Special Art Mill Museum 2030 Exhibition Opens on 24 October
The special exhibition Art Mill Museum 2030 will be on display to the public from 24 October 2022 through 30 March 2023 at the Qatar Flour Mills Warehouse and the recently renovated Al Najada Heritage House #15 in Doha in honor of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022TM and the year-round national cultural movement Qatar Creates. The exhibition will provide an overview of the Art Mill Museum's idea, the ELEMENTAL architectural proposal under the direction of Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena, as well as the landscape design, with an eye toward the museum's inauguration in 2030.
The Art Mill Museum
The Art Mill Museum completes a cultural district that already includes the Museum of Islamic Art, MIA Park, and the National Museum of Qatar. It will house an exceptional and international art collection gathered over the past 40 years, with multidisciplinary works of enormous diversity dating from 1850 to the present. The Art Mill Museum will feature iconic works of visual art together with architecture and design, films and film props, fashion, crafts, and much more in a primary structure that is 80,000 square meters in size. It will represent modern and contemporary art from all over the world equally as a pioneering institution in the non-Western world, engaging both domestic and foreign audiences with a variety of art historical narratives.
Site 1: From Flour to Art
The construction the exhibition From Flour to Art offers the public a first look into what will eventually make up the complex while also introducing the museum's vision. Visitors may watch as Alejandro Aravena, an architect, and ELEMENTAL rebuild the existing structure, which is notable for its magnificent concrete silos, to create a museum that includes a creative hamlet and public park. An engaging exhibition featuring authentic models, sketches, and renderings will show how the project has evolved since the worldwide design competition in 2016.
- Site 1 – Qatar Flour Mills Warehouse: “From Flour to Art”
- Address: Qatar Flour Mills Warehouse, Doha Corniche
- Times: Saturday to Thursday 10:00 to 17:00, Friday 14:00- 19:00
- Prior reservations are necessary on the Qatar Museums website
Site 2: The Museum’s Garden
The Museum's Garden, the second component of Art Mill Museum 2030, is on display at Al Najada Heritage House #15, a recently renovated home close to Souq Waqif.
Aurélien Lemonier, Curator of Architecture, Design, and Gardens at the Art Mill Museum, and Maryam Hassan Al Thani, Curator, Qatar Museums Exhibitions Department, are the exhibition's curators. The project manager for the show is Malak Hassan from the Qatar Museums Exhibitions Department. Clémence Bergal, Head of Collections and Commissions at the Art Mill Museum, has overseen the commissions for the exhibition.
- Site 2 – Al Najada Heritage House # 15: “The Museum’s Garden”
- Address: Al Najada District, Old Doha
- Times: Saturday to Thursday 10:00 to 17:00, Friday 14:00- 19:00
- Prior reservations are necessary on Qatar Museums website.
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