The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.
And All That Is In Between, the Islamic Arts Biennale 2025, featured over 500 Islamic art objects loaned from over 30 of the world's leading institutions of Islamic arts, alongside 32 contemporary artworks by local and international artists, most of them newly commissioned for the occasion. Led by Artistic Directors Julian Raby, Amin Jaffer, and Abdul Rahman Azzam, with Saudi artist Muhannad Shono as Curator of Contemporary Art, this second edition of the Biennale offers insights into the ways cultures from around the world interact and endure. The title is part of a verse that appears several times in the Quran: "And God created the Heavens and the Earth and all that is in between."
The Islamic Arts Biennale takes place at the Western Hajj Terminal of King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, a city that for centuries has represented a junction point for cultural exchange and a venue that acts as a port of entry for millions of pilgrims on their journey to Makkah and Madinah. By juxtaposing historical objects from Islamic cultures with contemporary art, the Biennale explores how faith is experienced, expressed, and celebrated across time through feeling, thinking, and making.
This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue expands on the curatorial narratives and frameworks in detail, thoroughly documenting all the displayed objects, as well as the contemporary artworks.
Published on the occasion of the second Islamic Arts Biennale, titled And All That Is In Between, held at the Western Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, January 25–May 25, 2025.
Featuring Fatma Abdulhadi, Bilal Allaf, Nasser Alzayani, Ahmad Angawi, Abdelkader Benchamma, Gabriel Chaile, Saeed Gebaan, Louis Guillaume, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Bashaer Hawsawi, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), Nour Jaouda, Tamara Kalo, Raya Kassisieh, Asif Khan, Lúcia Koch, Takashi Kuribayashi, Ahmed Mater, Mehdi Moutashar, Timo Nasseri, Hayat Osamah, Nohemí Pérez, Imran Qureshi, Anhar Salem, Arcangelo Sassolino, Slavs and Tatars, Iqra Tanveer & Ehsan Ul Haq, Charwei Tsai, Asim Waqif, Ala Younis, Osman Yousefzada.
Foreword by Julian Raby, Amin Jaffer, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Muhannad Shono; contributions by Silke Ackermann, Juan Acevedo, Rizwan Ahmad, Sarah Al Abdali, Ali Akbar, Masa Al-Kutoubi, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Bilal Badat, James Bennett, Inês Bénard, Faye Behbehani, Heather Ecker, Marcus Fraser, Bill Greenwood, Amin Jaffer, Luitgard Mols, Purificación Marinetto Sánchez Ery Sustiyadi, Yahya Nurgat, Julian Raby, Mariam Rosser-Owen, Marika Sardar, Augusto Salgado, Ana Salazar Herrera, Muhannad Shono, Wen Wen.
