A. R. Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, multi-instrumentalist and philanthropist.

John Akomfrah delves into themes of memory, identity, postcolonialism, temporality and the politics of aesthetics through his experimentations with the moving image.

Rheim Alkadhi works with images, texts, objects and by interposing the body in decidedly unfixed conditions.

Known for his formal geometric sculptures made from simple materials, Rasheed Araeen is widely considered to be an early pioneer of minimalism.

Marwa Arsanios is an artist, filmmaker and researcher who reconsiders the Middle Eastern politics of the mid-twentieth century from a contemporary perspective.

The work of filmmaker, artist and graphic novelist Sarnath Banerjee explores the contradictions of daily life in contemporary India.

Ali Cherri unravels complex narratives of the environment and heritage in Lebanon and the broader region.

Contemporary artist Shilpa Gupta has engaged with art in its participatory, interactive and public dimensions for over two decades.

Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim is a conceptual artist whose main interests are working with natural materials and creating land art.

Maha Maamoun is an artist who works primarily with the mediums of text, photography and video.

Antonio Vega Macotela works in a multidisciplinary, site-specific and research-based art practice.

Informed by his education and work as a medical doctor as well as the social, religious and historical contexts of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Mater’s practice explores the narratives of Islamic culture in an era of globalisation, consumerism and flux.

Almagul Menlibayeva is a contemporary artist and photographer who works simultaneously in painting, graphic art, performances, installations and videos.

Naeem Mohaiemen combines essays, films, drawings and installations to research socialist utopias, incomplete decolonisations, language wars and shifting borders.

Neo Muyanga is a composer, musician and librettist who tours widely, both as a solo performer and in various bands.