The first in a two-part roundtable titled Sharjah Biennials in a Regional Context, this session features Anita Dube (artist, curator), Reem Fadda (Director, Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation), Yuko Hasegawa (Artistic Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and Professor, Tokyo University of the Arts) and Alia Swastika (curator). The speakers rethink the form of biennials, both in relation to their location and in relation to the global art world. They discuss historic and well-established biennials but also consider the role of new ones, including biennials in Alexandria, Baghdad, Cairo, Jakarta, Karachi, Kochi, Lahore, Qalandiya/Riwaq and Yogyakarta. The session is moderated by Arshiya Lokhandwala (art historian, curator and Founder, Lakeeren Art Gallery).