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Grantees Nadira Amrani, Soha Shukayr, Pelin Tan and Anton Vidokle will present their original short films at the 2020 and 2021 editions of Sharjah Film Platform.

The major exhibitions Art in the Age of Anxiety and Homebound: A Journey in Photography as well as our permanent installation Rain Room Sharjah welcome visitors with new health rules in place.

We are pleased to inform you that the major exhibition ‘Art in the Age of Anxiety’ in Galleries 1, 2 and 3, Al Mureijah Art Spaces and our permanent installation Rain Room Sharjah in Al Majarrah Park will open to the public from 26 June 2020.

The annual March Meeting has been postponed to 2021 and the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennial will take place in March 2022

This year grants were awarded to 10 artists selected through an international open call.

A collaborative project of 15 artists and illustrators, Corniche was published for the 2019 edition of Sharjah Art Foundation's annual art book fair, FOCAL POINT 2019. The event took place from 14 to 16 November at Bait Obaid Al Shamsi, Arts Area, Sharjah

While the Foundation’s events and exhibitions are postponed until further notice, there is so much to see and do through SAF Online

Neo Muyanga’s Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14) performance house of MAKEdbA (2019), is now available for purchase on vinyl, becoming the first-ever vinyl record commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation.

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.

Curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and produced in collaboration with Sharjah Art Foundation, I Am The Single Work Artist will be on view in Berlin and Malmö, Sweden throughout 2020 and early 2021