Hayy Jameel opens two major exhibitions, celebrating modern and contemporary art from and around Jeddah and the Red Sea

Art Jameel, an independent organisation that supports artists and creative communities, announces the opening of major solo and group exhibitions at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah’s home for the arts. Ahaad Alamoudi: ‘Moving Mountains’ and ‘Salt-Kissed: Of Vessels That Have Sailed The Red Sea’ (both May 8 – October 26, 2024) are held across the two floors of Hayy Arts, Jeddah’s leading exhibitions space presenting robust, curated, museum-style shows of modern and contemporary art. Together, the exhibitions showcase more than a dozen artists from 13 countries whose works are rooted in Jeddah’s coastal position and its connected geographies through the Red Sea.

Nora Razian, Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions, Art Jameel: “We have a mandate at Art Jameel to deepen research in thematics of local and site-specific context. Our curatorial approach and public programmes are rooted in our strategic positions on the coasts of Jeddah and Dubai. We are proud to host Ahaad Alamoudi’s first institutional solo exhibition, here in Jeddah, where she grew up, and strongly believe that her practice reflects and documents the transformations sweeping over her hometown.

Additionally, we have a keen interest in talent development via programmes such as the Curatorial Open Call which results in a poetic narrativization of the history of the Red Sea. ‘Salt-Kissed:  Of Vessels That Have Sailed The Red Sea’ was thought-up by two brilliant emerging curators from Palestine,  Ahmed Al-Aqra and Abed Alrahman Shabaneh, who put together an exhibition that that writes a story of the Red Sea through its many maritime routes, from deep history to the present.”