Qatar’s commitment to cultural excellence extends to a range of impressive public art installations by leading international artists around the country. These include:
Richard Serra
East-West/West-East at UTM coordinates N25°31.019’ E50°51.948’ (Zikreet). Breath-taking sculpture spanning over 1km and comprising four steel plates, each more than 14m in height.
Urs Fischer
Lamp Bear, one of a number of impressive sculptures at Hamad International Airport.
Louise Bourgeois
Maman at Qatar National Convention Centre. A giant spider sculpture made of marble, bronze and stainless steel.
Subodh Gupta
The Three Monkeys at Katara Cultural Village. Three head sculptures recalling Gandhi’s famous visual metaphor – ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’.
El Seed
Calligraffiti at Salwa Road Tunnels. Striking graffiti murals inspired by local culture and created with a team of students from Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar.
Richard Serra
7 at Museum of Islamic Art Park. Homage in steel to the spiritual significance of the number seven in Islamic culture.
Othoniel
Cosmos , one of a number of impressive sculptures at Hamad International Airport.
Tom Claassen
A series of sculptures at Hamad International Airport depicting the Arabian Oryx, Qatar’s national animal.
Sara Lucas
Perceval at Aspire Park. Bronze of a life-size shire horse.
Damien Hirst
The Miraculous Journey at Sidra Medical and Research Centre. Fourteen monumental bronze sculptures illustrating the development of a baby.
Anne Geddes
Healthy Living from the Start at HMC Women’s Hospital. A series of photographs portraying local athletes with newborn babies and young children.
Ahmed El Bahrani
The Challenge 2015 at the Lusail Multi-Purpose Sports Hall. A series of bronze sculptures depicting larger-than life hands reaching for the sky.
Lorenzo Quinn
The Force of Nature II at Katara Cultural Village. Large bronze sculpture depicting Mother Nature as a woman hurling the planet in circles.
Tony Smith
This monumental sculpture sits at the entrance to the new Doha Exhibition & Convention Centre (DECC) in West Bay. Open and inviting, profound yet serene, the giant geometric components of this sculpture fill the surrounding space, towering over people below as they make their way.
Ali Hassan Al-Jaber
Acclaimed Qatari artist Ali Hassan’s “Desert Horse” captures the spirit of the travel and the flow of movement, just as the Bedouins used horses for travel in the past. The artwork is an interpretation of the iconic desert horse and represents different forms of the Arabic letter “ن” (“n”). It is located outside the arrivals meet and greet hall, gate number 3.
César Baldaccini
“Le Pouce” a sculpture in the shape of a giant thumb, art piece by acclaimed French artist César Baldaccini at Souq Waqif.