Discover the ten ambitious Special Projects presented across Doha for Art Basel Qatar’s inaugural edition, curated by Artistic Director Wael Shawky. Spanning performance, installation, architecture, film, and monument, these site-specific commissions unfold across Msheireb Downtown and beyond, exploring the exhibition’s central theme of Becoming – humanity’s ongoing pursuit of meaning, progress, and possibility.
Featuring major new works by Nour Jaouda, Khalil Rabah, Bruce Nauman, Sumayya Vally, Hassan Khan, Rayyane Tabet, Nalini Malani, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born), and Jenny Holzer, the Special Projects activate public and cultural spaces throughout the city, bringing together regional and international voices in Art Basel’s largest group of new commissions to date.
Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born)
_my tongue is a blade_
2026
Khalil Rabah
_Transition, among other things_
2026
Sumayya Vally
_In the Assembly of Lovers_
2026
Rayyane Tabet
_What Dreams May Come أيُّ أحلامٍ قَدْ تأتي._
2026
Abraham Cruzvillegas
_Untitled Pending Self Portrait Looking For Pearls On A Phone Call (with some pink and green secrets)_
2026
Nour Jaouda
_A House Between Two Houses_
2026
Bruce Nauman
_Beckett’s Chair Portrait Rotated_
2026
presented by Konrad Fischer Gallery
Hassan Khan
_Little Castles and Other Songs_
2026
Nalini Malani
_Ballad of a Woman_
2023–2026
Jenny Holzer
_SONG_
2026
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