The Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) has signed an agreement with the French cultural institution of Centre Pompidou to develop a landmark contemporary art gallery at AlUla.
Centre Pompidou will be RCU’s key partner in developing a contemporary art museum at AlUla. This will provide a platform for artists in the Arab world to have a dialogue with global art. The galleries will house a programme that includes collection displays, exhibitions, commissions, and artists’ gardens.
The AlUla contemporary museum will offer a commissioning programme including art in the public realm as well as specialist curatorial expertise and scholarship in Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian art.
The RCU-Pompidou partnership will also include training and education, curatorial expertise, museum management, and events and exhibitions.
The new agreement follows strengthened collaborations between Saudi Arabia and France at AlUla. On December 22, the French Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Olivier Becht, visited AlUla and signed investment partnerships spanning landscaping, mobility and waste management. Earlier, on December 2, Saudi and French officials and experts celebrated the 20th anniversary of the two countries’ modern-day collaboration on archaeological research at AlUla.
