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2026 Biennial Exhibitions

The exhibitions of Design Doha 2026 Biennial explore how traditions, gestures, and resources, often rooted in deep memory, can become instruments for orientation in a moment defined by rapid transformation.

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Design Doha Biennial 2026 presents 15+ exhibitions across 20+ countries, featuring designers, studios, institutions, and collectives from the MENASA region and internationally. The programme is structured around a Headline Exhibition and a curated selection of Invited Exhibitions, developed in collaboration with leading cultural partners and selected through open calls and institutional invitations.

Within this wider constellation, Arab Design Now 2026 emerges as a grounding point—bringing these questions into sharper focus through the lived realities, practices, and conditions of design across the Arab world.

Headline Exhibition

ADN 2026

Arab Design Now 2026

Arab Design Now 2026 will offer deeper insight into the contexts and thought processes that shape design, placing equal emphasis on both outcome and process.

Guest Exhibitions

Aslan's Love Story

Aslan’s Love

Aslan’s Love , organised by Turquoise Mountain, is inspired by the personal story of Jalal Aslan, a third-generation Nabulsi tile artisan, whose love story shaped his craft.
Laposse

The Sower

Design is a seed. It needs care to take root and bear fruit: time, water, light. Good design depends on a tacit knowledge that goes beyond technology or technique.
IRTHI

Design Labs II

The Design Doha Biennial 2026 will mark the debut of a curated selection from IRTHI’s Design Labs II program, showcasing six collections developed in collaboration with regional and international designers and artisans.
Post-Oil 2026

Post-Oil 2026

Centered around five key materials – glass, concrete, steel, aluminum, and asphalt – Post-Oil 2026 explores how industrialization shaped a new material economy in the GCC and the Arab region.
The Thread That Binds

The Thread That Binds

The Thread That Binds explores Khous and Khaizaran as weaving traditions shaped by land, climate and community. They are living practices that use natural materials such as palm fronds, reeds and cane.
Monumental_SQUARE

Monumental A Monobloc’s Memoir

A Monobloc’s Memoir examines how a chair made of cold matter can inhabit a massive space in our collective memories, even as its presence has remained inconspicuous.
Threading the Ceremony

Threading The Ceremony

Threading the Ceremony is a spatial installation rooted in the Sudanese Jirtig, a traditional marriage ritual. The work reimagines this living ceremony as an immersive sculptural experience.
Muqarnas of Sadu

The Muqarnas of Sadu

The Muqarnas of Sadu is an immersive art installation that merges the two-dimensional artistry of Sadu weaving with the three-dimensional complexity of Muqarnas art.
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Upon Reflection

Upon Reflection engages a site long shaped by exchange and encounter. A suspended reflective surface hovers between sand and sky, returning the image of the city to itself. Appearing as glass yet formed in stainless steel, the installation stages a dialogue between old and new, inviting reflection on the space between perception and reality.
Design Doha

Bu‘ed Nadhar - Forsight

Bu‘ed Nadhar is an exhibition by Liwan Design Studios and Labs, that explores the awareness of design, not merely form or function, but a vision that emerges resilience and continuity.
Baseqat Collection

Baseqat Collection

Baseqat: The Palm Tree Exhibition presents the palm tree as a living legacy of the Arabian Peninsula — a symbol that has shaped cultural identity, livelihoods, and the landscape over generations.
Rooted in Warmth

Rooted in Warmth

Rooted in Warmth is an immersive experience celebrating the bond between agriculture, family, and place.
Migrating Heritage

Migrating Heritage

This exhibition connects historical craftsmanship with contemporary circular design by following the journey of ideas embedded in nomadic culture.
From Fable to Fiber: The Kalila wa Dimna Triptych

From Fable to Fiber: The Kalila wa Dimna Triptych

From Fable to Fiber presents a contemporary triptych of hand-knotted textile works by Louis Barthélemy in collaboration with Iwan Maktabi.
Beyond The letters

Beyond the Letters

Beyond The Letters approaches Arabic and Persian typography as a living system of knowledge rather than a purely graphic form.
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INTERLACED Dialogues in Design

Interlaced explores how past and present meet through craft, innovation, local knowledge, and global influence.
Studio Khachatryan State Bench

Traces of the Desert Light

Traces of the Desert Light explores design as a sensory and relational process shaped by material, architecture, and Doha’s distinctive luminosity.
Light By Modeen

Light by MODEEN

Light by MODEEN brings together over a decade of exploration and development of luminary objects showcasing MODEEN’s design process, from ideation, prototyping, and final product.
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