ART DUBAI JOINS THE LIST OF IN-PERSON FAIRS TO BE HELD NEXT YEAR
Art Dubai taking place from March 17-20 at Madinat Jumeirah will present exciting new global perspectives across gallery halls, new artist-led initiatives activating the city of Dubai, UAE-wide programming across the cultural institutions ecology, and exclusive events across outdoor settings, adapted with all the appropriate health and safety measures.
Art Dubai’s 14th edition features three diverse gallery sections: Contemporary, Modern & Bawwaba.
Art Dubai Contemporary features a selection of 58 galleries that align with the fair’s focus on expanding conversations beyond traditional art production centres. This edition features a divergent line-up of exhibitors, ranging from emerging art scenes to established centres, presenting solo or group shows and offering new global perspectives to help cultivate a culture of discovery.
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Mahi Binebine, Sans titre, 2017, Other Materials, 200 x 300 cm - Courtesy of DAR D’ART Gallery
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Julient Boudet, STOP COVID19, 2020, Archival pigment print, 100 x 100 cm - Courtesy of the Artist and Stems Gallery
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Maha Ahmed, From emptiness to the song within IV, 2019, Painting, 15 x 10 cm - Courtesy of The Artist/ Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
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Sejira Avoseh, Aunty Vaiders Shop, 2019, Mixed Media, 244 x 107 cm - Courtesy of Rele Gallery
In its largest edition to date, Art Dubai Modern will showcase 17 distinct presentations whereby each of the participating galleries will showcase works by one leading modernist artist. In doing so, the 2021 edition will engage visitors with a broad panorama of artistic practices hailing from a number of diverse cities in Egypt, India, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine and Turkey. Featuring its own design, the section will consist of archival and didactic materials, which curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath employ to contextualise the artworks on display, and advance their notion of Transmodernism as a way of reflecting on the heterogeneous expression of a multi-polar modernity.
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Mohammed Kacimi, Composition, non datée, Painting, 60 x 80 cm - Courtesy of Comptoir des Mines Galerie
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Chant Avedissian, Color Squares, 1990-1991, Hand dyed cotton, 257 x 205 cm - Courtesy of Sabrina Amrani and The Estate of Chant Avedissian
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Saud Al-Qahtany , Untitled, 1399, Painting, 91 x 121 cm - Courtesy of Hafez Gallery and the Artist
Bawwaba returns for its second edition in 2021, curated by Bombay-based cultural theorist and curator Nancy Adajania. Bawwaba delivers a set of varied perspectives and highlights Art Dubai’s focus on divergent narratives. Adajania interprets the section descriptor ‘Bawwaba’– meaning gateway in Arabic – as an invitation to annotate the ‘offsites’ of global contemporary art, without creating a binary between art from the west and the so-called non-west. The section will feature solo presentations including artists from the UAE, India, Vietnam, Mexico, among others, to demonstrate the productive entanglements as well as the distinctive, location-specific explorations from which contemporary art draws its multifarious inspirations.
