COLLECTING ART IN THE MIDDLE EAST

A Saudi national, Basma Al Suleiman is considered to be one of the 100 most influential people in the Art World and one of the most relevant collectors and art patrons in the Middle East. She is the founder of BASMOCA (Basma Al Sulaiman Museum of Contemporary Art), a museum and art gallery that relies on cutting edge visual technologies to disseminate her collection among a wider audience. As she says: “by embracing technology, we can make the collection available, all over the world, to as many people as possible. To be able to show an international collection in a global forum, this is the future”.

gained a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature in Jeddah and, some years later, took the diploma course in Modern and Contemporary Art at Christie’s. A love of international travel brought Basma into contact with contemporary art and she began to collect by instinct, her first