Wednesday 7 March – Artists Focus
10:30 – 12:00 Art and Dubai Think Tank (by invitation only)
Artists’ interviews
2.30 – 3.00 – Otto Piene, Artist, Dusseldorf, Germany
with Daniel Birnbaum Director of the Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
3.00 – 3.30 - Kader Attia, Artist, Paris, France
with Jerome Sans, Director of Program, Baltic, Gateshead, United Kingdom
3.30 – 4.00 Jan Faber, Artist, Brussels, Belgium,
with Daniel Birnbaum Director of the Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
4.00 – 4.30 Erwin Wurm, Artist, Vienna, Austria
with Michelle Nicol, Curator, co-founder, Glamour Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
4.30 – 5.00 Wim Delvoy, Artist, Brussels, Belgium
with Vasif Kortun, Curator, Director Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey
Working with Artists
5.00 – 5.30 - Collectors, Art Consultants and Philanthropists – Panel Discussion
Judith Greer, Art Collector, London, United Kingdom
Mon Mullerschoen, Art Consultant, Munich, Germany
Charles Asprey, Curator and collector, Charles Asprey Award for Palestinian Art, London, England
Moderator – Maria Finders, Conference Curator, Director Europe, Brunswick Arts, Paris, France
5.30 – 6.30 – The Serpentine Gallery as a laboratory – Presentations and Conversation
Julia Peyton Jones – Director, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Serpentine Gallery, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, London, United Kingdom
Thursday 8 March – Middle East Focus
10:30 – 12:00 The Next Ten Years of Contemporary Art in the Middle East - Presentations and Panel Discussion
Saleh Barakat, Art Expert, Beirut, Lebanon
Camilla Cañellas, Writer, Critic, Curator, Barcelona, Spain
Bassam El-Baroni, Art Critic Curator, Egypt
Hassan Khan, Editor, Bidoun, Cairo, Egypt
Jack Persekian - Director Sharjah Biennial, Curator, Founder and director of Anadiel Gallery and Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
Tirdad Zolghadr, Curator, Zurich, Switzerland
Moderator: Vasif Kortun – Curator, Director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, Turkey
Open stage for the Middle East
2.30-3.30 – Sharjah Biennial 8
3.30 – 4.00 – Jitish Kallat, Artist Mumbai, India
Anita Dube, Artist New Deli, India
Moderator - Savita Apte, Curator, Writer, Head of Education, DIFC Gulf Art Fair
4.00 – 4.30 – Haluk Akakce, Artist, Istanbul, Turkey
4.30 – 5.00- Solmaz Shabazi, Artist, Theran, Iran, and Berlin, Germany
5.00 – 5.30 – Platform Garanti
5.30 – 6.00- Asma M’Naouar, Artist, Tunis, Tunisia and Manisha Parekh, Artist, New Delhi, India
6.00 – 6.30 - Jalal Toufic, writer, film theorist, and video artist, Beirut, Lebanon
with Hans Ulrich Obrist - Serpentine Gallery, Co-director of Exhibitions and Programs and Director of International Projects, London, United Kingdom
Friday 9 March – Art Cities Focus
10:30 -12:00 Branding Cities through Culture - Presentations and Panel discussion
Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Editor, Arts Manager, Cultural Consultant, Dubai, UAE
David Barri, Director, The Art Fund, London, United Kingdom
Jan Dalley, Arts Writer, Financial Times, London, United Kingdom
Donna De Salvo, Chief Curator and Associate Director for Programs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, N.Y., United States
Kameran Diba, Architect, Tehran, Iran
Dana Farouki, Special Coordinator for the Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi, Management committee DIFC Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, UAE
Jean-Hubert Martin, Curator, Direction des Musée de France, Paris, France
Otto Piene, Artist, Dusseldorf, Germany
Alireza Sami Azar, Curator, writer, former director of Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
Andrée Sfeir-Semler, Director Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg and Beirut, Lebanon
Moderator - Daniel Birnbaum Director of the Städelschule Art Academy and Portikus Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany
2.30 – 3.15 – Building Future Art Cities – Presentations and Panel discussion
Nadim Karam, Artist and Architect, Beirut, Lebanon
Andreas Angelidakis , Architecture and Digital Design, Athens, Greece
Farshid Woussavi, Architect, Foreign Office Architects, London, United Kingdom
Langlands & Bell, Architects and Designers, London, Kingdom
3.15 – 4.30 World Art Cities, Cario, Mumbai, Paris, New York, Beijing - Presentations and Panel discussion
Cairo – William Wells, Director, The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Mumbai – Savita Apte, Curator, director Education, DIFC Gulf Art Fair, Mumbai, India
Paris – Jill Silverman, partner Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
New York – Bob Monk, Director, Gagosian Gallery, New York City, N.Y., United States
Beijing – Lance Fung, Curator, art dealer, Artistic Director, Site Santa Fe 2008, New York City, N.Y United Sates
Moderator – Maria Finders, Conference Curator, Director Europe, Brunswick Arts, Paris, France