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The Circle Game,
Mary Ellen Carroll
ART
WEEK
IN
ALSERKAL
AVENUE
14 MARCH - 19 MARCH
OPENING HOURS
14 MARCH 10:00 – 21:00
15 MARCH – 19 MARCH 10:00 – 19:00
CONTACT INFO
PHONE: +971 50 556 9797
EMAIL: [email protected]
alserkalavenue.ae
ART WEEK PROGRAMME
11:00
Press Conference: Jean-Paul Najar Foundation
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
RCA Secret Dubai: Exhibition
Location: Warehouse 46
12:00
Artist Talk: Marc Quinn in conversation
with Dr. Alexandra MacGilp
Location: Custot Gallery | Warehouse 84
RSVP to [email protected]
Match lighting ceremony: Issam Kourbaj as part of the
exhibition Another Day Lost
Location: Warehouse 48
16:00
Tracing the Chora: Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
17:00
RCA Secret Dubai: Sale begins
Location: Warehouse 46
Artist Talk: Michelangelo Pistoletto
in conversation with Tairone Bastien
Location: The Yard Majlis
RSVP to [email protected]
Artist Talk: The cARTel; May Barber, Patricia Milns, Una
Burke moderated by Rebecca Anne Proctor
Location: A4 Space (Cinema Room) | Warehouse 4
17:30
Preview and artist-led tour: Birds of a Feather,
Claire Rosen
Location: Gulf Photo Plus | Warehouse 36
PROGRAMME
MONDAY
14 MARCH
18:00 – 21:00
Galleries Night at Alserkal Avenue
PROGRAMME
Galleries Night will see a host of inaugural openings, art
commissions and pop-up projects take place at Alserkal
Avenue. At the heart of the vibrant week, all the galleries at
Alserkal Avenue will present new shows and the evening
will see the eagerly awaited openings of Custot Gallery,
Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Thejamjar and eL Seed Studio.
Alserkal Avenue Programming will present commissions by
Mary Ellen Carroll, Mohammed Kazem, Jessica Mein, Vikram
Divecha, Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver alongside a selection
of pop-up projects including RCA Secret Dubai.
18:00
Artist-led tour: Michelangelo Pistoletto
Location: Alserkal Project Space | Warehouse 55
18:15
Colloquy: The Circle Game, Mary Ellen Carroll in
conversation with Hunter Lee Soik, Futurist and
Founder of SHADOW
Limited space - early arrival recommended
Location: The Circle Game elevated platform | The Yard
TUESDAY
15 MARCH
12:00
Guided tour of Alserkal Avenue galleries
Location: Tour starts at The Yard Majlis
What is it? Exhibition walkthrough with curator
Sumesh Sharma
Location: 1x1 Gallery | Warehouse 10
Meet the artist: Issam Kourbaj, Another Day Lost
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 48
16:00
Tracing the Chora: Fari Bradley, Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
12:00
Guided tour of Alserkal Avenue galleries
Location: The Yard Majlis
Artist Talk: Athier in conversation with
Rebecca Anne Proctor
Location: Ayyam Gallery | Warehouse 12
RSVP to [email protected]
Match lighting ceremony: Issam Kourbaj as part of the
exhibition Another Day Lost
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 48
13:00
What is it? Exhibition walkthrough with curator
Sumesh Sharma
Location: 1x1 Gallery | Warehouse 10
16:00
Artist Talk: 1x1 Gallery artist Mithu Sen in conversation
with Sumesh Sharma
Location: The Yard Majlis
Tracing the Chora: Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
18:00
Colloquy: The Circle Game, Mary Ellen Carroll in
conversation with Iyad Alsaka and Reinier de Graaf,
Partners at Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Limited space - early arrival recommended
Location: The Circle Game elevated platform | The Yard
PROGRAMME
WEDNESDAY
16 MARCH
THURSDAY
17 MARCH
12:00 Guided tour of Alserkal Avenue galleries
Location: Tour starts at The Yard Majlis
PROGRAMME
Match lighting ceremony: Issam Kourbaj as part of the
exhibition Another Day Lost
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 48
16:00
Curator Talk: Jessamyn Fiore, Jean Paul
Najar Foundation
Location: The Yard Majlis
Tracing the Chora: Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
FRIDAY
18 MARCH
10:00
Workshop with commissioned artist
Jessica Mein – Topologies
Location: Warehouse 51
RSVP to [email protected]
12:00
Guided tour of Alserkal Avenue galleries
Location: Tour starts at The Yard Majlis
Match lighting ceremony: Issam Kourbaj as part of the
exhibition Another Day Lost
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 48
12:00 – 13:30
Book launch: Dr. Nina Ansary in conversation with Leila
Heller, Yasamin Beitollahi and Shiva Ahmadi
Location: Leila Heller Gallery | Warehouse 86,87
15:00
Panel Discussion: Dr. Linda Komaroff
and Dr. Venetia Porter
Location: Leila Heller Gallery | Warehouse 86, 87
RSVP to [email protected]
16:00
Artist-led soundwalk: Tracing the Chora
by Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
17:30 – 20:30
Book launch and signing: Farhad Moshiri
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 61
12:00
Guided tour of Alserkal Avenue galleries
Location: Tour starts at The Yard Majlis
Match lighting ceremony: Issam Kourbaj as part of the
exhibition Another Day Lost
Location: Pop-up project | Warehouse 48
16:00
Tracing the Chora: Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
Location: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
One hour sound-walk of Al Quoz
19:00
Outdoor screening: Telfaz11 - Best of Shorts
in collaboration with Cinema Akil
Location: The Yard
20:00
Panel Discussion: Ali Kalthami, Alaa Yoosef and
Ibrahim Alkhairallah of Telfaz11 moderated by
Mishaal Al Gergawi
Location: The Yard
PROGRAMME
SATURDAY
19 MARCH
A L S E R K A L AV E N U E
PROGRAMMING
COMMISSIONS
Alserkal Avenue Programming is dedicated to incubating
innovative ideas and creative projects that increase
understanding and appreciation of communities and histories
within the region and foster a productive dialogue with the
general public. Working mainly with emerging and midcareer artists, AAP provides additional support for artists
living and working in the MENASA region whose projects are
collaborative, participatory and ephemeral.
In his lecture on the “open city,” sociologist Richard Sennett
presents a counter-proposal to the current “closed-system” of
urban planning, an over-determination of cities that make them
cleaner, safer, more efficient and dynamic. In contrast, Sennett
argues that we need to rethink urban plans and open up spaces
where citizens become active participants in a city’s making.
The Alserkal Avenue Programming commissions cap a year of
programmes with artists and other creatives that are questioning
and reimagining notions of home and community in Dubai. These
five commissions further this endeavour by interrogating the
physical and cultural environment of the Avenue; dissolving its
borders, revealing hidden spaces and viewpoints and challenging
sensibilities of permanence and place.
A few of these commissions will become permanent fixtures,
whilst others are presented in process, opening up space for risk
and experimentation. Together they present opportunities for
dialogue on public art and help us imagine a more nuanced and
elastic sense of where we belong.
THE CIRCLE GAME
The Circle Game is a major new multi-form work by conceptual
artist Mary Ellen Carroll that invites the public to interrogate the
history, present and future of Dubai. Two LED signs installed
overhead ask, ‘When did you arrive?’ and ‘When will you
return?’ These are familiar questions asked of people who live
in Dubai, and they are questions that could also be asked of
the city itself.
COMMISSIONS
Mary Ellen Carroll
14 MARCH – 30 APRIL
COMMISSIONS
A 15-metre high tower in the Yard gives visitors a new vantage
point, a view across the low-lying industrial buildings of Al
Quoz towards “old” Dubai and further towards Deira, the
original city centre. The elevated platform connects two parts
of the city and serves as a space for public programming
during and after Art Week, including colloquies on urbanism,
music, poetry and storytelling that open up a dialogue with
Dubai and its citizens.
Elevated platform, The Yard; and above the Avenue
MARY ELLEN CARROLL
Mary Ellen Carroll’s career as an artist spans over twenty years,
across a range of disciplines including architecture, public
policy, writing, performance and film. The foundation of her
practice is the investigation of a single, fundamental question:
What do we consider a work of art? Recent examples include
Public Utility 2.0, commissioned for the biennial Prospect.3:
New Orleans; and prototype 180, Carroll’s long-term opus
that makes architecture perform as a work of art and employs
land-use policy as its foundation. Carroll, who lives and works
in Houston and New York, is the recipient of numerous grants
and honours, including a Graham Foundation Fellowship, AIA’s
Artist of the Year Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, PollackKrasner Foundation Award, Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship,
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and was recently awarded a
Robert Rauschenberg Residency during which she completed
the series My Struggle.
MY NEIGHBOURS
Mohammed Kazem
14 MARCH – 30 APRIL
Mohammed Kazem’s site-specific installation My Neighbours,
consists of images from his 2006 photograph series of
the same name. The photographs were taken outside the
artist’s house over the course of several days, capturing his
neighbours’ clothes drying on a line, under a wide expanse
of sky. In a city like Dubai with very little public space, the
sky holds-out the promise of a shared space, a common that
encompasses us all.
In front of Warehouse 90, 91
MOHAMMED KAZEM
Mohammed Kazem has developed an artistic practice that
encompasses video, photography and performance to find
new ways of apprehending his environment and experiences.
The foundations of his work are informed by his training
as a musician. Kazem is deeply engaged with developing
processes that can render transient phenomena, such
as sound and light, in tangible terms. Often positioning
himself within his work, Kazem responds to geographical
location, materiality and the elements as a means to assert
his subjectivity, particularly in relation to the rapid pace of
modernisation in the Emirates since the country’s founding.
TOPOLOGIES
Jessica Mein
MARCH 14 – 30 APRIL
Topologies, by Jessica Mein, is a work that seeks to index,
categorise and map the Al Quoz neighbourhood. Since
January the artist has set out to capture surfaces and
impressions across the Avenue through processes of rubbing,
scanning, drawing and photography. More than a thousand
collected rubbings will be exhibited in her temporary studio.
Warehouse 51
WAREHOUSE PROJECT
Vikram Divecha
14 MARCH – 11 JUNE
Vikram Divecha’s Warehouse project blurs the distinction
between Alserkal Avenue as a cultural community and the
industrial area that surrounds it, conflating art, commerce and
COMMISSIONS
JESSICA MEIN
Jessica Mein (b. São Paulo, Brazil, 1975) received her MFA from
Hunter College and currently lives and works in Dubai. Solo
exhibitions include Simon Preston, New York; Galeria Leme,
São Paulo; and The Pavilion Downtown, Dubai. She has also
exhibited as part of The Julia Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf
and Wellin Museum, Hamilton College, New York.
commodities. The artist has bartered the exhibition space
given to him with a general trading company requiring storage
facilities, in exchange for the goods to be exhibited. The flow
of goods in and out create fluctuating sculptural structures
shaped by the market’s hand.
COMMISSIONS
Warehouse 82
VIKRAM DIVECHA
Beirut-born, Mumbai-raised, Vikram Divecha is based in
Dubai, UAE. Divecha works with urban processes and systems
within state, social and industrial spheres. He situates his
practice in these operations to examine, intervene and extract.
His sculptural, installation and video works arise from his
engagement with the existing material, space and labour. He
was awarded The Middle East Emergent Artist Prize in 2014.
Recent exhibitions include: A Public Privacy, DUCTAC, Dubai;
Accented, Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah; Urban reflections,
Cuadro Art, Dubai. He had a Residency at T.A.P., Lebanon and
was awarded a grant from the The Arab Fund for Arts and
Culture (AFAC).
TRACING THE CHORA
Fari Bradley & Chris Weaver
ONGOING
Tracing the Chora is a sound-walk through Al Quoz, conceived
of and created by sound artists Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver.
The chora is a space through which to decipher the reality of
our surroundings. The walk observes Al Quoz’s vastly different
terrains through the eyes of those who have worked in the
area for years
Starting Point: A4 Space | Warehouse 4
FARI BRADLEY & CHRIS WEAVER
Fari Bradley (Tehran) and Chris Weaver (London) are artists
and composers focusing on sound and society, pushing the
physical and architectural potential of sound and acoustics.
Their practice encompasses experimental music, radio,
performance, installation and sculpture. In a field of perception
dominated by visual culture, the pair investigates listening as
a means to establish and question new sets of social relations
between subject and setting.
POP-UP PROJECTS
RCA SECRET DUBAI
P O P - U P P R OJ E C T S
RCA Secret returns to Dubai and is held in partnership with Art
Dubai. Over 1,000 original postcard-sized artworks created by
regional and internationally acclaimed artists will be
on sale for AED 500, across both locations during Art Week.
All proceeds go to the RCA fund, providing scholarships and
bursaries for students.
Alserkal Avenue | Warehouse 46
Exhibition Only 14 March 11:00 – 17:00
Sale 14 March 17:00 – 21:00 | 15 – 19 March 10:00 – 19:00
Sale & Collection 19 March 10:00 – 19:00
Art Dubai | Mina a’ Salam
Sale 17 March 16:00 – 21:00 | 18 March 14:00 – 21:00
19 March 14:00 – 18:00
Sale & Collection 19 March 12:00 – 18:00
To register as a buyer please visit http://dubai.secret.rca.ac.uk.
MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO EXHIBITION
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Leila Heller Gallery invites Galleria Continua to organise the
region’s first solo exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto in
Alserkal Avenue. In Pistoletto’s practice, mirrors constitute
an image of the world, and of cosmic space. This interactive
exhibition – the artist’s first intervention in the UAE – spans
five decades of practice and highlights his multi-dimensional
perception and rich relationship with the medium.
Alserkal Project Space | Warehouse 55
ANOTHER DAY LOST
Issam Kourbaj | Curated by Louisa MacMillan
Another Day Lost is an exhibition of installations by Syrianborn, UK-based artist, Issam Kourbaj, inspired by the Syrian
refugee crisis. Since the 2011 revolution, Kourbaj has been
making work based on the war in Syria, raising awareness and
money for projects.
Warehouse 48
FARHAD MOSHIRI
BOOK LAUNCH/EXHIBITION
A double volume monograph, published by Skira, aims to
offer the first consolidated critical review of Moshiri’s oeuvre
by approaching his work thematically and chronologically
over a span of twenty years. This non-commercial exhibition
celebrates the launch of the project and will feature works on
loan from various important private collections in the region
to lend context to the monograph while displaying some of
Moshiri’s most iconic pieces.
Warehouse 61
ART BARTER
Art Barter offers enthusiasts and collectors the opportunity
to bid on anonymous artworks in exchange for goods and
services instead of money. This will be the first time the
exhibition is featured in the Middle East. Previous winning
barters have included: a Tracey Emin piece for 30 hours of
French tutoring; a Jason Dodge work for a week in a Scottish
castle; and the shipping of artworks to Venice in exchange for
a Gavin Turk screen-print.
Warehouse 60
AN INANIMATE VILLAGE
Zahra Al Ghamdi grew up in the Southwestern region of Saudi
Arabia, surrounded by traditional domestic architecture. The
culturally-rich background of her childhood played a key role
in developing her artistic and conceptual direction. By creating
an echo of the past, she brings it into contact with the present,
using memories of places and drawing on an idea of ‘embodied
memory’ through particular gestures.
Warehouse 59
POP-UP PROJECTS
Zahra Al Ghamdi
INAUGURAL OPENINGS
Alserkal Avenue unveiled its expansion in March 2015.
Since then, the community has seen the addition of new
galleries, design concepts and more. This March, we
welcome the first foundation to the Avenue along with
international galleries, homegrown concepts and an
artist studio.
CUSTOT GALLERY
I N AU G U R A L O P E N I N G S
Group Show
The World Meets Here
14 MARCH – 7 MAY
The exhibition invites us on a journey that reflects
Stéphane Custot’s taste as a respected connoisseur
of art with 25 years of experience in Paris and London,
focused on post-war contemporary art. The selection
for the inaugural exhibition will embody the two
cornerstones of the gallery, contemporary fine arts and
large-scale sculpture. Participating artists include: Marc
Quinn, Ian Davenport, Jean Dubuffet, Peter Halley,
Robert Indiana to mention a few.
Warehouse 84 | custotgallerydubai.ae
JEAN-PAUL NAJAR FOUNDATION IN
PARTNERSHIP WITH ALSERKAL AVENUE
Group Show
Jean-Paul Najar: Vision & Legacy
14 MARCH – 30 JUNE
The Foundation’s inaugural show will present most of
the artists in the collection and unveil a new acquisition:
Neutron Star by American artist, Linda Francis. Curated
by Jessamyn Fiore in the space designed by Mario
Jossa of Marcel Breuer & Associates, the exhibition will
reflect on Najar’s immense care and understanding
of the artists. Presented in partnership with Alserkal
Avenue, the foundation will offer an ongiong
programme of exhibitions and related public events.
Warehouse 45 | jpnajarfoundation.com
EL SEED
Open Studio
14 MARCH
Renowned calligraffiti artist, eL Seed establishes his
studio in Alserkal Avenue, making it the first artist’s
studio on the premises. eL Seed will use the multipurpose space to work on new projects and showcase
his art pieces.
Warehouse 75 | elseed-art.com
THE JAMJAR
Group Show
Mangroves from the Water
9 MARCH – 29 MARCH
During Art Week, the new space will host performances
by Caravan Collective and Star Too Experimental
entitled, ORI-GEN, which mirrors the recycling forces
of nature and aims to redefine space and the material
within with its transformations. Please visit the website
for the performance schedule.
Warehouse 74 | thejamjardubai.com
I N AU G U R A L O P E N I N G S
Starting off the month with the soft launch of their new
space in Alserkal Avenue, thejamjar hosts the works of
10 UAE artists in the Mangroves from the Water, which
expresses the delicate balance between nature and
human progress.
EXHIBITIONS
AYYAM GALLERY
Safwan Dahoul
Still Dreaming
14 MARCH – 30 MAY
In 2015, Dahoul began isolating his recurring figure in
ambiguous settings, releasing her from darkened cityscapes
and barren landscapes that resemble actual sites in Syria. In
these examples and the works that followed, Dahoul depicts
his female protagonist against a flat white background, an
effect that alludes to radiating light, and renders her face and
body with gradations of greys illuminated by soft highlights.
Warehouse 11 | ayyamgallery.com
Athier
Machine Hearts
14 MARCH – 30 MAY
Machine Hearts centres on large-scale, semi-abstract
paintings made over the last two years. Full of aggressive,
visceral energy, the series is a continuation of the Man of
War series, in which the artist explored the contemporary
phenomenon of drone warfare. Still preoccupied by the
spectre of war, Athier’s new body of work attempts to
visualise the mechanical heart of an active soldier and
asks: What is the unseen core that powers a human killing
machine?
EXHIBITIONS
Warehouse 12 | ayyamgallery.com
CARBON 12
EXHIBITIONS
Ghazel
Mea Culpa
14 MARCH – 1 MAY
The solo exhibition revolves around the map motif used
in diverse, sometimes derisive, ways. In addition to the
works on paper and video, the Iranian artist is – for the first
time in almost twenty years — showing sculptures. Made
of paper, aluminium and copper, they relate thematically to
the map-based work begun in 2010. Ghazel purposefully
crafts seemingly spontaneous and lighthearted works whose
humor, simple iconography and sometimes material fragility,
only partially obfuscate their timely, trenchant vision and the
urgency of their political message.
Warehouse 37 | carbon12dubai.com
ELMARSA GALLERY
Nja Mahdaoui
Trance
14 MARCH – 30 APRIL
This exhibition will focus on the unique, distinctive works
of one of the major figures of Arab art whose international
career has been lauded for more than four decades.
Warehouse 23 | galerielmarsa.com
FN DESIGNS
German Fernandez
The Journey Man II: In the Name of the Father
14 MARCH – 8 MAY
Fernandez presents scenes of masked characters in an
imagined urban reality that we call “the city”; a place to
discover the meaning we struggle to find in the real world.
Also a place where the permanent search for identity takes
place. But, under which principles should this be done? As
this imaginary world, designed to be in balance, is unable
to reach a clear definition by the imperfect set up of one or
more of its elements, the quest for meaning becomes crucial.
Warehouse 26 | fanndesigns.com
GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE
Abdelkader Benchamma
The Unbearable Likeness
14 MARCH – 5 MAY
Warehouse 17 | ivde.net
EXHIBITIONS
In this show curated by Yasmina Reggad, French-Algerian
artist Abdelkader Benchamma imposes constraints upon
his process to create delicately executed and dynamic
drawings of states of matter. Events explode off the page
and are animated by fusing graphic techniques from printing,
engraving, landscape and scientific drawing. In his scenes,
he reveals the purity and intensity of lines to express
powerful and ambiguous atmospheres, which probe
notions of a stable reality.
GREEN ART GALLERY
EXHIBITIONS
Seher Shah
The Lightness of Mass
14 MARCH – 2 MAY
Working with both drawing and sculpture, Seher Shah has
revisited the mainstays of architectural representational
methods—plan, elevation, section—to inject unsettling
slippages into their rigorous formalism. The exhibition is
accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue with essays by
Shanay Jhaveri, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Assistant
Curator of South Asian Art, and Murtaza Vali, an independent
writer and curator based between Brooklyn and Sharjah.
Warehouse 28 | gagallery.com
GREY NOISE
Stéphanie Saadé
The Shape of Distance
14 MARCH – 30 APRIL
In The Shape of Distance, an intricate map is superposed
to the map of the exhibition space. Horizontal distances are
explored, which go back and forth in time and geography, as
well as vertical distances, which go back and forth between
above and below. The works measure, cancel, enhance or
materialise these distances.
Warehouse 24 | greynoise.org
GULF PHOTO PLUS
Claire Rosen
Birds of a Feather
14 MARCH – 30 APRIL
Birds of a Feather is a portrait series of live birds by awardwining New York-based artist, Claire Rosen. For this series,
she photographed birds ranging from the common parakeet
to the exotic Hyacinth Macaw against vintage and historical
reproduction wallpaper.
Warehouse 36 | gulfphotoplus.com
LEILA HELLER GALLERY
Y.Z. Kami
White Dome
9 MARCH – 25 APRIL
Kami explores spirituality through the use of light and
large-scape collage. By interweaving mixed-media collages
on paper, he uses Persian poetry and religious scriptures
arranged in circles to recall the ritual of prayer and the
mosaics of sacred architecture.
EXHIBITIONS
Warehouse 86, 87 | leilahellergallery.com
LAWRIE SHABIBI
EXHIBITIONS
Group Show
But Still Tomorrow Builds Into My Face
14 MARCH – 19 MAY
This exhibition, curated by Nat Muller, takes on a timely topic:
the disappearance and loss of heritage-cultural or other. The
works explore the relations between power, history, conflict
and belonging and identity. They manifest something that is at
risk of becoming forever lost, absent and out of memory.
As such, the artistic gestures become poetic and political
acts of preservation.
Warehouse 21 | lawrieshabibi.com
MOJO
Group Show
The Book [Re-imagined]
14 MARCH – 15 MAY
Featuring the work of more than 20 artists from around
the world, this exhibition focuses on the highly distinctive
and visually intriguing ‘artist’s book’. An artist’s book isn’t
published, it is handmade. It is not repeated, it is singular. It
is like a canvas, but folded, revealing an intimate world, page
after page.
Warehouse 33 | themojogallery.com
SALSALI PRIVATE MUSEUM
Group Show
German Cool
UNTIL 30 MARCH
What is German Cool? Is it a pervasive rebellion against
repression, oppression and political persecution? Disdain
for authority, orthodoxy and tradition? Whatever constitutes
this mercurial asset, it’s possessed in abundance by the
artists featured in this group exhibition, an exploration of art
works created in 20th century Germany, sourced from Ramin
Salsali’s collection.
Warehouse 14 | salsalipm.com/
SHOWCASE
Elham Moaidnia
Welcome to the Party
14 MARCH – 14 MAY
A journey beginning with the history of traditional Iranian
culture and ending in the artist’s present. Moaidnia’s symbolic
paintings, made not only on canvases but on antique doors
and Iranian fabric, comprise a miscellany of folklore and
personal experience.
Warehouse 35 | showcaseuae.com
THE CARTEL
Patricia Millns and Una Burke
Fashion: A Second Skin
This exhibition is a manifestation of two artistic bodies of
work, each interpreting the idea of fashion and clothing as an
independent shelter enclosing the female body and thoughts
alike. Featuring the works of Patricia Millns and Una Burke,
each artist explores the relationship between fashion as an
envelope and the
women it encases.
Warehouse 6 | thecartel.me
EXHIBITIONS
14 MARCH – 31 MARCH
THE THIRD LINE
EXHIBITIONS
Hassan Hajjaj
La salle de gym des femmes Arabes
14 MARCH – 16 APRIL
The Third Line is pleased to present Hassan Hajjaj’s third
solo show in Dubai, La Salle de Gym des Femmes Arabes.
The title, which translates into Gym for Arab Women, is a
continuation of Hassan’s depiction of strong and spirited Arab
women in his vision of Moroccan pop-culture.
Sara Naim
When Heartstrings Collapse
MARCH 14 – APRIL 16
The Third Line is pleased to present When Heartstrings
Collapse, Sara Naim’s first solo show with the gallery. Sara’s
interest in micro images, particularly that of skin cells,
investigate the perception of boundaries and proportion. On a
cellular scale all space is merged and the only variation is the
different densities of matter. The photographs and sculptures
of these micro worlds prompt an idea of something much
larger or vaster, creating a discerning play on synchronicity
and corporeality.
Warehouse 80 | thethirdline.com
1X1 GALLERY
Group Show
What is it?
14 MARCH – 31 APRIL
What is it? was the travelling photo studio of photographer
Mathew Brady. Raja Ravi Varma, considered the father of
Modern Indian art, taught himself to make portraits initially of
his kin who constituted the Travancore royal family of Kerala.
Later, he lent faces through his study of Western practices of
anatomical drawing to posters that depicted mythical scenes
from Hindu epics thus establishing a face for Indian gods and
goddesses. This show is curated by Sumesh Sharma.
Warehouse 10 | 1x1artgallery.com
FARHAD MOSHIRI
BOOK LAUNCH/EXHIBITION
A double volume monograph, published by Skira, aims to
offer the first consolidated critical review of Moshiri’s oeuvre
by approaching his work thematically and chronologically
over a span of twenty years. This non-commercial exhibition
celebrates the launch of the project and will feature works on
loan from various important private collections in the region
to lend context to the monograph while displaying some of
Moshiri’s most iconic pieces.
Warehouse 61
ART BARTER
Art Barter offers enthusiasts and collectors the opportunity
to bid on anonymous artworks in exchange for goods and
services instead of money. This will be the first time the
exhibition is featured in the Middle East. Previous winning
barters have included: a Tracey Emin piece for 30 hours of
French tutoring; a Jason Dodge work for a week in a Scottish
castle; and the shipping of artworks to Venice in exchange for
a Gavin Turk screen-print.
Artists: Athier, Sara Naim, Vikram Divecha, UBIK, Layan Attari,
Lantian Xie, Sarah Al Haddad, Zeinab Al Hashemi, Rami Farook
and ten international artists
Warehouse 60
Zahra Al Ghamdi
Zahra Al Ghamdi grew up in the Southwestern region of Saudi
Arabia, surrounded by traditional domestic architecture. The
culturally-rich background of her childhood played a key role
in developing her artistic and conceptual direction. By creating
an echo of the past, she brings it into contact with the present,
using memories of places and drawing on an idea of ‘embodied
memory’ through particular gestures.
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EXHIBITIONS
AN INANIMATE VILLAGE
WHEN
WILL
YOU
RETURN
The Circle Game,
Mary Ellen Carroll