AlUla
Saudi Arabia
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AlUla 43523
Saudi Arabia
The exhibition "Arduna", presented as part of the 5th edition of the AlUla Arts Festival and held in the prefigurative spaces of Saudi Arabia’s forthcoming contemporary art museum, reflects a shared curatorial ambition between AlUla and the Centre Pompidou—one rooted in artistic excellence, intercultural dialogue, and the conviction that art has the power to transform perspectives.
Located 1,100 km from Riyadh, in North-West Saudi Arabia, AlUla is a place of extraordinary natural and human heritage. The vast area, covering 22,561km², includes a lush oasis valley, towering sandstone mountains and ancient cultural heritage sites dating back thousands of years to when the Lihyan and Nabataean kingdoms reigned. The most well-known and recognised site in AlUla is Hegra, Saudi Arabia’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
AlUla has long been a consistent and ever-evolving hub of cultural transfer. It has been a place of passage, a crossroads for trade, and home to successive civilizations who carved, sculpted and inscribed their lives into the landscape. The creation of Arts AlUla within The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) seeks to preserve this legacy: fuse the old with the new; the local with the international, keeping the arts central to the spirit of AlUla as a place of extraordinary natural and human heritage.
Each year –since 2021– AlUla Arts Festival transforms the region into a vibrant hub for creativity and cultural exchange.
