Venue:
Arsenale

It’s Not You, It’s Me

Artist:

Lamya Gargash
* 1982 Dubai, United Arab Emirates; lives there.
more info & photos

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Freelance curator, critic, filmmaker. * 1973, lives in Zürich, Switzerland, and Tehran, Iran.

Commissioner: Dr. Lamees Hamdan
Member of the Board of Directors of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority.

As the organizers announced, the first ever UAE pavilion at a Venice Biennale will highlight a "World Fair" theme that will incorporate various components:

- work by Lamya Gargash

- a documentation-performance of the announcing press conference for the UAE National Pavilion in Venice by the Jackson Pollock Bar (Germany)

- a Kiosk by Hannah Hurtzig (Germany), featuring conversations with 5 key figures in the cultural panorama of the UAE

- a (digital) showroom of work by several UAE artists, including Hassan Sharif, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Ebtisam AbdulAziz, and Huda Saeed Saif

- scenography reminiscent of the World Fair tradition, including text panels and architectural models of UAE arts infrastructure

For more information, please see:

>> Press release
15 March, 2009

Website: uaepavilion.org

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.

Lamya Gargash: Presence
Article and photos. Nafas Art Magazine, July 2008

United Arab Emirates in Nafas
Articles on the contemporary arts of the UAE in Nafas Art Magazine, including artists, galleries, institutions, future projects.

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.

Hassan Sharif
Articles, photos, information

Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Articles, photos, information

Ebtisam AbdulAziz
Articles, photos, information

Sharjah Biennial
Photo tours and information of all the editions since 2003