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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 On the 11th of April as Britain persists with its tortuous attempts at Brexit, Barakat will open an exhibition that may also serve as a pointed memento mori. Drawing on the immense Barakat Collection of ancient art, ‘Bygone Empires’ assembles an extraordinary group of twelve objects – some grand, some modest – from vanished empires, sometimes revealing uncanny and unexpected refractions of political power, hubris and the fate of civilisations. Curated by the gallery’s new directors Janis Lejins and Isobel Lister, the show aims to rediscover, re-engage and reactivate Barakat’s diverse collection of ancient art for new audiences, young and old. -
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
10 x 10 x 1.3 -
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
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Bactrian Idol
Bactrian Idol, 2800 BCE - 2300 BCE Serpentine
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Pair of Tang Horses
Pair of Tang Horses, 618 CE - 906 CE Terracotta
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Neo-Sumerian Alabaster Bust of Gudea
Neo-Sumerian Alabaster Bust of Gudea, 2200 BCE - 2100 BCE Alabaster
9.5 x 12.5 -
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
8 x 14 x 18 -
Egyptian deified mummy of a crouching cat
Egyptian deified mummy of a crouching cat, 600 BCE - 300 BCE 14.25 -
Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater
Apulian Red-Figure Bell Krater, 400 BCE - 300 BCE Terracotta
12.5 x 11.5
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