See The Stunning New Public Art At Doha, Qatar’s First Open-Air Museum – RisePEI
A Yayoi Kusama pumpkin, Rashid Johnson mosaic, and a monumental Jeff Koons sculpture—within the likeness of an endangered marine mammal—are among the many 40 new and commissioned public artworks to be put in all through Doha in Qatar, the state physique Qatar Museums introduced right this moment.
The mass public artwork program marks an formidable fall season for the Gulf nation, with much-anticipated occasions together with the FIFA World Cup soccer match and the inauguration of a number of new museums.
Some sculptures have already been put in, corresponding to Untitled (Trench, Shafts, Pit, Tunnel and Chamber), 1978, by Bruce Nauman, in Msheireb Downtown Doha, Tom Claassen’s Falcon (2021) exterior the Hamad Worldwide Airport, and Two Orchids (2015) by Isa Genzken close to the Nationwide Theater, in what the federal government is asking its new “outside museum.”
The total artist record is a variety of residing and useless worldwide, regional, and Qatari artists. The newly put in works embody Maqam I, Maqam II, Maqam III by Lebanese artist Simone Fattal, three conical granite sculptures harking back to blue dunes, an almost 100 foot-long banner by American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner at Stadium 974, and a lightweight set up by Iraqi artist Adel Abidin projected on the façade of Mathaf.
The general public artwork program is overseen by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the chairperson of Qatar Museums. As soon as accomplished, it would rival essentially the most distinguished sculpture initiative within the Gulf, Saudi Arabia’s open-air sculpture museum on Corniche in Jeddah, which counts works by Hans Arp, Alexander Calder, and Maha Malluh.
See a number of the brand new public artworks in Doha right here.
