EXHIBITIONS
Past
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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 roduced 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 exhibition... 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 installations, the... 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 -
Artist Showcase
5 - 15 Mar 2022 ATHR is pleased to announce the opening of a new gallery space in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. ATHR Gallery AlUla is located in the ancient desert city’s new arts and culture precinct, AlJadidah, in a dedicated exhibition space of 150m2 inside the AlUla Design Gallery. The AlUla Design Gallery is the... Read more