Events and Activities
Exhibitions
Mathaf Collection: SUMMARY PART 2 is accessible to the public. Visitors are required to reserve tickets in advance. Find out more
Temporary Exhibitions
Coming soon
Chaos+Repair=Universe, 2014. Mirror fragments, metal wires. Approx. 60 cm (diameter). Installation view "Sacrifice and Harmony", MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, 2016. Courtesy the artist, and Galleria Continua. Private Collection. Photo: Axel Schneider
Kader Attia: On Silence
From 15 April to 19 December 2021
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
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. The artist’s intention and curatorial approach is to provoke the viewer’s emotional and physical experience while encountering works placed at various levels in the museum galleries, seen from above, from underneath, and from within but rarely straight on. There will be two important commissions featured in connection with Doha.
International Collaborations
Image: Farid Belkahia Inventaire 1961 Oil on Canvas 90 x 159,70 cm Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha © ADAGP, Paris, 2021 Courtesy Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
Farid Belkahia
10 FEB - 21 JUN 2021, 11H - 21H, EVERY DAYS EXCEPT TUESDAYS "Event postponed"
(CENTRE POMPIDOU IS TEMPORARILY CLOSED)
GALERIE D'ART GRAPHIQUE - CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS, FRANCE
In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou Paris and the Farid Belkahia Foundation in Marrakech, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Arts invites you to attend this exhibition devoted to Farid Belkahia (1934-2014, Marrakech) - today considered to be one of the founders of Moroccan artistic modernity and, more broadly, Arab.
The Visual Arts Studies Third Annual Conference, 2020-2021
co-organised by Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
from December 2020 Until April 2021
The Future Museum in the Future City
NEXT WORKSHOP : 25, 26, 27 APRIL 2020
We invite you to send proposals to participate in the conference (up to 500 words), In response to one of the selected topics. Deadline for submission March 20, 2021.
Invited curators, artists, scholars, and practitioners will present the different potential scenarios to come upon us in the near future in an open platform for discussion with the audience.
Artist Encounters with artist Omar Al-Shahabi
28 February, 1, 2, and 3 March 2021 from 4 to 7pm (limited seats)
To register, click here
Join artist Omar Al-Shahabi in a 4 day workshop at Mathaf to learn the techniques of book making inspired by Mathaf’s collection and to understand the production, design and concept of making an artistic book and the materials used to produce it.
The workshop is in Arabic
Art Lessons at Mathaf with Ismael Azzam
EVERY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY 4PM-7PM
MANARA – EDUCATION SPACE AT MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Register Here – free admission and seats are limited to only 5 seats
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.
Story time at Mathaf for families
EVERY 3RD SATURDAY OF THE MONTH
10AM – 11:30AM
LIBRARY AT MATHAF: ARAB MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Register Here - free admission and seats are limited
Story time for families at Mathaf is our monthly activity for children 4-9years old and their families. You and your children can enjoy bilingual stories read in both English and Arabic.