Art Basel 2025: Group presentation

ATHR Gallery Presents a Female Trio of Young Saudi Artists at Art Basel Paris 2025

Booth H14

Paris, France | October 2, 2025

ATHR Gallery is proud to return to Art Basel Paris with a three-artist presentation featuring Sarah Abu Abdallah, Hayfa Algwaiz and Lulua Alyahya at Booth H14. This next wave of Saudi artists brings together distinct practices that converge around the language of composition: how images, spaces and textures form visual arrangements that reflect the layered

experiences of Saudi women today. The presentation at Art Basel Paris 2025 - at which it will proudlyrepresent the Kingdom as the only Saudi exhibitor - marks ATHR Gallery’s return to the fair following its 2024 debut.

To Parisian and international audiences, the dialogue between these three artists offers a rare glimpse into the evolving landscape of Saudi contemporary art - studio-based, globally networked and deeply rooted in local nuance. Abu Abdallah, following her monumental commission You Ask, We Answer at the Sharjah Biennial 16, expands her bricolage approach into a large-format canvas that organizes fragments of daily life-phone images, clipped text, vernacular graphics-into a vivid and legibl  composition. At the opposite register, Algwaiz brings stillness through watercolor, drawing on her ATHR Foundation residencies at Bait Shouaib in Jeddah and POUSH in Paris to stage suspended interiors and exteriors where grids, façades and multiple vanishing points quietly disrupt the boundaries of space. From her solo exhibition Nafs at ATHR Gallery Jeddah to her current participation at the Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, Alyahya contributes canvases that balance muted tones with surreal figuration: anonymous silhouettes, uncanny motifs and symbolic objects that meander through the paradoxes of gendered experience with deliberate ambiguity.

Presented together, these three artists form a visual dialogue that avoids uniformity while sharing a refined sense of composition. The booth flows between registers, unfolding as a conversation among young female voices advancing Saudi contemporary art with boldness and cultural specificity.

Art Basel Paris, Grand Palais Éphémère, Booth H14 | October 24-26