Art Basel Qatar to present 87 galleries for inaugural edition.
10 October 2025 • Mark Westall
Art Basel Qatar to feature 84 artist presentations by 87 galleries when the fair debuts in Doha next February.
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Art Basel Qatar announces Wael Shawky as Artistic Director + reveals new fomat.
9 July 2025 • Mark Westall
For its inaugural edition, Art Basel Qatar will depart from the traditional booth model to introduce a new fair format grounded in artistic vision and conceptual rigor.
Art Basel Qatar launching in Doha February 2026
20 May 2025 • Mark Westall
Art Basel (MCH Group) plus Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) & QC+ today announced the launch of Art Basel Qatar
Renowned Egyptian Artist Wael Shawky Appointed Artistic Director of Qatar Museums’ Fire Station.
4 November 2024 • Mark Westall
Qatar Museums (QM) today announced that the internationally acclaimed Egyptian-born artist Wael Shawky has been appointed to serve as the… Read More
Virgil Abloh gets mid-career retrospective in new exhibition.
7 October 2021 • Mark Westall
On 5th November 2021 a mid-career retrospective of the acclaimed American artist and designer, Virgil Abloh will open at the… Read More
Jeff Koons: Lost in America, his first exhibition in the Gulf region.
14 September 2021 • Mark Westall
Qatar Museums will present the first exhibition in the Gulf region of the work of the American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955) as… Read More
A major retrospective of JR’s work opens in Qatar.
9 March 2017 • Mark Westall
Celebrated French artist JR is subject of a major retrospective which has just opened today in Qatar held by Qatar Museums at QM Gallery Katara in Doha
Damien Hirst to Launch Massive Exhibition in Qatar
25 June 2013 • Mark Westall
Hirst Goes Massive in Doha !
Serpentine Gallery and Qatar Museums Authority collaborate on Arab Arts Season in London.
23 June 2013 • Mark Westall
Internationally acclaimed novelist Hisham Matar, Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi, whose show opens at Tate Modern this month, and the virtuoso Egyptian violinist, Waeil Abo Bakr, are in the line-up announced for EHTIFAL, a free programme of Arab literature, debate, music and art from 4th – 6th July.