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 Now in its third year, Al
BASTAKIYA ART FAIR (BAF) will take place in the houses of Al Bastakiya, the
historic area of Dubai, Sunday 15 - Sunday 22 March 2009 from 9am to 8pm daily.
All details can now be found by logging on to the new website www.baf.ae
BAF
2009 is an independent fringe art fair which focuses international attention on
Dubai's art and cultural agenda and is organized by XVA Gallery.
The BAF
opens up the unique environment of Al Bastakiya to contemporary art. Involving
international, regional and local galleries, artists and curators. The program
of events will include daily exhibitions, the new BAF Art School Brunch lecture
series, and for the first time in the Middle East, the Diesel Art Space
project.
The Diesel Art Space at BAF 2009
The Diesel Art
Space provides a public platform for young/ emerging artists and designers to
show their work. In the age of billboards, Diesel aims to salvage public spaces
from the fate of commercial use.
One winning artist, supported by Diesel,
has the opportunity to use an exterior 13 metre wall at Al Bastakiya as their
canvas. Visit www.baf.ae
for further details.
The BAF
Art School BRUNCH
The BAF Art School is a new innovation for BAF
2009, held daily from 10am - 12pm Monday 16 March to Friday 20 March in the XVA
Gallery courtyard. It is an organic five-day free morning art school for members
of the public, students, emerging artists, critics and collectors throughout the
UAE and internationally to engage in vibrant discussions on trend with current
contemporary art practice now.
The programme, curated by Sara Raza,
will present a compact and lively series of talks and artist presentations
designed to offer an alternative art curriculum. View the full program at www.baf.ae.
Sara
Raza is a London based independent curator, writer and co-editor of
ArtAsiaPacific magazine for West and Central Asia and curator of Tashkent
Biennale 5. A former curator of public programmes at Tate Modern, Sara chaired,
taught and programmed 100 education events on contemporary art practice, with a
focus on international art, performance and architecture.
BAF Participants
Confirmed
participants include Saatchi Online Gallery, Dubai galleries XVA Gallery, The
Third Line Gallery, B21 Gallery, Tashkeel, Majlis Gallery, Cuadro Gallery, Green
Art Gallery, The Jam Jar and Ayse Turgut Gallery (New York), Grey Noise Gallery
(Lahore) and the Khatt Foundation.
Confirmed artists include Halim Al
Karim, Mizmah - A collective of six fine art graduates from Abu Dhabi, Madjid
Asgari, Hadieh Shafie, Hind Mezaina, Yara El Sherbini, Laudi Abilama, Arnaud
Rivieren, Alfred Tarazi, Jonathan Gent, Mark Pilkington, Patricia Millns,
Colleen Quigley, Hafis Bertschinger and curator Ana Finel
Honigman.
Additional involvement by UCLA Architecture & Urban Design
in Dubai, A Vintage Bollywood Collection - Tatla Gallery, Bidoun Projects, Art
Asia Pacific Magazine, Goethe Institute, UAE and Hannah Hertzig, a UAE Pavilion
artist for the 53rd Venice Biennale.
With the generous support of Dubai
Culture and Arts Authority, and in partnership with S*uce, Eon, The Art
Newspaper, Contemporary Practices, Hia magazine, 7Days, Dubai Eye, Brownbook
magazine, Wilson Griffin and The Fridge.
XVA Gallery, 15a Al
Bastakiya, Bur Dubai +971 (0) 4 353 5383
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