Bouthayna Al-Muftah is a Qatari multidisciplinary artist working across painting, printmaking and documentation. Her practice has grown to include immersive installations and performance pieces that draw deeply on Qatar’s cultural heritage. Working with oral history and folklore, she reinterprets this heritage as a living archive. Her works contemplate memory, questioning how we experience time, the way we understand ourselves collectively, and how memory and identity contribute to shifts and changes in our cultural heritage.
Her distinctive use of typography and traditional methods have become key elements in her creative process. Al-Muftah received her bachelor’s degree from VCUarts Qatar in 2009 and has since gained international recognition through her installations and creative collaborations. Her recent accomplishments include designing the official FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 poster, which brought together Qatari heritage and football. She has exhibited internationally and across the region, with a solo exhibition at Doha’s M7 (2022), at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2020), and at Cosmoscow in Moscow (2018). Her work has been acquired for the permanent collection of the National Museum of Qatar (2019). Al-Muftah has collaborated with world-renowned brands including David Webb Jewels and, more recently, the House of Dior for the Lady Dior bag collection (2022).