Projects

Spanning nearly five decades, Barbara Kasten’s conceptual practice has centred around photography and an exploration of the nature of perception, often manifested through the interplay of two- and three-dimensional spaces.

Ann Veronica Janssens creates immersive installations that rely on various technological devices to draw attention to aesthetic qualities such as colour, light, sound and air.

In her paintings, figurative cut-outs and installations, Lubaina Himid approaches questions of identity through the celebration of Black creativity and political agency.

Stan Douglas’ conceptual approach to photography, film and television draws attention to their respective aesthetic conventions and modes of production as well as their cultures and histories. In his film work, time is a recurrent concern.

Shezad Dawood’s work often charts exploratory narratives that draw on historical cosmologies to forge interconnections across far-reaching lines of enquiry, geographic locations and communities.

Ian Cheng is best known for his computer-generated simulations and live episodic works that employ programming to explore notions of world-making, social transformation, and human and non-human agency and consciousness.

Huguette Caland’s work is notable for its wide-ranging style, material, subject matter and medium, an exploratory that extends to a practice spanning disciplines and geography.

Candice Breitz has spent the last twenty years reflecting on the impact of moving images within a variety of social and political contexts.

Semiha Berksoy was a leading figure in the history of Turkey’s cultural scene.

With exhibition format and other museological methodologies as his medium, Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck’s multifaceted practice incorporates the activities of a researcher, archivist, historian and curator.

Marwa Arsanios’ recent projects have revolved around questions of ecology, feminism, social organisation, nation-building, war and economic struggle.

Cory Arcangel is a multimedia artist whose interest in digitals-technology-based art developed as a result of natural inclination and the advent of computers and the Internet.

Alfredo Jaar is an architect, photographer and filmmaker whose work in a range of mediums brings attention to issues that are overlooked by the media or suppressed by state and transnational structures of power and exploitation.

Heather Phillipson’s work often appears as associational clusters, organised spatially, that combine single- and multi-screen videos, mass-produced objects, web images, audio loops, written and oral texts, and physical and digital graphics.

For SB14, Otobong Nkanga with Emeka Ogboh collaborate on a series of multimedia interventions in the heritage house Bait Al Aboudi and the surrounding grounds.