The CONTINUUM ’25 exhibition brings together 11 emerging artists.
Diriyah Art Futures, the Middle East and North Africa’s first hub dedicated to new media arts, has announced the lineup for CONTINUUM ’25, an exhibition showcasing the creative output of its inaugural Emerging New Media Artists Programme. Running from 13 September to 15 November 2025, the show spotlights innovators shaping the future of digital and new media art across the region and beyond.
The exhibition brings together 11 emerging artists: Turki AlQahtani (Saudi Arabia), Khaled Makshoush (Saudi Arabia), Salma Aly (Egypt), Samia Dzaïr (Algeria), Aya Abu Ghazaleh (Jordan), Dhia Dhibi (Tunisia), William Brooks (Wales), Junsoo Kim (Korea), Youssef El Idrissi (Morocco), Kyle Donald Marais (South Africa) and Mohamed Al Mubarak (Bahrain). Each presents a major new work developed over a year-long residency at Diriyah Art Futures.
Working under the mentorship of acclaimed artists Anna Ridler and Karen Palmer, participants have explored immersive installations, sound and screen-based works, virtual reality and AI-generated art. The title CONTINUUM reflects an ongoing, inquisitive practice where artistic journeys intersect across themes of the real and the artificial, the human and the machine, the organic and the synthetic — dualities echoed in both the curation and the works on view.
Concepts span memory, identity, displacement, climate ecologies, ethics and algorithmic power, inviting audiences to examine the possibilities and pressures of an increasingly mediated world. The result is an interconnected landscape of technological imagination and human experience, where personal narratives speak to collective futures.
CONTINUUM ’25 is open to the public at Diriyah Art Futures from 13 September to 15 November 2025.
So, if you’re on the hunt for something artsy and inspiring to do in Riyadh, make sure Diriyah Art Futures is on your list. You never know, it might just spark your next big idea.
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