‘An institution where you delve into works’: details of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum announced

Saudi Arabia’s AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, designed by architect Lina Ghotmeh, announced its name and curatorial vision on 1 February 2026 at the opening of Arduna, an 80-work group exhibition staged in a temporary venue in the AlUla oasis where the museum will ultimately be located. Arduna, co-curated by teams from the new museum and the Centre Pompidou, includes works by artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Dana Awartani, Etel Adnan, and Tarek Atoui and serves as a preview of the museum’s future programming. Museum director Candida Pestana said the institution will be guided by three pillars—heritage, environment/landscape, and community—and will pursue a collecting strategy focused on acquiring works across artists’ careers, including archives to be digitized and made accessible to the public and researchers. The museum is being developed within the AlUla culture and heritage site in northwest Saudi Arabia, near the World Heritage Site of Hegra, a Nabataean tomb complex dating from the first century BC to the first century AD.

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