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18/3/2014

Art Dubai 2014

Madinat Arena and Fort Island, Dubai

Taking place March 19-22, the 2014 edition of Art Dubai features three gallery programmes– Contemporary, Modern and Marker; the winners of The Abraaj Group Art Prize; commissioned artists’ projects; the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum; live radio; film and more.

Dubai, UAE, March 18, 2014: Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the Middle East and South Asia, will open tomorrow under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai.

Taking place at Madinat Jumeirah until 22 March 2014, this year’s edition of Art Dubai builds on its reputation as a fair of discovery and is the most global fair to date with 85 participating galleries from 34 countries; more than 500 artists are participating in the gallery halls and across the not-for-profit programmes.

The eighth edition of Art Dubai is held in partnership with The Abraaj Group and is sponsored by Cartier and Emaar. Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) is the strategic partner of Art Dubai and supports the fair's year-round education programme. Art Dubai Modern is sponsored by Mashreq Private Banking. Maserati is the Car Partner of Art Dubai 2014. Rothschild joins Art Dubai as a Corporate Patron of the 2014 fair.

“Art Dubai’s development over the past eight years reflects the extraordinary growth of the UAE arts scene,” said Antonia Carver, Fair Director, Art Dubai. “The fair has acted as a catalyst, expediting Dubai’s role as a bona fide cultural hub for the region and beyond. We’re thrilled to be opening our eighth edition with such a strong and diverse range of 85 gallery exhibitions, plus our largest not-for- profit programme to date.”

New for this year, the galleries are presented in three distinct programmes – Contemporary; the inaugural Modern; and Marker - the curated section of invited art spaces and galleries focusing in 2014 on Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Art Dubai’s contemporary gallery halls remain the largest section of the fair with more than 70 galleries exhibiting new works for sale. Returning galleries include Athr (Jeddah), Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris), galerist (Istanbul), Grey Noise (Dubai), Victoria Miro (London), Experimenter (Kolkata) among others, and galleries that are joining for the first time. This year, galleries making their debut at Art Dubai include Ota Fine Arts (Tokyo), GallerySKE (Delhi/Bangalore), Marisa Newman Projects (New York), Tyler Rollins (New York), Baró Galeria (São Paulo), Gladstone Gallery (New York), Marian Goodman (New York/Paris), Galerie Greta Meert (Brussels), Galleria Franco Noero (Turin), Yavuz Fine Art (Singapore), and 313 Art Project (Seoul), among others.

In 2014, Art Dubai launches a new gallery programme devoted to Middle Eastern and South Asian modern art from the twentieth century. Art Dubai Modern, taking place in Mina A’Salam, was advised by renowned curators and historians Savita Apte, Catherine David, Kristine Khouri and Nada Shabout and includes 11 galleries. Each booth presents a solo or two-person show by highly influential artists including, Rasheed Araeen (Grosvenor Gallery, London), Michel Basbous (Agial Art Gallery, Beirut), Hamed Abdalla and Adam Henein (Karim Francis, Cairo), M.F. Husain (Aicon Gallery, New York/London), Ardeshir Mohasses (Shirin Gallery, Tehran), and Anwar Jalal Shemza (Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai), among others.

Marker, the dynamic programme of invited art spaces—dedicated each year to a particular theme or geography–turns its focus in 2014 to Central Asia and the Caucasus. Curated by the artists Slavs andTatars, selected art spaces and artists-led organisations include: ArtEast (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); Asia Art (Almaty, Kazakhstan); North Caucasus Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art, NCCA (Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia); Popiashvili Gvaberidze Window Project (Tbilisi, Georgia); and YARAT Contemporary Art Space (Baku, Azerbaijian). Presenting works ranging from mid-twentieth-century painting to contemporary drawing, sculpture and video, Marker takes the form of a chaikhaneh or Eurasian tea salon and includes talks and educational materials (supported by Caspian Arts Foundation), as well as artists’ books published in collaboration with onestar press.

Alongside the gallery halls, the fair also features an extensive not-for-profit programme including dynamic site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects. This year, 12 artists and artists’ groups have been commissioned to create installations and performances that engage audiences and interact with and comment on the fair and its environment. Artists commissioned for Art Dubai Projects include Nadia Ayari (Tunis/New York), Youmna Chlala (Beirut/New York), Clark House Initiative (Bombay), Sunoj D (Bangalore), Maitha Demithan (Dubai), Sara Al Haddad (Dubai), Shuruq Harb (Ramallah), Najat Makki (Dubai), Amina Menia (Algiers), Maryam Al Qassimi (Sharjah), Mounira Al Solh (Beirut), and Hajra Waheed (Montreal), who have been working with UAE/New York-based curator Fawz Kabra. Art Dubai Projects has been supported by Alserkal Avenue Arts District and members of Art Salon.

Now in its sixth edition, the winners of the renowned Abraaj Group Art Prize present at the fair an exhibition of their new works, developed over the past year with curator Nada Raza. The 2014 winners of the Abraaj Group Art Prize are Abbas Akhavan, Anup Mathew Thomas, Basim Magdy, Bouchra Khalili and Kamrooz Aram. Previewing at Art Dubai, the prize gives the artists a global platform to showcase their works and reflects Abraaj’s own investment philosophy.

Titled Meanwhile...History, the eighth edition of the Global Art Forum reflects on significant decades, years, days, minutes or seconds that brought shifts in the understanding of the world and history. Commissioned by Shumon Basar with co-directors Omar Berrada and Ala Younis, the Forum features over 40 speakers and contributors including Sulayman Al Bassam; John Akomfrah; Okwui Enwezor; Frauke Heard-Bey, Adina Hempel; Farah Al-Nakib; Todd Reisz; Shuddhabrata Sengupta; Adam Szymczyk; Marina Warner, among others. The Global Art Forum opened to acclaim at the Katara Art Center, Doha, March 15-16, and continues March 19–21 at Art Dubai, Mina A'Salam, Madinat Jumeirah. This year’s Forum will be simultaneously translated into Arabic/English and is live- streamed, thanks to the 2014 online partner Ibraaz/Kamel Lazaar Foundation.

Presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Global Art Forum 2014 is held in partnership with the Office of Strategic Cultural Relations at Qatar Museums Authority through its Years of Culture annual initiative. The Forum Fellows, the fellowship programme this year focussing on upcoming curators from the region, is supported by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC).

Art Dubai’s curatorial and educational programme also includes:

Falgoosh Radio—a live artist-led radio station—led by London-based sound artists and composers Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver and featuring a rolling programme al week of interviews with fair participants, sound projects and music

Film and video screenings in the Art Dubai Cinema at Madinat Jumeirah, and at Mirage City Cinema, Sharjah, as part of Moving Images -- the partnership between Dubai International Film Festival, Sharjah Art Foundation and Art Dubai, exploring artists’ films and filmmakers’ art. Featured artists in 2014 include John Akomfrah, Shezad Dawood and Taus Makhacheva. Falgoosh Radio, plus Akomfrah’s and Dawood’s presence at the fair, has been supported by the British Council.

Sheikha Manal Little Artists Program of discovery tours and workshops for children, held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Women Establishment, Wife of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs UAE, and in collaboration with The Cultural Office. This year, the workshops are created and led by Melbourne-based sound artist Dylan Martorell, assisted by Emirati artist Reem Falaknaz. The Discovery Tours are led by UAE-based and international artists Athier Mousawi, Khawla Darwish, Rania Jishi and Sara Naim.

Artists’ and curators’ residencies programme A.i.R Dubai, a partnership between Art Dubai, Delfina Foundation, Dubai Culture and Arts Authority and Tashkeel,features five artists from across the Middle East and Asia - Nadia Ayari, Sunoj D, Maitha Demithan, Sara Al Haddad and Maryam Al Qassimi, who have been working in Al Fahidi historical neighbourhood alongside curator-in-residence İpek Ulusoy Akgül. Their Open Studio exhibition is open as part of Dubai Culture’s Sikka (until March 25), and all five artists participate in Art Dubai Projects.

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About Art Dubai
The eighth edition of Art Dubai takes place March 19-22, 2014.
Art Dubai is held in partnership with The Abraaj Group and is sponsored by Cartier and Emaar. Madinat Jumeirah is home to the event. The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority is a strategic partner of Art Dubai and supports the fair’s year-round education programme. Art Dubai Modern 2014 is sponsored by Mashreq Private Banking. Alongside the gallery halls, comprising Contemporary, Modern and Marker, the fair’s extensive not-for-profit programme includes artists’ and curators' residencies; site-specific works for Art Dubai Projects, radio and film; an exhibition of works by winners of the annual The Abraaj Group Art Prize; the critically-acclaimed Global Art Forum and Campus Art Dubai—the free Saturday School for curators, artists and cultural workers living in the UAE. artdubai.ae

About Art Dubai Partners and Sponsors

The Abraaj Group
Founded in 2002, The Abraaj Group is a leading investor operating in the growth markets of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Through its Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement Track, the company values social investing, thought leadership and value creation as key catalysts for sustainable development and inclusive growth across communities. The Abraaj Group Art Prize was founded in 2008 and is now in its sixth edition. The aim of the prize is to reflect Abraaj Group’s dedication to empowering potential in the region, giving talented artists the opportunity to break new ground and showcase the rich artistic and cultural heritage of the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia region. It rewards chosen artists from The Middle East and North Africa on the basis of a proposal rather than completed works-of-art. The winning artists then go on to create the works. The Prize is aimed at curators and artists working together as opposed to a single artist. To date, the 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 works were unveiled at Art Dubai and artworks have been exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York; City Hall, London; MAXXI, Rome; Galleria Civica, Modena; Future of a Promise, collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale; Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), Dubai and the Maraya Arts Centre, Sharjah. For more on the history and future of the prize, visit http://www.abraajgroupartprize.com/

Cartier
Founded in 1847 in Paris, Cartier stands as one of the world’s most esteemed and respectful companies in the luxury goods industry. Today, the Maison is renowned worldwide for its high jewelry creations and watches, perfumes and prestige accessories - symbols of craftsmanship and elegance, quality and excellence. cartier.com

The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority
The Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) was launched on March 8, 2008 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President & Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai. Dubai Culture plays a critical part in achieving the vision of the Dubai Strategic Plan 2015 of establishing the city as vibrant, global Arabian metropolis that shapes culture and arts in the region and the world. The organisation has announced several initiatives that strengthen the historic and modern cultural fabric of Dubai. These include: SheikhMohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Patrons of the Arts Awards: A first-of-its-kind regional initiative to honour patrons of the arts from around the world for their valuable support in encouraging and strengthening the cultural scene of the Emirate; Sikka Art Fair: An annual art fair aimed at promoting Emirati and local artists in the UAE; and Dubai Festival for Youth Theatre: An annual festival that celebrates and fosters the art of theatre in the UAE. dubaiculture.ae

Emaar Properties PJSC
Emaar Properties PJSC, listed on the Dubai Financial Market, is a global property developer with a significant presence in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. A provider of premium lifestyles through its world-class portfolio of integrated communities, the company also has proven competencies in shopping malls & retail, and hospitality & leisure. Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, and The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest shopping and entertainment destination, are among Emaar’s trophy developments. Emaar is currently expanding The Dubai Mall’s Fashion Avenue by 1 million sq ft and also redefining the cultural scene of the city with The Opera District in Downtown Dubai, to feature the city’s first opera house and several art and design galleries. The company is partnering with Meraas Holding to develop Dubai Hills Estate, the first phase of Mohammed Bin Rashid City (MBR City). Emaar and Dubai Holding have also joined hands to develop a magnificent 1,500-acre mixed-use waterfront development within MBR City that draws inspiration from the Dubai Creek. Among other mega-projects of Emaar is the King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia the region's largest private sector-led project. Emaar is also the largest foreign direct investor in India’s real estate sector and its joint venture has a country-wide presence covering the residential, commercial, retail and hospitality sectors.
www.emaar.com

Image: Sophia Al Maria, SciFi Wahabi Take a tour from the future at Art Dubai 2012. Courtesy : The artist and Art Dubai

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Farah Al Sharief
Press and Marketing Coordinator, Art Dubai
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Madinat Jumeirah
Al Sufouh Road, Umm Suqeim
Exit 39 (Interchange 4) from Sheikh Zayed Road - Dubai, UAE
OPENING TIMES
Wednesday March 19
1pm – 4pm Art Dubai Ladies Preview
3pm – 6pm Global Art Forum
4pm – 9.30pm Art Dubai Opening (by invitation only)
Thursday March 20
3pm – 6pm Global Art Forum
4pm – 9.30pm Art Dubai Programme and Gallery Halls
Friday March 21
2pm – 9.30pm Art Dubai Programme and Gallery Halls
3pm – 6pm Global Art Forum
Saturday March 22
12pm – 6.30pm Art Dubai Programme and Gallery Halls
ADMISSION
Tickets to Art Dubai can be purchased onsite during the fair.
One-Day Pass: 50 AED
Three-Day Pass: 80 AED
Children 18 years old and under are admitted free of charge. University students can also enter free upon show of student ID.

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