Liverpool 2008 provides a great occasion for art galleries to exhibit contemporary artworks, as the European Capital of Culture event draws large number of visitors from across the UK, the European region.

The Fair will put an emphasis on the Arab Contemporary Art and therefore works in symbiosis with the three other events of PAX 2008: British-Arab Collaborative Art Workshops, Conscious Art Show and The Art Conference.

PAX Fair presents a unique opportunity to meet the UK discerning collectors of fine art. The Fair is presented and positioned to become a major event in the event calendars of the European Capital of Culture of the year.

With exhibits ranging in price up to US$10,000 , the Fair is designed to be affordable, appealing to both the general public as well as the affluent and acquisitive purchaser.

Planet Art eXchange is assembling a team of highly experienced experts in the field of art fairs with an established record of presenting high profile events in Europe. The team will oversee the event with the assistance of an high-powered Advisory Committee.

Guest Art: The Arab Contemporary Art

Western viewers have considered non-western art in general to be a curiosity or quite separate from western civilization, ignoring centuries of cross-cultural influences. Arab art has been, and still is, seen from an anthropological, archaeological or purely aesthetic perspective.
Contemporary Arab art remains one of the least visible in Britain despite recent shifts in the reception and representation of non-Western arts.
The most familiar representations of Arab culture in Britain is linked to Islamic art, mostly from the 13th century. The perspectives that contemporary Arab art brings to bear are all the more important today.
This is in the context of the existence of 500,000 strong British-Arab communities, and even more substantial in the Arab diaspora in Europe and elsewhere, and the centrality of the Arab region in a global world.


Recent political turmoil has isolated Arab communities and cast doubt over their characters and values. In the absence of any direct experience of contemporary Arab cultures, the British public is unable to make up its mind on the basis of direct
experience. The uncertainty cast over the possibility of harmonious co-existence within a multicultural Britain is unsettling to all.
The focus of British cultural establishments on ancient Islamic art only serves to reinforce perceptions of a spent cultural force. It also ignores the multiple dimensions of Arab cultures outside the Islamic context.
The showcase of the Arab contemporary art in the European capital of culture hopes to highlight its contribution to modern art