Museum Of Middle Eastern Modern Art // Dubai // UNStudio
Dutch architects UNStudio revealed images of a planned arts and retail complex in Dubai, UAE, to include the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art. The 25,000 square metre project will house a number of museums, including the Museum of Middle Eastern Art, as well as performance areas, a hotel, and a shopping centre. The complex will form part of Dubai’s ‘Culture Village’ with construction expected to be completed in 2011.
//The following is from UNStudio:
MOMEMA: first part of a new cultural hub in Dubai
Plans are in progress for a Museum of Middle East Modern Art (MOMEMA). At the basis of the Museum is the strategic vision of making the UAE a hub for multicultural understanding.
The museum will be a celebration of the importance of Khor Dubai (Dubai Creek) as a new cultural hub within Dubai as a global city. This new cultural hub, the so-called Culture Village, will be located on 40 million square feet of land in the historic district of Jadaf.
In addition to the Museum of Middle East Modern Art, this landmark project will include an amphitheatre for live performances and international cultural festivals, an exhibition hall and smaller museums displaying local and international art, as well as a shipyard for traditional dhow builders. It will also include residential, commercial and retail zones.
It is envisaged that MOMEMA will hold a variety of spaces to exhibit Arts and Culture such as exhibitions, art galleries, leasable workshop spaces, auditorium, and amphitheatre for live performances and international festivals.
In addition, MOMEMA offers a boutique hotel with 60 keys and a boutique retail promenade on the active Culture Village waterfront, as well as a high end signature restaurant on the top level, with 360 degree views of Dubai Creek.
The Museum of Middle East Modern Art was launched in June by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. UNStudio, based in The Netherlands, has been selected to design the Museum.
Ben van Berkel, the co-founder and Principal Architect of UNStudio is an experienced designer of museums and a variety of public projects.
//Ben van Berkel about the Museum of Middle Eastern Modern Art:
‘In MOMEMA Dubai we recognize the opportunity to create an entirely new type of museum, which consists of a vibrant urban centre, where professionals, collectors and public meet each other. In this way, MOMEMA will be a community-building institution within the city, and offer to both visitors and residents a continuously changing palette of experiences and events.’
‘The building is positioned to take full advantage of the prominent location in the Culture Village. With its Dhow-like prow rising up, the building offers panoramic views to the surroundings, and vice versa.’
‘Inside, the design of this new museum stimulates contemplation, but by other means than enforcing a restricted optical field. There are no abrupt transitions. The space (the time) you have left behind is undividedly part of the space you are in now, is part of your ecological field, is still perceptible, still surrounding you; the art contained in those spaces follows this principle. Formats, mediums, and times can be effortlessly arranged together and rearranged. There are never too many people; this museum thrives on audiences, vernissages, and spectacle. In the MOMEMA, public, event, art and business meet each other and feed on each other.’
The museum will cover an area of 25,000 square meters and is expected to be completed in January 2011.
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[...] When I arrived in Dubai in May, and checked into one of the best hotels Dubai UAE offers, which says a lot for Dubai, anyway it was during the final week of the Sharjah Biennale, so I didn’t get to see or participate much. But, it seems to have been the key year to be there, because Dubai finally held its first international Art Festival and a Fringe Fair. Abu Dhabi, not to be outdone, also followed up with the Art Paris-Abu Dhabi later that year. So many art Galleries started up, they were becoming prolific to where three distinctive art districts emerged in Dubai. There’s now a plan for a Museum of Modern Middle Eastern Art. [...]
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