The two photos above were shot by Italian photographer  Filippo Gallino during a work trip to The Emirates  in 2008. A world famous artist, he is specialized in innovative visual communication modalities, mainly  through high impact panoramic hyper-images and , together with Luca De Bellis, another  well established Italian photographer,  in virtual tours. To know more about their stunning work please visit : www.filippogallino.it  and www.gallinodebellis.com

ART DUBAI

18-21 March 2009

Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

Art Dubai has become a cornerstone of the Middle East’s booming contemporary art community. Taking place from March 18-21 2009, over 65 carefully selected galleries will gather in the beach resort of Madinat Jumeirah for the third edition of Art Dubai.Programme include artist’s projects plus the launch of the Abraaj Capital Art Prize and the critically acclaimed Global Art Forum:3.

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Tickets to Art Dubai 2009 are now available through Time Out Tickets

Vernissage Preview

http://www.timeoutdubai.com/art/events/1078-art-dubai-vernissage-preview

Public Days

http://www.timeoutdubai.com/art/events/1079-art-dubai-public-days

FAIR DATES

Vernissage 18 March 2009

Public Days 19-21 March 2009

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PUBLIC EVENTS PROGRAMME:

* Opening Times

* Art Park Talks

* Performances

* Book Launches + Signings

* START Workshops

* Public Tours

WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH

11.30 – 13.00

START Workshop, (Girls Only Sesssion) i-Film Art Dubai with Elhum Shakerifar.

Learn video camera skills & documentary film-making techniques, ages 10-13, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

12.00 – 12.30

Special Performance (For ladies only), Costume Drawings,Susan Hefuna, Terrace, Art Dubai

15.00 – 16.00

Young Persons’ Thinking Cloud: How do I become an Artist?

Panellists’ will include performance artists showcased at Art Dubai 2009, Young Associates & members of the Shaikha Manal Art Exchange Programme, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

16.00 – 21.30

Vernissage of Art Dubai

17.00

Book Signing, Beirut Bereft, Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict, Rasha Salti & Ziad Antar, Art Books

18.00 – 18:30

Book Launch, Third Text Asia, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

18:15 – 18:45

Performance, traces, Joumana Mourad & IJAD Dance Company, Global Art Forum Tent

19:00 – 20.00

Art Park Talk, Processes and Production, Abraaj Capital Art Prize Panel, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

20:15 – 21:15

Performance, The Inhabitants of Images, Rabih Mroué, premiere of new performance co-produced by Bidoun, Ashkal Alwan and Tanzquartier Wien, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

20:30/ 22:00

Performance, Emelan, Kirstie Macleod, Madinat Beach, Art Dubai

THURSDAY 19 MARCH

11.00-12.00

Curatorial Workshop, Christine Tohmé, Sylvia Kouvali and other Bidoun curators discuss the formation of innovative exhibitions and projects in the Arab world. All curators, exhibition organisers and enthusiasts welcome, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

13.00 – 15.00

START Workshop, Big Painting with Sacha Jafri & Tashkeel. Create a 6 foot painting with a large team, ages 3-18, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

15.30 – 17.30

START Workshop, The Boat Makers with Maitha bin Lahej & Noor Al Khaja. Decorate a full-scale boat and design the fabric sail, ages 9-18, Terrace

16.00-18.00

START Workshop, i-Film Art Dubai with Elhum Shakerifar.

Learn video camera skills & documentary film-making techniques, ages 10-13, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

16.00 – 21.00

Public Access to Art Dubai

17.00-17.45

Art Park Talk, Art in the Contemporary City-in-Flux: 98 Weeks, Beirut (Mirene Arsenios) and Kharita, Cairo (Shahira Issa), Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

17.30 – 18.00

Book Signing, Owning Art: A Collectors Handbook, Arabic edition, Judith Greer and Louisa Buck, published by ADACH

17:15 – 17:45

Performance, traces, Joumana Mourad & IJAD Dance Company, Global Art Forum Tent, Art Dubai

18.00 – 19.00

Public Tour of Art Dubai: Souk entrance *

18:00 – 20:30

Performance, Emelan, Kirstie Macleod, Art Park

18:00 – 18:30

Book Launch, Waves and Otherworldly Stories, Janet Bellotto, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

18.00

Book Launch, Different Sames, New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, Madinat Beach

21.00 – 21.30

Book Launch, Ahmed Alsoudani, presented by Robert Goff, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

FRIDAY 20 MARCH

13.00-15.00

START Workshop, Big Painting with Sacha Jafri & Tashkeel. Create a 6 foot painting with a large team, ages 3-18, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

14.00 – 21.00

Public Access to Art Dubai

14:00 – 17:00

Performance, In Determination, Monali Meher, Art Park

15.30 – 17.30

START Workshop, The Boat Makers with Maitha bin Lahej & Noor Al Khaja. Decorate a full-scale boat and designing the fabric sail, ages 9-18, Terrace

16.00 – 18.00

START Workshop, i-Film Art Dubai with Elhum Shakerifar. Learn video camera skills & documentary film-making techniques, ages 10-13, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

17:30 – 18:00

Performance, The Tabouli Performer, Roula Haj-Ismail, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

18.00 – 19.00

Public Tour of Art Dubai: Souk entrance *

18:00 – 18:45

Book Launch, Presence, Lamya Gargash followed by a conversation with curator Tirdad Zolghadr, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

19:00 – 20:00

Art Park Talk, Foundations: Who is supporting art production in the Gulf?, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

20:15 – 21:15

Performance, The Inhabitants of Images, Rabih Mroué, premiere of new performance co-produced by Bidoun, Ashkal Alwan and Tanzquartier Wien, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

SATURDAY 21 MARCH

10.00 – 18.00

Public Access to Art Dubai

10.30 – 11.15

Art Park Talk, Online Art Journals, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

11.00 – 13.00

START Workshop, Stories & Film with Nayla al Khaja. Developing story boards and methods of performance for film, ages 6-14, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

11.30 – 12:00

Book Launch, AISH – Bread and Life presented by curator Gaia Simionati, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

13.00 – 13.45

Art Park Talk, Art Production in Palestine, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

13.00-15.00

START Workshop, Big Painting with Sacha Jafri & Tashkeel. Create a 6 foot painting with a large team, ages 3-18, START @ Barclays Wealth Learning Zone

14.00

Book signing, In Absentia, Tarek Al Ghoussein, hosted by The Third Line, Art Books

14:30 -15:15

Art Park Talk, Rami Farook, Director of Traffic, with designers James Clar & Katrin Greiling, discuss production design in the Gulf, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

15.00 – 16.00

Public Tour of Art Dubai: Souk entrance *

15:30 – 16:15

Art Park Talk, Khatt Foundation – Typographic Matchmaking in the City V2.0 Project, with Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, René Knip and Jeroen van Erp, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

16.30 – 17.00

Art Park Talk, Richard Wagner and Adina Hempel – the Pr0gress studio, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

17:15 – 17:45

Book Launch, The Conference of Birds, Farah Behbehani, Bidoun Lounge, Art Park

* Limited Numbers – to reserve a place please email intern@artdubai.ae. Please meet at the Souk Entrance, Madinat Jumeirah ten minutes before the tour is due to commence

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GLOBAL ART FORUM PROGRAMME

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DAY ONE_MONDAY 16 MARCH_DOHA_MIA

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome Roger Mandle, Director Qatar Museums Authority, Doha

10.30 – 12.00

Creating an Audience: Museums and Art Institutions and the Public

Max Hollein, Director Kunsthalle, Städel Museum and Sculpture Collection at the Liebighausm

Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky, Hermitage Museum. Moscow

Oliver Watson, Chief Curator Museum of Islamic Arts, Doha

Marc Olivier Whaler, Director, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Moderator: Roger Mandle, Director Qatar Museums Authority, Doha

12.00 – 12:30

Building Museums

Gail Dexter Lord, Co-President, Lord Cultural Resources, Toronto

13.00 – 14.30

Creating Spaces: Cultural Development and Art Practices

Dr.Abdulla Al-Thani, Vice President of Education at Qatar Foundation, Founder of Al Markhiya Gallery, Doha

Moataz Nasr, Artist, Founder of Darb 1718, Cairo

Dr. Nada Shabout, Associate Professor at the University of North Texas, author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics

Gilane Tawadros, Independent curator and writer, former Director of inIVA, London

Moderator: Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Collections Curator at the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha

14.30 – 15.15

The Museum of the future

All speakers at the Forum and selected guests from the audience will be asked before they come to submit the 10 issues they believe will be critical in building the museum of the future. The results of this questionnaire will be developed and discussed with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London.

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DAY TWO_WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH_DUBAI

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Supported by DCAA (Dubai Culture & Arts Authority)

11.00 – 11.30

Good Morning Russia

Maria Baibakova, Director, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow

Yuri Avvakumov, Architect and designer, Moscow

Olga Sviblova, Head of the House of Photography in Moscow and Curator, Moscow

Fioydeor Boehme, Makhachkala

Joseph Backstein, Founding Director of the Moscow Biennale, Moscow

12.00 – 12.45

Artist Interview

with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London, in conversation with Susan Hefuna, Artist, Berlin

12.45- 13.45

Is Collecting a Statement or a Cause?

Moderator: Richard Flood, Chief Curator, New Museum, New York

Lekha Poddar, Collector, New Delhi

Maja Hoffmann, Collector, LUMA Foundation, Zürich

Sultan Al-Qassemi, Collector, Sharjah

Farid Sarroukh, Collector, Tripoli

13.45 – 14.30

A Brief History of Curating

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London

Daniel Birnbaum, Director 53rd Venice Biennale of Visual Arts, Frankfurt

14.30- 16.00

Discussing Museums

Moderator: Shumon Basar, Writer, critic, London

Mikhail Piotrovsky Director, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Hassan Subhi, Senior Consultant, PMW, Alexandria

Thomas Krens, Senior Advisor for International Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York

16.00 – 16.45

Legends Interview

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London, in conversation with Abbas Kiarostami, Filmmaker, Tehran

16.45 – 17.15

Press Announcement “Opening” by the UAE Pavilion for the 53rd Venice Biennale

Featuring Tirdad Zolghadr, Curator of the UAE Pavilion and Dr. Lamees Hamdan Commissioner to the Office of the UAE Pavilion

Special recognition for this event to Mishaal Al Gergawi and Christian Matthiesen of Jackson Pollock Bar

17.15 – 18.00

Legends Interview

Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects, Serpentine Gallery, London, in conversation with Marwan Kassab Bachi, Artist, Berlin

21.00 – 22.30

The Art of the Party

Bob Colacello, Writer, Columnist presenting OUT, in conversation with Jerome Sans, Director, UCCA, Beijing/Paris; Simon de Pury, Chairman, Phillips de Pury & Company, London and Hilwé Hilwé, Artist, Birzeit

The Party as Performance

Curated by Jerome Sans, Director, UCCA, Beijing/Paris and Le Baron – André, Benjamin and Samuel, Paris

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DAY THREE_THURSDAY 19 MARCH_DUBAI

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The Arts and Cultural Heritage: A Contemporary View

Hosted by ADACH (Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture & Heritage)

12.00 – 13.00 Short introduction by Andras Szántó, Senior Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Director NEA Arts Journalism Institute, Colombia University, New York

ADACH Contemporary Culture and Living Tradition

H.E. Zaki Nusseibeh, Advisor Ministry of Presidential Affairs – Deputy Chairman ADACH, Abu Dhabi

Dr Sami El-Masri, Director of Strategic Planning Office, ADACH, Abu Dhabi

Q and A with Andras Szántó, Senior Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Director, NEA Arts Journalism Institute, Columbia University, New York

13:00 – 14:00

Cultural Diplomacy from the Perspective of the Arab World: A Constructive Conversation with the West

Moderator: Andras Szántó, Senior Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Director, NEA Arts

Journalism Institute, Columbia University, New York

Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, PhD, Expert in cultural diplomacy, Arts and Culture Initiative,

Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institute, Professor Diplomacy and Culture at Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

H.E. Zaki Nuseibeh, Advisor Ministry Presidential Affairs, Deputy Chairman, ADACH

Dr Sami El-Masri, Director of Strategic Planning Office, ADACH, Abu Dhabi

14:00 – 15:00

The Heritage Museum in a Modern Age

Moderator: Dr. Sami El-Masri, Director of Strategic Planning Office ADACH, Abu Dhabi

Richard West, Jr., former Director and Founder of the National Museum of the American Indian and prominent ICOM member, Washington D.C.

Elizabeth Duggal, Associate Director of the Natural History Museum – The Smithsonian

Institution, Washington D.C.

15:00 – 16:00

Cultural Strategies for the Arab World: After and Beyond the Museum

Moderator: Catherine David, Curator, Artistic Director ADACH, Platform for Venice, Paris

Abdulla Al-Amri, Director of the Department of Arts and Culture, ADACH, Abu Dhabi

Adila Laïdi-Hanieh, Cultural Critic, West Bank

Nasrin Seraji, Architect, Urbanist, Professor of Architecture, Paris

Christine Tohmé, Curator & Director of the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut

Omar Mrad, Artist, Beirut

16:30 – 17.00

ADACH Platform for Venice

Catherine David, Curator, Artistic Director, ADACH, Platform for Venice, Paris

17.00 – 17.30

Building on Collecting

Judith Greer, Writer, Collector, London

Louisa Buck, Writer, Art Critic, London

Abdulla Al-Amri, Director of the Department of Arts and Culture, ADACH, Abu Dhabi

Book signing, Judith Greer and Louisa Buck – Owning Art: An Art Collectors Handbook

Arabic edition – published by ADACH

19:00 – 22.30

Art City: TEHRAN

Independent and artist-run initiatives in Tehran

A panel co-curated by Bidoun Fereydoun Ave, artist and curator, Tehran & Paris

Amirali Ghasemi, artist and curator, Parkingallery and the Roaming Biennial of Tehran, Tehran

Sohrab Mahdavi, founder/editor, Tehranavenue.com, Tehran

Shahab Fotouhi, artist, Tehran

Henri Shabistari, Art Historian, Shiraz

Moderated by Negar Azimi, Senior Editor, Bidoun magazine

Leyla Fakhr and Nazgol Ansarinia (Abraaj Capital Art Prize recipients)

Abbas Kiarostrami film screening

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DAY FOUR_FRIDAY 20 MARCH_DUBAI

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Rules of Attraction: Cultural Destinations and Audiences

12.00 – 14.00

Brave New World: The New Deal in the Art World

Moderator: Josh Baer, Writer, publisher, The Baer Faxt, New York

Richard Flood, Chief Curator, New Museum, New York

Alexandros Stanas, Director, Art Athina, Athens

Paolo Colombo, Curator, Advisor, Modern Istanbul, Rome

Miguel Agueli, Artist, Paris

Katherine Gass, Curator, Jumeirah Essex House, New York

14.00 – 15.00

Building on and Building with Biennials

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Artistic Director, Athens Biennial, Athens

Poka-Yio, Artist, Co-curator, Athens Biennial, Athens

Dr. Lamees Hamdan, Commissionaire, UAE Pavilion,

53rd Venice Biennale, Dubai

Suha Ahmed, Founding Member, Foundation for the Arts, Baghdad

15.00 – 16.00

Historical Sites and New Art Cities

Derya Bigalı, Manager, Akbank Art Centre, Istanbul

Katerina Koskina, President of the Board of Trustees, State Museum

of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

Manal Ataya, Director General, Sharjah Museums Department, Sharjah

Janah Saadeh, Chief Financial Officer, Consult Overseas Ltd., Jerusalem