Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Zaatari, Akram

Zaatari, Akram

Artist

Akram Zaatari produces work on a range of interconnected themes, subjects and practices related to excavation, political resistance, and the production and circulation of images in times of war.

Zainal, Abdulrahman

Zainal, Abdulrahman

Artist, Sculptor

Abdulrahman Zainal expresses his ethical and political vision in his work, aiming not to depict his subject matter realistically but rather to portray its narrative context.

The work of painter Fathallah Zamroud is characterised by his expressive brushwork and dramatic use of colour.

Zaninović, Ante

Zaninović, Ante

Artist, Writer

Ante Zaninović was a screenwriter and filmmaker, he is the author of numerous short animated films.

Zanon, Gregorio

Zanon, Gregorio

Artist

Zanon's recent works merge composition and programming to explore emergent phenomena through the spatialisation, in real or virtual spaces, of multiple real-time sound sources.

Zayat, Elias

Zayat, Elias

Artist

Painter and icon restorer, Elias Zayat's art is influenced by religious and popular iconography.

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Zeid, Fahrelnissa

Artist

A member of the avant-garde D-Group in Istanbul before entering the Paris art scene in the 1940s, Fahrelnissa Zeid was part of the École de Paris, a movement of abstraction that rejected academic methods and intellectual speculation.

Želimir, Žilnik

Želimir, Žilnik

Filmmaker

Želimir Žilnik is an award-winning filmmaker. His first feature film Early Works was awarded the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival (1969).

Zhou Tao

Zhou Tao

Artist, Filmmaker

Zhou Tao’s videos explore means to create a dialogue between moving images, addressing the inner workings of systems and topologies through careful study of specific events in manifold perspective.

Żmijewski, Artur

Żmijewski, Artur

Artist

Artur Żmijewski creates installations, objects, photographs that explore human behaviour and physicality as a form of social activism.

Zouggar, Sofiane

Zouggar, Sofiane

Sofiane Zouggar’s work focuses on Algerian identity and sociopolitical issues as well as the relationship between the human condition and information.