Al Bawaba published this announcement on 4 November 2008, the day the gallery, then called Artspace, opened its new space at Gate Village in DIFC.
The opening was held under the patronage of His Excellency Dr Omar Bin Sulaiman, then Governor of DIFC and Managing Director of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. The text records that the gallery had first been established in Dubai in May 2003, and it includes a short biography of Maliha Al Tabari as a painter and sculptor with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in art history from Otis College of Art and Design and Ringling School of Art and Design.
On the occasion of the launch, the gallery showed work by Adam Henein, Zakaria Ramhani, Adel El Siwi, Ahmed Mater, Paul Guiragossian, Emanuel Guiragossian, Louay Kayyali, Youssef Ahmed and Omar El Nagdi. The announcement also names Barclays Wealth and Mondrian South Beach as sponsors of the new space.
The piece reads as a press release or wire rather than a reported feature, and the same opening is already on the News page in Arabic, through the Al Bayan card published on the same day. It remains a clear English language record of the move to Gate Village.
