Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Namy, Joe

Namy, Joe

Artist, Composer

Media artist, composer and educator Joe Namy’s practice often addresses identity, memory and power structures embedded in sound and music.

Naqsh Collective

Naqsh Collective

Artist Collective

Naqsh Collective is the joint endeavour of sisters and co-founders Nisreen and Nermeen Abu Dail.

Narula, Monica

Narula, Monica

Artist and curator

Monica Narula is an artist and curator with the Raqs Media Collective which she co-founded in 1992.

Nashashibi, Rosalind

Nashashibi, Rosalind

Artist

Rosalind Nashashibi combines her singular observations with aspects of social documentary, theatrical staging and a cinematic overview to present uniquely crafted works in 16mm film and other media.

Nasr, Moataz

Nasr, Moataz

Artist

Moataz Nasr works with a range of artistic mediums including, painting, sculpture, photography and video to explore the complex cultural developments currently unfolding across the Islamic world

Nasrallah, Nasir

Nasrallah, Nasir

Artist, Curator

For artist and curator Nasir Nasrallah, making art is about experimenting with and synthesising materials, be they physical objects, ideas or theorems.

Dala Nasser’s work examines how representational concerns taken up in painting and art practice might develop in tandem with the urgent need to account for dramatic environmental change.

Navarro, Eduardo

Navarro, Eduardo

Artist

Eduardo Navarro is interested in social organisation and alternative intelligence and has worked with groups of people in spaces he creates to examine means of communication and thinking.

Nazer, Filwa

Nazer, Filwa

Artist

Ranging from digital print to collage, textile and photography, Filwa Nazer’s work centres around questions of emotional identity in relation to spatial and social contexts.

Neto, Ernesto

Neto, Ernesto

Artist

Ernesto Neto draws inspiration from the biomorphic and modernist abstraction of Alexander Calder and Constantin Brancusi.

New Visions

New Visions

Artist Collective

In forming New Visions, artists Sliman Mansour, Vera Tamari, Nabil Anani and Tayseer Barakat sought to address a more avant-garde outlook on how art can serve the national struggle, without compromising each artist’s individual expressive style.

Ngcobo, Gabi

Ngcobo, Gabi

Speaker, artist

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist and curator.

Nguyễn, Tuấn Andrew

Nguyễn, Tuấn Andrew

Artist, Filmmaker

Encompassing video, sculpture and installation, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s work explores strategies of political resistance.

Niazi, Sofia

Niazi, Sofia

Artist

Sofia Niazi is an artist based between London and the West Midlands.

Nicolai, Carsten

Nicolai, Carsten

Artist, Performance

In his work Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of art forms and genres for an integrated artistic approach.

Nika Oblak & Primõz Novak

Nika Oblak & Primõz Novak

Artist

Contemporary art is nothing but a business - we take it as a joke. - Nika Oblak & Primõz Novak

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