Preparations are underway for the Jameel Arts Centre located in Dubai, which will prevail as a new extensive art institute that features gifted artists from across the globe. The Art Centre will be positioned at the apex of Dubai’s Culture Village, looking over the Dubai Creek, where it will accommodate more than 1,000 square meters of gallery space in addition to an outside sculpture area, a roof terrace, a restaurant, a book store and a cafe. The Arts Centre is scheduled to open in 2018, and will have work of art from its own Jameel Art Collection as well as individual & group presentations that offer opportune collaborations with artists from all corners of the world; be it regional or internationally based.
The building’s design (carefully contrived by a UK-based company) was devised as a sequence of box shaped structures linked through a one-story high waterfront portico. A string of courtyards situated amidst the complex and the portico provide room for patrons of the art the opportunity to relax in leisure between galleries, at the same time the portico alone acts as a social spot that aims to exhilarate the property’s breathtaking waterfront. In addition, each courtyard is to be landscaped into an embodiment of a specific desert, together with unique plants culled from all over the world.
This sublime non-profit contemporary art scene emanates from Art Jameel, which is an institute that preserves Arts & Culture throughout The Middle East. And the new Arts Centre is not their only revelation, Art Jameel has also announced a continual partnership which will allow the gallery permission in procuring works by Middle Eastern contemporary artists.
Prior to the opening of the Arts Centre, Art Jameel has launched an interim Project Space located in Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, where there investiture exhibition showcases a five-channel video by artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme.
For more information visit: ArtJameel.org or this Guide to Dubai’s Jameel Art Centre
