Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

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.

Moura, Rodrigo

Moura, Rodrigo

Speaker, curator

Rodrigo Moura is a curator, editor and writer