Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai, UAE
March 15 — 19
As the leading contemporary art fair in the region, Art Dubai has become the essential gathering place for collectors, artists and art professionals from across the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia and beyond. The fair’s fifth edition features 82 galleries from 34 countries and a collateral program of events including Global Art Forum_5, Art Park, the Abraaj Capital Art Prize, exhibitions, film screenings, talks, installations and performative tours. 2011 is an exceptional year, in addition to Art Dubai and its peripheral events, March also features the opening of the 10th Sharjah Biennial (just a 45-minute drive from Dubai), a day of special tours and the launch of Global Art Forum_5 at the new Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar.
The Empty Quarter, Dubai, UAE
March 14 — April 30
Concurrent with Art Dubai and as part of Art Week, The Empty Quarter Gallery is proud to announce their highlight show for this spring, “The Spectacle of War,” presenting for the first time in the region a number of multi-published artists whose work has been exhibited in noted international institutions such as the Tate Modern, the Vienna Secession, the SFMOMA and Musée de l’Élysée, Switzerland. Contemporary war is presented as a post-modern spectacle, with fluid roles and changing seat orders for viewers, actors, directors and back-stage technicians alike. Visualization of the spectacle has become a vital, viral and seminal activity for all parties involved, both off-stage and on-stage.
“Trees and the High Rising City”
Ayyam Gallery, Dubai, UAE
March 13 – April 28
On March 13, Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC) will proudly present “Trees and the High Rising City,” the solo show of Palestinian artist, Samia Halaby. At this stage in her oeuvre, Halaby has revisited many of the aesthetic breakthroughs that first distinguished her illustrious career. Although her latest canvases draw from earlier experiments, she explores the angular perspective of architecture, alongside the textures and variances found in nature, creating compositions that reflect the energy of bodies and masses in motion as they intersect and converge before the viewer. It is a daring, rarely seen feat in abstraction.
Dubai, UAE
Begins March 14
Cuadro Fine Art Gallery’s “Right Here, Right Now,” will showcase five artists identified as rising stars of the international contemporary art market. The artists include Manal Al Dowayan, a leading Saudi lens-based artist known for her depiction of Saudi women’s issues through her art and one of Cuadro’s former artists-in-residence. Al Dowayan will be exhibiting three series, including pieces from “And We had No Shared Dreams.” With a focus on Arab, Iranian and Turkish art, “Right Here, Right Now” unites a diverse group who communicate creativity, passion and vision across a spectrum of mediums, including traditional media such as oils and acrylics as well as mixed media, photography and neon.
Scope Art Fair, New York, Ny
March 2 — March 6
Witzenhausen Gallery invites you to “First View” of SCOPE ART FAIR during the New York Art Week. The following artists showcasing their work include Saudi’s very own, Jowhara A-lSaud. Annemarie Busschers, Bahar Behbahani, Hendrik Kerstens, Margriet Smulders, Nisian Hughes, Olphaert den Otter and Roland Schimmel are other artists also participating.
