices ideas into work. These artworks UAE Now is a new segment Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. of artists whose work contributes are exhibited in group show, of Art Dubai exploring the to the history of art produced in “Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Con- country’s independent local Piaget “The Art of Gold” the 20th century. The Art Dubai temporary Art in the City.” artist-run platforms. The par- Returning to Art Dubai for its Modern Symposium takes place ticipating platforms include, fourth year, Piaget presents an at Art Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam. Film amongst others, Bait 15, Jaffat exhibition dedicated to the work Art Dubai produces a number el Aqlam and PAC (Public Art of gold, the ultimate expression When Mar 22, 12:30pm – 1:30pm of films around the fair, spot- Collective). of Piaget’s craftsmanship. The What Performing Modernity: lighting the participating art- curated selection of jewellery Baghdad Of The Mid-Twentieth ists, galleries and partners, as Ithra Art Prize 2019 and watches is complemented Century well as the cities and regions Daniah Alsaleh’s winning com- by an installation by French Who Dr.Nada Shabout the fair operates in. One of the mission of the Ithra Art Prize, Maître d’Art Pierre Bonnefille. highlights in the ever-growing Sawtam, is exhibited for the first Special guests will also be When Mar 22, 2pm – 3pm film library are the Art Dubai time at Art Dubai before joining treated to a personal photogra- What Beirut Portraits, a series supported by Ithra’s permanent art collection. phy session with renowned light Who Catherine David Art Salon members that gives The large-scale audiovisual calligrapher Julien Breton, who a glimpse into the lives and artwork comprising 28 screens uses his body and light beam to When Mar 22, 3:30pm – 4:30pm studios of the artists that are explores the structure and com- spell out Arabic lettering. What Dakar connected to the fair through plexities of language, decon- Who Elvira Dyangani Ose its programming, participating structing it to its smallest unit Julius Baer “A Journey Drawn galleries, and partners. of sound, Sawtam, the Arabic Through an Archaeology of the When Mar 22, 5pm – 6pm translation of “phoneme”. Present” What Modern Art In Lahore The Sheikha Manal Little Artists Julius Baer has commissioned Who Dr. Iftikhar Dadi Programme BMW Art Car Collection Chourouk Hriech, a French artist In partnership with The Cultural BMW Group Middle East is proud of Moroccan origin, to create and Campus Art Dubai Office, Art Dubai’s non-com- to bring one of its BMW Art Cars curate an exhibition with a focus Campus Art Dubai (CAD) is the mercial programme includes to Art Dubai for the first time: on creating a bridge between first and only programme of its workshops, publications and the 1989 BMW M3 Art Car was and Dubai follow- 72 Art Dubai / Other Fairs Other Fairs / Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 73 ing the Swiss Private Banking ditional Chinese lion dance, Address Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz ID F03 Map D04 Group’s growth story. The art- where performers mimic a lion’s 1, St 8 World Art Dubai is the region’s ist, known to draw exclusively movements to bring luck and ID F01 Map D03 largest affordable retail art fair in black and white presents a fortune, Samson Young’s “Muted Fully Booked is a unique and cu- providing a unique fusion of art, contemporary almost fable-like Situation #2: Muted Lion Dance”, rated international platform for entertainment and education; artwork, sometimes retro-futur- is part of larger body of work in creative publications and art- welcoming art lovers, corporate istic, sometimes timeless which which the artist proposes a series ists’ books from or of the Middle buyers and private collectors. will transport the audience of sonic situations. In place of the East, North Africa, and South through the unexpected strata of usual percussive music, dancers Asia, anchored by the annual 7.3 EXHIBITIONS AND an archaeology of the present. perform to a soundtrack made Dubai art book fair. 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Address Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz Special event Mar 18, 4pm, Opening 1, St 8 Artists Ismael Kateregga, Cyrus 3 - 6 APRIL 2019 ID E03 Map D03 Kabiru, Dennis Muraguri, Ka- Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE During Art Week, Alserkal dara Enyeasi presents a number of guest Venue Akka Project DIVERSE. Live it. Love it. Buy it. projects: “Sun Boat” by Moataz Web akkaproject.com AFFORDABLE. ORIGINAL. Bringing affordable art to the Middle East Nasr at Warehouse 82; “Taxi- Address Warehouse 8, First Al dermy Dreams” by Mohamed Khail St, Al Quoz 1 Monaiseer at Warehouse 46; ID E05 Map X “Introspection” by Michelle “ART to Z” celebrates African Art Poonawalla at Warehouse 9; with a group of emerging and Lawrence Abu Hamdan studio. established artists from the Af- rican continent. For this special Altered Inheritances: Home is a occasion Efro and co create the Foreign Place installation “The Salon: An artis- Date Mar 18 – Jun 23, 2019 tic interpretation by Efro & Co”. Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm; Sun 10am – 7pm Artist’s Rooms Special event Mar 18, 6pm, Opening Date Mar 7 – Jun 8, 2019 Artists Shilpa Gupta, Zarina Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri World Art Dubai is a unique fusion of world- Venue Ishara Art Foundation @ 12pm – 10pm class art, entertainment and education for art Warehouse 3 Artists Farah Al Qasimi, Hemali lovers, corporate buyers and private collectors Web ishara.org Bhuta, Seher Shah and Randhir in Dubai and across the Middle East. Showcasing Address Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Singh a diverse collection of contemporary paintings, ID E04 Map D03 Venue Jameel Arts Centre photography, sculptures, mixed media & digital The show – a conversation be- Web jameelartscentre.org art, all priced between $100 - $20,000. tween Shilpa Gupta and Zarina Address Jaddaf Waterfront – features work made from the ID E06 Map X 1970s to the present, and navi- Farah Al Qasimi presents recent gates notions of belonging with lens-based works exploring por- nuanced, poetic and personal traiture, performance and every- evocations of how geographical day spaces. Hemali Bhuta’s inter- dislocation transforms ordinary est in working responsively to a lives. Its reference points are site is explored through her focus around the borders of South Asia, on objects and materiality. Seher with an awareness of migration Shah explores overlapping ideas in and mobility as globally resonant architecture, photography, draw- experiences in our times. ing and printmaking. Her Artist’s Room includes “Studies in Form”, Art to Z a collaborative body of work with #worldartdubai APPLICATIONS TO EXHIBIT ARE Date Mar 13 – Apr 20, 2019 photographer Randhir Singh. NOW OPEN AT WORLDARTDUBAI.COM Open Wed, Thu, Sat 11am – 6pm 76 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai

Baya Mahieddine Chiharu Shiota: Departure Date Mar 18 – May 2, 2019 Date Nov 10 – Sep 7, 2019 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening 12pm – 10pm Venue Elmarsa Venue Jameel Arts Centre Web galerielmarsa.com Web jameelartscentre.org Address Warehouse 23, Alserkal Address Jaddaf Waterfront Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 ID E09 Map X ID E07 Map D03 A large-scale immersive in- The exhibition of the work of stallation by Chiharu Shiota self-taught Algerian artist Baya recalling ideas such as travel, Mahieddine known as Baya belonging and the complexity of comprises some 15 gouache the human condition. The artist paintings. Highly valued by creates a web-like ambience many of the leading figures of made of large quantities of yarn, the Parisian avant-garde, Baya which takes over the entire is one of the key artists in mod- room. At the centre, Shiota po- ern art from North Africa within sitions a traditional abra boat, post-colonial art movements in referencing the . search of a new alignment with the experience and values of Clémentine De Chabaneix society and culture. and Helle Mardahl: Shapes Of Wonderland Bernhard Buhmann: The Chaser, Date Mar 20 – Apr 7, 2019 the Ambusher and the Fickle Open Daily 8am – 10pm Date Mar 18 – May 1, 2019 Special event Mar 19, 11am, Opening Open Sat – Thu 11:30am – 7pm Artists Clémentine De Chabaneix, Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening Helle Mardahl Venue Carbon 12 Venue Comptoir 102 Web carbon12.art Web comptoir102.com Address Warehouse 37, Alserkal Address 102, Beach Rd, Jumeirah 1 Avenue, Al Quoz 1 ID E10 Map X ID E08 Map D03 Comptoir 102, an award winning Buhmann’s paintings are spirits lifestyle concept store and cre- of the times, sensitive mirrors of ative hub located in the heart the stages of everyday life. The of the city, presents the work of spectrum of protagonists is com- Clementine de Chabaneix and mensurately broad, a motley crew Helle Mardahl. ranging from clowns and crea- tures of fantasy, to bizarre flying Contrary Life: A Botanical Light machines and beyond, all the way Garden Devoted to Trees to colourful abstractions. Date Nov 11 – Sep 1, 2019 78 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 79

Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri teo-Yazbeck, Media Farzin, GCC DIFC’s Gate Village art galleries mentation and usage of colour 12pm – 10pm Collective, Raja’a Khalid, Lydia will also open new art collections as a medium in itself throughout Venue Jameel Arts Centre Ourahmane, Houshang Pezesh- in line with the event. his ever-enduring practice. Web jameelartscentre.org knia, Monira Al Qadiri, Hassan Address Jaddaf Waterfront Sharif, Wael Shawky, Nasrin Fabric(ated) Fractures Heitham Adjina: Architecture of ID E11 Map X Tabatabai , Babak Afrassiabi, Date Mar 9 – 23, 2019 Being Kuwait-based Alia Farid and Rayyane Tabet, Hajra Waheed, Artists Ashfika Rahman, Ayesha Date Mar 18 – May 12, 2019 Aseel AlYaqoub have created Michael John Whelan, Lantian Jatoi, Debasish Shom, Gauri Gill, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm an installation which reflects Xie, Ala Younis Hitman Gurung, Jakkai Siributr, Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening upon our relationship to nature Venue Jameel Arts Centre Joydeb Roaja, Kamruzzaman Venue Showcase Gallery and acts as a community Curator Murtaza Vali Shadhin, Kanak Chanpa Chak- Web showcaseuae.com botanical garden. The two Web jameelartscentre.org ma, Munem Wasif, Pablo Bart- Address Warehouse 35, Alserkal were selected by a jury for the Address Jaddaf Waterfront holomew, Rashid Choudhury, Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 creation of a site-specific work ID E13 Map X Reetu Sattar, Shilpa Gupta, ID E17 Map D03 on the first edition of Art Jameel 17 artists and collectives in- Rajesh Vangad Iraqi-British Dubai-based art- Commissions. vestigate the topic of oil, con- Venue Concrete ist Heitham Adjina tackles the sidered as an agent of social, Web concrete.ae philosophical and aesthetic Creative Diversity cultural and economic events. Address Alserkal Avenue, St 8, Al wonders of time, place and Date Mar 16 – Apr 18, 2019 “Crude” features works inspired Quoz 1 humanity through his paintings Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm by archival and historical doc- ID E15 Map D03 rife with allegorical symbolism. Artists Cynthia Moss, Sophie umentation related to oil and “Fabric(ated) Fractures” is a An architect practising for over Walbeoffe, Peter Bowles and seeks to reconstruct historical group exhibition featuring works 40 years, through his paintings Anne Clifton, Jamal Abdul Rahim narrative related to oil, also un- by Bangladeshi, South Asian and Adjina marries the structures Venue Majlis Gallery derlining the improvements it Southeast Asian artists, explor- that inhabit our world with the Web themajlisgallery.com has brought to modern life. ing “sensitive spaces” – spaces more subjective meanderings of Address Al Musalla Roundabout, Al that challenge ideas of nation, human consciousness. Fahidi Neighbourhood, Bur Dubai DIFC Art Nights 2019 state, and territory. ID E12 Map D07 Date Mar 18, 6pm – 10pm Hussain AlMoosawi: Facade to “Creative Diversity” brings to- Venue Gate Village at DIFC Hassan Sharif: Blue Facade gether 4 artists and a writer to Web difc.ae Date Mar 18 – May 6, 2019 Date Feb 4 – Jun 8, 2019 fill the 4 main exhibition spaces Address Al Saa’da Street, opposite Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm of the gallery and its beautiful Emirates Towers Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening Venue Gulf Photo Plus courtyard with stunning art and ID E14 Map D06 Venue Gallery Isabelle van den Web gulfphotoplus.com artifacts. Featuring a unique fusion of Eynde Address Warehouse 36, Alserkal art, culture and entertainment, Web ivde.net Avenue, Al Quoz 1, St 8 Crude: Oil as Archive, Infra- DIFC Art Nights will transport Address Warehouse 17, Alserkal ID E18 Map D03 structure and Technology you into a world of creativity and Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 The facades of the buildings Date Nov 11, 2018 – Mar 30, 2019 inspiration, presenting work by ID E16 Map D03 across the UAE serve as an ar- Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri emerging and established artists Entitled “Blue”, the show pre- chitectural guide to this young 12pm – 10pm from around the world, as well sents an array of objects, exper- nation’s history. Artist, pho- Artists Latif Al Ani, Manal as offering visitors the chance to iments, paintings, and works on tographer, and graphic designer AlDowayan, Alessandro Bal- participate in creative activities. paper investigating his experi- Hussain AlMoosawi has gone 80 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai from emirate to emirate, doc- In this exhibition of new paint- umenting dozens of facades, ings, Kamrooz Aram continues from the idiosyncratic to the to combine ornamental patterns archetypal and everything in derived from Persian carpets between. The resulting body of and other so-called decorative work is as much a testament to arts with a painterly language the designers and architects that he has developed over the who have shaped the UAE as it years. These paintings range reflects upon the relationship from those bound closely to the between mankind and the urban logic of the grid, to those paint- spaces we build. ed completely free-form, with- out any imposed structure. Johan Creten: True Love Date Mar 18 – Apr 30, 2019 Moataz Nasr: The Mountain Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Date Mar 7 – May 16, 2019 Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Venue Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai Venue Meem Gallery Web leilahellergallery.com Web meemartgallery.com Address Warehouse 21, Alserkal Address Umm Suqeim Road, Al Avenue, Al Quoz 1, Quoz 1 ID E19 Map D03 ID E21 Map D02 “True Love” further explores the Last seen as part of an immer- themes encompassing the art- sive, multi-sensory experience ist’s career, including emphasis in the Egyptian pavilion of on the relationship between the 2017 Venice Biennale, the humanity and Earth. Through- 12-minute film tells the story of out the exhibition, Johan Creten Zein, a young girl who leaves her displays an uncanny under- isolated village in mountainous standing of clay as a medium, Upper Egypt to continue her further delving into the notion studies. On her return, Zein, of the omnipotent, formidable now a worldly young woman, force, “the Earth Mother”. challenges the deep-set super- stitions and conventions of her Kamrooz Aram village by flouting the authority Date Mar 18 – May 30, 2019 of the disapproving local elders. Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Special event 9-23 March 2019 Mar 18, 6pm, opening Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Concrete, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai Venue Green Art Gallery Date Feb 25 – Apr 18, 2019 Web Open gagallery.com Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Fabric(ated) Fractures is a collaboration between the Samdani Address Warehouse 28, Alserkal Venue Lawrie Shabibi Art Foundation and Alserkal Avenue at Concrete, Dubai. Web Avenue, Al Quoz 1, St 8 lawrieshabibi.com concrete.ae ID E20 Map D03 Address Warehouse 21, Alserkal 82 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai Exhibitions and Events in Dubai 83

Avenue, Al Quoz 1 most pressing issues of their Rana Begum: Perception and rhodiola’s healing properties ID E22 Map D03 time. Reflection and its ability to help combat Khorfakkan-based Emirati artist Date Mar 15 – May 9, 2019 stress, anxiety and fatigue. Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is part Philip Mueller. Tibe Now: Free Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm of the UAE’s first generation of Drinks, Boots and Tickets to the Venue The Third Line Richard Nonas: Enough’s contemporary artists from the Apocalypse Web thethirdline.com Enough 1990s and 2000s. His practice Date Mar 10 – Jun 30, 2019 Address Warehouse 78 and 80, Al- Date Mar 18 – Jun 30, 2019 has been inspired by a lifelong Open Daily 11am – 6pm serkal Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 Open Sat – Thu 11am – 6pm relationship with the environment Venue Salsali Private Museum ID E26 Map D03 Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening of Khorfakkan: his fascination Web salsalipm.com The show takes its cues from Venue Jean-Paul Najar Foundation with the desolate, rocky terrain Address Warehouse 14, Alserkal Rana’s 2006 British Council Web jpnajarfoundation.com on this eastern shore of the UAE, Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 residency in Bangkok, where Address Warehouse 45, Alserkal the earthy toils of a generation of ID E24 Map D03 she first experimented with Avenue, Al Quoz land artists, with whom Ibrahim The final Dubai exhibition of SPM reflectors as a medium for ID E28 Map D03 shares a spiritual lineage. presents a selection of paintings creative expression. Fast The exhibition features by Austrian painter Philip Muel- forward a couple of years and sculptures, drawings and Personal Revolutions ler from its collection alongside scale down a couple of feet, books by artist Richard Nonas, Date Mar 9 , 2019 on new and site-specific works. Rana’s new reflector works including a ten-meter long Open Mon 10am – 8pm; Tue – Sun Following the journey of Muel- describe our ever-evolving built work that extends throughout 10am – 7pm ler’s practice, the show traces environment. JPNF. Informed by his time Artists Sulafa Hijazi, Khadija the evolution of series including as an anthropologist, Nonas Baker, Hiba Ansari, Randa Black Flamingo Sad Boys (BFSB), Rhodiola has developed a powerful Maddah, Nour Asalia Der Berg and Mütters through to Date Mar 18 – Apr 30, 2019 vocabulary that explores our Venue Atassi Foundation @ Ware- the new commissions. Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening perception of space and the way house 60 Venue Nadi Al Quoz - Warehouse 90 we experience it. Curator Mouna Atassi Play Curator 3 137 Web Atassi Foundation Date Mar 12, 2019 onward Web alserkalavenue.ae Sadik Alfraji: The River That Was Address Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Open Sat – Thu 9am – 10pm Address Alserkal Avenue in the South ID E23 Map D03 Special event Mar 12, 7pm, Opening ID E27 Map D03 Date Mar 18 – Apr 25, 2019 The show examines the lives Venue Tashkeel “Rhodiola” is the first Open Mon – Thu, Sun 10am – and works of pioneering fe- Web tashkeel.org commission under Alserkal 6pm; Sat 12pm – 6pm male artists in Syria within the Address Nadd Al Sheba 1 Avenue’s not-for-profit Alserkal Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening context of both personal de- ID E25 Map X Residency. “Rhodiola”, a project Venue Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz velopment as well as the wider Tashkeel invites artists to sub- by Athens-based collective Web ayyamgallery.com backdrop of the intense social mit their artworks for its open 3 137—made up of artists Address Warehouse 11, Alserkal and political changes that have call “Play”. Selected works are Chrysanthi Koumianaki, former Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 taken place across Syria, from presented in the Tashkeel Gal- Alserkal Residency artist-in- ID E29 Map D03 the early 20th century to the lery and Garden. The exhibition residence Kosmas Nikolaou, and The show presents a body of present day. Working invarious revolves around the concept of Paky Vlassopoulou. Borrowing work including an animated media these trailblazing wom- “play” which is not necessarily its title from the rhodiola rosea film, a sound installation, a en allow us to see through their a domain of the young. Nor is it flower, a perennial golden root series of drawings and prints, as eyes, as they parse through the simply the opposite of “work”. the commission is inspired by well as paintings by the artist. 84 Exhibitions and Events in Dubai

Samira Abbassy: A Night Stéphanie Saadé: The Sea Journey. Imran Channa: Encounter of the First and Last Badshahnama Particles of Dust Date Mar 16 – Apr 24, 2019 Date Mar 18 – May 11, 2019 Open Daily 10am – 6pm Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm Venue XVA Gallery Special event Mar 18, 6pm, opening Web xvagallery.com Venue Grey Noise Address Al Fahidi Neighborhood, Web greynoise.org Bur Dubai, 312th Road Address Warehouse 24, Alserkal ID E30 Map D07 Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 We record our past through ID E32 Map D03 many means: storytelling, Saadé’s work departs from the writing, and imagery shape our moment one becomes estranged histories. Culture, religion and from his surroundings. The artist lineage, are all accounted for. explores and reveals the shapes History is factual and fictitious, of distance and looks at the indi- accurate and exaggerated, vidual tranformation of shape by beautiful and terrible. Individ- those estranged. uals can find a way to re-write our histories; Samira Abbassy Tagreed Darghouth: Strange and Imran Channa do this in fas- Fruits cinating and powerful ways. Date Mar 18 – May 1, 2019 Open Daily 10am – 7pm Shaikha Al Mazrou Venue Tabari Artspace Date Nov 11 – Sep 1, 2019 Web tabariartspace.com Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri Address Bld. 3, level 2, Gate Vil- 12pm – 10pm lage, DIFC Venue Jameel Arts Centre ID E33 Map D06 Web jameelartscentre.org Painter Darghouth is concerned Address Jaddaf Waterfront with the socio-political issues ID E31 Map X prevalent in her native Lebanon The show is the first commission and beyond and takes a re- of Artist’s Garden, a series of search-driven approach to her annual artists’ interventions to works, primarily in acrylic on cultivate and experiment with canvas, that tackle such topics the Centre’s seven gardens. The as cosmetic surgery, domestic artist creates a structure inspired workers, life and death, war, by regular topics in her research destruction, identity, and dis- which play with dichotomies such placement. as interior/exterior, manmade/ natural, creation/destruction, containment/constriction. L’ÉCOLE Van Cleef & Arpels dren and teens inviting young Returns to the Middle East attendees to develop creativity Discover, Learn, Wonder while discovering a new world of jewelry design. These will take After a successful debut in 2017, place through local schools’ col- L’ECOLE Van Cleef & Arpels re- laborations during the week and turns to Dubai from March 28th will be open to the public during to April 13th with a programme the weekends. of courses, conversations and exciting exhibitions. Taking Evening Conversations place at In5 at Hai d3, in Dubai Curiosity and dialogue are the Design District, L’ECOLE is the watchwords of these excep- only educational and cultural tional evening conversations, platform of its kind worldwide, which are open to the general inviting everyone who is curious public, where an art historian and passionate to take a journey from L’ÉCOLE and a local expert discovering the savoir-faire, his- discuss different chapters of the tory and culture of fine jewelry. world of jewelry. Selective topics and timings will be available on The Exhibitions L’ÉCOLE’s website for visitors to 1. Hidden Treasures: Jewelry pick and choose their favorite. from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia The Movies 2. Pearl Merchants: A rediscov- Cinema brings people together ered Saga between the Gulf and that is what Cinema Akil, the and France at the dawn of fully fledged arthouse cinema the 20th Century promises. L’ÉCOLE once again 3. Precious Art Deco Objects partners with them to engage 4. The Fabulous Destiny of Tav- with the audience taking them ernier’s Diamonds on a remarkable cinematic journey. With a perfect setting The Courses under the stars, great view of 14 adult courses with hands-on the panoramic Dubai skyline experiencing, on an “à la carte” and accompanied with tasty basis, organised around three food, the audience will enjoy two main themes: weeks of pure cinematic bliss. 1. Art History of Jewelry Six artistic movies will be aired 2. of Gemstones during this period and will be 3. Savoir-Faire revealed on L’ÉCOLE’s website. Enrollment will open from Feb- IN5 AT HAI d3 - DUBAI DESIGN DISTRICT ruary 2019 and courses are MARCH 29TH - APRIL 13TH 2019 priced at AED 500. The full schedule is available at: me.lecolevancleefarpels.com DISCOVER. LEARN. WONDER. The Workshops PROGRAM, REGISTRATION ONLINE ME.LECOLEVANCLEEFARPELS.COM #LECOLE_ME Six creative workshops for chil-

UAE_Poster_ECOLE_SP_148x210_EN.indd 1 21/02/2019 18:15 88 8 Museum and Art Institutions in Dubai / Art Spaces in Dubai 89 ART IN DUBAI Phone +971 4 258 7078 ID M06 Map D06 Web jpnajarfoundation.com The foundation fosters a dialogue Address Warehouse 45, Alserkal between East and West through Avenue, Al Quoz various cultural initiatives. Fea- 8.1 MUSEUMS AND ART ID M02 Map D03 ID M04 Map D03 turing Islamic and pre-Islamic INSTITUTIONS IN DUBAI Founded by Smita Prabhakar in The JPNF is a non-profit ICOM art, Contemporary Middle-East- partnership with Alserkal Avenue, registered private museum, ern art, the collection embodies Alserkal Residency Ishara is the first non-profit insti- gathering abstract European and the fusion of cultures and tradi- Established 2017 tution in the UAE dedicated to art American art from the 1960s on. tions between East and West. Spring 2019 residents Zeljka Blaksic, and artists from South Asia. Liva Dudareva, Mahan Moalemi, Salsali Private Museum 8.2 ART AND COMMUNITY Eduardo Cassina Jameel Arts Centre Exhibitions Philip Mueller. Tibe SPACES IN DUBAI Selection Committee Pierre Bélanger, Exhibitions Artist’s Rooms; Chiha- Now: Free Drinks, Boots and iLiana Fokianaki, César García-Al- ru Shiota: Departure; Contrary Tickets to the Apocalypse (Mar A4 Space varez, Raja’a Khalid, Monica Naru- Life: A Botanical Light Garden 10 – Jun 30, 2019) Exhibition Selections “Sanctuar- la, Filipa Ramos, Uzma Z. Rizvi Devoted to Trees; Crude: Oil Exhibition info 80 ies” projection Web alserkalavenue.ae as Archive, Infrastructure and Open Daily 11am – 6pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Address Alserkal Avenue Technology; Shaikha Al Mazrou Director Ramin Salsali Director Vilma Jurkute ID M01 Map D03 Exhibition info 72; 74; 74; 76; 82 Established 2011 Established 2014 Alserkal Residency is a platform Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; Fri Phone +971 4 380 9600 Phone +971 50 556 9797 for artistic experimentation and 12pm – 10pm Web salsalipm.com Web alserkalavenue.ae discursive exchange, seeking to Director Antonia Carver Address Warehouse 14, Alserkal Address Warehouse 4, Alserkal support cultural producers as Established 2018 Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 they research themes pertinent Phone +971 4 873 9800 ID M05 Map D03 ID C01 Map D03 to their respective practices, in Web jameelartscentre.org SPM showcases artworks from A4 by Alserkal Avenue is a mul- the city of Dubai. Founded by Ab- Address Jaddaf Waterfront the Salsali private collection, ti-disciplinary space dedicated delmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal and ID M03 Map X and the museum hosts visiting to the creative community. The the Alserkal family, the Residen- An independent space dedicat- exhibitions from across the workspace fosters ideas and cy focuses on research-based ed to promoting contemporary globe. It serves as an independ- encourages the young creatives and socially-engaged practices. art through an innovative cul- ent centre for art collectors, and of Dubai to meet, collaborate tural programme and activities provides an insight into a con- and incubate their projects. Ishara Art Foundation addressed to the community. temporary Middle Eastern and Exhibition Altered Inheritances: international art. Cinema Akil Home is a Foreign Place (Mar 18 Jean-Paul Najar Foundation Established 2014 – Jun 23, 2019) Exhibition Richard Nonas: The Farjam Foundation Phone +971 50 557609260 Exhibition info 72 Enough’s Enough (Mar 18 – Jun Open Sun – Thu 10am – 8pm Web cinemaakil.com Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm; 30, 2019) Director Marjan Farjam Address Warehouse 68, Alserkal Sun 10am – 7pm Exhibition info 81 Established 2008 Avenue, Al Quoz Established 2019 Open Sat – Thu 11am – 6pm Phone +971 4 323 0303 ID C02 Map D03 Web ishara.org Directors Deborah Najar, Wafa Web farjamcollection.org An independent cinema platform Address Warehouse 3, Alserkal Jadallah Address Bld. 4, Podium Level, Gate bringing to Dubai quality films Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Established 2016 Village, DIFC from around the world, Cinema 90 Art Spaces in Dubai

Akil hopes to create awareness sation whose aim is to nurture and interest in the seventh art. and develop the photography community by offering work- eL Seed Studio shops, seminars, and events Phone +971 55 773 7626 that encourage learning and Web elseed-art.com skill development. Address Warehouse 75, Alserkal Avenue, Al Quoz Nadi Al Quoz - Warehouse 90 ID C03 Map D03 Exhibition Rhodiola (Mar 18 – Apr Set in the heart of Alserkal 30, 2019) Avenue, the studio shows the Exhibition info 81 amazing and intricate cal- Phone +971 50 556 9797 ligraphic work of French artist Web alserkalavenue.ae eL Seed (1981). Address Alserkal Avenue ID C06 Map D03 FN Designs Located in the heart of Alserkal Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm Avenue, Nadi Al Quoz has been de- Established 2009 constructed as a space to host the Phone +97 14 37 90 490 “Rhodiola” commission by 3 137. ›CADORO‹ Web fanndesigns.com Zentrum für Kunst und Wissenschaft in Mainz Address Alserkal Avenue, Unit 26 Satellite Centre for Arts and Science in Mainz Al Quoz 1, St 8 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm ID C04 Map D03 Director Rami Farook August-Horch-Straße 14 · D-55129 Mainz · Germany Established FN Designs creates a de- 2011 Tel. 00 49 - (0) 6131 - 2191 883 + 34664 sign-centric social community Phone +971 4 347 0209 within Dubai, through innovative Web satellitespace.tumblr.com Dr. phil. Dorothea van der Koelen and collaborative events and Address Unit 16, Alserkal Avenue, [email protected] · Mob. 0049 - 171 - 4 208 280 interaction with local artists. St 8, Al Quoz 1 www.vanderkoelen.de · www.chorus-verlag.de ID C07 Map D03 Gulf Photo Plus A large warehouse in the Al- Exhibition Hussain AlMoosawi: serkal gallery district, Satellite Galerie Dr. Dorothea van der Koelen, founded in 1979 in Mainz/Germany, Facade to Facade (Feb 4 – Jun invites visitors to enjoy the ar- is one of Germany’s most leading galleries, with a branch in Venice/Italy 8, 2019) tistic proces sand engage with since 2001. Showing concrete, constructive, conceptual, experimental art Exhibition info 77 the artist before the works are of the international avantgarde and new tendencies. Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm known to the “art world”. Director Mohamed Somji In 2019 we proudly celebrate 40 years of gallery !!! Phone +971 4 380 8545 Tashkeel Web gulfphotoplus.com Exhibition Play (Mar 12, 2019 on- Address Warehouse 36, Alserkal ward) Works by Avenue, Al Quoz 1, St 8 Exhibition info 80 Lore Bert · Daniel Buren · Mohammed ID C05 Map D03 Open Sat – Thu 9am – 10pm GPP is a photography organi- Director Sheikha Lateefa Bint Booth E 6 Kazem · Reinhard Roy · Turi Simeti · Johara hall Günther Uecker 92 Art Spaces in Dubai Art Spaces in Dubai / Galleries in Dubai 93

Maktoum one another, share and learn Thejamjar Akka Project Established 2008 from each other’s experiences, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm; Fri Exhibition Art to Z (Mar 13 – Apr Phone +971 4 336 3313 and embark on expeditions in 2pm – 8pm 20, 2019) Web tashkeel.org this new world of making. Director Hetal Pawani Exhibition info 72 Address Nadd Al Sheba 1 Established 2005 Open Wed, Thu, Sat 11am – 6pm ID C08 Map X The Fridge Phone +971 4 341 7303 Director Lidija Khachatourian A contemporary art organisation Director Shelley Frost Web thejamjardubai.com Phone +971 56748 1638 that facilitates art and design Established 2007 Address Unit H74, Alserkal Avenue, Web akkaproject.com practice through studios, art- Phone +971 4 347 7793 Al Quoz 1 Address Warehouse 8, First Al ists’ residencies, exhibitions, Web thefridgedubai.com ID C13 Map D03 Khail St, Al Quoz 1 events and workshops. Address Alserkal Avenue, Thejamjar is a community arts ID G02 Map X Warehouse 5 St 8/St 17 space that supports artists and Tashkeel Al Fahidi ID C11 Map D03 promotes the development of Andakulova Gallery Open Sat – Thu 9am – 10pm The Fridge is an innovator in its Dubai’s arts scene through its Exhibition Almagul Menlibayeva: Director Sheikha Lateefa Bint field and the award-winning creative learning programme Genius Loci Central Asia (Mar Maktoum production team create original and community projects. 6 – Jun 20, 2019) Established 2008 bespoke shows for theatres, Exhibition info 71 Phone +971 4 336 3313 festivals, nightclubs and exhibi- 8.3 GALLERIES IN DUBAI Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Web tashkeel.org tions as well as conceiving and Represented artists Alexander Address House 10, Al Fahidi Histor- staging its own productions. 1×1 Art Gallery Barkovsky, Alexander Nikolaev, ical Neighbourhood, Bur Dubai Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Almagul Menlibayeva, Andrey ID C09 Map D07 The Junction Represented artists Abir Karmakar, Krikis, Askhat Akhmediyarov, Tashkeel Al Fahidi is a branch of Open Mon, Tue, Wed 10am – 5pm; Joze Biju, Chittrovanu Mazum- Azamat Khatamov, Bakhodir Tashkeel, and takes the form of Thu, Fri, Sat 10am – 10pm dar, Cristiana de Marchi, Elham Djalal, Bakhyt Bubicanova, a well-equipped communal stu- Directors Arjun Burman, Gautam Alirezaei Dizicheh, Faiza Butt, Bobur Ismoilov, GaBo dio, catering for artists working Goenka, Rashmi Kotriwala Farbod Elkaei, Ravinder Reddy, Kussainovs, Jamol Usmanov, across a wide range of visual Established 2015 Ghulam Mohammad, Jagannath Javlon Umarbekov, Max Penson, media. Phone +971 4 3388 525 Panda, Judy Blum Reddy, Ju- Murad Karabaev, Rimma Web thejunctiondubai.com mairy, Justin Ponmany, Kambiz Gagloeva, Said Atabekov, Sanjar Tech Arc Address Unit H-72, Alserkal Sabri, Khosrow Hassanzadeh, Djabbarov, Saule Suleimenova, Open Mon – Thu, Sat 10am – Avenue, Al Quoz 1, St 8 Mithu Sen, Jain Poonam, Push- Timur D’Vatz, Timur Ernst 10pm; Fri, Sun 1pm – 10pm ID C12 Map D03 pamala N, Sachin Bonde, Shibu Akhmedov, Vera Nechaeva, Established 2017 The Junction was conceived Natesan, Simrin Mehra Agarwal, Vyacheslav (Yura) Useinov, Phone +971 50 359 8787 and built as a space where local Vivek Vilasini, Zarina Hashmi, Yuristanbek Shygaev Web techarcdubai.com and regional theatre talent can Zied Ben Romdhane Owner/Director Natalya Andakulova Address Alserkal Avenue, Ware- thrive, where creators and per- Owner/Director Malini Gulrajani Established 2013 house 25 formers can be original, where Established 1996 Phone +971 4 385 9897 ID C10 Map D03 collaboration and mutual devel- Phone +971 4 341 1287 Web andakulova.com An open space where students, opment can occur, and where an Web 1x1artgallery.com Address Unit 18, P4 Level, innovators, artists, entrepre- appreciation for the arts can be Address Unit 10, Alserkal Avenue, Damac Park Towers, DIFC neurs, and all interested in the cultivated within Dubai’s thea- St 8, Al Quoz 1 ID G03 Map D04 art of creation can engage with tre audiences. ID G01 Map D03 94 Galleries in Dubai Galleries in Dubai 95

AR Gallery Ayyam Gallery Al Quoz Address Warehouse 37, Alserkal mandy, Katrin Koenning, Freder- Open Sat – Wed 11am – 8pm; Thu Exhibition Sadik Alfraji: The River Avenue, Al Quoz 1 ic Lezmi, Waheeda Malullah, 9am – 8pm That Was in the South (Mar 18 – ID G08 Map D03 Rania Matar, Aso Mohammadi, Directors Anna Szonyi, Amrish Patel Apr 25, 2019) Eman Mohammed, Regine Phone +971 4 244 0100 Exhibition info 81 Custot Gallery Petersen, Bas Princen, Sarker Web argallery.ae Open Sun – Thu 10am – 6pm; Sat Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Protick, Laurence Rasti, Robert Address Building 6, Ground Floor, 12pm – 6pm Represented artists Fernando Zhao Renhui, Oliver Ressler, Dubai Design District Represented artists Sadik Kwaish Botero, Nick Brandt, Enrico Martin Roemers, Atish Saha, ID G04 Map D05 Alfraji, Mohammad Bozorgi, Castellani, Chu Teh-Chun, Tony Sara, Peter & Tobias - Phenom- Elias Izoli, Sama Alshaibi, Saf- Cragg, Ian Davenport, Nicolas ena, Shadman Shahid, Mahesh Art Hub Gallery Dubai wan Dahoul, Mouteea Murad, de Staël, Barry Flanagan, Peter Shantaram, Maija Tammi, Phillip Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Asaad Arabi, Samia Halaby, Halley, Richard Höglund, Robert Toledano, Corinne Vionnet Owner/Director Ahmed Al Yafei Afshin Pirhashemi, Athier, Rula Indiana, William Klein, Umberto Directors Elie Domit, Peggy Sue Phone +971 55 55 09640 Halawani, Faisal Samra, Tam- Mariani, Joan Miró, Jedd Novatt, Amison Web arthubdubai.com mam Azzam, Thaier Helal Marc Quinn, Pablo Reinoso, Established 2014 Address Building 2, Shop 2, Ras Owner Maymanah Farhat James Rosenquist, Pierre Soul- Phone +97 15055 33 879 Al Khor Road, Dubai Design Established 2008 ages, Frank Stella, , Web east-wing.org District Phone +971 4 323 6242 Sophia Vari, Bernar Venet, Fabi- Address Building 2 07, Dubai De- ID G05 Map D05 Web ayyamgallery.com enne Verdier, Aaron Young sign District Address Warehouse 11, Alserkal Owner/Director Stéphane Custot ID G10 Map D05 Art Sawa Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 Established 2016 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 8pm; ID G07 Map D03 Phone +971 4 346 8148 Elmarsa Represented artists Ahmed Albah- Web custotgallerydubai.ae Exhibition Baya Mahieddine (Mar rani, Ahmed Askalany, Ali Raza, Carbon 12 Address Alserkal Avenue, Unit 84 18 – May 2, 2019) Camille Zakharia, Essam Ma- Exhibition Bernhard Buhmann: The street 6a, Al Quoz 1 Exhibition info 74 rouf, Georges Mohasseb, Hend Chaser, the Ambusher and the ID G09 Map D03 Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm El Falafly, Jalal Luqman, Karine Fickle (Mar 18 – May 1, 2019) Represented artists Abdulaziz Ash- Roche, Khaled Abdulwahed, Exhibition info 74 East Wing our, Ali Tnani, Asma Mnaouar, Marwa Adel, Mireille Merhej, Open Sat – Thu 11:30am – 7pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Atef Maatallah, Emna Masmou- Mohammad El Rawas, Mondon- Represented artists Olaf Breuning, Represented artists Sara Al Obaidly, di, Farah Khelil, Feryel Lakhdar, go, Pino Deodato, Rachid Khi- Bernhard Buhmann, Andre Tasneem Alsultan, George Awde, Gouîder Triki, Halim Karabibene, moune, Rafael Barrios, Robert Butzer, Gil Heitor Cortesão, Mandy Barker, Martin Becka, Khaled Ben Slimane, Lamia Naji, Hammond, Rym Karoui, Saddam Monika Grabuschnigg, Amir Daniel Castro Garcia, Philippe Meriem Bouderbala, Mohamed Jumaily, Sara Shamma, Wael Khojasteh, Philip Mueller, Sara Chancel, Kamolpan Chotvichai, Rachdi, Mouna Karray, Mourad Darwesh, Zena Assi Rahbar, Anahita Razmi, Michael Christto & Andrew, Edmund Salem, Nabil Saouabi, Nja Owner/Director Amel B. Makkawi Sailstorfer, Amba Sayal-Ben- Clark, Cortis & Sonderegger, Mahdaoui, Omar Bey, Rachid Established 2008 nett, Ralf Ziervogel Arko Datto, Sanne De Wilde, Koraichi, Samir Triki, Slimen Phone +971 4 386 2366 Owners/Directors Nadine Knotzer, Cédric Delsaux, Tiane Doan na Elkamel, Thameur Mejri Web artsawa.com Kourosh Nouri Champassak, Philippe Dudouit, Directors Moncef Msakni, Lilia Address Bld 8, Podium Level, Gate Established 2008 David Fathi, Tanya Habjouqa, Ben Salah Village DIFC Phone +971 4 340 6016 Antje Hanebeck, Lina Hashim, Established 1994 ID G06 Map D06 Web carbon12.art Mahtab Hussain, Masood Ka- Phone +971 4 3415806 96 Galleries in Dubai Galleries in Dubai 97

Web galerielmarsa.com Established 2010 Directors Umer Butt, Hetal Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai Address Unit 23, Al Serkal Avenue, Phone +971 4 552 8827 Pawani, Rehan B.Shah Exhibition Johan Creten: True Street 8, Al Quoz 1 Web galleryward.com Established 2008 Love (Mar 18 – Apr 30, 2019) ID G11 Map D03 Address Dubai Design District Phone +971 4 379 0764 Exhibition info 78 ID G13 Map D05 Web greynoise.org Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde Address Warehouse 24, Alserkal Represented artists Ghada Amer, Exhibition Hassan Sharif: Blue Green Art Gallery Avenue, Street 8, Al Quoz 1 Reza Aramesh, Shoja Azari, (Mar 18 – May 6, 2019) Exhibition Kamrooz Aram (Mar 18 ID G15 Map D03 Shoja Azari and Shahram Karimi, Exhibition info 77 – May 30, 2019) Ross Bleckner, Arthur Carter, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Exhibition info 78 La Galerie Nationale Loris Cecchini, Noor Ali Chagani, Represented artists :mentalKLIN- Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Open Sat – Thu 10am – 7pm Gordon Cheung, Tony Cragg, IK, Abdelkader Benchamma, Represented artists Shadi Habib Al- Owner/Director Guillaume Cuiry Wim Delvoye, , Vikram Divecha, Bita Fayyazi, lah, Nazgol Ansarinia, Kamrooz Phone +971 4 380 46 52 Jacob Hashimoto, Rachel Lee Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haer- Aram, Jaber Al Azmeh, Alessan- Web galerie-nationale.com Hovnanian, Richard Hudson, izadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, dro Balteo-Yazbeck, Zsolt Bodo- Address Unit 27, Alserkal Avenue, Hwang Ran, Pouran Jinchi, Y.Z. Rokni Haerizadeh And Hesam ni, Hera Büyüktaşçiyan, Chaouki St 8, Al Quoz 1 Kami, Nancy Lorenz, Nick Moss, Rahmanian, Nargess Hashemi, Choukini, Maryam Hoseini, Ana ID G16 Map D03 Moataz Nasr, Michelangelo Mohammed Kazem, Ahmad Mazzei, Ahmad Moualla, Seher Pistoletto, Enoc Perez, Rashid Amin Nazar, Hesam Rahmanian, Shah, Hale Tenger Lawrie Shabibi Rana, Marwan Sahmarani, Kenny Haleh Redjaian, Hassan Sharif, Owner/Director Yasmin Atassi Exhibition Mohamed Ahmed Ibra- Scharf, Sudarshan Shetty, Philip Hoda Tawakol, Raed Yassin Established 1995 him (Feb 25 – Apr 18, 2019) Taaffe, Mitra Tabrizian, Bruce Owner/Director Isabelle van den Phone +971 4 346 9305 Exhibition info 78 High Quality Foundation, Iké Eynde Web gagallery.com Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm Udé, Bill Viola, Jeong Jai Young, Established 2006 Address Warehouse 28, Alserkal Represented artists Hamra Abbas, Firooz Zahedi, Arman, Marcos Phone +971 4 323 5052 Avenue, Al Quoz 1, St 8 Adel Abidin, Maliheh Afnan, Far- Grigorian, Farideh Lashai Web ivde.net ID G14 Map D03 had Ahrarnia, Shaikha Al Maz- Owners/Directors Alexander Heller, Address Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, rou, Oliver Clegg, Mounir Fatmi, Leila Heller St 8, Al Quoz 1 Grey Noise Asad Faulwell, Fathi Hassan, Established 2015 ID G12 Map D03 Exhibition Stéphanie Saadé: The Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Na- Phone +971 4 321 6942 Encounter of the First and Last dia Kaabi-Linke, Yazan Khalili, Web leilahellergallery.com Gallery Ward Particles of Dust (Mar 18 – May Mona Saudi, Nabil Nahas, Driss Address Warehouse 86/87, Alser- Open Sat – Thu 11am – 7pm 11, 2019) Ouadahi, Shahpour Pouyan, kal Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Represented artists Adel El Siwi, Exhibition info 82 Nathaniel Rackowe, Larissa ID G18 Map D03 Ayman Elsemary, Atef Ahmed, Open Mon – Thu, Sat 11am – 7pm Sansour, Zak Ové Armen Agop, Ahmed Khaled, Represented artists Caline Aoun, Owners/Directors William Lawrie, Majlis Gallery Ahmed Kassim, Ehab el Labban, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Asmaa Al-Shabibi Exhibition Creative Diversity (Mar Essam Darwish, Essam Marouf, Fahd Burki, Joana Escoval, Established 2011 16 – Apr 18, 2019) Khalid Hafez, Marwa Adel, Mo- Mehreen Murtaza, The Estate Phone +971 4 346 9906 Exhibition info 76 hamed Abla, Mohamed Abou- of Lala Rukh, Stéphanie Saadé, Web lawrieshabibi.com Open Sat – Thu10am – 6pm elnaga, Naglaa Samir, Ramses Mariam Suhail, Iqra Tanveer, Address Warehouse 21, Alserkal Represented artists Abdallah Akar, Marzouk, Sobhi Guergues, Ay- Hossein Valamanesh, Michael Avenue, Al Quoz 1 Abdul Qader Al Rais, Alan Halliday, man Lotfy, Adam Henien John Whelan, Lantian Xie ID G17 Map D03 Alexander Creswell, Anne Hud- 98 Galleries in Dubai Galleries in Dubai 99 son, Art Shack Bargains, Astrid mal Boullata, Zhivago Duncan, Fassounaki, Morne Fourie, Sab- Hussein Madi, Sliman Mansour, Harrisson, Cristiano Alviti, Daragh Mohamed Kanoo, Jeffar Khaldi, han Adam, Tariq Dajani Zakaria Ramhani, Samah Shiha- Muldowney, David Paskett, Abbas Kiarostami, Mahmoud Owner/Director Sharon Harvey di, Adel El Siwi, Khaled Zaki Davina Dutton, Denise Dutton, Obaidi, Faisel Laibi Sahi, Parviz Established 1990 Directors Maliha Tabari, Sossy Faramarz Mokhtarpour, Hannes Tanavoli Phone +971 4 379 0940 Dikijian Loots, Jamal Abdul Rahim, Jen- Owners Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, Web showcaseuae.com Established 2003 nifer Simon, Jenny Croxford, Jo Mishal Hamed Kanood, Charles Address Warehouse 35, Alserkal Phone +971 4 323 0820 Kearney, John R Harris, Jonathan Pocock Avenue, St 8, Al Quoz 1 Web tabariartspace.com Andersson, Judith Holmes Drewry, Established 2007 ID G22 Map D03 Address Bld. 3, level 2, Gate Vil- June Bartlett, Karel Zijlstra, Katy Phone +971 4 347 7883 lage, DIFC Donaldson, Kevin Dean, Khaled Web meemartgallery.com Sinyar Gallery ID G24 Map D06 Al Saai, Linda Styles, Lloyd Le Address Umm Suqeim Rd, Al Quoz 1 Open Sat – Thu 9am – 6pm Blanc, Louis Jansen Van Vuuren, ID G20 Map D02 Represented artists Abdul Qader Al The Empty Quarter Lynette Ten Krooden, Martin Rais, Anbar Walid, Suheil Bad- Open Sun – Thu 10am – 7pm Giesen, Masoumeh Abiri, Michael Mojo Gallery dor, Abdul Rahim Salem, Ghas- Represented artists Al-Moutasim Chaikin, Mimouni El Houssaine, Open Sun – Thu 10am – 7pm; Sat san Nana, Sa’ad Yagan, Jaber Al-Maskery, Alex Kirkbride, Allan Mohammed Dib Masri, Morteza 11:30am – 6pm Alwan, Laila Naseer, Ghassan Gill, Andreas H. Bitesnich, Amani Darehbaghi, Mostafa Darehbaghi, Established 2008 Sibai, Nazir Nabaa, Mostafa Alshaali, Anita Van der Krol, Asim Nick Bashall, Nitin Dadrawala, Phone +971 43 477 388 Al Hallaj, Louay Kayali, Naeem Rafiqui, Baber Afzal, Beth Moon, Patricia Millns, Paul Wadsworth, Web themojogallery.com Ismail, Fateh Al-Moudarres, Bruno Barbey, Bernhard Sper- Peter Collis, Peter Hayes, Sanna Address Unit 33 Al Serkal Avenue, Nazem Al Jaafari, Rashad ling, Carl de Keyzer, Christiaan Swart, Shahla Moghaddam, So- St 8, Al Quoz 1 Moustafa, Muhammad Badawi Snouck Hurgronje, Christopher phie Walbeoffe, Spencer W Tart, ID G21 Map D03 Al-Dirani, Mohamed Amin Yazigi Osborne, Eve Arnold, Farah Nosh, Sue Casson, Sylvia Woodcock Director Salma Al Marri Frank Worth, Genoveva Kriech- Clarke, Trevor Waugh, Udaybhanu, Showcase Gallery Established 2016 baum, Hamid Sardar-Afkhami, Wosene Worke Kosrof Exhibition Heitham Adjina: Archi- Phone +971 4 557 3000 Heino Heimann, Helmut Newton, Owner/Director Alison Collins tecture of Being (Mar 18 – May Web sinyargallery.com Herbert Ponting, Issa Saleh Established 1989 12, 2019) Address Dubai Design District d3 Alkindy, Jamal Bin Thaneya, Jim- Phone +971 4 353 6233 Exhibition info 77 Building 7A, 509 my Nelson, John R Pepper, Jordi Web themajlisgallery.com Open Sat –Thu 10am – 7pm ID G23 Map D05 Esteva, Josef Hoflehner, Juan Address Al Musalla Roundabout, Represented artists Simon Back, Ramirez, Kai Löffelbein, Karijn Al Fahidi Neighbourhood, Bur Helen Teede, Ragini Dewan, Tabari Artspace Kakebeeke, Katarina Premfors, Dubai Iskra Shahaj, Debbie New, Exhibition Tagreed Darghouth: Lou Raizin, Marc Riboud, Martin ID G19 Map D07 Jessica Watson-Thorp, Olivia Strange Fruits (Mar 18 – May 1, Becka, Martin Smith, Mathieu Pendergast, Wycliffe Mundo- 2019) Hutin, Michael Glenister, Miguel Meem Gallery pa, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude, Exhibition info 82 Angel Sanchez, Mitch Dobrown- Exhibition Moataz Nasr: The Nathaniel Alapide, Areej Rajab, Open Daily 10am – 7pm er, Mohammed Ahmed Ahli, Mountain (Mar 7 – May 16, Wissam Shawkat, Mike Arnold, Represented artists Mohamed Abla, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Myriam 2019) Alia Dawood, Amartey Golding, Nasser Al Aswadi, Alfred Bas- Abdelaziz, Nitin Mallapur, Noelle Exhibition info 78 Andrew Verster, Dominic Be- bous, naqsh collective, Hazem Tan, Osama Eid, Özant Kamaci, Open Sat – Thu 10am – 6pm nura, Elham Moaidnia, James Harb, Lulwah Al homoud, Mo- Peter Sanders, Rachel Rillo, Represented artists Dia Azzawi, Ka- Harvey, Jo Taylor, Mohammad hammed Joha, Halim Karim, Raed Bawayah, Reem Al Faisal, 100 Galleries in Dubai

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Capital of the UAE and the seat of the President, Abu Dhabi is the sec- ond most populous of the 7 Emirates (after Dubai) with a population 11.1 EXHIBITIONS AND Open Tue – Sun 10am – 8pm of over 1.5 million in 2015. Abu Dhabi’s first museum, the Al Ain Na- EVENTS IN ABU DHABI Admission Free tional museum was built in 1969 and the Emirate has been expanding Artists Margherita Abi Hanna, its cultural projects in recent years by establishing major museums Abdul Qader Al Rais: 50 Years of Art Sarah Alagroobi, Xeina AlMalki, designed by some of the world’s most celebrated architects. Date Dec 20, 2018 – Mar 23, 2019 Nasser Al Salem, Rasha Dakkak, Open Daily 8am – 9pm Nadine Kanso, Milia Maroun, SAADIYAT ISLAND Venue Manarat Al Saadiyat Khalid Mezaina, Hamza Al-Omari MAP A01 – A02 Curators Maisa Al Qassimi, Sara Venue Warehouse421 Bin Safwan Curator Dr. Huda Smitshuijzen The centre of the art scene is the area of Saadiyat Island made up of Web manaratalsaadiyat.ae Abifarès a large, low-lying island, 500 metres off the coast of Abu Dhabi. Once Address Saadiyat Cultural District Web warehouse421.ae completed, Saadiyat will comprise all the main museums: to the al- ID E01 Map A01 Address Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi ready open Louvre Abu Dhabi (ID A08, Page 113), will follow Guggenheim The show celebrates Abdul Qader ID E03 Map A03 Abu Dhabi (ID A06, Page 113) designed by Frank Gehry, and the Zayed Al Rais’ career, investigating the The show explores the origins of National Museum (ID A17, Page 115) by Norman Foster, built with vertical evolution of his artistic research six of the most influential alpha- interwoven spheres, meant to resemble a falcon’s wings. Also located through rarely seen works span- bets in the history of the Middle in the area are the NYUAD Art Center (ID A12, Page 114) and NYU Abu ning 50 years of his career. East, and features new com- Dhabi Art Gallery (ID A11, Page 114), and Manarat Al Saadiyat (ID A09, Page missioned works by artists and 113) a multi-purpose art venue. South of the island, moving to Zayed Distant Prospects – European designers from the UAE, Saudi Port and , you find Warehouse421 (ID A16, Page 115) a Landscape Paintings from Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon cultural space in Abu Dhabi’s port area of Mina Zayed, in which trans- Liechtenstein. The Princely and Palestine. formed warehouses become a platform for artistic expression. Collections Date Feb 26 – Mar 25, 2019 Rembrandt, Vermeer and the AL RAS AL AKHDAR, AL BATEEN Open Daily 8am – 9pm Dutch Golden Age: Masterpiec- MAP A04 – A05 Venue Manarat Al Saadiyat es from the Leiden Collection Web manaratalsaadiyat.ae and the Musée du Louvre Al Bateen is a green area stretching along the coast on the South Address Saadiyat Cultural District Date Feb 14 – May 18, 2019 Western Abu Dhabi Island. Here you can find the Etihad Modern Galerie ID E02 Map A01 Open Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 10am – (ID A05, Page 113); the oldest building in Abu Dhabi, Qasr Al Hosn; and the The show explores the history 8pm; Thu, Fri 10am – 10pm Founder’s Memorial by Ralph Helmick, a permanent tribute to the late of landscape painting over the Admission Ticket Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the founding father of the UAE. course of several centuries, fea- Venue Louvre Abu Dhabi turing prominent artistic figures Web louvreabudhabi.ae KHOR AL MAQTA’A of the Late Renaissance and Address Saadiyat Cultural District MAP A06 Baroque period. ID E04 Map A01 The exhibition brings together Another relevant area of the city from an artistic point of view is the Khor Nomadic Traces: Journeys of paintings and drawings by the Al Maqta’a neighbourhood, where you will find the national monument Arabian Scripts Dutch master Rembrandt van Wahat Al Karama by Idriss Khan and Sheikhj Zayed Grand Mosque. Date Feb 16 – Jul 16, 2019 Rijn, spanning different periods 114 Exhibitions and Events in Abu Dhabi / Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi 115 of his artistic career. Also on areas conducive to creativity and reopened in 2018 as the Located only 10 kilometres show are works by his con- include artist studios, workshop home of contemporary culture outside Al Ain (on the road to temporary rivals and peers, in- facilities, multiple galleries and a and cultural exchange. Dubai), the Hili Archaeological cluding Johannes Vermeer, Jan large main hall, with a hub café. Gardens comprises ancient Lievens, Ferdinand Bol, Carel Etihad Modern Art Gallery monuments of Al Ain. Most of Fabritius, Gerrit Dou, Frans van Al Ain Palace Museum Open Sat – Thu 10am – 10pm the monuments are of the Umm Mieris and Frans Hals. Open Tue – Fri, Sun 8:30am – Phone +971 2 621 0145 an-Nar period which dates from 7:30pm; Fri 3:30pm – 7:30pm Web etihadmodernart.com around 2500 BCE to 2000 BCE. Zimoun Established 1998 Address Al Bateen Area Villa 15, Al Date Feb 26 – Jun 1, 2019 Phone +971 3 711 8388 Huwelat St (Behind Al Bateen Mall) Louvre Abu Dhabi Open Mon – Sat 12pm – 8pm Web visitabudhabi.ae ID A05 Map A05 Exhibition Rembrandt, Vermeer Admission Free Address Al Jahili area, Hessa bint Etihad Modern Art Gallery is a and the Dutch Golden Age: Mas- Venue NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Mohamed St next to Al Ain Oasis multi-purpose art space and terpieces from the Leiden Col- Curator Maya Allison ID A02 Map X cafè fostering the promotion, lection and the Musée du Louvre Web nyuad-artgallery.org Built in 1937 as the palace of the discussion and the growing (Feb 14 – May 18, 2019) Address Saadiyat Island the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan appreciation of the burgeoning Exhibition info 111 ID E05 Map A02 Al Nahyan and opened in 1998 Emirati art scene. Open Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun 10am – The first solo show in the Gulf as a museum, the Al Ain Palace 8pm; Thu, Fri 10am – 10pm by Swiss artist Zimoun features Museum pays homage to the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Admission Ticket five immersive audio-visual heritage of Sheikh Zayed. Open to be open soon Established 2016 installations, one of which was Established 2016 Phone +971 600 56 5566 commisioned for the occasion Bait 15 Space 41800m² Web louvreabudhabi.ae and which was unveiled on the Web bait15.com Phone +971 2 657 5800 Address Saadiyat Cultural District exhibition’s opening night. Address Al Zafaranah, House 15 Web guggenheim.org ID A08 Map A01 ID A03 Map X Address Saadiyat Island The first universal museum in 11.2 MUSEUMS, ART INSTI- Founded in 2017 by Afra Al Dha- ID A06 Map A01 the Arab world. Founded upon TUTIONS, INDEPENDENT ART heri, Hashel Al Lamki, and Mai- Designed by internationally re- an agreement between the SPACES AND GALLERIES tha Abdalla, Bait 15 is an artist nowned architect Frank Gehry, governments of Abu Dhabi and IN ABU DHABI run studio and exhibition space the 450,000-square-foot mu- France, the Louvre Abu Dha- in Abu Dhabi. Bait 15 was con- seum will house its own major bi displays art, manuscripts and Abu Dhabi Art Hub ceived as both a studio space modern and contemporary art objects of historical, cultural Open Daily 10am – 10pm and an artist run gallery. collection and present special and sociological significance. Director Ahmed Al Yafei exhibitions, including works Phone +971 5555 09640 Cultural Foundation Abu Dhabi from the Guggenheim Founda- Manarat Al Saadiyat Web adah.ae Open Sat – Thu, 10am – 8pm; Fri tion’s extensive collection. Exhibitions Abdul Qader Al Rais: 50 Address The Mall, World Trade 12pm – 10pm Years of Art (Dec 20, 2018 – Mar Center, Level 1, Khalifa St Web culturalfoundation.ae Hili Archaeological Park 23, 2019); Distant Prospects – ID A01 Map X Address Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Open Daily 4pm – 11pm European Landscape Paintings The Abu Dhabi Art Hub com- Maktoum St Web visitabudhabi.ae from Liechtenstein. The Princely pound is a purpose-built struc- ID A04 Map X Address Mohammed Bin Khalifa Collections (Feb 26 – Mar 25, ture housing accommodation for Cultural Foundation was created St, Al Ain 2019) artists in residence. Additional by the late Sheik Zayed in 1981 ID A07 Map X Exhibition info 111; 111 116 Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi Art Spaces in Abu Dhabi 117

Open Daily 8am – 9pm NYUAD Art Center Qasr Al Muwaiji is part of the Cul- Zayed National Museum Phone +971 2 657 5800 Director Bill Bragin tural Site of Al Ain. The UNESCO Open to be open soon Web manaratalsaadiyat.ae Phone +971 2 6286868 World Heritage Site functioned Phone +971 6575 800 Address Saadiyat Cultural District Web nyuad-artscenter.org as a home to generations of the Web zayednationalmuseum.ae ID A09 Map A01 Address New York University Abu . The recently Address Saadiyat Cultural District Set in the heart of Abu Dhabi’s Dhabi, Saadiyat Island restored architectural site now ID A17 Map X cultural hub of Saadiyat Is- ID A12 Map A02 provides the public with the narra- Designed by Pritzker Prize land, Manarat Al Saadiyat is a The NYUAD Arts Center is tions of historical events related to winning architect Lord Norman multi-purpose venue offering an internationally renowned it and the lives of its inhabitants. Foster, the Zayed National Mu- temporary exhibitions, cultural performing arts centre that seum’s distinctive towers are activities, a garden area and a presents student, faculty, and Salwa Zeidan Gallery reminiscent of the wing tips of restaurant. community productions along- Open Sun – Thu, 10am – 7pm the falcon – a powerful symbol side distinguished professional Admission Free of the rich cultural heritage of N2N Gallery artists from around the world. Director Salwa Zeidan the UAE. The museum will tell Open Mon – Thu, Sun 10am – 10pm Established 1994 the story of the late Sheikh Director Natalya Muzaleva Qasr Al Hosn Phone +971 2 666 9656 Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, his Established 2013 Open Sat – Thu 9am – 7pm; Fri Web salwazeidangallery.com unification of the UAE, the his- Phone +971 50 728 3778 12pm – 10pm Address Space 22 “ The Collection” tory of the region and its cultur- Web n2nartgallery.com Admission Ticket St. Regis, Saadiyat Island Resort al connections across the world. Address Al Ain Tower, Al Khalidiyah Established 2018 ID A15 Map A02 ID A10 Map A04 Phone +971 2 6976 400 Web qasralhosn.ae Warehouse421 NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery Address Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Exhibition Nomadic Traces: Jour- Exhibition Zimoun (Feb 26 – Jun Maktoum St, Al Hosn neys of Arabian Scripts (Feb 16 1, 2019) ID A13 Map X – Jul 16, 2019) Exhibition info 112 Opened to the public in 2018, Exhibition info 111 Open Mon – Sat 12pm – 8pm Qasr Al Hosn is the oldest and Open Tue – Sun 10am – 8pm Admission Free most significant building in Abu Admission Free Director Maya Allison Dhabi, holding the city’s first Director Salama bint Hamdan Al Established 2014 permanent structure: the watch- Nahyan Space 664m² tower. Qasr Al Hosn is now a Phone +9712 6768803 Phone +971 2628 8000 museum displaying artifacts and Web warehouse421.ae Web nyuad-artgallery.org archival materials dating back to Address Mina Zayed, St Samrayr Address Saadiyat Island 6000 BC. ID A16 Map A03 ID A11 Map A02 Warehouse 421 is a cultural des- The NYUAD Art Gallery is a Qasr Al Muwaiji tination in Abu Dhabi’s port area museum space in a university Open Sat – Thu 9am – 7pm; Fri of Mina Zayed, in which trans- setting. Modelled on the aca- 3pm – 7pm formed warehouses become a demic museums of the US, the Phone +971 3 767 4444 platform for artistic expression, curatorial programme explores Web qasralmuwaiji.ae understanding, and further de- locally relevant and internation- Address Khalifa Bin Zayed St, Al Ain velopment of the UAE’s creative ally significant subjects. 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Untitled (Juice, inwardness, What Welcome, Hoor Al Qasimi Venue Gallery 1, Al Mureijah Square (1977), Film screening by Kidlat natures), Hosted occasion, Isa- Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Info 30 Tahimik bel Lewis, Colin Hacklander and Square Venue Mirage City Cinema, Al Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Info 30 March Meeting Mureijah Square Info 30 When 5pm – 7pm Info 30 March Meeting What To pay and repair? Talks with March Meeting When 10am – 11am Felwine Sarr, Alexandre Kazer- FRIDAY 8TH, MARCH 2019 When 3:15pm – 3:50pm What Sabor a Lágrimas, Perfor- ouni, Imani Brown and Philippe What I Belong to the Distance, mance by Carlos Martiel Rahm; Discussion with Claire March Meeting Performance, Dark Adaptive Venue Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Tancons and Diego Del Valle When 11:15am – 12:15pm (Torkwase Dyson with Zachary Square Venue Al Mureijah Square What The Land of Zanj, Proces- Fabri and Andres L. Hernandez) Info 30 Info 30 124 Sat 9, Mar / Sun 10, Mar Sun 10, Mar / Mon 11, Mar 125

March Meeting versation with performance Theatrical Arts What Balikbayan #1: Memories of When 8:15pm – 9:15pm Kidlat Tahimik with Zoe Butt Info 30 Overdevelopment Redux (1980–). What The Filipino Superwoman Venue Sharjah Institute for Film screening by Kidlat Tahimik Band, Performance by Eisa Jocson Theatrical Arts March Meeting Venue Mirage City Cinema, Al Venue Al Hamdan bin Mousa Info 30 When 3:20pm – 3:40pm Mureijah Square Courtyard, Al Mureijah Square What On movement and the po- Info 30 Info 30 March Meeting tential of thinking diasporically. When 11:40am – 12:30pm Reading by Léuli Eshrāghi MONDAY 11TH, MARCH 2019 March Meeting What On relation—beyond fixed Venue Sharjah Institute for When 9:30pm – 10:30pm gender. Relay Anis Chouchene Theatrical Arts March Meeting What Any Way the Wind Blows, -> Lisa Reihana -> Neo Muyan- Info 30 When 9:30am – 10:15am Performance by Tracey Rose ga, moderated by Zoe Butt What Registration Venue Sharjah Ladies Club, Al Venue Sharjah Institute for March Meeting Venue Sharjah Institute for Qulaayaa Theatrical Arts When 4:15pm – 5:15pm Theatrical Arts Info 30 Info 30 What On counter memory and the Info 30 doubling of its recall. Conversation SUNDAY 10TH, MARCH 2019 March Meeting with Ho Tzu Nyen and Tuan An- March Meeting When 2pm – 2:20pm drew Nguyen with Lee Weng Choy When 10:15am – 10:30am March Meeting What The palimpsest of historical Venue Sharjah Institute for What A poem, a context or a dream. When 9:15am – 10am memory-on the misnomer of the Theatrical Arts Welcome remarks by Omar Kholeif What Registration ‘origin’. Reading by Shubigi Rao Info 30 Venue Sharjah Institute for Venue Sharjah Institute for Venue Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts Theatrical Arts Theatrical Arts March Meeting Info 30 Info 30 Info 30 When 5:15pm – 5:30pm What Performance, Tuan Andrew March Meeting March Meeting March Meeting Nguyen and Serigne Ousmane When 10:30am – 12pm When 10am – 10:20am When 2:30pm – 3pm Mbacke Noreyni Seck What Africa is not a country; the What An introduction on time and What On militancy, truth and the Venue Sharjah Institute for Middle East is not a continent. clocks and time zones—how shifting of normalising violence. Theatrical Arts Venue Sharjah Institute for the mapping of time instructs Conversation with Khadim Ali Info 30 Theatrical Arts mobility: how a commitment and Meiro Koizumi with Lee Info 30 to time can never be quite fin- Weng Choy March Meeting ished; Introduction Lee Weng Venue Sharjah Institute for When 5:30pm – 6:30pm March Meeting Choy (co-convenor) Theatrical Arts What Moderated discussion with When 10:30am – 11am Venue Sharjah Institute for Info 30 all speakers, Lee Weng Choy What Otobong Nkanga and Koyo Theatrical Arts and Zoe Butt Kouoh in conversation Info 30 March Meeting Venue Sharjah Institute for Venue Sharjah Institute for When 3pm – 3:15pm Theatrical Arts Theatrical Arts March Meeting What Performance, Fazil H Info 30 Info 30 When 10:30am – 11:30am Mousavi (part of Khadim Ali’s What On kapwa, bathala na!, and project Flowers of Evil) March Meeting March Meeting the art of never finishing. Con- Venue Sharjah Institute for When 9:30pm – 12:15am When 11am – 11:30am 126 Mon 11, Mar / Sat 9, Mar / Mon 18, Mar Mon 18, Mar / Tue 19, Mar / Wed 20, Mar 127

What Hannah Feldman and Akram Info 30 Venue Akka Project WEDNESDAY 20TH, MARCH 2019 Zaatari in conversation Info 72 Venue Sharjah Institute for March Meeting Fully Booked Dubai Theatrical Arts When 4:40pm – 5pm Altered Inheritances: Home is a When 12pm Info 30 What A summoning. Reading by Foreign Place What One-day symposium, “On Yasmine El Rashidi When 6pm – 10pm the Books” March Meeting Venue Sharjah Institute for What Opening Venue Alserkal Avenue When 11:30am – 12pm Theatrical Arts Venue Ishara Art Foundation Info 70 What Roundtable with Otobong Info 30 Info 72 Nkanga, Koyo Kouoh, Hannah Art Dubai Feldman and Akram Zaatari. March Meeting Alserkal Avenue Galleries Night When 1pm – 4pm Moderated by Sofia Victorino When 5pm – 6pm When 6pm – 10pm What Ladies Preview Venue Sharjah Institute for What The imagination in the What Galleries night Venue Madinat Jumeirah Theatrical Arts thought of Ibn Al Arabi. Closing Venue Alserkal Avenue Info 60 Info 30 keynote by Fatima Al Qasimi Info 71 Venue Sharjah Institute for Art Dubai: Global Art Forum March Meeting Theatrical Arts DIFC Art Nights “School is a Factory?” When 12pm – 1pm Info 30 When 6pm – 10pm When 4pm What A recent history. Keynote by What Galleries night What Welcome and Introduction Tarek El-Ariss March Meeting Venue Gate Village at DIFC By Global Art Forum Commis- Venue Sharjah Institute for When 6:30pm – 6:50pm Info 76 sioner Shumon Basar with Theatrical Arts What house of MAKEdbA. Co-Directors Victoria Camblin Info 30 Performance by Neo Muyanga TUESDAY 19TH, MARCH 2019 And Fawz Kabra Venue Al Hamriyah Studios Venue Mina A Salam Madinat March Meeting Info 30 Clémentine De Chabaneix and Helle Jumeirah, Art Dubai When 2:30pm – 4pm Mardahl: Shapes Of Wonderland Info 64 What What does it mean to DUBAI When 11am make new time? with Aram What Opening Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Moshayedi, Zoe Butt, Koray SATURDAY 9TH, MARCH 2019 Venue Comptoir 102 “School is a Factory?” Duman, Todd Reisz and Reem Info 74 When 4:15pm Fadda, Moderated by Sarah Fabric(ated) Fractures What Preface: The Bauhaus Perks When 7pm on Art Dubai School (Part I): Where In The Venue Sharjah Institute for What Private view and When 3pm – 7pm World Is The Bauhaus? Theatrical Arts performances What Patrons Circle preview Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Info 30 Venue Concrete Venue Madinat Jumeirah Jumeirah, Art Dubai Info 77 Info 60 Info 64 March Meeting When 4:20pm – 4:40pm MONDAY 18TH, MARCH 2019 Art Dubai Art Dubai: Global Art Forum What A manifesto. Reading by When 7pm – 9:30 pm “School is a Factory?” Douglas Coupland Art to Z What Jumeirah Patrons preview When 4:35pm Venue Sharjah Institute for When 4pm – 10pm Venue Madinat Jumeirah What Discussion: The Bauhaus Theatrical Arts What Opening Info 60 School (Part Ii): (What) Are We Still 128 Wed 20, Mar / Thu 21, Mar Thu 21, Mar / Fri 22, Mar 129

Learning? What Discussion: School Is The Venue Mina A Salam Madinat When 7pm Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Establishment Jumeirah, Art Dubai What Discussion: Learning From Jumeirah, Art Dubai Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Info 64 Machine Learning Info 64 Jumeirah, Art Dubai Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Info 64 Art Dubai: Bawwaba Jumeirah, Art Dubai Art Dubai: Global Art Forum When 6pm – 7pm Info 64 “School is a Factory?” Art Dubai: Global Art Forum What Bawwaba Talk: Mobilities When 4:55pm “School is a Factory?” and Imagined Utopias in the FRIDAY 22ND, MARCH 2019 What Lecture: What Is “Laborato- When 7:30pm Global South rium”? What Schools And Factories Venue Julius Baer Lounge Art Dubai Modern Symposium Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Info 63 When 12:30pm – 1:30pm Jumeirah, Art Dubai Jumeirah, Art Dubai What Performing Modernity: Info 64 Info 64 Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Baghdad Of The Mid-Twentieth “School is a Factory?” Century by Nada Shabout Art Dubai: Global Art Forum THURSDAY 21ST, MARCH 2019 When 6pm Venue Art Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam “School is a Factory?” What Presentation: From Ras Al Info 68 When 5:20pm Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Khaimah To Ruwais, A Decade What Dialogue: Your Research Is “School is a Factory?” Of Learning Design Art Dubai Modern Symposium Showing! When 4pm Venue Mina A Salam Madinat When 2pm – 3pm Venue Mina A Salam Madinat What Welcome and introduction by Jumeirah, Art Dubai What Beirut by Catherine David Jumeirah, Art Dubai Global Art Forum Commissioner Info 64 Venue Art Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam Info 64 Shumon Basar with Editor, Writer Info 68 Victoria Camblin and Curator, Writ- Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Art Dubai: Bawwaba er Fawz Kabra, as Co-directors. “School is a Factory?” Art Dubai Modern Symposium When 6pm – 7pm Venue Mina A Salam Madinat When 6:20pm When 3:30pm – 4:30pm What Bawwaba Talk: Arts Patron- Jumeirah, Art Dubai What Discussion: Artificial What Dakar by Elvira Dyangani Ose age In The Global South Info 64 Intelligence, Real Education? A Venue Art Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam Venue Julius Baer Lounge Taxonomy Info 68 Info 62 Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Venue Mina A Salam Madinat “School is a Factory?” Jumeirah, Art Dubai Art Dubai Modern Symposium Art Dubai: Global Art Forum When 4:15pm Info 64 When 5pm – 6pm “School is a Factory?” What Double Act: Swamp Is A What Modern Art In Lahore by Ift- When 6pm School? Art Dubai: Global Art Forum ikhar Dadi What Video Lecture. School Is A Venue Mina A Salam Madinat “School is a Factory?” Venue Art Dubai Talks, Mina A’Salam Laboratory: R&D At The Instituion Jumeirah, Art Dubai When 6:40pm Info 68 Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Info 64 What Discussion Jumeirah, Art Dubai Venue Mina A Salam Madinat Art Dubai: Residents Info 64 Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Jumeirah, Art Dubai When 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm “School is a Factory?” Info 64 What Resident Talks with partici- Art Dubai: Global Art Forum When 4:45pm pating artists “School is a Factory?” What Discussion: School Is The Art Dubai: Global Art Forum Venue Madinat Jumeirah When 6:30pm Commons? “School is a Factory?” Info 61 130 Notes