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SPRING OF CULTURE
2018
The 13th edition of the much-loved annual festival has announced a line-up that has every one of us buzzing! A variety of acts from all over the world alongside the best of the local cultural landscape will take to a range of stages and venues to share unbelievable performances. Here, we’ve picked our favourite events hosted during Spring of Culture to make a note of…
Life Journey An Exhibition By Fereshte Shishine DATE: CURRENT – MAY 8 TIME: TUESDAY – SUNDAY, 10AM – 6.30PM VENUE: LA FONTAINE CENTRE OF CONTEMPORARY ART TYPE: EXHIBITION COUNTRY: SWITZERLAND An accomplished artist, Fereshte Shishine paintings are easily recognized by her deep appreciation for color composition, sharp focus on light, and most importantly, her unique attention to particular details. A common characteristic of nearly all her paintings is the accidental presence of draperies and delicately knitted fabrics somewhere on the canvas. She enjoys the very detailed work of, the poetry and intricacy of Persian miniatures.
Al-Fann Art From The Islamic Civilization From The Al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait DATE: CURRENT – JUNE 30 TIME: 8AM – 8PM VENUE: BAHRAIN NATIONAL MUSEUM TYPE: EXHIBITION COUNTRY: KUWAIT Explore the great and multifaceted nature of Islamic culture through the spectacular al-Sabah collection of Islamic Art. Broadly divided into two parts, the display illustrates a chronological progression broken into four stages (from the very beginning of the Islamic period up to and including the three great empires of the sixteenth century) and tackles themes that run transversely through Islamic art; mainly, calligraphy, geometric decoration, vegetal, figurative art and jewellery.
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Weaves From Ashes DATE: MARCH 6 – 30 TIME: SATURDAY – THURSDAY: 10AM – 2PM & 4PM – 8PM VENUE: ALBAREH ART GALLERY TYPE: EXHIBITION COUNTRY: BAHRAIN Faika Al Hasan’s new paintings remain thematically faithful, characteristic of her ongoing examination of the human condition. Drawing upon the nostalgia for the raw unbleached cotton used for the bedding of her childhood, she adopts fabric as a visual trope. In black and white, this exhibition is a meditation on the role that fabric plays in one’s life: as clothing offering modesty and protection, as a container holding one’s possessions as one flees hardship to make a new life elsewhere, where once unpacked, the fabrics come out to make a new home.
This Compass Will Always Point to Palestine DATE: MARCH 7 – 31 TIME: DAILY 8AM – 8PM VENUE: ART CENTRE TYPE: EXHIBITION COUNTRY: BAHRAIN AGE: 8 YEARS & ABOVE The exhibition sheds light on Jerusalem - the permanent Capital of Islamic Culture - and features works of iconic cartoonist Naji Al Ali. The works of the late Palestinian artist will be on display for the first time in Bahrain presenting topics of the occupation of Palestine and Jerusalem in a series of cartoons that Al Ali produced since his early career and until his assassination in 1987.