Staff Writer
Qatar Museums (QM) welcomes the public to immerse themselves in Qatar’s rich heritage and culture and explore their current offers as many shows come to an end this summer.
The following exhibits are currently on view at QM and will shortly be closing: Eduardo Navarro’s The Free Spirits of The Wild Horses is on view through July 10 in Gallery 4 of the Fire Station. Eduardo Navarro, a Panamanian artist, has spent the last 20 years exploring the untamed harmony between the material and shape of the wild horses by creating surreal worlds where the animals are free from all restraints. Together with the Panamanian Embassy in Qatar, an exhibition is being put on.
The exhibition Pipilotti Rist: Your Brain to Me, My Brain to You is on view at the QBEC Gallery of the National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ) until July 15. The display is a brand-new, expansive, site-specific installation by Pipilotti Rist, a well-known Swiss artist on a global scale. The artist’s first installation of an immersive video in the Middle East. The project, which was created by Tom Eccles and Bouthayna Baltaji, encourages viewers to go on a journey of self-discovery through a multimodal encounter that stimulates reflection and amazement. The 12,000 LED lights that make up the installation’s “pixels” are strung on cables and placed throughout the gallery as a navigational aid for viewers.
Till August 5, the exhibit Beirut and the Golden Sixties at the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art is open. Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath’s multimedia show, “Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility,” examines a volatile period in the growth of modernism in Beirut that lasted from the 1958 Lebanon Crisis through the 1975 Lebanese Civil War.
Also at Mathaf, I Am The Traveler And Also The Road will be on display until August 5. This exhibition is a trip that unites the perspectives of twelve outstanding photographers who are currently active in the WANA region. Fatema Bint Ahmad Al-Doh, Hayat Al-Sharif, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Samar Sayed Baiomy, Salih Basheer, Mohammed Elshamy, Reem Falaknaz, Rula Halawani, Mona Hassan, Fethi Sahraoui, and Abdo Shanan are among those whose photographic techniques are honored.
The exhibit Mosques in Qatar: Then and Now is on view at the Museum of Islamic Art through August 12. The exhibition takes us on a photographic journey through Qatar, starting at one of the country’s first mosques at Murwab and continuing through the 20th century’s economic boom to the country’s current modern architecture and design, where despite structural changes, the mosque continues to play a significant role in the community.
The exhibit at Al Thakira Mangrove will be up until October, while Olafur Eliasson’s weird desert at NMoQ will be up until August 15. The curious desert, Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition in the Gulf, combines a substantial gallery display at NMoQ with a dozen new site-specific installations situated next to the Al Thakhira Mangrove in Northern Qatar.
Don’t pass up the opportunity to get a unique peek of the upcoming Qatar Auto Museum, which will close in early 2024.
A Sneak Peek at Qatar Auto Museum will be on display at Mawater Gallery at NMoQ through January 20, 2024. The goal of this exhibition, which honors the future museum, is to inspire the next generation of innovators, designers, engineers, collectors, and policymakers via a shared love of automobiles.
