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

Bauer, Ute Meta

Bauer, Ute Meta

Curator

Ute Meta Bauer is a curator of exhibitions and presentations on contemporary art, film, video and sound that connect artistic work with other disciplines.

Bayjoo, Shiraz

Bayjoo, Shiraz

Artist

Shiraz Bayjoo’s practice traverses installation, photography, painting, video, text and performance to elucidate forgotten histories that contain multiple layers of meaning and visual culture.

Behbahani, Bahar

Behbahani, Bahar

Artist

Bahar Behbahani is a multidisciplinary artist whose work stages an ongoing conceptual dialogue with memory and erasure.

Belhamar, Asma

Belhamar, Asma

Artist

Asma Belhamar’s interdisciplinary practice explores the phenomenon of the megastructure in the Emirates and its impact on the topographical memory of local landscapes.

Boubacar Traoré

Boubacar Traoré

Musician

Singer, songwriter and guitarist Boubacar Traoré, known as Kar Kar for his football dribbling skills in his youth, is considered to be one of the pioneers of Malian Mandé blues.

Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena

Campos-Pons, Maria Magdalena

Artist

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons’ body of work grapples with the coordinates of diasporic identity formation: migration, displacement, collective memory, spirituality and gender.

Cherri, Ali

Cherri, Ali

Artist, Filmmaker

Ali Cherri unravels complex narratives of the environment and heritage in Lebanon and the broader region.

Choi, Wook-Kyung

Choi, Wook-Kyung

Arist

Wook-kyung Choi (1940–1985) examined the dynamic spaces inhabited by powerful colours and gestures.

Daryani, Solmaz

Daryani, Solmaz

Artist

Documentary photographer Solmaz Daryani makes images of social, political and ecological issues relating to Iran and the surrounding region.

Deacon, Destiny

Deacon, Destiny

Artist

At the intersection of art and activism, Deacon’s creative practice interrogates the chasm between the lived experience of Aboriginal communities and the representation of Aboriginality by white Australian society.

Diawara, Manthia

Diawara, Manthia

Writer, Filmmaker

Manthia Diawara is a writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist and art historian.

Djamil, Imane

Djamil, Imane

Artist

Imane Djamil is a storyteller and documentary photographer, whose multidisciplinary practice examines the transformation of space by humans.

Anju Dodiya is a painter whose visual language emerges from a variety of references spanning the history of painting, across eastern and western cultures, from Indian miniatures to French medieval tapestries, often interweaving elements of autobiography, allegory and mythology.

Donkor, Kimathi

Donkor, Kimathi

Artist

Kimathi Donkor reimagines mythic, historical and everyday encounters across Africa and its global diasporas, addressing the erasure of Black subjectivity and Black historical figures from western canonical art history.

Enwezor, Okwui

Enwezor, Okwui

Curator

Okwui Enwezor was a curator, critic and art historian.

Eyal, Ali

Eyal, Ali

Artist

Working with drawing that is transformed by text, installation, photography or video, Ali Eyal’s practice examines feelings of absence and dissonance in response to armed conflict.

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