Qatar will show off its quintet of new cultural attractions at the Venice Biennale

The ACP – Palazzo Franchetti will play host to the documentary, which features a variety of interviews, immersive content, architectural drawings, photography, and other media related to the slate of five new museums commissioned to ELEMENTAL (Art Mill Museum), Herzog & de Meuron (Lusail Museum), OMA (Qatar Auto Museum), Philippe Starck (Qatar Preparatory School), and UNStudio (Dadu, Children’s Museum of Qatar), respectively.

A special exhibition of Kengo Kuma’s life and work titled Onomatopeia - Selected Projects that was underwritten by the country will play side-by-side with the documentary under a metal pavilion structure designed by the architect for the Palazzo's central atrium.

In a preview, QM Chairperson Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said: “When the opportunity to support the exhibition of Kengo Kuma on the occasion of the Venice Architectural Biennale 2023 arose, we felt that it would be a great moment to share the cultural projects that Qatar is embarking on [...] It is therefore a great moment in our modern history to reveal the extent of Qatar’s cultural program, amongst one of the greatest displays of architecture and most important showcases anywhere for epoch-making designs.”

The exhibition will be on view from May 14th until the Biennale closes on November 26th.