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Happy to share that a few of my pieces will be on display with @wusumgallery at @visual_art_center for Fereej el Fan festival starting today 🤍 come say hi 🕯️🤍 taken in Darb Al Saai by @wusumgallery

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Our booth at Asia NOW is now on view | Booth M08 | 22–26 October

Katara Art Center, in collaboration with Wusum Gallery, is thrilled to participate in the 11th edition of Asia NOW, Paris.

Featuring a duo presentation, the booth brings together works by Qatari artists Noora Al Hardan (b. 1999) and Hamad AlFayhani (b. 1999), whose practices converge around acts of visual manipulation—cropping, layering, blurring, and distortion. Working primarily with photography, both artists explore how images can mediate emotional states and reframe the ways we experience and internalise the spaces around us. While their approaches are distinct, a shared sensitivity to light, surface, and atmosphere runs through their work.

Special thanks to the Embassy of the State of Qatar in Paris for their continued support and cooperation.

📸 Photos by Nicolo Venelli

#KataraArtCenter #WusumGallery #AsiaNow #QatarEmbassyFrance #QatarArt #DohaToParis #ContemporaryArt #QatariArtists taken in Monnaie de Paris by @wusumgallery

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Open Studio (2–11 September 2025) marked the culmination of Amna AlBaker’s residency at Katara Art Center, organized with Wusum Gallery. Over two months, the artist developed new works across textiles, drawing, and installation, exploring process as both instinct and devotion. Reworking familiar materials in freer ways and incorporating organic elements, the pieces reflected on memory, femininity, grief, and renewal, while drawing on influences such as Clarice Lispector and Louise Bourgeois.

NASO sat down with the artist for a conversation on the occasion of the exhibition — swipe through to read more 💫 by @wusumgallery

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A new text is now live on wusumgallery.com, offering a closer look at the evolving practice of Qatari artist Amna AlBaker, with reflections on the body of work she developed during her 2025 summer residency at Katara Art Center.

The residency culminates in an Open Studio exhibition, currently on view at Katara Art Center until 11 September 2025.

Read the full text at wusumgallery.com 🩶 taken in Katara Art Centre by @wusumgallery

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Thank you to everyone who came to the opening of Amna AlBaker’s Open Studio exhibition at Katara Art Center. It was such a special evening celebrating Amna and the close of her summer residency—your presence was truly the present 🩶

On view until 11 September 2025, the exhibition brings together works developed over July and August—situated between finished, unfinished, and in progress.

We look forward to welcoming you.

📍 Katara Art Center, Building 5
🗓️ 2-11 September 2025

📸: @djkervin
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Amna AlBaker (b. 1996) is a Qatari artist whose work offers a deeply personal exploration of identity, womanhood, and emotional transformation. Her art reflects a delicate balance between the personal and the collective, using the terrain of her native Qatar and the mythologies of the Arabian Peninsula to tell stories about inner worlds and the tension between self and society. taken in Katara Art Centre by @wusumgallery

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Open Studio Exhibition: Amna AlBaker | Katara Art Center | 2-11 September 2025, 7-9pm

Wusum Gallery and Katara Art Center are pleased to invite you to an open studio exhibition marking the conclusion of Amna AlBaker’s summer residency.

The exhibition presents a body of work developed over July and August 2025, offering insight into Amna’s ongoing process across painting, textiles, writing, and visual research. Situated between finished, unfinished, and in progress, the works reflect her practice of weaving together memory, identity, and collective histories through material exploration.

🕢 Exhibition opening 7-9pm
📍 Katara Art Center
🗓 2-11 September 2025

Your presence is the present 🩶

Image courtesy of the Artist.

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Amna AlBaker (b. 1996) is a Qatari artist whose work offers a deeply personal exploration of identity, womanhood, and emotional transformation. Her art reflects a delicate balance between the personal and the collective, using the terrain of her native Qatar and the mythologies of the Arabian Peninsula to tell stories about inner worlds and the tension between self and society. taken in Katara Art Centre by @wusumgallery

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⁨ من مرسمها في مركز كتارا للفن، تخوض الفنانة آمنة الباكر رحلة بحث وتجريب تنتج فيها أفكاراً جديدة ومواد متعددة—من النسيج والكلمات، إلى الأسطح الملوّنة وأجزاء من البحث البصري تتقاطع في حوار منسجم. تتنقل ممارستها بين الكتابة والإنشاء والتأمل، حيث تقودها الذاكرة والمادة نحو مسارات غير متوقعة في تطور عملها الفني.

تستمر الإقامة الفنية حتى 31 أغسطس، وتُتوّج بمعرض مرسم مفتوح يقام من 2 إلى 11 سبتمبر 2025، يُدعى فيه الجمهور لاكتشاف ما أبرزته هذه الإقامة الصيفية من أعمال جديدة.

الصور بإذن من الفنانة.
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Working from her studio at Katara Art Center, Amna AlBaker has been experimenting with new ideas and materials—textiles, words, painted surfaces, and fragments of research coming together in dialogue. Her process moves between writing, making, and reflecting, allowing memory and material to guide the work in unexpected ways.

The residency continues until 31 August, and will culminate in an open studio exhibition from 2–11 September 2025, where audiences are invited to encounter the work developed over the summer.⁩

Images courtesy of the Artist. taken in Katara Art Centre by @wusumgallery

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Artist Studio: Amna AlBaker at Katara Art Center | 8 July - 31 August 2025

Wusum Gallery and Katara Art Center (KAC) are pleased to announce a summer artist studio residency with Qatari artist Amna AlBaker (b. 1996), taking place from 8 July to 31 August 2025.

KAC is providing Amna AlBaker with an independent working space to focus on the development of new work. Rooted in process and introspection, Amna’s practice moves fluidly between writing, painting, textiles, and visual research—often weaving together personal memory with collective histories.

The art studio residency offers her the space to think, make, and experiment freely, away from the demands of public display. This collaboration reflects a shared commitment between Wusum and KAC to support meaningful artistic practices in Qatar.

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Amna AlBaker (b. 1996) is a Qatari artist whose work offers a deeply personal exploration of identity, womanhood, and emotional transformation. Her art reflects a delicate balance between the personal and the collective, using the terrain of her native Qatar and the mythologies of the Arabian Peninsula to tell stories about inner worlds and the tension between self and society. taken in Katara Art Centre by @wusumgallery

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تظهر العناصر الموسيقية بوضوح في سلسلة “فيلدز” المطبوعة للفنان طارق درويش. تتراوح الأعمال بين لوحات ضخمة بطول أربعة أمتار وأخرى أكثر قربا للمشاهد ، مما يجعلها أكثر الأعمال بهجةً في المعرض. بعد عودة درويش إلى الدوحة في أوائل التسعينيات، شكّل استخدام الكمبيوتر لحظة تحرر له. ومنذ ذلك الحين، بدأ في استكشاف إمكانياته في سياق ممارسته الفنية. تتميز سلسلة “فيلدز” بإيقاعها المعقد والجذاب، حيث تدعو المشاهدين إلى رحلة بصرية فريدة. بالنسبة لدرويش، الرسم هو الوسيلة الوحيدة للرؤية، ومع تفاصيلها المتناهية، تمثل سلسلة “فيلدز” احتفاءً بهذه الفكرة، حيث تعد بمثابة تمارين دقيقة في واحدة من أهم الأنشطة الإنسانية.

“فيلدز”: طارق درويش ، مستمر لغاية 28 فبراير
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Musical elements are visible in Tarek Darwish’s print series “Fields”. Varying between majestic four metre panels to more intimate prints, these are the most playful works in the presented survey. After Darwish’s return to Doha in the early 1990s, access to a computer marked a moment of liberation for him. Since his return, Darwish has explored their potential vis-à-vis his practice. The “Fields” have a rhythmic and intricate quality to them, inviting viewers to embark on a journey of seeing. For Darwish, drawing is the only way to see and with their seemingly endless detailing, “Fields” series is a celebration of this: delicate exercises into one of the most important human activities.

‘Fields: Tarek Darwish’ is on view until 28 February.

Details:
From “Fields” series (2010-2024), variable dimensions, digital print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, mounted on aluminium.

📆: 15 Jan - 28 February 2025.
🕑: Monday-Saturday, 3-9 pm.
📍: Eiwan Al Gassar, Al Gassar, St. Regis Doha taken in Eiwan Al Gassar by @wusumgallery

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Join us for a public talk with Tarek Darwish on Monday 17 February at 6pm at the Gallery to learn more about Darwish’s multifaceted practice. As always your presence is the present. 🤍

Kindly note that the talk will be in English.

📆: 17 February.
🕑: 6-7 pm.
📍: Eiwan Al Gassar, Al Gassar, St. Regis Doha.

#tarekdarwish taken in Eiwan Al Gassar by @wusumgallery

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تكمن فكرة الشكل في صميم رسومات "النوتة" لطارق درويش، والتي تُعرض حاليًا كجزء من معرضه الفردي “فيلدز” في رواق وسوم. تستند هذه الرسومات إلى بنية مألوفة تُستخدم في تأليف و"كتابة" الموسيقى، مما يجعلها أكثر تجريدًا في مفرداتها البصرية مقارنةً بسلسلتَي "الغابات" و"الحروف". ومع ذلك، يوازن درويش بين هذه العفوية وبين الرموز المألوفة، بالإضافة إلى الإحاطة المكثفة التي غالبًا ما تحاكي عملية الترميز. هنا، يصبح الحوار بين الشكل والفوضى مرئيًا بوضوح؛ حيث يتعارض الإيقاع القلق مع الإحاطة التي توفر بنية وسط الحركة العشوائية.
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The idea of a form is at the core of Tarek Darwish’s “Score” drawings currently on view as part of Darwish’s solo exhibition ‘Fields’ at Wusum Gallery. Created on a recognisable structure used to compose and ‘write’ music on, these drawings are inherently more abstract in their visual lexicon than “Forests” and “Letters” although Darwish also contrasts this spontaneity with recognisable symbols and an often intense encircling resembling a coding process. Here, the dialogue between form and chaos are legibly visible: the restless tempo is contrasted by the encircling which provides structure amidst all the random movement.

Artwork details:
From “Score” series ‘A-G’ (2021), variable including pen, pencil and crayon on paper, 28 x 21.5 cm.

📆: 15 January - 28 February 2025.
🕑: Monday-Saturday, 3-9 pm.
📍: Eiwan Al Gassar, Al Gassar, St. Regis Doha.

#tarekdarwish taken in Eiwan Al Gassar by @wusumgallery

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‎المفهوم الأساسي الذي يقوم عليه المعرض الفردي “فيلدز” لطارق درويش، هو مفهوم الشكل، حيث يلعب دورًا جوهريًا في سلسلة "رسائل". تتألف السلسلة من 35 عمل أُنجزت بين مارس 2018 وأكتوبر 2019، وتتخذ هذه الأعمال شكل رسالة بين درويش والمشاهدين، متأملةً موضوع الرسم. من خلال الدمج بين النقاط العضوية، واللوالب، والخطوط العمودية، والبقع، وآثار المحو العرضية على الشبكات الموجودة في خلفية الورق، يتلاعب درويش بفكرة الإطار. وبطريقة مشابهة لسلسلة "الغابة"، يقدم عددًا من الرسومات بطاقات مختلفة – موحدة بطبيعتها الإيقاعية والأدائية، لكنها في الوقت نفسه تبدو صافية ومستقلة. تتصدر التسلسلات والنقاط والعلامات والخطوط هذه السلسلة، وكأن درويش يستكشف استراتيجيات وفلسفات مختلفة للنقطة والخط.
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The central concept underlying Tarek Darwish’s solo show ‘Fields’, namely that of the form, plays an integral role in the series “Letters”. Consisting of 35 drawings created between March 2018 and October 2019, the works assume the form of a letter between Darwish and viewers, musing on the subject of drawing. Juxtaposing organic points, spirals, vertical lines, smudges, and occasional traces of erasing pencil marks against the existing grids on the background of the paper, Darwish fiddles with the idea of a framework. Similarly to the “Forest” series, he presents a number of drawings with varying energies–united by their rhythmical and lyrical nature, yet somehow also raw and autonomous. Sequences and points, marks, and lines dominate this series, almost as if Darwish explores the different strategies and philosophies for a point and line.

1. ‘No. 32 (25 July 2018)’, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper.
2. ‘No. 26 (23 June 2018)’, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper.
3. ‘No. 24 (3 June 2018)’, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper.
4. ‘No. 14 (28 March 2018)’, print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper.
5. Installation photo.

📆: 15 January - 28 February 2025.
🕑: Monday-Saturday, 3-9 pm.
📍: Eiwan Al Gassar, Al Gassar, St. Regis Doha.

#tarekdarwish by @wusumgallery

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