AZERBAIJAN—Julia Michalska of the Art Newspaper reports that Azerbaijan is set to host its first national art fair. The exhibition, which opens February 24, includes twenty local artists who have collaborated with historians and archaeologists to create site-specific installations within the ancient city of Baku. The projects will be unveiled every Friday until September of 2012.

“Particularly at this time of development and transformation in Azerbaijan, it is important to embrace Baku’s heritage,” says Aida Mahmudova, the founder and director of Yarat, a nonprofit art foundation that organized the fair. “The city’s history is being used to make contemporary art.”