Culture & Education | Tuesday 31 March, 2015 8:40 am |

Barjeel Art Foundation is pleased to be collaborating with the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto on an exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of Barjeel Art Foundation. The exhibition will run from July 25 until November 29, 2015 on the premises of the newly opened Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. The announcement of this collaboration was by the director of the Aga Khan Museum, Henry Kim together with the founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi during a Terrace Talk at Art Dubai.

Commenting on the exhibition, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi has said, "We are very pleased to be working with the Aga Khan Museum on our first show in North America. It is a great opportunity to showcase the creativity of artists in the region to a wider, international audience."

Barjeel Art Foundation is an independent, United Arab Emirates-based initiative established to manage, preserve and exhibit the personal art collection of Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, a museum devoted to the arts of the Islamic world, which has opened in 2014.
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About Barjeel Art Foundation
Barjeel Art Foundation is an independent, United Arab Emirates-based initiative established to manage, preserve and exhibit the personal art collection of Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi.

The foundation’s guiding principle is to contribute to the intellectual development of the art scene in the Gulf region by building a prominent, publicly accessible art collection in the UAE. Part of this objective involves developing a public platform to foster critical dialogue around modern and contemporary art, with a focus on artists with Arab heritage internationally.
By hosting in-house exhibitions, lending artwork to international forums, producing print as well as online publications, and fashioning interactive public programmes, the Barjeel Art Foundation strives to serve as an informative resource for modern and contemporary art locally and on the global stage.