• The co-sponsor of the Qasr Al Hosn Festival and the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the foundation hopes that its latest venture will act as a grass-roots “cultural destination” for the capital. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
    The co-sponsor of the Qasr Al Hosn Festival and the UAE National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the foundation hopes that its latest venture will act as a grass-roots “cultural destination” for the capital. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
  • At 95 per cent complete, the warehouse is still a work in progress, but on November 19 it will open to the public with a three-day festival, Explore Your World. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
    At 95 per cent complete, the warehouse is still a work in progress, but on November 19 it will open to the public with a three-day festival, Explore Your World. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
  • The festival will include nightly performances by international musicians including the Grammy Award-winners Tuareg group Tinariwen, public workshops, a “creative market” housed in a series of converted shipping containers outside the warehouse and a temporary food market. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
    The festival will include nightly performances by international musicians including the Grammy Award-winners Tuareg group Tinariwen, public workshops, a “creative market” housed in a series of converted shipping containers outside the warehouse and a temporary food market. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
  • The warehouse itself will act as a gallery, featuring four temporary exhibitions including Lest We Forget: Emirati Family Photographs 1950-1999 and Mina Zayed: Through the Lens of Jack Burlot, a photographic exhibition thast will take visitors through a day in the lives of the people of Mina Zayed as captured by the French photographer on a visit he made to Abu Dhabi in 1974. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
    The warehouse itself will act as a gallery, featuring four temporary exhibitions including Lest We Forget: Emirati Family Photographs 1950-1999 and Mina Zayed: Through the Lens of Jack Burlot, a photographic exhibition thast will take visitors through a day in the lives of the people of Mina Zayed as captured by the French photographer on a visit he made to Abu Dhabi in 1974. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
  • Once the festival and its first phase of exhibitions have ended, Warehouse421 will host a rolling programme of exhibitions, public workshops, lectures and other events that the Foundation hopes will keep drawing people to Mina. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
    Once the festival and its first phase of exhibitions have ended, Warehouse421 will host a rolling programme of exhibitions, public workshops, lectures and other events that the Foundation hopes will keep drawing people to Mina. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National
  • The plans for Warehouse421 will respond to the needs of Abu Dhabi’s public. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National Section: Arts & Life
    The plans for Warehouse421 will respond to the needs of Abu Dhabi’s public. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National Section: Arts & Life

Warehouse421 in Al Mina prepares for its opening – in pictures

Fatima Al Marzouqi

October 13, 2015

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A converted warehouse that sits on one side of a small new urban plaza, Warehouse421 is the latest project from the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation, the Abu Dhabi philanthropic organisation that funds art, culture, health and education projects throughout the capital and beyond. Photos by Mona Al Marzooqi; words by Nick Leech.

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