Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

de Guia, Kawayan

de Guia, Kawayan

Artist

Kawayan de Guia’s works offer ironic and sometimes comedic perceptions of sociopolitical issues in contemporary Philippine society and the colonial past.

de la Barra, Pablo Leon

de la Barra, Pablo Leon

Independent Curator, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution, UK, Mexico

Pablo León de la Barra is an independent curator, exhibition maker, and art and architecture researcher.

De La Cruz, Khavn

De La Cruz, Khavn

Filmmaker, Writer

Khavn De La Cruz is a multiawarded filmmaker, composer, and writer.

De Rivero, Manuel

De Rivero, Manuel

Speaker

Architect and urbanist Manuel de Rivero is co-founder of 51-1 Arquitectos, an architecture studio based in Lima, Peru, and Supersudaca, an international collective for urban research.

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.

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)

Architects, Artists, Writers

Through their work as co-directors of DAAR, architects Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti combine conceptual speculations and architectural interventions to subvert, reuse, profane and recycle the existing infrastructure of colonial occupation.

Deemas, Aisha

Deemas, Aisha

Director of Executive A airs, Sharjah Museums Department

Aisha Deemas is Director of Executive A airs at the Sharjah Museums Department (SMD) since June 2012.

Diego del Valle Ríos is a cultural organiser, independent writer and editor at Terremoto magazine.

Demand, Thomas

Demand, Thomas

Artist

Thomas Demand makes mural-scale photographs, but instead of finding his subject matter in real life, he uses paper and cardboard to reconstruct scenes from images reproduced in various media sources, and then photographs them.

Demirkazık, Gökcan

Demirkazık, Gökcan

Curator and writer Gökcan Demirkazık will soon be moving to a new position as Research/Editorial Assistant at SALT in order to work with curator Merve Elveren, who has worked extensively on the history of contemporary culture and arts in Turkey.

Denny, Simon

Denny, Simon

Artist

Simon Denny’s work explores the cultures and values behind contemporary technologies.

Derki, Talal

Derki, Talal

Filmmaker

Talal Derki’s short films and feature-length documentaries have received several international awards.

DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy)

DESIGN EARTH (Rania Ghosn & El Hadi Jazairy)

Led by Rania Ghosn and El Hadi Jazairy. DESIGN EARTH is a design-research practice that examines the geographies of technological systems in connection with, for example, energy, trash, water and agriculture to open up aesthetic and political concerns for architecture and urbanism.

Devasher, Rohini

Devasher, Rohini

Artist

Rohini Devasher’s current body of work is a collection of ‘strange’ terrains, constructed by observing, recording, fictionalising and reimagining objects and spaces.

Dewachi, Hydar

Dewachi, Hydar

Speaker

Hydar Dewachi is London-based artist, photographer and freelance IT engineer.

Dewachi, Omar

Dewachi, Omar

Speaker

Omar Dewachi is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA. His work examines the social, medical and environmental impact of decades of war and violence in Iraq and the wider region.

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