Sharjah Biennial 16

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.