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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
Akram Zaatari’s The Landing, commissioned for Sharjah Biennial 14, will be screened at the acclaimed film festival in Berlin.
Prize-winning work created by the artist with Emeka Ogboh for Sharjah Biennial 14 is Sharjah Art Foundation’s second site-specific installation
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.
International jury awards nine prizes in narrative, documentary and experimental film categories.
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.
Residency was part of artist’s ongoing project, Topologies of Air
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).
Artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah creates new three-screen installation for the inaugural Ghana Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Sharjah Art Foundation’s Al Mureijah Art Spaces have been shortlisted for the prestigious 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
Sharjah Art Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Consulate General Dubai, the Smithsonian Institution and the Sharjah Museums Authority, and with the support of the UAE Ministry of Culture and Knowledge Development, held a professional development programme about audience engagement on 22 and 23 April 2019.