Artists, curatorial team, advisors, and partners connected to M7.
Artists
Represented and guest artists exhibiting with the gallery.
Erdem Moralioglu
Erdem Moralioglu is a British-Turkish fashion designer, born in Montreal, who founded his London-based label ERDEM in 2005. Known for its precision and poetic sensibility, the house marked its twentieth anniversary with the retrospective ERDEM: About Time, About Her at M7, Doha (2026), which brings together more than 150 garments, sketches, personal ephemera and atelier materials. (Source: Qatar Museums)
Erandine de Saint Phalle Navarro
Erandine de Saint Phalle Navarro is a Mexican artisan who transforms gourds into vase-like ornamental vessels finished with gold leaf and inlaid maque, the pre-Hispanic lacquer technique still practised in Mexico. Her work reinterprets inherited lacquer traditions through contemporary forms and is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Elizabeth Rangel Roque
Elizabeth Rangel Roque is a Mexican jeweller working in the filigree tradition. She creates finely worked filigree earrings and jewellery set with stones such as lapis lazuli and piedra del cielo, a stone native to Jalisco. Her work is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Naaz Zepeda
Naaz Zepeda is a Mexican ceramic artist who works with white clay and adobe sand. Together with Chus Chilol she created the Wise Woman series, sculptural works depicting potters, cooks, farmers and other workers, made in collaboration with the artisans Simona and Alberta. The series is shown in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Chus Chilol
Chus Chilol is a Mexican artist and maker who, with ceramicist Naaz Zepeda, created the Wise Woman series in white clay and adobe sand, depicting potters, cooks, farmers and other workers, in collaboration with the artisans Simona and Alberta. The series is shown in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Rodrigo de la Cruz Cabrera
Rodrigo de la Cruz Cabrera is a Mexican ceramic artisan known for hand-modelled and hand-decorated clay figurines depicting figures such as queens and weavers, rooted in regional figurative clay traditions. His work is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Ever Jesús Arellanes Luna
Ever Jesús Arellanes Luna is a Mexican designer and artisan working with leather and alternative skins. His fish-shaped footwear, made with red snapper fish skin and calfskin insole lining, reimagines traditional leatherwork through sustainable materials. His work is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Esperanza Martínez Velasco
Esperanza Martínez Velasco is a Mexican textile artisan who creates necklaces and adornments from silkworm cocoons and silk threads coloured with natural dyes, drawing on traditional sericulture and dyeing practices. Her work is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Román Antonio Rosendo
Román Antonio Rosendo is a Mexican woodcarver who, with the Collective Agua y Monte, carves utensils such as ladles, butter dishes and knives from cocuite wood. His work is featured in Expanded Tradition: Contemporary Craft Practices in Mexico at M7, Doha (2026).
Lucien Gautrait
Lucien Gautrait (1865–1937) was a French jeweller and one of the leading exponents of Art Nouveau jewellery in Paris around 1900. Working with gold, enamel, pearls and precious stones, he was celebrated for brooches and pendants inspired by insects, flowers and female figures, often employing the delicate plique-à-jour enamelling technique. His Art Nouveau Pearl European Hornet Brooch (c. 1900), from the National Collection of Qatar, is shown in Around the World in Jewellery at M7, Doha.
Curators & programme
Curatorial team and exhibition programming.
Olivier Gabet
Olivier Gabet is a French art historian and curator, formerly director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and now director of the Department of Decorative Arts at the Musée du Louvre. He curated ERDEM: About Time, About Her at M7, Doha (2026). (Source: Qatar Museums)
Inezita Gay-Eckel
Inezita Gay-Eckel is an art historian and lecturer at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (supported by Van Cleef & Arpels). She co-curated Around the World in Jewellery at M7, Doha (2026), with Paul Paradis. (Source: Qatar Museums)
Paul Paradis
Paul Paradis is an art historian and lecturer at L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts (supported by Van Cleef & Arpels). He co-curated Around the World in Jewellery at M7, Doha (2026), with Inezita Gay-Eckel. (Source: Qatar Museums)
Ana Elena Mallet
Ana Elena Mallet is a curator and researcher specialising in modern and contemporary design. She is Distinguished Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at Tecnológico de Monterrey, an academic member of the Acquisitions Committee of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and guest curator of the modern and contemporary Mexican design collection at MUAC-UNAM. In 2024 she curated Crafting Modernity: Design in Latin America, 1940–1980 at MoMA. She has worked as a curator at the Museo Soumaya, the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and the Museo Rufino Tamayo, where she was deputy director of programming, and was chief curator of the Museo del Objeto (MODO); from 2009 to 2019 she directed the Corredor Cultural Roma Condesa. Her publications include La Vida en el Arte: Escritos de Clara Porset (2020), Silla Mexicana (2017) and La Bauhaus y el México Moderno: El diseño de Van Beuren (2014).