The newly introduced artworks also include a collection of contemporary sculptures and pieces by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, including "My Soul Blooms Forever", "Flowers that speak all about my heart, "Dancing Pumpkin" and "Daffodil Garden", along with a sculpture specially created for the desert by Olafur Eliasson and is set to be displayed in the vicinity of the Islamic Art Museum Park.
Among the new additions also come German artist Catarina Fritsch's "The Rooster" at the Sheraton Doha, and the sculptures by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, including an artwork in the Qatari desert entitled "Lazy Turtle and a Model of the Earth", and "Earth Cocoon, Our Goal is Life" in tandem with KAWS' "The Promise 2022", Depicting the American artists companion figures in a tender gesture suggesting a parent carefully passing the globe to the hands of a child.
"Mountains of Doha" by Swiss Ugo Rondinon, will go on view on the facade of Ras Abu Aboud Beach in Doha near Stadium 974, along with US Rashid Johnson's mosaic artwork "Qatari Walls - Village of the Sun" .
Inspired by a group of four major modern buildings in Doha, Shezad Dawood's "Doha Modern Games" will be exhibited in the Theater Park, in addition to "Naseem" (Breeze) by Kuwaiti artist Munira Al Qadiri, a huge diorama of microscopic organisms in the fossilized algae in the Arabian Peninsula, which will go on view along the northern shore of the Western Gulf.
The "Rock on Top of Another Rock" Sculpture by Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss will be displayed in the National Theater. The sculpture depicts two stacked rocks weighing about 30 tons balanced without a mainstay.
At the Corniche Park, a series of sculptures by Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang under the title of "Here, We Hear" will motivate onlookers to gather and interact with each other, while "I Live Under Your Sky," by Indian Shilpa Gupta will be exhibited at the 974 Stadium along with American Lawrence Weiner's "All Stars in the Sky Have the Same Face". (MORE)