Desert X AlUla 2024

Previous editions of the outdoor art exhibition featured crater-like trampolines by Manal AlDowayan, mesmerising mounds of earth by Jim Denevan, and a space-age monolith by Gisela Colon.

At first sight, Bosco Sodi's use of limited colours and unadorned, geometric motifs may evoke Minimalism. However, instead of industrial precision, the Mexican-born artist hand-sculpts his organically textured paintings and sculptures—a

Concerned with value, global commerce and the detritus of colonialism, artist Ibrahim Mahama is known for large-scale installations made from materials with particular significance to Ghana's past and present. Early Years Mahama was born in

Kader Attia spent much of his childhood between Algeria and France and lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Venezuela as a young adult. With such a background, a key component of his work is the question of cultural conflict. Approaching

In Kimsooja's videos, performative actions, sculptures, and installations, pieces of daily life become tools of investigation into the diverse yet shared experiences of humanity. Particularly known for her use of Korean bedcovers and fabrics to

Rand Abdul Jabbar borrows from the vestiges and ephemera of history to produce reconstructions of accumulations of past events as they intersect with personal experience. Exploring her relationship to place and landscape while in a state of

Long considered one of the Arab Gulf’s foremost artists and a pioneer of conceptual art in the Middle East, Bahraini-born, Saudi national Faisal Samra incorporates digital photography, painting, sculpture, video, and performance in a creative

'The veins of water that pour from the earth flow in trickles that merge, like the branches in the trunk, like the fingers in the palm of a hand, like the bronze in the matrix of a tree.'—Giuseppe Penone Throughout his fifty-year career, Giuseppe