Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Raad, Walid

Raad, Walid

Artist

Walid Raad works with mixed media installation, performance, video, photography and text to create a substantial body of work the offers multi-layered narratives on the contemporary history of Lebanon.

Rabah, Khalil

Rabah, Khalil

Artist

Khalil Rabah is best known for rewriting and inventing history. Emerging from his deep involvement and background in architecture, his works aim to provide an alternative vision that challenges public perceptions and expectations.

Rachid Koraïchi

Rachid Koraïchi

Artist

Contemporary artist Rachid Koraichi’s work is influenced by a fascination with signs: symbols, glyphs and ciphers drawn from a variety of languages and cultures.

Artist and filmmaker Jon Rafman explores the paradoxes of modernity in his sculpture, videos and installations.

Rahbar, Sara

Rahbar, Sara

Artist

Sara Rahbar employs multiple media, including photography, sculpture and installation, to create autobiographical works that stem from her personal experiences.

Rahman, Mahbubur

Rahman, Mahbubur

Artist and curator

Mahbubur Rahman is a curator and visual artist.

Rahman, Maryam

Rahman, Maryam

Artist

Maryam Rahman is a multidisciplinary artist. Her practice encompasses video, installation, public art intervention, miniature painting and drawing. She has a particular affinity with drawing as a thinking tool, a direct mode of expression and a formal art discipline.

Rahmoun, Younes

Rahmoun, Younes

Artist

Younes Rahmoun draws inspiration for his work from interdisciplinary and complementary sources.

Rahmouni, Mostafa Saifi

Rahmouni, Mostafa Saifi

Mostafa Saifi Rahmouni was born in Morocco and studied at the Institut National des Beaux-Arts, Tétouan, Morocco.

Rainer, Arnulf

Rainer, Arnulf

Artist

The work of Arnulf Rainer has explored the conceptual and communicative capacity of painting.

Rajani, Shahana and Malkani, Zahra

Rajani, Shahana and Malkani, Zahra

Artists

Artist duo Shahana Rajani and Zahra Malkani explore the politics of infrastructure, development and securitisation in the rapidly transforming city of Karachi.

Rajeh, Omar

Rajeh, Omar

Artist

Omar Rajeh is a choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Maqamat Dance Theatre which he founded in 2002.

Rakowitz, Michael

Rakowitz, Michael

Artist

Through his exploration of history and current affairs, Michael Rakowitz creates public projects, installations and events.

Ramadan, Ayman

Ramadan, Ayman

Artist

Ayman Ramadan’s practice emerges from and responds to street culture and the practices of everyday life in the small village of Sharqiya where he grew up, and the chaotic megalopolis of Cairo where he moved to as a teenager.

Ramo, Sara

Ramo, Sara

Artist

Sara Ramo appropriates everyday elements and scenes, displacing them from their original context and rearranging them in videos, photographs, collages, sculptures and installations.

Artist and writer Shubigi Rao creates layered installations of books, etchings, drawings, pseudo-scientific machines, metaphysical puzzles, video works, ideological board games and archives.

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