Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Kassar, Kamal

Kassar, Kamal

Speaker

Kamal Kassar is the founder of AMAR Foundation focused on the archiving and research in Arab music.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Speaker

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a scholar of racial inequality in public policy making and the various ways that Black communities have challenged or resisted these constraints.

Khalaf, Amal

Khalaf, Amal

Curator

Amal Khalaf is a curator and artist who serves as Director of Programmes at Cubitt (2019–present) and Civic Curator at the Serpentine Galleries (2009–present), both in London.

Khoury, Aline

Khoury, Aline

Manager, Producer, and Researcher

Aline Khoury is a cultural manager, producer and researcher living and working in Palestine.

Khullar, Sonal

Khullar, Sonal

Art Historian

Sonal Khullar is W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania.

Lenssen, Anneka

Lenssen, Anneka

Speaker

Is a historian of modern and contemporary art and theory of the Middle East and is Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lookman, Mariah

Lookman, Mariah

Artist, Writer, Speaker

Is an artist, writer and founder of the notfor-profit Art South Asia.

Lutton, Matthew

Lutton, Matthew

Art Professional, Theatre Director

Matthew Lutton has directed and created more than 45 productions, ranging from re-inventions of Australian classic stories, grand opera, adaptions of classic novels and dance theatre.

Maasri, Zeina

Maasri, Zeina

Art Historian

Zeina Maasri is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Bristol.

Madani, Rachida

Madani, Rachida

Speaker

A lifelong political activist, Rachida Madani is a poet, novelist and painter.

Mei Shigenobu

Mei Shigenobu

Writer, Speaker

Is a journalist, writer and media specialist concerned with the Middle East.

Mignolo, Walter

Mignolo, Walter

Speaker

Walter D. Mignolo’s research focuses on exposing modernity/coloniality as a machine that generates and maintains un-justices (injustices?) and on exploring decolonial ways of delinking from the modernity/coloniality.

Mikdadi, Salwa

Mikdadi, Salwa

Art Historian

Salwa Mikdadi’s research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Arab world, Arab art institutions, gender and politics in art and museums and their visitors.

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Mitchell, W. J. T.

Speaker

A scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature, W. J. T. Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology (the study of images across the media).

Mizrachi, Sally

Mizrachi, Sally

Speaker

Sally Mizrachi is Executive Director and General Coordinator of lugar a dudas, a contemporary art center in Cali, Colombia that focuses on the intersections and borders between visual arts, cultural practices and the search for inclusive and expansive dialogue.

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