From Mathaf to Madrid

February 15, 2016 by Tasnim

The exhibition Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums is being held from 9 February to 19 June 2016 at the Santander Art Gallery in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, the “first major loan exhibition in Europe of works from Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art in Doha.”   This selection, more than 160 works in total, represents the history of contemporary Arab art as seen through the eyes of 34 artists, most of whom are natives […]

Categories: Art, Sculptor/Installation Art • Tags: Abdullah Al Muharraqi, Adam Hanein, Ahmed Morsi, Algeria, Bahrain, Baya Mahieddine, Chaibia Talal, Dia Azzawi, Egypt, Etel Adnan, Faraj Daham, Farid Belkahia, Hassan Sharif, Inji Efflatoun, Iraq, Ismail Fattah, Kuwait, Lebanon, Manal Al Dowayan, Marwan Kassab Bashi, Mona Hatoum, Morocco, Mounir Fatmi, Nja Mahdaoui, Palestine, Qatar, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Sami Mohammed, Saudi Arabia, Shirin Neshat, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yousef Ahmad

Exhibition “In Search of Lost Time” at SOAS

February 13, 2016 by Tasnim

The exhibition In Search of Lost Time (not the Proust novel), which runs at the Brunei Gallery, in the School of Oriental & African Studies until the 19th of March, “presents work by 13 artists who seek to reframe conventional interpretations of time in the Gulf.” The  Arabic title of the exhibition, Urgent Memory is apt, as the exhibition “explores the complex relationship between image, speed and time in the Gulf, questioning the chronological and territorial notion of the region and the paradigms of […]

Categories: Art • Tags: Abdullah Al Saadi, Ajlan Gharem, Camille Zakharia, Hassan Sharif, Jafar Islah, Mohammad Sharaf, Mohammed Kazem, Monira Al Qadiri, Raja’a Khalid, Sami Mohammed, Sophia Al Maria