Bait Muzna for Art Film
Bait Muzna for Art Film (BMAF) (Arabic: بيت مزنه للفيلم الفني) is an independent cultural institution exploring regional and international developments in new media, photography, performance art, land art, narrative video and documentary film. Located in Muscat, Oman, in a traditional three-storey house, previously known as Bait Muzna Gallery,[1] founded in 2000 by Sayyida Susan Al Said, BMAF is currently undergoing significant transformation to be completed by early 2016.
Mandate
Founded in 2015, BMAF represents a bold new direction for contemporary art film in Oman, expanding the previous art gallery’s mandate of presenting cultural events and public programs. BMAF is a research-based institution endeavoring to promote contemporary Omani visual culture and to further relations with the global contemporary art and film scene.
Departments
- Video Archive
- Exhibition Venue
- Educational Programming
- Production Studios
Interior View
Staff
- Sayyida Susan Al Said, Founder and President, Board of Trustees
- Khaled Ramadan, Director
- Dorian Batycka, Curator
- Sara Vuletic, Project Manager
Advisory Board
- Alfredo Cramerotti, Director of MOSTYN Gallery, Co-founder of Chamber of Public Secrets, Italy
- Ferhat Özgür, Artist and Independent Curator, Turkey
- Henry Meyric Hughes, Honorary President of AICA, UK
- Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares, Founding Director, The Khatt Foundation, Lebanon
- Hyewon Lee, Curator and Professor of Art History, Daejin University, Korea
- Jessica Winegar, PhD, Independent Curator, USA
- José Roca, Artistic Director, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia
- Khaled Ramadan, Director of Bait Muzna and Senior Curator, Lebanon
- Salma Tuqan, Curator, UK
- Søren Friis Møller, PhD, Context Curator, Assistant Professor of Art, Entrepreneurship and Leadership, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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