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LONDON
Spread across five floors at 58 Brook Street, Barakat London is nestled in the beating heart of London and at the epicenter of the artworld. The Brook Street gallery provides an intimate and personalised platform for the public, scholars, and the worlds leading collectors to access the extraordinary collection and Barakat's expertise. Everyone is welcome in London - all will be personally guided through the millennia to non-prejudicially explore the extraordinary diversity of human creativity.
A fresh young team based out of Barakat London aim to increase the appreciation of Barakat across the board and ensure the rich collections are accessible to new audiences, young and old. The team will work to critically engage with the ways the collection can operate in a contemporary context. The team is in the process of enhancing the London exhbition spaces as well as innovating our core infastructure to ensure Barakat continues to be an exceptional and intimate platform for great scholarship, collection care and critical cultural engagement.
The ultimate aim in London is to curate and programme a dynamic exhibition space as well as maintain a flagship hub to support scholarship, reinvorgated collection care, the strategic development of Barakat globally. In the process we hope to renliven the sector and ensure our sustainability for another 5 generations.
58 Brook Street, Mayfair, London W1K 5DT
Phone: +44 207 493 7778
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Recent Exhibitions
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Bygone Empires
London 11 April - 18 June 2019 The star of the show is an alabaster bust of what is thought to be Gudea, ruler of Lagash. One of the earliest portraits in human history (c. 2144–2124 BCE).... -
Closer
London 10 February - 6 April 2019 Today we are more connected than ever before but are we any closer? Despite (or perhaps because of) the dense networking of our society, many still feel lonely and isolated, and finding meaningful relationships in real life, not only online, is perhaps more of a challenge than in previous generations. Given this context, the exhibition aims to look beyond simply being in contact with others and ask what it can mean to be ‘close’ to someone else. Curated entirely from the extensive Barakat Collection the exhibition unites unique and extraordinary objects spread across 8,000 years of human history and celebrates the diverse ways humans come together; physically, emotionally and spiritually. Implicitly it allows a audience to consider what brings us together, more than what keeps us apart.
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Collection Highlights - London
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Sumerian Door Catch
Sumerian Door Catch, 2700 BCE - 2500 BCE Alabaster
25.4 x 25.4 x 3.3 cm
10 x 10 x 1 1/4 in -
Seljuk bronze vase with battle scene with King Kilij Arslan I
Seljuk bronze vase with battle scene with King Kilij Arslan I, 1100 CE - 1200 CE Bronze
height 10.2 cm
height 4 in -
Bactrian Idol
Bactrian Idol, 2800 BCE - 2300 BCE Serpentine
height 12.7 cm
height 5 in -
Pair of Tang Horses
Pair of Tang Horses, 618 CE - 906 CE Terracotta
height 69.2 cm
height 27 1/4 in -
Neo-Sumerian Alabaster Bust of Gudea
Neo-Sumerian Alabaster Bust of Gudea, 2200 BCE - 2100 BCE Alabaster
24.1 x 31.8 cm
9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in -
Neolithic Çatalhüyük Terracotta Fertility Goddess
Neolithic Çatalhüyük Terracotta Fertility Goddess, 6000 BCE - 5000 BCE Terracotta
17.1 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm
6 3/4 x 4 x 4 in -
Amlash Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Zebubull
Amlash Terracotta Vessel in the Form of a Zebubull, 1200 BCE - 800 BCE Terracotta
20.3 x 35.6 x 45.7 cm
8 x 14 x 18 in -
Egyptian deified mummy of a crouching cat
Egyptian deified mummy of a crouching cat, 600 BCE - 300 BCE height 36.2 cm
height 14 1/4 in -
Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater
Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater, 400 BCE - 300 BCE Terracotta
31.8 x 29.2 cm
12 1/2 x 11 1/2 in
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