Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Al Sayegh, Munira

Al Sayegh, Munira

Curator

Al Sayegh has participated in panels examining the importance of non-institutional thinking and rhetoric in refining what local and regional art looks like from the bottom up.

Al Shaarani, Mouneer

Al Shaarani, Mouneer

Artist

A student of Syrian master calligrapher Badawi Al Dirany, Mouneer Alshaarani has worked as a calligrapher and book designer since 1968 and has developed several Arabic typefaces.

Al Shaibani, Hani

Al Shaibani, Hani

Filmmaker

Hani Al Shaibani is a filmmaker whose work includes both short and feature-length films.

Al Shamsi, Alia

Al Shamsi, Alia

Artist, Author

Alia Al Shamsi is an author, poet, curator and photographer with extensive experience in numerous creative fields.

Al Sharif, Basma

Al Sharif, Basma

Artist

Working between cinema, photography and installation, Basma al-Sharif de-territorialises a singular perspective through a more subjective, fallible vision of history in the present.

Al Solh, Mounira

Al Solh, Mounira

Artist

Conceptual artist Mounira Al Solh employs a humorous and playful approach in her work to highlight gender issues, politics and the role of art in Arab society.

Al Suwaidi, Noor

Al Suwaidi, Noor

Artist

Noor Al Suwaidi is a visual artist, working primarily in painting and drawing.

Al Wawi, Walid (Samt)

Al Wawi, Walid (Samt)

Artist

Walid Al Wawi is concerned with the contemporary hybridisation of Middle Eastern identity and the implication of its geopolitical claustrophobia upon cultural naturalisation.

Al-Ani, Hala

Al-Ani, Hala

Artist

Hala Al-Ani graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor in Visual Communication from the School of Architecture and Design, American University of Sharjah.

Al-Ani, Jananne

Al-Ani, Jananne

Artist

Jananne Al-Ani works in photography, film and video. Her early work focuses on Orientalist representations of the Middle East in Western visual culture.

Al-Baqsami, Thuraya

Al-Baqsami, Thuraya

Artist, Writer

Thuraya Al-Baqsami is a visual artist, journalist and writer whose work engages with poetics and politics, feminism and the feminine.

Al-Daradji, Mohamed

Al-Daradji, Mohamed

Filmmaker

Mohamed Al-Daradji’s films address both the terrible suffering and the hopefulness for the future felt by many Iraqis.

Al-Hadid, Diana

Al-Hadid, Diana

Artist

She received a BFA in Sculpture, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio and an MFA in Sculpture, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. In 2007 she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.

Al-Sayer, Noura

Al-Sayer, Noura

Speaker

Noura Al-Sayeh is an architect currently working at the Ministry of Culture of the Kingdom of Bahrain as Head of Architectural Affairs.

Aladağ, Nevin

Aladağ, Nevin

Artist

Born in Turkey, Nevin Aladağ moved with her family to Germany in 1973. Her study of sculpture heightened her sense of the limits and boundaries of objects and the identity of forms.

Alaoui, Rita

Alaoui, Rita

Artist

Rita Alaoui is a visual artist whose work encompasses many genres. Utilising objects from the surrounding environment, she creates paintings, drawings, sculpture and photography as well as art installations and video performances.

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