Events and Activities
Curator Tour - M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun and Raqs Media Collective: Still More World
Date: 21 March
Time: 4pm
Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Join curators Ranjit Hoskote and Laura Barlow for a tour of Mathaf Spring exhibitions: M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun and Raqs Media Collective: Still More World. The Raqs Media Collective artists (Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta) will be present.
The tour is open to all and free to attend.
Mathaf Talk: Tomorrows Ripen Today
Date: 21 March 2019
Time: 6pm
Location: Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
In conjunction with their exhibition Raqs Media Collective: Still More World, the artists will present a talk - ‘Tomorrows Ripen Today’*, which foregrounds the conceptual framing of the exhibition and presents the way in which Raqs works with time. The talk also presents Raqs’ way of thinking about how cities like Doha and Delhi, with layered pasts and polyglot futures, anticipate tomorrow and trace the routes straddling stories, histories, trade routes and ocean currents that connect people between South Asia and the Gulf region.
Raqs Media Collective was founded in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta. They live and work in Delhi, India
This talk will be introduced by the curator of the exhibition, Laura Barlow.
*Tomorrows Ripen Today is a phrase taken from Dohas for Doha, one of the works especially produced by Raqs for this exhibition.
M. F. Husain: Horses of the Sun
MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, DOHA
ATRIUM AND GALLERIES 4, 5 and 6
21 March - 31 July 2019
Maqbool Fida Husain (1913-2011) was a legendary figure in the history of Indian modernism. A founding member of the Progressive Artists Group, formed in Bombay in 1947, Husain played a leading role in revolutionising art in India by parting ways with the dominant genres of academic painting and miniaturist nostalgia.
Raqs Media Collective: Still More World
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Atrium and Galleries 1, 2 and 3
21 March 2019 - 31 July 2019
Raqs Media Collective’s artistic practice examines questions of the everyday, alongside philosophical and historical inquiries of the universe. Unravelling structures of economies, time, and language, their work examines the shifting state of contemporary life and boundaries of visibility. This exploration of transformation, is embedded in the process and subject of their work, and in the collective’s name – ‘raqs’ – a term for movement and whirling, in Urdu/Hindustani, Arabic, and Persian.
Save the Date!
6th annual Mathaf Student Art Show Harmony
Wednesday, 24 April 2019
Join us as we celebrate the creativity of aspiring young artists from different schools in Qatar.
Art Lessons at Mathaf with Ismael Azzam
Every Sunday and Wednesday 4pm-7pm
Manara – Education Space at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Join artist Ismael Azzam for a new season of Art Lessons at Mathaf and learn techniques in portraiture drawing using pencil and charcoal and paint.
• Lessons are offered to people with basic to intermediate sketching and drawing skills
• Each participant must bring their own sketchbook
• Participants may also be asked to sit in as a model to have their portraits done
• Admission is free
• Seats are limited
• To register, click here
Are you interested to have your portrait done by artist Ismael Azzam?
We are looking for volunteers to sit in as a model for the Art Lessons at Mathaf led by artist Ismael Azzam. If you are available between 4pm-7pm every Sunday and Wednesday, and can commit to the time slot, please to confirm by email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.