Bern, June 17 (QNA) - Qatar Museums, represented by the Lusail Museum, is participating in Art Basel 2025 in Basel, Switzerland, which runs until June 22.

More than 280 leading art galleries are participating, showcasing works by over 4,000 artists from around the world.

Qatar Museums opened its pavilion at the exhibition, featuring a number of international collections and artworks.

Visitors can view the 3D architectural design of the future Lusail Museum, which will be located on Al Maha Island and serve as a cultural hub for the sustainable city of Lusail.

The Qatari pavilion also features the Qatar Airways Lounge, offering visitors authentic Qatari cuisine blended with international flavors.

Elina Nuutinen, Head of Collection Management Lusail Museum, Qatar Museums, said in remarks to Qatar News Agency (QNA), "The Lusail Museum's pavilion at Art Basel showcases the future Al Maha Island and Qatar Museums' vision for it, which includes the Lusail Museum and an art museum."

She noted that the Qatar pavilion at the exhibition includes four paintings from its Orientalist collection.

These are oil paintings from the 19th century, including a painting by German artist Gustav Bauernfeind, "The Door of the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus 1890," by Turkish artist Osman Hamdi Bey, "The Green Mosque" in Bursa 1890, British artist John Frederick Lewis, "The Frank Camp in the Desert of Mount Sinai" (1842-1862), and French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, "The Harem in the Kiosk" (1870-1875).

Another painting on loan from the Musée d'Orsay is a painting by Turkish artist Osman Hamdi Bey, "An Old Man Before the Graves of Two Children" (1903).

She noted that the organizers of the Qatar pavilion confirm that These works accurately reflect the traditions of Orientalist art by highlighting Islamic figures, buildings, and daily customs with a spirit of respect and artistic precision.

In a similar statement to QNA, Kirstin Mearns, CEO of QC+, a strategic and creative group specializing in cultural commerce, highlighted the company's reliance on the creative economy and cultural commerce, emphasizing that the State of Qatar has invested in the cultural sector over the past fifty years.

It is worth noting that Qatar Museums' participation in Art Basel, the largest and most important modern and contemporary art fair and an international destination for artists from around the world to showcase their works, follows the announcement that Doha will host the first edition of Art Basel Qatar in February 2026, a move aimed at consolidating Qatar's position as a global destination for the arts. (QNA)