AlUla Arts Festival

8 - 24 Feb 2024

The AlUla Arts Festival returns 8 - 24 Feb 2024

The AlUla Arts Festival is a multi-arts festival showcasing AlUla's long-standing legacy as a cultural crossroads and champion of the arts. From cutting-edge exhibitions and street-art tours to cinema screenings and a lively programme of performances, AlUla explodes into a city-wide celebration of the arts at this vibrant and diverse annual festival.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Desert X AlUla 2024

Returning for its third edition, Desert X AlUla places visionary contemporary artworks by Saudi and international artists amidst the extraordinary desert landscape of AlUla. Free and open to all, Desert X AlUla is the first site-responsive exhibition of its kind in Saudi Arabia, fostering exchange between artists, curators and international and local communities, shaped by a curatorial vision that takes the desert as its inspiration.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

Wadi AlFann presents Manal AlDowayan

In an AlJadidah-based exhibition, Saudi artist Manal AlDowayan showcases her participatory work capturing stories from AlUla’s communities, which is leading towards her era-defining commission for Wadi AlFann. Known as the ‘Valley of the Arts’, Wadi AlFann is a new global cultural destination where large-scale, site-specific works of contemporary land art will be permanently placed in AlUla’s stunning desert landscape from 2026.

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Upcoming Exhibitions

More than meets the Eye Exhibition

A groundbreaking array of modern and contemporary works by Saudi artists will be on display in the award-winning Maraya. With support from a host of prominent Saudi art collectors, 'More than meets the Eye' documents the story of artists and recent movements. The exhibition is part of the pre-opening program for the contemporary art museum in AlUla, a museum of regional and global contemporary art with the Arab world at its core.

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What to Expect

Check out past editions of the AlUla Arts Festival, including world-class exhibitions at Maraya, public artworks and performances and Desert X AlUla, for a taste of what to expect this time around. Find more videos from the AlUla Arts Festival on the AlUla Moments YouTube channel.