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Published by Sharjah Art Foundation and Koenig Books, London Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist presents an intimate view of Sharif’s diverse and varied work featuring new translations from his writing.

Sharjah Art Foundation and KW Institute for Contemporary Arts, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Marokko and ThinkArt, is launching a collaborative initiative in 2020-2022 evolving around the approach of the School of Casablanca – an innovative institution in 1960s Morocco.

Due to the latest developments with the coronavirus (COVID-19), and in line with the recommendations of public health experts and government officials, Sharjah Art Foundation galleries, venues and other spaces, including Rain Room Sharjah, Sharjah Art Shops and the regional Art Centres, will be temporarily closed to the public beginning 16 March 2020 and remain closed until further notice.

March Meeting 2020, scheduled from 21 to 23 March, is postponed until further notice due to the growing concern over coronavirus.

Akram Zaatari’s The Landing, commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 14, will be screened at the acclaimed film festival in Berlin.

Visitors to Sharjah Art Foundation can now immerse themselves in Otobong Nkanga’s popular work Aging Ruins Dreaming Only to Recall the Hard Chisel from the Past, which has found a permanent home at the Foundation’s Al Mureijah Art Spaces.

Two photowalks in January took enthusiastic participants to Khorfakkan and the new Sharjah Mosque at the intersection of Emirates and Mleiha Roads.

Sharjah Art Foundation announces the late Okwui Enwezor as curator of Sharjah Biennial 15 with the support of SAF Director Hoor Al Qasimi as co-curator alongside Working Group members Tarek Abou El Fetouh, Ute Meta Bauer, Salah M. Hassan and Chika Okeke-Agulu, with the Support of an Advisory Committee including Sir David Adjaye, John Akomfrah and Christine Tohme.

Sharjah Art Foundation in partnership with the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial SESC_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo, awarded artist Nelson Makengo the prize of a two month residency at Sharjah Art Foundation during the Biennial’s Gala Prize Ceremony on 12 October 2019.

Artist Shona Illingworth completed a two-week research and production residency hosted by Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) in April 2019 as part of her ongoing installation project, Topologies of Air, commissioned by London’s The Wapping Project.

Congratulations to Sharjah Biennial 14 artist Marwa Arsanios, who won the Georges De Beauregard International Award for her two-part Who is afraid of ideology? at the 30th FIDMarseille.

Sharjah Art Foundation today announced the recipients of the Short Film Production Grant, part of the foundation’s Sharjah Film Platform (SFP).