Even the subway stations are art in Doha, the capital of the immense natural qatar. The more than thirty distinctive outputs for the 2022 World Cup in the city of 2022 were designed by the unstudio of the renowned Dutch architect Ben van Berkel, who is responsible for the iconic Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. Otherwise there is a sculpture of almost every important and sinner living around in Doha, on which everything is concentrated in the small desert state on the northeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula, as in an open-air museum. welcomes from the several meter high honey yellow sculpture “Lampen-Bär” by the celebrated Swiss artist Urs Fischer, who promises a quick journey back into childhood. The spider sculpture “Maman” by Louise Bourgeois is just as monumental in the Qatar National Convention Center as Olafur Eliasson’s essential sculpture “Shadows Traveling on the Sea of the Day”. And even in the desert of Qatar, Richard Serra’s enigmatic iron stelae “East-West/West Eeast” protrudes. Damian Hirst, each of whom is not only tons of tons, but also in millions. Qatar has the most expensive collection of art in building in the world. But the buildings themselves are also room for architecture, and here too only the biggest names were bought: i.M. Pei for the Arabic zik curamide pyramid of the Museum of Islamic Art, Jean Nouvel for the National Museum in the form of a gigantic sandrose, Rem Koolhaas for the light-flooded National Library in the form of two folded and apart paper sheets, or the Swiss Duke & de Meuron for art -Mühle “Art Mill”, converted grain silos for the museum of modern art -the list can be continued as desired. At the art fairs of the world, the Qatarian Scheika al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa al Thani, sister of Qatar’s ruler Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the most popular collector and buyer because she sometimes acquires whole brass kojen en bloc. Kunstwelt Einso was only a matter of time that the Qatar, which is represented by art and culture, on the most important world art show next to the Kassel Documenta, which would strive for a “art state” as a “art state” every two years . Now came the surprising message of its own and permanent pavilion in the Venetian Giardini. Sheikha Al Mayassa Al Thani, who is also a representative for the future Pavilion Qatars as chairwoman of all “Qatar Museums”, explained the following for this first new country pavilion for more than thirty years: “Qatar is proud to take his place in this international meeting,, to expand our role as a worldwide company in cultural diplomacy and to offer an unprecedented platform to give the creative talents of our country and the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. ”The concept of the nation pavilion in Venice was recognizable in the nineteenth century as a secular of the forced “nation building”. Since then, only more nations-even through historical fragmentation of some of them after the First World War, such as the Habsburg Austria-Hungary in a country pavilion for Austria, for Hungary, for Serbia and so on-to the Biennale in Venice and asked for their own pavilion representations On the already very densely built -up terrain, but the main area of the “Giardini” (“gardens”) with recently 29 pavilions was more than well filled. The last newcomers were Australia (1987) almost forty years ago, which, with its completely darkened and thus the dark fate of Aborigines, in the past with a family tree of repression on the walls, the first prize of the country pavilions on the past Biennale di Venezia 2024 won, as well as South Korea in 1994, why Italy suddenly makes an exception for Qatar? A Schelm who thinks evil, for example helpful financial injections from Qatar as one of the richest countries in the world. From the official Qatarian side it is only said that in June 2024 in Venice you have a cooperation protocol between the “Qatar Museums”, thus the sister of the governing EMIR – it remains signed in the family and the Italian state, the “the cultural and Socio-economic cooperation between Qatar and Italy strengthens ”. With the words “socio-economic cooperation”, at least an indirect economic benefit is confirmed for Italy. So few visitors are extremely rare on the Venice Biennale: the buildings of the country pavilions are lined up in the Giardini. Now there is a new one after more than thirty years. Picture Allianceder President of the Venice Biennale Pietrangelo Butafuoco, on the other hand, explains the surprising decision of further compression of the Giardini pavilions floral: “Venice is the only European city that has been an Arabic since 1000 AD since 1000 AD Name has: ‘Bunduqiyyah’. A fact that testifies to the teeming mix of languages and ethnic groups that have been looking for refuge here for a long time. In the spirit of curiosity, exploring and sincere human exchange, which distinguishes Venice and its Biennale, I welcome Qatar to the Giardini, as a mighty global source of creativity and intercultural understanding. ”The cited connection to the lagoon city via the Arabic name Of course, not only for Qatar, but for all Arabic-speaking countries, for example in the Middle East or in North Africa, the very fewest country pavilions in Venice play. Padiglione del Libro-Buchpavillons once designed by Carlos Scarpa. It would have to be built quite quickly, because the planned pavilion with the presentation “Community Center” of the Pakistani architect Yasmen Lari is to be put into operation in May. This can be cooled only through its inputs on all sides, both open and inviting for communication and without additional energy expenditure by means of the walks. The 19th International Architecture Biennale Venice will take place from May 10th to November 23.
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