Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Mahmood, Basir

Mahmood, Basir

Artist, Filmmaker

Encompassing video, film and photography, visual artist Basir Mahmood's practice contemplates embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary alongside his personal milieu.

Mahmoud, Stephanie

Mahmoud, Stephanie

Speaker

Stephanie Mahmoud has spent over a decade working in marketing, project management and brand strategy.

Mahmud, Firoz

Mahmud, Firoz

Artist

The work of Firoz Mahmud is an investigation into social, political and belief systems and their interaction with human reality, both historically and in the present.

Artist Mahshid Rafiei applies her own studio tactics to facilitate initiatives that explore anti-institutional strategies and create new possibilities for communities to share resources.

Majdalanie, Lina

Majdalanie, Lina

Lina Majdalanie is an actress, director and playwright based in Lebanon.

Majul, Cesar A.

Majul, Cesar A.

Scholar

Dr. Cesar A. Majul was one of the foremost historians and thinkers of Filipino Nationalism, the Philippine Revolution and the sociopolitical thought of national hero Jose Rizal and revolutionary leader Apolinario Mabini.

Makhacheva, Taus

Makhacheva, Taus

Artist

Working primarily with video but also with installation, photography and performance, Taus Makhacheva questions the unstable boundary between similarity and difference, acceptance and rejection, and draws attention to efforts to merge, mimic, assimilate or leak into what is other.

Malakooti, Tiffany

Malakooti, Tiffany

Speaker

Tiffany Malakooti is a graphic designer and Head of Special Projects at Bidoun.

Malani, Nalini

Malani, Nalini

Artist

Nalini Malani’s experimental practice encompasses theatre, ephemeral wall drawings, erasure performances and video/shadow plays that stretch media and aesthetic boundaries.

Malas, Mohamad

Malas, Mohamad

Filmmaker

During his 35 year career in cinema, Mohamad Malas has tried to achieve his own film project, focusing on the ‘missing’ in time and place within the Syrian community.

Malaysia Design Archive

Malaysia Design Archive

Collective

Malaysia Design Archive embraces an open practice of archiving and pedagogy that enables greater critical engagement with visual culture and history.

Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim

Malek Gnaoui and Ala Eddine Slim

Artists

Challenging disciplinary distinctions, Malek Gnaoui works with printmaking and ceramics alongside installation and video to provide performative qualities to his work. Ala Eddine Slim is a filmmaker and producer who utilises the absurdity of contemporary events as material for the creation of fictional realities.

Malullah, Waheeda

Malullah, Waheeda

Artist

Waheeda Malullah is a multidisciplinary artist whose two-decade practice examines the socialised norms of Bahrani society and wider Arabian Gulf context through a playful, performative lens.

Mandour, Sahar

Mandour, Sahar

Sahar Mandour is a writer, journalist and novelist based in Lebanon.

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