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Ithra Art Prize Exhibition

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This exhibition reflects the Ithra Art Prize’s continued evolution as a platform for artistic production and dialogue. By presenting all shortlisted works together, we aim to offer audiences a deeper engagement with the ideas, processes, and perspectives shaping contemporary art across the region.

3rd Aug - 31st Dec

17th August 2026

9:00 AM - 10:00 PM · 13 hrs

All Ages

Museum - Gallery 1

+118 more sessions

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- Free entry for Art and Premium membership.

Artists Shortlisted for the 7th Edition

Aseel AlYaqoub

Aseel AlYaqoub (b. 1986, Kuwait) is a research-based, interdisciplinary artist from Kuwait whose practice spans sculpture, installation, drawing, video, and text. Her work examines the interplay of geography, architecture, and collective memory, focusing on how material culture, national identity, and institutional narratives are constructed and contested.

Artwork Name: Flora Incognita, 2026

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Bady Dalloul

Is a multimedia artist whose work entwines historical events, personal facts, and fiction. His works are imbued with sociological and historical reflections on his heritage and issues of global migration. Reflecting on territorial demarcations, Dalloul questions Western-centric historiography and knowledge production. Through drawing, video, and objects, Dalloul engages a dialogue between the imagined and the real by questioning the logic of writing history.

Artwork Name: Drawing in matchboxes,2026

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Heba Y. Amin Elmahamly

Engages with political themes and archival history through a multidisciplinary practice that spans film, photography, performance, and installation. Her work critically investigates the technologies and infrastructures of control that shape modernity, taking as its point of departure the colonial and postcolonial histories embedded in visual and territorial regimes.

Artwork Name: Iteration I, 2026

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Ala Younis

Lives and works in Amman, Jordan) is an artist whose practice spans research, film, curating, and publishing. Her work moves across archives, architecture, and visual culture to examine how historical narratives are constructed and how built environments shape social and political life.

Artwork Name: Lifted Arches, 2026

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Jawad Al Malhi

Lives and works in East Jerusalem and Abu Dhabi, UAE) works in painting, sculpture, photography, video and installation. His work focuses on the studies of the everyday lives of communities.

Artwork Name: Ashes of Absence, 2026

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