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'After Rain' is an artistic exploration and also a conversation with scientists, architects, researchers, planners, philosophers, writers, and poets, engaging a transgenerational and multinational composition of “caretakers.” All of them shape the experience of this edition through its configuration, it's dramaturgy, the knowledge each contribution brings, and the way these are communicated.

The 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Biennale, After Rain, presents artworks in all kinds of formats, across seven halls and numerous courtyards and terraces in the JAX District of Diriyah, which is situated along the area’s seasonal riverbed, or wadi. This diverse landscape enables a varied program of performances, concerts, poetry readings, and other activations across different locations and spaces, including performative and discursive spaces across Diriyah; it also extends into the digital realm.

For It's second edition, Ute Meta Bauer has brought together a group of artists from geographies focusing on the Gulf region and Southeast Asia, where she has worked the past ten years as Founding Director of NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore and Professor in the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University.