JEDDAH — The Ministry of Culture will organize an extraordinary art exhibition that looks at the cultural impact that oil has left on the history of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The exhibition, organized between from June 8 to July 18, will be held at the historic Khuzam Palace in Jeddah, which witnessed the first oil exploration agreement between the Kingdom and the United States of America in 1933. This discovery resulted in a social and economic transformation that made Khuzam Palace a gateway to the development across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The exhibition, dubbed “Nafthah”, will host 14 artists who will display the finest creativity that will revolve around the period of oil discovery. These pieces of art will display an infused expression of Saudi heritage that talk about national identity linked with the phase of oil exploration that speak a new era of which Saudi history has entered since the agreement was signed.

The Ministry aims to highlight the Kingdom’s modern past in an innovative and fresh creative approach, where artists express their own reflections on this great history and their vision of the positive and cultural impact it has left on Saudi society. SG