Printed Nostalgia Group Exhibition at Doha Fire Station
"Printed Nostalgia" will showcase the work of 99 Qatar-based and international artists whose pieces were selected through an extensive international open call that received 322 submissions from around the world. The featured artworks will highlight a rich diversity of voices and interpretations of nostalgia, offering visitors a space where emotions, identities, and histories intersect. Each print acts as a fragment of time—preserved, shared, and reimagined.
The exhibition will feature works that blend digital illustration, photography, painting, collage, and written word, demonstrating the diverse approaches contemporary artists take to explore themes of memory and identity. The presentation will include a dedicated reflective space designed to encourage visitors to engage with their own experiences of nostalgia and remembrance.
The exhibition is co-curated by Saida Alkhulaifi and Fatima Alzaini, who have uniquely assembled this collection to create a dialogue between different artistic practices and cultural contexts while maintaining the cohesive theme of memory and nostalgia.
The exhibition will be open to the public from Saturday to Thursday, 9 am to 7 pm, and Friday from 1:30 pm to 7 pm.
Source: Fire Station Doha
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