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Envisioning the present

Just before the opening of UAE Unlimited’s third edition, Bayn: The In-Between, at Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi, Nadine Khalil sits down with the curator, Munira Al Sayegh. By: Nadine Khalil. Canvas. If you go to the old commercial port of Abu Dhabi, in the Mina Zayed area, you’ll notice that all the pastel-coloured industrial warehouses look like […]
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Bayn: the In-Between

Bayn: the In-Between, U.A.E. Unlimited’s third exhibition Source: Al Tashkeel The organisation of the exhibition Bayn: The In-Between comes within the framework of U.A.E. Unlimited’s commitment to support and highlight the creations of young Emiratis and residents of the state. The exhibition provides a platform for showcasing artworks created by young people¨ including audio-visual works designed to […]
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Transform your world: the changing landscape of the UAE in art

Transform your world: the changing landscape of the UAE in art By: Anna Seaman. The National. Munira Al Sayegh describes the rapid transformations the UAE has undergone and its constantly changing social and physical states, as “the in-between”. A curator and programme officer at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, she has worked with eight emerging artists […]
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Curator in Focus

Curator in Focus By: Munira Al Sayegh. Artmap. Central to Emirati curator Munira Al Sayegh’s practice is the multinational nature of the UAE. Her Abu Dhabi childhood was characterised by a curiosity towards everyone around her, “how we all fit into this puzzle,” she explains, “and how to look at change critically, from an anthropological […]
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Bayn art exhibition opens

Bayn art exhibition opens Source: WAM (Emirates News Agency) ABU DHABI, 5th March 2017 (WAM) – UAE. Bayn: the In-Between, The third exhibition organised by UAE Unlimited, opened on 25th February in Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi . The opening ceremony was led by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, founder of UAE Unlimited […]
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Sharjah show looks at immigration in a land of migrants

Al Haraka Baraka at the Maraya Art Centre examines the UAE as melting pot. By: Kevin Jones. The Art Newspaper. As the world grapples with waves of migrants and the resulting refugee crisis, a sharp-spirited non-profit art space in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, has curated a thoughtful show on immigration from the vantage […]
9 years ago

Art Dubai: happiness and human rights

This year’s art fair featured a surprisingly pointed critique of labour conditions by: Rachel Spence. The Financial Times In a letter to his sister in 1970, the American poet George Oppen wrote: “The issue is happiness, there is no other issue … to think about politically.” Oppen, who was a communist, might have been surprised […]
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Transience and Blessing

A new exhibition at Maraya Art Centre staged in partnership with Unlimited Arab Exploration explores through art the fleeting nature of life in the UAE, says Patrick Martin Lichty By: Patrick Martin Lichty. Harpers Bazaar Arabia. Al Haraka Baraka, or In Movement There is Blessing, refers to the phenomenon that the UAE, and the Trucial States before it, has been a […]
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Sheikha Bodour attends Al Baraka Baraka

It’s wonderful to see Emirati artists voice their experiences through art: Sheikha Bodour Source: WAM (Emirates News Agency) The exhibition, themed “In Movement there is Blessing,” is being held in collaboration with the “UAE Unlimited Arab Exploration” initiative that seeks to nurture and support emerging local talent, and will run until April 30th. Curated by […]
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New perspectives into UAE’s ‘cultural mix’

Artists at ‘Al Haraka Baraka: In Movement There is Blessing’ exhibition represent the current expression of contemporary art in the Emirates By: N.P. Krishna Kumar. Gulf News. “Can we be both nostalgic for the past and optimistic for the future?” asks curator Dr Alexandra MacGilp. Al Haraka Baraka: In Movement There is Blessing showcases works by […]
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