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Motherhood.

The exhibition identity, 80-page bilingual catalogue, flyer, social posts and website banners for Motherhood: An Art and Photography Exhibition at Kutubna Cultural Center.

ClientKutubna Cultural Center

Type of workEvents & Exhibitions

IndustryCulture & arts

Year2025

LanguagesEnglish & Arabic

20artworks
33photographs
17countries
80catalogue pages

01The brief

Art and photography, one subject.

Kutubna’s Motherhood exhibition brought painting and photography together: 20 artworks by 17 artists and 33 photographs by 12 photographers, from 17 countries. The works move from affection and care to hardship and loss, and from Khaliji heritage to street scenes elsewhere. The design had to hold both media, and the weight of the subject.

Two media

Oil, acrylic, ink and pastel on one side; giclée, satin and fine-art prints on the other. Each needed room without the two blurring together.

The system

It follows the Kutubna exhibition system: the work fills the frame, the bilingual title leads, dates and opening details run in matching English and Arabic.

02The key visual

This time, a photograph leads.

With photography in the show, we let a photograph by Mohammed Buhasan fill the whole frame: a mother and her daughter walking away down a palm-lined path. The colour panel steps aside; the bilingual title sits in white over the shade at the top, and the image does the rest.

Kutubna Cultural Center: Catalogue cover

Kutubna Cultural Center: Story, opening night and free entry

Type

ITC Avant Garde Gothic
Tajawal

03The catalogue

80 pages, in two parts.

The catalogue splits in two: artists first, then photographers, separated by quiet stone-grey divider pages in Arabic and English. Every contributor opens with a portrait and a bilingual biography; every work gets its own plate with title, medium, size and year in both languages.

Kutubna Cultural Center: Anxhela El Ahmadieh, In Her Arms — Anxhela El Ahmadieh, In Her Arms

Kutubna Cultural Center: Karin Stumpf, Mother’s Love — Karin Stumpf, Mother’s Love

Kutubna Cultural Center: Klaithem Aljabri, Sanctuary — Klaithem Aljabri, Sanctuary

Kutubna Cultural Center: Komaldeep Makkar, Embrace — Komaldeep Makkar, Embrace

Kutubna Cultural Center: Maha Abdelmaged, Safety — Maha Abdelmaged, Safety

Kutubna Cultural Center: Malak Yasser Saleem Dalloul, The Final Embrace — Malak Yasser Saleem Dalloul, The Final Embrace

Kutubna Cultural Center: Mona Biswarupa Mohanty, Mother Earth, The Pale Blue Dot — Mona Biswarupa Mohanty, Mother Earth, The Pale Blue Dot

Kutubna Cultural Center: Onuoha Columbus, Roots of Love — Onuoha Columbus, Roots of Love

Kutubna Cultural Center: Paresh Janardan Thukrul, In Her Arms — Paresh Janardan Thukrul, In Her Arms

Kutubna Cultural Center: Tumpa Banerjee, Cradle of Love — Tumpa Banerjee, Cradle of Love

Kutubna Cultural Center: Wafa Khazendar, Dream — Wafa Khazendar, Dream

Kutubna Cultural Center: John Parkes Railton, Mother and Her Baby — John Parkes Railton, Mother and Her Baby

Kutubna Cultural Center: Photography divider — Photography divider

Kutubna Cultural Center: Alia Bent Sultan, Untitled — Alia Bent Sultan, Untitled

Kutubna Cultural Center: Anna Grosheva, In Her Arms — Anna Grosheva, In Her Arms

Kutubna Cultural Center: Ibrahim Nagi, In Her Arms — Ibrahim Nagi, In Her Arms

Kutubna Cultural Center: Latifa Ahmad Almazrouei, Eid Warmth — Latifa Ahmad Almazrouei, Eid Warmth

Kutubna Cultural Center: Mohammed Buhasan, A Mother’s Shadow Never Fades — Mohammed Buhasan, A Mother’s Shadow Never Fades

Kutubna Cultural Center: Natallia Nagorniak, Where Tears Rest — Natallia Nagorniak, Where Tears Rest

Kutubna Cultural Center: Rima Wehbi, Shelter — Rima Wehbi, Shelter

Kutubna Cultural Center: Introduction, English

Kutubna Cultural Center: The printed catalogue

Kutubna Cultural Center: Artist page: Anxhela El Ahmadieh

04Inviting the city

One photograph, every format.

The photograph was recomposed for each size, so the two figures stay clear of the type: the square post, the feed portrait, the story and two website banners. On the wide banner, Paresh Thukrul’s painting In Her Arms joins the photograph, so both halves of the show appear together.

Kutubna Cultural Center: Website banner, wide: painting and photograph together

The result

A full identity for Motherhood, 20 September to 16 November 2025, on the Kutubna exhibition system. The rules held, even when a photograph took the place of the colour panel.

Key visual
Bilingual title lockup
80-page bilingual catalogue
Section dividers
Flyer
Square post
Feed post
Story
Website banners

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