Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall Exhibition: Summer 2026

This exhibition marks the fourth edition of the annual Prince Faisal bin Fahd Arts Hall Exhibition. Following an open call, 31 Saudi and Saudi-based artists showcasing over 45 works are brought together are brought together under the premise that artmaking itself is a form of research, a practice capable of generating insight, testing ideas, and opening ways of understanding that exceed any single discipline or method. At its core, the exhibition asks: What forms of knowledge does art produce that other methods cannot? How does meaning emerge when image meets movement, when material intersects with sound or language, or when inquiry unfolds collectively rather than alone? 

The selected works span a multitude of forms, from painting and sculpture to digital and immersive practice. Many are grounded in scientific inquiry, approaching geology, material chemistry, biological growth, and photographic development as methods of artistic investigation. Others are structured through language: Arabic calligraphy, classical literary forms, hybrid dialects, oral history, and poetry function not merely as reference points, but as tools through which meaning is constructed and interrogated. Moving image and time-based works extend this framework, treating duration and collaborative process as generative sites through which understanding emerges.  

Several works engage with cultural heritage through vernacular architecture, traditional craft, geometric ornament, and local materials, treating these not as embalms of a fixed inheritance, but as living systems of knowledge open to experimentation and transformation. Others examine the environment, ecological crises, and natural cycles as sites of reflection and study. The domestic, the archival, and the bodily appear as recurring repositories of knowledge—embedded in materials, gestures, and acts of repetition.  

Across the exhibition, works reveal their methods to make the research process itself visible. By rendering the darkroom, the field archive, the apprenticeship, the collaboration, and the experiment, these works foreground the temporal and material conditions through which knowledge is formed. The exhibition positions art not as an illustration of what is already known, but as a mode of inquiry through which new forms of understanding and new ways of seeing remain possible.  

Participating Artists 

Aisha Alshehri, Alif, Anum Sanaullah, Awatif Alkeneibit, Awatif Alsafwan, Ayat Aljohani, Badr Ali, Duna Alwazan, Ebtehal Alrajhi, Fahdah Alsalman, Farah Aljindan, Gosia van Unen, Hayat Osamah, Jaafar AlHaddad, Jawaher Alotaibi, Joud Fahmy, Lojain Al-Mubarak, Meshari Aldusari, Mohammed Alfaraj, Mona Bashatah, Munira Altheeb, Mzoon Al Saleh, Rafiq Ullah Khan, Reema Almouh, Sami Alhussain, Safiyah Abaalkhail, Shoug Alharthi, Somaya Alsayed, Tariq Alsehli, Zelal Basodan, Ziyad Alroqi