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DOHA
Qatar Museums (QM) has announced several exhibitions that will be presented across its cultural institutions throughout spring 2021. Members of the community can look forward to exhibitions covering a wider range of interests, including contemporary art, natural history and the art of collecting.
Kader Attia: On Silence
(From March 7 at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art)
‘Kader Attia: On Silence’ is a major solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist over the last two decades, curated by Abdellah Karroum, director of Mathaf, with assistant curator Lina Ramadan. The exhibition will feature a wide range of work across all media and include site-specific installations, sculptures, collages, drawings, video and photography. On Silence explores themes of postcolonial trauma and the ensuing decades of psychiatric ‘repair’ at the social and individual level. There will be two important commissions featured in connection with Doha.
Mal Lawal 3
(Opening in March at National Museum of Qatar)
Following the success of its previous editions in 2012 and 2014, Mal Lawal evolves in 2020-2021 to provide a platform that brings together private collectors and helps support and further establish the practice of collecting in Qatar. The collections showcased in 2020-2021 present the personal stories of the collectors and highlight their passion for art, culture and heritage.
Jeff Koons: Lost in America
(Opens on March 28 at QM Gallery Al Riwaq)
The largest solo survey to date of the work of the American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955) in the Gulf region, ‘Jeff Koons: Lost in America’ will be presented at QM Gallery Al Riwaq as part of the 2021 Qatar-US Year of Culture. Organised by the renowned curator Massimiliano Gioni, it will feature over sixty artworks drawn from the full span of Koons’ four-decade long career, including many of the artist’s major works such as Rabbit (1986), Balloon Dog (1994–2000) and Play-Doh (1994–2014). In Koons’ paintings and sculptures, everyday objects and industrial materials are transformed into engaging artworks that pose questions about desire and hope, the self and transcendence, individuality and the masses.
Works from many of Koons’ best-known series like The New (1980–87), Banality (1988), Celebration (1994–), Popeye (2002–2013) and Antiquity (2008–) will be displayed alongside recent works exhibited for the first time.
Seagrass Tales, Dugong Trails
(Opens on March 30 at National Museum of Qatar)
The National Museum of Qatar, in collaboration with ExxonMobil Research Qatar, will present a special exhibition on dugongs. These shy marine mammals have inhabited the waters surrounding Qatar’s peninsula for more than 7,500 years. The Arabian Gulf is home to the world’s second-largest population of dugongs, after Australia. Recently, the largest herds in the world, comprising between 600 to 700 dugongs, have been recorded in Qatar. Holding both a special cultural and environmental significance, the dugong was chosen as the museum’s official mascot.
Artist in Residence 5 Grey Times
(Through July 24 at Garage Gallery at the Fire Station)
The exhibition ‘Grey Times’ marks the end of the fifth edition of the Fire Station’s Artist in Residence Programme (AIR5) – an annual initiative established in 2015 that nurtures creative talent from across the country and world. Curated by Dr Bahaa Abudaya and Saida Ali Al Khulaifi, the exhibition showcases artworks created as part of the residency, during which the artists had to adapt to the current pandemic engulfing the world.?Grey Times?presents works that were devised during this period of isolation as the artists explored concepts of identity and community, both of which are on uncertain ground in these ‘grey times’. The artists showcasing their works include Aisha Al Muhannadi, Ameera Al Aji, Ebtesam Al Hothi, Hadeer Omar, Haytham Sharrouf, Jaser Alagha, Latifa Al Kuwari, Majdulin Nasrallah, Mariam Rafehi, Maryam Al Maadhadi, Mashael Al Hejazi, Maysaa Almumin, Muna Al Bader, Naila Al Thani, Noor Yousef, Suzana Jouma, Hind Al Saad and Ameena Al Yousef
A Falcon’s Eye: Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani
(Through April 10 at Museum of Islamic Art)
‘A Falcon’s Eye: Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani’ celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of one of Qatar’ greatest collectors who was largely responsible for laying the foundation for QM’s world-class collections. The exhibition showcases more than 300 outstanding artworks from prehistoric fossils and Egyptian antiquities to Orientalist paintings and masterpieces of the history of photography in a spectacular display following the concept of ancient (Renaissance) ‘cabinet of curiosities’ reflecting Sheikh Saoud’s fascination with both natural history and the art world.
Splendours of the Ancient East: Antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection
(Through February 3 at National Museum of Qatar)
Drawn from the extraordinary holdings assembled in Kuwait by Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah and Sheikha Hussa Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, this landmark exhibition made up of more than 170 objects offers a sweeping overview of the artistic and material culture of the ancient world, while also revealing new insights into the roots of Islamic art. Objects range in date from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE and include jewelry and adornments, household furnishings, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines and ritual objects, decorative elements and carved gemstones and seals.
DOHA
Qatar Museums (QM) has announced several exhibitions that will be presented across its cultural institutions throughout spring 2021. Members of the community can look forward to exhibitions covering a wider range of interests, including contemporary art, natural history and the art of collecting.
Kader Attia: On Silence
(From March 7 at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art)
‘Kader Attia: On Silence’ is a major solo exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist over the last two decades, curated by Abdellah Karroum, director of Mathaf, with assistant curator Lina Ramadan. The exhibition will feature a wide range of work across all media and include site-specific installations, sculptures, collages, drawings, video and photography. On Silence explores themes of postcolonial trauma and the ensuing decades of psychiatric ‘repair’ at the social and individual level. There will be two important commissions featured in connection with Doha.
Mal Lawal 3
(Opening in March at National Museum of Qatar)
Following the success of its previous editions in 2012 and 2014, Mal Lawal evolves in 2020-2021 to provide a platform that brings together private collectors and helps support and further establish the practice of collecting in Qatar. The collections showcased in 2020-2021 present the personal stories of the collectors and highlight their passion for art, culture and heritage.
Jeff Koons: Lost in America
(Opens on March 28 at QM Gallery Al Riwaq)
The largest solo survey to date of the work of the American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955) in the Gulf region, ‘Jeff Koons: Lost in America’ will be presented at QM Gallery Al Riwaq as part of the 2021 Qatar-US Year of Culture. Organised by the renowned curator Massimiliano Gioni, it will feature over sixty artworks drawn from the full span of Koons’ four-decade long career, including many of the artist’s major works such as Rabbit (1986), Balloon Dog (1994–2000) and Play-Doh (1994–2014). In Koons’ paintings and sculptures, everyday objects and industrial materials are transformed into engaging artworks that pose questions about desire and hope, the self and transcendence, individuality and the masses.
Works from many of Koons’ best-known series like The New (1980–87), Banality (1988), Celebration (1994–), Popeye (2002–2013) and Antiquity (2008–) will be displayed alongside recent works exhibited for the first time.
Seagrass Tales, Dugong Trails
(Opens on March 30 at National Museum of Qatar)
The National Museum of Qatar, in collaboration with ExxonMobil Research Qatar, will present a special exhibition on dugongs. These shy marine mammals have inhabited the waters surrounding Qatar’s peninsula for more than 7,500 years. The Arabian Gulf is home to the world’s second-largest population of dugongs, after Australia. Recently, the largest herds in the world, comprising between 600 to 700 dugongs, have been recorded in Qatar. Holding both a special cultural and environmental significance, the dugong was chosen as the museum’s official mascot.
Artist in Residence 5 Grey Times
(Through July 24 at Garage Gallery at the Fire Station)
The exhibition ‘Grey Times’ marks the end of the fifth edition of the Fire Station’s Artist in Residence Programme (AIR5) – an annual initiative established in 2015 that nurtures creative talent from across the country and world. Curated by Dr Bahaa Abudaya and Saida Ali Al Khulaifi, the exhibition showcases artworks created as part of the residency, during which the artists had to adapt to the current pandemic engulfing the world.?Grey Times?presents works that were devised during this period of isolation as the artists explored concepts of identity and community, both of which are on uncertain ground in these ‘grey times’. The artists showcasing their works include Aisha Al Muhannadi, Ameera Al Aji, Ebtesam Al Hothi, Hadeer Omar, Haytham Sharrouf, Jaser Alagha, Latifa Al Kuwari, Majdulin Nasrallah, Mariam Rafehi, Maryam Al Maadhadi, Mashael Al Hejazi, Maysaa Almumin, Muna Al Bader, Naila Al Thani, Noor Yousef, Suzana Jouma, Hind Al Saad and Ameena Al Yousef
A Falcon’s Eye: Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani
(Through April 10 at Museum of Islamic Art)
‘A Falcon’s Eye: Tribute to Sheikh Saoud Al Thani’ celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of one of Qatar’ greatest collectors who was largely responsible for laying the foundation for QM’s world-class collections. The exhibition showcases more than 300 outstanding artworks from prehistoric fossils and Egyptian antiquities to Orientalist paintings and masterpieces of the history of photography in a spectacular display following the concept of ancient (Renaissance) ‘cabinet of curiosities’ reflecting Sheikh Saoud’s fascination with both natural history and the art world.
Splendours of the Ancient East: Antiquities from The al-Sabah Collection
(Through February 3 at National Museum of Qatar)
Drawn from the extraordinary holdings assembled in Kuwait by Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah and Sheikha Hussa Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, this landmark exhibition made up of more than 170 objects offers a sweeping overview of the artistic and material culture of the ancient world, while also revealing new insights into the roots of Islamic art. Objects range in date from the third millennium BCE to the fifth century CE and include jewelry and adornments, household furnishings, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines and ritual objects, decorative elements and carved gemstones and seals.
