14 January 2020
Under the Patronage of H.R.H. Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, The Prime Minister, Bahrain’s 46th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition Kicks off
Under the High Patronage of H.R.H. Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister, May God Protect Him, Bahrain’s 46th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition Kicked off, today on 15 January 2020, at both locations, Bahrain National Museum and Bahrain National Theater. The annual event is organized by Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities and 68 plastic artists are taking part in it. The exhibition comes in a time Bahrain Culture Authority is planning to celebrate 2020, a year baptized as the “ Dilmun Land of Density”.
The Bahrain Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, which continue until 15 February 2020, will shed lights on a selection of the most exquisite art works masterminded by refined painters, Bahrainis and artists in residence. As every year, the art community gathers in this important meeting to display their works among their peers during this event, which will feature more than one hundred participations from artists from different art backgrounds, schools of artistic thought and schools of painting technique. Free to express their inner feelings and represent their ideas via art, these artists will engender a multitude of styles and techniques, using different means of expression, producing, thus, a variety of art works, paintings, video, assembly constructed art works and other forms of arts. In addition, pioneers of the Bahraini art movement and the Al-Riwaq Art Space, as well as those from the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) from Kuwait will also participate in the exhibition.
During the opening ceremony day, Bahrain Authority for Culture & Antiquities will announce the exhibition’s annual competition awards, which is supervised by an international Arbitration Committee, which is supervised by a high-profile jury comprising founder and director of the Al Riwaq Art Space, Bayan Kanoo, in addition to Saudi art professor, Dr. Effat Abudlla Fadag, from Saudi Arabia, and artist Mohammed Al-Merbati, from Morocco. The public will discover the winner of the prestigious "Al-Dana" Award, designed by artist Khalil Al-Hashimi, while the second winner will have the opportunity to showcase his/her artwork during one-month at the Art Centre. Meanwhile, the third winner will be granted one of the notable artist residencies abroad.
Worth to mention that Bahrain’s Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, which is held Under the High Patronage of H.R.H. Prince Khalifa Bin Salman Al Khalifa, the Prime Minister, May God Protect Him, since its inception in 1972, is cconsidered to be the biggest and most important annual meeting of artists in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Those who were once young and enthusiastic art students hoping to take part in the exhibition are now the pioneers of the Bahraini Art Movement. This exhibition now stands witness of the evolution of the Bahraini Art Scene throughout the years and a reference documenting Art in Bahrain’s history, a living example of a vivid culture scene in constant development.
