Exhibition
23.01.16 – 23.04.16
Bait Al Shamsi
Join in, take part and collaborate as individuals, families, friends – as a community, together in do it يبرعلاب [in Arabic] – a new project organised by Sharjah Art
Foundation. More than 60 artists from across the region have written instructions that anyone can use to make a new work of art.
Co-curated by Sharjah Art Foundation Director Hoor Al Qasimi and Serpentine Gallery co-
Director Hans Ulrich Obrist, do it يبرعلاب is a new iteration of the ongoing do it publication and exhibition project originally founded and curated by Obrist in 1993. do it يبرعلاب will be open to the public at Sharjah Art Foundation's Bait Al Shamsi from 23
January to 23 April 2016. On view will be a selection of artist instructions, some of which will have been previously realised and others which visitors can use to create art works of their own. Everyone is invited to join in the workshops, activations, performances and thoughtprovoking activities on one of the many Open Days, scheduled over the course of the

exhibition.
The do it يبرعلاب bilingual publication will include over 50 newly commissioned artist instructions, a selection of previously published instructions as well as essays that contextualise the project.
This publication will also be the basis for a series of do it يبرعلاب exhibitions and events with institutions across the region, including Townhouse, Cairo, Al Riwaq, Manama, Darat Al
Funun, Amman, Dar AlMa'Mûn, Marrakech, as well as with partners in Lebanon, Kuwait,
Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. These events are scheduled to take place in 2016 and
2017.
At Sharjah Art Foundation, do it يبرعلاب will be realised through extensive collaborations with schools, universities and communities across the UAE, including Ajman Centre for
Rehabilitation, American University of Sharjah, Al Tamkeen Centre, Emirates Fine Arts
Society, Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services, Sharjah International Book Fair, and
University of Sharjah. do it يبرعلاب features art work instructions by artists from ten countries including Basel
Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Adel Abdessemed, Sarah Abu
Abdallah, Etel Adnan, Sophia Al Maria, Jaffar Al Oraibi, Mohammed Al Qassab, Nasser Al
Salem, Mounira Al Solh, Khalid Wad Albaih, Manal AlDowayan, Rheim Alkadhi, Abdullah Al-
Mutairi, Ziad Antar, Samira Badran, Ismaïl Bahri, Lara Baladi, Taysir Batniji, Doris Bittar, Ali
Cherri, Ayman Yossri Daydban, Róza El-Hassan, Fouad ElKoury, Fadlabi, Simone Fattal,
GCC, Abdulnasser Gharem, Aya Haidar, Hazem Harb, Mona Hatoum, Susan Hefuna,
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag, Mohammed Kazem, Yazan Khalili, Hassan Khan, Ahmed Mater,
Hassan Meer, Amina Menia, Magdi Mostafa, Nasir Nasrallah, Amir Nour, Khaled Sabsabi,
Jayce Salloum, Hrair Sarkissian, Sam Shalabi, Hassan Sharif, Suha Shoman, Nida
Sinnokrot, Rayyane Tabet, Jorge Tacla, Jalal Toufic, Raed Yassin, Ala Younis, Camille
Zakharia and Samira Badran.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. For further information on how to get involved please contact info@sharjahart.org. do it يبرعلاب is organised by Sharjah Art Foundation and co-curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and
Hans Ulrich Obrist. do it is a project originally founded and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist in
1993.