AD Middle East published a guide to the first Art Week Riyadh by Maghie Ghali on 6 April 2025, the day the citywide festival opened, under the headline Art Week Riyadh 2025 Highlights: Everything You Need To Know About The New Art Festival in Saudi Arabia's capital. The piece explains that the week long event, running from 6 to 13 April, brought together more than 45 galleries, cultural institutions and art collections under the theme At The Edge, as a non commercial initiative of the Ministry of Culture's Visual Arts Commission.
Ghali describes the JAX District as the festival's headquarters, where the main exhibition At The Edge gathered local, regional and international galleries exploring the dialogue between Saudi Arabia, the wider MENA region and the global art scene. The artistic director and curator Vittoria Matarrese is quoted on presenting works that are rarely accessible to the public. Across the city, the guide lists new museums and art hubs welcoming visitors, among them SAMoCA, the Royal Institute of Traditional Arts and Hewar Gallery, together with the open studios of Saudi artists including Lulwah Al Homoud.
Tabari took part in At The Edge with works by Hashel Al Lamki, Miramar Al Nayyar and Lulwah Al Homoud: Al Lamki's video performance Desert Hay, Al Nayyar's new canvases The Language of Movement and the Movement of Language, and Al Homoud's geometric reimagining of Arabic letters. Al Homoud's Riyadh studio, ISDAR, is dedicated to printmaking. All three artists are represented by Tabari.
