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Alhosh Gallery, in partnership with Halatech Robotics & AI Edu, opens Sunday its “AI & Robotics Summer Camp” at Porto Arabia, the Pearl. Designed to prepare the next generation for the digital economy, the programme transforms abstract scientific concepts into practical, hands-on experiences. Participants step into the roles of engineers and creators, learning the fundamentals of coding, programming and robotics. Rather than just consuming technology, the programme will teach students how to actively design, build, and program their own functional robots, turning imaginative concepts into working prototypes. The camp offers a unique bridge between holiday recreation and academic growth. Speaking to Gulf Times, Mahmud Abdussalam, an engineer and high school robotics teacher, emphasised the long-term value of the programme. “These artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics summer camps are an excellent opportunity for children and teenagers, not only to give them an interactive opportunity during the holidays, but it is an eye-opener for newcomers as well as it consolidates the skills of enthusiasts,” he said. “It is a good preparation also for the forthcoming activities during the school year 2026-27,” he said. The programme expertly balances technical skill-building with creative design thinking. Beyond the keyboard and circuit board, the camp places a heavy emphasis on essential soft skills. Through collaborative challenges, participants develop critical thinking, rapid problem-solving, and teamwork, aligning their skills with the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. To guarantee a high-quality educational environment, the organisers have strictly capped attendance, allowing only 15 seats per group. This low student-to-instructor ratio ensures personalised attention and direct supervision, maximising the educational impact for each participant. Organisers urge interested families to secure the remaining open slots immediately before registration officially closes. The intensive programme concludes with a unique “Tech × Art” exhibition. This final showcase allows students to professionally present their innovations to parents and visitors, blending technical engineering with artistic expression while boosting their confidence as young creators. 

AlHosh Gallery at Porto Arabia, The Pearl Island, drew art enthusiasts and families on Saturday (July 4) for a cultural event featuring contemporary art, wellness activities and interactive workshops. Bringing together artists, creatives, and members of the public, the programme offered an immersive experience designed to make art more accessible and to encourage meaningful engagement with Qatar’s growing cultural landscape. The event featured a carefully curated lineup of activities that appealed to a broad audience. Visitors enjoyed speciality pop-up coffee experiences alongside exhibitions and creative sessions, while one of the standout attractions was an innovative Pilates class held inside the gallery, where participants practised among contemporary artworks in an environment that merged physical movement with artistic inspiration. Organisers from BE Pilates described the initiative as an encouraging first step in introducing wellness activities into cultural spaces. “Pilates is a low-impact mind-body workout that emphasises core strength, flexibility, and controlled breathing,” the organisers said. “It is an excellent way to improve posture, build lean muscle, and prevent injuries without putting heavy stress on your joints.” “The Pilates session welcomed 13 ladies and received an overwhelmingly positive response,” they added. “Although it was announced as a mixed event because the gallery space was not fully private, the experience exceeded our expectations.” They said that the enthusiastic feedback has already prompted plans for future sessions. “Following the success of the event, we are now working on covering the gallery space to create a completely private environment that will allow us to host dedicated ladies-only Pilates sessions in the coming weeks,” the organisers said. “We believe combining movement with art offers participants a unique and inspiring experience.” Creativity also took centre stage through a contemporary Arabic Calligraffiti workshop led by artist Kareemgraphy (Abdul Kareem), in collaboration with AlHosh Gallery, which introduced participants to the blending of Arabic calligraphy and graffiti to create custom art pieces. The hands-on session explored the balance between heritage and innovation, encouraging attendees to experiment with contemporary calligraphic techniques and graffiti while celebrating Arab cultural identity. The workshop generated significant enthusiasm among participants, many of whom expressed a desire to continue developing their skills through future sessions. Organisers noted a growing interest in Arabic Calligraffiti, particularly among younger generations eager to reconnect with the art form through modern creative practices. The weekend programme forms part of AlHosh Gallery’s ongoing efforts to establish itself as an open and inclusive cultural platform that encourages dialogue between artists and the wider community. By combining exhibitions with workshops, wellness activities, and lifestyle experiences, the gallery continues to redefine how audiences engage with contemporary art beyond the traditional exhibition format. The diverse programme attracted a wide cross-section of visitors, drawn by the opportunity to experience art through multiple senses in an atmosphere that encouraged participation rather than observation. The combination of visual art, movement, conversation, and speciality coffee created a distinctive cultural destination where creativity extended beyond gallery walls. Committed to supporting local and regional artists, AlHosh Gallery regularly hosts solo and group exhibitions, as well as educational workshops and community events. Its open, experiential approach continues to contribute to Qatar’s evolving cultural scene, positioning the gallery as a vibrant meeting point where art, innovation, and community come together. 

Al Markhiya Gallery at Fire Station: Artist in Residence, in collaboration with the Dalloul Artist Collective, announced Saturday the launch of an art exhibition titled “Lines of Belonging”, featuring Qatari artist Salman al-Malek and Lebanese artist Fawzi Baalbaki.The exhibition will open on Tuesday at 6.30pm at the Fire Station: Artist in Residence and will run until August 16.Bringing together two distinguished voices in contemporary Arab painting, “Lines of Belonging” explores the intersections of memory, identity, and lived experience.Through their distinctive artistic practices, the exhibition highlights a shared commitment to the power of art as a bridge between personal narratives, cultural heritage, and universal human emotion.The exhibition's paintings and artworks explore the dynamic relationship between form, line, and colour, offering the public a rich visual experience that opens up broad horizons and multiple interpretations.This reflects the richness and uniqueness of both experiences within the world of contemporary art, making the exhibition a special opportunity for art enthusiasts to discover new creative features that blend artistic heritage with profound human experience.Al-Malek approaches painting as both cultural memory and contemporary proposition.His practice negotiates the relationship between authenticity and modernity, giving rise to works that are deeply rooted in social consciousness while remaining open to formal experimentation.For al-Malek, art must hold a purpose - even when expressed through abstraction or colour.For Baalbaki, the painted line is an act of emotional survival.His figures, animals, and intertwined forms emerge through simplified gestures that move between abstraction and recognition, inviting the viewer to complete what the line leaves open.His compositions hold tenderness, solitude, companionship, and fleeting moments of joy within surfaces of deliberate lightness.Together, their works offer something increasingly rare: a space where form still carries feeling, abstraction remains human, and art continues to serve as a bridge between memory, place, and shared experience. 

Al Markhiya Gallery at Katara Art Center is organising the exhibition 'Between Yesterday and Today,' opening on Tuesday. Featuring the works of artists Lulu M, Masoud Rashid al-Balushi, and Mubarak al-Malik, the exhibition offers an artistic exploration of the three artists’ careers, highlighting the transformations in their creative experiences, the ideas that have evolved over time, and the artistic identities that have been shaped through years of research, experimentation, and growth.Through their new works, the artists showcase different stages of their artistic journeys, with each piece reflecting a unique signature and experience, while maintaining the common thread that united them in their early beginnings. The exhibition also provides visitors with an opportunity to compare the transformations in their artistic styles and creative visions over the past ten years.The exhibition serves as a space for dialogue between the past and the present, documenting the evolution of the artists' individual experiences and highlighting how accumulated expertise and experiences have shaped their current works, whether in terms of techniques, themes, or visual approaches.The organisers emphasise that 'Between Yesterday and Today' is not merely a showcase of new artworks, but rather a journey of reflection on the paths of three artists who began from a common point before each embarking on his or her own unique journey, only to reunite this time in an artistic experience that celebrates growth, development, and continuity within the visual arts landscape. 

Al Markhiya Gallery launched on Wednesday an online exhibition titled "The Infinite Line," by renowned Qatari visual artist Yasser Al Mulla. The exhibition is available online and will run until October 12. The gallery invited art enthusiasts and gallery-goers to take a virtual tour of the exhibition, which features contemplative artworks distinguished by themes of persistence, memory, and rebirth, hallmarks of Al Mulla's artistic expression. The works on display range from black and white to shades of gray, unfolding into a broad spectrum of visual possibilities that place the viewer in a space between doubt and certainty. Hosted on the international art platform Artsy, the online exhibition offers audiences around the world the opportunity to interact with the artist Al Mulla's experience and learn about his artistic imprint. This exhibition is part of Al Markhiya Gallery's ongoing efforts to support Qatari artists, in addition to its commitment to promote Arab artists. By organizing such exhibitions, the gallery aims to showcase creative talents on global platforms, highlighting the richness and diversity of the Qatari and Arab art scene. Al Markhiya Gallery is regarded as a cornerstone of the cultural and artistic scene in Qatar and the Gulf region, contributing to enriching the visual arts movement, fostering cultural development, and promoting Qatari and Arab art both locally and internationally through exhibitions and international participations.

The “Sudan Retold Edition 1½”, a compelling exploration of Sudanese cultural wealth and intellectual achievement, was launched Friday at Alhosh Gallery at The Pearl Island.The event featured a book launch and an accompanying art exhibition, immersing attendees in photography, paintings, and multimedia installations that bring Sudan’s creative stories into dialogue with themes of memory, space, and community.Curated by Georgetown University in Qatar (GU-Q) Artist-in-Residence Khalid Albaih, alongside Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann and Abdelrahiem (Rahiem) Shadad, the project invites audiences to engage with Sudanese narratives beyond dominant political or historical frameworks, opening a space for alternative voices, layered interpretations, and artistic testimony.The initiative is part of the “Seeing Sudan: Politics Through Art” conference, a three-day event that began on September 18 at the Four Seasons Doha.It also forms part of a long-term project, now more than a decade in the making, that unites Sudanese artists, writers, curators, and cultural workers responding to a country often reduced to a single narrative despite its diverse cultures, religions, languages, and histories.Edited by Albaih, Fuhrmann, and Suzi Mirghani, the second volume of “Sudan Retold” was developed amid Sudan’s fragile transitional period: from the revolution, to renewed repression, to the 2021 military coup.With many contributors now displaced by ongoing conflict, the work resonates across geographies, weaving fiction, personal memory, archival fragments, and visual storytelling.The curators noted that the book and exhibition “are not historical overviews. They are fragments, fictions, testimonies, and visual narratives. They draw on personal archives, oral histories, forgotten objects, and speculative figures – not to reconstruct a singular past, but to open space tor layered, plural understandings of Sudan”.Among the featured works is *The Khartoum School by Ayat R H Ahmed, highlighting the influential Sudanese modern art movement shaped by artists such as Ahmed Shibrain, Ibrahim El Salahi, and Kamala Ishag.El Salahi, who once studied art in London, fused Western influences with Sudanese traditions to create a distinctive style that redefined audiences’ perceptions of modern African art.Also showcased is *Echoes of the Studio: Faces from the Archive by Waleed Mohammad, which reimagines mid-20th-century Sudanese studio portraits and family photographs, offering a meditation on continuity, change, and loss across generations.Another installation revisits “The Neighbourhood Association”, a tradition dating back to 1990 in Khartoum’s Burri district, where women organised collective support for community events, embodying enduring practices of solidarity.The exhibition also features *An Ode from the Diaspora, a series of illustrated poems that narrate fictional conversations between Sudanese creatives wrestling with self-doubt on the eve of the 2019 revolution – an exploration of art’s power to inspire change.

The Thai embassy in Doha, in collaboration with Qatar Museums (QM), is set to open a week-long exhibition, titled “Thailand’s Innovative Upcycling for Everyday Life” at M7 Gallery Monday.The exhibition, which runs until September 14, aims to showcase Thailand’s expertise and best practices of circular economy with Qatar by highlighting Thailand’s successful journey.It demonstrates how science and creativity can offer tangible, scalable alternatives to unsustainable consumption, making the circular economy part of daily life.According to the embassy, the exhibition will also showcase to local researchers, designers, public servants, and the general public that wastes can be turned into usable items and encourage recycling/upcycling for a truly circular economy.Building on Thailand’s participation at the Earthna Summit 2025, this exhibition will underline Thailand’s human-centred approach to sustainability integrating modern technology, local wisdom, and environmental responsibility to promote inclusive, practical, and enduring development.Featured exhibits will include sustainable products made from recycled plastic, agricultural by-products, marine debris, and industrial waste, ranging from eco-textiles and biodegradable packaging to artisanal homeware and lifestyle items.The exhibition is open to the public.

Al Markhiya Gallery is preparing to launch a new group exhibition titled “Reshaped” at the Fire Station - Artists’ Residence, on Tuesday evening, August 26, from 7 to 9pm, with the participation of a select group of Qatari and Arab artists currently working in Qatar.The exhibition brings together the works of more than twenty-five artists.In this context, Anas Qutait, art co-ordinator of Al Markhiya Gallery, said: “Through this exhibition, we are keen to present diverse artistic experiences that reflect the richness of the Arab art scene in Qatar. We emphasise the importance of materials as a partner in the creative process. The diversity of participants and their various styles give the exhibition an aesthetic and cognitive dimension that enriches the audience’s experience and exposes them to new interpretations of contemporary art.” Qutait added that the exhibition offers the public a unique opportunity to view a wide and diverse collection of artworks that reflect the spirit of experimentation and innovation among the participating artists, where materials and styles intertwine to create an integrated sensory and intellectual experience.The exhibition also provides an opportunity for visitors to interact directly with the works and explore the way each artist approaches both materials and ideas, making each painting, sculpture, or installation a unique experience that engages the senses and provokes thought.Through this diversity, the exhibition transforms into a vibrant space for contemplation and exploration, allowing the audience to experience art from a different perspective and brings them closer to understanding the depth of the creative process and the nature of the relationship between the artists and their material.This makes “Reshaped” an important addition to the cultural and artistic scene in Doha. At its core, the exhibition presents an artistic contemplation of the relationship between material, meaning, and transformation.“Reshaped” is part of Al Markhiya Gallery’s ongoing efforts to support Arab artists and highlight their experiences, while also consolidating Doha’s position as a prominent cultural destination hosting the most prominent art events in the region.