“Riyadh Art Week” .. rich creative experiences with wide local and international participation

The “Riyadh Art Week”, organized by the Visual Arts Authority in the Jax neighborhood, is witnessing a remarkable artistic and cultural movement with wide local and international participation.
Creative experiences intersect with contemporary artistic visions that highlight the accelerated transformation in the Saudi artistic scene, within a platform that celebrates diversity and opens the horizons of dialogue between artists, evaluators and cultural institutions.

The transformation of the Saudi cultural scene

The director and artistic values ​​for the Riyadh Art Week, Vetoria Mattarate, stressed that the artistic event highlights an important shift in the Saudi cultural scene, noting that the capital, Riyadh, stands today at the edge between traditions and modernity, and witnesses an accelerated technical growth and a remarkable creative transformation.
Matarezi said: We chose the title (AT The Edge) because it reflects the nature of the stage that Riyadh is going through.

She explained that the event hosts more than 50 local and international showrooms, and provides artwork within 3 main axes that include: landscape, daily life, decorations, and includes posts from prominent art collections such as Thara, RSNG, and Aramal, some of their works are presented for the first time outside their own headquarters.

Technical experiments review

“The program is” how to create an artistic world: lessons in value “, and aims to open a dialogue space that reviews artistic and institutional experiences from all over the world.
He added: “What we aspire to in this program is not only the participation of experiences, but also to raise fundamental questions about the types of values ​​generated by art in the contemporary context, from the economic value to symbolic and social, and how art can be a tool for understanding cultural transformations that are not just a reflection.”
The “Riyadh Art Week” comes within the efforts of the Visual Arts Authority to enhance the artistic scene in the Kingdom, and link it to the global cultural movement, in support of the Kingdom’s 2030 vision targets in developing and empowering the cultural and artistic sector.