Hunna Art gallery
Mezzanine floor, Design Center
Shuwaikh Industrial, Kuwait
Founded in 2021 by Océane Sailly, Hunna Art is an independent contemporary art gallery championing a new generation of women artists based in or from the Arabian Peninsula. Tackling questions of power, of gender, of the history of the Arabian Peninsula, of social relations and of youth culture, Hunna Art’s artists are developing cutting edge visual languages and researches that explore through art historical, social and political narratives as well as dominant representations and subjectivities and personal experiences.
Hunna Art was born out of the observation that regional artists were underrepresented in the local art markets and on the international stage, as well as out of a genuine appreciation and scholarly knowledge of the richness and depth of the Arabian Peninsula's contemporary art scenes, and a strong commitment to fight the underrepresentation and lack of visibility of women artists and professionals in the global art world. Hunna Art represents a carefully curated roster of fifteen artists who are among the most talented of their generation and regularly invites emerging art critics and curators to collaborate, hence creating an international network composed of the new generation of art professionals while offering new and critical perspectives on the artists’s practices.
Hunna Art has managed within two years to position itself as a pivotal gallery for women artists from the Arabian Peninsula, to organize numerous exhibitions in partnerships with art venues and to establish collaborations with several platforms and artist residencies abroad (in Kuwait, France, the UK and the US).
Hunna Art has been featured in numerous magazines and platforms such as The Art Newspaper, Diptyk, Fisheye Magazine, Vogue Arabia, Mathqaf, Middle East Monitor, Gulf Today, The New Arab, L'Orient Le Jour, Le Quotidien de l'Art, The National, Time Out Dubai, and others. Our artist's works are part of prominent private and institutional collections in the Arab world and in Europe.