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Press / Christie's / April 12, 2025

100 art-world Instagram accounts to follow right now: Collectors

In the third of our series of five features on the Instagram accounts you need to know about, we turn our attention to 20 influential collectors.

13. Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
@sultanalqassemi

The Emirati collector Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, a member of the ruling family of Sharjah, founded the Barjeel Art Foundation in 2010. The non-profit institution manages, preserves and exhibits around 1,500 artworks — mostly modern and contemporary pieces by Arab artists — presenting them at both the Sharjah Art Museum and abroad. So far, it has loaned items to institutions including Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum, the Whitechapel Gallery in London, Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris and the Singapore Art Museum.

 

 

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This article was originally published in Christie’s Magazine on April 12, 2025. A PDF screenshot of the original article can be downloaded here.

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About Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi is an Emirati columnist and researcher whose articles have appeared in The Financial Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail, as well as other notable publications. Al Qassemi is also a prolific commentator on Arab affairs on Twitter.

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