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Rain Room, Sharjah
Sharjah Art Foundation presents Rain Room for the first time in the Middle East. The installation is permanently sited in Al Majarrah, Sharjah.
Random International
2012
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The Interview
These opening lines introduce The Interview, an indirect narration of the real-life story of Dr Abdul Nabi, an Iraqi doctor who came to the United States in 2008.
Işıl Eğrikavuk
2008
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Walls
Maider López
2009
Maider López’s installation Walls was created in direct response to the internal architecture of Sharjah Art Museum.
Lani Maestro’s Tulalá is an installation of two large table structures, which effectively function as two glass-topped vitrines.
Halcyon Tarp
Firoz Mahmud
2009
Firoz Mahmud's Halcyon Tarp is a mixed media work on a grand scale that featured a traditional Bangladeshi pavilion.
City is one of a series of six videos and brings together footage from six different well-known cartoons from the 1970s.
The Commissioned Drawings Series is an ongoing collaborative project with Lima’s street Artists, for which Martinat asks each of the Artists to draw two very different portraits.
The Lost Works of Caspar David Friedrich
Hiroyuki Masuyama
2009
Hiroyuki Masuyama recreated a series of lost paintings by 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich.
Soffreh
Gita Meh
2009
Soffreh, the title of Gita Meh’s installation and performance piece for Sharjah Biennial 9, is a Farsi word meaning ‘tablecloth.’
Going South - From Ljubljana to Sharjah
Nika Oblak & Primož Novak
2009
The film depicts an epic journey in which the pair strives to break a Guinness World Record, by pushing a wheelbarrow from Ljubljana to Sharjah.
The Box
Nika Oblak and Primož Novak
2005
The Box is an installation that combines video, a pneumatic system and custom-made software to give the impression that the Artists are trapped inside a monitor and trying to escape.
Remote Control, Remove Control
Fernando José Pereira
2009
The two films capture the village during different seasons, highlighting the strange absence of people from the landscape during both summer and winter.
Ostrich Egg
Karin Sander
1994
In making this work the Artist creates a sculpture that reflects the exhibition and its display, literally and conceptually.
German National Women’s Soccer Team 1:7,7
Karin Sander
2005
Karin Sander’s German National Women's Soccer Team 1:7,7 is a scaled-down exact replica of each member of the 2005 German national women’s soccer team.
Kugelbahn (Ball Valve)
Karin Sander
2009
Kugelbahn is a site specific work developed in response to the distinctive ramps of the Sharjah Art Museum.
Initialen der Stilte (Initials of Silence)
Lili Dujourie
2008
Maanwind
Lili Dujourie
2009
Faces
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
2009
Faces reflects Beirut in which people are constantly observed by images of the dead.