Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present

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Enwezor, Okwui

Okwui Enwezor was a curator, critic and art historian.

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Enwezor, Okwui

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Al Qasimi, Hoor

Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.

President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation

Al Qasimi, Hoor

Sharjah Biennial 15 Participating Artists

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Maitha Abdalla, Fathi Afifi, Hoda Afshar, John Akomfrah, Moza Almatrooshi, Marwah AlMugait, Hangama Amiri, Brook Andrew, Malala Andrialavidrazana, Rushdi Anwar, Kader Attia, Au Sow Yee, Dana Awartani, Omar Badsha, Natalie Ball, Sammy Baloji, Mirna Bamieh, Pablo Bartholomew and Richard Bartholomew, Shiraz Bayjoo, Bahar Behbahani, Asma Belhamar, Rebecca Belmore, Black Grace, Diedrick Brackens, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Cao Fei, Carolina Caycedo, Ali Cherri, Wook-kyung Choi, Maya Cozier, Iftikhar Dadi and Elizabeth Dadi, Solmaz Daryani, Annalee Davis with Yoeri Guépin, Destiny Deacon, Manthia Diawara, Imane Djamil, Anju Dodiya, Kimathi Donkor, Heri Dono, Rehab Eldalil, Ali Eyal, Marianne Fahmy, Brenda Fajardo, Raheleh Filsoofi, Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, Coco Fusco, Flavia Gandolfo, Theaster Gates, Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim, Gabriela Golder, Gabrielle Goliath, Yulia Grigoryants, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Hassan Hajjaj, David Hammons, Archana Hande, Fathi Hassan, Mona Hatoum, Rachid Hedli and Compagnie Niya, Lubaina Himid, Laura Huertas Millán, Saodat Ismailova, Isaac Julien, Saddam Al Jumaily, patricia kaersenhout, Robyn Kahukiwa, Reena Saini Kallat, Hanni Kamaly, Amar Kanwar, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer with Oba, Bouchra Khalili, Naiza Khan, Tania El Khoury, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Ayoung Kim, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Hiroji Kubota, Remi Kuforiji, Lee Kai Chung, Faustin Linyekula, The Living and the Dead Ensemble, Ibrahim Mahama, Nabil El Makhloufi, Jawad Al Malhi, Waheeda Malullah, Maharani Mancanagara, mandla, Lavanya Mani, Kerry James Marshall, Queenie McKenzie, Steve McQueen, Marisol Mendez, Almagul Menlibayeva, Helina Metaferia, Kimowan Metchewais, Meleanna Meyer, Joiri Minaya, Tahila Mintz, Roméo Mivekannin, Tracey Moffat, Aline Motta, Wangechi Mutu, Eubena Nampitjin, Dala Nasser, New Red Order, Pipo Nguyen-Duy, Mame-Diarra Niang, Shelley Niro, Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, Elia Nurvista, Kambui Olujimi, Zohra Opoku, Selma Ouissi and Sofiane Ouissi, Erkan Özgen, Pak Khawateen Painting Club, Pushpakanthan Pakkiyarajah, Hyesoo Park, Philippe Parreno, Ángela Ponce, Prajakta Potnis, Anita Pouchard Serra, Jasbir Puar and Dima Srouji, Monira Al Qadiri, Farah Al Qasimi, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Michael Rakowitz, Umar Rashid, Wendy Red Star, Veronica Ryan, Doris Salcedo, Abdulrahim Salem, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Varunika Saraf, Khadija Saye, Berni Searle, Mithu Sen, Nelly Sethna, Aziza Shadenova, Smita Sharma, Nilima Sheikh, Yinka Shonibare, Felix Shumba, Semsar Siahaan, Mary Sibande, Kahurangiariki Smith, Mounira Al Solh, Inuuteq Storch, Vivan Sundaram, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Obaid Suroor, Hank Willis Thomas, Akeim Toussaint Buck, Hajra Waheed, Barbara Walker, Wang Jianwei, Nari Ward, Carrie Mae Weems, Nil Yalter

Abdalla, Maitha

Abdalla, Maitha

Artist

Maitha Abdalla is an interdisciplinary artist who utilises cultural narratives rooted in notions of nostalgia, memory and folklore to question the dynamics of power often represented in parables.

Abou El Fetouh, Tarek

Abou El Fetouh, Tarek

Curator

Tarek Abou El Fetouh is an independent curator who has established innovative initiatives in the Arab world and has sought to develop conversations among practitioners both regionally and internationally.

Adjaye, Sir David

Adjaye, Sir David

Architect

Sir David Adjaye OBE is recognised as a leading architect of his generation.

Afifi, Fathi

Afifi, Fathi

Artist

Depictions of daily Cairene life and the realities of the factory floor have dominated Fathi Afifi’s work for over four decades. His canvases mirror the energy that propelled him through an era of industrial transformation and the heyday of the Egyptian plastic arts movement.

Afshar, Hoda

Afshar, Hoda

Artist

At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary image-making, Hoda Afshar’s artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement.

Akomfrah, John

Akomfrah, John

Artist

John Akomfrah delves into themes of memory, identity, postcolonialism, temporality and the politics of aesthetics through his experimentations with the moving image.

Al Qasimi, Hoor

Al Qasimi, Hoor

President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation

Hoor Al Qasimi, President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, established the Foundation in 2009 as a catalyst and advocate for the arts in Sharjah, in the region and around the world.

Almatrooshi, Moza

Almatrooshi, Moza

Artist

Shedding light on narratives from both ancient and contemporary mythologies of the Arabian Pen-insula, Moza Almatrooshi’s research investigates territorial knowledge and how it has been shaped across time, spanning agricultural practices, imperial impositions and postcolonial realities.

Amar Kanwar

Amar Kanwar

Artist, Filmmaker

A filmmaker and artist, Amar Kanwar centres the politics of power, sovereignty and justice in his practice.

Andrialavidrazana, Malala

Andrialavidrazana, Malala

Artist

Malala Andrialavidrazana works across disciplines to examine communication, dialogue and difference within cross-cultural contexts. Drawing upon a diverse web of sources from her own archival research and photography, her visual compositions open up the possibility of alternative forms of history-making.

Attia, Kader

Attia, Kader

Artist

Working in a wide range of media, Kader Attia reflects on the aesthetics of different cultures and the repercussions of Western cultural hegemony.

Dana Awartani is an artist who seeks to revive traditional Arab forms, techniques, concepts and spatial constructs as well as historic artistic practices by infusing them with the contemporary.

Aziza Brahim

Aziza Brahim

Artist

Aziza Brahim is a songwriter, singer, percussionist and actress. Although rooted in her Saharawi heritage, her songs and music embody a universal appeal.

Visual artist Natalie Ball explores notions of Indigeneity as it relates to the racial narratives fundamental to the history of the United States.

Baloji, Sammy

Baloji, Sammy

Artist, Filmmaker

Sammy Baloji braids together the pre- and post-colonial histories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by examining the industrial and cultural heritage of the Katanga region.

Bamieh, Mirna

Bamieh, Mirna

Artist

Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas.

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