Barjeel Art Foundation
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| Established | 2010 |
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| Location | Level Two Maraya Art Centre Al Qasba, Sharjah, UAE +971 6 556 6555 Sat. – Thurs.: 10 am – 10 pm Fri.: 4 pm – 10 pm |
| Coordinates | 25°19'18.7"N 55°22'35.4"E |
| Founder | Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi |
| Curator | Mandy Merzaban, Karim Sultan, Suheyla Takesh |
| Public transit access | Sharjah Sightseeing Bus |
| Website | http://www.barjeelartfoundation.org |
The Barjeel Art Foundation is a museum and cultural institution located in the United Arab Emirates with a mandate to manage, preserve and exhibit the personal art collection of Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi. The Foundation serves as a resource for Arab modern and contemporary art and hosts exhibitions and lends artwork to international institutions such as Serralves Foundation (Portugal) and the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), while also serving as an educational vehicle for local and international art communities. The foundation has shown works that highlight the value of heritage, family, structure and history and how it is translated in the context of globalisation. Other works examine life in the Diaspora, the desire to create an identity or recapture a history that has become lost or scattered.
Barjeel Art Foundation initiates, supports and presents artistic projects all over the world. Through curated exhibitions of the collection, loans to leading institutions and international forums such as Whitechapel Gallery, and Art Dubai, as well as various efforts to support educational activities by contributing to the image archives of Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab World (MEMAAW), organizing panel discussions and student tours, the foundation aims to create a public platform for critical debate around the contemporary art practice of artists with Arab heritage.
Consisting of over 1000 pieces of modern and contemporary art from Arab artists, the foundation is the most comprehensive publicly accessible art collection in the Middle East. It operates from a permanent base in the Maraya Art Centre in Al Qasba, Sharjah. The Al Qasba complex was designed and executed by the Halcrow Group, which was acquired by CH2M Hill in 2011. Al Qasba opened to the public in 2005.
Mahmoud Said (Egypt): Recto - “Village”, Verso - “Paysage Marin”, 1923
Khalil Gibran (Lebanon): Standing Figure and Child, undated
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