Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Martiel, Carlos

Martiel, Carlos

Artist

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

Massoudy, Hassan

Massoudy, Hassan

Artist

Hassan Massoudy learned classical Arabic calligraphy in Baghdad, Iraq, having moved there in 1961.

Masuyama, Hiroyuki

Masuyama, Hiroyuki

Artist

The work of Hiroyuki Masuyama pays homage to the great nineteenth century landscape artists, reflecting the interrelation between time, space and medium in a distinct and compelling way.

Mater, Ahmed

Mater, Ahmed

Artist

Informed by his education and work as a medical doctor as well as the social, religious and historical contexts of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater’s practice explores the narratives of Islamic culture in an era of globalisation, consumerism and flux.

Mattai, Suchitra

Mattai, Suchitra

Artist

Suchitra Mattai's mixed-media works explore the complex relationship between history, memory and the construction of identity in diasporic communities.

McMillian, Rodney

McMillian, Rodney

Artist

Rodney McMillian’s multimedia work addresses themes of economic inequity and identity in contemporary American society.

Meckseper, Josephine

Meckseper, Josephine

Artist

Josephine Meckseper’s installations, photography and film works have been exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in the USA and Europe.

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