Publications

Creating Dangerously is a postscript to the discursive qualities biennials provide to artists, curators, thinkers and the broader arts community.

DAAR, the Palestine-based art and architecture collective, discuss their practice with the late curator, critic and art historian Okwui Enwezor in a conversation published in the Sharjah Biennial 10 catalogue.

March Meeting Papers is a series of essays selected from Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting 2021 Open Call, inviting artists, writers and thinkers to expand on curator Okwui Enwezor’s influential thinking about the Biennial as a platform to engage with history, politics and society.

This publication is a compilation of individual responses by invited correspondents to the March Meeting 2019, curated by Sharjah Biennial 14 (SB14) curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif and Claire Tancons. MM2019 took place from 7 March to 10 June 2019.

Sharjah Art Foundation conducts investigative architectural and urban research in order to incorporate the physical character, stories and historical significance into the repurposing of old structures and their reactivation into hosts of contemporary art. This essay discusses the architectural features of a kindergarten in Kalba that belongs to a prototype designed by acclaimed Arab architects in the 1970s.

Read Tarek El-Ariss’ essay Holding Time: On Aesthetics of Survival, part of the forthcoming Sharjah Art Foundation publication Creating Dangerously. The essay is available for download.

This publication takes as its starting point Yuko Hasegawa’s curatorial concept for Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:Emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography and March Meeting 2013.

This publication attempts to address the question of commissions and residencies through the documentation of selected panels and presentations from March Meeting 2012.

Manual for Treason is a guest-edited series of seven books playing on the literary sense of the word 'plot'. It was commissioned by Sharjah Art Foundation for Sharjah Biennial 10.

This collection of essays addresses the production of contemporary art outside mainstream Western cultural nodes and the varied connotations of belonging in a globalising world.