Charity art exhibition opens Sept. 21 at CAP Kuwait

Dear friends, 

You are invited to the charity art exhibition "Talk Love... Act Peace" opening on Sunday, September 21 from 6:30-9:30pm. A number of AUK students and faculty, including Najd Al Taher, Sundos Al Bulushi, Prof. George Bauer,  Prof. Maryam Hosseinnia and myself will be exhibiting artwork (see below for more info). The show will also be up for two weeks if you miss the opening night!

Hope to see you at the exhibit!

Don't miss this!

"Muhawwil" is a four-channel video installation based on Islamic figurative murals painted on electric power stations in Kuwait. These murals mark a transformation in religious discourse within Gulf societies: where once only calligraphic depictions of this nature were allowed, today’s pop-culture and mass-production of images have forced conservative entities to reconsider this tradition and take up a mutated technique to convey moral advice - wall paintings. This project reconstructs these paintings into animation, so as to highlight the dilemma of representation that exists between the ancient and the modern.

This project was produced with the support of The Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC).

About the artist:

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts. Her research is focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East, and her works explore the dysfunctional gender roles in Arab societies, as well as the displacement of cultural and religious identities. She has held solo exhibitions in Japan & Kuwait, and participated in collective exhibitions and screenings in Dubai, Beirut, New York, London, Berlin, Paris & Shanghai among others. She is also a member of the artist collective GCC.

For more information please go to:

 www.moniraalqadiri.com 

Gallery opening hours:

Opening 21st January 7-9pm

22nd until 28th January 6-9pm

(closed on Friday & Saturday)

AUK Exhibition opens May 20, 6-8pm

You are all cordially invited to attend the reception for our 2013 Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition. Please see our poster below. The exhibitions, representing the largest number of Capstone exhibitors we have ever had in one exhibition, will fill both the Auditorium and the Multipurpose Room. The reception is next Monday evening, the 20th of May, from 6 to 8 pm, beginning with a ribbon-cutting in the Auditorium, then a ribbon-cutting at the Multipurpose Room.  The exhibition will be open to the public from May 21-23, from 10 am to 7 pm. 

AUK Annual Student Art Exhibit: 9am-7pm, April 14-18

AUK Annual Student Art Exhibit NOW open from 9am-7pm, April 14-18, in the AUK auditorium!

Open call for GCC artists (of Arabic origin)

Open call for GCC artists; Ayyam Gallery First competition in region! Spread the word!!

Ayyam Gallery Looking for GCC 's Kunooz!

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For all ambitious artists, do not miss the oppertunity by Ayyam Gallery! After the enormous success this comeptation made, bringing out the ‘hidden gems’ of talented Arab artists, Ayyam Gallery presents it’s first Pan-GCC Shabab Ayyam New Media…

A good review of the art scene in Kuwait for 2012

Abdulaziz Al-Humaidhi's work from “Out of Kuwait” at the Museum of Modern Art

A very good review of the art scene in Kuwait:

Kuwait: Top 10 Art Projects and Exhibitions in 2012 Posted: 29 Dec 2012 01:00 AM PST It is the 2nd annual selection of the best art exhibitions and events in Kuwait (see the previous one). If in 2011 it was important to see and try to feature all art events in Kuwait, in 2012 we had an aim to distinguish the quality of the presented art as well as the idea of the exhibition itself, that’s why less photo coverages were done even if the quantity of art events has increased. From ART KUWAIT

lecture by Antoni Muntadas, Artist and Professor of Practice - MIT, Dec. 30, 7pm

Muntdas, On Translation: El Aplauso, Bogota, 1990 
Courtesy of the artist

The National Council for Culture, Art, and Letters welcomes you to join us for the soft-launch of our lecture series, Al thuluth Al akheer.

Date: Sunday December 30thTime: 7:00pm
Location: Qibliya (directions pasted below)
Speaker: Antoni Muntadas, Artist and Professor of Practice - MIT

Moderator(s): Alia Farid Abdal + Zahra Ali Baba

Introduction by: Abdullah Al Harmi

Projects and Protocols: Conventions on Art and Technology

Muntadas’ work addresses social, political and communications issues concerning the relationship between public and private space within specific social frameworks, and investigates channels of information and the ways these may be used to extinguish or promulgate ideas. His projects are presented in different media such as photography, video, publications, the Internet, installations, and urban interventions. Muntadas has received numerous awards and grants, and his work has been exhibited extensively; at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musée d’Art Contemporaine, Montreal; Berkeley Art Museum; the Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil; the VI and X editions of documenta, Kassel; the Whitney Biennial of American Art, New York; and the 51st Venice Biennial. More recent shows include his exhibition at NCCA in Moscow, Russia, at the The Bronx Museum in New York, and a retrospective, Muntadas: Entre/Between, which culminated last March at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Please join us for a presentation by the artist (visiting Kuwait for the first time) followed by a discussion on the importance of developing cultural infrastructures inside hegemonic order. 

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DRESS CODE PROJECT opens Nov. 21, 7-9pm

DRESS CODE PROJECT. 

Group exhibition, curated by Amel Makkawi and Martina Corgnati. 

Exhibition Dates: November 21st - December 21st

Opening reception: 7:00 - 9:30 pm

Artists: Ahmed Al Bahrani, Fadi Yazigi, Fatma Bucak, Ghassan Ghaib, Mahmoud Al Obaidi, Marya Kazoun, Nayza H. Khan, Nermine Hammam, Rachida Azadaou, Samta Benyahia, Sumayyah Al Suwaidi, Zena Assi and Issam Barhouch.

About the exhibition:

"...We must not imagine that “art work in form of dress” has resulted in the production of wearable objects that reflect the pattern of “Dress Code”. This pattern, for the participants, was simply a memory, an empty container, an elastic theme. Their works, indeed, cover all the techniques and forms of expression: from collage to multimedia, from video to photography to installation ... to “dresses”, but not conceived to be wearable. The protagonist of “Dress Code” are twelve: all together they cover a vast area of cultures and countries, extended from Algeria to Pakistan and from Turkey to Egypt to the Emirates, via Syria, Lebanon and Iraq."

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Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri's 'A Legacy of Corruption Confronted'

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From the incredible Monira Al Qadiri!

Kuwait: A Legacy of Corruption Confronted - Creative Time Reports

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DispatchKuwait: A Legacy of Corruption ConfrontedByMonira Al QadiriKuwait City, KuwaitOctober 15, 2012TweetEmailFollowing last week’s dissolution of Kuwait’s parliament, thethird in less than a year,a former MP announced yesterdaythat more details about a longtime bribery scandal will be disclosed. ...

behind the scenes of our post-nuclear apocalypse film set in Korea...

We started shooting our post-nuclear apocalypse film, YEOK, on Monday night, August 6 (the same day that in 1945 the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan - we did not plan this, just a weird coincidence). As a thunderstorm rolled in, we began shooting. Here are a few of my photos of behind the scenes footage (for more photos and a video click HERE). Enjoy!

video welcome at artist residency, Gwangju, South Korea

Finally made it to Gwangju (kind of magically on 7-7-at 7pm) and moved into the Mite-Ugro artist residency later that night. Check out this video of the art directors Seungki Cho and Mingon Oh welcome me to the gallery: (watch video)

Mr. "O"