Hewar Art Gallery

07/04/2025

You are warmly invited to the opening night of the group exhibition “Echoes of the Homeland” at Hewar Art Gallery on April 8, 2025, at 7 p.m., as part of the inaugural Riyadh Art Week 2025. The exhibition is ongoing till the 30th of April.

This exhibition brings together acclaimed Saudi artists who explore the cultural significance and beauty of the Kingdom’s heritage. Through their works, the artists offer a profound connection to the landscapes and architectural treasures that shape Saudi Arabia’s history and identity — celebrating the rich diversity of its regions, from Najd and Hejaz to AlUla and Asir.

Art Week Riyadh, a Saudi Visual Arts Commission initiative, runs from 6 to 13 April 2025.

يسرّنا دعوتكم لحضور الأمسية الافتتاحية للمعرض الجماعي “أصداء الوطن” في قاعة الحوار للفنون، وذلك يوم ٨ أبريل ٢٠٢٥، الساعة ٧ مساءً، ضمن فعاليات النسخة الأولى من أسبوع فن الرياض ٢٠٢٥. يستمر المعرض إلى ٣٠ أبريل ٢٠٢٥.

في هذا المعرض، تتلاقى رؤى نخبة من الفنانين السعوديين الذين ينسجون في أعمالهم حكايات الأرض والذاكرة والجمال المتجذّر في تفاصيل التراث السعودي. لوحات تحاكي روح المكان، وتستحضر عبق التاريخ، وتأخذ الزائر في رحلة بصرية عبر تنوّع الطبيعة والمعمار بين نجد، الحجاز، العلا، وعسير.

أسبوع فن الرياض — إحدى مبادرات هيئة الفنون البصرية — ينطلق في الفترة من 6 إلى 13 أبريل 2025

06/04/2025

We are delighted to announce Hewar Art Gallery’s participation in the inaugural Art Week Riyadh, organized by the Visual Arts Commission under the Ministry of Culture.

This landmark initiative brings together galleries, artists, and creative voices from across the Kingdom and beyond — celebrating the vibrant and ever-evolving contemporary art scene in Saudi Arabia.

We look forward to welcoming you to our space at JAX District (HQ), Diriyah.
Art Week Riyadh, a Saudi Visual Arts Commission initiative, runs from 6 to 13 April 2025.

يسعدنا المشاركة في النسخة الأولى من أسبوع الرياض للفنون، بتنظيم من هيئة الفنون البصرية التابعة لوزارة الثقافة.

مبادرة فنية مميزة تجمع نخبة من المعارض والفنانين والأصوات الإبداعية من المملكة والعالم، احتفاءً بالمشهد الفني المعاصر والمتجدد في السعودية.

نرحب بكم في مساحتنا في حي جاكس - الدرعية، من 6 إلى 13 أبريل 2025م.

13/02/2025

05/12/2024

Join us at the Galleries Art Fair on Misk Art Week 🖼️
نتشرف بحضوركم في منطقة الجالريات في اسبوع مسك للفنون 🎨

19/11/2024

We are thrilled to invite you to the art exhibition Saudi Arabia from Above, the debut exhibition of French-American artist Betty Martin in K.S.A. This collection features a series of paintings, created over the course of more than a year, offering a captivating view of Saudi Arabia’s diverse geographical landscapes as seen through satellite imagery.

يسعدنا دعوتكم إلى المعرض الفني 'السعودية من الأعلى'، المعرض الأول للفنانة الفرنسية / الأمريكية بيتي مارتن في المملكة العربية السعودية. تتميز هذه المجموعة بسلسلة من اللوحات، التي تم تنفيذها على مدار أكثر من عام، وتقدم رؤية آسرة للمناظر الجغرافية المتنوعة في المملكة العربية السعودية، مستوحاة من صور الأقمار الصناعية

14/02/2024

نتشرف بزيارتكم في اول معرض شخصي للفنان حسن مسعودي في المملكة العربية السعودية 💫
يوم الافتتاح: الخميس، ١٥ فبراير على الساعة ٧ مساءً
🗓️: ١٥ فبراير إلى ١٨ ابريل
🕙: ١ إلى ١٠ مساءً

We would be honored by your visit at the first solo exhibition of the pioneer artist Hassan Massoudy at K.S.A.💫
Opening Night: Thursday, 15 Feb at 7 pm
🗓️: 15 Feb to 18 Apr
🕙: 01:00 to 10:00 pm

02/12/2023

We look forward to your visit at the Escape to Fantasy Exhibition tonight!

30/11/2023

Escape to Fantasy

24/10/2023

A great day for Saudi 🇸🇦 Art Scene!

Born in Mecca in 1954, Mounirah Mosly is considered a pioneer of Saudi Arabian modernism and is one of the Kingdom’s first established female artists. Mosly pursued her education internationally at the College of Fine Arts in Cairo, and later received a Master’s degree in Graphic Design in the United States. Upon her return, Mosly, alongside Safeya Binzagr, held an exhibition in 1968, a show significantly organised by two female artists. In 1973 she was the first woman to be granted a solo exhibition in the Municipality of Riyadh. Despite the parameters of her gender and her region’s artistic landscape Mosly remained, as artist Manal Al Dowayan describes, “a pioneer in all senses of the word” (Melissa Gronlund, ‘Mounirah Mosly, A Pioneer for women and art in Saudi Arabia’, The National News, 2019, online).

Mosly was equipped with an experimental disposition from early on, and this, paired with her enriching studies of and interest in the Arabian Peninsula’s historical culture, enabled a conscious and abundant artistic output. Mosly acquired inspiration multifariously, as she describes it, from “the whole universe, in addition to events in the Arab world, nature, human artifacts, poetry, music, and the depth of contemplation of man, existence, and readings” (ibid.). The artist’s fruitful oeuvre celebrates nature and colour through explorations with material and texture; she worked with natural dyes (which she made herself), copper, plant fibres, papyrus, and paper, often employing them in collage. In this way, Mosly was able to pay homage to her heritage and travels, as in the present work, in which she utilises the technique of handwoven carpet. Through what is regarded as a traditionally female craft, this work can be interpreted as a meditation upon the sensations, emotions and aspirations of the Arab woman in this particular time and space. A common, dextrous detail of Mosly’s work features here; the carpet hangs from a wooden window frame, which the artist would source from northern Saudi Arabia.

24/10/2023

A great day for Saudi 🇸🇦 Art Scene!

Born in 1939, Mohammed Al Saleem is one of Saudi Arabia’s preeminent modern artists and one who has greatly contributed to the growth and evolution of Saudi art in the Kingdom. Al Saleem pursued formal art education abroad, studying at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Florence. A true pioneer, he held one of the first exhibitions in the municipality of Riyadh in 1967, and later in 1979 founded Dar Al-Funoon Al-Sa’udiyyah, which was inaugurated by HRH Prince Faisal bin Fahad Al-Saud. This multipurpose, nonprofit institute provided a creative space for artistic experimentation and exhibition, and was the first of its kind in the Kingdom.

The artistic and cultural influences that took place in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s saw the development of three key factions: the first was rooted in tradition and heritage; the second sought to move beyond the singularity of local customs in pursuit of artistic progress; and the third, to which Al Saleem belonged, sought a happy medium between the modernist and traditionalist. Untitled (1988) forms part of a group of paintings that feature this highly distinctive segmentation into organic block-like structures, which mark the cornerstone of Al Saleem’s mature artistic development. Coining his style ‘Horizonism’, or Al Afakia, this was inspired by the gradating skyline of Riyadh from the desert; the beauty of the landscape became central to his aesthetic vision, the purity of its experience fuelling a fascination with the ethereal and contemplative (Ayyam Gallery, The Beginnings of Art in Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, 2014, p. 23).