DUBAI: Emirati creatives have revealed how the country’s national pavilion at the Venice Biennale has broadened their careers and changed their lives. Multidisciplinary artist, curator and educator Sarah Al-Agroobi was one of the first to take part in the UAE National Pavilion’s internship program during La Biennale di Venezia in 2011. Today, she works full-time as a Senior
DUBAI: A bed with a rumpled sheet in the center of a room. A woman in a checkered dress with her back turned. The bold art exhibition “As We Gaze Upon Her,” which runs until January 31 at Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi and is curated by The Banat Collective, doesn’t attempt to define womanhood, but it poses question after question in a delightful mix of exhibits designed to evoke
Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, has today announced a major new five-year plan for public programming.
The team is taking a radical step in a new direction, saying it will generate about 80 per cent of its programming using the results of new training schemes and grants
. This includes five open calls, which will offer mid-career artists and curators across the Menasa region a chance to improve their work.
“We asked ourselves, How we can build an infrastructure to raise capabilities locally and regionally? ” says Faisal Al Hassan, general manager
of Warehouse421. “We widened the scope of our partnerships and looked at how we could support creative practitioners beyond just putting up exhibitions. Exhibitions will continue to be the core of what we do,