Exhibitions
 

• Utopia, the British Airways Exhibition, Al Mansouria, Jeddah, 1998.
• Signs, Solo exhibition of Shadia Alem, Rochan Gallery, Jeddah, 1999.
• Hammas, Solo exhibition of Abdullah Hammas, Vivendi Gallery, Paris, 1999.
• Samra, Solo exhibition of Faisal Samra, Rochan Gallery, Jeddah, 2000.
• Europ'Art, Geneva, 2000. Invited to exhibit in collaboration with L'Institut du Monde Arabe.
The works of artists Abdullah Al Shaikh and Taha Sabban were presented, along with the launching of Jinniyat Lar.
• Jinniyat Lar, Book Launching, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, september 2000.
• "1st Saudi Female Artists Group Exhibition". The Foundation was the guest of honour at this Exhibition sponsored by the "King Abdulaziz and his Companions for the Gifted", at the National Museum, Riyadh. The artwork of pioneer artist Mounira Mousli and the publication "Jinniyat Lar" of Shadia and Raja Alem were presented, December 3rd, 2000.
• Jinniyat Lar, Book Launching, Gallery Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, February 21, 2001.
• Art for All, Festival embracing more than 300 artworks by 22 saudi artists held in four Galleries in Jeddah, March 26 through April 16, 2001.
• Dialectics, Solo exhibition of Mahdi Al Jeraibi, organised and sponsored by Al Mansouria Foundation, October 2001. Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
• Babel 2002, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, June to August 2002.
• La Force de l'Esprit, Drouot Montaigne, Paris, September 2002.
• 9th Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, December 2003.
• Dia Aziz Dia, A retrospective exhibition on the occasion of the launching of the book, 'Dia Aziz Dia', Jeddah, 2004.
• Zaman Jassim, Solo exhibition, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, January 2005.
• Tradition and Modernity : Three generations of Saudi contemporary artists, Hôtel de ville de Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, September 2005.


  
Publications
 

To date seven works have been published.
They are the first of a series of books that the Foundation intends to issue in order to build up a complete encyclopedia of Saudi contemporary art.
These publications are intended to establish and enrich our national artistic library.
Furthermore, they should be viewed as traveling exhibitions of the Kingdom's art forms.

  
   

Images of Saudi Arabia : a catalog presenting the artwork show in the British Airways Utopia Exhibition, which was held in order to select a work to represent Saudi Arabia on the tailfins of a number of British Airways aircraft.
 
   

Signs : a 114 page book containing 39 color plates representative of the various artistic periods in Shadia Alem's career from 1985 to 1999.
  
   

Hammas : a 24 page catalog featuring 30 color plates, published on the occasion of the Solo Exhibition of Abdullah Hammas, in Paris, 1999.
  
   

Faisal Samra : a 93 page book featuring 30 color plates, published on the occasion of the Solo Exhibition of Faisal Samra, in Jeddah, 2000.
  
   

Jinniyat Lar : a book uniting art and poetry, this work is a collection of 12 hand-finished original silk-screened prints by Shadia Alem with original text by Raja Alem. Published in a limited edition of 200 signed copies, 180 which are numbered and avaible for sale. This work was first presented at the Europ'Art Exhibition in Geneva, in May 2000.
  
   

Art for All : a 216 page book featuring 44 color plates, published on the occasion of Al Mansouria'a Art for All festival which joined 22 saudi artists, in Jeddah, march, 2001.
 
   

Mahdi Al Jeraibi : a 80 page book featuring 48 color plates, published on the occasion of the Solo Exhibition of Mahdi Al Jeraibi, Paris 2001.
 
   

Dia Aziz Dia : a hard-cover monography illustrating the 30 year career of this prominent Saudi artist, containing more than two hundred paintings and drawings and two studies of his life and work by the two writers, Said Al Seraihi and Nabil Naoum.
 
   

Zaman Jassim : a 30 page catalog containing 24 artworks documenting the artist's solo exhibition at the Cité Internationale des Arts.
 
   

Tradition and Modernity - Three generations of Saudi contemporary artists : a 20 page catalog documenting some of the artworks of the artists Safeya Binzagr, Dia Aziz Dia and Faisal Samra on the occasion of their group exhibition at the Hôtel de ville de Neuilly-sur-Seine.
  
   

Adam Henein : a monograph that embraces Adam Henein's sculpture and paintings, which retrace more than 50 years of creativity. Co-edited by Al Mansouria & Skira for the English and French versions and co-edited by Al Mansouria & Dar El Shorouk for the Arabic version. This 350 page book is composed of 263 colour and 174 black and white illustrations, with texts by Edouard Al-Kharrat, Michael Gibson and Fatima Ismail, and photographs by Hugues Dubois, Philippe Maillard and Hisham Labib.
 
 

Al Mansouria Atelier - Cité Internationale des Arts
 

In its endeavor to build bridges of communication between world cultures, the Al Mansouria Foundation for Culture and Creativity purchased a studio, in July 2001, at the Cité; Internationale des Arts, one of the world's great centers of artistic expression, in Paris, France. The studio is located in the oldest part of this art city, which is established by the river Seine, and overlooks some of the most ancient and elegant houses of the prestigious Ile St Louis. Since its inception by Felix Bruno, who devoted his whole life to this project, the Cité Internationale des Arts has played an active role in the blossoming of arts and the propagation of new artistic forms and means of expression. It opened the way for talented artists in many fields and from many countries to gather in Paris, to work, discuss and exchange ideas and expertise. Practicing artists came from around the world to pay tribute to the universal language of art and help maintain and foster the sustainability of the vision that led to the foundation of this center.

Al Mansouria Foundation for Culture and Creativity acquired a studio in that vibrant and dynamic international venue to be endowed with the appropriate ground and achieve some of its vital objectives. Al Mansouria Foundation aims to maintain this studio for the use of visiting artists who would be selected from the most talented of their generation to become residents of the Cité.

These gifted artists would be offered the opportunity to practise their art in the arts capital. Thus, they would be exposed to the cultural wealth and diversity of artistic experiences, not only those that take place in Paris per se, but also experiences from around the world, through their exchanges with all the other fellow artists who live and work in the Cité Internationale des Arts.

The exchange of experiences and points of view is the ideal means to widen an artist's vision and deepen his or her capacities, and therefore expand his or her art into new artistic horizons and sophisticated experiences. This process speeds up the artist's maturity according to his or her personal inclinations and potential.

Al Mansouria Foundation for Culture and Creativity launched its programme by inviting the young Saudi artist Mahdi Al Jeraibi to Paris from July 1 to October 15, 2001. His fruitful visit was crowned by the exhibition of some of his works in one of the Cité's exhibition halls from October 1 to 13. Al Mansouria Foundation will continue to invite the most gifted Saudi or Arab artists to the Cité Internationale des Arts, to give them the chance to contribute to the sustaining of this extraordinary creative environment, and benefit from this unique opportunity to be exposed to all the artistic and cultural experiences that are made available to them in such a setting.

The following arab artist, up to this date, resided in our studio: the Lebanese artist Rita Tambourgi, the Lebanese-French artist Simone Fattal, rhe Syrian artist Dia Al Hamawi, the Sudani-American artist Mohamed Omar Khalil and the Iraqi artist Rafei Al Nasiri.