Sharjah Biennial 9: Provisions for the Future
and Past of the Coming Days

The work of Hiroyuki Masuyama pays homage to the great nineteenth century landscape artists, reflecting the interrelation between time, space and medium in a distinct and compelling way.

Iranian artist Gita Meh uses visual and written language as tools to form a space for human interaction and cultural integration, goals that originate from her own personal history and experience of migration and intercultural negotiation.

Eva Meyer-Keller is a versatile performance artist whose work often emerges from a point of transition between visual and performing arts.

Italian artist Giuseppe Moscatello uses his experience of living in Sharjah as a source of inspiration for his work.

Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist and contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR).

In the 9th Sharjah Biennial, selections of poetry by Adele NeJame were exhibited alongside paintings of Hawaiian flowers by her daughter, the artist Melissa Chimera.

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

Shinichiro Ogata is a designer and restaurateur who heads up his own small design company called Simplicity.

Mahmoud Refat is a sound artist and musician who began his career playing in local funk, acid jazz and post rock bands at different venues in Cairo.

Rasha Salti is an independent Curator and freelance Writer, working and living between New York and Beirut.

Karin Sander’s practice draws attention to the complex relationships between artworks, institutions and audiences through the innovative use of installation, sculpture, photography, new technologies and other media.

Time, the history of art, and human subjectivity in all of its forms are themes that Brazilian artist Valeska Soares explores in her work.

For the past ten years, David Spriggs has been creating artwork based on the concepts of power, immaterial form, perception and the relationships between the thresholds of space.

Jelena Vesić is an independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer.