The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar. Photo: Ali Altunkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images
The first edition of Rubaiya Qatar, a new quadrennial in Doha, opens next month and will host more than 120 artists from around the world, including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Nepal, Palestine, the Philippines, Sudan, and Thailand. This inaugural quadrennial is focused on global ecology, water, and maritime heritage and comprises three exhibitions and public installations, as well as a display of historic artifacts from the tenth-century Cirebon shipwreck, which reveal ancient cultural and commercial exchange routes.
The main exhibition, titled “Unruly Water,” takes place from November 21, 2026 to April 30, 2027, and is curated by Tom Eccles, executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies and the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College; Ruba Katrib, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs at MoMA PS1; Mark Rappolt, editor in chief of ArtReview and ArtReview Asia; and Shabbir Husain Mustafa, chief curator at the Singapore Art Museum. The other two exhibitions, “Our Common Currents” and “Seething Sea” will open on November 22 and also run until April 30, 2027.
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Participating artists are listed below.
“Unruly Water“
Bani Abidi, Pakistan
Nicholas Galanin, United States
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lebanon / UK
Shilpa Gupta, India
Yousef Ahmad, Qatar
Hit Man Gurung, Nepal
Khalid Albaih, Sudan
Mayar Hamdan, Palestine
Kamal Aljafari, Palestine
Sohrab Hura, India
Sophia Al-Maria, Qatar
Saodat Ismailova, Uzbekistan
Farah Al Qasimi, UAE
Naiza Khan, UK / Pakistan
Majid Al-Remaihi, Qatar
Saba Khan, Pakistan
Shaima Al-Tamimi, Yemen
Ayoung Kim, South Korea
Meriem Bennani, Morocco
Charles Lim, Singapore
Mohamed Bourouissa, France / Algeria
Imaad Majeed, Sri Lanka
Liu Chuang, China
Diego Marcon, Italy
Ade Darmawan, Indonesia
Naeem Mohaiemen, Bangladesh
Alia Farid, Puerto Rico / Kuwait
Yuko Mohri, Japan
Simone Fattal, Lebanon
Manny Montelibano, Philippines
Cao Fei, China
Jean Katambayi Mukendi, DRC
Oscar Murillo, Colombia
Selma Selman, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Hira Nabi, Pakistan
Priya Sen, India
Dala Nasser, Lebanon
Wael Shawky, Egypt
New Red Order, United States
Ahlam Shibli, Palestine
Ho Tzu Nyen, Singapore
Marina Tabassum, Bangladesh
Lydia Ourahmane, Algeria
Newsha Tavakolian, Iran
Pratchaya Phinthong, Thailand
Nathalie Vairac, France / Senegal
Tan Pin Pin, Singapore
Adrian van Wyk, South Africa
Khalil Rabah, Palestine
Munem Wasif, Bangladesh
Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Nepal
He Xiangyu, China
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook, Thailand
Ayman Zedani, Saudi Arabia
“Our Common Currents”
Nadia Belerique, Canada
Basim Magdy, Egypt
Aziz Motawa, Kuwait
Joseph Ntensibe, Uganda
Works from the Art Mill Museum Collection by KABINDA
Olafur Eliasson, Iceland / Denmark
Barbara Chase-Riboud, France / US
Lala Rukh, Pakistan
Taloi Havini, Australia / Bougainville
Latent Community, Greece
Miguel Fernández de Castro, Mexico
Artcom Platform, Kazakhstan
“Seething Sea”
Abbas Al-Mahroos, Bahrain
Hisham Zubari, Bahrain
Abdul Karim Al-Bosta, Bahrain
Hossein Kashian, Iran
Abdul Qader Al-Rais, United Arab Emirates
Iran Darroudi, Iran
Abdulhalim Radwi, Saudi Arabia
Issa Saqer, Kuwait
Abdulkarim Al-Orrayed, Bahrain
Jasem AlSanea, Kuwait
Abdullah Al-Muharraqi, Bahrain
Jassim Zaini, Qatar
Abdulrasoul Salman, Kuwait
Khaled Al-Rahhal, Iraq
Abeer Al-Kuwari, Qatar
Khalifa Al-Qattan, Kuwait
Ahmed Abdul Ridha Saleh, Kuwait
Mahmoud Sabri, Iraq
Ali Dasmal Al-Kuwari, Qatar
Mahood Ahmad, Iraq
Ali Sharif, Qatar
Majid Hilal Al-Naimi, Qatar
Ali Yahya, Iraq
Manal AlDowayan, Saudi Arabia
Alymamah Rashed, Kuwait
Massoud Arabshahi, Iran
Amna Al-Baker, Qatar
Mohammed Fadhil, Oman
Bahman Dadkhah, Iran
Mohammed Ghani Hikmet, Iraq
Balqees Fakhro, Bahrain
Mohammed Jassim Al-Jaidah, Qatar
Basmah Felemban, Saudi Arabia
Monira Al Qadiri, Kuwait
Charles Hossein-Zenderoudi, Iran
Moosa Omar Al-Zadjali, Oman
Dalal Al-Obaidi, Kuwait
Nasser Ovissi, Iran
Dia Azzawi, Iraq
Pouran Jinchi, Iran
Essa Al-Ghanem, Qatar
Rafa Nasiri, Iraq
Essa Al-Malki, Qatar
Salem Mathkour, Iraq
Faisal Samra, Saudi Arabia
Sophia Al-Maria, Qatar
Fuad Al-Futaih, Yemen
Suad Al-Attar, Iraq
Gholamhossein Nami, Iran
Tamader Al-Sultan, Qatar
Hamid Al-Attar, Iraq
Wafika Sultan Al-Essa, Qatar
Hassan Sharif, United Arab Emirates
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