Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Rakowitz, Michael

Rakowitz, Michael

Artist

Through his exploration of history and current affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and events.

Rakun, Farid

Rakun, Farid

Researcher and Education Coordinator, ruangrupa

Farid Rakun currently serves as a researcher and education coordinator for the artists’ initiative ruangrupa.

Ramadan, Ayman

Ramadan, Ayman

Artist

Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and the practices of everyday life in the small village of Sharqiya where he grew up, and the chaotic megalopolis of Cairo where he moved to as a teenager.

Ramírez, Enrique

Ramírez, Enrique

Artist

Enrique Ramírez's work reflects his appreciation of stories within stories, fictions straddling countries and epochs as well as the mirages between dream and reality.

Ramo, Sara

Ramo, Sara

Artist

Sara Ramo appropriates everyday elements and scenes, displacing them from their original context and rearranging them in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations.

Ramos, Filipa

Ramos, Filipa

Writer, Curator

Filipa Ramos is a writer, editor and curator whose research focuses on the relations between film and visual art.

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao creates layered installations of books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video works, ideological board games and archives.

Raouda Choucair, Saloua

Raouda Choucair, Saloua

Artist

A modernist who apprenticed with Moustafa Farroukh and Omar Onsi, studied with Fernand Léger, copiously analysed Le Corbusier’s ‘Cité radieuse’ and worked at l’atelier d’art abstrait in the 1940s, Saloua Raouda Choucair developed a unique abstract practice that included sculpture, painting, industrial design and public art.

Raqs Media Collective

Raqs Media Collective

Artist Collective

Formed in 1992 by Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Raqs Media Collective practises across installation, sculpture, video, performance, text, lexica and curation.

Rashed, May

Rashed, May

Artist

May Rashed creates works using painting, photography, performance, video and podcasts.

Razman, Saiful

Razman, Saiful

Artist

Saiful Razman’s works are experiential attempts to explore impermanence by transforming disposable objects and materialising their simplicity.

Rechmaoui, Marwan

Rechmaoui, Marwan

Artist

Created from industrial materials such as concrete, metal, rubber, tar, textile, and glass, Marwan Rechmaoui’s work reflects his methodical study of cartography, demographics and urbanisation.

Recordings, NAWA

Recordings, NAWA

Record Label

NAWA Recordings is an independent record label that focuses on releasing new, alternative and experimental music from the Arab world.

Reena Saini Kallat is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines ongoing civilisational affinities of language, culture, trade and technology that transcend the superficial divisions of nation-state boundaries.

Refat, Mahmoud

Refat, Mahmoud

Artist

Mahmoud Refat is a sound artist and musician who began his career playing in local funk, acid jazz and post rock bands at different venues in Cairo.

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