Ahmed Albahrani is sculpture. He was born in 1965, in Tuarej on the Euphrates River, near Babylon. He recalls that as a child, he would withdraw from the games played by other boys, to model clay on the riverbank. He also recalls that on school trips, he was taken to see some of Iraq's ancient monuments and that his reaction to them was different to other boys.
He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and graduated from with a Diploma of Sculpture in 1988, where he was influenced by many professors, notably Abdul Rahim Al Wakil.
He has participated in several exhibitions, Inside and Outside Iraq, Sculpture in Iraq and Yemen as well as his participation in several exhibitions in Qatar, Beirut and the UAE. His sculpture is on public display in several cities.
He taught at the Baghdad Institute of Fine Arts between 1992 and 1994.
His works include
Maqam I, Maqam II, Maqam III (2022) by Lebanese artist Simone Fattal for which she has created three granite sculptures in a blue coloured granite with a manifold shape that can be perceived at once as a dune, a construction or a tent that appear to be geographical landmarks
Dugong (2022), a massive, approximately 21 metre high and 31 metre wide polychromed mirror-polished stainless-steel sculpture by American artist Jeff Koons in the form of a Dugong, the marine mammal that has inhabited the waters surrounding Qatar's peninsula for centuries, on view at Al Masrah Park
Along with Iraqi sculptor Ahmed Al Bahrani’s Dugong Family installation in Al Ruwais celebrating the dugong, an endangered marine mammal native to Qatar’s waters
A collection of temporary sculptures and installations by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama – including My Soul Blooms Forever (2019), Flower that Speaks All About My Heart (2018), Dancing Pumpkin (2020), and Narcissus Garden, among others – on view on the grounds of the Museum of Islamic Art and MIA Park
A site-specific artwork in the desert by Olafur Eliasson that continues the artist’s long-standing exploration into the role that our perception of the world plays in how we co-produce reality
German artist Katharina Fritsch’s newly installed iconic bright blue Hahn (2021) on view at the iconic Sheraton Grand Doha Resort & Convention Hotel
Commissioned works by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto including an installation in the Qatari desert titled Slug Turtle, TemplEarth (2022), and CocoonEarth, Our Goal is the Life (2022)
KAWS’ site-specific commission THE PROMISE (2022), depicting the American artist’s companion figures in a tender gesture suggesting a parent carefully passing the globe to the hands of a child, unique piece for the future Dadu, Qatar Children’s Museum and on view at its park
Doha Mountains by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, on view along Doha’s Ras Abou Aboud beachfront near 974 Stadium, echoes the Olympic Ring colors that encircle the 3-2-1 Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum
A mosaic installation comprising four walls titled Qatari Walls "Village of the Sun" (2022) by American artist Rashid Johnson
Doha Modern Playground (2022), a site-responsive playground inspired by a group of four key modernist buildings in Doha, by Shezad Dawood at Al Masrah Park
Monira Al Qadiri’s Zephyr (2022) is a large-scale recreation of a microscopic organism seen in fossilised marine algae found in the Arabian Peninsula. The Kuwaiti artist’s work is located along the West Bay’s North Beach
Peter Fischli & David Weiss’s sculpture Rock on Top of Another Rock (2022) is made up of two nearly 30-ton boulders that are stacked and balanced without aid, on view at the Qatar National Theatre. The installation is the last work created by the Swiss artist duo.
A series of sculptures by Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang titled Here We Hear (2022) in the Corniche Park that encourages spectators to congregate and interact with one another
I Live Under Your Sky Too (2022), a light installation by Shilpa Gupta in the form of an animated sentence in which the Indian artist’s handwriting rises and shines from lines of a ruled book to read “I Live Under Your Sky Too” in three interwoven languages, at Stadium 974
American conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner’s ALL THE STARS IN THE SKY HAVE THE SAME FACE (2011/20) installed at Stadium 974
American artist Faye Toogood’s Clay Court (2022), an immersive display of 17 hand-shaped sculptures, located around the National Theatre site
The enormous Gekröse (2011) is one of Austrian artist Franz West’s (1947-2012) largest works, presenting a monumental, wielded aluminum sculpture that is as imposing as it is whimsical, in bright pink hues, that may concurrently attract and shock viewers at Al Masrah Park
Iraqi artist Adel Abidin’s light installation They Asked Me to Change It, and I Agreed (2022) on the façade of Mathaf,
Qatari artists Shouq Al Mana’s Egal (2022), which is installed along the Lusail Marina Promenade serves as a tribute to Qatar’s history and traditions
