Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Nurvista,Elia

Nurvista,Elia

Artist

Elia Nurvista is an interdisciplinary artist and founder of Bakudapan Food Study Group, which investigates the meaning of food in socio-political and cultural context on a local and global scale. The artist analyses these economic and dietary constructs in order to expose their prejudiced origins and contradict the ethical neutrality often associated with food preferences.

Nusseibeh, Zaki Anwar

Nusseibeh, Zaki Anwar

Speaker

HE Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh is an advisor at the Presidential Court and interpreter for the President of the United Arab Emirates.

Nyen, Ho Tzu

Nyen, Ho Tzu

Artist, Writer

Working primarily in film, video and performance, Ho Tzu Nyen has developed recent works into environmental multimedia installations.

Odenbach, Marcel

Odenbach, Marcel

Artist

His work critically examines subject formation in the context of socio-cultural norms and historical specificities.

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen

Artists

Soon after its founding, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen won several international competitions, including those for a new administrative capital city in South Korea and for a border crossing between Mexico and the United States.

Ogata, Shinichiro

Ogata, Shinichiro

Designer

Shinichiro Ogata is a designer and restaurateur who heads up his own small design company called Simplicity.

Ogboh, Emeka

Ogboh, Emeka

Artist

Emeka Ogboh produces audio installations and gastronomic works, exploring how private, public and collective memories and histories are translated, transformed and encoded into sound and food.

Ogbourne, Derek

Ogbourne, Derek

Artist

Derek Ogbourne has developed a practice that makes visible the strengths and frailties of being human through his overlapping and sometimes contradictory ways of seeing the world.

Ohanian, Melik

Ohanian, Melik

Artist

Ohanian’s artworks can be understood as physical and conceptual territories that focus on the concept of time.

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Okeke-Agulu, Chika

Art Historian, Curator

Chika Okeke-Agulu is an artist, critic and art historian who specialises in Indigenous, modern and contemporary African and African Diaspora art history and theory.

Oldenborgh, Wendelien van

Oldenborgh, Wendelien van

Artist

Wendelien van Oldenborgh develops works with a cinematic format that is used as a methodology for production and the basic language for various forms of presentation.

Olguín Zapata, Jazael

Olguín Zapata, Jazael

Artist

Jazael Olguín Zapata seeks the crossroads between genres and media—portraits that insinuate landscapes, still lifes that are comix, the search in the fertile space between figuration and abstraction and the interstices between drawing and painting.

Olsen, Morten

Olsen, Morten

Artist

Percussionist Morten J. Olsen is best known for his work with the Norwegian heavy-metal musique concrète duo MoHa! and with the experimental chamber-rock band Ultralyd

Omran, Noma

Omran, Noma

Artist

Noma Omran established a historical precedent when she became the first woman in the world hosted at the Zen ritual at the Daitoku-Ji Temple in Japan.

onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects / o+h

onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects / o+h

Architects

Maki Onishi and Yuki Hyakuda, founders of onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects, engage in a wide variety of activities centred on architectural design, including installations and community-building projects.

Ono, Seigen

Ono, Seigen

Artist

Seigen Ono is a composer, recording engineer and architectural acoustics designer.

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