Desert X AlUla

Client:

Royal Commission for AlUla

Location:

Saudi Arabia

Services:

Project management and supervision of construction (artworks and facilities)

Year:

2019

The first international contemporary art exhibition in the Arabian desert.

DPM managed an international team of established and emerging producers, curators and artists to bring the globally recognised Desert X site-specific art exhibition to AlUla. In addition to managing the installation of the artworks themselves in the two square kilometer desert site, DesignPM procured and oversaw the design and build of a new temporary visitor facility to support the exhibition.

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Photo: Photo: Top: Rashed Al Shashai, A Concise Passage; Row 1 left: Visitor centre; Row 1 right: Wael Shawky, Dictums: Manqia I; Row 2 left : eL Seed, Mirage; Row 3 left: Sherin Guirgus, Kholkhal Aliaa; Row 3 right: Manal Aldowayan, Now you See Me, Now You Don't; Row 4 right: Muhannad Shono, The Lost Path; Row 5: Rashed Al Shashai, A Concise Passage; All images Lance Gerber, courtesy the artists and Desert X.