Symbolic Gestures

by Sultan bin Fahad, Hall Haus 18 Apr - 18 Jul 2025 AlUla Walk in and shake our hands. Except we’re not allowed to touch. It’s not how things are done here. Still we want to say hello, and we have different ways of making you feel welcome. Some tea to warm your insides after a delicious meal? Don’t rush, sit down, linger... Read more

Vessels of Wreckage

Solo exhibition by Basmah Felemban 7 Apr - 26 Jun 2025 Riyadh Inquiry: What brought the catfish to Wadi Hanifah? The control system in the ship’s basement repeats this question… every day! But do we truly know what we are? And how do we know where we came from? Before passing judgment, put yourself in our place—though it is very difficult: our... Read more

All Beautiful Things Are Fragile

Group Exhibition 7 Apr - 26 Jun 2025 Riyadh Memory is delicate—woven from echoes, fleeting images, and names lost to time. In the Middle East, where history is written and rewritten in the language of rupture, memory is not only fragile but precarious, caught between erasure and resistance. This exhibition brings together artists who navigate the shifting terrain of... Read more

The Edge of Language

Solo exhibition by Nasser Al Salem 5 Feb - 20 Mar 2025 Riyadh ATHR Gallery is proud to announce the rescheduled opening of The Edge of Language , a solo exhibition by world- renowned and newly-represented ATHR artist Nasser Al Salem. Opening February 5 from 7 pm - 9 pm at ATHR’s JAX gallery, this groundbreaking exhibition expands perspectives of Arabic calligraphy, exploring... Read more

Nafs

Solo Exhibition by Lulua Alyahya 25 Jan - 26 May 2025 Jeddah Nafs , meaning self, speaks to the layered and elusive nature of the self. In this exhibition, the self of the subject confronts the self of the viewer. The paintings reflect back a quiet irony and a curious openness. Familiar characters and symbols are subverted and reinterpreted through Lulua’s lens... Read more

WINTER

Solo Exhibition by AYMAN YOSSRI DAYDBAN 25 Jan - 26 May 2025 Jeddah Winter explores the mobility of an object through temporal and spatial realities, foregrounding and reimaging modes of relationality and connection at a time of ecological emergency. The colossal installation is an invitation to re-orient us with the Ihram as an object tethered to a critical and historic site. The presentation... Read more

A Muslim Man

Solo Exhibition by RAMI FAROOK 25 Jan - 26 May 2025 Jeddah Rami Farook’s A Muslim Man presents works including paintings, sculptures, prints, interventions, videos, performances, and installations. This docu-fictional immersive exhibition flows like a film, exploring the complex journey of a Muslim man’s relationship with God, faith, self, family, and society. This body of work reflects Farook’s multifaceted role as an... Read more

Alaamat

Daniah AlSaleh, Susanne Kriemann 26 Dec 2024 - 26 Mar 2025 AlUla ATHR Gallery is proud to announce the soft opening of ALAMAAT on December 26th 2024, an exhibition featuring the works of artists Daniah Al Saleh and Susanne Kriemann, created during their residency in AlUla, supported by the Goethe Institute and the German Embassy. This exhibition is expertly curated by Salma... Read more

After The Machine

Random International & Addie Wagenknecht 25 Sep - 31 Dec 2024 Jeddah ATHR Gallery is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition After The Machine , showcasing the works of internationally renowned artists Random International and Addie Wagenknecht. Open to the public on 25 September until 31 December 2024; this exhibition will explore the intricate relationships between humanity, technology, and the ever-evolving role... Read more

Spatial Dialogues

teamLab 6 Jun - 30 Aug 2024 ATHR Gallery proudly announces a collaborative endeavor with teamLab. As part of their debut in the Middle East as they roll out their teamLab Borderless museum for the first time in the region, ATHR is presenting a curated selection of teamLab's artworks at Beit Zenel, a revered historical landmark nestled... Read more

Moving Mountains

Ahaad Alamoudi solo exhibition 8 Apr - 26 Oct 2024 Ahaad Alamoudi: ‘Moving Mountains’ Hayy Jameel Curated by Rotana Shaker Ground Floor, Hayy Arts Saudi artist Ahaad Alamoudi’s first institutional solo exhibition, titled ‘Moving Mountains’, is centred around a playful and humorous new commission, alongside a survey of existing works The first-ever institutional solo exhibition by Saudi artist Ahaad Alamoudi,... Read more

Consecrated Networks

Basmah Felemban solo exhibition 8 Mar - 31 Aug 2024 Whether gazing into the dusty haze of Jeddah’s cityscape or scanning the columns and rows of the graphic design grid system, patterns emerge. Everywhere, operations of information-organization are underway. Numbers and geometry. Proportions, harmonizations and combinations. Symbolic messages on material culture become visible. Architecture as exchange and communication. Concrete and... Read more

GwPow (Gulf War Prisoners of War)

Sultan Bin Fahad solo exhibition 6 Mar - 31 Aug 2024 GwPow (Gulf War Prisoners of War) Sparks of action, wartime verve, children sent out for something beyond their years and come back aged and harried if at all. GwPOW is a look back at the Gulf War, its many iconographies, ironies, and consequences on the young soldiers it conscripted, using... Read more

The Ground Day Breaks

Muhannad Shono solo exhibition 18 Feb - 20 May 2024 Produced at a seismic juncture in the region and the world at large, The Ground Day Breaks resonates with many topical ecological, social and political concerns. Shono’s primary material, reclaimed black foundry sand, is a discarded industrial byproduct. Carbonised sand is used in foundries to create moulds and give shape... Read more

Desert X

Ayman Yossri 9 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 A Rock Garden in the Shape of a Full-Sized Soccer Field seeks to revive collective memories that lie in the volcanic desert of AlUla. Simply by realizing, contemplating, and thinking about the presence of the invisible, it reveals its identity and transforms it into a “bustling and flowing life.” A... Read more

The Line

Ayman Yossri Daydban solo exhibition 9 Jan - 31 May 2024 The exhibition allows the visitor to experience the art as it embodies a conversation between the artist and the curator where they delve into themes of identity, fantasy and belonging.The works of art contains diverging narratives, new works, and old memories. The show is curated by Solafa Rawas . The... Read more

Untitled

Rami Farook solo exhibition 29 Sep - 27 Dec 2023 Artist, curator, and producer, Rami Farook, is set to captivate his peers, art enthusiasts, collectors, and the general public with his highly-anticipated debut solo exhibition in Saudi Arabia. Collaborating with the ATHR team, co-creators, and an engaged audience, Rami promises a groundbreaking experience that transcends contemporary art exhibitions. Titled 'Reset,'... Read more

A WAY WITH LIGHT

Group exhibition 27 Sep - 27 Dec 2023 In collaboration with RFC, ATHR gallery’s experimental art mediums division AKTHR is pleased to announce 'A Way With Light ,' a remarkable convergence of artistic mastery and technological innovation. “A Way With Light ” aims to redefine the landscape of creative expression. In addition to a selection of digital art... Read more

IN/VISIBLE: OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR

Group Exhibition 27 Sep - 27 Dec 2023 This group exhibition invites contemporary arts enthusiasts to a deeper understanding of materiality and object significance. At the core of this exhibition are artists who have taken unique approaches in exploring the significance of objects—both commonplace and abstract—in our lives. Sultan Bin Fahad's Beaded Series creatively interrogates cultural exchange through... Read more

Returning To a Present

Group Exhibition 13 Jul - 30 Sep 2023 Curated by Pharah Al-Ghalib and her premiere as a curator, the 'Returning to a Present' group exhibition will open on July 13th in ATHR's gallery space in Al-Jadida, AlUla. The exhibition features Saudi artists Sarah Abu Abdullah, Ahaad Alamoudi, Ayman Yossri Daydban, Sultan bin Fahad, Ibrahim Romman, and Muhannad Shono... Read more

ATHR Collector' Circle (2nd Edition)

Group Exhibition 12 May - 30 Jul 2023 Read more

Keep Smiling

Daniah Saleh Solo exhibition 15 Apr 2023 Curated by Jerome Neuters Is digital technology encouraging the communication of our emotions? Daniah Al Saleh questions in this show the obligation to smile to everything in our digital era’s messages brought by the emoji’s fashion. The emoji phenomenon has been developed massively around for 20 years, in the same... Read more

Blur of the wells

Group Exhibition 16 Mar - 30 May 2023 Read more

16 years later: the show goes on - the end is near

Rami Farook at Art Dubai 1 - 5 Mar 2023 ATHR Gallery is delighted to showcase a major solo presentation by Rami Farook, during our participation at the 2023 edition of Art Dubai from the 1st – 5th of March. Rami Farook began his self-taught practice in 2007, as an art & design curator. As such, his booth “16 years... Read more

And Make Me Light

Solo Exhibition by Fahrah Behbehani 25 Jan - 15 Apr 2023 Curated by Jumana Ghouth Little is known about the cosmic dawn, the period when the first stars, galaxies and black holes were formed. Astrophysicists study it by searching for these earliest radio waves, emitted several billion years ago and obscured by ancient hydrogen clouds. When the next generation of telescopes... Read more

Fantasia

Asma Bahamim Solo exhibition 23 Jan - 15 Apr 2023 Curated by: Yasmeen Tukan 'Fantasia: A World Between Reality and Imagination' is an exhibition that features dialogues between animals, whether they are lions or birds. All of these fables carry moral messages that we lack today. Bahmim created fictional animals for contemporary topics; we see the fox with a wing... Read more

The Night is no Good

Group Exhibition 4 Dec 2022 - 5 Jan 2023 The Night is No Good is a group exhibition that presents the works of three Saudi artists; Batool Al-Shomrani, Fahad bin Naif, and Aziz Jamal. The exhibition prompted the artists to venture into a personal and self-reflective journey to explore individual notions and symbols of grief, memory, and belonging. The... Read more

Tired Lion

Badr Ali Solo Exhibition 4 Dec 2022 - 5 Jan 2023 A solo exhibition of artist Badr Ali (b. 1992, San Francisco, lives and works in Jeddah and Berlin), Tired Lion presents a new body of work consisting of paintings and works on paper stemming from lion statues seen in public spaces. Swift sketches of movements, landscapes, and gestures make up... Read more

Mohammad Alfaraj at Alserkal Ave

Mohammad AlFaraj in Alsekal Art Week 8 - 15 Mar 2022 ATHR is pleased to announce the participation of Mohammad AlFaraj in Alsekal Art Week, Dubai, opening from the 8th to the 13th of March. AlFaraj will debut a site specific installation, Limbs of the Past, an Offering For the Future. The work derives sanctity and spiritual significance through the use/reuse... Read more