CONTEMPORARY ARAB ART, PART 1

11 November - 1 December 2008

An inaugural exhibition of Arab contemporary art from Qatar and the region

Abdul-Karim Majdal Al-Beik (Syria), Adel El Siwi (Egypt), Aisha Al Mesnd (Qatar), Ali Hassan (Qatar), Ali Mukawwas (Syria), Amer Al Obaidi (Iraq), Asma Al Mannai (Qatar), Faraj Daham (Qatar), Fathel Neema (Iraq), George Bahgory (Egypt), Hala Al-Khalifa (Bahrain), Ismail Azzam (Iraq), Issam Tantawi (Jordan), Mahmoud Obaidi (Iraq), Mohammad Al Wahibi (Palestine), Mohammad Mourabiti (Morocco), Mohammad Shabib (Syria), Nadira Mahmoud (Oman), Nazir Ismail (Syria), Nihad Al-Turk (Syria), Sabhan Adam (Syria), Salem Mathkour (Iraq), Salman Al-Malek (Qatar), Yousef Ahmad (Qatar), and Zaman Jassim (Saudi Arabia)

al markhiya gallery, is founded as part of the al markhiya group featuring works by young Qatari artists dedicated to exhibiting and promoting Arabic artwork. Established initially at Souq Waquif, the organisation began to shape a vision of nurturing and promoting Arab art, both locally and globally.

al markhiya is a newly established gallery that aims to support art in Qatar and the region. It will work to promote and represent a distinctive group of emerging and established artists from Qatar and the Middle East, will open with inaugural exhibition on “Arab Contemporary Art” that consists of selection of the gallery’s permanent collection, along with works by well-established Qatari artists such as Ali Hassan, Youssef Ahmad, Faraj Daham and Salman Al-Malek and other artists from Middle East such as Nazir Ismail, Amer Al Obaidi, Mahmoud Al Obaidi and George Bahgory.