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Lina Lazaar (born 1983) is a Tunisian art critic and curator. Early life and education. Although she is Tunisian, Lazaar was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and grew up ...
Jul 2, 2018 · Lina Lazaar is a leading figure in the Arab art scene, having curated landmark exhibitions such as The Future of a Promise and The Absence of Paths. She also founded Ibraaz, Jeddah Art Week and JAOU, platforms for visual culture in the MENA region.
Jun 24, 2019 · Jameel and Lazaar got married in 2012 at the Paris Opera House and broke up in 2017. Since then, Rihanna and Jameel have been spotted together around the world including Spain, London, Boston and Ibiza. Lazaar is a global supporter of contemporary Arab art and was a specialist in Post War and Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s London.
Specialised in contemporary art, Lina Lazaar holds an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Throughout her career at Sotheby’s she supported the emergence of contemporary Arab art on the international scene after which she worked as a curator and joined KLF as its President. She has significantly shaped the focus of the KLF ...
- Lazaar Is An Art Critic & Curator
- Lina Lazaar Has Been Heavily Influenced by Her Father, Kamel Lazaar
- Lazaar Founded Jeddah Art Week
- Lazaar Founded Jaou Tunis, Inspired by Jeddah Art Week
- Lazaar Believes Confidence Is Key in The Art World
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Lazaar has an MA degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics and an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Throughout her career in London, where she curated the first auction of Arab and Iranian Contemporary art with Sotheby’s in 2007, she supported the emergence of contemporary Arab art on the international scene. In 2017...
Tunisian philanthropist and international financier Kamel Lazaar created the Kamel Lazaar Foundationin 2005. The foundation is headquartered in Geneva and has offices in London and Tunis. According to its website, “KLF produces and supports artistic and cultural projects in the MENA region. Although it is mainly specialized in culture and contempor...
Jeddah Art Weekwas a ground-breaking week of arts events and cultural activities in Saudi Arabia, having taken place between February 26 and February 27th, 2013 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. According to its Facebook page, “JAW comes at a time when the world is increasingly looking toward the Middle East for emerging creativity. In bringing together loc...
Lina launched Jaou Tunisin 2013 by gathering artists, collectors, gallery owners, academics, art specialists, and more, around exhibitions, conferences, and seminars on culture and contemporary art. According to its Facebook page, Jaou Tunis is a participatory cultural event, free and open to all audiences. The purpose of the event is to promote th...
“It appears that we are all guilty of constantly beating the drum of a ‘half-empty glass’ when considering our current state,” Lazaar tells Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. “But if one scratches beneath the surface, some of the largest buyers of art are from the MENA region, some of the most ambitious art infrastructure projects are from the MENA region, an...
Lina Lazaar is a Tunisian art critic and curator who was married to Saudi billionaire Hassan Jameel for five years. She curated the first Tunisian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the largest pan-Arab show of contemporary art at the 54th Venice Biennale.
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A Radical Specialist. Writer: Nadine Khalil. Not even 30, Sotheby’s art specialist Lina Lazaar Jameel has already made a name for herself by pushing contemporary Arab art to the fore of the global art scene. When I started chatting with Lina Lazaar Jameel, I didn’t expect our discussion to begin with maths. “To me, life is about people ...
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Jun 26, 2021 · Lina Lazaar, founder of Jaou Tunis, has initiated a number of quietly, but genuinely subversive projects. In 2012, when married to her first husband, Hassan Jameel of the billionaire Saudi family, she instituted the first Jeddah Art Week – which, called Art JAW, is a progenitor for Art Jaou.
