Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

alva noto (Carsten Nicolai)

alva noto (Carsten Nicolai)

Artist

Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of art forms and genres to create an integrated artistic approach.

Alvarez, Mckie

Alvarez, Mckie

Musician

Mckie Alvarez is a musician, songwriter, dub-reggae producer, sound designer and DJ.

Aly, Doa

Aly, Doa

Artist

Spanning drawing, writing, sculpture, video, multimedia and performance, Doa Aly's work explores themes of love, death, madness and alienation.

Alÿs, Francis

Alÿs, Francis

Artist, Filmmaker

Francis Alÿs explores issues ranging from political structures and transnational boundaries to questions of how the individual makes sense of social representations and cultural mythologies.

Amorales, Carlos

Amorales, Carlos

Artist

Carlos Amorales’s work spans performance, drawing, digital animation and installation. He has collaborated with graphic designers, communication specialists and musicians.

Anani, Nabil

Anani, Nabil

Artist

Nabil Anani is a pivotal figure in the contemporary Palestinian art movement. His practice encompasses painting, ceramics and sculpture, where he pioneered the use of local materials.

Anastas, Ayreen

Anastas, Ayreen

Artist

Brooklyn-based Ayreen Anastas uses text, film, video, audio and the internet to create work that focuses on legal and discursive shifts around differing notions of security and the subsequent effects on everyday life.

Andrés Denegri

Andrés Denegri

Artist

Andrés Denegri is an independent film, TV and video producer and audio-visual installation artist.

Anri, Sala

Anri, Sala

Artist

Anri Sala grew up under the most repressive regime in Europe, the Stalinist dictatorship of Enver Hoxha.

Antar, Ziad

Antar, Ziad

Artist

Lebanese photographer Ziad Antar uses photography and video in work where the artist's quiet and reflective stance reveals the social and political structures that influence daily life.

Historian and researcher Antariska’s work centres primarily on art collectivism and the mobility of ideas in Japanese-occupied Southeast Asia during World War II.

Antunes, Leonor

Antunes, Leonor

Artist

Leonor Antunes’s work demonstrates her interest in the social, political and philosophical dimensions of craft.

Aoun, Caline

Aoun, Caline

Artist

Caline Aoun works within the frames of urbanism, architecture, print and digital advertising space to produce pieces that playfully increase, invert and suspend environmental noise in a series of measured experiments.

For Minam Apang, drawing is a way of renewing relationships with her surroundings as well as a method of mining memory and the fluid space of imagination.

Aquilizan, Alfredo and Isabel

Aquilizan, Alfredo and Isabel

Artists

Alfredo Juan and Isabel Aquilizan's projects are informed by their home life as well as their experience as Filipino immigrants to Australia.

Araeen, Rasheed

Araeen, Rasheed

Artist

Known for his formal geometric sculptures made from simple materials, Rasheed Araeen is widely considered to be an early pioneer of minimalism.

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