Venue:
Spazio Thetis
Arsenale Novissimo
Capannone 108

Access:
From Arsenale by shuttle boat.
Vaporetto station Bacini, lines 41, 42, 51, 52

ADACH Platform for Visual Arts in Venice
7 June - 15 October 2009, 10 am - 6 pm
Closed on Tuesdays

Artistic Director: Catherine David
Paris based art historian and curator.
Biography - see the press release

Participants:

Ebtisam Abdul Aziz
*1975 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim
* 1962 Khorfakkan, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Mohammed Kazem
* 1969 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Ahmed Mater Al-Ziad Aseeri
* 1979 Tabouk, Saudi Arabia. Lives in Abha, Saudi Arabia.
more info & photos

Abdullah Al Saadi
* 1967 Khorfakkan, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
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Hassan Sharif
* 1951 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Sami Al Turki
* 1984 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Lives in Dubai, UAE.
more info & photos

Philippe Chancel
Photographer. * 1959 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France; lives in Paris.

Dr. Abdul Rahman Makhlouf
Former Chief Planner for Abu Dhabi.

Kaiwan Mehta
Architect. Lives in Mumbai, India.

Waël Noureddine
Writer, journalist, poet. * 1978 Lebanon; lives in Paris, France.

Donuts
Graphic design; Brussels, Belgium

Juan Lucas Young and Carlos Alarcon Allen
Sauerbruch Huttons architects; Berlin, Germany

The ADACH Platform for Visual Arts in Venice will be designed as a meeting point for discourse and artistic production. ... A dynamic dispositif of presentations and exchanges will introduce, through a visual narrative, the conditions in which contemporary culture and visual art are emerging in Abu Dhabi / UAE today. These conditions are mainly an amazing urban development framework, a multi-ethnic and multi-national population inventing new lifestyles, a reorganization of the region and its economical and geo-political dynamics and exchanges with the world, and development process engaged with an unprecedented phenomenon of time acceleration.

More information: Press release

Organizers and producers:
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH)

Website: ADACH in Venice