DUBAI: From Dec. 24 to Jan. 6, Riyadh’s Malfa Hall hosted “When the Wind Turns East,” an exhibition featuring works by more than 60 contemporary artists from Saudi Arabia and China. The show — curated by Sigg Art Foundation, a French NPO, in collaboration with Jerome Sans — was part of the Common Ground Festival, organized by the Ministry of Culture to celebrate 2025 as Saudi-Chinese Cultural Year, and to mark 35 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
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“Among the presented works are significant pieces from the Uli Sigg Collection, composed of Chinese contemporary art, and the Pierre Sigg Collection of Saudi contemporary art, alongside works from other important collections and directly from artists’ studios,” a press release stated.
The exhibition contained three thematic sections: one “exploring landscape and collective identity,” one “examining material and spiritual realms,” and one “investigating how ancestral aesthetics inform contemporary expression.”
Nabila Abuljadayel
