The long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, situated on Saadiyat Island, will open on 11 December, introduced the Division of Tradition and Tourism-Abu Dhabi in the present day. Plans for the brand new mega museum have been initially unveiled in 2006; the fee is undisclosed.
Designed by the late US architect Frank Gehry, the brand new museum is ready to be the biggest of the Guggenheim museum community, which incorporates areas in Venice and Bilbao alongside the unique museum in New York. It sits on a promontory a brief stroll from the Louvre Abu Dhabi which opened in 2017. Different museums on the island embody the Zayed Nationwide Museum and the Pure Historical past Museum Abu Dhabi.
“Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a museum of contemporary and modern artwork that connects cultures, evokes folks, and celebrates artwork from the Nineteen Sixties to the current, with a give attention to West Asia, North Africa, South Asia, and the broader area,” says a press release.
The museum homes 30 galleries in complete, encompassing 11,600 sq. m of inside gallery area and 23,000 sq. m of out of doors exhibition areas.
“Company might be invited to interact with artwork on their very own phrases, shaping particular person pathways by way of galleries that contemplate main vectors of artwork since 1960, akin to Abstractions, Standard Tradition, Land, Language, and Storytelling,” the assertion provides.
In a earlier interview, Stephanie Rosenthal, the director of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, pledged to make the museum “some of the progressive establishments of the twenty first century.”
On LinkedIn in the present day, she provides: “Our group has advanced into some of the remarkably various teams I’ve ever labored with, bringing collectively distinctive cultures, disciplines, and views. Collectively, we now have navigated advanced challenges, tailored to fixed change, and reached extraordinary milestones.”
The museum launch is ready in opposition to turmoil within the Center East amidst the US-Israel conflict in Iran, which noticed a postponed and tailored version of Artwork Dubai in Could following Iranian retaliatory strikes on US allies within the Gulf. The premiere of Frieze Abu Dhabi remains to be scheduled for November 2026.
