Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Maamoun, Maha

Maamoun, Maha

Artist

Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.

Maclennan, Ruth

Maclennan, Ruth

Artist, Filmmaker, Curator

Ruth Maclennan examines changing relationships between places and their inhabitants in the context of geopolitical and climate upheaval.

Macotela, Antonio Vega

Macotela, Antonio Vega

Artist

Antonio Vega Macotela works in a multidisciplinary, site-specific and research-based art practice.

MacPherson, Robert

MacPherson, Robert

Artist

Robert MacPherson used the rich and colourful culture of his rural childhood to address the environmental, colloquial and distinctive aspects of Australian landscape and language.

Madani, Tala

Madani, Tala

Artist

Through painting and animation, Tala Madani’s work raises pertinent questions and offers a critique of gender and politics that reflects on who and what is represented in art.

MADEYOULOOK

MADEYOULOOK

Artist Collective

MADEYOULOOK is a Johannesburg-based interdisciplinary artist collaborative established by Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho.

Maestro, Lani

Maestro, Lani

Artist

Lani Maestro has used a range of media including installation, sound, video, books and text to create work that explores the often complex dualities of human experience and the physical power of the natural world.

Magdy, Basim

Magdy, Basim

Artist

Basim Magdy’s practice began with painting and has gradually evolved through experimentation with various mediums.

Mahlatsi, Teboho

Mahlatsi, Teboho

Filmmaker

Teboho Mahlatsi has written, produced and directed many projects, including the documentary Ghetto Diaries for the South African educational channel SABC Education TV.

Mahmood, Basir

Mahmood, Basir

Artist, Filmmaker

Encompassing video, film and photography, visual artist Basir Mahmood's practice contemplates embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary alongside his personal milieu.

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.

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