Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Manna, Jumana

Manna, Jumana

Artist

As a visual artist working primarily in video and sculpture, Jumana Manna explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism and histories of place.

Mannes-Abbott, Guy

Mannes-Abbott, Guy

Writer

Guy Mannes-Abbot is a writer, essayist and critic who lives and works in London.

Mansour, Sliman

Mansour, Sliman

Artist

Sliman Mansour is an artist and founding member of the League of Palestinian Artists (1973) and Al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem, which was established in 1994 to archive and preserve art in Palestine.

Maraini-Melehi, Mujah

Maraini-Melehi, Mujah

Film director

Writer, director and producer Mujah Maraini-Melehi has cultivated her passion for the arts across Morocco, Italy and the United States.

Marcelle, Cinthia

Marcelle, Cinthia

Artist

Working with video, photography 
and installation, Cinthia Marcelle choreographs interventions that often transform mundane or redundant gestures into poetic displays of exchange.

Marcia Smith

Marcia Smith

Filmmaker

Marcia Smith is a writer, filmmaker, and a non-profit executive invested in telling and producing nonfiction stories about racial injustices rooted in African American history and contemporary lived experience.

IKERBASQUE Research Professor Michael Marder’s work spans the fields of phenomenology, environmental philosophy and political thought.

Margolles, Teresa

Margolles, Teresa

Artist

Artist Teresa Margolles examines the social causes and consequences of death.

Bartomeu Marí has curated numerous exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and published extensively on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Markov, Alexander

Markov, Alexander

Artist

Alexander Markov has earned degrees from St.Petersburg University of Culture and Arts and the Cinema History Department of the Russian Institute of Art History.

The experimental works of filmmaker and artist Randa Maroufi explore an elastic awareness of reality.

Martens, Renzo

Martens, Renzo

Artist, Filmmaker

Renzo Martens is an artist and filmmaker who gained international recognition with the films Episode I (2003) and Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2009), especially the latter which was televised in more than 23 countries.

Martha, Samar

Martha, Samar

Co-founder and Director

Samar Martha is Co-founder and Director of ArtSchool Palestine and a freelance curator.

Martiel, Carlos

Martiel, Carlos

Artist

Carlos Martiel is a performance artist whose visceral political critiques address contemporary issues related to censorship, oppression and immigration.

Marwan

Marwan

Artist

Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, was recognised for his post-surrealist paintings that were able to convey deep emotion, particularly through his depiction of the human face.

Masharawi, Rashid

Masharawi, Rashid

Artist

Masharawi describes his work as an attempt to create a ‘cinema’ out of the Palestinian situation.

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