Poland in Saudi Arabia

Following the success of the inaugural edition of Noor Riyadh - the first light and art festival of its kind in the region Royal Commission for Riyadh City is delighted to announce the second Riyadh Art program: The “Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium (TISS)”.

 

This Symposium, taking place from November 10 to December 6, 2021, will provide 20 international and Saudi artists the opportunity to create a public sculpture in a live setting, which will then be showcased throughout the capital city.

 

Under the theme “The Poetics of Space”, TISS will explore the connections between matter and emptiness, as well as light and shadow. It will invite participating artists to create mesmerizing sculptures that imply poetry and create their own space, while being in harmony with the surrounding public realm of JAX District, in Al Diriyah.

 

The RCRC has received a record-breaking 400+ applicants who expressed their desire to enter this third edition of TISS. Of the final 20 artists selected to participate, we are pleased to inform you that Anna Rasinska, a sculptor from Poland, has been commissioned to create a new sculpture that will be permanently placed in Riyadh, as part of the biggest public art initiative in the world.

 

You can find the artist’s biography attached as well the press release announcing the 20 selected artists.

 

TISS is curated by Ali Jabbar, an accomplished multidisciplinary artist with 40 years of experience in sculpting, who also helped select the artists alongside an expert panel that includes: Cristiana Collu (Director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy); Nicholas Cullinan (Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK); Yuko Hasegawa (Director of the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan); Marina Loshak (Director of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia) and Eike Schmidt (Director of Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy). 

 

Text: Royal Commission for Riyadh City