25 YEARS OF COURTYARD
March 2023
Permanent Collection
Total Arts at the Courtyard is pleased to present 25 Years of Courtyard, an exhibition that revisits the journey from its inception, bringing together early photographs, documents, fragments, and remnants of salvaged and repurposed materials gathered over the last 25 years.
Courtyard Art & Community Centre, located in the Al Quoz area of Dubai, is a privately established and operated, community-funded, designed, and built cultural space created by designer, architect, photographer, and nature enthusiast Dariush Zandi between 1992 and 1998. At the time, Al Quoz was primarily an industrial district with factories and workshops. But Dariush, as an urban designer with a deep love for cultural and artistic pursuits, could sense an energy of possibilities.
Arriving from the artistic neighbourhood of Soho and inspired by master artists such as Rothko and Christo, Dariush aimed high and dreamed higher, envisioning a…
