The ADACH Platform for Visual Arts in Venice will be designed as a meeting point for discourse and artistic production. ... A dynamic dispositif of presentations and exchanges will introduce, through a visual narrative, the conditions in which contemporary culture and visual art are emerging in Abu Dhabi / UAE today. These conditions are mainly an amazing urban development framework, a multi-ethnic and multi-national population inventing new lifestyles, a reorganization of the region and its economical and geo-political dynamics and exchanges with the world, and development process engaged with an unprecedented phenomenon of time acceleration.

Participants

Ebtisam Abdul Aziz
*1975 Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.

Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim
* 1962 Khorfakkan, United Arab Emirates.

Mohammed Kazem
* 1969 Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Ahmed Mater
* 1979 Tabouk, Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah Al Saadi
* 1967 Khorfakkan, United Arab Emirates.

Hassan Sharif
1951 - 2016 Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Sami Al Turki
* 1984 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Lives in Dubai, UAE.

Philippe Chancel
Photographer. * 1959 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.

Dr. Abdul Rahman Makhlouf
Former Chief Planner for Abu Dhabi.

Kaiwan Mehta
Architect. Lives in Mumbai, India.

Waël Noureddine
Writer, journalist, poet. * 1978 Lebanon.

Donuts
Graphic design; Brussels, Belgium

Juan Lucas Young and Carlos Alarcon Allen
Sauerbruch Huttons architects; Berlin, Germany

Organizers and producers:
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH)