At the week before the eighth edition of Art Dubai is going to take place, Larry’s List, the world’s leading art collector database, would have our focused eye on the 3 most prominent Middle Eastern private art collectors and their collections.
• Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
• Ramin Salsali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Tony Salamé, Beirut, Lebanon
As the largest and one of the most important annual art events in the region, the art world is focusing on Art Dubai , as well as rising influence of the collectors from the area. As the joint of booming of art fairs and Art in Middle East, Dubai simply has become a hub for the rising art community of Middle East and the Arab World.
Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani
Doha, Qatar
As sheikha, daughter of the former Emir of Qatar and sister of the current one, and from a family which is deeply involved in the field of art, she has been actively engaging herself and her resources in cultural activities – she is chairman of Qatar Museums Authority and the Doha Film Institute, while she has sponsored many international exhibitions and has contributed to the cultural policy of Qatar. She was also been named as the most powerful person in the art world by ArtReview.
Ramin Salsali
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
http://www.salsalipm.com
Ramin Salsali has established the first private museum in Dubai, which showcasing his own collection, in November 13 last year. Interestingly, apart from promoting the collection through public programs, the museum is also intended to act as a platform for emerging, established and visiting collectors to meet and exchange new ideas.
Tony Salamé
Beirut, Lebanon
As a Lebanese entrepreneur who owns a luxury fashion retail chain store, Salamé has the ambition to promote arts in his fashion franchise and even has the attempt to blend art and fashion further by investing a brand new, famous-architect designed, gigantic space for his Aïshti Chain and Aïshti Foundation, which will perform as both a retail space and at the same time exhibit his collection.
