Supporting the script-to-screen journey of emerging filmmakers attached to film projects from across the world supported by the Institute, Qumra 2023 will be held in an innovative hybrid format with in-person events being held from March 10 to 15, and virtual sessions from March 19 to 21.
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Marchitecture is an annual programme dedicated to Architecture and Urban Design. It is your gateway to Qatar Museums’ beautiful architecture. Providing the public, a chance to explore the country's iconic architecture through a series of tours and workshops. This unique offering provides an opportunity to learn how Qatar's rich history and culture have influenced the country’s urban landscape.
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Location: Qatar Flour Mills
Qatar Museums is organizing a Curator-Led tour by Aurélien Lemonier, Curator of Architecture, Design and Gardens Art Mill Museum, and Maryam Al Thani, Curator, Exhibitions Department, QM. The public will participate in a discussion with the curators, in the repurposed warehouse of the Flour Mills. The tour provides an opportunity to visit the industrial site that shall be converted into the Art Mill Museum.
Location: Al Riwaq Gallery
This in-gallery talk will be led by the designers of the new museum currently under development in Lusail. This will provide an interactive discussion allowing the audience to visualize the thought process behind the design of the new Lusail Museum, scheduled to break ground this year. This event will take place in the central space of the exhibition which is dedicated to the architecture of the new museum.
Location: Gallery 3, M7, Msheireb
A Chance To Breathe presents the remarkable photographs of Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, who have been documenting their lives and those in their Rohingya refugee community living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh since 2018. By telling visual stories of life, resilience and hope, their photographs help reframe the prevailing narratives of violence, death and victimhood that often describe Rohingya refugees’ experiences.
Location: Gallery 3, M7, Msheireb
Doha Fashion Fridays is a unique collaborative project, initiated in 2017 by artists Khalid Albaih and Aparna Jayakumar, in which migrant workers living in Qatar are photographed and interviewed on Fridays, their day of rest. Using fashion as a lens and Instagram as its public platform, the project’s hundreds of images and interviews tell narratives about the diverse migrant population, who have come to Qatar with dreams and aspirations.
Location: Al Koot Fort
Hadeer Omar's installation - And Thereafter - activates Souq Waqif into a dynamic spatial experience. She creates a heightened sense of the myriad sensory experiences in the souq through captured images and sounds, all uniquely choreographed in the designated spaces of the fort.
Location: Majlis Barahat Al Jufair
Mashael Al Hejazi installation at Barahat Al Jufairi’s majlis honours the social and architectural character of this historic district of Doha and the collective memories and narratives of the Al Baraha community. Al Hejazi breathes life back into this prominent place with her portraiture of family members and poetically draws the neighbouring streets into the space with her cyanotype prints of architectural details and street scenes from Al Baraha.
Location: Doha Fire Station Museum
Learn the fundamentals of skateboarding by booking PSG x Clown’s exclusive skateboarding lessons guided by professionals. Experience the skate culture by booking today. Very limited sports available.
Location: Doha Fire Station Museum
Experience the art of Calligraphy with renowned artist and designer of the Doha Capsule collection, Fatma Al Sharshani. Book your slot for the workshop as she teaches you the beautiful art of calligraphy. Very limited sports available .
Location: Mathaf
The exhibition revisits a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut beginning with the 1958 Lebanon crisis and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. It examines this romanticised era of global influence in Beirut to highlight how collisions between art, culture and polarised political ideologies turned the Beirut art scene into a microcosm for larger trans-regional tensions.
Location: Mathaf
This panel will take the life and work of Simone Baltaxé Martayan—an artist straddling various commitments and crossing over multiple identities and social milieus—as a starting point for a conversation on transnational alliances and struggles in Beirut, and the region more broadly. Countering the glamorizing myth of a golden age, the speakers will address the role of archival practices in the face of historical erasure.
Location: National Museum of Qatar
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Location: Mathaf
A visual journey that interconnects the visions of twelve remarkable photographers working in the WANA region today. This exhibition honors the photographic practices of Fatema AM Al-Doh, Hayat Al-Sharif, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Samar Sayed Baiomy, Salih Basheer, Mohammed Elshamy, Reem Falaknaz, Rula Halawani, Mona Hassan, Mouneb Nassar, Fethi Sahraoui, and Abdo Shanan.
Location: National Museum of Qatar
Commonly known as the Old Palace, this architectural gem from the early twentieth century is today embraced by the modern National Museum of Qatar. The contrast between old and new – or, in other words, between heritage and modernity – is by no means coincidental: the French architect Jean Nouvel designed the museum incorporating the palace as if it was one of the objects on display.
Location: Mathaf
The participating artists in the exhibition I Am The Traveler And Also The Road, and awardees of Tasweer’s Sheikh Saoud AL Thani Project Award grants, share their experiences and discuss the freedoms and challenges of being photographers in the WANA-region.
Location: National Museum of Qatar Auditorium
A conversation between Chairperson of Qatar Museums, Her Excellency Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Sheikh Saud bin Khalifa Al Thani, Ghanim Al Ghanim, and Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, about how art has the power to offer different perspectives, and how cultural spaces can host pluralistic thought, build awareness, and offer a platform for differences of opinion to coexist.
Location: National Museum of Qatar Auditorium
Olafur Eliasson in conversation with Mohammed Omar Al Bader, Dr Aspa D. Chatziefthimiou, Reem Al Sahlawi, and Neema Githere. Moderated by Dr Alexandra Bounia. This cross-generational discussion looks at our entanglements with natural environments in the context of the climate emergency and addresses the complex ways in which we can hear and respond to the needs of many – humans and nonhumans alike.
Location: Al Thakhira & National Museum of Qatar
Olafur Eliasson will present an extensive exhibition inside and outside of the museum. The exhibition will continue the Icelandic-Danish artist’s abiding interests in experimentation with light and colour, geometric studies, ecological awareness, and more-than-human relationships.
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