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Pace is pleased to participate in the first edition of Art Basel Qatar, presented at M7 and the Doha Design District from February 5 to 7, as it establishes deeper connections with audiences and collectors in the Middle East. At the fair, the gallery will showcase American artist Lynda Benglis’s multi-part sculpture Elephant Necklace Circle (2016). This late career glazed ceramic masterwork—which comprises 37 abstract elements rendered in black monochrome and arranged in a circle on the floor—is part of the artist’s Elephant Necklace series in which she explores movement, fluctuation, and organic growth through biomorphic knotted forms. A pioneering figure in post-1960s art, Benglis has been at the forefront of material experimentation for six decades, continually inventing new ways of working with different media. Exploring a wide range colors, textures, and forms in her work, she investigates the proprioceptive and sensory experiences of making and viewing sculpture—having a profound impact on contemporary understandings of what sculpture can be. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941, the artist began producing ceramics during her college days, returning to the material in the early 1990s, when she initiated a long series of collaborations with the ceramics fabricator Saxe Patterson, Inc. in Taos, New Mexico and began using the electric clay extruder as part of her process. Like a pasta maker, the electric extruder produces tubes or strips of clay, which the artist catches, cradles, and rapidly shapes by hand in a physical, intuitive “dance.” “I feel the clay; I am the clay, so to speak,” she has said. “I feel this in all my work, that I am the material and what I am doing is embracing it and allowing it to take form.”

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ABOUT ARTISTS : Lynda Benglis

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Art Basel Qatar is Art Basel's fifth premier event and our newest show, running February 5-7, 2026 in Doha. Anchored in a dynamic long-term partnership with Qatar Sports Investments (QSI) and QC+, Art Basel Qatar will debut as a concisely curated showcase celebrating Qatar’s vibrant cultural landscape and the dynamic arts ecosystem of the MENA region. The inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar will be held at M7, a creative hub in the heart of Doha, as well as at the Doha Design District in downtown Msheireb.

mpefm QATAR fair art press release