Art Jameel, the non-profit organisation supporting arts and education initiatives in the Middle East, has announced it will be opening a permanent arts centre in Dubai in 2018. The Jameel Arts Centre Dubai – a 10,000 square metre space designed by UK-based firm Serie Architects at the tip of Dubai’s Culture Village – will present exhibitions drawing from the Jameel Art Collection as well as welcome regional and international shows. The space will also function as a hub for educational and research initiatives, and include events spaces and an outdoor sculpture area. The centre is currently developing an advisory team of curator for its programming, which so far includes Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, New York, and Murtaza Vali, curator and writer based between Sharjah and New York.
Art Jameel has also announced they are entering in a long-term partnership with the Met in New York in establishing the Art Jameel Fund, which will help the museum acquire works by modern and contemporary artists from the Middle East, but also fund global contemporary programming, and the Arabic translation of educational resources.
Ahead of the opening of its arts centre, the organisation has opened a temporary Project Space in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, currently showing a work by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.
16 March 2017
