
'A Biennale comes alive when people visit it,' says Ute Meta Bauer artistic director of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024 in Riyadh, which she has guided under the title ‘After Rain’.
'It is a testament to the energy and vitality that is shaping Saudi Arabia’s cultural landscape today,' says Bauer of the event’s second iteration, which is organised by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation under the stewardship of the Ministry of Culture (and coincides with land art festival Desert X AlUla 2024 in the kingdom).