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.
more info & photos
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
See also on this website:
54th Venice Biennale, 2011: UAE
National pavilion of the United Arab Emirates, Arsenale. Artists: Reem Al Ghaith, Lateefa bint Maktoum, Abdullah Al Saadi. Curator: Vasif Kortun. Commissioner: Dr. Lamees Hamdan.
United Arab Emirates in Nafas
Articles on the contemporary arts of the UAE in Nafas Art Magazine, including artists, galleries, institutions, future projects.
Culture Boom in Abu Dhabi
Visions, skepticism, chances. Protagonists of the culture in the UAE about the planned museums. By Haupt & Binder, in: Nafas Art Magazine, Nov. 2007
Saadiyat Cultural District
Information and photos: Louvre Abu Dhabi, Guggenheim and other planned highlights in Abu Dhabi. In: Nafas Art Magazine, Nov. 2007
UAE - artist's index
All the artists from the United Arab Emirates in Universes in Universe.
Curators Index - UAE
Exhibitions, projects related to the United Arab Emirates in Universes in Universe.
