Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath to Curate the National Pavilion UAE at Venice Biennale 2019
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Independent curators and academics Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have been selected to curate the UAE’s National Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.Bardaouil and Fellrath are the Founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented in MuSam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath to Curate the National Pavilion UAE at Venice Biennale 2019
Independent curators and academics Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have been selected to curate the UAE’s National Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale.Bardaouil and Fellrath are the Founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented in Munich and New York, Chairmen of the Montblanc Cultural Foundation in Hamburg, and Affiliate Curators at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.The duo has jointly curated numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions at renowned museums and institutions worldwide, and have held teaching positions at universities including the London School of Economics and New York University.“The National Pavilion UAE’s exhibition connects local and global cultural conversations. Through their extensive professional experience in the region, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have already contributed to the nuanced conversations defining the UAE’s contemporary art scene. We look forward to sharing their unique perspective with the Biennale’s global audiences through an engaging, creative, and insightful exhibition,” says Khulood Al Atiyat, Manager of Arts, Culture and Heritage at the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, commissioner of the National Pavilion UAE.“The UAE has a distinctive contemporary art scene consisting of a heterogeneous range of artists and cultural practitioners,” comment the curators, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath. “Through our work in the region, we have met some remarkable artists who are responding in intriguing and creative ways to a rapidly evolving multicultural society. For this sixth edition of the Pavilion, we will follow a new curatorial approach that will highlight some previously unexplored multidisciplinary strands within the UAE’s diverse cultural landscape.”In the past 10 years, Bardaouil and Fellrath have curated exhibitions including “Art et Liberte: Rupture, War, and Surrealism in Egypt (1938 – 1948),” “When Process Becomes Form: Dansaekhwa and Korean Abstraction,” “Staging Film,” “Tea with Nefertiti and Mona Hatoum: Turbulence,” as well as the Lebanese Pavilion for the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.The National Pavilion UAE is commissioned by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development. The UAE has participated in the International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale since 2009 and maintains a permanent pavilion in the Arsenale – Sale d’Armi.The 58th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will take place from May 11 to November 24, 2019, and will bring together more than 80 National Pavilions.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more