Jax District
2026
Client
Diriyah Biennale Foundation
The Challenge
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026: A Sonic Identity Without Beginning or End
There are exhibitions you visit. And then there are environments you enter.
The Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026 (DCAB) demanded more than a soundtrack. Hosted at JAX District in Diriyah from 30 January to 2 May 2026, the third edition of the Biennale brought together over 70 artists across disciplines, with more than 20 newly commissioned works.
Commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation, this edition — titled In Interludes and Transitions / في الحِلّ والترحال — explored cycles of movement, encampment, migration and exchange rooted in the histories of the Arabian Peninsula.
In that context, sound could not be decorative.
It had to belong.
