'Haroon Mirza: Everything Was, Is and Always Will Be' at Fire Station, Doha, Qatar

6 February 2026

From 5 February – 31 May 2026, Fire Station Doha presents 'Everything Was, Is and Always Will Be' a new exhibition by Haroon Mirza. Spanning the Fire Station’s Gallery 3 and the Tower, 'Everything was, is and always will be' is the first institutional solo presentation of Haroon Mirza in the GCC. The exhibition features two installations and a performance newly realized in response to the site’s architectural and daily landscape.

At Gallery 3, the multimedia installation Musica Universalis (Dyson Sphere 03) (2026) references physicist Freeman Dyson’s (1923-2020) hypothetical megasphere designed to harvest a star’s energy; instead, Mirza utilizes a photovoltaic structure to draw power from an artificial light source, animating a sonic ecosystem. The synthetic energy conversion shifts back to the celestial in the Tower with Miraj Al Shams (2026), a public installation where choreographed light and sound are transduced from solar energy captured atop the building. The work activates daily at sunset to precede the Maghrib Adhan, bridging modern circuitry with cycles of prayer and cosmology.

On February 4, 2026, Mirza intensifies the tension between the technological and mystical in a live context with Adam, Eve, Others and UFO in the Age of LLM’s, a performance that translates electronic signals from his original 2013 work into 111 Hz—a frequency associated with ancient spiritual resonance and neurophysiological response—realized by a live ensemble of eight singers, a soprano, and four actors and performers enacting a script centered on narratives of origin.

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Image: Haroon Mirza, Miraj Al Shams, 2026, site specific Installation, photovoltaic panels, corten steel, bespoke media device, timer, DMX lights, active speakers, LEDs, courtesy of the artist and Studio Ageli.