Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Mignolo, Walter

Mignolo, Walter

Speaker

Walter D. Mignolo’s research focuses on exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices (injustices?) and on exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality.

Mikdadi, Salwa

Mikdadi, Salwa

Art Historian

Salwa Mikdadi’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Arab world, Arab art institutions, gender and politics in art and museums and their visitors.

Miletić, Hana

Miletić, Hana

Artist

Hana Miletić has a multiform practice that includes performances, installations, workshops and printed matter.

Mirza, Haroon

Mirza, Haroon

Artist

Haroon Mirza’s work attempts to isolate the perceptual distinctions between noise, sound and music.

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Speaker

A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, W. J. T. Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media).

Mixrice

Mixrice

Artists

Mixrice has worked with a community of migrant workers in Maseok, an industrial area outside of Seoul, since 2002.

Mizrachi, Sally

Mizrachi, Sally

Speaker

Sally Mizrachi is Executive Director and General Coordinator of lugar a dudas, a contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia that focuses on the intersections and borders between visual arts, cultural practices and the search for inclusive and expansive dialogue.

Mjalli, Yasmeen

Mjalli, Yasmeen

Founder and Creative Director

Yasmeen Mjalli is the founder and creative director of Nöl Collective, a fashion label highlighting traditional artisanship and crafts in Palestine.

Mochu

Mochu

Artist, Filmmaker, Writer

Mochu is an experimental filmmaker, artist and writer whose work engages with the life of fictional figures found in works of art and their encounters with various philosophies, mythologies and techno-fiction.

Modi, Mehelli

Modi, Mehelli

Filmmaker

Mehelli’s first love had always been cinema, and in 2005 he founded Second Run, a DVD company dedicated to releasing outstanding, award-winning films from around the world.

Modisakeng, Mohau

Modisakeng, Mohau

Artist

With a focus on metaphor, ritual practice and the human body, Modisakeng’s photography, film, installation and performance are a testament to the complex process of grieving historical events and honouring subjective experience.

Mogel, Lize

Mogel, Lize

Artist

Lize Mogel is an interdisciplinary artist who works with the interstices between art and cultural geography.

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Mohaiemen, Naeem

Artist, Writer

Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings and installations to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonisations, language wars and shifting borders.

Mohanty, Paribartana

Mohanty, Paribartana

Speaker

Paribartana Mohanty’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses video, performance-lecture, storytelling and writing.

Mohanty, Paribartana

Mohanty, Paribartana

b. 1982, Odisha, India
Lives and works in New Delhi

Paribartana Mohanty examines how technologies of algorithmic networks, digitalisation, data mining, access and surveillance are shaping public perception about ‘natural’ calamity, and how new government policies are changing the rural landscapes in the eastern Indian state of Odisha.

Mohassess, Bahman

Mohassess, Bahman

Artist

As a young painter, Mohassess was apprenticed to Seyyed Mohammed Habib Mohammedi.

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