The Palm Beach Show

Known as the most luxurious and sophisticated showcase of its kind in the United States, the 22nd Annual Palm Beach Show returns February 13-18, 2025 to the Palm Beach County Convention Center over Presidents’ Day Weekend.

The Palm Beach Show remains the area’s only high-end showcase offering items spanning every genre, juxtaposing many periods and movements. Each year the show reinforces its all-inclusive nature as well as reaffirms our prominent presence in the Palm Beach market as the most prestigious cultural event of the season.

Rashid Al Khalifa will present a series of his most recent works, including a spectacular Mobile Column, at the entrance to the show. This selection of works, signify his merging o traditional and contemporary architecture with the natural environment. The light, colours and atmosphere specific to Bahrain’s landscape determine, to a large extent, Rashid’s resulting formations, as he develops wall sculptures and immersive installations inherent of these attributes. Rashid continually draws upon his experiences and environment as a source of inspiration. His latest work reminisces about the past in the same moment that it reflects on the future and in doing so, is suggestive of tradition and heritage and is also inherent of a futuristic sensibility. Bahrain’s topography has undergone drastic changes since Rashid embarked on his artistic career as a landscape painter in the 1970s, yet despite rapid urbanization, the spirit of those early days remains. It is to witness the vivid pastel hues that are cast across the horizon at dawn, or the glowing sunset shimmering over teal blue waters; to experience the nostalgia of traditional architecture, that evokes memories of a bygone era. Rashid aims to immortalize these traditions and anticipate the transitions in his artwork.

Bahrain’s waters have long been a vital source of livelihood for its inhabitants. Notably in the early 1900s, Bahrain held the highest position in the international pearl trade, renowned for cultivating pearls of the greatest quality. The dhow, or traditional Bahraini fishing boat, was designed specifically for pearling and is now also an important symbol of Bahraini heritage. Such customs have shaped the culture of the Bahraini people, whose relationship to their land and surrounding water is synergetic.