Selective group exhibition by the members of three associations of societies of Architecture, Fine Arts and Applied Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina traditionally opened on April 6, the day of liberation of Sarajevo in 1945. This year’s exhibition commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the recent siege of Sarajevo.
Anual awards for various categories of artistic and creative work are announced on this occasion and I am proud say that my work “The Fabric of al Bastakiya” has received the award for best new media work.
Today I am very very HAPPY 🙂
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From more than 100 applicants my proposal for the interactive installation titled: The Fabric of al Bastakiya has been commissioned for production as a part of SIKKA Art Fair 2012, March 15-25 @ Dubai Heritage Area – al Bastakiya.
Here you can see a short excerpt from the video documentation: vimeo
The 2012 Selection Committee members were:
Ebtisam Abdul Aziz, Artist
Rami Farook, Curator, Publisher and Director of Traffic
Khalid Al Najjar, Architect and Founder of dxb.lab
with
Antonia Carver, Fair Director at Art Dubai
Salem Belyouha, Projects and Events Director at Dubai Culture
With my photographic work I am participating in an exhibition Mawtini in Dubai’s Tashkeel Gallery in Nad al Sheba. Tashkeel
Open Home
House on the Hill
Catalog cover
up side down catalog spread
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest” – Robert Montgomery
We are living in an increasingly complex world in which barriers and borders are being broken down and where conventional concepts of “homeland” and “belonging” are being challenged. This is of particular relevance in the United Arab Emirates, where almost 80% of the population is living away from their so-called home country, and yet for so many of these people, this is truly “home”.
Tashkeel invites you to the opening reception of the group show
Mawtini
(My home)
Selected works from a themed open call by 21 UAE based artists .
ِِAlaa Kahel
Alia Lootah
Ammar Al Attar
Bela Bhatt
Carrie Brummer
Christiana De Marchi
Debjani Bhardwaj
Fatma Al Mulla
Hamad Al Falasi
Hind Demithan
Maialen Dissard
Martin Budny
Naz Shahrokh
Nivedita Saha
Rasha Dakkak
Reem Falaknaz
Saba Qisilbash
Sam Faix
Shamma Al Amri
Tonya Sweet
Zlatan Filipovic
Opening reception, 7pm, Tuesday 13 of March 2012
Exhibition runs from 13 March 2012 to 30 April 2012
Location: Intersection street 5 and 20, Nad Al Sheba 1, Dubai
يتشرف تشكيل بدعوتكم لحضور افتتاح المعرض الجماعي
موطني
أعمال فنية مختارة مستوحاه من موضوع المعرض لــ 21 فنان مقيم بالإمارات
To mark the occasion of March 1st, the independence day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a group exhibition by the artists who took part in the 47th session of the Artist Residence program in Pocitelj (June 2011) opened in the Gallery Roman Petrovic in Sarajevo. It is organized by the Society of Fine Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina and will continue to tour in BiH.
As an accredited film professional @ SFF I had an opportunity to see Panorama program films curated by Howard Feinstein, film critic and its programmer. This time around he prepared a special tribute to Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) and presented a selection of her beautiful film works. Specially organized Q&A sessions enabled for an open conversation and friendly suggestions/recommendations by the filmmaker herself to the Sarajevo audience in the Meeting Point Cinema. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551506/
The International Art Colony Pocitelj was established in 1964. The Association of Visual Artists of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the owner and founder of the Art Colony Pocitelj. Within the scope of its work, the Colony gathers artists from the whole country as well as from all over the world. In the area of an extraordinary beauty, miraculous environment and non-everyday creative atmosphere, the artists-painters, sculptors and print-makers get together, exchange experiences and make contacts.
The Colony had been devastated during the war (1992-1995), but with great efforts of the AVAB&H and understanding of the Government of the Federation of B&H it was renewed in 2003. Every first Sunday in the month of June artists and devotee of Pocitelj gather in the Colony Pocitelj at the traditional manifestation ”Cherry Sunday”. Throughout the year the Association organizes working colonies, which is of a great interest to the artists from all over the world.
