GCC Galleries and Museums
December 2010
Museum
GCC - December
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Artspace
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Art Sawa
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Ayyam Gallery Dubai
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Boutique 1 Gallery
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Cuadro Fine Art Gallery
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Emirates Palace
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Empty Quarter
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Ghaf Art Gallery
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Green Art Gallery
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Majlis Gallery
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Meem Gallery
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Salwa Zeidan Gallery
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The Third Line Dubai
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XVA
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Kuwait
Dar Al Athar Al Islamiyya
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Dar Al Funoon
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Qatar
Al Markhiya Gallery
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The Third Line Doha
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Waqif Art Centre
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SHARJAH. The Barjeel Art Foundation was conceived by Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi with the vision of creating a space where artwork drawn from diverse corners of the Arab world can coalesce in an interactive and communal setting. Art of the Arab world is as nuanced as the nations that comprise the historically, politically, socially and geographically diverse region.
The foundation aims to exhibit works of established and emerging Arab contemporary artists from the United Arab Emirates and around the world. A 475-square-metre space has been dedicated to showcasing the Barjeel collection, which includes more than 200 pieces of Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi’s personal collection. The foundation will present artwork in rotating public exhibitions representing different themes of political, social and cultural importance to the Arab world.
Part of Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi’s vision is to bring young people to the space, as well as make this Arab art collection available to other cultural or educational institutions as part of short-term exhibitions in the UAE and abroad. The Barjeel, or wind tower, is a structure that enables the circulation of air; the foundation hopes to create a space where art, an essential part of our cultural existence, can breathe and be embraced.
Among the acclaimed artists represented in the collection are Louay Kayyali, Fateh Moudarres and Sabhan Adam of Syria; Nja Mahdaoui and Halim Karabibene of Tunisia; Abdul Qader Al Rais, Hassan and Hussein Sharif, and Fatma Lootah of the UAE; Ismael Fattah of Iraq and Dia Azzawi of Iraq; Ali Omar Ermes of Libya; Abdullah Al Muharraqi of Bahrain; Omar Al Nagdi, Adel El Siwi, Adam Henein and Susan Hefuna of Egypt; Mansour Sleiman and Jeffar Khaldi of Palestine; and Sami Mohammed of Kuwait.
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The Barjeel Art Foundation in collaboration with Zoom Contemporary Art Fair will feature six artworks from the collection. In its inaugural year, Zoom Art Fair will feature contemporary Middle Eastern art from around the world and will run concurrent to Art Basel Miami.
Barjeel’s participating artists:
Abdulnasser Gharem
Hayv Kahraman
Khaled Hafez
Steve Sabella
Salama Safadi
Zeina Assi
Barjeel Foundation collaborates
with ZOOM Contemprary
Art Fair
in Miami